Only true eco sustainable and renewable energy practice can cultivate fertile soil - the foundation and basis to re-build planet sustainability - restore the carbon and water cycles and manage heat accumulation.
Our research in ecology-environment-economic and people (EEEP) has lead us to the roots of civilization: soil. There are 7 billion living organisms in one teaspoon of rich soil - more than all the people on Earth, and they are the basic building blocks of sustainability.
In 1937 Roosevelt said, "The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself", today he might say: "The PLANET that destroys its soil, destroys itself".
As an unintended consequence of Mans' clearing of land, modern farming and water management, our architectural footprint is steadily replacing forests or cooler areas with warmer built infrastructure and open farmland. Apart from reducing land area for animals leading to species extinction, these tree-cleared areas reduce active solar coverage and can become heat accumulators. The air above heated land warms forming winds and updrafts that eventually collides with cold air high above.
As water management directs rain water out to sea,
As land clearing leads to heat accumulation,
As the hot wind blows drying the land further,
As rain appears only to wash away the topsoil,
As floods carry it into the sea lost forever,
As the microorganisms return and restore the soil,
As the trees grows to heal and bind,
The land becomes bountiful again.
The secret to a healthy planet is the billions upon billions of living microorganisms and the humble tree. Microorganisms to build rich humus and soil, that supplies the nutrients for trees, that in-turn grows the roots that hold the soil together.
It starts with sustainable-soil-building, tree planting, land and water reclamation and sustainable farming. A "wholistec" EEEP perspective to interconnected sustainability, essential tools for a TRUEsustainable™ future.
The Mother Of Invention awakes and the Internet is listening.
The search for knowledge sparked by the urgency of climate change, has spawned an incredible outpouring of ideas. The Mother Of Invention has awoken and the Internet was there to record it.
The Internet is now an ever growing library of world changing ideas. "If you can imagine it, somebody has already built it" or simply visit You Tube and see the real Midas Touch, how to turn sand into soil.
On occasion, when you know the attractor our search connects like a hole in one... while the accumulation rate of what's new is somewhere this side of blinding.
We have a lot to choose from - but an unending list is an impossibility - so we focussed on "man-made machines that did work, that magnified, amplified and fed-back" - thus the strings of our inquiry placed Archimedes centre stage.
"Many advocates say true sustainability will require a systemic shift in how society addresses issues ranging from resource allocation to urban planning."
Dr Vladimir Dimitrov
ECOLOGICALLY The interconnected environmental component of sustainability - living within and amongst ecosystems and nature.
SUSTAINABLE The long-term maintenance and responsibility of resource use - environmental, economic and social. Essential for the earth to continue supporting human life with a new found balance and with developing nations.
RENEWABLE Natural resources like the sun and wind but preferably, for a steady 24 hour flow always "on" like hydro-electricity, a water column, osmotic pressure, a river flowing, magnetism, buoyancy, gravity and dark energy.
WHOLISTEC™ Wholistic technology that is transparent, abundant and inexpensive - enough to service 9 billion people with clean water and energy by 2050.
Knowing which tool is best for the job becomes easier when you ask the question, "is it true sustainable?"
Professor Malcolm McIntosh from the Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Griffith University, Queensland on "Rebuilding Brisbane and Rebuilding The Mind" following the recent flooding in Australia. He is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation at Coventry University and has written on the interplay between global governance, the environment and economic development.
Hansen clarifies certain misconceptions. Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried about the future.
United Nations University
Sustainability in a Time of Crisis
Paul Gilding: The Earth is full Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful.
