Our founder, Steve Clark who has a long and storied clean energy history form working for the Dennis Weaver foundation to promoting electric vehicles to the Hawaii High School Hydrogen Challenge from the time before Iphones, welcomes you to explore what all of us can do as Citizens for Clean Energy.
“This culture has failed to design any built environment properly from the very first. ”
“When I visited, they were putting the finishing touches on the first seven homes. They were arranged in a circle with an open space in the middle. “Traditionally this is how we used to camp,” said Andy. “We call it Tiyóspaye, or family. We really thought about that sense of community in a space. In order to get to the community center, you have to meet your neighbors.”
“What has always been needed is a place to build an experimental off grid community with good water and soil. I’m ready to move my camper there when you find it.”
CleanEnergyColorado.Org is the first of hopefully many localized Clean Energy Educational Resources operating independently but collectively under the Citizens for Clean Energy banner. We hope to see CleanEnergyNewMexico.org and CleanEnergyPennsylvania.org and many other chapters form and join us in these efforts:
CleanEnergyColorado.org is partnering with Bruce Dietzen’s DrawdownHemp Team to enter and win the Elon Musk foundation $100,000,000 Xprize competition for removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, We propose a drawdown style analysis and demonstrations of biomineral composite construction for reducing both embedded and operational energy of buildings and manufacturing enterprises. Biomineral composites and BiofiberEpoxy composites can take the production of housing and durable goods from highly positive carbon footprints to beyond net zero energy powered with clean renewable energy and carbon negative construction. That is, we can now choose to build houses that produce more clean energy than they consume, and houses that sequester more carbon in their construction then it took to build them.
Carbon captured in Hemplime and Hempbiomineral composites combine problematic atmospheric CO2 into non toxic insulation, thermal mass, humidity regulating, fire and mold resistance into structures that reduce energy consumption for heating, cooling and humidity control reducing carbon emissions. Further, by substituting low carbon biofiberepoxy composite materials for concrete aluminum, steel, fiberglass and carbon fiber composites all of which have substantially higher carbon emissions compared to alternates made from regenerative natural biofiber. Biofiber textile composites are lighter stronger and sustainable compared to 19th and 20th century extract it and burn it it like there’s no tomorrow alternatives.
Kate Raworth’s Donut Economics offers significhnt corrections to classical economic thinking and offers a path forward. (Or is that backward from the edge of the extinction abyss.)
Corporations are not people and money is not speech. Patenting life forms is absurd. It is not allowed in India, and it doesn’t have to be allowed elsewhere.
Nature has the right to exist. Ecocide is a crime. Pollution and toxics are not victimless costless externalities. Waging war on nature is unwinable.
Extinction is the end of the line for the greedy corporate capitalist fascist authoritarian system with government as a wholly owned captive subsidiary. It’s the end of the line for indeginous people and first nations too and people of color everywhere that did not cause the problems or commit the crimes in the first place.
There are so many problems. Government has failed in it’s duty to keep it’s citizens safe. Non violent direction in the form of an eXtinction Rebellion may be necessary to return to democratic principles and figure out what needs to be done regardless of the whims of the billionaire’s. Who put Bill Gates in charge anyway.
Above all, we are for clean energy which in abundance is delivered free daily.
For when you think of it, it’s the dirty energy, the GDP and flawed economics that allowed sickness and pollution to grow to the point where more than 8 million people die prematurely each year from air pollution caused by burning fossil and biofuels. The costs or these problems and unpriced externalities are off the balance sheets. The profits which resulted from not including these costs of doing business went straight to the top managers and to the owners. The injustice is staggering extending to everyone else and now to future generations. Humans it seems cannot comprehend the exponential growth function born of simple arithmetic and are easily misled. Our addiction to cheap convenience, powered by cheap energy dense energy slaves, caused the air, water, and food problems and the environmental crisis in the first place.
The meek and complacent will not inherit the earth. Plastics, is the future. Plastics will be here long after we’re gone. Recycling is the “big lie” when it comes to plastics never the less plastics shall inherit the earth.
It doesn’t have to be that way.