How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time…

Big Ideas, Real Impact.

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Big Ideas, Real Impact. 〰️

From Disaster Recovery to Disaster Avoidance

  • My model uses free resources to remediate & improve a community’s soil & water

  • Transforms waste into resources

  • Saves money

  • Begins the Disaster Avoidance movement

  • Simultaneously creates an ECO-OASIS, addressing food shortages

  • Urges local high school & community talent to create a core group to work with city/state experts, a landscape architect & a permaculture expert, seasoned in creating hügelkultur beds to address problematic civil engineering obstacles

  • Group designs solutions & coordinates yard waste & free tree trimmings to maximize efficiency

  • Food waste & cardboard = chef’s kiss of raised beds

  • Hügelkulturs require little to no water maintenance

  • Permaculture expert chooses plants for food, medicine, pollinator preference, and their ability to absorb, direct & filter inevitable flood waters

  • Shift to “Disaster Avoidance” lowers the city’s insurance rating, saving residents thousands in premiums, and eliminates “Disaster Recovery” line items from the budget.

  • Tree trimmers are happy for the free drop

  • Project days can be coordinated through ChipDrop.com & via district networking for yard materials, food waste and cardboard assets

  • Yard waste is no longer a cost to process but rather maximized to serve the community

  • Restaurants, schools, and neighbors contribute food, paper, & cardboard

  • Core team leads project days - additional volunteers learn to build hügelkultur beds, beneficial planting & landscape design

  • Skidsters do the heavy lifting of trees & branches while students weave materials together to create a new, beautifully strategic landscape to serve & protect areas once considered problematic

  • Redirect tons from the landfill

  • Builds the health of soil & filters water run-off

    • More cost-avoidance

  • Creates future Disaster Avoidance Experts

    • Equipped with a unique, problem-solving skillset

    • Empowered by co-leading a second, smaller project

    • Lead a 3rd, independent project in the community

  • Creates Disaster Avoidance Experts

    • Unique skillset in a brand-new industry

    • Empowered to lead & teach similar projects in the community or exponentially grow the movement in surrounding areas, across the US or abroad

    • Back-fill important positions within the city

  • Mycoremediation - the cleaning of earth or water using mushrooms

    • Remediate blighted sites for more disaster avoidance & astronomical cost-savings and cost-avoidance

    • Reclaim land previously considered unusable

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Saving The Dunes

  • Collect & crush glass using a solar-powered pump & grinders

    • Use Mycoremediation and bioremediation (using plants) plus nearby lake/river water to clean both water & the glass sand

  • Scaled to potential, process creates an aesthetically pleasing landscape & reverses the Billion-dollar erosion problem of the entire South Basin

  • Potential REVERSAL within 3 years, adding to shoreline soon after

  • Simultaneous benefits:

    • Cleans water

    • Builds structure

    • Eliminates algae blooms

    • Improves tourism dollars

    • Local flora & fauna populations flourish & multiply

Lakefront Giants

  • Lakefront giants like BP and the mills can work with me on opportunities I’ve found in THEIR processes

  • Compensation is ~8-10% of their cost-savings for the next 10 years

    • Specifically allocated to support community

  • ~3% to support their local community

    • Purchas materials for competitions to create better, more effective filtration systems to maximize efforts

    • Rebuild community pride and add beauty, function, & protection

    • Remediate Blighted sites, exponentially decreasing fines

  • ~1% to support Paul Stamets’ Mycoremediation research and project goals, or others he wants to support

  • ~1% to support world appropriate disaster recovery efforts

    • Provide glass to sand filtration systems to repair coastline damage & clean contaminated water

    • Provide bucket filtration systems so families can quickly access clean drinking water after emergencies

  • ~1% to on-board sister industries overseas w/out regulation

    • i.e.: Those polluting the Ganges River

    • Mycoremediation could also serve as a free food or medicine source

  • ~1% to provide river filters at high-impact locations further up-stream

  • ~1-3% to my digression

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Riprap

  • Easy win for State Highways, bridges over waterways, and railroads to deal with oily and contaminated road run-off

  • Use plants, mushrooms, and SCOBY technology, to create a beautiful, gradual water filtration system

  • Form & Function

    • Add beauty to the surrounding area that simultaneously cleans soil and the water entering waterways

    • Improve the structure (Function) of the riprap itself as it builds an inter-connected structural network that locks everything into place

  • Grants cover easy wins & add beauty to the form and functional integrity of the landscape 

Interns & HS Community Service Hours

This effort has incredible potential

  • Seeking young talent with a desire to change the world

  • Incredible hands-on experience

  • A chance to prove yourself to the world - in your own area of expertise

  • Letter of recommendation

  • Ownership-share opportunities for a stake in a game they help to create

 Desired areas of expertise include:

Project management, photography, web-design, A/V and documentary, marketing, networking, community outreach, collaboration efforts with entities such as Save the Dunes & Shirley Heinz, grants & funding, and so much more.

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