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Enviro and Energy Saving Christmas Check List

12/8/2025

A blessed and merry Christmas to all. Here is a Christmas Check List to save money, energy, and earth this and every Christmas !

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Holding More Heat in Clothes Dryers

9/26/2025

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Non-Insulated Dryer Door

So the "Catch" on my Clothes Dryer door broke... I decided to repair or replace the Catch myself.

First thing to do: Remove the door off of the clothes dryer.
Second thing to do: Remove screws holding the two halves of the door together and take the halves apart.
Third thing to do: Do not start swearing!

...because the door is NOT insulated to help hold more heat in the dryer to help clothes dry faster.

I saw that the Catch was not repairable. The half inch long metal, acting as a spring, broke in half between the two plastic clips. So how much can it be to order about fifty cents of metal and about dollar or two of plastic clips... The manufacturer did not have the part, major websites the size of rivers, did not have the part. Finally, a small parts company website had the exact make and model... for only twenty-nine dollars!

Insulation I Added Between Door Halves

While waiting for the part to come by snail mail to save about ten dollars in shipping, I purchased a small amount of insulation. After replacing the Catch, I installed the insulation between the two door halves. Something that should have been done by the manufacturer in the first place. Something that all clothes dryer manufactures should be doing! Put in some insulated foam between the door halves so we all can save money, energy, and time drying clothes.

Also, get rid of the clothes dryer models with plastic windows! Am I going to do make popcorn and pull up a chair so I can watch my clothes tumble around and around until they dry? What is the definition to insanity? Someone should add plastic windows on clothes dryers.

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

9/12/2025

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For decades I have been speaking about Hydrogen Fuel Cells making the world's energy on demand. Today, a new term has become popular: Green Hydrogen

WHAT IS GREEN HYDROGEN?

The answer is the same as what I wrote about over the years, now it is just being said like this:
Green Hydrogen will be the alternative to batteries. Created with an emission-free process, such as one or two solar panels for Free sun light, some Free rain water, and a system that takes the electric energy from the solar panels to use electrolysis that splits the hydrogen from the oxygen molecules in that rain water.

Hydrogen made on demand, is the best application where batteries are not suited to transport heavy loads. Also with Hydrogen we have fast refueling times, greater distance traveled, and zero emissions!

Green Hydrogen will decarbonize the power grid and these applications should start within twenty-five years as cost limitations are removed with more research in water electrolyzer technology. Research and Development, along with innovations, will be key to this time frame. Many component manufacturers recognize these key trends for their products that contribute to the green hydrogen industry. IDTechEx’s report, “Materials for Green Hydrogen Production 2026-2036: Technologies, Players, Forecasts”, covers materials and components for supply chains and key players making electrolyzer systems.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Survival: Chapter One

8/24/2025

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Do We Know the Rules of Three?

Knowing these rules are part of all survival skills for life. They are critical for when you are lost, especially if you are alone. Knowing these skills are the first few actions to take in an emergency situation, and in life...

The video below is part one of a six part series. As a Going True Green member you can access the remaining parts.

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What Food Are You Growing ?

6/25/2025

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I teach Survival Training, and the first item to know is the "Rules of Three" so you can set priorities.

What do we need in 3 minutes, where if we didn't have any, we would die? If we are not underwater, and we have plenty of oxygen, then the first rule is secured.
What do we need in 3 hours, where if we didn't have any, we would die? If we have a roof over our heads for shelter and we can stay warm to prevent hyperthermia, then the second rule is secured.
What do we need in 3 days, where if we didn't have any, we would die? If we have clean drinkable water, then the third rule is secured.

The next rule will ask the question, What do we need in 3 weeks, where if we didn't have any, we would die? That is why I am asking what food are you growing this summer?

Being able to grow our own food in a garden, rooftop, of windowsills, offers all of us a powerful gift where we can grow some food for ourselves!

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Cherry Tomatoes and Eggplant

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Fresh Picked Blueberries

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Crunchy Carrots just out of the Ground

Benefits and Reasons:
Save Money
No Pesticides
No Growth Hormones
No Chemicals or Fertilizers
No Genetically Modified Food
Cooking Fresh and Eating Healthier
Make Money Selling Surplus Crops
Self Satisfaction when Sharing with Others
Enjoying the Amazing Taste of Fresh Picked Food
Enjoying Time Together to Can or make Preserves
Abounding Compliments when Sharing with Others
Peace Within Ourselves when Giving to others at Church’s Food Kitchen
Less Trips to the Food Store, just Harvest Our Own Freshly Grown Food
Having Homemade Gifts for others at Christmas, such as Blueberry Preserves or Grape Jam

Even a business or corporations that have lawns or rooftop space, which cost them money to maintain, could be making money by having the space or land yield a crop such as organic corn. For most parts of America there are two crops of corn per year based on the weather. Every time I see a half acre or more of grass, and more grass, I see a waste compared to what God's Green Earth can yield for us in food. If everyone did what they could, we would have no need for Genetically Modified Food to feed the masses, because the masses will be feeding themselves. Thus we could delete hunger in our country, in our world.

The only other thing we all need to survive, is love and support. Everything else is a... Want.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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We Are All Drinking Micro-Plastic!

5/5/2025

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Not Just Water Bottles! Got Milk?

Years ago we all became concerned when the media finally wrote about BPAs in plastic. Action to remove the chemical from Baby Bottles took precedent, plastic used by adults had a much slower implementation. Next came coverage about how plastic bottles are not being recycled as successfully as we all believed.

Now today, the media has finally caught up with microscopic plastic particles only because of a study recently done by Rutgers University. The study was published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (PNAS).

Researchers used a new technique incorporating lasers that are able to detect plastic particles down to the size of 100 nanometers. The study analyzed the plastic water bottles and screw caps of three popular brands. The results found that bottled water "can" contain a much higher number of microscopic plastics than previously thought. An amount ranging from 110,000 to 370,000 particles per liter and 90% was nanoplastic particles.

What Does This Mean?
Each time you open and unscrew the plastic cap of a water bottle, nano pieces of plastic are breaking off and going into the water. As we drink the water, we are consuming these nanoplastics!

What Is The Concern?
Another study just published in NATURE found alarmingly high levels of microplastics in the brains of individuals who had died with dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers also found that brain tissue samples from 2024 had significantly higher concentrations of microplastics compared to samples from 2016. The amounts of micro plastic particles found in the brains of dementia patients were 10 times higher than healthy individuals.

A Plastic Hand Grenade?

Not Just Water Bottles!
Back in December on 2017, 8 years ago, I wrote a GTG blog about this concern. We have a full onslaught of these nanoplastic particles getting into our bodies from just about everything. Does any family member or friend drink milk? Do they unscrew that center plastic cap and then pull the pin? That Hand Grenade plastic pin?

How many nanoplastic particles are going into our milk?!

What was wrong with the old way we opened our milk cartons?
STOP using the center plastic cap with the hand grenade plug!
STOP buying the clear plastic milk containers! Plastic cap is still an issue and the clear container allows LIGHT to break-down the vitamin D in the Milk.

Peel Back and Pour !

Solution:
Peel back the corners of the cardboard carton and pour the way we always did years ago!

STOP using plastic pill containers. Get small glass jars with metal screw-on covers.
STOP using plastic cups, get steel containers or glass with protective silicone wrap on the bottle.
STOP using plastic lunch boxes, get cloth insulated bags or compartment packs.

I think the above examples set the idea of what we have to do for ourselves, loved ones, friends, and strangers, because we do not know all of the longterm issues with nano plastics.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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This Easter, read the facts and the truth behind Jesus' burial Shroud known as The Shroud of Turin !

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Malnutrition

4/24/2025

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Cornucopia

In the 1960s Batman and Robin were on American TVs solving crime, while real famous people were on TV Talk Shows predicting the world will not have enough food to feed the masses by the 1990s. A prediction that did not come true, thank God, because the earlier work of William Godwin and Marquis de Condorcet was correct, and Thomas Robert Malthus' theory, was incorrect.

However today, while less people die of starvation, our world has almost 9 million people die each year of malnutrition related diseases. Yet, we have enough food in this world to feed all 8.2 billion humans. The project called Zero Hunger by the year 2030 has some stating that the project will need additional time based on current statistics of progress. One estimate claims 100 more years are needed to accomplish that goal. I myself, do not have all the data to know what is true or not true with those estimates and/or predictions.

What has gone wrong, and why are we falling short of preventing anyone from going hungry. As I have written many times before in previous Going True Green blogs about the progress towards our answer for the world's energy needs, the answer to the question - What has gone wrong? - is the same: GREED.

Hydrogen fuel cells that work on demand to make world wide free energy from free rainwater, and free sunlight, will eliminate all monthly bills. Therefore, we do not see this solution, because there's no money to be made. All energy sources we have today are a transition to the hydrogen fuel cell answer. The same holds true for supplying food to those in need. The solution will be a transition until we're able to establish the neighborhoods in need to support themselves with growing crops and having a sufficient food supply.

So what's the solution for malnutrition in this world? We have enough food, we have the technology to produce more food, delicious food, or not so delicious. Healthy food or not so healthy food. Nevertheless, the solution has to be a transition toward the ability for many of us to be contributing in a small way or larger way to the food supply. As for myself, I do what I can with the little property I have. However, what I do, can also be done on the rooftop of an apartment building or in a vacant lot. Even growing something by windowsills will help.

As for the malnutrition problem our world suffers, we need to put greed aside and actions such as the following need to take place; but first let us look at what we have so that we may evaluate the complete picture for a solution.

Freeze dried food was a technology needed by NASA.
Restaurants around the world throw away leftover food that some calculate can feed everyone who is hungry, every day, several times over.
Companies today make computers and cell phones that can print out labels in multiple languages.
Areas of Asia and Africa, where malnutrition is at the worst levels, are at remote parts of the world.
We have entities, such as the United States post office, making deliveries with half filled trucks and planes to major distribution centers.
We have technology used by the military to AirDrop, just about anything, on a landing site the size of a helicopter’s landing pad.

Therefore, we need an organized initiative between all the countries of the world so that the following talents can be implemented:

NASA or a private corporation needs to develop a small, fast, and efficient piece of equipment that can be utilized by any restaurant to freeze dry unused food.

Well established restaurants will partake in a program that allows for weekly pick up of their freeze dried leftover food that is clearly labeled with specific data and in all languages spoken along all routes.

Cell phone and computer companies can produce a small and efficient system that can be maintained at any restaurant to print out labels with all significant data relating to the freeze dried food in multiple languages.

Here in the United States, the United States post office, or any private company will facilitate the weekly pick ups of the freeze dried food so that they can be processed through distribution centers for delivery to neighborhoods in need.

For remote area deliveries, distribution will go to appropriate military bases where they will contribute by combining training missions with freeze dried food airdrops for all remote areas.

The last action will combine students from around the world that are studying in the fields such as agriculture, land management, engineering, composting, water management, weather, energy, insect control, storage, environmental, distribution, etc. So that they can work as a team for neighborhoods ready to establish their own sustainable means to grow, produce, and supply food. This is most necessary because people do not want to eat freeze dried food forever.

"Golly-gee Batman, you think of everything!"
"Yes Robin, now the only thing left to do, is get greed out of the way."

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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This Easter, read the facts and the truth behind Jesus' burial Shroud known as The Shroud of Turin !

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EMFs

4/11/2025

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I have received many questions on EMFs (Electromagnetic Fields) and last week some new friends
(J and J) wanted to know some information on the topic. I realized placing some data up in a GTG blog would be helpful, so if you are also interested in data on EMFs, please see below:

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First, the basic characteristics of EMFs depend on the frequency. They can be electric, magnetic, electromagnetic fields, and radiation. However, EMPs are NOT the same as radiation. There is a relationship, but not the same. EMFs travel in the form of waves, and we characterize them based on their energy, frequency, and wavelength.

As far as products blocking EMFs, I would say the claims are probably exaggerated greatly. Even the Federal Trade Commission reports that there is no scientific proof that products reduce exposure to electromagnetic radiation. We do have items like solid lead to block radiation, but that is not EMFs.

What science does know for sure is that we should be at least 3 feet away from electronic equipment when in use. This is because after 3 feet, EMFs from small appliances drop virtually to zero. That means computers should be at arm-length away, plugged-in alarm clocks that are on night stands should be three feet or arm-length away from your head. Cell phones should be charging in the other room when you sleep. Do not keep them charging on your night stand or in your bedroom when sleeping. Use the speaker on your cell phone all the time, do not hold the phone to your ear for call, after call, after call. Now all the studies that I know of - state that harm is registered for young children and women who are pregnant. Do not have kids play outside that is near or under High Voltage Power lines. School yards next to these High Voltage Lines should be moved in order to be safe for the kids. Why risk something that studies are still researching because of identifiable concerns. Us adults seem to show a good tolerance against EMF, but children who are growing, and pregnant women, have a higher risk. Long term damage for all of us? - we do not know as of yet.

A very good friend, who is an artist, sent me the video above. Note how the EMF meter shows an increase as he moves the meter closer to the overhead light. The readout decreases to ZERO as he moves back down, more than 3 feet away. To see more of his paintings visit: Paintings by Ross Barbera

One interesting study was done with a four foot long fluorescent bulb directly under a High Voltage tower with these power lines. As night fell, a six foot ladder was climbed by a person with rubber gloves and shoes while holding a four foot fluorescent bulb up over his head. The fluorescent tube started to glow ever so slightly. The EMFs coming off the High Voltage Lines above excited the phosphorus inside the fluorescent tube to the point that it started to glow slightly against the dark sky.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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This Easter, read the facts and the truth behind Jesus' burial Shroud known as The Shroud of Turin !

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Olive Wood Kitchen Utensils

2/27/2025

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X Out Plastic, go with Olive Wood Kitchen Utensils

They are worth the investment for many reasons!

I now have all hand made olive wood kitchen utensils that are sustainably made, and their performance is excellent.

The main reason I spent the extra money for them is to get all plastic out of my kitchen. I do not want any more microscopic plastic particles getting into my body. When cooking, the heat will breakdown the plastic. We all seen these plastic utensils peel along the edges and/or melt. And the same goes for non-stick pans. I even switched to all glass containers with bamboo tops that host a rubber gasket, thus replacing all my plastic containers. The only thing still made with plastic is the coffee maker, and while hand-press coffee is amazing, that takes time.

The second reason is because olive wood is naturally bacteria resistant. As for care and maintenance, I put together the best way to care for your beautiful looking olive wood utensils:

1). Wash them with warm water and soap. For tough stains just use a mixture of lemon juice with some salt. Use a non-abrasive sponge to scrub away stain. Lemon and salt is also a natural neutralizer for any odors. Never soak your olive wood utensils or leave them in water. The wood is porous, and the olive wood will absorb the water; which will eventually cause damage such as cracking and warping.

2) Dry immediately with a soft clean cotton towel - Do not buy towels made with acrylic, which is plastic.

3) Never put them in the Dishwasher.

4) Store or keep in a dry environment, and away from moisture. Also stand them in an upright position to avoid warping. Keep them out of direct sunlight, and away from any strong heat source.

5) Oil the olive wood with olive oil at least three times a year or every few weeks if they are used to cook every day. Again, use a soft 100% cotton towel and let the oil be absorbed overnight, then wipe off any remaining olive oil from the wood the next morning.

This is a great way to live a healthier life !

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Traditional Olive Wood kitchen utensils are crafted by artisans and would look great gracing anyone's modern, country or rustic kitchen. Ethically produced and we only use wood from very old olive trees that have come to the end of their natural fruiting life. Additionally, they have already been replaced with younger, more productive trees.

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Stopping Old Man Winter's Wind - Naturally

12/28/2024

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Natural Wind Break on North Side of House

About twenty years ago, I first wrote about this topic, and I believe the time has come to repeat some of the energy saving facts:

Saving energy with Nature is easy by just using closely branched trees that grow in pyramidical or columnar form. They give height and body without excessive width. Planting would most likely be best on the north side of your house to block the cold winter winds. All in all, Evergreens would be best and you should contact a certified arborist to confirm what is best for your house.

Basically any building will benefit from the wind chill factor being reduced by a Windbreak. Well designed windbreaks reduce energy costs up to 40 percent. The type of structure your house is made of and the overall efficiency of your heating system are just a few factors that determine the total savings.

However, please realize that even if a savings of up to 40 percent is realized, that savings is NOT a 40 percent reduction in the total heating bill. The savings is 40 percent off the total amount of heat being lost by the house due to not having a Windbreak.

For example: If heating is costing 7% more a year to keep the house warm because there is no Windbreak, then a 40% savings of that 7% heat lost will be saved after a Windbreak is installed. Also we must allow for the time all the trees take to grow.

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