What Are You Working On?

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Permalink Reply by Guy McGowen on April 1, 2008 at 10:09pm

Hello Kimberly K. Thank you for a very well thought out response to our current day social and enviromental problems. Our company has been approached by many companies and countries requesting the "how to do" the many different things you have related to in your article.
Upon close examination it appears that sugar cane is easier to grow than corn or soy. It stores more of the trace elements needed to stimulate the plants immune system and produce more than twice the amount of biofuel per acre than corn or soy. The best part is that it can grow in desert like conditions and still survive the excessive heat. No need to take away from the farmers harvest to feed himself and his cattle.
This project is getting underway in the country of CHILE. I hope others follow.
The other modern solution to a wide variety of social and enviromental issues is a process called bioremediation. 20 years ago it was something new and interesting. Now it is a refined science. Extremely inexpensive and 100% effective.
This process has been used to clean oil spills all over the world for the last 20 years. Now it is also being used to clean the worst of the worst toxic spils in the world with a 100% success rate. The US term of an identified contaminated site is called "Brownfield". We now have over 1,200 sites cleaned and counting.
As per your social thoughts about making any solution a sustainable one. We have designed a system called "All Trash Composting". US cities and companies seem to like their current state of dig, bury, and forget it. However we are now active in 12 other countries who are taking their waste disposal serious.
For more information on this subject see www.obio.com . for agricultural applications see www.biozome.com . I would enjoy your reply either by this forum or on a more professional level on the biozome website email . Regards Guy

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Permalink Reply by Kimberley on March 26, 2008 at 8:39pm

Wow, this is a good question.

I work in a hard, polluted and production oriented city (Houston, Texas). I work in a consulting firm for the oil and has industry, which was just fine with me until I "woke up" last year and noticed what I have been doing. At the moment, joyful and better are ephemeral qualities. However...

At work we have begun to build authentic community. The results have been amazing. We just finished a project that had all of us working long days and some weekends toward the end. But we all felt successful, refreshed and energized...the community was the difference. We are leveraging this community we have built now to determine what it is we want to do together this year for the larger community.

The president of the company (also my partner) has begun a blog in which she is journaling the issues she is finding in changing the way she is interacting with her communities as she is becoming more and more focused on the community at large. I am going to post it here with hopes that we can learn from all of you as well. Check it out and jump in the conversation.

http://balanceouttheyinyang.blogspot.com/

You guys are helping me stay awake. I am pouring over your posts. Keep them coming.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Kawell on April 1, 2008 at 12:32pm

Designing and building passive solar homes www.durangosolarhomes.com
Spreading the word about effective microorganisms www.emamerica.com
The rate of change is much slower than I thought it would be, but there seems to be such a need.
Steve Kawell

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Permalink Reply by Jose Fernando on April 2, 2008 at 12:09pm

Hi Kim

I am experimenting with solar and wind power. Setting up a small home system. I already have it working with the frequency inverter and all but its not connected to the house yet.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Durham on April 21, 2008 at 9:36am

Jose do you think this could be mass marketed? I have a friend who became involved with fre-tricity and it turned into a nightmare for her. She has one of there units which claims to be able to power her 7200 ssquare ft home on a wind speed of 5-7 MPH. She has one unit, was supposed to get 5 more but got screwed for a few grand. I was going to become a sales rep for her as the units were more than moderately price for the public. As I live in Boulder, CO, I could have sold all she had at a price point of 2k/unit all day long.

What are you plans for your units?

Daniel

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Permalink Reply by Jose Fernando on April 21, 2008 at 2:53pm

Hi Daniel... I am still in the prototype stage... I guess they could be sold later...

I will keep you posted

Best Regards

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Permalink Reply by Susmita Barua on April 4, 2008 at 8:29pm

I am working on Deep Conscious Capitalism, a proper diagnosis of problems inherent in our current debt-based fiat currency system, the way it is issued, controlled and distributed via centralized commercial private banks, so we the people can design and develop a sustainable, fair, trust currency of the people by the people based on right view of currency, both locally and globally.

A bioneer currency that builds community, values all human relationship, affirms dignity of all human life and labor and our symbiotic relationship with all life and nature in the planet and beyond. This is possible now with collective intention, awareness and education. Imagine a dancing revolution of like hearts and minds....

Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Susmita Barua on April 4, 2008 at 8:32pm

I am working on Deep Conscious Capitalism (please google this and share), a proper diagnosis of contradictions inherent in our current debt-based fiat currency system, the way it is issued, controlled and allocated as debt or credit from top via centralized commercial private global banks, so we the people can design and develop a sustainable, fair, trust currency of the people by the people based on right view of currency, both locally and globally.

A bioneer currency that builds community, values all human relationship, affirms dignity of all human life and labor and our symbiotic relationship between all sectors of the economy and all life and nature in the planet and beyond. This is possible now with collective intention, awareness and education. Imagine a dancing revolution of like hearts and minds....

Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Daniel on April 5, 2008 at 8:01am

Dear Kim,
I am new to bioneers and am looking forward to working with the local Baltimore-DC group. I hope my work can be appreciated broadly.
I have been doing urban guerrila style ecosystem adjustments in my local city park. (I don't like the term "stream restoration". Ask anybody.) My motivation is to clean up a long-neglected patch of stream, near to its source and try to restore harmony to the locale. Please visit my page at http://connect.bioneers.org/daniel
I would love to hear more feedback on my work.

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Permalink Reply by Judith Newton on April 5, 2008 at 2:06pm

Hope you don't mind if I post the link to your profile page, Daniel, which I think is what you were trying to do? Anyway it's http://connect.bioneers.org/profile/Daniel

You've created some lovely forms in the stream. What have you observed in the way of habitat changes, if anything? I see what you've done; I just would like to hear what you've learned from this. Thanks for sharing your work.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel on April 5, 2008 at 4:47pm

Thank you Judith. The link is what I messed up.
The forms are hydrologically stable to some degree and the mounds of rock create more habitat space for macroinvertebrates to colonize. They also serve as heat sinks. The vortex oxygenates the water and according to V. Schauberger, cools the water. That is one of the things I should be measuring but I have no temperature loggers on site. I have measured the dissolved oxygen with a YSI DO meter and found that the water downstream was carrying more oxygen but no formal measurements have been taken. Algae growth at the lip of each pool is very strong.
That is all that I have seen so far other than a snapping turtle trapped in one of the vortex pools. After rescuing the turtle, it got stuck again and I had to pull it out a second time. I placed him downstream which I presume was the direction he was going and haven't seen him since.
It is all experimental and I am freely changing the structure as I go. My main point is that in an urban environment, we should try more interesting approaches. The built environment is so different from a natural system. Maybe sculpting its path will help bring about a closer relationship with water.

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Permalink Reply by Judith Newton on April 5, 2008 at 6:20pm

Thanks, Daniel. This is great stuff. I can see how working towards creating more of a natural-ish undulation or meandering of a waterway can enhance the health of the whole system.

Where I live we have a lot of creeks that have been channelized with concrete and our main waterway near here, the Laguna de Santa Rosa, is basically a drainage ditch from when the area swamps were reconfigured. Water flow is very seasonal (rainy winters, rainless summers), but perhaps adding more rock features would enhance the habitat and health there? We've been planting trees, bushes, and understory plants along the banks to help things out.

Happy experimenting!

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