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"Zabaleen" is the Arabic term for those visionary and enterprising people whose culture revolves around recycling. The Zabaleen are experts at "transforming one man's garbage into another man's gold" and aspire toward a net zero-waste economy. Applied and supported this could lead to true energy independence, not only by radically reducing our demand for "raw materials" and hard to extract natural resources but by recycling other less obvious phenomena and materials that are now wasted.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

20th Biogas system in Seattle

Now in Seattle building our 20th biogas system with Mike Rimoin, this one using the Solar CITIES HDPE tank as digestor but trying out a simple telescoping system for gas collection (much as we had planned for system 3 at Sekem farm in Egypt) and a solar heat exchanger to keep temperatures up in the tank.

February 21 at 8:31am

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The Zabaleen ethic

There is no such thing as "garbage". Nothing should be wasted. A Zabaleen looks around him or her and asks, "what new use or value can I find in this object, this environment, this moment." The Zabaleen ethic, if properly applied and supported, could lead to true energy independence by making use not only of what we traditionally call "trash" but of other wasted commodities: embedded solar radiation found in light, heat, wind, hydrological cycles, geothermal mass and biomass and from the synergistic behavior of microbes, plants, fungi and non-human animals. We can all be Zabaleen...

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

20th Biogas system in Seattle

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