Here are the top 10 ways to save our earth. These are listed in a new book by Chris Goodall, a businessman and climate-change commentator, has outlined ten ways to save the world.
According to a report in New Scientist, the book determines that climate change can be overcome if the following energy sources and technologies are adopted:
- Wind power - Despite a reputation for being unreliable, wind power has the potential to provide more than 30 percent of the world’s electricity.
Solar power - The sun provides more than enough energy to power the world many times over, and increased investment in solar cells is leading to better models which capture more energy and cost less to produce.
- Power from the oceans - Tides, waves and currents possess huge potential for low-carbon energy generation, and power-generating buoys that harness wave energy 50 meters underwater provides positive vibes.
- Overcome climate change is installing domestic microgenerators, which are almost as efficient as huge generators and the heat they produce can be used to heat our homes and water.
- The fifth method to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to eco-renovate existing buildings. Measures such as insulating walls and windows, and using improved ventilation methods that don’t lose heat, can reduce emissions by 80-90 percent.
- The sixth technology that the book outlines is the use of electric cars. With running costs as little as 5 percent those of diesel models, electric cars will soon become a viable option.
- The seventh way to fight climate change is using second-generation biofuels made from agricultural waste. Using new cellulose-cracking technologies, waste wood can be broken down into liquid fuel, an idea that might very soon become a reality.
- The eighth method is investing in promising new carbon-capture technologies, with governments around the world understanding the importance of funding research in this area.
- The ninth method is to sequester carbon as biochar, a charcoal made from burning agricultural waste in the absence of air. Biochar is exceptionally stable and can be stored underground for hundreds of years without releasing its carbon into the atmosphere, and it improves the fertility of the soil.
- The tenth and last technology that the book outlines is the use of biogas stoves, powered by methane released from rotting organic waste, which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere
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The Terra Preta Prayer
Our Carbon who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name
By kingdom come, thy will be done, IN the Earth to make it Heaven.
It will give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our atmospheric trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against the Kyoto protocols
And lead us not into fossil fuel temptation, but deliver us from it's evil
low as we walk through the valley of the shadow of Global Warming,
I will feel no evil, your Bio-fuels and fertile microbes will comfort me,
For thine is the fungal kingdom,
and the microbe power,
and the Sequestration Glory,
For ever and ever (well at least 2000 years)
AMEN
Soil Carbon Commandments:
1) Thou shalt not have any other Molecule before Me
2) Thou shall not make wrongful use of the name of Biochar, It will not acquit anyone who mis-charactorizes it's name
3) Observe the Fallow days and keep them, as Sustainability commands thou
4) Honor your Micro Flora & Fauna , as the Soil Carbon commands you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that High Soil Carbon has given you.
5) Thou shall not murder the Soil Food Web
6) Neither shall thou adulterate the Soils with Toxicity
7) Neither shall thou steal Biomass from the Soil Food Web
8) Neither shall thou bear false witness against your neighbors Biochar, or about Thy own
9) Neither shall thou covet your neighbor's Fertility
10) Neither shall thou desire your neighbor's house, or field, or Pyrolysis Reactor, or farm implements, or anything that belongs to your neighbor, as thou may Create thy Own
Soil Carbon Dream
I have a dream that one day we live in a nation where progress will not be judged by the production yields of our fields, but by the color of their soils and by the Carbon content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, a suite of earth sensing satellites will level the playing field, giving every farmer a full account of carbon he sequesters. That Soil Carbon is given as the final arbiter, the common currency, accountant and Judge of Stewardship on our lands.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made forest, the rough soils will be made fertile, and the crooked Carbon Marketeers will be made straight, and the glory of Soil Sequestration shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see a Mutually assured Sustainability.
This is our hope.
My apologies to Dr. King, but I think he would understand my passion
Erich
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