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What Happened In Texas?

2/18/2021

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I have been asked and I have been receiving the very question structured above for today’s GoingTrueGreen blog title by many GTG members.

First, I wish to level the playing field. Unlike other electric utilities that I have worked for or visited and had first hand information about many operations, I do not have first hand knowledge of every detail that contributed to the failures in the power grid infrastructure for Texas. Therefore, I must reserve the right to correct any verbiage in this blog due to the fact that despite reading and confirming some reliable information on the subject, “Sensationalism” prevails and real “Journalism” is squelched.

So what happened with the power grid in Texas? Seems to me that a poor management decision was made due to money justification. The temperatures were dropping and the demand for electricity was spiking. Additional Megawatts were needed and a decision was made not to bring on more production from gas, oil or coal power plants. After all, perhaps an innocent assumption was made that this was Texas and the weather will be warm again in a day or two. In addition, the decision makers had to justify the cost for bringing on line additional generators.

So again we have the real problem: Assumptions and Money. This A & M is a contagious disease that crosses all spectrums of power production. End result, there wasn’t enough power to meet the demand and the grid started to shut down as designed for safety protocol. Rolling blackouts were put into action until additional generators could be brought on line. A 100% shut down was avoided, but 85% of that Grid took a hit because of humankind’s decision.

So the lost of power wasn’t an act of God, but a humankind assumption floundering in money justification and that is the problem with all energy production. Both Renewable energy and Non-Renewable energy are plagued with this A & M disease. Case and point:

Why did the power grid supply fail?
There is a rare winter storm in Texas, a state that saw no reason to spend “money” on winterizing their energy production.

Solar panels have no system to clean snow off, because those systems cost money. (Even I have a way to clean snow off my solar panels. I had to come up with some method, because my area does get snowfall every year. I have a very simple and safe way, that had a very small investment. However, I must put in the time since I could not afford an automatic system. My time makes me money as I am able to produce Kilowatts once the sun is shinning again.
​BTW: I do not go up on my roof. My previous GTG blog posts on solar explain more.)


Texas Wind Turbines and Gas Lines froze because they never had the money spent to winterize their operations. Oil and coal could not meet the demand because of human error in decision making. (System automatically starts to shutdown as a safety precaution when demand can’t be met.) In total, an 85% system shutdown.

If Texas had invested in winterizing all electrical generating systems, this one storm would have provided payback and possible profit. Now, this storm is costing them far more than any winterizing investment. Additionally, we need to ask the following: Did the government and electrical utilities provide helpful information on the news to inform the public of alternative ways to keep warm as well as how to drain most of the water out of their pipes? All the frozen and broken water pipes may become a legal matter now costing the utility more money, because while the storm can be labeled as an act of God, the system’s failure was due to poor decisions made by humans.

The irony is this, the two political sides blame each other and fail to see that they are both to blame, because the little that they do, is all about making money for themselves. Let it be for renewable or non-renewable energy production.

Next week, Texas’ weather will be around the sixty degree mark, while most of northern United States will have another week in and out of the twenty degree zone, but the power remains on.


Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Food Labels Decoded, Fertile Egg Labels

2/9/2021

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Enjoying a good healthy breakfast is always a good way to start the day. For many, Eggs are a major part of breakfast, several times a week. Yet, we are bombarded with so many different labels for eggs, that a breakfast lover has to wonder what is the complete story behind the good old egg?  

At best, we have fractured information with Egg labels and perhaps that is why we have so many labels...

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​I covered Cage-Free back on October 2, 2013, but now there is a fairly NEW label called Comfort Coop or Enriched Colony. I didn't cover this label, so I will now, because the information for this label doesn't add up to much.
What does this new Comfort Coop / Enriched Colony l
abel mean?
The chickens are in larger cages and have an "opportunity" to flap wings, perch and nest, in a clean environment. 
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I had already covered Farm Fresh or Farm Raised on Jan. 13, 2014, and now we have Fertile.
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This label called Fertile is for Eggs and this label also doesn't say much to help the consumer. Just another label that causes confusion in my opinion. Eggs with a Fertile label means the chickens live with roosters. This "may" mean that the chickens were Cage-Free. That is all.

If you are fortunate enough to be able to buy eggs from a small farm or someone raising chickens the old way, then do so. All the labels stamped on an egg carton will never tell the complete story. Best to see the complete situation with your own eyes when buying from a small local farm. Also if possible, see what your town codes allow. You may be able to have your own chickens and even a goat!


Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Future Communications with Going True Green

1/27/2021

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We have been studying the different ways Going True Green has been communicating over recent years and the following results are being presented in order to notify every one of the changes that we will be making over the coming weeks.

Going True Green will no longer be using several Social Media platforms, because they have not produced effective and productive communications between GTG and a Follower, Visitor, Friend, Client or GTG Lifetime Member.

In fact, we have seen that the most productive and effective communication we have with anyone, has been and still is through Electronic Mail. Yes, Email is what everyone uses to seriously communicate with us. Let the subject be on suggestions, comments, questions, specific inquires, sharing information, school projects, speaking engagements, energy audits, sustainability classes or GTG Lifetime membership.

We still have email communication with followers and members of our original websites: the LightBulbHotline and EnergyHotwire, to this day. This goes back to when in the mid 1990s we said, “We are on the Web! Visit us and here is our email address.” At that time we received several confused looks, followed by queries on how to visit our website. At the start we had everything on our website, as we still do today. Last year we closed our YouTube account after placing all our videos on our GTG Website in the GTG Lifetime Members section. Here we provide our Quick Videos and Online Classes without constant commercial interruption.

The Bottom Line is the fact that productive and effective communication is not found with an Emoji, a Like or a Following just to see a video short or photograph. To accomplish anything we all must first Read, then Listen, then Communicate with facts, so we can implement solutions as one team.

So we say Goodbye to YouTube, FaceTime, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Our time is far better spent communicating directly with you, instead of trying to catch a fleeting attention span with an entertaining photo or video. We are here to share the complete picture, all the facts, so that we the people can make a difference. One person at a time and as a conglomerate of one team.

Please consider joining our email list if you have not already joined. We only send out one to four emails per Year.
Please use our Link Here. If you sign up for our emails with MailChimp, (appears at bottom of our Homepage) they will send a reminder email once a month.

​Additionally, look into being a Lifetime Member with the GTG Membership Link at the top of this page. Most of all, just visit our GoingTrueGreen Website and Blog once a month to see what is new with saving Money, Energy, Health and Earth, so to live a more sustainable life without sacrifice. - Thank you.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Food Labels Decoded, Free Range

1/14/2021

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Free Range or Free Roaming or Free Running / Cage Free

To say all these labels for the same topic is confusing, is an understatement.

On October 2, 2013, I posted a GoingTrueGreen blog for Food Labels Decoded that was titled Cage Free. Free Range eggs and chickens are similar to Free Run or Cage Free, except that with Free Range the hens are also given outdoor access. With Cage Free, the hens are not in cages, however, they are all kept inside the building or hen house.

Free Range has the added benefit of allowing hens to forage on outdoor grass, some bugs, and take a dust bath. How long and how often the hens get to go outside is NOT presented by this Free Range label. The label states that a
ll animals for producing poultry and eggs are not to be confined. The rule continues by stating that the birds must have access to the outdoors for 5 minutes per day. Wow, 5 minutes, still doesn't sound like a stress free farm for hens. Yet, there is more...

There isn't any proof the birds actually went outside at all. This label also doesn't state if they are treated well or are antibiotic-free. The Bottom-Line, many of these birds can live their lives inside and still have a label saying Free Range because they weren't in cages. One last item, only USDA regulated poultry gets this label.

As I continue to add to my Food Labels Decoded series, please note that I am doing the labels in alphabetic order and that I am only up to the letter "F" as of now. Getting all the facts on the various labels being used is time consuming and sorting out the misleading information is not easy. I just hope that the information I post, can help us live a more sustainable life and allow us to make healthier decisions.

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Rare Occurrence

1/6/2021

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Last year ended with a rare occurrence in the sky. Jupiter and Saturn had a rendezvous on December 21st right after sunset. Called a great conjunction because the planets would be in line with each other and separated by less than 0.1 degrees. The last time that these two planets were separated by that small degree was almost 800 years ago, in 1226.

With this rare occurrence taking place just before Christmas, many scholars theorized that the original Christmas star could have been a great conjunction of two or three planets. This theory is added to the other theories about the Star of Bethlehem being a supernova explosion, comet, or an act of God.



​​Nevertheless, passed down through the last two millennium is word about Three Wise Men using a bright light in the night sky to find the location of the infant Jesus. Christian lore later on gave names to the visiting Magi: Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar. They gifted gold, frankincense, and myrrh. We celebrate the visit of Magi today on January six. Sadly with all of today's noise, a rare occurrence in the night sky goes mostly unnoticed. The complete opposite from two thousand years ago when people were enthralled with an occurrence such as this in the night sky.
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​​I can only speak from my own experiences. Many years ago, I was blessed to see our Milky Way in the clear night sky. I was driving back to Miami from the island of Key West. I had just gone over the 7 mile Bridge, away from big city lights and small town lamp posts. I pulled off the road and stepped out of the car I rented. I took some timed photographs and stared upward while leaning on the car. Truly amazing and I was in awe. Such a wonder inspired by authority of the sacred and Sublime.

Happy New Year,
Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Ending A Year Of Assuming

12/31/2020

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I had received a few emails this year asking questions about an article published in 1922 and now circling on Social Media. The topic of the article is about the Arctic Ocean waters getting warmer. The emphasis is on the year published, 1922.

The article is real and was sent out to newspapers by the Associated Press. Several newspapers published the article and the title used by the Washington Post on November 2, 1922 was "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."

AP's article was based upon the November 1922 Monthly Weather Review which stated that an expedition was sent by the Norwegian Department of Commerce to the Arctic Circle to survey and make oceanographic investigations. Captain Martinlingebrigstaen, leading the expedition, sailed the eastern Arctic waters for 54 years and reported warmer conditions since 1918. The article continued to suggest that the issue of warming was widespread, citing less seals, melting glaciers and changing fishing zones. Reports from seal hunters, explorers and fishermen, supported the radical change in climate conditions. Captain Martinlingebrigstaen stated that the Arctic region is no longer recognizable as the same region of 1868 to 1917.


On Social Media today, some add testing and provocative comments to this article placing blame for Global Warming on Model T car drivers in 1922. Additionally, some use this article as proof that our climate has always been changing and Climate Change isn't real.

Here are the encompassing details:
While there is truth to our climate always changing, the term Climate Change is misleading. I have said and use, we have changing climates. Meaning, our planet's multiple climates throughout the world are changing. Some for the better, some for the worst, because when you say we have a changing climate, that begs the question, Where? The climate where I live, will be different from the climate at a different longitude and latitude.

When you say climate change, that signifies a unilateral global world wide change of one climate. That is misleading, because our climate doesn't change as a whole for the whole world. Many areas around our planet have far more serious issues with their changing climate, than some other areas of the world. 

What the article in 1922 was based upon, was a limited report. There were no satellite images and no broad view of the arctic. True, the area under research had less ice than previous information derived in the late 1800s, however presenting that the occurrences were widespread, was premature.

Additionally, the comments placed today on this article's Social Media posting that suggest we don't have environmental problems, are unwarranted since they too are using a limited amount of data. The situation is completely different now and a great deal more data is available to us today that shows we have warmer ocean temperatures in many areas of the world. Thus causing issues that we still do not know for sure what the actual outcomes will be or when or how bad or how favorable.

Notice the trend... Use a limited amount of data to present your own narrative. Always done to gain power, make money or just to get 15 minutes of fame on sensationalized media networks.

Both sides, the 1922 article and the 2020 social media comments, used predictions and assumptions based on a limited source of data. We need to never forget what Felix Unger told Oscar Madison about when you assume:

"Ah... you assumed. You should never assume. When you assume, you make an A S S out of U and ME.

We all need to do the most we can as an individual, to be as sustainable as possible, and I believe that with a sincere stewardship from each one of us, humankind will prevail.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com

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Old Traditions Made New

12/17/2020

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This holiday season, we can all make a great difference for our health and our planet’s environment just by omitting plastic from our festivities, this year and forever.

“Impossible!” Is the false cry from the Scrooges and Grinches worldwide!

Sadly, when you hear this tone from those in the above categories, they are only spinning a theme in their favor and lying through the process of omission.

I hope this GTG blog will be a helpful start for many. I used the word “start” because, I too, am not plastic free for the holidays. Yet, I have taken significant actions over the last few years leading to a finish line that shows all things are possible.

First action is to remember Christmas Past:
 
Think of the times when children received a truck made of recyclable aluminum, tin or wood, not plastic. Even the tires were wood or rubber. Dolls were made of stuffed material, with clothes made of cotton or linen. The head was made of porcelain and the hair was real.

Christmas and greeting cards were made with just paper or even hand made. The caring words written carried the message and good wishes. There were no sparkles or glitter made of plastic sprinkled all over the card and envelope that then would fall all over the house.

Children ran into the room to find treasures under the tree. The gifts were right there to see! Already set up and unwrapped. No wrapping paper with multiple color inks or sparkles, just a ribbon tied in a bow on top of “Wow, just what I wanted!” or “Thank you, this is just what I needed.” Then hugs, kisses, and I love you, followed. We enjoyed our gift(s) and each other before getting ready to attend Church, see friends and family.

Second action is to compare our Christmas Present:

Are the hugs and kisses with “I love you” still there? Are we still going to Church to say thank you to God? Do we mail order plastic wrapped gifts and not see family or friends? Do we plow through only our wrapped gifts and not even take time to share the enjoyment of the person next to us and the gift they received? Do we indulge ourselves way too long into a cell phone screen, wide screen TV or Social Media lies about people we don’t really know? Sadly, we are all guilty.

Final action is to plan our Christmas Future:

Here is just one example (Other examples can be found in previous December GTG blogs)

I remember when I was a kid, I would visit my grandparents and their son, who was my youngest uncle. Now these memories were before I learned the truth about a Bishop named Nicholas of Myra who lived from 270 to 343AD in the country now called Turkey and how he, Saint Nicholas, was the real Santa. My Uncle Wilton was still a teenager and he would take out his Lincoln Log sets that he had received as gifts when he was young so I could play with them.

We built cabins, cowboy barns and stables with fences. I built towers and windmills. The log sets were all made of real wood, not plastic. There were no online directions - I had to problem solve myself. There were no batteries - I had to make the sounds and use cardboard for additional parts, such as the blades for the windmill.

Log cabin sets made of real wood are still made today! They are made by hand, no power tools, and they are made by some Amish businesses. All made here in the United States of hardwood and only a non-toxic, water based stain is used. Recommended for 3 years old and up. Parts come in burlap bags with pull string. Wow ingenious! Third party partners help to make these toys available via the web. Try doing a search on DuckDuckGo, a better search engine, to find a wide variety of Amish made toys.

We all need to start evaluating the complete picture for our holidays, so we can take some action that once again, allows us to find treasures under the tree.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Furniture Made By Hand Power

11/28/2020

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Just as long as families and friends can get together to celebrate the real meaning behind that first Thanksgiving event and give thanks to God, the where doesn't matter, nor does the table or the ground you share the meal.

I have sat at many types of tables for Thanksgiving. With my grandparents when young, the table was from the early 1930s and not really a table. Built to be placed against a wall with various decor in a hallway, this skinny table opened up to 8 feet long and 2.5 feet wide. The image shows the actual table we used and since there was no dining room in our Brooklyn apartment, the table was opened in the parlor room. AKA, sitting room or living room.

I myself did not have a dining room or any dining room furniture until just recently. My apartments didn't have that option. Nevertheless, I was very grateful for the opportunity to add a room onto my 1942 house about ten years after moving into the house. Then I was faced with managing the large expense that would come with buying dining room furniture. So for several more years I used saw-horses to hold up three quarter inch thick plywood for a table. I was able to add extra wood and saw-horses when needed, because the room was able to comfortably fit a larger version.

When I earned the ability to buy furniture, I immediately went to an Amish business to find hand made furniture at a very reasonable price. The furniture is not only handmade, the work is done without the use of any electricity. This was the Eco-Friendly alternative that I was seeking. The quality surpasses all machine made furniture selling for double the price and that didn't include delivery.

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My Amish made table is 6 feet long and 4 feet wide!  Along the wall is the custom made chest, that I designed and drew up on graph paper as a guide. Communicating any adjustments took time, since the Amish community do not use phones of any type. However, with the assistance of an employee at the Peaceful Valley furniture store, we were able to accomplish my custom designed chest. The chest is 8 feet long and 18 inches deep, leaving room for people to walk by even when others are sitting at the table. Like the table, the chest is made of solid oak wood, even the backs, sides, and bottoms of the drawers are made of solid oak wood.

The amazing part of my custom designed Amish made dinning room table are the 8, one foot wide extension boards. Adding each one of these boards to the table, opens this work of fine craftsmanship to 14 feet long! Fitting 18 people very comfortably.

Four of the extension boards fit under the table and the remaining 4 extension boards are stored in my designed
 pull down front center door. If you examine the photo, above right, you shall see the boards behind the glasses in their supporting slots. (All images will show a larger view when clicked upon) Below is the table opened to the maximum length of 14 feet.
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Another additional note for more Eco-Friendly alternatives, the Amish craftspeople can use reclaimed wood from old barns when feasible. Just another action we can all consider when in need of furniture. Hoping everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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HomeMade Hat Rack From Left Overs

11/18/2020

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I came across a need to hang my bicycle helmet and my Indiana Jones hat by the back door. So instead of thinking where can I buy a new hat rack, I searched out my various "odds and ends" that I kept over the years, because I felt they would come in handy one day.
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First, I pulled out some old closet door knobs and an Oak Wood Saddle that I never used for the transition between a wooden floor and a rug covered floor.

I then sanded down the two ends to the saddle and rounded the edges. Next I stained the wood after drilling holes for the mounting anchor bolts and the extra long threaded bolts that fit the closet door knobs.


I had black decor covers to hide the heads of the mounting anchor bolts as you can see on the left side of this second image.

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​Since I had all the hardware, this was an easy project to save Money, Energy, and Earth, by Reducing my "wants" to create my own product that met my "need" while Reusing and Recycling.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Still Harvesting God's Bounty

10/28/2020

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As we approach the end of October, I am also approaching the end of my small garden's bounty of food. Despite a few cold nights last week, my garden has endured. Tomatoes abound and I still have eggplant growing. ​I did just pick the last of my carrots, but I am very happy with my organic harvest.

As I have said before in previous Going True Green blog posts, the actions I have taken with having a food garden are the same actions we can all do, obviously to various degrees based on what you have available. A yard, terrace, or window shelf, all suffice to those various degrees. So please consider growing some food for yourself, family, friends, and strangers next year.

Additionally, 
for the coming winter months, I have canned Grape jam and Blueberry jam; froze blueberries and homemade tomato sauces and dried various herbs.

The end product is an individual action that allows you and others to live a more sustainable life that saves, money, energy, health and earth.


Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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