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My Presentation Video

9/21/2023

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My presentation, World's Food Supply: Predictions vs Production Solutions with Probable Effects on the Poor, went very well. This was the 5th Euro Global Conference on Food Science And Technology. For 2023 the 3 day conference was held in Valencia, Spain, and scientists came together from around the world. I established new contacts with scholars from countries in Africa, South and North America, Asia, an Europe. I attended several presentations over the 3 day conference and was able to communicate with many people working hard to make a difference.

After receiving emails asking for copies of my presentation, I decided to post the recorded video on this blog in its entirety for a month. Afterwards, a summary video will be posted and the full version will be available in Going True Green's Members section.

INTRODUCTION, Part One of Four

PART TWO

PART THREE

CONCLUSION, Part Four

With any questions, please do not hesitate to email me. Thank you.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Speaking at Global Conference in Spain

9/10/2023

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The 5th Edition of Euro Global Conference on Food Science And Technology (FAT) for 2023 is being held in Valencia, Spain.

On September 12, the second of three days for the conference, I will be speaking about the World's Food Supply: Predictions vs Production Solutions with Probable Effects on the Poor. For more details or to attend online, please use the Link above to the conference's website.

Soon after the conference is completed I will make my lecture available to all Going True Green Members.

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International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Uneducated Elitist Set To Harm Environment; part two

8/27/2023

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Sadly the governments screaming the loudest to help our environment are currently the ones doing the most harm to our planet. In the United States, the current leaders are looking to create more laws to help save the planet from CO2 emissions. The most recent thought process is about ordering ceiling fan manufacturers to produce more energy efficient motors. This possible action being considered proves that they have no knowledge about how ceiling fans save energy.

So the infamous minds of many politicians across our nation continue to do more harm than good to our environment. Multiple moves toward destroying our environment are being set up by our uneducated elitist leaders. Let us just look at a more complete evaluation of ceiling fans... This is Part two of a Four Part Series (part one)

Making Current Ceiling Fans illegal

Facts Being Omitted:

Current leadership has no idea how Electric ceiling fans save energy.
Ceiling fans, or any fan, uses far less electricity than an air conditioning (AC) unit.
Most times when a ceiling fan is in use, that means AC units are not, thus saving much more energy.
For every hour a ceiling fan offsets the use of an AC unit, that is a greater benefit than a more efficient motor.
More efficient motors will cause costs to rise and less people will buy.
More people need to be encouraged to use ceiling fans more often to delay or offset the use of AC units.
Steps should be taken to make ceiling fans more readily available with installation.
Savings on the electric bill with ceiling fans offsetting initial use of AC units should be taught to the public.

Questions:

Why doesn't the government offer tax credits for everyone who installs a ceiling fan?
Would not smaller manufacturers go out of business with a mandate for more efficient motors with a few years time?
Wouldn't the savings from a more efficient ceiling fan motor only be a few dollars per year at best, but a couple hundred dollars more to buy?
Shouldn't the government's task be to encourage more people to buy more ceiling fans, not to discouraged them with having to buy new more expensive models?
How can anyone justify the cost to buy when the savings do not even offer a payback on the extra cost?
Is the payback in helping the environment? - Answer: NO, because more help is from offsetting AC use with more ceiling fans, not more expensive motors.
Where is American ingenuity with the REAL SOLUTION - Hydrogen Fuel Cells running off of water to make clean energy on demand, such as the Fuel Cells used on our Space Shuttles since 1981?
Therefore, every home would make their own electricity from rain water, with our own fuel cell and have no monthly bills, no pollution... but the problem with a government program like that, means no monthly utility bills and no positional power, right?

A MUST READ: Process Of Energy Progression

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Glyphosate Study: Killing Both Weeds And Us

8/7/2023

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How Do You Kill Weeds?

I had read about research done on Glyphosate at MIT by Dr. Stephanie Seneff. Glyphosate is in herbicides that many people use throughout the world as a weed killer.

The data Dr. Seneff presents on Glyphosate is very concerning and she believes that this chemical is a slow kill for humans and other lifeforms. Seneff, a senior researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes that the constant use of glyphosate throughout the world in agriculture since 1974, is the reason behind the dramatic increase in autism, diabetes, cancer, and allergies.

One of the earliest glyphosate studies by Dr. Gilles-Éric Séralini, a French molecular biologist, showed that low exposure over a lifetime leads to shorter lifespans and organ damage in rats. Other laboratory studies on human cells show that glyphosate caused a major factor in cancer by DNA breakage in the cells.

For years we have known that farmers have a higher risk of developing NHL (Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma) and a 2002 Swedish study showed the link with glyphosate to a three-fold increase in NHL. Seneff’s study presents that NHL may be due to glyphosate’s effect on micronutrients, particularly from deficiencies in manganese. Glyphosate can bond to metals such as manganese and magnesium.

Dr. Seneff said she is encouraged by the recent Supreme Court cases where manufacturers lost an appeal for their glyphosate use and that the EPA was ordered by SCOTUS to re-evaluate certain products as carcinogenic. Additional recommendations from Dr. Seneff include staying away from highways where there’s a high exposure to car exhaust. Studies in Brazil have shown that the glyphosate in the air around highways and agricultural areas using herbicides is not much different.

Another factor with glyphosate used to kill weeds, many plants such as corn, soy, canola, sugar beets, cotton and alfalfa are genetically modified so that they would not be harmed by glyphosate! This has significantly increased glyphosate content in plants especially when farmers also spraying the plants as opposed to just the weeds.

As for solutions to reduce our intake of glyphosate, eat organic food and drink distilled water. Use a home made weed killer and pull weeds out with tools, such as the one made by Fiskar.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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The Look Of Our Oceans

7/17/2023

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What View Do You Prefer?

Going swimming this summer? I have posted several Going True Green blogs about our water supply, our oceans and pollution over the decades. While in many cases pollution in our waterways and oceans has improved, we also have created new ways that cause pollution in our oceans. Plastic pollution being the most concerning - please peruse my blog post: Earth Day Impaired.

Many of us heard the saying: Out of sight, out of mind. Sadly, that is the case many times with our oceans. Work being done under Back to Blue will hopefully end the blackout of information on chemical pollution in our oceans. Below is a release from last year and Links to more information:

TOKYO, JAPAN: March 2022 - Back to Blue, an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation, is releasing a new report, The Invisible Wave: Getting to zero chemical pollution in the ocean. The main purpose of the report is to raise awareness of marine chemical pollution, the scale and potential impact of which are not widely appreciated, and to focus minds on delivering solutions to achieve a zero-pollution ocean. To visit, use this Link: backtoblueinitiative.com for the full report.

As for “Back to Blue” this is an initiative launched by Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation in 2021 to focus efforts on evidence-based approaches and solutions that tackle escalating ocean challenges, such as those posed by pollution. The Nippon Foundation was established in 1962 and is Japan’s largest philanthropic foundation, providing support to public-service activities in a variety of fields across national borders. In ocean affairs, the Foundation aims to cultivate human resources who will chart a course for the ocean’s future and to pass on the ocean’s riches to future generations.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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GREED

7/7/2023

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Following up on the last GTG blog post I wish to point out another problem facing our environment. No, not Carbon omissions, it is Greed.

With the United States of America being a republic democracy and not a democratic democracy, we have checks and balances in place against people greedy for power, cash, and fame. However, when corruption and greed enters any republic democracy or another government, we have a cascading effect that starts to shut down all working aspects of society's prosperous operation. Greed will always lead to corruption and corruption will always lead to tearing apart everything and everyone.

Greed starts with individuals and is in all walks of government and life. With freedom comes people that relish greed. However, only a republic democracy offers the ability to keep all the greed minded governments and individuals that are infected, at bay. Being a republic democracy allows our free system the means to halt those who do not care about others or our environment, because they only want to use others and our environment to make money. Do not assume that I only mean one side of our political spectrum.

On the Phil Donahue show in 1979, Milton Friedman who was an American economist and statistician and received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy said:

"Is there some society that doesn't run on greed? The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. So the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. There is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."

The only other items I know about Milton Friedman is that he was born in Brooklyn and was married 68 years. Sounds like a man who understood stability well.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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FREEDOMS LOST

6/26/2023

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How FREE are you?

Independence Day, aka 4th of July, is almost here. Time to celebrate our Freedoms! Actually, we give up our freedoms each time we don’t want to do something anymore by ourselves. And the more freedom we give up, the more we harm our environment. Yes, there are improvements in many new systems of operation, but most improvements could have been implemented as we kept our freedoms.

About now, some may ask, “What on God's green Earth is he talking about?”

Pre-Industrial times, how many families in a house had garbage pails outside? None. There were no taxes to pay for such a service and the reason was because the service was done by the family in the house themselves. “Waste Not, Want Not!”

They didn’t throw away anything. Food scraps went into the outside compost. Broken items that could not be fixed were sold as scrap or as spare parts. If they had torn clothing, they repaired the damage by resewing. Clothing unable to wear anymore? Saved to use as patches or to combine with other material to make a new garment. A broken clock on the mantel? Fixed on the next trip into town. Containers, boxes, paper? All reused over and over again. Water pressure low? We fixed the valve or backyard well ourselves. An extra piece of wood? Saved to be used on some future project or repair. Someone in the city was buying a different color linoleum floor, they sold their old floor as "used" to someone else in need that didn’t have the money to buy new. Snowed-in? We dug ourselves out and then went to help dig out our elderly neighbor. No pollution creating snow blowers or plow trucks, just shovels and muscle power with the whole family helping.

There were no town taxes to plow the snow or pick up garbage. People repaired, reused or recycled everything. They knew how to fix everything. They knew how to invent games, entertain others by playing a musical instrument. They drew, painted, and read books! Sadly, this knowledge and ability faded. People became complacent to pay taxes so someone else will do things for them. We became lazy. Shovel snow for neighbors? No thanks, wait, how much will you pay me? Oh, but still no... I have to save the world with my friends on a video game.

A good friend of mine lives in a high rise apartment building and claimed to me that he doesn’t pay taxes for having things done or repaired in his apartment. I pointed out that his maintenance fee was the tax. If he fixed his own leaky faucet, changed the light bulb, replaced the old toilet bowl himself, why should he pay that much in maintenance fees? An amount that is over one thousand dollars a month. All in addition to the other payments being made for the rent and utilities that also cover the owner's taxes.

When people are in power, who are elitists and / or authoritarians, the next step after taxing us is to start exploiting us. Let us say that we want to fix up our own bathroom in our apartment, but now we are not allowed to do so. We must use the landlord’s contractor that will cost three times more than doing the job ourselves. Safety a concern? That is understandable, so we will pay for a third party to inspect our work. Sadly, that isn’t acceptable either. Freedoms are lost, kickbacks are done with payments under the table and we fail to wake up to what we gave away.

Want to save water by collecting rainwater off your roof and into a barrel. The water is used for the garden, flower beds, lawn, and washing cars. Our tax rate and the cost for the water should be lowered since we are using less. Loop-hole time! The government must now protect us and this is the case in various states where collecting rainwater is illegal. Why? Because they claim we are not smart enough to realize that this collected water is not drinkable. This is how the governments of some states protect their incoming tax dollars by passing laws to prevent us from saving money, water and our environment.

Time for the people to wake up, think this through and run for office grass roots style, door to door and make the changes to help save everyone.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Uneducated Elitist Set To Harm Environment

6/12/2023

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Remember when just California was doing money wasting and environmental damaging programs?
Case AND Point: See PAINT VS TREES GTG blog post on 5/31/2018.

Well, now we have the infamous minds of many politicians across our nation doing more harm than good to our environment. Multiple moves toward destroying our environment are being set up by our uneducated elitist leaders. Let us just look at a more complete evaluation of just a few... This is Part One of a Four Part Series

Making Gas Stoves illegal

Facts Being Omitted:

Gas stoves and ovens are more efficient than Electric powered stoves and ovens.
With electronic ignition for Gas cooking, there is immediate heat that is controlled far better, thus cooking faster.
Electricity for electric stoves will come from Utility companies.
Utility Companies will be burning Gas and a more polluting fuel known as Oil to make the extra electricity.
Utility companies burning more Gas or Oil to meet demand will put more pollutants into our environment.
America's antiquated GRID will fail with everything being switched to electric power.
Electric cooking has a higher cost compared to cooking with Natural Gas.
Utility companies make more money for the electricity... For example, with a Gas Clothes Dryer costing .25 cents to dry clothes, when compared to an electric dryer doing the same job, the electric cost would be $1.00. A 75% Increase!
Professional chefs only use gas stoves. The restaurant industry and patrons will suffer with higher electric bills.

Questions:

Who benefits from the Law making Gas Stoves OUTLAWS? (It is NOT us or our environment)
What are the utilities doing with all the extra money they will make?
Is there an "under the table" deal between the utilities and the politicians?
Will there be kick-backs to political campaigns from utilities?
Where is American ingenuity with the REAL SOLUTION - Hydrogen Fuel Cells running off of water to make clean energy on demand, such as the Fuel Cells used on our Space Shuttles since 1981?

A MUST READ: Process Of Energy Progression

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Ancient Roman Concrete Can Help Our Environment!

5/24/2023

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Ancient Roman Concrete 2K Years Old

Roman concrete, aka concrete made 2,000 years ago by the ancient Romans has lasted amazingly well compared to modern concrete. Some data states that today's concrete starts to breakdown within 50 years. Actually, I have seen concrete for sidewalks start to flake off surface layers within 5 years. Yet, Rome’s famed Pantheon, which has the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome dedicated in 128 AD is still intact. In the photograph on the left, I am standing next to concrete steps and the columns of a Roman Temple, now a Catholic Church in Assisi Italy. This structure was made over 2,000 years ago.

Now since some calculations say that manufacturing concrete today contributes 8% of carbon emissions world wide and our modern concrete can crumble within decades, especially when exposed to eroding environmental conditions, longer lasting concrete will help our environment by lowering carbon emissions.

So why does Roman concrete last thousands of years? The answer came this year in a 2023 study that used reverse engineering on samples of concrete made by the ancient Romans. A team of investigators from MIT and laboratories in Italy and Switzerland, discovered ancient concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated several key self-healing functionalities. One of several papers was published in the journal Science Advances.

First, everything previously assumed about ancient Roman concrete is wrong:

The one magic ingredient was pozzolanic material such as volcanic ash
The various small particles in the concrete was due to poor mixing practices or just being sloppy
The slaking process using water and lime to form a highly reactive paste material made the difference

Under high-resolution with multi-scale imaging and chemical mapping techniques, researchers gained new insights into the potential functionality of "Lime Clasts" and the slaking process was not a contributing factor. Studying samples of ancient concrete, the small white particles were forms of calcium carbonate. Under spectroscopic examination it was determined they had been formed at extreme temperatures. This was the key to the super-durable nature of Roman concrete and the hot mixing produced compounds that would not otherwise form. Additionally, this increased temperature significantly reduces curing, setting and construction times.

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Rome's Trevi Fountain With Water via 2K Year Old Aqueduct

Studies conducted show that the hot mixing process has the lime clasts develop brittle nanoparticulate architecture, thus creating the ability for self healing. If a crack started in the concrete, a reaction would start with water and create a calcium-saturated solution that would recrystallize as calcium carbonate filling the crack. This adds further strength to the concrete and heals cracks before they can spread. Recent examination of ancient Roman concrete samples exhibited calcite-filled cracks.

To test this mechanism, which was responsible for the durability of the Roman concrete, samples of hot-mixed concrete were made and then deliberately cracked. Water was sent through the cracks and within two weeks the cracks had completely healed. As a result of these successful tests, work is being done to commercialize this modified concrete material.

If commercializing is successful, this "old made anew" concrete material will help improve the durability of the 3D Printing of concrete homes for the poor, (see previous GTG blog post of this topic) save money in production and time, less concrete manufacturing due to this concrete having a longer lifespan, and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Research was done by Janille Maragh at MIT, Paolo Sabatini at DMAT in Italy, Michel Di Tommaso at the Instituto Meccanica dei Materiali in Switzerland, and James Weaver at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The work was carried out with the assistance of the Archeological Museum of Priverno in Italy.

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Salty Plastic

5/15/2023

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Micro-Plastic: Photo from Science Codex

Plain and simple, the largest concern we should all have for our environment, is not a carbon issue, but a plastic issue. Cite

Do you consume salt? There is microscopic plastic particles in sea salt. Salt is in a great deal of foods that we consume, even in an ice cream sandwich. Most salt comes from our oceans and our oceans are polluted with plastic.

Microscopic plastics are from plastic litter that is exposed to weathering and physicochemical or biological degradation processes that breaks down the plastic into smaller and smaller and smaller size pieces. We are even seeing nanometer plastic in our oceans from the tons of plastic waste. Plastic is not biodegradable. The potential harmful effects on ecosystems and humankind is only a guessing game now.

A study was published in Environmental Science & Technology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, about 39 various globally salt brands evaluated. Only three of the salt brands studied did not contain any microplastic particles. Sea salt, which is still gathered by the ancient technique of evaporating seawater, was highest, followed by lake salt, then rock salt.

The two safest salts just might be Glacier salt and Himalayan salt. Glacier salt, aka namakier, which is a flow of salt created when a rising diapir in a salt dome breaches the surface of the Earth. These diapirs are rare and are a type of igneous intrusion.

Himalayan salt is rock salt mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan. This salt often has a pinkish color and is primarily used as a food additive to replace refined table salt. Additionally Himalayan salt is used for cooking and food presentation.

We have to realize that we have to learn the true issues ourselves. We have to protect our own health by not buying sea salt anymore and supporting any of the numerous projects that clean plastics out of our oceans. Don't lie to yourself that some government, politician, celebrity, non-profit, corporation or some make-believe super hero is going to save us. We are not told these truths because these truths don't make anyone money and the people with the microphones don't read scientific peer reviewed studies. They make up there own stories to entertain and cause more damage to our environment and humankind.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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