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A Clean Wood Stove On A Cold Winter's Night?

2/10/2025

The winter of 2024 - 2025 has had some very cold nights and days. Keeping warm in our homes can be expensive and create pollutants. However, there is always another way to do something, and since wood stoves remain popular as a heating appliance in the United States, Europe, Russia, and many other regions, we need some good humankind ingenuity.

For flexibility, as a primary or secondary home heater, how does this sound if the system can use free or low-cost fuel, have functionality during electric outages or when off-grid, and energy efficiency savings by heating just the core of the home? Well, that is the challenge of the project called: The 5th Wood Stove Design.

Brookhaven scientists and a team from Germany using a real-time particulate matter analyzer on a very clean wood stove design that employed gasification and combustion staging to achieve high efficiency and low emissions.

The Energy Information Agency estimates there are 12.5 million homes in the United States that use wood or pellets for space heating. In about 2.5 million homes, wood stoves serve as primary heaters, and in about 9 million, they serve as secondary heaters, according to the US Census. The 5th Wood Stove Design Challenge is funded by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy with support from the Osprey Foundation, and is managed by Brookhaven Lab, Berkeley Lab, and the Alliance for Green Heat, a Maryland based non-profit organization. End result, we have a new wood stove that is very clean, very efficient, and has very low emissions.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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We Should STOP Using Plastic Sparkles

12/9/2024

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Cards Covered with Plastic Sparkles

We have all seen those bright sparkles on Christmas cards, at birthday parties, on any type of greeting cards, inside envelopes, and used for surprise confetti. The issue is, these sparkles are no longer different bright color paper. They are small plastic pieces and they never go away. They are getting into our water, air, soil, food, and our bodies.

We need to seriously look into stopping the use of Plastic Sparkles for the holidays, and birthdays, and any celebration. There is always another way...

MAKE YOUR OWN GREETING CARDS:
Sending cards to family and friends with a few sharing words is a positive action when done a little at a time. Start early and never try to do this alone in one or two days. Do a little every other day or so, but start on December first every year, and take as long as two weeks to get the task done. Let us be creative this year by making our own cards or send a photograph card printed with Eco-friendly ink.

THE BOTTOM LINE:
- Try to be Greener by buying cards made from Tree FREE Resources, such as hemp.
- If we are making our own cards, use recycled paper or recycled card stock. Reuse old envelopes or again make our own with Tree FREE Resources. Please try to avoid using plastic or plastic sparkles.

I am very concern about all these little pieces of plastic getting into our air and water. They never go away, just keep breaking down to smaller and smaller pieces.

- Also remember having a custom look, always gives a warm and individual feel to our Christmas greetings.
- Let's use environment friendly inks when writing out our cards, printing them, or printing photos.

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
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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

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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! Meaning the area must be well monitored for Flash flooding with warning alarms and sirens that are triggered by rapid rises in any potential waterway that can flood the surrounding area. Escape routes must be well maintained and well labeled. Marked Trails to higher ground should be identified by all upon arrival. 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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Hydrogen Power, The Real Answer

6/24/2024

At Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, on June 11, 2024, scientists successfully demonstrated a new efficient catalyst for separating Hydrogen from oxygen (Water, AKA H2O, is made up of one hydrogen and two oxygen molecules). They call the process the Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

This new catalyst to conduct Water-Splitting is four times more efficient and should prove to be far less expensive. However, the chemistry to break water into hydrogen and oxygen is complex. Two separate, and simultaneous electrochemical reactions are require to be the catalysts for breaking bonds.

Hydrogen is the promising fuel for no greenhouse gases, and Free power for the world! There will be no greenhouse gases when the Hydrogen is separated from water with renewable energy, such as a few solar panels to power the system (let us call it a membrane system), and for safety we split water molecules on Demand. The Hydrogen runs the Hydrogen Fuel Cell that makes electricity. Byproduct is condensation.

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Schematic shows how a catalyst composed of a few layers of iridium oxide (IrOx) over a support made of titanium nitride (TiN) can efficiently produce oxygen (O2), hydrogen ions (H+), and electrons (e-) from water molecules (H2O) in an acidic electrolyte.

The World's Energy Freedom answer would work with a system that collects FREE rain water (a vehicle will have a water tank) and as needed, the membrane system, will separate the hydrogen molecules from the freely collected rain water (not from natural gas or gasoline). This would be done with FREE electric power created from the Sun with a few solar panels. The hydrogen molecules from the freely collected water (H2O) will run the fuel cell that makes FREE electricity to power the house, office and our car.

The problem is - No research money to help improve on a system NASA used on the Space Shuttles since 1981.
The problem is - Nobody can make money off of this!
The problem is - That there will be No More monthly bills.
AND
Then there will probably be no more WARS when everyone can make their own FREE energy.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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CAN’T TELL TRUTH FROM LIE

5/23/2024

“Look at yourself, swallowing whole whatever they’ve been feeding you.
Can’t tell truth from lie!"

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That is a line from the movie called, Dark Waters. A true story told in a movie that spans a time period of three decades. I recently saw the movie on Netflix, but the movie was made in 2019. Due to COVID 19, the movie failed to garnish much attention, and that is a shame. This “complete” story needs to be known by all, because while even I knew many intricate details of this story, I did not know the “complete” story. How could anyone know when the events of the story span over decades. Most pieces of this story in the media came and went, yes, some news broke hard hitting about Teflon pans, but none sustained interest over the decades. So, an average person could never put the whole puzzle together. And I strongly suspect that was part of the plan.

Therefore, this weekend… download, rent, or borrow, the movie Dark Waters, staring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway. Don’t make popcorn, this isn’t an enjoyable movie. This is true humankind corruption, and greed, at the worst. We are all paying the price, even today. When we take our eyes “off the ball” by watching those talking the loudest with paid media bullhorns, we fail to see the real lie being sold to us.

In Dark Waters, the events that occurred, and the 1 Billion dollars a year profit, were protected by the DOJ dropping chemical investigations that would have proved that the big corporation in question, knew of the dangers since the 1970s, but went ahead with sales anyway. In the end, only a 600 million dollar payout was made. All this happened under administrations that many believe are environmental advocates, but in truth, far from being heroes.

These sad truths happen every day, even Going True Green’s freelance Chemistry Scientist, had to deal with corruption at her first full time jobs. Twenty five years ago she worked for an Environmental Consulting Company that was hired by Big Oil. They had a contract to monitor ground water at gas stations to see if the gas tanks had leaks. By law she had to report her findings periodically to meet and comply with NJDEP. Big Oil told her to sit on the reports, no need to rush. If you miss a deadline, you will get a letter and you can delay even more. The DEP is not going to take us to court for reports, because the cost will be beyond their budget. Being of strong moral character, she went to her boss, who was a PE, and in turn he told her not to submit her reports. He also told her not to “Flag” any key chemical pollutant in her reports, because he saw this as the way to keep doing business with Big Oil. His justification was with this analogy:

If you are speeding on a highway and go by a police car, you don’t pull yourself over and tell the police that you were speeding.

His analogy is wrong! His company wasn’t in the driver’s seat, they were in the passenger seat to make sure the driver was complying with the law.

As for her first job that was in Georgia, she worked for an environmental consulting company. They were hired by a chemical company that was paying for the clean-up around one of their closed facilities that operated in the 1950s and 1960s. This was an EPA Superfund site. The EPA wanted the site to be tested for a few specific chemicals. She did the field sampling out in the salt march. Her labeled samples were sent out, with a list of what chemicals to test for as specified by the EPA.

The consulting firm she worked for, hired a lab as a subcontractor, to do the chemical analysis. When the lab did the testing, they added a test for a very toxic chemical in the Mercury family of chemicals. This was done because the scientists at the lab knew this toxic chemical was very likely there. And it was. The lab reported the results to her company and her boss told the lab to destroy the results, because the extra test they did was not required by the EPA. Now, we must also ask, why the EPA did not require the testing for a very likely toxin? The lab scientists knew there was a good chance of this toxin being in the samples based on the chemicals used at that old facility. Why didn’t the EPA scientist realize this, or did they?

I can add my own stories of corruption and greed from over the years ranging between politicians to companies cutting corners, but that is a story for another GTG blog. In the end, the guilty are all individuals, corrupted by power and money.

God help us all.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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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.

Available in Hardcover, paperback, and digital this weekend. 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.

Invasion Of Nanoplastics (New Research Results)

1/13/2024

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Nanoplastics or Microplastic particles are among us and have been for decades. I have posted several Going True Green blogs - www.goingtruegreen.com/apps/search?q=plastic - on the subject with actions we can all take over the years. Sadly, new research now shows that the invasion of microscopic plastic particles is a full scale personal assault on each one of us. First, let us review what are nanoplastics.

Plastic is made from oil, plastic does not decay or biodegrade like an apple core (which you can actual eat) or leaf. Plastic breaks apart into a smaller piece, and then another smaller piece, and smaller, and smaller. How small is small?

One strand of human hair is around 80 microns wide. A micron is a unit of length in the International System of Units, which is one millionth of a meter. Nano is equivalent to one thousandth of a micrometer, one millionth of a millimeter or one billionth of a meter.

Researchers from Rutgers and Columbia Universities provided results from tests done with lasers called Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) microscopy. Some 240,000 plastic particles were detected in a liter bottle of water. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

After I spoke with doctors in the medical field, I was told about the chemical makeup of different plastic and the known toxins within, that have shown to be related to cancer. Nanoplastic particles, when inside the human body, can be considered more dangerous than microplastics. According to Dr. Wei Min, a professor of chemistry at Columbia and co-author of the study said, “the smaller it goes, the easier for it to be misidentified as the natural component of the cell.”

With the detected plastic in a bottle of water, 90 percent was nanoplastic, and 10 percent was micro, we can in theory say that some of this plastic is coming from the manufacturing of the plastic bottle and also the plastic parts on water filters that are used. Reverse Osmosis systems also have plastic parts, even Water Distillers which I have recommended for over 30 years had plastic parts. The water distiller I used today has the plastic nozzle (the only plastic part in contact with the water I make) lined with glass. Remember from my previous Going True Green blogs – Only 3 things Do Not put carcinogens into our food and drink: Glass, Porcelain, and Waxpaper.

Now while I still recommend a Water Distiller and reusable protected glass or steel containers, some early testing shows less nanoplastic in tap water, than bottled. Obviously, many different pros and cons have to be evaluated.

The last important factor to acknowledge is that while the media screams about predictions on warming, the 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. Plastic is killing them and they are our main source of oxygen.

Everything is connected.

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
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International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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