Bay Area Biodiesel Info

Problem: Sustainable development has been discussed world-wide for decades but the problems, mischievously keep getting worse. Could we have been missing something big, maybe huge? The recent documentary Blindspot (http://www.blindspotdoc.com/) shows how the most basic assumptions about our future are wrong. How wrong? It is as if modern civilisation has got stuck in reverse gear, with economics that systematically, relentlessly messes things up.  Millions of...

Action: 1.  Notice the blindspot.  Notice that we've been trying to solve global problems with the same thinking that caused them. Do problems really become more manageable when tackled separately, here and there, a bit at a time? Don't get so distracted fiddling with pieces of the puzzle that the big picture is ignored.  For example our struggles to recycle a bit more have masked the ease with which all resources could be rescued to help our economy and planet. When we grieve about the latest armed ...

Problem: Nova Pesquisa Assessoria em Educação, ONG com sede própria no bairro do Flamengo - RJ, que na época desenvolvia um projeto direcionado para população de rua, detectou que a maioria dessas pessoas viviam de catação de materiais recicláveis. Através de convites para reuniões, feito pela Nova Pesquisa dessas pessoas, houve o inicio a mobilização desses catadores. Durante essas reuniões observou-se a necessidade do grupo partir para a organização de associações e cooperativas, onde pudessem reen...

Action: Organizar os Catadores(as) em Grupos, Associações e Cooperativas. Capacitação em conhecimento de materiais recicláveis; capacitação em técnicas de coletas; cursos de alfabetização; formação na  área de Meio Ambiente.

Problem: O projeto começou com uma proposta pedagógica de coleta seletiva de lixo, nos colégios da rede pública municipal de São Gonçalo - RJ, para troca do lixo por brindes, mas o projeto não obteve os resultados esperados. Na nova face do projeto, estamos trabalhando com a rede Pública Estadual de Ensino Médio com Alunos da 3 série. O Projeto Formandos 2006, é um projeto onde o aluno vai acrescentar em seu curírculo: Planejamento de carreira, Orientação Vocacional, visitas guiadas às empresas, col...

Action: Trabalhar a questão do Meio Ambiente academicamente.   Serviços oferecidos pelo Projeto:   Planejamento de Carreira, orientação Vocacional , visitas guiadas, empresas e Universidades, encontros Estaduais de Alunos da 3a. série do Ensino Médio formatura e Colação de Grau.  

Problem: Help bring about federal standards for safety assessments of genetically engineered foods. Background: The haphazard and negligent agency regulation of biotechnology has been a disaster for consumers and the environment. Unsuspecting consumers are being allowed to purchase and consume unlabeled genetically engineered foods, despite a finding by FDA scientists that these foods could pose serious risks. A number of studies over the past decade have revealed that genetically engineered foods ca...

Action: Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has repeatedly introduced two bills related to GE crops and foods in the House of Representatives. The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act would require mandatory labeling of all GE foods; the other, The Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act, would require mandatory, pre-market safety testing of GE foods.

Problem: This LOCALLY DRIVEN SOLUTION PROCESS is NON ISSUE SPECIFIC.   Target issues may include but  are not limited to POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL SCARCITY/ DEVASTATION. Whether fighting AIDS in Zimbabwe, saving rain forests in Senegal, or building healthy, sustainable communities in the USA; "7 Stages to Sustainability" empowers local and global "Partners In Empowerment" (PIE) to address locally identified threats to human and environmental security ...

Action: 1. Identify and engage Partners In Empowerment™ (local and global): community members, collaborating organizations, socially conscious businesses & other stakeholders dedicated to improving human and environmental security.   * More specifically, "7 Stages to Sustainability" emphases six synergistic social and economic sectors:       Collaborating Nonprofits– Who: Comm...

Problem: How can we help to kick-start the future energy efficiency development of the 3rd World and in the same manner approach helping US owners of foreclosed houses become self-sufficient and profitable small local green businesses?

Action: http://www.wiserearth.org/uploads/file/bfc2d4ddf476eddca901b6dab2b18b98/Beyond%202%20copy.pdf       New Ways out of the Housing Crisis                                 Ways out of the Mortgage crisis (Beyond a Citizen's suggestion)   What does it take to Change the World? Nothing! The World is always changing! What does it take to move the World toward where most would like it to be, ...

Problem: The establishment of land as private property is illegal (violates natural law, and the law of common ownership), and is also destructive on all of these levels: environmental, social, economic, and community.  The real estate industry has destroyed social and economic fabric of the community, while perverting the original intent of land use for the common good.

Action: To present the real picture of what our current real estate industry is doing, while promoting an healthy alternative to begin healing both the community of humanity and the nature-human relationship.

Problem: The problem in today's world is that we strongly rely on a economic and financial system which is totally unreliable [20], unstable [21], unfair [22] and which enables ecological disasters. It lacks built-in responsibility for the participants to the consequences of their actions. Money and greed cause wars, poverty and starvation. Furthermore, units of currency have deliberately been decoupled from well-established units of measurement. There is most certainly not a SI-defined [5] unit for...

Action: Our current economic system is held responsible for a series of ecological disasters. This system is also suffering from instability and experts are awaiting its full demise. In this paper we have identified the root of these problems: the monetary unit that is floating and undefined, and economic system lacking optimisation for recycling and energy scarcity. Instead of proposing changes to the current system, we have unrolled the design of an alternative: Rainbow Trading and the RGB unit o...

Problem: a multi-level problem exists on the Great Plains of North America  - decline of ecosystem quality, decline in quality of beef livestock, the comparative loss of kinds and numbers of species over the long haul.  Also, the consumption of beef is now linked to Alzheimer's disease.

Action: This resource presents an alternative, visionary use of the Great Plains  - the return of the bison herds, the return of wolf populations to "shepherd" and strengthen the bison, and the restoration of prairie floral systems.  The overall picture uses this initial ecological renaissance as a starting point for full ecological restoration of the North American continent.