The launching of the Institute for Eco-Sustainable Engineering is an epoch-making
event in the history of engineering and education in the entire world.
It represents a significant shift in awareness of what is possible to accomplish by engineers, scientists,
educators and researchers alike. The universe we all live in is a universe of consequences, everything we do,
each and every of our actions included.
It is still possible to transition to an eco-sustainable society with
a #universalGREENincome , living with a reduced human footprint, no fossil fuels
and with organic farming free of synthetic chemicals, gmos & poisons, on a
modified FDR eco-sustainable plan.
It is often said that the more we know, the more there is to know.
Not all knowledge is power, though.
This shift in awareness is required and necessary to make a fundamental transition to an eco-sustainable society,
as it has become clear that existing problems are impossible to solve utilizing the same frame of mind that created them.
Aiming to become a powerful world force for change, and to facilitate the transition to an eco-sustainable society
by establishing and nurturing working partnerships, collaborations and relationships with scientists, researchers,
educators, organizations, and entities public and private from all around the planet working towards
an eco-sustainable present, for human beings and the entire biosphere - air, water, soil, light and biodiversity.
Appropriate solutions are well known and we have all the technology we need to solve all the problems humanity still faces today this
day of age, well into the 21st century: food, water, shelter, health, sanitation,
education, desertification, pollution, global warming. These solutions, rainwater harvesting, heirloom organic farming,
terracing and reforestation, compost toilets and the closing of the bio-nutrient cycle, have been known and have
been effectively practiced by humanity and ancient cultures for many thousands of years all over the world,
in North, Central and South America, in Africa, in Mesopotamia, and in Asia.
There are absolutely no excuses not to embark on this journey, and all the reasons moral and ethical, and ultimately the
very permanence of the human species on the planet, to immediately do it.
Join us.
The time is now.
Climate Perspective
About 56 million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)
the Earth experienced an abrupt
global warming period with average temperatures rising by 5 to 9°C (9 to 16°F) degrees,
lasting for about 200,000 years, causing mass extinctions and
major fauna and flora migrations from the tropics
to more temperate northern regions, release of massive quantities of
frozen methane hydrides stored in the ocean
due to the top to bottom warming of the waters,
melting of the permafrost, and severe ocean acidification leading to
global mass extinctions of benthic foraminifera,
thin shelled plankton mostly thriving on ocean floors that release oxygen into the atmosphere and
in turn sequester CO2 dissolved from the atmosphere in the ocean water.
It took photosynthetic microbes in the oceans 30-40,000 years to sequester
enough CO2 out of the atmosphere and reverse the PETM warming. What is of great significance,
is that this PETM global warming was abrupt. In just about 13 years some 3,000 billion tons of
CO2 were released, about 6-7 times faster than what we release globally at current CO2 emissions rates,
leaving no time for land and ocean species to adapt.
In the oceans, the change was fatal due to the increased acidification due to the
sequestration of CO2 and formation of carbonic acid in the ocean water that dissolves the shells
of corals, small crustaceans, and plankton species.
Of great interest is that this warming and mass extinction period is comparable to what is
happening today caused by the out of control
anthropogenic emissions of CO2 from the combustion of dirty fossil fuels arising from human activity in
industry, farming, transportation, energy generation, housing and buildings.
During the PETM, about 3,000 billion tons of CO2 were released to the atmosphere in just 13 years
initially due to increased volcanism during the breakup of Pangea, thereafter caused by
positive feedbacks from frozen methane and permafrost thaw. Today, the current anthropogenic release of
CO2 is about 36 billion tons/yr and increasing, with about 2,000 billion tons of cumulative CO2 released
into the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial revolution that started around 1750.
At the present rate of extinction underway, the 6th mass extinction,
up to 140-170,000 species per year are going extinct,
or about 400 species gone forever every single day in forests,
rivers, lakes, oceans, land, birds, insects, plants and animals.
Some estimates are much higher putting that number at 1,000 species extinctions/day,
or about 400,000 species extinct/yr, year after year.
Since the arrival of the Europeans in modern times to Hawaii, a wondrous marvel of evolution and biodiversity,
, and in less than 500 years, from the about 50,000 species initially found on the islands, about 2,200 remain today,
about 4%, all threatned, the rest has forever become extinct.
Our intent is to work together in harmony with all forms of life,
and use what Mother Earth has shown and taught us,
to attempt to halt anthopogenic CO2 and greenhouse gases (GHG) and
greatly shorten the reversal period,
thus to minimize the challenges for our descendants,
and gain the respect from the current and next generations
for what we have done, instead of the opposite.
With this effort, the ISESM aims to create a world class organization
dedicated to the research, development and implementation of engineering and other solutions
required to build an eco-sustainable society.
We work together to build and showcase eco-sustainable, climate change resilient cropping systems,
aquaculture food production systems,
eco-sustainable technologies to sequester carbon from the atmosphere and
lock it in the soil while greatly improving soil fertility. We work to directly address the causes of, and find
permanent eco-sustainable solutions to eliminate the use of dirty CO2 emitting fossil fuels
to halt global warming and arrest climate change.
The ISESM aims to be a truly transformative driver for change
within the engineering community toward finding eco-sustainable solutions to the world's
problems while driving innovation and creating new business value, working with
multiple approaches that combine bottoms/up, top/down, employee owned co-op approaches
that seek to realize the benefits of both and create a new eco-sustainable economy.
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