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We excitedly received a few packaged products from Essential Living Foods, anxious to try them out on our American palates. These were powdered forms of what is referred to as the “Lost Crops of the Incas”–a purple corn extract, Aji Amarillo Powder, and Camu Camu. We especially enjoyed the spicy hot Aji Amarillo powder. With its lightly sour, warming taste, it has been fabulous on brown rice, and eggs. The Camu Camu is also slightly sour, but also slightly sweet, and seems to give bring out an entirely new taste dimension to whatever we put it on, from leafy greens to cantaloupe.

Reflecting on this, I became acutely aware of how limited my taste experience has been, and how certain tastes I grew up with represent the smallest fraction of the outrageously vast diversity I’ve missed out on in my life. I saw my diet as a puny product of modern American monoculture, where vast fields of a select micro-world of hybridized foods are mass produced by huge mega-corporate growers for all the wrong reasons: shelf life, color, consistency, and packagability. This is truly a sad state of affairs in a modern global world–corporate giants carving out their niches and then exploiting them to the max for maximum profitability. It made me wince.

I gained an entirely new level of respect for Christopher Daugherty, founder and purveyor of Essential Living Foods. Far beyond the idea of commandeering new food crops for marketing to a modern palate aching for more diversity, Daugherty has incorporated the concepts of organic farming, permaculture and conscious consumerism into his mission, not only to provide great new tastes and nutritional options, but to enhance the lives of thousands of indigenous native farmers, elevating their farming practices, and re-establishing a profitable agro-culture that recruits new members away from urban areas and back to the land. After all, it was the huge agricultural conglomerates who squeezed out small farmers in the first place, who were then forced to seek new careers in the city. This not only happened in America, but across the globe. Agronomy theories and practices taught in universities funded by agricultural corporations were turning out a new breed of farmer now armed with unnatural technologies within a paradigm of Nature as the Enemy. Yes, it’s not natural to plant 1,000 solid acres of corn. Nature tends to attack such a battle plan for profits.

The lost crops…
Ironically, Daugherty’s mentor was trained in those universities in the late 50’s and early 60’s along with several would be farmers from South America. As they headed back to their respective villages to apply their new found technological theories for profitable farming, Daugherty’s mentor decided to become an airline pilot. Yet, he stayed in touch with his fellow agronomists and invested in their operations. He further developed a passion for the work of Hugh Popenoe and the National Research Council, who published a book in 1989, Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes With Promise for Worldwide Cultivation. This passion and vision was passed on to his alumni, and to a young Daugherty, who became a certified organic farmer in Florida. “I met him, and we just stayed very close friends,” says Daugherty. “His family was into farming in South Florida and he used to teach me a lot about plant names and species, and plant culture–just the fundamentals about how important our ecosystems are; not getting too overwhelmed with saving the earth, but just doing what you can locally to provide a global response.”

Far from adhering to 60’s-style agronomy–which would tend to re-locate these Lost Crops to a California monoculture test farm for hybridization–Daugherty was offered the opportunity by his mentor to oversee the application of organic farming methods to these crops, and doing it in their indigenous setting. After all, that’s where the crops came from, so why not simply grow them there? Plus, his mentor’s Peruvian alumni had already provided a foothold for organic farming in Peru. “He offered me a deal a couple of years ago to sell the product for these individuals. It was the first year that they became certified organic. So I, luckily, sold everything there, and have created a very tightly-bound organization–responsibility and response–and trying to do a lot of problem solving.”

Social impact…
Inspired by the great potential for positive social impact on a near-third world area, Daugherty and his team plowed into the multitude of logistical problems. It became clear it was truly possible to not only bring these organic crops to market, but provide the indigenous people with a profitable new career opportunity. These people’s ancestors thrived on these crops hundreds and thousands of years ago without chemical technology–there was a connection with the land in these people that could only potentize the results. It was an opportunity to literally get back to their roots. “We deal with the impact we are having both on the economy and the social aspects, and the impact we’re having on society as we are growing these products, and what we can divert and intervene into our processes, so that we can really have a solid project,” Daugherty says.

“These foods are ones we are slowly working on to develop to see what ones have commercial value,” says Daugherty. “A lot of them are new flavors. For those that can’t be consumed directly, we look into the energetic qualities, also the nutritional value of them. We’re just trying to create a story and folklore around the traditional uses, and the Incan staple value–where in the map of the Incas did they actually consume this crop, and how much of it they were growing, and why they grew it, and if there were any fasting or dieting regimes on it.”

Daugherty stressed the importance of taking time to sustainably bring these crops to a worldwide market. “We’re just being very careful how we open the door and let people know about them, because it just seems to create havoc every time we bring a new product out. Everybody’s looking for it trying to get it. But what’s happening is that they are also de-valuing the quality by over-producing, and people trying to compete with a lesser value product. All in all, we’re just taking it one step at a time until we feel we’ve succeeded with each product, and then move on to the next.”

Daugherty’s mentor was enchanted with the Peruvian culture. “He had a true passion for all the Quechua products and Quechua crops, and Aymara. Those are the two main native languages where we’re working. Most of the people on our farms speak those languages. He became clearly passionate about what it was that they had to offer and their work ethic–the true heart of these people.”

Making it all work…
Although Daugherty has run up against a maana-maana initial response with the locals, once they commit to working, they throw themselves into it. “We have a little more structured system where our head people in the business are all German-based and have agronomy backgrounds. So we have a very intent pushing system. It’s very clear we’re focused on the heart with a very clear business strategy,” says Daugherty.

To keep things moving at a viable pace, Daugherty has implemented a type of work ethic code, making very clear the criteria to be met. “We allow a three-strikes-you’re-out rule in everything we do and everyone we work with,” says Daugherty. “We’re very helpful, even if you’re out. At the same time, the people are very different in the fact that every single thing they do, their heart is so poured into it. I mean, the energetic quality of these crops and food are off the Richter Scale with most people who are testing them and eating them.”

Permaculturing…
Part of the criteria for a growing operation includes strict permaculture procedures to ensure that once an operation has been brought into the production line, it stays there permanently. “We’re setting up a four-stage system where every single associate that we’re working with in our projects are only allowed to sell to us if they are permaculturally-based,” says Daugherty. “So they’re not just mono-cropping. Where we’re working at our projects, people are having perennial and annual crops that are being harvested at various times of the year, allowing for all of their land to be covered in something green and growing, to be watered and nurtured, and to provide a healthy ecosystem for the preservation of the land and for the future of any growth there.”

What does the permaculture look like? “There’s a canopy, and then there’s something growing under that canopy–usually a smaller tree–which is sometimes taken out after the larger canopy trees are in full bloom and growing to their full capacity. Then we have crops growing down at the bottom–various medicinal herbs and fruit and vine crops. We are intervening slowly chicken tractors and goose tractors; cows and goats, and that type of animal through all of these crops, so they’re doing all our cleaning, and naturally fertilizing as they go along.”

Challenges and joys…
Daugherty gets a lot of interest from neighboring farmers who see how productive these methods are, and want to join up, which presents its own set of challenges. “The main challenge is just the lack of education,” says Daugherty. “Luckily, the follow through on the buying end hasn’t been so hard. Another challenge is the testing to prove that our product is better on an alchemical structure in the States, which we have been overcoming by biting the bullet and just paying for the testing. But the main challenge is that the economy is very stressed in Peru, and the health is very stressed. Most of the people, although they are full of heart energy–a very amazing people–they live in an environment where there are no catalytic converters, purified water, air quality monitoring, those types of things.”

Within the challenges lie the joys, and the true reward, not only personally, but socially. “One of our joys is to empower these people to work through a system, and they come out on the other side feeling empowered–that’s whether we’re here or not. They now have a better quality product that has been brought to market that has fair market value placed on it. It has all the spec sheets, analysis, and clear projections. So they feel they have a future involved in what they’re doing,” says Daugherty.

Local promotion…
To spread the gospel of sustainable agriculture to the cities, Daugherty’s team presents periodic conferences, through three certifying agencies and through two educational organizations where Daugherty’s partners are on the board. “We have an ‘All-Organic Day,’” enthuses Daugherty. “We get organic catered food and organic drinks to a church or whatever facility. We usually collect 50-100 people at a time–and about 20% out of that stay online and start creating the info loop. We definitely let the people realize we’re not from the States to be some big overbearing company, we’re being a conduit. Once we know that your criteria is fulfilled, and we know that you are really in synch, then we are your financier. We cash crop your product, and help you in all your phases, not just relying on your end sales. We buy your boxes, your bags, we finance the harvesting, we finance the processing. We finance it pre-shipment, so it’s a different type of buying than most American companies who just buy based on what they receive.”

Daugherty has run into zero resistance from other commercial farmers in Peru. “They think we’re crazy,” he says matter-of-factly. “We really follow through and the money is there when we say, and the boxes are there. We keep following through and pushing them for more information, which they like, and they’re very receptive. The skepticism tends to fade as we intervene more and follow through.” The word gets around the various farms and villages: “How much did you get for your corn?” “Oh, I cut mine down–I couldn’t get anything.” “Well, we just got 38 cents a kilo.”

Future expansion…
“There are easily over a thousand new items we will have over the next three years–new things that have never been heard of before,” claims Daugherty.

Currently Essential Living Foods is co-packing for five Whole Foods Stores regions, through a New Jersey co-packer warehouse. “He’s been doing that since we started–one of my first accounts,” says Daugherty. ELF products can be found in such brands as Soy-Delicious Ice Cream With Pecans, Campbell’s soup is buying ELF’s hot peppers for their Spicy V8 Juice, and Whole Foods Blue Corn Chips participates. Daugherty keeps on networking, “There are a couple of larger companies we are working with, so slowly, little by little.”

What can interested conscious consumers do to support ELF’s efforts beyond buying organic products? “We’re setting up a tiered system of buy-packages for groups that you can invest in. We’re also going to be accepting donations for what we are working on. Plus, people trying out these new products, sharing with us their true heart-found responses–not just ‘yes, that’s interesting, that’s energetic’–but more what it can be used for, helping us to figure out ways to get it into the mass market’s eye.”

To augment ELF’s regional outreach, Daugherty is supplying the Casa De Milagros Orphanage in Peru with organic foods. The orphanage is partly supported by actor Woody Harrelson, and rock band, The Black Crowes. Subtle Energy Solutions and Transformation Enzymes are also providing therapeutic products for these children.

“ELF is one aspect of our company,” says Daugherty. “We’re also creating a line of medicinals called Indigenous Medicinals. You could call it ‘Phyto-therapy from the rainforest.’ All grown sustainably.”

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About the Author

Boyd is the webmaster of www.subtleenergysolutions.com and the newsletter writer for that site. He enjoys a wide range of experience both in the ways of the internet, alternative medicine, environmental issues, and in freelance writing. An active, professional drummer, Boyd performs in the Portland area with several area blues and R&B bands.

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Position doors and windows opposite each other to allow for a cooling breeze to flow through the house when the air cool down in the evening of a hot summers day.

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Windows on the south side of the house should be bigger to allow more sun to penetrate the house during the day and windows on the north side smaller to prevent heat lost at night.

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Make sure external shading structures are wide enough to block out the sun in summer, whiles still allowing the low winter sun to enter.

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Peak Oil and Climate Change deal are two historic events for
humans and life on earth. The first threatens modern industrial
ways of living and the latter threatens the climatic systems
that are an integral part of our world and the way we live and
survive.

A quick recap on both. Peak Oil is the point of historic maximum
global oil flow, Climate Change is the alteration of established
climate systems due to (in this case, anthropogenic) global
warming. The onset of both will affect food & water supplies,
mortality rates, conflict, migration and much more. The evidence
that climate change is underway and almost past the point of no
return is very strong and Peak Oil day by day gathers more
credence as many studies point to an imminent peak.

How do these two events affect each other though?

The decline of global oil supply and the increasing cost of
everything as a consequence means we will see our ability to
deal with the consequences of Climate Change reduced.

Let us take a look at Britain. The decline of oil and gas will
of its own accord make it harder to keep Britain warm but if the
Gulf Stream does switch off as a result of Global Warming, the
gap between what is needed and what will be available will get
wider. The change to a colder climate would have a negative
affect on crop growing, at a time when declining oil and gas
supplies make the agriculture business more expensive. Warming
sea temperatures are pushing fish stocks further afield, out of
traditional (and already over-fished) fishing waters. Fishermen,
so dependent on oil for their boats, will have to pay more for
their fuel to go after these already dwindling and increasingly
distant fish stocks. The insurance industry is already facing
increasing pressures from Climate Change, but when the economy
nose-dives past the oil peak, this double whammy could knock out
the insurance industry. Will those in increasingly flood prone
areas be able to pay the insurance costs during the recessions
brought on by the decline of oil supplies?

The European Environment Agency recently pointed to how Germany
is now at risk from more extreme weather, such as heavy rain -
which raises the risk of flooding, especially the densely
populated plains of central Europe. Cleaning up and repairing
that damage costs money and requires energy. The economic
climate, post peak, is going to be less able to deal with it. At
the other extreme, Italy’s coming crisis is drought, and there
is a need there to improve irrigation to improve agriculture.
Once again, money and energy are needed, and both will be harder
to come by.

Further afield we are seeing glaciers melting and other regions
becoming more arid and water flows changing. The ability to
process and transport water to these regions will become more
expensive, if it is at all possible, since drinking water is
already tight in many areas. For example, desalination plants
are an energy-intensive way of getting drinking water from sea
water. Another option is to build pipelines to transport the
water, but this is an expensive and complicated option. What we
are likely to see, according to Tearfund, a relief and
development agency, is an increase in water refugees.

As river and rain patterns change abruptly, the agriculture that
has been grown for those climates will have to change, but the
patterns may alter so much that the ability to grow food is
severely impaired, and the need for oil and gas for fertiliser
and food transportation will go up. This will lead to increases
in, for example, famine and drought. With the world economy
going into a long-term downturn as a result of Peak Oil, and the
cost of everything going up, the willingness and ability from
the wealthier (but increasingly less wealthy) world to deal with
the problems brought on by Climate Change will decline.

The list goes on. Forest fires will increase, but the ability to
fight them will decrease. Disease will spread but the cost and
transportation of medicines will increase as a result of the
great oil decline, while the ability to pay for them by those in
need will decrease. As the world economy goes into recession as
a result of oil decline, the ability and willingness of the rich
to give to the poor in regions directly affected by Climate
Change will wane. Cheap oil has enabled us to tackle many of the
world’s problems - to varying degrees - when we have been
willing, but Peak Oil marks the beginning of a very big change
as far as that goes.

Worryingly, the decline of oil may simply exacerbate Climate
Change if we don’t recognise what will happen and we don’t see
the whole picture. In our attempt to keep business as usual
while trying to reduce Climate Change, we are seeing more of the
rainforests being destroyed to grow soya beans to satisfy an
enlarged appetite for oil. Nobody needs to be told how important
the rainforests are to the world. As for renewables, these are
built from materials that need oil. Once again we see that the
decline of oil means an increase in costs at a time when the
ability to pay for it will be much lower than now. Developing
alternatives will become more costly the cost of everything will
increase - this is because oil is behind everything we do. And
of course there is the likelihood of turning to dirtier
hydrocarbons such as coal, when we could investing in things
like microgeneration.

A recent article on the website Gristmill.org entitled ‘Peak Oil
: Not an environmental silver bullet’ argued that
environmentalists hoping that awareness of peak oil will
increase support of renewable, decentralised energy is naïve
when the likely situation is that there will be a stronger turn
to environmentally damaging, dirtier fossil fuels. Does that
mean that Climate Change activists should shun Peak Oil?
Absolutely not. Peak Oil and Climate Change have to be
understood as an overall package, not separately, and we should
all be looking at this, shouting clearly that “If we’re not
careful, we might just end up where we’re heading!”

The main thing about Peak Oil - and this could be what everyone
needs to grasp hold of - is that it is symbolic of much more
than just oil supplies. Because oil is so important to
everything that modern industrial society is based upon,
including the assumptions of continuous growth, we can see that
the decline of oil will pose serious questions about how we live
and the systems, structures and culture we have developed. Peak
Oil is therefore a symbol of the high-watermark of the
hydrocarbon human and everything associated with it. Care for
our environment and our climate should be a big part of the
answer because that is what we will have left when the
hydrocarbons are gone, and we must place proper value on that.
The confluence of Peak Oil and Climate Change means that it is
now time to ask ourselves, as a species, the biggest questions
we can.

So let’s ask those questions now. What do we want to achieve
with our remaining oil (and gas) resources? What do we want our
legacy to be? What are we aiming towards as a species and does
that meet what we want to achieve as individuals? How do we want
to achieve this? Do we want to make the transition as easy as
possible? Do we eschew personal responsibility and have blind
faith that ‘the markets’ or ‘technology’ will solve everything,
thus putting off doing anything?

We can clearly see that things are going to change, but are we
going to be led by events or do we lead them? Do we create a way
of living that brings us more in balance with the environment
and dramatically reduces greenhouse gases through a combination
of efficiency and absolute reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions? Or is the current way of doing things so important to
try to cling on to (even though it is so ultimately futile that
we’ll destroy so much in the process) way beyond the point of no
return?

It simply does not make sense to expand the use of energy
resources that will increase Climate Change if our ability to
deal with those magnified consequences will be even more
depleted further down the road. This is what has to be made
absolutely clear. The great decline of global oil production is
bad enough without Climate Change and vice versa - but do we
want to make things worse for ourselves and those who follow? Is
that to be our legacy? What kind of fool would cover an infected
wound with a poisoned bandage?

Peak Oil and Climate Change are a bigger threat together than
either are alone. Our biggest hope is to similarly converge our
understanding of them, and how to deal with the problems they
present. Peak Oil and Climate Change must be fused as issues -
an approach is needed to deal with them as a package. If we are
looking for answers, the environmental movement has pushed
suitable ones for a long time. Peak Oil presents a tremendous
chance to push those solutions ahead, failure to incorporate a
full understanding of Peak Oil into the solutions argument for
Climate Change would be an abject failure.

The bottom line is that business can live with Climate Change to
an extent but it is the threat of declining oil supplies that
really strikes fear into politicians, economists, and many other
people who prefer to ignore Climate Change as a problem, because
it will hit them financially, and soon. The Climate Change
movement can sell the green solutions to the challenge of oil
decline. The Climate Change movement has been saying for a long
time that we should change, Peak Oil means categorically we have
to change. Fuse them together and hopefully we’ll get more
momentum moving us in the right direction.

Written by: James Howard of PowerSwitch.Org.Uk - Raising
awareness of Peak Oil in the UK.

Sources:

www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825265.400
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#Spread_of_disease
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination
gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/11/28/125110/28
www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1654803,00.html
www.globalpublicmedia.com/news/539
www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0124-11.htm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1234244.stm

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Probably not on its own, but its an excellent example of how
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demand to bring more environmentally friendly products into the
marketplace.

Bamboo flooring is a rising trend in home flooring and a great
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and contraction problems associated with temperature and
humidity changes.

The bamboo grass is one of the fasted growing plants on the
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25 times the bio mass of a comparable stand of trees. Bamboo is
harvested every 5 years, and starts to re-grow immediately with
new shoots when harvested. Bamboo is also strong and has a
tensile strength exceeding mild steel. It can withstand up to
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Bamboo flooring is also become a very trendy interior design
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that contains no formaldehydes in its binding compounds. Many
offshore brands use cheaper binding agents that may contain
formaldehydes, and this can cause indoor air pollution problems
down the road as all chemical compounds will slowly release
their toxins into the air.

So why look to bamboo to save the environment? Bamboo is an
excellent replacement product for much of the hardwood species
that are being harvested in our global equatorial rainforests.
Once harvested, these hardwood species often never grow back due
to the thin layers of soil and lack of sunlight under the jungle
canopies, and if they do grow back it can take up to 200 years!
Our global rainforests are the lungs of our planet and provide a
significant contribution to our global oxygen production, second
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TSUNAMI the next big wave: the Grandaddy of them all

TSUNAMI the next big wave: the Grandaddy of them all

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A few days ago on Melbourne’s 60 Minutes, renowned scientist Dr Kerry Sieh predicted that an earthquake and the ensuing next big wave or giant Tsunami will definitely happen, and it will be the Grandaddy of them all

Indonesia gets the full force this time around …

When?… whether it be in a few months, or in a decade is what he cannot accurately predict at this present moment.

Dr Sieh, a Geology professor at the California Institute of Technology, knows Indonesia’s earthquake zone like the back of his hand …

..and he did in fact predict the first earthquake that hit parts of Indonesia on Boxing Day. Now he predicts another Tsunami will hit, and this will be the grandaddy of them all!

From Melbourne MSN Channel 9’s Sixty Minutes Richard Carleton explains why the earthquakes and ensuing Tsunami’s occur:

RICHARD CARLETON: Dr Sieh’s focus is on the faultline, 5000km long, where moving plates of the earth’s crust grind against each other. The plate under the Indian Ocean slides beneath Indonesia, much like the disappearing stairs on an escalator. But some sections get stuck and then later snap upwards, releasing gargantuan force.

DR KERRY SIEH: The plates get hung up and they can’t slip past each other, so the upper plate gets dragged down as this plate sinks and with it, the islands get dragged down, slowly but surely, and when the earthquake happens, they pop back up and out.

RICHARD CARLETON: And that’s what happened last Boxing Day. The quake jolted the mainland so violently that people were thrown to the ground.

What a pointless waste of life! … Dr Sieh warned the governments concerned ahead of time .. he personally went down and alerted inhabitants of the affected villages in Indonesia to protect themselves against the Tsunami he just knew would happen

… but nobody paid any attention to him … now when he walks into these same villages, he is welcomed and treated as a hero !

From his 14 satellite research station, high in the mountain tops of the humid Indonesian jungle, Dr Sieh now predicts the next Tsunami will hit:

.. and the precise location … right opposite the city of Padang in Indonesia … inhabitants: 1 million people!

Repeat: All he cannot pinpoint is when … this disaster could be in months, the next decade or in twenty years!

The city of Padang is base for Australian surfers who go there to surf the waves of the Menwawais … where some of the best surfing breaks in the world may be found .. as an Australian citizen this alarms me greatly.

Geographically, the city of Padang would have difficulty dealing with a high tide, the devastation caused by the grandaddy of Tsunamis is incomprehensible.

Imagine a mere 15 minute warning before the earthquake ..

… and then the waters of the giant Tsunami gushing down the streets of Padang, just like it did in Banda Acheh washing everything away in its stride ..

… a moving torrent of cars, oil, broken trees and precious human life!

My call to all my fellow Marketers, the Search Engine Optimization community, Retail colleagues and anyone who reads this post: do everything in your power to reach your readers in Indonesia, particularly the city of Padang .. they need to take heed and make adequate provision to stop the pointless human slaughter this time around.

Whether this be in the form of lobbying your local Government bodies, or through local press release, we have to help this time before the devastation of this giant wave, the grandaddy of Tsunami’s .. takes away more precious human life ..

.. but above all do this in a responsible manner .. causing wide spread panic amongst unworldly village inhabitants or your worldwide audience will not help.

Melbourne’s Channel 9 has the whole story including a video of the interview available at their site . The video version is half-way down the page. Due to the ever changing nature of News, I cannot guarantee how long this link will be up.

Whilst this news is hardly topical for an internet marketing and search engine optimization Blog, as a parent the irreversible damage to our environment has me greatly concerned … please do whatever you can to stop this alarming trend.

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Roseanne van Langenberg is a Marketing Consultant and Publisher based in Melbourne, Australia. Her researched findings on legitimate back door search engine optimization and marketing techniques are published at http://marketingdefined.com/blog/

The spring of the year is a favorite season for many people, and
it is certainly easy to understand why this is so. The spring is
when the earth comes back to life after a long cold winter, and
it is in the spring when the first flowers begin to bloom and
the green world begins to return after its winter slumber.

The power of spring and its regenerative effects are evidenced
by the fact that every major religion includes a major holiday
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The spring is an important season for many hobbies, including of
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spring means that those favorite trails are no longer impassable
due to snow, and for the horseback rider spring means being able
to take a ride without first bundling up. And of course spring
means the opening of baseball season, a joy for spectators and
players alike.

The price of a barrel of oil has never been higher ($62.00+ in summer 2005 even before the chaos caused by Katrina). Some say this is a temporary spike, but more and more analysts are agreeing that this kind of pricing is here to stay. World consumption is at an all time high and given the new thirst for oil in China and India it is unlikely to diminish. According to International Energy Outlook, global demand is expected to continue to increase by as much as 59% in the next fifteen years.

Already, consumer energy bills have been increasing on average 6.5% per year for the last thirty years in the United States. Given the dramatic rise in the cost of producing energy using traditional non-renewable resources, this rate is bound to be overtaken by unheard of price increases in the very near future. And for consumers who are becoming more and more environmentally conscious, the thought of the millions and millions of tons of CO2 and other bi products being released into the atmosphere annually through the use of fossil fuels in creating energy is very alarming.

It is a no brainer that our reliance on oil to create energy leaves us very vulnerable. There are renewable technologies that produce energy, but the problem has been one of cost effectiveness. It has always been cheaper to supply energy using fossil fuels, and consequently, renewable sources such as solar or wind power have not taken off. But the situation now appears to be changing. More and more, our consumption of energy is outstripping supply. The grid can barely keep up with demand and rolling blackouts are no longer just a concept. No wonder governments are looking for alternatives. And no wonder everyone is talking solar once again.

In 1985 annual worldwide solar power system installation accounted for 21 megawatts of power. By 2004, this had multiplied to an incredible 927 megawatts in new installation power production alone. The demand for solar produced energy over the last several years has increased annually about 25%, although in 2004 sales were up a whopping 67% from the previous year.

There are several reasons for this increase in popularity for all things solar powered. Beyond the obvious environmental considerations and the privilege of not having to rely on power from a grid that is aging and stretched to capacity, solar is getting cost effective. While traditional energy production gets more expensive, technological advances are making solar power cheaper.

In 1980 the cost of harvesting energy from the sun stood at about $100 per watt. Literally a hundred times more expensive than the going rate of electricity, these systems were not economically viable. By 1999 however, technology had reduced this to about $4 per watt and costs have continued to decline by about 5% per year since. The Return on Investment is becoming very attractive for many commercial organizations and consumers.

Efficiencies have been realized in several technologies. The inverters that transform the collected DC energy into usable AC energy used to deliver only about 65% efficiency. 35% of the collected energy was lost in the transformation process. Today’s transformers are so efficient they deliver up to 96% of collected energy into usable AC current.

Photovoltaic technology has also made solar collection far more efficient. Twenty years ago, only 5% of the sun’s energy hitting a solar charging panel was harvested. This figure is now in excess of 15% and will continue to climb as more efficient compounds are designed and introduced in the manufacture of these photovoltaic panels.

All levels of government are increasingly looking at solar to provide stable, cost effective and environmentally friendly power. 35 states now have some kind of rebate program for homeowners that install solar power systems. And this is not just the southern “sunny states”. While California is the clear leader in promoting solar powered energy solutions (a program introduced in 2003 is promoting the introduction of solar powered energy systems into a million homes over the next several years) New Jersey and New York are next in line for solar investment.

At the municipal level, many jurisdictions have introduced solar solutions for traffic and streetlights. 50% of the energy used to run the City of Sacremento’s water purification plant is solar. NASA uses solar powered energy systems in many of its buildings. And governments are not using solar just because it is good for the environment and sets an example for commercial entities and consumers (although these benefits cannot be lost on them!). They’ve concluded that opting for solar systems will save them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

With so many rebate programs today homeowners are coming to the same conclusions. Once the initial return on investment is recouped (as early as 4 to 6 years with the rebate programs in California for example), solar users don’t have any additional energy bills, almost no maintenance to worry about and are not slave to an electrical grid that is becoming more and more fragile as demand outstrips supply. No wonder solar power is getting attention!

Solar power is still more expensive than traditional energy production methods, but the gap is narrowing every year. Solar power applications are also multiplying at an amazing rate. House heating, solar pool lighting and heating, hot water tank heating, calculators, flashlights, solar garden lighting and on and on. Solar is clean, it’s efficient and it’s here to stay.

About the Author

Kavar Peter is a successful freelance writer with a strong interest in renewable energy issues. He has a passion for solar powered products a href> and writes regularly for http://www.solarlightcenter.com