Tuesday, March 29, 2016
The President's speech and Paris COP 21 have asked us to do more. Ocean Forester.org is producing an award winning effort before it's too late.
Looking for investors, allies, collaborators, and sites, this program has something to suggest that can clean up the air a new way. Here's their recent Award announcement.
Ocean Forests picked by Civil Engineers as Best New Concept
Pope Francis' encyclical to "This Changes Everything"....picture Jim Stewart as a scientist taking charge of the issues and presenting the Ocean Forest solution to the Sierra Club at the Reseda Neighborhood Council meeting room last week.
Imagine citizens listening to the Ocean Forester proposal for another corner we could and must turn as a solution in cooling our Climate Change. By creating a new cleaner energy source that will mitigate carbon, this proposed ocean forest initiative while creating new green options for our health, proposes to find the means and conditions that can clean up CO2 now.
"Big Picture Resilience via Ocean Forests" just won the American Society of Civil Engineers Grand Challenge award as Best New Concept in the OVERALL contest category by suggesting humanity build managed ocean seaweed ecosystems (Ocean Forests) in steps:
- Integrate coastal defense with food-water-energy producing ecosystems by 2030
- Recover 90% of "waste" resources by 2040
- Grow more food with less fresh water than 10 billion people need by 2050
- Replace 100% of global oil, coal, and gas demand by 2060
- Eliminate excess ocean acidity by 2100
- Reduce atmospheric CO2 concentration below 350 ppm by 2200
ASCE includes over 150,000 engineers from 170 countries. The winning team is a collaboration of the Sustainability Committee of the Los Angeles Section of ASCE and the Ocean Foresters. ?
Ocean Foresters are a team of dozens of scientists and engineers dedicated to turning sunlight into inexpensive carbon negative liquid fuels, by feeding seaweed into innovative hydrothermal processing units. The team has dozens of peer-reviewed papers published on various components of the process.
"The Ocean Forester team is pleased with the recognition by the broader engineering profession of the need to take a comprehensive, long range systems approach to solving global problems. We look forward to working with government, business, and non-profit agencies to grow ocean forests around the world. We see ocean forests providing hope for an environmentally-friendly sustainable approach to reversing the climate crisis," said professional engineer Mark Capron, lead author for the Sustainability Committee's entry.
"Scientist's December 2012 revised predictions for Climate Change tipping points for Arctic sea ice, permafrost melting methane, and methane hydrates are depressing. Seaweed forests offer hope for taming ocean acidification, denitrification, warming, and other crises associated with climate change. Consider how you can participate in its development. Suggestions include:
- Join Ocean Foresters' scientific and technical advisory board to ensure everything is done in in a safe and sustainable way.
- Join Ocean Foresters' social justice and governance advisory board to ensure everything is done in in a socially just and politically responsible way.
- Promote the establishment of Ocean Afforestation zones with locally higher pH to counter ocean acidification and increased sustainable harvests of crustaceans and fish.
- Suggest using Ocean Afforestation to clean up "dead zones" and move excess nutrients back to terrestrial agriculture.
- Find funding to refine the techniques for managing seaweed forests for maximum biodiversity.
If you are interested in participating in any way, please contact us. "
Sustainability Committee Chair: Jason Zhang, jzhang@dpw.lacounty.gov
Lead engineer for the Sustainability Committee's entry: Mark Capron, P.E.,
(805) 760-1967, markcapron@oceanforesters.org
www.ocean foresters.org
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