Free the Power of Nature not hinder its flow!

  NO NO NO! This is just another Eco Disaster waiting to happen! THIS IS NOT BUILDING TO FLOW WITH NATURE for it kills nature like the Wind Turbine. Why can't you see in order to truly have a Sustainable Future we must design a structure that powers itself not acres of mirrors burning holes in our Ozone, Wind turbines changing wind current & killing birds, or Nuclear power that is a Unconstitutional practice for it endangers the livelihood of neighboring communities! http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/

SAVE THE RAIN FEED THE PEOPLE

This web page is dedicated to changing building codes to create a sustainable future, reduce insurance claims, protect our natural resources, stop the death & decay, and make your homes a shelter as it should be.

 Most of these post cover how building codes fail in many ways and create more disasters then prevent. However, this blog also bring in to light the fact that areas in our world that suffer Flash Floods also suffer from Drought later in the year. http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/2009/12/mr-president-umaru-yaraduaand-nigerian.html

How does building codes pertain to this issue, you ask. Well I will tell you, the Natural Disaster Environmental History Code http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-is-deadly-haiti-chile-turkey.html is a Building code that addresses the environment the structure is built in not just the structure. So if one lives in places like Zimbabwe, Nigerian or Australia where flood come hand-in-hand with droughts you need to harness the flood water with the structures design not build to hinder the waters flow. Furthermore, if Screen culvert pipes where placed under the flood plains outside a populated area as well as build Saddleback foundation system http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-do-you-build-different.html with all buildings, water flow would be reduced, harnessed and stored away in man-made aquifer for later use in the summer months when water is scarce. 

Natural disaster what?

Truly I cannot be the only one that realizes that lack of BUILDING CODES and BUILDING CODE REFORM is creating natural disasters and killing thousands every year. Natural disasters don’t kill as many people as building codes do!

Think, if natural disasters are natural then why are they a disaster? Have you ever thought about the fact that your homes are no longer your shelter? Instead you live under nothing more than an umbrella of a structure. Furthermore, every structure is designed to be “AT WAR WITH NATURE”. What do I mean by this, well, all your doors, windows, walls, roof for example are design to RESIST nature (weather resistant). If you look up this word “Resist” it means War or Conflict. Now if we started to find ways in which a structure is designed to FLOW with nature would we see the same devastation we see today? How many ways can one say HELP ME SAVE YOUR COMMUNITY and not be heard! VIEW MORE INFORMATION AT http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/

World Alert!

Over the last four months we have worldwide devastation. With earthquakes and volcano activity on an all-time high. You have to ask yourselves when will be enough? How many people died do to building code practices? All the square building of most ancient times are no longer here, yet the pyramids, and circular towers, and lighthouses are still here! The waves come and smack the beach and the square structure are ripped out to sea but the rock on the beach and the lighthouse remain. A E-5 tornado destroys an entire community but the rock in the field and the round water tower remain! So why do the codes demand that the lighthouse and the water tower be able to flow with nature but not your homes? When did your homes STOP being your shelters? PLEASE THINK! ASK QUESTIONS! MAKE CHANGE! And Build to LIVE! How can we have hopes for sustainability if we only build to resist what is nature! PLEASE GIVE THIS PLIGHT A VOICE FOR IT IS YOUR VOICE TOO! 

Hurricane Sandy

I know that this blog may seem repetitive at times, yet how else can one truly bring change but by educating as many as you can by repeating over and over again what change is needed! In this light;

Ice storm may fallow so please plane for the cold.

When it comes to the east coast states and the devastation there in, ask yourself, If building codes passed the test in these areas and was THEIR HOME also their shelter? Did no one die as a result of their home or structure? Was the infrastructure of their cities design to flow with nature so that it could endure natures natural flow? Did the so called Building Green buildings far well? Will their insurance cost stay the same? And finally, will the strain on our nature resources be unaffected?

If you answer, “NO” to any of the questions, then please read this blog thoroughly (that includes old post). For it is the belief of this author, that if these cities were built to flow with nature we would not see the devastation we see today. Sadly they are not! The foundation, walls, doors, windows, and roof are all built with a RESISTANCE RATING! And it is this RESISTANCE that creates so much devastation. Theory been, Natural disasters are natural, so one must build to FLOW with nature as to be a part of it and not against nature flow through resisting it! If one looks up this word “RESIST”, they will find that it means WAR or CONFLICT! Can we truly feel safe in our world when they would have us live and work in structures that are no longer our shelter and our infrastructures are designed and built to be at war with nature and her natural flow? I dare say not!

In conclusion, I send my prays to ALL whom were affected by this great storm, and it is my hope to bring building code change so that this will never happen again. 
The "Natural Disaster Environmental History Code" can save life, land, and liberty, and also reducing cost on insurance, natural resources, Local and Federal Government.
FIND MORE INFORMATION at http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/
and the "Natural Disaster Environmental History Code" at http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-is-deadly-haiti-chile-turkey.html

"ONE PLANET - ONE WORLD!"

We are NOT BUILDING to FLOW with NATURE! So nature still FLOWS against us! We refuse to get along with OUR MOTHER earth just like every little brat out there! We just TAKE TAKE TAKE and never a THANK YOU! And until we learn to flow with our MOTHER earth, SHE will KEEP spanking US! So please, I hear what MOM is saying, and you must too! Us Children need to "shape up or (WE Will BE) shipped out" WE MUST LIVE TO FLOW WITH OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL known as MOTHER earth! So that we can all live in HARMONY with OUR MOTHER earth and our FATHER above and thereby each-other! I can HELP YOU hear what MOTHER earth is saying. And to "BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE and NOT TO RESIST IT" should be our way of life! Even better, we could Build, Live, Work and Love only to flow with OUR WORLD and EACH OTHER. Think how BLESSED WE WOULD ALL BE! I AM SO SURE OF WHAT I SAY HERE AND ON ALL MY BLOGS from top to bottom I AM WILLING TO DIE FOR IT! Even if it takes ALL MY LIFE, I will not heed for any but OUR Mother earth and OUR FATHER above! MY FELLOW CHILDREN, "I LOVE YOU" please HEAR our MOTHERS CRIES, and OUR FATHERS WARNINGS! STOP FIGHTING OVER WHO IS LOVED THE MOST! FOR WE ARE ALL THEIR CHILDREN!

How much longer must one see to BELIEVE in BUILDING CODE CHANGE!

Square structures are built to RESIST natures Natures Flow!If we resist natures natural flow, than you are faced witha DISASTER like this one!   

You CAN build to live! Your HOME should be your shelter!

I was convinced over 40 year’s a go when I took this assignment in life. It was not known to me then that this was where I would be now. Yet, one must ask, “Why a little girl would be learning Pastoral Construction at age 7 through 17 years of age? Then, not truly knowing how to read or write at 17 years old and on her own, started working residential and commercial construction. Where at 18 years old she was a relief foreman and by 19 years of age, became a foreman of exterior stonewall masonry and general contracting. Later at 23 years old was a Rod Buster foreman. Then at age 37 years old, with really no prior education, Walked away with a 3.2 GPA in Architectural Engineering.” NONE of this sounds the norm! And then ON TOP OF THIS, to have been in all the lower 48 before she was 17 years old is remarkable. So what I am trying to say is, “THIS IS A LIFE’S MISSION” and “IT IS OUT OF MY HANDS” I am only HERE doing what I feel is EXPECTED OF ME! “Ours is not the reason why, just to DO or DIE!”

So PLEASE! Look past the grammar and spelling errors and TAKE the TRUTH of IT all in! WE MUST LEARN TO “BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE AND NOT TO RESIST IT!” Read all that this BLOG has to offer! Arch.E.S.D.T. is only here to SERVE YOU the COMMUNITY! What could it hurt to have an open mind and spend 30 minutes of your time to maybe save a life, maybe YOUR OWN!

Sincerely, Your humble servant

It's not just the people that suffer! The Mother  bleeds!

Arch.E.S.D.T.

Mary K. Butler (Stonewall) 

http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-is-deadly-haiti-chile-turkey.html http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-building-shelters-when-its-your.html http://buildtoflowwithnaturenottoresistit.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-do-you-build-different.html

Green build or not, if it succumbs to nature, it still an ECO disaster!

Square an't there! Build to live not to die!

Column: Why the extreme weather? – USATODAY.com

UNDERGROUND SHELTERS WHAT?

http://stephenleahy.net/2010/01/06/honduras-hit-hardest-by-extreme-weather-from-global-warming-experts-say/

How do you think a underground shelter will fair here?
2/3 of our planet is water and the icecaps are melting,
we must think different by looking to nature for true design. 

Here we see the truth of underground shelters. I stress to you all to LOOK hard at the world around you. You cannot call it a shelter if it does not truly shelter you from nature’s natural flow, whether it is sun, rain, snow, tornado, flood, hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, etc. 

Just think of it this way, NATURE disasters are a NATURAL occurrence in our world, so how come it is called a disaster? Would it be because everything built in our world is built to RESIST NATURE? To resist nature is to be at war with nature. We must instead learn to build to flow with nature and not to resist it.

Now I would like to put forth a challenge to the academic community on testing the theories presented within this Blog. Please try to prove me wrong! I say Building code change is the key to true green building design and the sustainability we so desperately need.  This new building code is the Natural Disaster Environmental History Code (N.D.E.H. Code).  Read up, ponder, study, learn, change is needed.

Read up on your Natural Disaster Environment History Code (N.D.E.H. Code)

What is it going to take for the people of our world to understand it is time for change? Change in the way we build our homes, business, factories, communities, infrastructures!
You can find out for yourself what is happening in our world when speaking of Natural Disasters:

http://www.gdacs.org/
http://globaldisasterwatch.blogspot.com/
http://www.globalissues.org/issue
http://www.disaster-report.com/

Scientists: Global Warming ‘Very Likely’ Caused Recent Extreme Weather Disasters: Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were “very likely” caused by man-made global warming, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change said on Sunday. “Scientists at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Research used physics, statistical analysis and computer simulations to link extreme rainfall and heat waves to global warming,”

How do you build differently?

If when designing said structure one could look to nature for inspiration. Eggs of all kinds and larva are good examples. Shells of any types are another one worth considering. Then make sure there is no outer-parts of the building that your fingers can catch on, for if your fingers can, so can wind and water. Furthermore, a two part foundation known as a saddleback foundation system (coined by me) can be installed. This is where when digging the hole for the foundation you place culvert pipe in the base of the hole, laying the pipe under the foundation for drainage. This pipe leads the water away from the structure to an underground manmade reservoir (Dome over stone, sand with screen and then an upside-down dome to catch water at base). In doing this, floodwaters will no longer be the threat they are today.Then a pour in-place foundation is to be set, than a prefab basement unit in to place and home will be attached to. Telescopic piping could also be implemented at the proper structural points of the poured foundation (saddle) and attached to the prefab basement that is cradled there in. Reasoning is, when floodwater rises, the structure will be secure horizontally and yet able to rise vertically safely. When floodwaters reach their max, pins can be put in to place in the piping to secure the structure so that the sub-foundation (saddle) can be cleaned and the structure lowered back in to place. In flashflood / drought zones, this would be an asset to the community that has no water during the summer months.

I hope this help give a better understanding of how to “Build to flow with nature and not to resist it.” Thanks goes to Homesgofast.com for their inquiry, hope this answers your question and at the same time helps inform others to the ways of building to live and not to die. All inquiry welcome, all answers free! I am only here to serve the people of our world.

Sincerely

Mary K. Butler

Arch.E.S.D.T.

StonewallMary

We must work together

I had an opportunity to be a guest writer when speaking of disasters and the affect's on our world and its people, so please look it up!
The true “World War” is against Nature- A natural disaster post

Why build shelters when it’s your homes job?

What one thinks it should be and what it is, is two different things. Here we are now, just as in pass, looking at our country and other countries crumbling from the inside outward! The infrastructures were never designed to endure for any real deration. Engineers and architects have been in a rut for centuries. In addition the leaders of our societies have never built their communities to co-existence with its environment. Did Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic or Renaissance architecture save the societies that created them? I dare say not. Their designs were faulty then and they are faulty now. And as it is today, their infrastructure came into ruin at the same time their economy faltered, leading ultimately to the fall of these societies. It also seems that a lot of the technology that was known to each is lost to the world for sometimes and then reemerges only to come to ruin again and again. Don’t you feel that this vicious cycle needs to stop!

It is time to rethink the world we construct around ourselves! To learn to “build to flow with nature and not to resist it” so we can co-exist with nature this time around. As it is, every building constructed today is built to resist nature.  What advantage has arisen from building to RESIST NATURE? Just war and conflict with nature has come of this and at the expense of everyone and everything.

Now think of structures that collect and stores power and water harnessed naturally from the environment around it. Or even that when a storm is headed directly at your community, storm warnings were a thing of the past. Instead a storm was looked upon as an asset to the community, for it would bring life and not death, through the harnessing of the nature energy stored in a storm as well as water that may come with it. Homes and business would withstand nature’s fury better by allowing a natural disaster to flow around, under or through the structure and or community. The outcome of building to resistance against natural disasters coupled with the ill use of our natural resources to build said structures and communities has always been the same for 1000s of years. It has always led to collapsing of economies, the destruction of the community, diseases & contamination to the environment and the people, and then ultimately the death of these civilizations.

We can no longer ignore the truth of the matter when considering a square building to a round or curved building and their survival rating before, during and after a nature disaster. Or the heavy toll nature and human alike must pay for these failures. We have seen many advances everywhere else in our world. Yet they still allow square trailer homes to be built in tornado alley! Please raze your voice and be heard in your community and educate other on how they can “Build to flow with nature and not to resist it” by taking into account the “Natural disaster environmental history or your region”!

Underground shelters won’t cut it.

The Natural Disaster Environmental History Code (N.D.E.H.C.) would state;

General. This code is to apply to all Structural Engineering Design Provisions and all materials there in. As well as the exterior materials, window, doors, et cetera.

Definition. Natural disasters are natural, they have been happening for millions of years. When designing, the natural disaster history of the region for where the structure is to be built is relative and must be taken in to account before a new structure is built. Meaning, any new structure regardless of use is to meet this code.

Reasoning. Nature cannot flow around a flat surface. A square is not wind, water, fire, or earth dynamic. A square structure impends the flow of nature and therefore will succumb to its fury. Where as spheres, cylinders, pyramids, eggs, cones, shells, and teardrop structures in nature and in modern society, allows nature and its fury to flow around, over, under or though, with no real resists.

Design. With natural disasters such as, flash floods, mud slides, wildfires, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes bearing down on us we need to build to flow with nature like other living species on this earth have learned to do. Thereby, the structure is design to flow with nature not to resist it. Wind, water, mud, fire must be able to flow under, over and around the structure without hindering its flow. Cities and towns must be designed to allow water, wind, fire and magma to flow under, over or around it. None shall impend the natural flow of nature.

Concept. Build to flow with nature not to resist it, for to resist nature is to oppose nature. Moreover, to oppose nature is to be in conflict with nature. To be in conflict with nature is same as to be at war with nature. A building or any other structure should be designed to flow with nature not to resist nature, if not all you have is a war shelter for nature never sleeps and thereby is always at war.

War is not an option when the human race and all life on earth is concerned. We have all the technology to go to the moon, send probes deep in to space, build guided missiles, and un-manned drowns to kill but we can’t even mandate new codes for tornado alley? Why is it that a leader can mandate some things but others are forever lost in the bureaucratic red tape? If it was mandated that all new construction of any type of structure comply with the Natural Disaster Environmental History Code (N.D.E.H.C.), the obliteration of communities, it’s people and the environment that encompasses it, would become but a trickle, compared to the floodgates opened wide right now and for the last 30 odd years! The International Building Codes (IBC), by passing this new code restriction, would find even a larger roll in the “Sustainability / Build Green” movement in our world and at the same time save lives.

If I could do anything to help our world, it would be to bring this building code change. Yes, I would love to use this site to promote building design ideas but that is not why I started this site! It is and always will be to save live, land, and our natural resources through building code improvement. The only way that change can be accomplished is to distinguish the natural disaster environmental history for the region one is to build. This information is readily available to any who seek it right on the net. The world and it’s inhabitance can not afford to wait.

HOW TO LIVE IN A SHELTER OR NOT, LIVE FOR TOMMAROW

Please do not let my absence from this site diminish how I feel. I have lost the ability to go on line as I please! I WOULD RATHER DIE THEN GIVE UP ON MY DREAM TO BRING CHANGE! TO THOSE WILLING TO HELP IN ANY WAY I WOULD BE HUMBILY IN YOUR DEBT!

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THE FOUR D's, Okay folks I see time is running in our world and still no CHANGE!

It is bad enough that I helped pay our government $170,000 a yr per member and then the 150+ persons, that make it up around $25,500,000 a yr, only to see them decide that a BLUE COLLAR disable workers gets an average of $8148 a yr to live off on disability. Knowing the Blue Collar worker built and did more for America then the absentee Government we have working for us better know as "welfare frodds."

Now I see more and more Death and Displacement, Decay and Destruction, yet no one CRY'S OUT for change!
HERE-YE HERE-YE
I CRY OUT FOR THOSE THAT CANNOT AND MUST NOW LOOK DOWN UPON THIS EARTH CONTINUING TO SEE THEIR LOVE ONES SUFFERING WITH NO CHANGE IN SITE!

We have TOPPED last yrs DEATH TOLL and we still have five months to go! Do you truly believe one person can bring change? IF SO HELP ME BRING IT!!!!! It is so hard to live in this world and know I can make change, yet cannot for it takes all of us to believe in this change for it to TRULY happen!

2010 is Deadly, Haiti, Chile, Turkey, earthquake and China drought/dust storms, Uganda landslide, Salang avalanches,Pakistan floods and the list goes on.

The death toll is still rising, communities obliterated, even more displaced lives, local natural resources tainted, bio-hazard created, wildlife devastation. Where are the stewards of our great land, our planet, of Mother Earth? We need to make building code change worldwide now! The Natural Disaster Environmental History (N.D.E.H.) of a region must be taken into account before one builds anew. That is why I am proposing a New Building Code for the International Building Codes (IBC) called the Natural Disaster Environmental History Code (N.D.E.H.C.).

The Natural Disaster Environmental History Code (N.D.E.H.C.) would state;

General. This code is to apply to all Structural Engineering Design Provisions and all materials there in. As well as the exterior materials, window, doors, et cetera.

Definition. Natural disasters are natural, they have been happening for millions of years. When designing, the natural disaster history of the region for where the structure is to be built is relative and must be taken in to account before a new structure is built. Meaning, any new structure regardless of use is to meet this code.

Reasoning. Nature cannot flow around a flat surface. A square is not wind, water, fire, or earth dynamic. A square structure impends the flow of nature and therefore will succumb to its fury. Where as spheres, cylinders, pyramids, eggs, cones, shells, and teardrop structures in nature and in modern society, allows nature and its fury to flow around, over, under or though, with no real resists.

Design. With natural disasters such as, flash floods, mud slides, wildfires, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes bearing down on us we need to build to flow with nature like other living species on this earth have learned to do. Thereby, the structure is design to flow with nature not to resist it. Wind, water, mud, fire must be able to flow under, over and around the structure without hindering its flow. Cities and towns must be designed to allow water, wind, fire and magma to flow under, over or around it. None shall impend the natural flow of nature.

Concept. Build to flow with nature not to resist it, for to resist nature is to oppose nature. Moreover, to oppose nature is to be in conflict with nature. To be in conflict with nature is same as to be at war with nature. A building or any other structure should be designed to flow with nature not to resist nature, if not all you have is a war shelter for nature never sleeps and thereby is always at war.

War is not an option when the human race and all life on earth is concerned. We have all the technology to go to the moon, send probes deep in to space, build guided missiles, and un-manned drowns to kill but we can’t even mandate new codes for tornado alley? Why is it that a leader can mandate some things but others are forever lost in the bureaucratic red tape? If it was mandated that all new construction of any type of structure comply with the Natural Disaster Environmental History Code (N.D.E.H.C.), the obliteration of communities, it’s people and the environment that encompasses it, would become but a trickle, compared to the floodgates opened wide right now and for the last 30 odd years! The International Building Codes (IBC), by passing this new code restriction, would find even a larger roll in the “Sustainability / Build Green” movement in our world and at the same time save lives.

If I could do anything to help our world, it would be to bring this building code change. Yes, I would love to use this site to promote building design ideas but that is not why I started this site! It is and always will be to save live, land, and our natural resources through building code improvement. The only way that change can be accomplished is to distinguish the natural disaster environmental history for the region one is to build. This information is readily available to any who seek it right on the net. The world and it’s inhabitance can not afford to wait.
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IN GROUND SHELTERS DO NOT SAVE LIVES CODE CHANGE DOES

Must one weep each day they gaze upon this earth and observe the unwanted death and destruction? Death and destruction that can be prevented through Building Code change worldwide. If we the designers, investors, builders, and citizens start our own movement, stop building to RESIST nature, and started building to FLOW with nature, we could save our own lives, the life of our community, in addition to the world’s depleting natural resources.

It seems every news show and paper one view’s these last few years mentions a natural disaster. A week does not pass without Wildfires, Oil spills, Tornadoes, Tsunami’s, Earthquakes, Volcanic activity, Flash flooding, Cyclone’s, Sandstorms, and Title waves been an issue of humanitarian efforts.

Have you asked yourself how many people around the world, die, each year do to these Natural Disaster Phenomenon’s? This year alone, it is well over 200,000 people that have died thus-far.From livescience.com

What of the total price in damages, to a communities and even whole bloodlines of families brought to their end? Let allow, one taking into account, the cost of relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts. Then, if you are one of humble means, you cannot refute the cost to Mother Nature with the strain on our natural resources, the bio-hazards thrown upon nature via the death and destruction to a community, and the world’s indigenous people, plants, and wildlife paying the highest cost.


Please look beyond the box and find faith in the “Idea” to “Build to Flow with Nature” and not to resist it! Building “GREEN" is not good enough if the structure you build will still falter. The light House still stands where square beach houses are no more. The bolder in the field the farmer could not move and the towns sphere shaped water tower still stands where the square farmhouse and the town of square buildings are flattened.

Heed these words, “Before you build, take into account your Natural Disaster Environmental History (N.D.E.H.)” for only then do you build for a better tomorrow for all concerned which is true sustainability!

Sustainability what

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Sustainability represents (by the numbers)(my thoughts by the letter):

1. “The traditional definition of sustainability calls for policies and strategies that meet society’s present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

A. If this is true, then why has the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) not made any real changes to mining laws when mining “Public lands (BLM Lands). They have been using these same practices since 1872, with no real revisions. Therefore, for a around $135 in federal fee on a 20 to 160 acre parcel (not including local fees), one can place a claim for rights to mine the minerals and metals within the “Public land.” The federal government has interpreted this right to supersede “All” other potential “Uses of Public Land.” Meaning the untouched Public forestland put aside for future generations by President Teddy Roosevelt, for his great grandchildren is forfeited.

In addition, the claim holder is not required to return any money to “U.S. Taxpayers” for the value of the minerals and metals extracted from their land.” (This is according to BLM). With the Taxpayer not being reimbursed for their public lands (YOUR LAND) being used but in the same breath, to say that the Taxpayers are flipped the bill for the waste cleanup on these same public lands is a travesty.
Local State Legislation is also responsible for your lose of Public lands. Alaska at least has their state residents reimburse for the oil removed from their pubic lands. Saving our land (Mother earth) and its (Her) natural resources for “future generations,” I do not see with this kind of public land laws been practice. Nothing but a cesspool do I see left for our future generations, not a untouched wilderness. Just look at the recent mines that have collapse, exploded, even flooding and now the oil spill in the Golf or Mexico. All are “Cesspools” for future generations, left by extracting the minerals and metals from our land and seas.

2. The 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) formally established as a national goal the creation and maintenance of conditions under which humans and nature can exist in “productive harmony,” and fulfill the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Here, here I say, “productive harmony” is the key indeed.

B. And yet, how can one clam this and still we build to resist nature and not to follow with it. Where is Building Code change to reflect this view? To be in harmony with nature (Mother earth), you must find a way to flow together. Just as two skaters must have perfect harmony on the ice, so do we need to build in harmony with nature. If not the IBC, UBC, or Local code change, then why has not NEPA demanded change in the building codes so that “humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.” It is as if the NEPA is blind to “Ecological Damage” caused by natural disasters when civilized society and Mother earth collide. So many pollutants, such decay, and destruction are left in the wake of these encounters.

The NEPA should be more concerned with the local “Natural Disaster Environmental History” (N.D.E.H) of a region that a building is to be built in. If we are truly to find “productive harmony,” with Mother earth, we must build in harmony with nature and not to resist it, and in accordance with the “Natural Disaster Environmental History” of the land. Until we do ecological, economic, social, devastation will be the price we pay and the same for our “Future generations.”
Moreover, what of the ecological, economic, social, devastation done by producing these so called “Green Products.” The only “True Green Product,” are all natural and should have no waste byproduct in any way well being made or sold, not even if goes through a natural disaster.

3. The concept of sustainable development was described in a 1981 White House Council on Environmental Quality report: “The key concept here is sustainable development. If economic development is to be successful over the long term, it must proceed in a way that protects the natural resource base of developing countries.”

C. If we can not even stop our own government from selling off our Natural Resources from our Public lands (BLM land), what make you think that our government is trying to save other developing countries natural resources. Furthermore, the White House just okayed more offshore drilling for oil and the vary next week we have the worlds largest oil spill in history. Creeping up from the Golf of Mexico, the looming ecological damage emanate, as well as the death and decay to our ocean and it’s life forms (natural resource). Then there are the economical reproductions to the states (already suffering our recent economy) that boarders the cost line. Where is this sustainable development at Mister and Misses White House?

4. Over the past 30 years, the concept of sustainability has evolved to reflect perspectives of both the public and private sectors. A public policy perspective would define sustainability as the satisfaction of basic economic, social, and security needs now and in the future without undermining the natural resource base and environmental quality on which life depends. From a business perspective, the goal of sustainability is to increase long-term shareholder and social value, while decreasing industry’s use of materials and reducing negative impacts on the environment.

D. Okay let’s get this strait; there is a “Y” in the road to sustainability. One road is called public (Human) and the other is called business (Corporate), and some how these two roads are to meet back up in the end to and still have sustainability mean the same thing as when it started? When it comes to the public interest, I really don’t see any real movement. I am not saying the public is not trying to make a difference, just that the powers that be (Corporate world/UN) are making it an up hill battle.
Then I see in the business sector a dollar store mentality. With over packaging, single servings of every kind are being develop and sold, the MSG’s (and other impurities put in our food chain and harmful to the human body) in our food, running a muck, how can they claim this. Infect over 75% of rain-forest in North and South America have been cut down by US Corporations. Then the fact that the corporate world has even sterilized our seeds so a farmer no longer can replant their fields without the buying of new seed. As will as the fire-retardant in everything made that has leeched it’s way in to every living thing on earth to the point of disrupting the Killer Wales food chain and ours. How can they claim anything of the kind?
Note: Why claim a ”Green Product,” when the packaging; to be made, supplied, shipped and than disposed of, is not Green.

5. Common to both the public policy and business perspectives is recognition of the need to support a growing economy while reducing the social and economic costs of economic growth. Sustainable development can foster policies that integrate environmental, economic, and social values in decision-making. From a business perspective, sustainable development favors an approach based on capturing system dynamics, building resilient and adaptive systems, anticipating and managing variability and risk, and earning a profit.

E. As we have moved down the list by numbers, the true meaning of Sustainable has become watered down, and from save our land and natural resource been number one, we go to support a growing economy being number one. And this would not be if the “Y” in the road to “Sustainable” spreads further and further apart, with new “Y” being added to the already split road and one to many times.
Then there is the fact that by this point, the business perspectives is capturing system dynamics, building resilient and adaptive systems, anticipating and managing variability and risk, and earning a profit. Why don’t they just say the privatization of our water and other natural and unnatural resources? (Tank Girl the movie)

Sustainable development reflects not the trade-off between business and the environment but the synergy between them.

NOUN:
pl. syn·er·gies: The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects. Cooperative interaction among groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect. To work jointly toward a common end.

A human impact mathematical equation was developed in the 70's and is called the I PAT formula.
A × T × P = I
Where: A = Affluence, T = Technology, P = Population I = Environmental impact
If math is based on a hypothesis, then what makes this the proper way to determine our survival on our planet?

In closing I would like to ask, "Where dose Mother earth stand in all this so-called sustainable movement?" Nowhere! As we speak, indigenous people from all over the world are coming out to speak on behalf of Mother earth. Only to be told that their views and concerns for Mother earth are unfounded, and do to the face that Mother earth is not a sanctioned being, her rights and their do not matter (You can thank the UN/Corporate world for this). Well to heck with that! Mother earth is more alive then ever and about to have a heart attack do to the ill parasites of corporate world doing as they please to there own gain for so many years.

Talk about genocide by war

Talk about genocide by war, did you know that we build to “resist” nature and the word “RESIST” means “CONFLICT or WAR,” war against nature, Motherearth!
Lets just review the first four months of this year 2010. When it comes to death toll by war verses death toll by natural disaster, whom do you think wins?
According to Livescience.com, “A Disastrous Year: 2010 Death Toll Already Abnormally High.” Then we have CBC News (cbc.ca) and the Wikipedia, Haiti’s was one of the top 10 Natural Disaster in our earthly-recorded history. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) states, “The January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake, according to official estimates, 222,570 people killed, 300,000 injured, 1.3 million displaced, 97,294 houses destroyed and 188,383 damaged in the Port-au-Prince area and in much of southern Haiti. This includes at least 4 people killed by a local tsunami in the Petit Paradis area near Leogane.”
Then we have Chile 8.8 Magnitude on February 27 2010. According to USGS, “At least 507 people killed, many injured and at least 200,000 houses damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in the Concepcion-Valparaiso area. Felt in much of Chile and Argentina. Also felt in parts of Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. A Pacific-wide tsunami was generated and caused minor damage to boats and a dock in the San Diego area, California.”
All of this on a wake of a all time high in earthquakes around the world. With the Huffington Post reporting, “XINING, China — China poured workers and equipment into a mountainous Tibetan region Thursday in a bid to find survivors more than a day after strong earthquakes killed more than 600 people and injured thousands. Local officials said 85 percent of the buildings had been destroyed.” We have to ask ourselves when is it to much, how many more lives must be lost do to the way in which structures are built today.
These are just death by earthquake, we could go in to the death toll by floods, tummies, tornados, and such but it is to sanding for me and to lengthy to read. But after all this, we still spend as humans, more money on war and choppy construction then we do trying to preserve life, land, and liberties. The Liberty to live in a clean, prosperous, and safe environment. BUILDING CODES MUST CHANGE on a GLOBAL level! One’s “Natural Disaster Environmental History”(N.D.E.H) must be taken in to account before building.
I am beseeching the Haiti and Chile leaders to do the right thing by their people and at the same time start “A New Precedence” in the world when it comes time to rebuild their lands, by “BUILDING TO FLOW WITH NATURE NOT TO RESIST IT.”