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New Year, Same Deal

1/29/2025

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Gambling with the same old deal

We must realize "Going True Green" is not accomplished by just purchasing a few LED light bulbs nor is this achieved by someone yelling we must all change yesterday because the world is doomed. That is someone just trying to get 15 minutes of fame based on speculations and predictions that may or may not occur. No one can say what will exactly happen and when. However, facts do show that we have serious issues and no company or person should RISK our future.

Saving a great deal of money, living healthier and all without sacrificing the life you know is accomplished by each one of us when we have all the data. For example:
The previous owner of my house use over 1,000 gallons of oil a year and I reduced consumption to 250 gallons! This is possible when you have the trade secrets and privilege information, that makes the difference. Today, I no longer use oil and I am close to getting off the grid without sacrificing a single thing. Due to actions like this that are done by individuals around our country, EPA reports Greenhouse gases have decreased by 2.3% between 2014 and 2015. Also reported was a total of 11.5% since 2005. We the People are making a difference.

As a responsible individual we are the solution to a better tomorrow. By living a more "sustainable life" we will save Money, Health, Energy, and Earth without making any sacrifices! But we MUST work as a Team toward good Environmental Stewardship! I have no electric bill, and what I have done is not rocket science. We hear the millionaire talking heads on cable channels, but what do the scientific peer reviewed studies really tell us? Humankind's biggest environmental concern is not CO, but microscopic plastic particles that never decay. They only breakdown smaller and smaller, thus getting into our environment and our bodies. Facts, trade secrets, and encouraging support, is what the world needs.
The Blame game must end. We must stop looking for a solution from a politician, corporation, political party, organization or celebrity and make the difference ourselves!

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Pro-postionally Inbalanced

1/7/2025

This is a new term I created many years ago, and while I used the term in my conversations and discussions, I now would like to officially introduce this new terminology for the New Year.

Pro-postionally Inbalanced:
When someone or some company or political party takes a Proactive Position to address one environmental issue only to create a project or position that exacerbates multiple other environmental problems.

Below are just 3 previously posted Going True Green blogs that make the point...

Building a Log Cabin house without electric power:
https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/independence-intelligence-illumination

Great Idea! NOT - Painting Blacktop streets white!
https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/paint-vs-trees

Green, Alternative, Wind Energy or is this just the same problems with a different name:
https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/not-gone-with-the-wind

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Helene the Hurricane: part three of three

11/21/2024

Realizing Solutions:

New York City’s study and report for a stronger and more resilient coastal edge was well done after Sandy hit the New York area. However, key areas of New York City need additional ten foot high naturally decorated berms with walkways and benches on top of the current 10 foot, 2 inch high edge. Since eighteen foot storm surges come with Category Five storms, twenty feet should be the minimum. Building along the edge of land is far cheaper than building a causeway with gates out in the harbor which would offer little protection. Think about all the water on the harbor side of those expensive gates. The 150 mph wind will be blowing all the water on both sides of those gates and all that water inside the harbor will still come up onto the streets of New York City.

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Area should be 10 ft. higher. Why are the lights on in the middle of the day?

Salt Marshes, Primary and Secondary Sand dunes with a catch basin, needs to be recreated by humankind along the beaches. Nature gave us these protections for free and we filled them in or we plowed them under. Boardwalks must be incorporated into the natural protection of Primary Sand dunes and we cannot leave openings in our first line of defense. We can no longer ignore what nature has taught us for the sake of an ocean view.

Everywhere in the United States needs to start sealing wires underground over the next twenty years. This should be done systematically for the main roads as they are repaved or repaired. Then with priority businesses on the main roads not losing power, repair crews will be able to attend to downed neighborhood lines that much faster. Wood poles should be replaced with stronger poles like the ones used in Florida, where the lines can’t be placed underground due to the water table just a few feet below the surface. Since these types of upgrades have been spoken about for decades, but never ratified because of the claim that cost is unaffordable, a true comparison by an outside firm should be done against the costs to make twenty years of hurricane repairs. I am presenting this request because of the understanding I received on sealing power lines underground when I worked for an electric utility. The following may stand true: Burying power lines is too expensive for the power company when they have to use their own profits to do the work instead of profits going to share holders.

When a hurricane hits and significant repairs are needed, about every ten years in the Northeast, assistance and repair money comes from the government. Yes, us tax payers, thus it is cheaper to do repairs with tax payer’s dollars instead of burying power lines with their own profits. Thus, no more tax payer bailouts for repair costs. Power companies will have to establish a fund with their own profits for repairs. Immediately you will find twenty years of hurricane repairs is much more expensive than burying power lines along main roads. Also I am not opposed to the government reimbursing a utility for burying power lines equal to the repair amount provided for an average storm. This will be done only once after all the main roads that can host buried power lines have been completed.

We also have to better understand our "changing climates" and stop the assumptions from both camps. Both sides believe they have all the data, I believe we just opened the book and finished the introduction. Yes, there are risks. I choose to error on the side of caution. Nevertheless, realize that whatever we do to help our world from our current changing climates, that will not stop us from being hammered by hurricanes. They are part of our planet’s nature, so we cannot do one solution for and ignore dealing with the infrastructure problems, and most importantly microscopic plastic pollution in our oceans that is killing our Prochlorococcus, which is the invisible green forest in our oceans. These microscopic marine cyanobacteria are probably the most abundant organism on Earth. For millions of years they have made our oxygen. So the panic claim made by some people with a big loud speaker about the Rain Forests being the lungs of Earth, is not true. The oceans are the vast production mechanism to create oxygen, and we must be smart about cleaning up the plastic in our waterways or we may suffocate ourselves. (Dear Media: Please do not make this a prediction, and run with it to scare everyone just so that your media network can sell more ads, and make more money. Present the complete picture, even when boring.)

We have to stop the money making lies and work together as one team.

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Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Helene the Hurricane: part two of three

11/7/2024

Evaluating Storms:

To qualify as a hurricane, the new May 15, 2012 Saffir-Simpson Scale shows a maximum sustained wind between 74 and 95 miles per hour (mph) with a storm surge of 4 to 5 feet above normal to be a Category One storm. With Superstorm Sandy, that had circular rotation with an eye, but the storm didn’t meet all the qualifications to be a hurricane. The larger than normal size, the wind gusts up to 90 or 95 mph and larger storm surge still doesn’t qualify, but none of that makes any difference to all those people who lost their house, their memories, their lives.

Despite Sandy’s ranking falling short of hurricane status, we had things far worst with that storm because, this was the first storm to hit at high tide and with a full moon. This was the main reason for a storm surge along the coast that had a wave height characteristic of a category three or four hurricane, not climate change. Nevertheless, with that said, that does not mean changing climates are not real!

With Helene, as the storm moved inland, new warnings should have been issued for people to evacuate near rivers due to the strong possibility of Flash Floods going over the top of river banks. The amount of rain fall was tremendous, but wheater outlets seemed to think the people on higher ground need not worry. That proved to be a horrible error. Even people in the mountain area, but by rivers, lost their property and many lost their lives.

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Power Lines Hanging Like Spaghetti

Old and Antiquated:

How complacent have we become that we tolerate zero protection along the water and an infrastructure that is 70 years old? Water pours onto the city streets to flood tunnels, parking garages, and basements of apartment complexes. Flash Floods override river banks and we wonder why? We have power lines hanging like spaghetti from wood poles installed by Ma Bell in 1940. We disobey Mother Nature’s rules and then we use Global Warming to place fault. Next we claim we are shocked, shocked to find so much destruction, but we still all want to collect our winnings. Yes, like the lines in a classic movie, the root to all this is money. Profits or paying share holders all comes first before improving our infrastructure to save lives in the future.

The last part of this Going True Green blog post will be at the end of this month. Until then, also consider seeing our three part video as a member... Hurricanes: The Situation, Problems and Solutions

To see our video on this topic consider becoming a GoingTrueGreen member with GTG Membership Link at top of page.
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Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Helene the Hurricane: part one of three

10/29/2024

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View of a Hurricane on Earth from Space

As men, women, and children, still struggle to get some respite from the hurricane named Helene, we hope and pray that everyone will be doing better before this Thanksgiving Day.

As I wrote after Super Storm Sandy hit, we must have a process to identify the prevailing causes for this much destruction. On the political front, blame is quickly placed on Climate Change and humankind's lack of effort to curtail this phenomena. On the financial front we have humankind's complacent attitude that favors the status quo and increasing profits. Before we can identify proper solutions, data must be collected, evaluated, and realized. We must have a complete picture! Let’s start again with what is given to us and what we take away.

Disrespecting God’s Green Earth:

Our green planet provides us with FREE protection from storms along the coast and rivers. However for some reason, we humans, think we know better. Mother Nature gives us Salt Marshes, a natural Rain Basin (aka: Catch Basin) between Primary and Secondary Sand Dunes along beaches that are held together by vegetation such as: Marram grass, Lichen, or Bayberry. If you never seen this natural protection when visiting a beach, that is because humankind removed them!

We look at a Salt Marsh with money in mind and so we fill in the Salt Marsh to build a football stadium. We drive dune buggies over the vegetation along the beach just for self satisfaction and build where natural sand dunes once existed. We have failed to realize that a Salt Marsh filled with detritus is the “Super Market” for life in the ocean. If we fill in a Salt Marsh where fish lay eggs, then don’t wonder why there are less fish! We are not over-fishing, we are aborting the birth of new fish by removing nature's incubators! To feed ourselves, we should be creating a multitude of new salt marshes, especially to replace the ones we destroyed. Our food chain has already been disastrously affected for centuries, and this is completely our fault. Case, and Point: Remember the TV show Cheers? Well, in Boston the real Cheers Pub is called the Bull Finch Pub, and that building - that whole area - is built on a Land-Fill. A landfill that filled in a Salt Marsh, and that was done in the 1700s!

If we fill in a Salt Marsh where fish lay eggs, then don’t wonder why there are less fish! We are not over-fishing, we are aborting the birth of new fish by removing nature's incubators!

We build cities up to the edge of river banks, and along ocean beaches. Then we argue over who should pay for the reconstituted beaches that were washed away in a storm, because there was no natural protection for all those private beach houses along the water. Beach houses sometimes owned by people who voted against replacing sand dunes and salt marshes so not to disrupt their view of the water!

We scream the oceans are rising and fail to realize 40% of those areas with higher water levels are sinking because of us and I do not mean with changing climates. The land is sinking because we remove natural protections, we build towering buildings, and cities adding massive weight to the land, and then we pump out of the ground all the clean drinking water, which lowers the underground water tables causing the land to sink.

We "want" a water view by the ocean or river, we do not "need" that view. Our government says, "Yes, yes, go ahead build there, here is your permit." Why? So they can collected more TAXES at a premium because we want that water view. This also applies to those views from mountain slopes in California. The government knows about the high risk for mud slides, but hand out building permits anyway so they can collect premium tax dollars. They know about a river's flood plain, an ocean's destructive power especially when all natural protection has been removed. Yet, they want to collect more premium taxes! Then they acted shocked when property damage is so massive and lives are lost.

Yet, the premium views can still be obtainable while respecting nature and nature's natural protection zones. Just build behind the natural protection and a little higher for the view. Alas, just like there are no protective basement requirements written into the building codes for areas in tornado zones... We allow homes and businesses to be built along river banks and beaches. All these areas by water should be (to name just a few examples) parks, playgrounds, camping sites, ball fields, nature studies, outdoor educational classrooms, picnic grounds, "under the sky" concert areas, fishing locations, schools for lessons to swim / fish / surf / dive, SCUBA diving, vacation houses, community meeting places, trails for bicycles, walking, and hiking. If the land is privately owned, the owners can rent or operate the land for any of the above uses and more. In other words... These areas are for visiting, and should all be deserted in bad weather! Greed must be removed from the equation by both people and government!

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Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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The Answers are Blowing in the Wind

10/7/2024

Some are dubbing the environmental problems caused by broken wind turbine blades "acceptable" because wind is renewable energy. Energy from oil is consistent until all sources have been depleted, thus non-renewable. Wind is inconsistent, but will not be completely gone one day in the future.

Therefore, should people start to label different fuel sources based on pros and cons or an evaluation that puts all the facts into perspective, and perhaps finds a better way?

Pros and cons are key to scientific evaluations, but we should not allow that to stifle our intelligence to create another way, a better way. Think about what we are saying here… Are we trying to justify the “hurt” to people and our environment based on reasons of renewability or non-renewability? Based on consistency or non- consistency?

Compared to oil that is non-renewable and the environmental problems from fossil fuels have caused, we all know this fuel is not acceptable for the long term. However, oil pumped from the ground like all actions taken, have pros and cons. Using oil as a fuel has adverted many environmental issues such as: cutting down trees for wood to burn, killing whales to use whale oil, and reduced the burning of toxic kerosene for heat, and light. Yet, kerosene is still used in various countries around the world, and that is a problem for children's health. For more details on this, please visit: (https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/gravitylight)

We need a complete picture, because without one we “use” someone or something for our own gain of power, finances, and pleasure – that is a sin. That is wrong. That is unacceptable. Especially when we know the energy answer for the world. Sadly, we have no politicians or companies willing to provide funds for research, development of the equipment, and maintenance, because Hydrogen Fuel Cells as the energy answer will lead to the elimination of monthly fuel bills for everyone worldwide.

Just selling and maintaining equipment with Hydrogen Fuel Cells will have less profits, but that industry will have profits, and free the world. Perhaps all the tinkers, inventors, improvisers, handymen and handywomen should unite so we ourselves can provide clean, safe, and renewable energy that eliminates monthly energy costs for the world.

Gather data from NASA, Sir William Grove (1839), Stanley Meyer whose prototype car went cross country on less than 20 gallons of water, and peruse my previous Going True Green blogs on Hydrogen Fuel Cells by using the SEARCH box at the top of the page. Let us lead the way, another way to an amazing future.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Not Gone With The Wind

9/27/2024

Wind Turbine blades spin, they get old, and they have been breaking creating a serious environmental issue. I am not going to get into the pros and cons of our energy sources in order to compare one against the other, because all our energy sources have, and are developing terrible environmental problems.

The catalyst to all these issues is the fact that profits make the world go around and around, until we are spinning so hard we all fall down. That is what happened this summer off the coast of New England, and it spun heads around. A three (3) football field long wind turbine blade broke. And this was not the first time this has happened. An offshore wind project near the United Kingdom also had this issue previously. Adding insult to injury, GE Vernova could not explain WHY the blade had broken.

A manageable clean up in water, compared to over land, is NOT possible as far as I am concerned. The tide, the currents under the surface, as well as weather, will move all this non-bio degradable material around. Additionally...

- How much will the debris hurt sea life?
- How much will the fiberglass material break down?
- How many shards of fiberglass will be consumed by fish?
- What will happen if we eat that fish with just one sharp micro-sized shard within?
- How many feet will be cut when walking on a beach from a fiberglass sea invasion?

Profits make the world go around and around, until we are spinning so hard we all fall down.

I immediately see long-term ramifications, because the wind turbines are over water. I believe the sensible action to take while offshore wind projects are on hold, (construction and power generation at the project has stopped) is to keep wind turbines on land. The clean up in New England waters has now moved to cleaning debris that washed up on Martha's Vineyard. We need to wait for the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to investigate the incident, and GE Vernon will inspect all blades made in the Canadian factory that made the blade which broke.

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Additional issues upon our environment from wind turbines, comes from the fact that the wind turbine blades once dubbed recyclable, are not. Around the globe fiberglass blades have been stockpiled. One location in Texas is shown in the photograph. According to Iowa's state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) they have over 1,300 blades piled up in Newton, and two other cities. Iowa's DNR reported in 2021 that no recycling was occurring. Companies that were contracted to recycle the blades dumped them without permits and disappeared.

What is the answer... Remove greed and the world would be a much better place. Wind, Solar, and so on, should be transition energy sources as we perfect Hydrogen Fuel Cells that operate on demand! However, the world doesn't have this energy answer because there will be no monthly bills. Nobody can put a price on FREE Hydrogen molecules derived from FREELY collected rain!

Wish to learn more about the Hydrogen Fuel cell energy answer for the world?
Peruse previous GoingTrueGreen blog posts that cover the details with Links below:

Hydrogen Power, The Real Answer
https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/hydrogen-power-the-real-answer

Treat, But There Is A Trick
https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/treat-but-there-is-a-trick

On The List
https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/on-the-list

Are We Getting Energy Enviro Solutions?
https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/are-we-getting-energy-enviro-solutions

Process Of Energy Progression
https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/process-of-energy-progression

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS WE HAVE HAD THE BURIAL CLOTHS THAT COVERED JESUS' BODY. WHAT STORY DOES ALL THE EVIDENCE TELL?

Authenticity of the Holy Shroud of Turin can no longer be disputed. Jesus' linen Sindone not only gives us a photograph of Jesus' face, but His whole body front and back, fully crucified. An image made 2,000 years ago for us to see today with our modern technology. An image made a nanosecond before the resurrection. There are no viable theories left or evidence to present a possibility of forgery.

Guyana's President Exposes the Smoke and Mirrors

4/4/2024

Sadly, the truth is that the majority of worldly politicians and so-called news media people are hypocrites with Environmental issues and Energy realities. Most actually believe they are right, but in fact, they don’t know the complete picture. They attach themselves to power grabbing and money making narratives that in most cases, cause more harm than help.

Energy Offsets=Smoke & Mirrors?

Additionally, others come into play with bragging-rights such as, “Our skyscraper will use renewable energy from…” (plug-in a location from anywhere else in that state). American corporations, Not-For-Profits, as well as other countries such as Qatar, have investments or a stake in city buildings that claim to be not-zero emissions by 2050 with hydropower facilities, wind farms, and / or solar farms. The issue with this is that they are not using the renewable energy they pay for or invested in. They are just paying for renewable energy to be made and sold to others. Thus, offsetting their consumption of energy made by oil or gas. However, they are still using electricity made from non-renewables. They may be helping to save some oil and gas, but they are not saving energy. In fact, they can't even say, that they have done no damage to the environment. This claim of an offset is from paying for or investing in renewable energy that is made for other people to buy. The skyscraper isn't using the renewable energy, other people are, like in the western or northern part of their state or have a country in South America or Africa use renewables. The skyscraper owners still want dependable energy 24/7, they don’t want a higher risk of the power going out when the wind is too strong or weak. They also don’t want to talk about all the facts, as real unpretentious environmental scientists do. Facts such as the damage done by solar farms and wind farms to the environment. Infrastructure concerns for the Grid and safety issues with construction of more high voltage power lines.

Please allow me some more of your time to explain this another way:

I was working as a consulting for an energy saving lighting project with the NY State Power Authority at their NYC office located on the 11th floor at 1 Penn Plaza. This was the first of an "Offset" narrative.

They used their own electric power from upstate Hydroelectric production. Therefore, my reports had to reflect their MUCH LOWER Kilowatt cost of ONLY .11 cents as compared to Con Ed's cost of .21 cents per kilowatt at that time. Due to these savings, the payback on my recommendations took twice as long, because they were not paying Con Ed's rates.

However, I stated to them that I did not believe the savings shown in my report would take twice as long for the payback, because they were in the same building (11th floor only) where all the other floors were paying twice as much. In order to prove their lower kilowatt rate for the 11th floor was real, I asked how they were supplying their own cheaper electricity to themselves on the 11th floor in a building supplied by Con Ed? In the middle of a city supplied by Con Ed?

Unlike a politician who would never answer that kind of question, the Head Operation Manager did answer me. "We don't." AND he laughed nervously.

I was told, “Everything is washed clean in the paperwork, as one hand washes the hand that wiped the other's you know what.”

No energy is really being saved! No carbon footprint is being reduced, only preventing some additional use of carbon based fuels and some are making a nice profit from this at the same time! Helping the climate is not the goal. Nobody is using less energy. More renewable energy is being made, so the elitists can continue using highly dependable non-renewable energy! The WASH is in the “offset” shown on paper, as cash exchanging hands for investors.

The media should be recording conversations that end in nervous laughs, instead of pitching movie making predictions. Here are just two other examples:

In 2022, the media claimed numerous times, that the month of August would have the highest number of hurricanes ever recorded. The month had the lowest hurricane record in over six decades, but that positive news was never reported by the media.
California’s coral reef being destroyed was reported, and rightfully so. However, when the highest coral reef recorded for the great barrier reefs in 36 years occurred... The media failed to share the news with the same intensity as their sky-falling predictions.

For more data: Look up Mr. Bjorn Lomborg, Copenhagen Consensus Center’s director.

The media, and politicians, are telling lies by the process of omission! These lies make certain people lots of money, hurt our environment, and hurt the poor. Case and point… Many world leaders, with investors, are telling small countries in Africa, and in South American what to do when it comes to energy production because of the environment predictions they fear or love for monetize reasons. For a more complete picture, no matter what you believe, I strongly suggest watching this video below. President Irfaan Ali points out what is of true value and how it is ignored.

Always get the complete story to know the real truth. Otherwise, it is just smoke and mirrors.

Bill Lauto , GTG
Environmental Scientist
 International Sustainability and Energy Consultant 
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Easter 2024, the Historical Novel, Upper Room, The Way: 33 AD to 57 AD will be available in Hardcover, paperback, and digital. This new edition has all the scientific data, history, and most probable events for Jesus' burial cloth, known as the Shroud of Turin. The fascinating adventure starts with clicking the image Link above to walk with the apostles in the streets of Jerusalem, cry for their pain, and rejoice with them.

Energy Saving Report Card

1/26/2024

This is not rocket science, this is using real facts, and technology that we already have. Knowledge that seems to be unknown or avoided by our leaders, media, celebrities, and conglomerates that run on greed. Yet, all the actions I have accomplished save money, energy, our environment, our health, and our children's future. Just in the area of heating my home and making hot water you can see below is one piece of proof showing my success. Success that is 48% BETTER than Efficient homes equivalent to mine in size and features:

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We must realize "Going True Green" is not accomplished by just purchasing a few LED light bulbs nor is this achieved by someone yelling we must all change yesterday because the world is doomed. That is someone just trying to get 15 minutes of fame based on speculations and predictions that may or may not occur. No one can say what will exactly happen and when. However, facts do show that we have serious issues and no company or person should RISK our future.

Saving a great deal of money, living healthier and all without sacrificing the life you know is accomplished by each one of us when we have all the data. For example: The previous owner of my house use over 1,000 gallons of oil a year and I reduced consumption to 250 gallons! When you have the trade secrets and privilege information, that makes the difference. Today, I no longer use oil and I am close to getting off the grid without sacrificing a single thing. Due to actions like this that are done by individuals around our country, EPA reports Greenhouse gases have decreased by 2.3% between 2014 and 2015. Also reported was a total of 11.5% since 2005. We the People are making a difference.

As a responsible individual we are the solution to a better tomorrow. By living a more "sustainable life" we will save Money, Health, Energy, and Earth without making any sacrifices! But we MUST work as a Team toward good Environmental Stewardship! I have no electric bill and what I have done is not rocket science. Facts, trade secrets and encouraging support, is what the world needs.The Blame game must end. We must stop looking for a solution from a politician, corporation, political party, organization or celebrity and make the difference ourselves!
How? By reading, and I will be honored if you start with my Going True Green blogs.
Use the SEARCH BOX at the top of this page to lookup any specific topic or Categories and Archives on the right side of this page. Thank you.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Unwrapping A Real Issue

12/28/2023

All the gifts have been opened, the wrapping paper recycled, and we are eliminating the plastic decorations outside that are worn down by nature's weathering.

Yet, non-biodegradable and unrecyclable plastic remains. Plastic that will continue to reduce in size, and enter our environment via our air, our water, and our soil. Thus enter into our body's organs.
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Additionally, these plastic particles end up in our oceans. Plastic pollution in our oceans has shown that this is a Real Issue manifesting damage to our Ocean's Prochlorococcus organisms. Prochlorococcus make up our invisible green forest in our oceans. These microscopic marine cyanobacteria are probably the most abundant organism on Earth. For millions of years they have made our oxygen. The Rain Forests has been labeled "the lungs of Earth" by those without all the facts. The truth really is that our oceans provide the support to our Prochlorococcus organisms that are really Earth's lungs. Ironically, our oceans that lack oxygen to support our living capabilities under water, actually provide us with the majority of our oxygen that we need to live on land.

We already know Prochlorococcus are being damaged by plastic pollution in our oceans, so perhaps a closer look is needed by all of us to see the small amounts of plastic around us. Plastic that will only become smaller and microscopic. Plastic such as:

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From colorful decorative plastic wraps on the ends of toothpicks to sparkling Glitter found on wrapping paper, cards, and decorations. Also glitter is sold for art and crafts by the thousands in a small plastic tube. Each and every plastic piece of glitter is notorious!

They get everywhere, and are not easy to clean up! Blow up the photo and take a closer look at what you may breathing, eating, or drinking!

This is a real issue without any predictions for a day of doom or a morning of sunshine. This is just science stating facts so we can make a difference. So we can be part of a team taking action like the way it use to be in the seventies and eighties of the last century. No panic, just action, no plots to get 15 minutes of fame or to make money. Just people, coming together to fix and end an issue about pollution. Just like that commercial I saw so many years ago when I was young... Click Here

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