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<![CDATA[Going True Green - GTG Blog]]>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:10:02 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[Sustainability Lecture at Benedictine College]]>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/sustainability-lecture-at-benedictine-college

Benedictine College, Bill Lauto, Sustainability Lecture, Dr. Bugayong, Environmental Science, Climate Change, Changing Climates

Lecture will be LIVE on YouTube

I am humbled and honored to share information about being invited to speak at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas on "Sustainability as a Moral Responsibility". I will be speaking on the issue of embracing the environmental questions and the approach of sustainability to students under the tutelage of Dr. Bugayong, Co-director at the Chemistry Center for Integral Ecology.

My lecture will be Live and have a real time internet feed for YouTube to broadcast. The lecture will address sustainability as a moral responsibility and how everything is interconnected. Multiple solutions will be presented for each of us to implement as an individuals and to maintain a better stewardship toward Earth, which is a gift from God.

Interconnecting elements has Humankind facing several environmental issues, not just "Changing Climates", which is a more appropriate term to use compared to "Climate Change". Climate Change projects a false meaning that the planet as a whole, is having one entire change in all our planet's climates. Each section of our world has different climate parameters and outcomes. Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato si' has complete significances toward the matter of our Changing Climates, because the entire situation is presented. Not just some fragments like those presented by individuals who wish to create controversy, make money or protect money. Please review my Blog post of Pope Francis' Encyclical letter on June 2015.

I will cite the essence of Pope Francis' letter that shows where fault can truly be found for all environmental issues. I will address what are the implications facing Humankind not just from Change Climates, but other Environmental concerns which in turn, may prove to be more damaging. We will see how both sides of the issue are bias to their approach on Changing Climates and how we the people must obviate the fragmented information causing us to blame others. The real issue is not about what we have, but how we go about using our possessions. Pope Francis' stated this fact so well, "The external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become so vast."

So please join Benedictine College’s Center for Integral Ecology on October 5th, 4 PM, for a LIVE lecture by Bill Lauto, an International Environmental Scientist and Energy Consultant. Feel free to use the following LINK to establish a reminder and subscribe to watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwPupRtpCA

For more information on the Lecture please visit my Speaking Engagements page. Thank you.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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]]><![CDATA[Nine Eleven; 25 years]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/nine-eleven-25-years

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FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE

Not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Communist Soviet Union we had the promising hope of world peace. Sadly, I found myself writing the following Email on September 14, 2001 to friends near the West Coast. This was to answer some of their many questions and provide some aspect of what we were all going through here in New York.

Each one of us in the New York City area had the horror of September 11, 2001 in our own yard. All of us in New York that are from every nation in the world watched with our own eyes the unwarranted and evil attack upon all the people of the world, because America is made of everyone from around the world. As we watched the smoke rise, so did the spirit of everyone from our city's worldly population. Yes, our spirits were buried beneath the rumble at first, but that spirit slowly rose up against that perpetrated hatred. Then in the midst of the Ground Zero rubble, we all saw an iron cross still standing and as brothers and sisters from around the world, we hugged one another and we stood up together to rebuild our city, our country, our world, and the truth.

Our friends read my following email, to all their family and friends around the Thanksgiving table that November, when giving thanks to God:

"The time of three days has passed, the sky above is empty and silent. There is a distinct void of planes in the air and even God’s birds are still and quiet. There is an unwelcome feeling surrounding our existence, as if we are all trying to dissolve the lingering effect of a strong sedative.

The outlook of a promising future for the world that began when the Berlin wall came down, has now been shredded from our hearts. Americans face a deceitful evil once again, one not seen since the bombing of Pearl Harbor when my 18 year old father went to defend freedom.

For three days we reached out by all possible means to our friend and firefighter, Ben. For three days we waited and prayed. This morning we received a one line email...

I am safe - I cannot describe the devastation I have seen, I wait to see all of you again soon.

Our friend with the fire department is still with us, but our neighbor who was with the police department never came home. His son now sits alone in an empty house that no longer feels like a home to him.

From this despicable attack and tragedy, I have witnessed one strong fact…

We are all one, we are all brothers and sisters. I have seen neighbors that held issues against each other, helping each other to display their American flags, 24 hours a day, with an electrical cord so a light can be shinning upon the Stars and Stripes.

I know when driving on rural country roads, just passing another car with a stranger, a friendly hello wave will occur. This type of occurrence in any shape or form never happens in a city or heavily populated areas. That is no longer a true statement today. People I don’t know are waving or nodding to everyone in passing cars, they are stopping and waving other cars to go ahead of them. People are holding doors open for others while promptly speaking words such as thank you, you are welcome, I hope your family is all safe, and God Bless. All this words that were never spoken before because we just didn't have the time, now abound everywhere.

A powerful fact has been awaken in America, we are not one or the other, we are not part of them or one of those. We are not defined by one personal element, but as a whole. The United States of America is a conglomerate of everyone from around the whole world. We are one, one people, one team, one country. We are truly one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I just pray that this undeniable fact and our Republic is never lost, forgotten or trashed."

God Bless you and God Bless all of us,
Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental and Shroud Scientist

]]><![CDATA[A Storm 250 Years Ago Today]]>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/a-storm-250-years-ago-todayOn August 29, and into the morning of August 30, 1776, the American revolution was about to end badly, unless General George Washington could secretly retreat from Brooklyn to Manhattan with what was left of his army.

The largest navy and army in the world had arrived in New York harbor from England. On Staten Island the British were in full control. The small resistance group of Patriots were defeated, women were being raped, buildings were burning. Benjamin Franklin was serving as the appointed president of Pennsylvania's constitutional convention in Philadelphia. The British were demanding for Franklin to tear up the Declaration of Independence and surrender.

Brooklyn Heights to Fulton Landing

The British army had outmaneuvered George Washington and his army of "minute men" in Brooklyn. Our country was about to die just weeks after signing the Declaration of Independence. The Battle of Long Island was lost and Washington was defeated, unless he could do a stealth retreat with his remaining Continental Army across the East River from Brooklyn Heights to Fulton Landing in Manhattan. The evacuation began at sundown, however the night hours offering the cover of darkness would not be long enough to have a surreptitious retreat of approximately 9,000 men. General Washington needed a miracle. In fact, he needed more than one...

The first miracle came when the only regular army Washington had, known as the Maryland 400, held back more than 2,000 British troops at the Old Stone House on August 29, 1776. Located today at Third Street between 4th and 5th Avenues, this rebuilt Old Stone House is inside J. J. Byrne Playground, also known as Washington Park, in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. The Maryland 400 soldiers were from Carol Maryland and were mostly Catholics, a religion that was tolerated in the Colony of Maryland at a time when Catholics were the smallest minority. More on this later.

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The Battle of Long Island': 225 Anniversary Recreation in Prospect Park, Brooklyn

"Old Line State" as they "held the line"

From a redoubt on Cobble Hill, the location is known today as Court Street and Atlantic Avenue, Washington watched less than 400 men "Hold the Line" against an overwhelming superior British force. This First Maryland Regiment led by Lord Stirling repeatedly charged the British force that were in fixed positions. Twice, the Marylanders took the Vechte-Cortelyou House, aka, the Old Stone House for the final actions of the already lost Battle of Long Island. This action created Maryland's nickname, the "Old Line State" as they "held the line" allowing General Washington to evacuate the remaining troops across the creek, known today as the Gowanus Canal, to Brooklyn Heights.

"Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose!"

We know witnessing this battle caused General Washington to state, "Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose!" The average age of the Maryland Regiment has been noted to be 16 years old and they did the impossible. Less than a dozen of them were able to get back to the American lines. Lord Stirling refused to surrender to the British, so they broke through the British lines and surrendered to von Heister's Hessians soldiers. Germans hired by the British to help fight the Colonists. All those captured were place on Prison Ships docked in the waters that would be around today's Throgs Neck Bridge. Yet, if any rebel under British interment pledged their loyalty to the King of England, they could walk off their Prison Ship a free man. Realizing they would have a short state of freedom before being placed into the service of the King as a soldier in the British army, they all died on those ships as they were held prisoners, under horrific conditions for the length of the war.

Maryland 400 saved the American revolution from a total collapse

Rebuilt Old Stone House in Brooklyn

These young men of the Maryland 400 saved the American revolution from a total collapse less than two months after declaring their independence from England. Approximately 256 of them were dead around the Old Stone House. Information reported tells the story of their bodies being buried by the British in a mass grave on the property of Adrian Van Brunt’s farm just on the edge of the marsh. This location today is between 7th and 9th streets along 3rd avenue. Six military burial trenches were dug with an orientation of north to south so that the bodies of the Maryland 400 Regiment were "facing East". Their bodies are estimated to be buried under an Auto Repair shop. No serious recognition is displayed for these mostly young Catholic boys that saved the existence of our United States of America and fought for freedom, a God given right and to end slavery since Catholic Popes decreed all slavery was wrong over two millennials. Because of this fact, most of those held in slavery were prevented from following the Catholic Pope and the Catholic religion. Ironically, they had to follow the complicit religion of their captors.

The second miracle was that General Washington had a Maritime Force to ferry the remaining Continental Army across the East River! A force consisting of rowboats, flat-bottom barges, and Massachusetts fishermen known as the Marbleheaders. Under the command of Colonel John Glover, who knew the race against time was already lost, because the Marbleheaders would be exposed to the British when the sun came up hours before the evacuation of Brooklyn was completed. Yet in the darkness and a changing weather pattern, these fishermen who helped force the British out of Boston earlier that year and would eventually be there for Washington to cross the Delaware, continued to shuttle men, artillery, and horses across the river. This only became a successful nighttime evacuation because of the next miracle.

A storm that came up the east coast

The third miracle, from all accounts was a storm that came up the east coast and the weather strangely turned from a hot August day to a storm-like night that created a stealth moving fog. Throughout the night and the early morning hours this thick, miraculous fog, covered the East River. Thus, concealing Washington's evacuation. Only because of this fog the crossing was not seen by British sentries or their warships in the river.

We know from letters and written reports the following:
Major Benjamin Tallmadge, an American officer, reported being in the second to last boat to leave Brooklyn Heights. As the early morning light filtered through the lifting fog, the Major reported that as he approached the Fulton Landing, he turned to see the last boat with General George Washington leaving and completing the “successful” retreat.

When General William Howe and the British forces awoke on August 30, 1776, they were astonished. General Washington and his entire Continental Army had silently, completely, and miraculously vanished. Over 9,000 men, horses, cannons, and supplies, gone. British Captain John Montresor, General Howe’s aide-de-camp discovered the retreat too late, despite the action of a women loyalist to the crown that sent a letter about the occurring retreat. Captain Montresor arrived at the riverbank only to see the last two boats leave.

In the August 31, 1776, letter from General Washington to John Hancock, Washington wrote to Hancock that he had not slept in 48 hours, but the successful retreat across the East River to Manhattan was complete.

George Washington, God, and Country

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LINK to Conference Presentation

Recently, while doing further environmental research on the Shroud of Turin, I came upon several interesting facts about two churches that date back to the revolutionary war. My initial interest was to delve deeper into my geological, celestial, and weather research relating to the date Jesus Christ was crucified and the world’s most studied relic, the Shroud of Turin, also known as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. I currently have the distinct privilege as America’s Northeast Regional leader, representing the non-profit Othonia organization that operates under Rome’s Pontifical University of Science and Faith. Othonia’s mission is to share the truth about the Shroud of Turin.

I was initially contacting one of these two churches, specifically Old Saint Mary’s church, to do a Shroud of Turin presentation. However, with celebrating our country’s 250th anniversary and my own studies on the American Revolution since I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn just blocks away from the Old Stone House, I redirected my attention toward these two churches and their connection to our American Revolution. For those followers who read my Going True Green blogs, there is no secret to knowing that I often say everything is connected. Well, all this has culminated into this article that highlights the little taught and scarcely known facts about our American Revolution. Additionally, the connections between our first president of the United States, George Washington, God, and Country.

Before the American Revolution, Catholics in the Colonies had no rights. They could not speak or pray in public. They could not publish, participate in town meetings, hold office, own land, or vote. The level of prejudice throughout the colonies forced Catholics into a separate Class system that stifled their existence. A level of resentment was also subconsciously thrust upon Catholics because the Catholic Church did not approve or tolerate slavery. This fact is often hidden and twisted by our mainstream media today, but at the time of our revolutionary war, the Catholic Church’s stance against slavery was well known. What the media focuses on is a fact that a “few Catholics” during the 1700 and 1800’s, owned slaves. However, it is historically clear that they were not following the church’s mandates.

Any statements about the Catholic Church not condemning slavery is a historical myth that does not withstand scrutiny of historical records. There were multiple papal condemnations of slavery going back to the Roman Empire. Here are just three examples:

When Emperor Constantine legalized the Universal Church of Christians in A.D. 313, the Church’s funds were used by Christians to redeem slaves. By many accounts, one former slave became Pope Callistus I in the early third century. Additionally, by that time, the Catholic Church already had three Popes, known as the African Popes.
Fifty-seven years prior to Christopher Columbus’ voyage, the slave trade and slavery were condemned by Pope Eugenius IV.
Pope Paul III issued the Papal Bull, Sublimus Dei, stating no native Americans were to be enslaved.

On July 2, 1776, when Thomas Jefferson’s second paragraph from the original draft of the Declaration of Independence abolished slavery, Georgia and South Carolina demanded the removal of such a declaration. It then became clear that the abolition of slavery could have been accomplished at the very birth of our nation, were it not for these two profane colonies. Such opposing positions towards total emancipation fed the resentment held toward Catholics because back then, the protestant slave owners, were acutely aware that the Catholic Church was against slavery. This was probably one of several reasons why there was only one Catholic representative in the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence.

It is relevant to note that Catholics were only 1.5% of the population at the time of the American Revolutionary war. Yet, at Yorktown when the war was won, George Washington’s army was made up of over 70% Catholics. Most of Washington’s soldiers who belonged to the Church of England went back home to their farms in the colonies, leaving George Washington with mostly Catholics striving to win the war. George Washington’s “final” army consisted of Catholic men and women from France, Spain, the Netherlands, and the 1.5% who were already here in the colonies.

Additionally, prior to the battle of Yorktown, the second oldest Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, received several distinguished guests. Just a few blocks from Independence Hall stands Old Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, which held the first public religious commemoration of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1779. Then in 1781 on November 4th, members of the Continental Congress with French military officers attended a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving at Saint Mary. Also believed to be in attendance, though still an Anglican, George Washington was there to give thanks to God for victory over the British and to all Catholics that fought by his side. Adams also attended Mass at Old Saint Mary’s, along with other members of Congress to give thanks to Catholics who were at the Old Stone House to save the nation and who were the majority of Washington’s remaining army that stayed to fight at Yorktown and secure victory. By the time the Constitution was drawn up in 1787, two Catholics now held office and signed the Constitution of these United States of America.

George Washington soon knew that he had to come to terms with his own Anglican religion led by a Christian King that allowed slavery. Washington knew firsthand all the atrocities his church allowed and committed during the war. However, since resentment still existed against Catholics, Washington always moved cautiously with his support of the Catholic Church. Two examples that are documented is that when Washington returned home to Virginia, he donated to the Catholic Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria and contributed to the construction of a Catholic Church in Baltimore. At this time if George Washington was contemplating leaving his religion, he would have been chastised and ridiculed. But despite that possible ridicule and having specific bigotry aimed at him, Washington held his highly admirable morals. The strongest example of this are these two facts:

When Washington first joined the Virginia militia, he had to take an oath swearing there was no such existence of Transubstantiation. (Today we know of several theories in Physics that support Transubstantiation.) Additionally, please note that at the time of Washington, the Virgina colony had a law whereas any Catholic entering Virginia, had 5 days to leave. Yet, Washington would receive the Holy Eucharist from a Catholic priest before he died.
Then in 1775, Washington prohibited his Continental army from celebrating the annual event of burning effigies of the pope on Guy Fawkes Day. All these various actions taken by Washington caused him to keep discreet connections with the Catholic Church. Some of which became unordinary…

In her book, Spiritual Journey of George Washington, Janice Connell, who is a well-known lawyer and author, writes about Washington’s relationship with America’s first Catholic Archbishop Carroll a relative to Representative Carroll who signed our Declaration of Independence.

A side note: All those who signed the Declaration gave up everything simply because they signed. They lost family, fortune, land, homes, freedom, and life. Not one was untouched by the vengeful hand of the British army.

By 1792, Archbishop Carroll knew about what happened twice to George Washington at Valley Forge. Review of the evidence and data presents substance to what personally occurred to Washington twice. Once in December of 1777 and around February of 1778. Archbishop Carroll also knew that when George was growing up, he was counseled by a Catholic Jesuit priest, Father Andrew White, S.J. who told him about a Catholic book written by a French Jesuit in the 1590s called Bienseance de la Conversation entre les Hommes. A few years later as a teenager, George hand-copied 110 rules into his school’s notebook from the English version entitled, Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation. George studied and lived by those rules.

Many times, Washington sought input from Archbishop Carroll, who knew the details to what Washington experienced at Valley Forge during the darkest days of the war. This is confirmed by John Marshall, the 4thChief Justice and Thomas Jefferson the first Secretary of State who both questioned and spoke about how religious George Washington was through his life.

What occurred twice at Valley Forge, at night on frozen ground covered in snow, while twice Washington was on one knee praying, is confirmed by Anthony Sherman who witnessed the second event. Sherman arrived at Valley Forge in late winter of 1777 / 78 and was not witness to the first event. Evidence shows he could have only witnessed the second time Washington experienced this divine encounter. Twice, the very humbled and disciplined Washington, while praying in the snow during his darkest hours had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The few who learned of these events and Wesley Brashaw who finally published Washington’s encounters in the National Tribune, Volume 4, Number twelve on December 1880, tell what Sherman witnessed:

Washington on bent knee did not move in the snow as he stared into the mist forming in front of him. Washington saw a beautiful woman before him and heard her say several times, “Son of the Republic, look and learn.” What Washington saw ranged from his moral behavior to the future of America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Mary then asked of Washington one thing: To consecrate the United States of America in her name as mother to us all.

So, over the years, George Washington had to walk, speak, and act delicately with Catholics due to the many prejudices against Catholics. That cautious methodology ended for him on the day before he died.

Confirmed by historians, such as Martin Griffin, we know that a slave was sent from Washington’s home across the Potomac to bring back a Catholic priest who was a Maryland Jesuit. The priest was most probably Father Leonard Neale who returned with the slave and spent over three hours with Washington. What reason would have Washington asking for a Catholic priest? Upon leaving, Father Neale told Martha that her husband’s soul has been secured. George Washington passed over the next day.

The priest secured and sealed a letter about his visit with George Washington, with instructions that the contents would not be made public until all those concerned passed over. This included Father Neale and probably Martha Washington. This was done for protection, because retribution could cause all social and business connections at Mount Vernon to be terminated for Martha. This is also the reason why Washington’s secretary, Thomas Lear, intentionally omitted in his write up that a Catholic priest visited Mount Vernon and the last words Martha had with her husband. Any details of these events at that time would have caused Martha to be ostracized.

Years later, when Father’s letter was presented to be made public, the letter ceased to exist. Add up the details you just read and conclude why that letter disappeared. We can easily surmise that those in power who had prejudices against Catholics could not accept or make public that George Washington became a Catholic.

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The Painting of Blessed Virgin Mary

Upon Martha’s death, the slaves at Mount Vernon were given their God given right of freedom. George Washington’s slaves had gone on record and reported that George Washington had a painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary hanging in his dining room. (This painting, most likely done by the Catholic Venetian pastel artist Rosalba Carriera, can be seen on the Mount Vernon e-museum website.) Juba, one of Washington’s slaves, reported that before eating his meals, George made the sign of the cross, and that Washington was baptized by Father Neale on the day before he died. Being baptized would also symbolize rejection of his membership with the Freemasons despite a Freemason service being held for Washington’s burial, a preplanned service he no longer had any control over. Most importantly, George Washington received the Holy Eucharist from Father Neale after being baptized and would have needed to give his slaves their God given freedom. Additionally, according to Historians, the African American communities all around Mount Vernon and the Maryland Jesuits, recounted all this information about Washington into the twentieth century.

Old Saint Mary's Church

Then on February 22, 1800, Congress met for a memorial service for President Washington at Old Saint Mary’s Catholic Church! Who would have requested this service at a Catholic Church? Our first president who, by all evidence, became Catholic.

For News Coverage on this story visit: Current News / The Tablet
by Katie Vasquez

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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]]><![CDATA[Positive Truth]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:13:08 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/positive-truthIf I wanted to garnish clicks, viewers, followers, then I should NOT post this Going True Green blog. The topic and examples in this GTG blog do not fit into the Media’s mold or formula to gain followers, make money and secure positions – aka, power.

Therefore, I am happy to state that I do not wish to create fear or a single-minded narrative only to get the above fifteen minutes of fame. I have always worked to get all the evidence and facts presented so we as a team can evaluate and produce the best results.

With that said, I am happy to share the following good news that is mostly not covered by the sensationalist in the media:

How does wildlife get to the other side of a highway alive? With the largest natural looking overpass covered with nature as completed in the state of Colorado.

In the country of Mexico, the use of dolphins and other marine mammals are captured to use in entertainment shows and to use for breeding additional marine life for future entertainment venues. Care and protections were at a minimum. However, currently new protections have been approved to ban the use of dolphins and other marine mammals in these shows and provide restrictions for captive breeding.

Guatemala just increased protections for jaguars, scarlet macaws, and other species in their major nature reserve.

For 32,000 years, frozen in the permafrost, a flowering plant was revived by scientists from the plant's 32,000 year old frozen seeds.

Recovery has been seen for the North Arial Sea. Salinity is dropping, water levels are rising, and several fish species have returned.

Would you believe in a plant-based plastic designed to dissolve in seawater without leaving microplastics? This has been developed by Japanese researchers!

The Ozone Layer has returned to near-normal levels according to NASA’s last evaluation.

We are making a difference.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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]]><![CDATA[Super El Niño ?]]>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/super-el-nino

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I saw an old video clip of a young Weather forecaster, who just started working on a news program some 35 years ago, reporting the summer weather. Then the video clip showed the same Weather forecaster, about 35 years older, doing the local weather forecast for this summer's heatwave. Both times the weather report was for a hot summer day, in the middle of a three day heat wave. Below I paraphrased the two reports:

About 35 Years Ago: We are going to have another hot one today. Temperatures again will be in the high nineties and probably reach one-hundred degrees. A beautiful day for the beach and the humidity will remain low. So get outside and enjoy. Tomorrow night we will see temperatures drop back down into the eighties.

Summer 2026: This dangerous heat wave continues for a second day with extreme high temperatures. Try to stay indoors with air-condition, as the Heat Index will be as high as one-hundred and ten degrees.

What Changed?
No mention of the actual temperature, just the heat index which is much higher.
No mention of the low humidity.
No longer a beautiful beach day, only a dangerous heat wave
No mention of the time frame and end to the heat wave
Only manufacturing fear to create more views, clicks, and money.

With the conclusion of the recent La Niña weather pattern, which occurs in intervals to cool the water of the equatorial Pacific, scientists expect a warm El Niño to begin. Already some Weather forecasters in the media are saying we have a "SUPER" El Niño going on this summer.

However, this El Niño has NOT yet earned the title of "Super El Niño". These statements currently being made by media's Weather forecasters, either using Ai or Meteorologist computer software to predict future weather, is just that - predictions.

I do not appreciate the sensationalized predictions that satisfy the "want of greed" from some people/companies and weather news programs. What we need is hope in God's help that no "Super" is added to this El Niño and the want of some people's "greed" to get "clicks" or sell more "money making commercials" is dissolved. Hopefully to be replaced with reporting just the facts and only the facts. Not sensationalize possibilities to create fear in viewership or readership to make more money.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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]]><![CDATA[Individual Independence Itelligence]]>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/individual-independence-itelligence

The Triple Eye title:
Let us Review... Not the practice runs of 4th of July fly-overs or new solutions.
Let us ReVIEW the old evidence and proof on how "We the people" can make "the" difference toward America's Energy Independence! No, I am not going to again write about Hydrogen Fuel Cells running off Free rain water and Free sunlight to make Free electricity on demand. For that, use the SEARCH Box above by typing in Hydrogen Fuel Cells and read all my previous GTG blog posts on the topic.

Let us go back to what I taught since the 1980s and after reviewing the charts below, calculated those numbers into today's savings!

Enlarge the Compare and Save chart below. Review the few examples shown of a house that realizes an electric bill savings of $ 762.28 in one year after implementing recommended actions for just Lighting and an extra refrigerator / freezer.

PAYBACK for this investment that obtained the savings of $ 762.28 was in a fast 5 months and 3 weeks! The total yearly energy savings was well over $1,400.00 when additional energy saving actions that we recommended were taken. Payback for the entire investment that obtained these savings was less than 2 years!

Additional energy saving actions were in the following areas:
Heating,
Cooling,
Additional Appliances,
Insulation,
Domestic Hot Water.

Nevertheless, review the charts below and realize the saving with just "lights" in one house and then drop the numbers into your conversion App for today''s dollars saved.

Then DOULBE that number for the difference in today's Kilowatt Rate compared to the mid 1980s!

Then add another 20% savings to the total, since LED Light bulbs cost less than the old Fluorescent energy saving bulbs by at least 5% and because LEDs are more efficient they will use at least 15% less electricity compared to the older Fluorescent lightbulbs.

Powerful savings... Done by each individual.

We have the technology.
AMERICA CAN BE ENERGY INDEPENDENT!
By every individual who pays the electric bill for lights.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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]]><![CDATA[This One Is For The Birds]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/this-one-is-for-the-birds

There is an effort that just started at the Alley Pond Environmental Center (APEC) that needs our help to support a major "bird habitat area" that will enhance, and protect the ecosystem for birds, valuable pollinating insects, butterflies, and bees, that inhabit the highly urbanized environment of Queens, New York.

While Major organizations like the Audubon Society and Cornell Ornithology Laboratory have strong funding and do amazing work to protect bird populations on a national and international scale, the highly urbanized environment for birds around Alley Pond Environmental Center (APEC) needs our direct help.

Directly behind APEC's rear viewing deck, where APEC's headquarters building is located at 229-10 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, New York, initial steps have already started and are achieving great results. The view and access from the elevated rear observation deck allows all visitors to see and learn. Efforts have installed several feeding stations, nesting niches, birdhouse shelters and a variety of native plants. Volunteers under the leadership provided by William Nieter, former Director of APEC, are actively working to remove non-native invasive plants that occupy the area. Additionally, other amenities such as water sources, water and dust baths, as well as dedicated pollinator patches are being created. Visitors have already witnessed a variety of birds in the area and feeding at the new feeding stations.

APEC is creating a restricted and dedicated fund that will provide for this Bird site in perpetuity. Supplies, especially a regular supply of bird seed, may cost hundreds of dollars per year and feeding stations and nest boxes need to be maintained, repaired and replaced from time to time. With your help we aim to raise $5,000.00 that will create a self-sustaining fund for the site operations and expenses into the foreseeable future. Contributions above that goal will go directly to support educational and wildlife enhancement throughout our nearby park grounds. The initial fundraising is being done through a public SPOTFUND website. Please consider supporting this candescent effort. The LINK is: *IT'S FOR THE BIRDS - Fundraiser by William Nieter on *spotfund

Also consider planning a visit with the family and friends to APEC where you can see nature in living color! Just start by viewing the APEC website at: https://www.alleypond.org/

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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]]><![CDATA[TIME: Fall Back or Spring Ahead? Do Both Without Changing Time or Clocks!]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/time-fall-back-or-spring-ahead-do-both-without-changing-time-or-clocks

Daylight savings time, standard time, clock back, spring forward, fall back, going true green, time solution

The United States Congress is reviewing the possibility to ending the requirement for all of us to change our “time telling” twice a year by keeping Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time.
We have all read about the pros and cons to each time setting method, therefore in the spirit of Going True Green blogs, I am presenting a solution. We will do both without changing time! We will change our schedules during the established time periods for “Free Time” schedule adjustments.
Evaluating all the benefits for the two ways with setting our clocks: circadian alignment, internal clocks, natural sun light, improved health, public safety, commuter safety, child safety, higher economic yield, mental health, and energy savings, we receive them all without changing time or our clocks! Here is how…

That earlier hour of darkness starting before 5 o’clock in the afternoon winter months and the later hour of light until 10:00 in the evening summer months offers no real benefits to the entire population. Especially for everyone on the eastern and western edges of the Time Zone.
Yet, all the benefits can be obtained under a “Free Time” schedule by operating within the following parameters when keeping Daylight Savings time or Standard Time. Instead of changing the clocks, each element of society is “free” to change their “hours of operation” to obtain all the benefits of Standard Time while we stay under Daylight Savings time. Additionally, today’s computers and cell phones make “free time” scheduling feasible.

School districts in the winter can start one hour later to have more daylight in the morning.
Employees, who are parents, will have the right to “Freely” change their work hours to match their children’s school districts hours of operation.
Municipalities would adjust shifts.
Companies can adjust hours of operation for better productivity, while allowing for individual exceptions.
Rush Hour will be less of a congested race.
Energy will be saved on both ends of the day.
Everyone will be telling the same time without the country changing clocks twice a year.

These parameters set the stage for issue solved. Now let us all get back to life and work.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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]]><![CDATA[Cry Wolf And Destroy Our Environment]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/cry-wolf-and-destroy-our-environmentThe Media and pretentious scientists looking for 15 minutes of fame have been causing damage to our environment by "crying wolf". When they cry that our environment is "doomed" they, in-turn, are really destroying our environment. Deflating the decades of actions from every individual who has taken action to make a difference within their own budget of time and money, is counter productive. This also applies to the individuals operating corporations with a good moral conscience because they have been prejudiced by grouping them all together as one with corrupt corporate leaders. That is what happens when there is no true investigating journalism. The reason to why investigative journalists exist only in small numbers today is because the cost of "investigating" is expensive. Making up your own controversial tale is cheaper and makes much higher profits.

Every movie about an apocalyptic event begins by ignoring...

Every movie about an apocalyptic event begins by ignoring an "unpretentious" scientist. Why? Because all the pretentious scientists, politicians, and sensationalist media people, are lying to us for the goal of making money and gaining power.

If we enable a system where pretentious politicians, media people, and scientists, benefit from perpetual energy and environmental crises that are only forged to make money and sustain power, and we further allow governments to break our laws for an "emergency", then real emergencies are created. The result is that the well being of ordinary, and especially poor people, is compromised while interests of the elitists are ensured.

The real issues and solutions are never heard about from the "unpretentious" intelligent people who are silenced and ignored. Therefore, issues with plastics and oxygen levels produced by our oceans' invisible green forest are lost in excess verbiage and a solution to our world's energy needs with Hydrogen Fuel Cells using Hydrogen obtained from rain water and produced only on demand is cancelled. All because these solutions have no money making bills for "we the people" to pay every month.

Keep crying wolf and nobody will do anything anymore to help our environment.

Crying Wolf enough times in movies, books, articles, talk shows, rules and laws, results in the TRUTH never being heard. Publishing statements without true scientific procedures or honest investigative actions, and then quietly retracting them, destroys people's trust and the actual elements claimed to be "saving". Even though prestigious journals, such as Nature, retracted a landmark climate economics study because the researchers admitted their data models were flawed...the damage was already done.

To provide just one example about how profitable exaggerations are, we have a recent claim that said today's babies will be born with a "Heat Stress Syndrome". Mothers having babies during extra hot summers created by climate change, will be the victims, stated the report. Such a report is but one example of exaggeration used to create a profitable narrative.

The above report is also misleading because we have changing climates, not "climate change". Using the term "climate change" as if an entire planet is having the same exact problem everywhere is misleading. We have parts of Earth colder and parts of our oceans warmer. In other words, we have a complex interconnecting, yet separate situations and issues.

Creating lies through the process of omission

Research where data shows we had a large area of Earth's climate being about 4.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures between 350 BC and 450 AD is continually ignored.

Most unpretentious scientists agree that we are at least 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures today. This quantitative assessment and research of this past warming period 2,000 years ago was conducted by Prof. Aldo Shemesh, head of the Environmental Sciences and Energy Research Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. They performed an isotopic analysis of sediments from Hausberg Tarn, a lake on the slope of Mount Kenya 4,350 meters high. The results matched studies showing the same warming period of the Swedish part of Lapland, the southern Yukon territory, and Alaska 2,000 years ago.

Supporting data for this comes from the receding glaciers and ice patches in Norway and Canada that is caused by today’s current changing climate. As the ice recedes, human artifacts have been released from their frozen containment. Arrowheads, tunics, tools, and sandals. In 2022, a 1,700-year-old arrow was discovered by archeologists, showing that humans lived in areas that were recently covered by ice and glaciers. The dating of these artifacts goes back to matching the warming period between 2000-1500 years ago.

To track UN reports, visit the UN Climate Change Reports page.
For a breakdown of the Nature study's retraction, you can read the analysis on the New York Times site.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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]]><![CDATA[Food Labels Decoded, Rainforest Alliance]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 13:20:32 GMThttps://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/food-labels-decoded-rainforest-alliance Rainforest Alliance

Rainforest alliance, going green, fair world project

Being GREEN isn't easy. Yes, this little green Rainforest Alliance frog has a hard job. The logo can be found on many products, such as, coffee, tea boxes, cocoa, chocolate, and bananas. This label is on any product that has been grown sustainably and part of the profits are sent to help Rainforest Alliance. The Rainforest Alliance teaches a sustainable life and use of land that creates a long term protection of our earth’s environment.

Additional data states that this Rainforest Alliance Certified seal is a signal to consumers that the product is friendly to the planet and to farmworkers. However, a recent report by the fair-trade watchdog organization Fair World Project, has presented that the Rainforest Alliance hasn't been consistent with the promises toward worker protections. The Fair World Project has also advised consumers to be skeptical of some certification groups, such as Rainforest Alliance who has been deemed "Unqualified to ensure farmworker justice" due to frailty in audits conducted.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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