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.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Welcome to the Coral Reef: The Zooxanthellae Rockabilly

Thomas Henry Culhane Moshira Hassan, Guy Jobbins :

Just learned there is another "natural science song and dance man" out there who created a Zooxanthellae song (remember the Zooxanthellae rockabilly song I wrote for your AUC marine biology class at the red sea? Fun memories. I've posted it here at http://melodic-mnemonics.blogspot.com/2...009/09/welcome-to-coral-reef.html
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It's Zooxanthellae (Not Peanut Butter & Jelly)

Billy B., the self-described "natural science song and dance man" and creator of the BioBlitz anthem for the Rock Creek Park BioBlitz in 2007, leads kids from Homestead's Laura C...

By:Ford Cochran

May 4 at 11:44pm · Comment · · View Feedback (2)Hide Feedback (2) · Share

Moshira Hassan

Hey TH,
Thanks loads for uploading your Zooxanthellae rockabilly song. That was a fun course, and your songs really made it real!

May 5 at 8:28am ·

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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...