Energy Independence

"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.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

First commercial application of Solar CITIES biogas design at Harborside Pizza in Alaska

Finished building the first commercial application of our National Geographic/Blackstone Ranch/Denali Commission funded psychrophilic biodigester for the Harbor Pizza restaurant (in the freezing rain, with the Adam Low and his students and the staff of the restaurant, and Nat Geo's Cheryl Zook), now off to make a presentation to the Cordova community about "where we can go from here."

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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...

Energy Independence

Thursday, February 18, 2010

First commercial application of Solar CITIES biogas design at Harborside Pizza in Alaska

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