Rejuvenation – Step 4: Sustainability and Beyond

In the last three steps, we discussed the method of implementing sustainability by using the C.O.R.E. Technology for shelter, food, water, and electricity.  While this technology addresses the four basic systems of life, rejuvenation is a multifaceted endeavor, with many integrated parts.

For rejuvenating our society, from a disposable mindset to a sustainable one, we must begin to think in sustainable terms, and really understand how they relate to our Intent for Life.  Intent for Life is taking personal responsibility for all our thoughts and actions, and focusing them with purpose.  This is the underlying principle, and the necessary mental transition, to create complete rejuvenation – ecologically, economically, socially, personally, and spiritually. 

When we as a people begin to consider all our actions, from the businesses we patronize to where we find employment, and how these actions directly relate to the entire world; we’ll begin creating the world we want for our grandchildren, rather than passing on the same problems we inherited.

We live in a time with monumental problems.  And it’s easy to get lost in the overwhelming weight of them all.  For many, the thought of reaching a more sustainable economy is all that can be seen, and they loose site of why sustainability and what’s beyond sustainability.  Sustainability is only a means to a much larger goal. 

 

A life where our days are governed by complete freedom: In harming none, doing what we will.  With the freedom of your days, what would you create?  What would fill your heart with the most joy?

Artists will relish in the day they can fill their days with the joy of creating. The goal being the act of creation.  Scientists will fill their days with the pleasure of researching new discoveries.  The adventure of finding new discoveries being the goal.  Writers will write.  Singers will sing.  Designers will design.  Whatever your passion; in harming none, follow it to your fullest.  

Stay connected with the larger goal.  Remember what we are really striving for, and all our problems become opportunities waiting to be realized.  See that we’re living in a time of great opportunity!  This is how we are creating The New Green Economy and keeping our sights on the larger goal of Beyond Sustainability and into Our Time of Rejuvenation.

Rejuvenation – Step 3: Sustainable Water and Electricity

In Step 2 of Rejuvenation, we discussed how there is a sustainable alternative to the way we live, and how it’s possible and achievable now, with the first two basic systems of life: shelter and food.  In this section, we’ll outline the next two basic systems of life: water and electricity.

     Water:       Self-heating and cooling buildings not only lend themselves to sustainable homes and greenhouses, but solar water distilleries that convert agricultural levels of seawater into safe-water, with little more than the power of the Sun and the C.O.R.E. Technology's basic utilization of thermodynamics. 

 

In a time when the Earth’s water is over polluted, over diverted, and poorly managed, there is a growing populace in need of practical and affordable solutions for safe, clean, drinking water.

C.O.R.E. Distilleries convert agricultural levels of seawater into safe-water, at a fraction of the cost and without multi-billion dollar reverse osmosis and nuclear power plants needed with traditional distilleries.

     Electricity: Biogas digesters take organic matter – such as manure, kitchen scraps, butchery refuse, and farming chaff – and through anaerobic digestion, converts the organic matter into nutrient rich, safe fertilizer; and usable methane gas.

                        By harvesting the methane gas, which bubbles effortlessly to the top, and passing it through a gas generator, electricity is produced.  For anaerobic digesters, approximately 40% of the produced electricity goes back into heating the digester.  For a working example of this system, read Free Electricity!

 

With self-heating C.O.R.E. Digesters, the efficiency of converting organic matter into an abundant source of electricity is greatly increased; offering free electricity and nutrient rich fertilizer to your local community.

For a visual example of how the C.O.R.E. Technology provides a sustainable means for the four basic systems of life, watch our 7 min video on YouTube, and join me next time for the final installment of Rejuvenation: practical solutions to sustainability and beyond.

Rejuvenation – Step 2: Sustainable Shelter and Food

In Step 1 of Rejuvenation, we discussed how most people work their entire lives striving for the basic freedoms of a place of their own, with plenty of good food, water, and air; only to live paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by; with the looming fact that if they don’t get their financial heads far enough above water, they’ll spend the REST OF THEIR LIVES working to live!  We also examined: If we didn’t create this system, and it doesn’t represent who we want to be; do we have an alternative?

We do, and it’s possible, practical, and achievable.  It’s based on four basic systems of life: shelter, food, water, and electricity.  In this section, we’ll discuss the first two: shelter and food. 

     Shelter:      Sustainable Living Systems’ C.O.R.E. Technology offers self heating and cooling homes.  When you build a home that completely heats and cools itself, homeowner utilities are reduced by up to 66%; freeing up desperately needed cash flow.  

The self-heating and cooling C.O.R.E. Home offers the safety and comfort of a regulated environment without energy costs; with the remaining 33% used for lights and appliances, either offset with renewable technologies (in the initial purchase of the home, or as a future upgrade), or by remaining on the electric grid.

SLS’s C.O.R.E. Homes are both self-heating and cooling, and structurally superior; providing safe sanctuaries from tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes; due to the buildings’ unique load baring and cross bracing design. 

     Food:          When you have the capacity to build self-heating and cooling homes, it lends itself to a myriad of future applications; one application being self-heating and cooling greenhouses.  The highest cost of greenhouse produce is regulating the temperature.

A self-heating and cooling greenhouse both eliminates the high cost of shipping food tens of thousands of miles between the grower, manufacture, and consumer; and offers local, organic, food production at a fraction of the cost, with minimum maintenance, in the harshest of climates.  By installing automatic watering and fertilizing systems, it’s as easy as planting seeds and harvesting food.

Rejuvenation begins with the basics.  Implement the basics in a sustainable manner, and rejuvenation follows suet.  Would you like to stop the downward spiral of spending the rest of your life, working to live?  Are you ready to really live?  

Join the discussion.  Tell me your thoughts.

Rejuvenation – Step 1: Reexamining How We Live

With our busy and fast paced lives, have you taken a moment to really stop and look around?  What have you seen?  Do you see a society that represents your values and core ideals?  Do you see a society that represents your social and environmental views?

Our current society was framed and built by our ancestors; and there comes a time in every culture, for the people of the day to stop and reexamine if the society in place is a true representation of them, or merely an archaic framework they continue to maintain with no personal ownership.

As a Sustainability Engineer and Business Owner, I have had the chance to speak with many people from varying walks of life.  And from the environmentalist, to the professional, to the workmen, there is one answer I hear repeatedly: today’s society does not represent me.

When the question is raised, “What do you want out of life?” the overwhelming response is freedom: social, economic, spiritual, environmental…you name it…freedom.  The freedom to live, think, and play without harming anyone.  Does this represent you?  Do you think it is possible to have a society where you can be free, in whatever since the word means to you, while offering the same level of freedom to others?

If freedom from our financial constraints, social dogmas, and environmental degradation (just to name a few), is what we seek; what aspects of our society can we change to create this freedom?  If most people are striving for their since of freedom, working their entire lives to reach it, with only 5% or fewer ever really obtaining it; then what can the other 95% do differently to create a better chance at obtaining their desired freedom?

In material terms, freedom to most people is a place of their own, with plenty of good food, water, and air; reliable and quick communication; safe and comfortable transportation; true health care; and an adequate income to offer the pleasures of entertainment and the expansion of knowledge.  

Most people work their entire lives reaching for these basic desires, only to live paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping together rent, electric, food, water, and taxes; not even considering adequate disposable income to just play, relax, and expand their knowledge.  So if we didn’t create this system, and it doesn’t represent who we want to be; do we have an alternative?

We do, and it’s possible, practical, and achievable.  In my next three blogs on Rejuvenation, I’ll begin to describe exactly how this new level of freedom is obtainable for every man, woman, and child.  Join me in Reexamining How We Live.

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