Infopatriots

New Website

2010-11-03T22:11:00.000-07:00

The time has come for me to move on to new adventures.

Since I cannot make the sustainable technology that inspires me, I've decided to learn another way to help get the word out!

So.. over the last year and a half I have been learning the art and craft of Film Making!

I like to call my style "Motion Pictures".

My experience with music production is really helping me with the Editing side of this art. All that time was not wasted. Yes.

To see my portfolio and to read all my new blog posts please head over to http://www.zacharystowasser.com

Thanks!

Arthur C. Clarke

2010-09-03T23:32:00.001-07:00

from singularityblog.com - A video of a futurist from 1964 giving his predictions of what was to come - some came true - some have not yet (but are totally sci-fi and awesome, I think his pets would be kind of like an Android Chimp. Cool.). This proves that we can imagine a better future and create it, even if it sounds impossible. The singularity is coming.

http://singularityhub.com/2010/09/01/retro-futurism-arthur-c-clarkes-predictions-from-1964-video/

Part One:

Part Two:

Reflections from 2007 (his 90th Birthday!):

He wants us to view the planet as One Family and for us to generate Renewable Energy and for lasting peace to be created in his adopted home of Sri Lanka.

Robot fetches a Beer

2010-09-03T23:03:00.000-07:00

The future is coming quickly.

Found this through singularityhub.com - really exciting stuff comes on there really often. Life is moving very fast and in a good direction ! There is hope!

Angiogenesis: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in understanding Health and Disease

2010-07-27T21:22:00.001-07:00

This is something we've known all along intuitively but now science is catching up to prove to us how to beat cancer, obesity and at least 70 other diseases that all have one thing in common - faulty Angiogenesis...

CSP + WASTE = GAS

2010-07-23T21:20:00.000-07:00

Synthetic Gasoline Is Created From Biomass and Solar Power.

Bad. Ass.

Ecogeek rules.

A refillable Fuel-Cell in your pocket

2010-06-17T06:27:00.001-07:00

Amazing. Comes with two cartridges that hold the equivalent energy of about 1,000 AA batteries each. And also comes with a home-recharger that refills using water and electricity! This is only the beginning! Next we'll have much larger units to power our homes, cars, etc... I'm excited!

read more: http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3192

David Wilcock: 2012 Event Horizon

2010-06-02T17:50:00.000-07:00

David Wilcock's presentation is extremely intriguing... check it out for yourself. I was particularly blown away at the decoding of the pyramids and their correlations to the mayan calendar! Both cultures point to 2012 being a significant event in our evolution! This is just in the beginning of Part One, he has many more revelations to share..

This presentation is definitely a must see!!

Beware it's quite controversial, so please watch it with an open mind...

Part One:

Part Two:

Part Three:

Part Four:

The Blue Economy

2010-05-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

This is what we've all been waiting for.

100 Innovations to create 100 million jobs in 10 years.

Not just any jobs, but jobs that are not only ecologically designed, but economically profitable.

Gunter Pauli and ZERI.org have been hard at work searching the world for innovations that will allow our children to have a beautiful future.

You can find all the information in Gunter Pauli's official report to the Club of Rome entitled "The Blue Economy". Buy online here.

Also, he is releasing one invention every two weeks online. Some are videos and some are text. You can find the list here. As I type this, there are 12 listed so far.

Here is my favorite one so far, Case #6 - Fuel from the forest.

There is HOPE for the future!!

Spread the word! We need to gain support for these solutions and inspire EcoPreneurs to take up these ideas and make a living while helping us save humanity :)

Groasis Waterboxx

2010-04-23T20:22:00.000-07:00

This is the new Waterboxx system and it is now available for sale! I've been waiting for this for a couple years now. This device will allow us to plant trees without watering it. We can reforest our deserts!

I want to help get these boxes planted everywhere!

Here is the company's website. http://www.groasis.com

Interview with Inventor with his dream of reforesting the world and solving the co2 problem at the same time while creating jobs, food, energy and money as well! He calculated the costs at about $500 billion a year - we've got that money but we'd need to stop spending money on our imperial empire. - http://www.sonomanews.com/articles/2010/02/04/news/doc4b6b7c811b08a405533110.txt

Video of how the box works:

Why you should plant from seed:

Video explaining capilary action:

Presentation in Sonoma, California with Dutch Government in Attendance:

Why plants cannot grow in a desert:

Toby Hemenway - How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Planet - but Not Civilization

2010-04-22T14:12:00.000-07:00

Inspiring presentation by Toby Hemenway - best selling permaculture author of "Gaia's Garden" - the first book on permaculture that gave me the "aha!" moment. Again he inspires hope in this presentation by understanding our history as humans and our inventions and failures at agriculture and where we can go from here with permaculture to create not only a sustainable society, but a regenerative one as well.

Try the first link for his updated presentation, if it does not work check out the 6 part series on youtube below (slightly different but lower production quality).

Presentation from http://nicholas.duke.edu/hemenway/:

Alternate Youtube Presentation:

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LED Lighting Revolution

2010-04-13T18:48:00.000-07:00

The LED Revolution is coming... A clever video from a manufacturer of LED's (Used in mainstream companies like GE, etc). If you go to their site listed in the video it has a clever video on how LED's are more natural than Fluorescents (Death/Prison lights! - my own description =P)

Abraham on Natural Disasters and Death

2010-04-13T18:26:00.000-07:00

A revealing look at life and death from the perspective of non-physical.

CoLLapse with Michael Ruppert

2010-04-07T15:04:00.000-07:00

Michael Ruppert is the man who woke me up.. He has been right on his predictions of the coming collapse. How we make it through the collapse is up to us. Evolve or die, so true!

The movie is now available to buy through iTunes.

Out of Control

2010-04-07T11:57:00.000-07:00

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis has very interesting and revealing reports on how our society is operating and how it is failing and why. He used to focus more on the money system but now he is writing about the nuts and bolts of society.

A couple recent articles are on Detroit and Los Angeles on the brink of bankruptcy that are worth checking out. However, the motviation for this post is on the business of trash collecting.

A man in san francisco was able to charge his neighbors $10/week and make a profitable business compared to $37/week of the monopoly trash company. After the monopoly found out they complained to the city and a law was passed to force everyone to have mandatory trash service through the monopoly and then prices were raised again shortly afterwards! There is also a breakdown of Seattle's trash service showing they are paid about $110,000 a year and are wanting more and about to strike. The real surprise to me (maybe not to you) was that the employees are paid $1600 a month for health insurance!

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/04/trash-collecting-entrepreneur-squashed.html

Our system is broken and held back by rules and regulations.

After my recent trip to mexico I can see that they really have more freedom than we do.

For example with food, there was delicious and affordable food made by locals sold at the park of their farmers market and also a great local restaurant serving burgers cooked up on a grill on a sidewalk. A small building was rented out to cut up the veggies and make the fries and drinks. No high rent, no health department rules, etc.

Those that seek control are for lack of a better word, "out of control".

Even the environmental and sustainability movement that is pushing for carbon taxes, etc. We need SOLUTIONS, not REGULATIONS. Lets get truly renewable sources of energy created and start reforesting our land to capture back the carbon. How about creating bio-char from all our agricultural waste? There is evidence that it could significantly help to stabilize climate change.

We need to focus our energy on what we want. This is how the universe works. Think about it. Does complaining really do anything? Sure it gets us upset.. but what has to happen after that? We have to make a change. And I hope we are starting to realize that these changes must be big steps.

Lets start trusting people to take care of themselves. We live in a natural world that is governed by natural laws. These are the real laws we must respect. Things like carrying capacity of our planet.

But if we take a step back and really look at the world we can see that there really is true abundance. For example a wheat seed sown creates dozens more. Abundance is built into the system. We have a constant supply of NEW energy given to us every day by the sun and the wind. How we use it is up to us.

Relying on fossil fuels and creating rules to limit humans is creating artificial scarcity and unnecessary suffering.

I believe our problems would be solved if we believed and enabled a truly free market and if we focused on SOLUTIONS. Allow anyone to do anything. No rules, fees, licenses, etc and allow people to be free enough to IMAGINE.

So let us imagine a free world. The burden of responsibility of accuracy and safety would lie on the business and customer. The business would go out of business if their product was unsafe or unpopular. The customer or a third party organization would be wise to research the business and tell others who is good and who is not.

We also must get over the concept of 100% safety. We are all human. People make mistakes. The cost of "insurance" has risen out of control for many reasons but a few that come to mind. We force only "licensed" doctors to practice. These doctors must go through years of expensive schooling with massive loans and then have "malpractice" insurance and "workman's comp" insurance, which are also rising out of control.

We need to allow alternative doctors that do not need to pay these high insurances to practice, they will be able to bring the cost of healthcare down. We could also more efficiently spend our money by having a focus on preventing disease rather than treating disease once it arrives. Patients opting for these alternative doctors could sign a waiver to acknowledge they cannot sue the doctor. An alternative could be where doctors can choose to join an organization (one of many) that tests their doctors and "certifies" them, which they can advertise to their customers to help rely the essential factor of trust.

Keep in mind that even with our laws and regulations we still have doctors that make mistakes all the time. The laws and insurance do not stop the problems. They only make more problems.

Now I know we need some simple laws in the world. Laws like not being able to kill someone, etc. But I hope you understand my point and can see how society is falling apart because of our fallacy of control.

Really think about how society works and why. And you'll realize we do not need laws or money. This world works on relationships and the glue that bonds it together - trust.

This is what we need. To trust each other that we will help each other and it will work out. We need to come together and build our communities again. Our economy is broken and is not coming back to how it once was. We are past that. We must create a new world. We must fundamentally re-evaluate our system and re-design it from the ground up. We need to stop complaining and rushing to pass laws and regulations to "tweak" this system. We need fundamental change.

For example our money system is a monopoly and a handful of international banks are in control of the global economy. They control if we feast or famine. They control how much money is in the system. If we have more money we grow, if we have less money we shrink. We need alternative money systems so we can choose what to use. We need the money system controlled by the people so we can decide if we grow or shrink. I suggest we link our money system to our carrying capacity.

We need to create an alternative money system. Our government can create its own money free from international bankers. Our past presidents have done this. We need to break free from our attachment to banks and loans. This is killing our society. The housing market is broken and will not make you rich. Get over it. Housing rents are slavery and are holding us back from doing what is really needed in our society. We work to pay loans to a bank or to pay someone else to pay back their loans to a bank. At first this system worked well and has a purpose. But now the system is broken and we need a new one. We do not work for human enlightenment. We do not work for joy. We do not work for our community. We work to pay the banks.

At what point will we collectively stand up and take back our world? How much suffering do we have to endure? How many more people are going to lose their homes? How many more people are going to stay up late worrying about money? How many more species have to go extinct? How much more topsoil do we have to lose? How much fear and depression do we have to endure? How much prozac do we have to make?

Furthermore on the subject of Abundance and Freedom vs Scarcity and Control - Look at our biggest expense. Wars and Military. This is due to fear and subsequent the attempt at control. We need to give up control of the world. We cannot afford to try to do this anymore. Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine - all of them are fighting back at our contol and force. They want independence. Imagine for a moment if we took our 500billion+ a year trying to FIGHT and used the money to HELP these countries, and HELP OURSELVES to become sustainable with energy and our economy.

And look at our "war on drugs" and the cost of putting people in prisons. Our governments are going bankrupt, we cannot keep fighting this fight. We will never win.

So let us ask ourselves. What are we really doing here on earth? I'd say the ultimate goal is to allow everyone access to what we need, basic food, water, air and maybe more importantly, the feeling that we all have a reason to be here. A feeling that we are part of society and we are all moving forward together and that we care and help each other. So lets focus on that. We need to collectively close our eyes, take a deep breath and let go of our control. Then it is time to wake up!

We must imagine the ideal world that we want.

We can do this.

Baja / News Update

2010-03-10T18:23:00.000-08:00

I'm heading to Baja to film my permaculture teacher and create a website with the information, more info to come as it develops..

But in the meantime, check out the latest efficiency/sustainability improvements/inventions! Lets keep this up, world!

Google Develops New Solar Thermal Mirro Prototype that will make solar cheaper than coal! - http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3090

Transonic Combustion improves Gas Engine Efficiency over 50% ! (This new engine is better than a prius) - http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3105

IMB Develops Highly Recyclable / Biodegradable Plastics - http://www.fastcompany.com/1576778/ibm-researchers-develop-highly-recyclable-biodegradable-plastic

IBM creates a new data-processing algorithm that enables large sets of data to be processed 99% faster (energy savings) - http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3096

Miniature Solar Power Generator - http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3095

Bill Gates on TerraPower

2010-02-27T05:11:00.000-08:00

A must see! One of the richest men in the world putting his time, energy, heart and most (sadly) important thing (money) to good use! He is investing millions into TerraPower - which is a radical advance in Nuclear technology that will allow us to burn up our current "waste". These new reactors will not need to be manually re-filled, they will be dug vertically into the ground and will last for decades until all the fuel is burned up.

All this news of big changes coming is soothing my anxious soul..

Good News!

2010-02-24T22:32:00.000-08:00

I found some absolutely great news tonight that I found over at ecogeek.org! It's all coming so fast. what an exciting time to be alive. Look what we can create when we want to! Onward!!!

I remember reading about neighborhood fuel cells. well thanks to a smart move by the government the first ones are shipping. they are very expensive and only big companies like google are buying them, but like with all technologies, what was once very expensive becomes cheap with time and advancements! yes! - Bloom Energy - http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3079

New Thin Solar Panel uses 1/100th of material but gets same energy efficiency as regular solar. the inventors believe the product will be integrated into clothing!! yes!! - http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3074

New technology increases our ability to capture co2 by 400%. the technology is getting close to the complexities of DNA! wow. http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3073

CLEVER! Device mimics leaches to eject itself once it's fully charged - http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3080

Good use of our government - it will create the largest solar thermal plant in the world and double our capacity!! yes! - http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/308

It doesn't stop! New material invented that could be used as the body of a car and store the electricity to power it at the same time!!! wow!! http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3072

There are lots more good news on ecogeek.org that you can discover for yourself. news of increased bio-fuel use and lots of efficiency improvements that will buy us more time as we go down the back side of the peak.

Obama's administration is a much better improvement than Bush. Be grateful for the change even if it's not enough.... We're making progress!!

Utopia

2010-01-26T10:23:00.000-08:00

I believe the utopia we are looking for will be created when technology becomes married to ecology.

My permaculture teacher Andrew Jones said something very close to that to me on my first day of class.

It really has stuck with me and through my soul searching the last couple of years I have come to the conclusion that technology can liberate us from the drudgery of life so we can be free to do other things. Spiritual growth perhaps? Art and Culture? Love? Just be?

Technology is only as good as its creator. So, if we design our system to be ecologically minded, then we can use technology as a tool to enable humans to achieve enlightenment and we can continue living and creating.

This post was inspired after watching the news update from Geoff Lawton. At the end they make him sound like he is against our culture because all it has brought us is more gadgets while being unsustainable. I think Andrew should have a talking to Geoff. Because with that attitude, permaculture will have a hard time gaining traction - unless we DO fully collapse. But I don't think we need to wait to get there in order to have people adopt the concept of a sustainable human habitat.

We CAN have permaculture used throughout society in the western world. It all comes down to politics and our priorities. Right now people are working multiple jobs just to barely get by, and now are losing their jobs. At the same time, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on military where we are only matched by all other countries COMBINED!

So, I've got an idea for a solution - I'd like to see those that have money or the power to create money to get our priorities straight and start investing into a sustainable future for human civilization.

We need a vision.

Here's a start. Use money for tree planting for food and energy uses and other community improvements that will help us be more self sufficient and sustainable. The food created will save people expenses and money will be made from products and energy created. Subsequently, the money spent on the workers would be spent again by the same workers in their communities. This money would keep on spreading and multiply further. One action will help many.

So I ask all of you, start thinking about what kind of future you want to live in. Please post your responses in the comment sections and talk to others about it. Together we can create a better future.

I'll start.

I'd like to see us living in a world where:

All energy is renewable.
All elements are recycled.
All people are paid living wages.
Education becomes more about mentoring, guidance and real life opportunities.

I'll stop there for now. I think if just those three things are done, a lot of other problems like poverty, crime, pollution, and potentially even many diseases will begin to disappear.

Bioplastic use is set to boom

2009-12-20T19:33:00.000-08:00

As fossil fuels get used less we need alternatives. Enter bioplastics. Great article showing the benefits. We know we can re-create forests and even start growing trees in the deserts. We can use these trees to make bioplastics.

We still need to setup city/community/neighborhood wide composting programs, it will be a joy to live in a world where I can compost my plastic. Since the only thing I really throw away is plastic wrapping, and those paper/wax orange juice containers.

It would be a good idea for us to find a way to make condoms compostable too.. :)

everything below is the good stuff from http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/12/15/eco.bioplastics/

The 215,000-square-feet carpet at the Bella Center that hosted most of the U.N.'s official events was made using Ingeo, a bio-fibre derived from corn sugars.

According to French manufacturer Sommer Needlepunch and Natureworks LLC, the provider of Ingeo, in shunning oil-based products the carpet saved the emissions equivalent of driving an average car 68,869 miles (110,834 kilometers).

It is one small step in a bioplastics and biofibers industry that is fast developing new alternatives to oil-based polymers and turning them into everything from food packaging to fashion outfits, cell phone casings and medical implants that dissolve inside the body.

Bioplastics are not new.

Henry Ford theatrically swung an ax to show the dent resistance of soy-based car doors at Ford in 1940, when the infant science was called "chemurgy."

So far, bioplastics only comprise an estimated 0.20 percent to 0.25 percent of total plastics use. But several forecasts predict a boom for the once-brittle plastics that are now beginning to compete with traditional PET and polystyrene.

A recent University of Utrecht study forecast that up to 90 percent of plastics could technically become bio-based in the long term and that production could grow by on average 37 percent annually until 2013.

Ceresana Research predicts the largest growth rates in electronics and auto industries. The Freedonia Group, an industrial research company, sees demand growing fastest in the Asia-Pacific region, and the U.S. market to reach $10 billion a year by 2020, a tenfold increase from 2007.

The most recent scientific breakthrough came from researchers at South Korea's pioneering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

They used a metabolically engineered strain of E. Coli bacteria to produce bioplastic polymers through single-stage fermentation, potentially cutting the cost of the usually expensive process by about 40 percent when the new science is market ready within about two years, according to Professor Sangyup Lee, who led the team of scientists.

"We're basically torturing E.Coli but in a way that will benefit human beings and environments," Lee told CNN.com.

Re: Oil

The bioplastics market has swayed to the price of oil.

"The general rule of thumb, if oil gets above $70-$80 a barrel, it gets very easy to compete on a price basis," said Steve Davies, director of Communications and Public Affairs at Natureworks, which owns the world's largest bioplastics facility.

Re: Sources

The menu of ingredients in the biomass used to make the plastics is growing -- corn, wheat, potatoes, tapioca, soy, sugarcane and wood are in the production cycle.

Metabolix is exploring switchgrass, industrial oil seed and has been trialing tobacco crops. Algae is favored for its high yield and oil giant Exxon Mobil this year bought into its potential to produce 2,000 gallons of fuel per acre. That's almost 10 times as much as corn, which remains the cheapest and most widely used feedstock for biomass.

Both Natureworks and Metabolix companies see the future in cellulosics such as grasses and non-edible plant parts.
"Crops like sugar cane and switchgrass have the potential to grow in acres where crops can't be grown or those grown are of marginal value," Peoples said.

Davies also champions cellulosics: "It really allows you to produce bio-based, bio-degradeable materials from agriculture without impacting food."

Re: Environmental Options

Even at competitive cost, bioplastics companies must persuade critics and those confused about how environmentally friendly the different kinds of bio-plastics really are.

"People don't like to deal with complexity. And the answers to all these questions is often: 'it depends'," Reid Lifset, an associate research scholar at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, told CNN.

Natureworks' PLAs can be chemically composted into lactic acid and then produce virgin polymer for new products -- yet the composting is still on a post-industrial scale and not widely available for ordinary households.

Metabolix produces a different type, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), which Peoples said will readily bio-degrade in home composting and even in cold oceans.

Lack of composting facilities could push bioplastics into landfills, where certain types would release more damaging methane than traditional PET plastics. Worries that bio-plastics could contaminate the PET recycling stream has some retailers hesitating.

The impact also depends on other difficult variables, including each product's lifespan.

Market growth, stricter government standards for plastics and limits on land filling are encouraging more research into improvements and solutions, but bio-plastics will not be a miracle cure in an "either-or" scenario with oil-based plastics, producers and experts say.

"PET recycling is already very good. Our attitude is that Mirel should be used where it actually makes good sense and not to replace something where there already is a good system," said Peoples.

Said Davies: "Bio-plastics can go somewhere at the end of their life, there are many exciting options for the future,"

Challenge your World!

2009-11-22T20:22:00.000-08:00

La Chaussettologie - Challenge your world from Desrumaux Celine on Vimeo.

pretty genius I think.... a better world IS possible. and we are creating it right now! no need to fear, its all going to turn out just the way its supposed to.. :)

http://www.challenge yourworld.com - the plantain idea is great!

Positive Worldwide Change Idea

2009-11-15T21:18:00.000-08:00

Here's a quick sketch of an idea to make a video petition and online movement around: - I'd like to get your feedback on this!

Objective: To create a positive, fun, cartoonish video that the whole world can understand and will inspire people to ask for an improvement in their lives.

Visual Start: Tell people that here is an idea. show someone talking and point to a cartoon globe (inspired by the story of stuff).

Content: ask the top 1% or whatever small percentage (show small number of people) to make their names forever eternal in earths history (or some other epic name for this gargantuan deed) to hand back half of their money spread evenly to the rest of the inhabitants of earth - the remaining 99% of people (show numbers).

This would double everyone's income for that year. Think of it like a christmas bonus for all of earth. Do you love earth? Do you appreciate what it's given you (show all abundance of nature and people and creations and technologies and luxuries)

This may sound like a a lot of change, but if you think about it - the lower 99% would still have 45% less than the top 1% (need catchy name for them-leaders,overlords,etc heh and show number).

Raising the income of the lower 99% (show number of people) - (example someone making $30,000 gets $60,000) - would make a very serious impact to improve their standard of living and happiness - and simultaneously create the biggest boost to our economy's growth in the worlds entire history. Or the money could be spread evenly - a set flat amount. I'd have to do the calculations on this.

-what do you all think? any ideas? other catchy points that could be universally understood? please leave them in the comments section.

My own rebuttal - I know this would be have the potential to just be temporary. such as if laws were not changed, jobs did not change, mental attitudes did not change, etc that it would go back to the way it was - but think about this - if people had more money they would have more time to think. and the more time to think, and since everyone just wants to be happy -then we will increase the rate positive change so everyone can enjoy and grow from this experience.

Visualize the idea in action: Imagine you living your life where if you wanted to, you could take a year or two off and really think about life. you could have the freedom to do whatever you wanted to do. Or you could keep at your job but be able to afford the things you really needed to make that free energy invention. Or create that new musical instrument. Or create that cure for cancer..... :)

A world with no fear of money. just simply passion for life. imagine that.

Update: the numbers of doubling and the top whatever percentage of money are just a starting point. it could be top 2% and we increase our income by 5x ... whatever the 75% of people in the world agree on - and that number can be different too!

Please share your ideas!

Update: Catchy quick slogan - "How to increase 100% of the people of the world's happiness" - 99% get more money, %1 feel good about their impact/legacy/responsibility

Update2: Ok so if people are against "something for nothing" aka "a gift" then perhaps everyone could have an equal amount of money if they wrote a paper on what they plan to do with the money, which would give them a chance to really think about it. Combine this with self-improvement brochures or other info to help empower people.

Plasco Energy Group's Zero Waste Technology

2009-10-19T16:37:00.000-07:00

Plasco Energy Group is from canada that has been working on this plasma technology since the 80s. Their first plant has been in operation since 2007. Now I read that they are in talks with Salinas, California! Their plants takes municipal waste and turns it into energy and resources we can re-use.

Here is a graphic showing what is created from waste that would otherwise go to the "dump".

So glad to see a way to make use of things we cannot recycle such as old toothbrushes, plastic wrappers, etc.

For more information please visit their website: http://www.plascoenergygroup.com/?Technology_Overview

USA Military Spending vs THE WORLD

2009-10-14T19:13:00.000-07:00

Add up the money that all the other countries in the world spend on their military equals how much money we spend on our military. Note these numbers are from 2008, we just increased our military budget again this year. Balancing our budget would be easy if people demanded we spend less on our "defense" budget. Also we need to realize that this is no longer considered "defense", more like "offense", to keep USA #1 at all costs. This also explains why other countries can afford free health care.

Plastic to Fuel

2009-09-17T13:08:00.000-07:00

From the ever inspiring ecogeek - http://www.ecogeek.org/component/content/article/2947

A new company in Washington, DC, Envion, believes they've come up with a way to efficiently convert waste plastic into fuel by using carefully-controlled infra-red energy. The $5-million plant was unveiled this morning.

The process that Envion has created is still tightly under wraps, but the plant includes a chemical reactor with internal agitators for mixing the liquid and heating elements that deliver the necessary infra-red energy. Since the infra-red energy is easily controlled, the process is very efficient. The plant is able to convert 82 percent of the waste into fuel and the resulting sludge is usable too.

The liquid can be mixed with other components to become gasoline or diesel. Envion has already signed up one company to use their recycled oil as motor fuel and is negotiating contracts with others.

The plant can process all types of plastic except for #1 PET, which is easily recycled at a better value. For each ton of waste, the plant can produce three to five barrels of fuel, with each barrel costing about $10 to make.

The amount of good news these days is overwhelming. There is something going on. Maybe Ian Lungold was right about us being on a schedule

(For those of you who do not know who Ian is, watch his mind blowing explanation of the Mayan calendar and how he put the pieces together to show the evolution of the universe and the planets and life and animals and humans and all of consciousness matches up to the cycles of the Mayan calendar which ends October 28th, 2011!)

Wireless Electricity

2009-09-16T08:50:00.001-07:00

Nikola Tesla's dream is now a reality! How exciting!