Visions

The world synches in thinks. Yes, the function is clear and everything must fall into line, and work like everything else. Nothing is allowed if it does not work for money. Even charity is a money function. Jesus would be looked upon as an illogic in todays traffic. The public good is second to making money because money, and NOT benefits to society, is a motivator, and because the realm is money. Benefits may play in a political sense, but the law governing it is money.

Innovation and change are allowed if they mean money to someone, mostly to corporations, which is simply the legal function of doing/making for money. After that, there is the insurance concerns, the inevitable loss is protected, and the service then falls into the function of money.

My idea is to build a huge vertical farm over Alcatraz (an island in San Francisco Bay) is based on a Vertical Farm proposal by a visionary professor at Columbia University. Also, in my passion for real estate, mI have a predilection for poisoned property, something seen as having no value (STM, standard mode of thinking) can be recreated. Although Alctraz is under the protection of National Park System, and many will be offended at rhe loss of a prison and fort, I would quickly point-out that The Golden Gate Bridge was built over an historic fort, and that progress must be debated on the highest level for projecting ourselves out of an historical paradigm in the exigencies of the future.

My process is creativity. (Creativity ALWAYS bumps up against the normal view, what it is that most people think and established as a way. The fundamental process of society is to institutionalize, in order for security to be that things don't change. Hence, growth is governed by restraint. See POST after....)

Systems can be constructed to "manufacture" food with little harm to the environment, as contrasted to the decimation of landscape, waters and aquifers, poisoning of fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides, brought-on by flat farming. The current practice has been functioning for thousands of years, and now presses against natural limitations, there is no more land to destroy for crops that may or may not come in.

The fact that the need and the exploitation of land to fill that need is so predominate, and based upon the free access, or low cost, use of land, that it forms an apparent truth, -one that is essentially unquestioned by society. Does over-grazing serve the public, or the farmers, and why does the public suffer the consequences, i.e., bad weather, as if it comes on high, as from God, or another sorce looking down upon mankind.

Rain water comes from the body(earth), not the sky.

Furthermore, there is indication that de-forestation, over grazing, huge land tracts removed from natural vegetation will affect the rainfall, which relies on the circular passage of water through vegetation to the sky, bringing rain, fulfilling the aquifer. If this is not true, then why do crops frequently fail? The natural balance is upset, on a massive scale.

The Public Good in this case is second to the farming concerns, but more so, second to the rigidity of farming practice, as something that cannot be changed except by further ruination of earth and water by overwhelming cataclysm. The Public is given the good of food, hence, all goes for food, and farming. Lost is the symbiosis of man and earth, seen in simpler times as feeding the mouths, now seen as, market grabbing, or commodity manipulation. The elements, -wind, sun, rainwater, support as much as ravage farming. The advantages of hot house farming, enclosed from the elements, far outweigh (in yield versus ruination) the continued exploitation of the Public's good.

America has been a force in the green revolution, resulting in an amazing surge in farming output in the last century to feed the world. Now, by extending our knowledge and power to change how we grow essential foodstuff throughout the world, which now feeds itself by the established practice, America can create new effective ways to grow food, -and, reverse the balance of destroying natural landscape. If rain forest decimation of Brazil is any indication, the world is out of control and will suffer changing weather patterns as a result. Rain is essential to flat field farming, change the body of earth, you change the weather.

My proposal is a creative aspiration. For California to build a model Vertical Farm hemisphere in San Francisco Bay would produce food, using sun and rain and sea breezes, and draw water from drainage from the land nearby, but more than that, it would be an inspirational monument to all who see it. Mankind needs to feed itself, yet flat farming has reached a destructive level. We cannot afford to accommodate ruination out of fear. We need be creative with outr resources.

The Growth of Global Farming would glow in the night, an icon of productivity under the growth design of man's mind. It would be a presence in the day, a radiant symbol of the Future, a sun to human efforts. The yield would be a beginning, of this experiment, and of thousands yet to be built in every city in the world. In the midst of the city, San Francisco, California, in the greatest of all farm states, it will be the lamp of the future, as once held by the Statue of Liberty, and shine upon all the world. The intent of America is now to be committed to show the way for all people to feed themselves.

Seeing the Future

At all times, society runs according to the institution at hand, and in the so-called free press state of democracy, the structure is constantly being undermined to proof the validity. Natural forces play more powerfully than natural disasters, meaning of course, the political currents preponderate even when they steer the boat over the falls. The current paradigm has been in effect for centuries, feeding the people, or flat farming the world into extinction. Now we have a situation that requires surgery, for all health can degenerate into the hands of the cut-throat, where the miracle of life is taken over by the organism in healing the mind. The times need a visionary, and one is at hand. Dickson Despommier

My travels display how my mind works in turning over variables looking for creative answers, so given the hard evidence of the essays in Vertical Farm dot com, I wonder to what degree is the truth. How could so many people be wrong at one time? Does the world really believe that money and wealth are the central protected rights of the few, when so many people are at the edge of night?

I live in Walla Walla, Washington, where floods dumped alluvial soil as deep as six feet in an area one hundred miles square. Treeless, the landscape is farmed for wheat, as purely superficial crop as can be seen for miles and miles. Feeding people is not the issue, commodity grabbing wealth is the only fact, and farmers can count profit years on fingers of one hand.

I traveled to Panama, where the landscape is farmed, but now exploited by northern countries for resort atmosphere. Few places suggest more potential for vertical farms as they are constructing resort towers for the wealthy, and crushing the people from the land.

Most recently, I am in San Francisco, the state that rivals America is scope as an independent food producer, the Governor is nothing short of king or president. But like all things, we must answer to the institution, the flat farmers are supreme in productivity, and also in closing the landscape to extinction.

To Governor Schwarzenegger:

The island of Alcatraz Prison is a perfect site for the construction and modeling of a new era, that is, Vertical Farming. Visionary Dickson Despommier of Columbia University has made an outline of the impending problem of world farming requirements, reducing an area the size of Brazil to flatland farming, on this website,
http://www.verticalfarm.com/
Read the two Essays. He has been publicized, but the time has come for the focusing of intelligence to formulate and model other kinds of farming potential, that is sustainable.

California is of course, the best and worst of farming and subsidiary problems, -water. I request an opportunity to bring Mr. Despommier to meet with the Governor, and discuss the potential for California to be the spawning ground for a technology that will be needed throughout the world, and as well, the benefits which defy the Political State.

The project idea is to build a Verti-sphere over Alcatraz, that is clear to the sun and full of a productivity of food, fired by solar, and fed by water from the sewers of the city. To build something that does not despoil the land, raped the aquifers, create no pollution, and drain no herbicides into the ocean. In short, A NUCLEAR REACTOR without plutonium that does not burn life to embers but gives life a method, and a new beginning.

Preposterous as the mind functions, the potential is to flagrantly build a symbol of the future mid-bay San Francisco, that will illuminate the minds of all who see it, and many will come to see it, and to cast a light over all mankind.

Resolution

Searching for understanding, and trying to get it down as video,

and not words, is the only resolution I have made

in anticipation of another great year, 2009 AD.

Surfing the Future

Commenting on NYTimes opinion: Surfin Bush
"Rich is another columnist who doesn't need to be read to understand. Coagulating anger is simply turning the table the wrong way. Bush is merely a guidepost in Time of changes that had to come as result of a generation of aggressive contemporary living and investing (the smaller sense of an obtuse word for self-interest or greed) fueled by exploitation and coffee. We are the Fools, not Bush, because we fail to recognize the urgency of our needs, feeding a planet. The Times is at the pinnacle of our society in anger manipulation, and a low point in self-realization."

vision

We choose to see only that which we wish to see, and particularly, that which is good or celebrated. Our celebrities are only ourselves, as are king and queens and athlete stars. Our best parts are that kind of extension, whereas we denounce our perfection, but then, rescue it in the daily transactions of life. From the private world of singularity, as if peering over the bus seats or airplanes half to most way back, suddenly we are posed in the world communicating to others, as if the cell were a direct line to the gods. The power once only belonging to the gods and kings is ours, we are them.

The flower? is called, Rejoice!

For a print, www.bbvpress.com/flower/

America has a Cold!

In the transition of The Presidency, perhaps more than ever, the American people have been plunged into a despair of economy and Change unlike ever before, hence, a cold. The symptoms are apparent, too much coffee and too much money, the vision had disintegrated into abject consumerism, and self-doubt. Whereas there is always the cry of lack of leadership, the cry for renewed leadership, the cry is the lack of self reliance and vision of the future. Self-doubt kills! The wholesale denunciation of the current leader has further propelled the people into a territory full of sharks, the me's, and forces the incoming leader to stonewall the political rhetoric, for..., Republicanism. The best cure for a cold is expanding the self, both physically and mentally into the future space of being. America will not regain itself until it reduces the hoard and gives itself, its vision, its help and growth, to the world. That's the key.

Obama Represents

Barack Obama has no choice but to go forward. America has two choices, go forward, or, the more likely choice, to project the future to be about the past(the many news media allusions to FDR), to imagine a newer deal. The dialogue to the latter is writ by TV. To go forward is to give ourselves to the world, to create untold riches to support the human race. While America asks to be helped, the people have little idea how they will be answered, we must help others to begin to help ourselves. Neither Republican or Democrat understand that Barack Obama is the beginning of a new vision because the vision is not a reality.

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