Friday, May 7, 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
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.”
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.”
Friday, March 5, 2010
Chili, one more lesson we didn’t need to learn
Now we see Chili aftermath, the death toll rising, the ecological damage, communities crushed, economical devastation, insurance & health care problems at the braking point, and still no true outcry for reform in building codes. And yet, compared to most countries, Chili did have more codes in place then most. Unfortunately, these codes were overlooked in much of the new construction. According to news reports, there is to be an inquiry.
I must say however, that I do not think that Chili’s codes have gone far enough. Chili, like all the other countries, builds to resist nature. Resistance it not an option, we must learn to build to flow with nature not to resist it. As the rock on the beach, nature must be given the respect it deserves by being allowed to flow and not be hindered in “It’s” path. We must be like the rock on a beach, and allow nature to flow around us. We can no longer build cube forms, for they will always fail! Nature cannot flow around a cube, only “PUSH AGAINST” it, the same goes for water and earth. In some cities, the wind speeds do to “Cube” structures is overwhelming! Then you throw in nature own furry and your just asking for disaster. PLEASE stop the devastation around the world, start change, learn your local “Natural Disaster Environmental History”(N.D.E.H), promote build code change in your area!
In closing, thank you “Democracy Now” and Roger G Bilham for your input on this issue on your March-2nd show this year, it is much appreciated.
I must say however, that I do not think that Chili’s codes have gone far enough. Chili, like all the other countries, builds to resist nature. Resistance it not an option, we must learn to build to flow with nature not to resist it. As the rock on the beach, nature must be given the respect it deserves by being allowed to flow and not be hindered in “It’s” path. We must be like the rock on a beach, and allow nature to flow around us. We can no longer build cube forms, for they will always fail! Nature cannot flow around a cube, only “PUSH AGAINST” it, the same goes for water and earth. In some cities, the wind speeds do to “Cube” structures is overwhelming! Then you throw in nature own furry and your just asking for disaster. PLEASE stop the devastation around the world, start change, learn your local “Natural Disaster Environmental History”(N.D.E.H), promote build code change in your area!
In closing, thank you “Democracy Now” and Roger G Bilham for your input on this issue on your March-2nd show this year, it is much appreciated.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Build Green Today, Be a Bio-Hazerd Tomorrow, We need Building Code Reform


What is it going to take for my voice to be heard, for the voice's of the needlessly killed victims of natural disasters to be heard? Dose not the survivors of these victims want to be heard, for it is you I am fighting for! Whole family are being wiped off the face of the earth do to the dilemma of insufficient construction design of buildings!
Now we have to see the aftermath of another natural disasters in Haiti and the toll it has taken on a country, a city, a people, and the generations of families lost in Haiti. It seems no different then New Orleans here in the US, when it comes to death toll and devastation. And just like New Orleans, it is do to the leaders/stewards of these lands not heeding the warning of past experiences, or you could say the Natural Disaster Environmental History (N.D.E.H) of the land they govern over. Because of this, the strain on our worlds natural resources and environment is worsened, with relief efforts, the construction material to rebuild, and the ecological damage as well as the annihilation of a community of humans, animals, and insects as will as fish, birds and plants.
Our planet has never been asleep, and she is do to stretch her arms here soon according to some. We can no longer afford to build against nature, for we will never win! Resistance is futile!
Wait one minute,look at the word Resistance. Everything we build must be wind resistance, water resistance and so on. Now if you look up the meaning of the word resistance you will find that all of them deal in conflict (witch by the way, is one of said definitions), do we really want War? We must learn to build to flow with nature not resist it, for it is a battle we will never win! Are the mistakes of the many worth the lives of the few? For it has been far to many!
The corporate world and government leaders are our executioners, for they only care about money and power, not the earth or her people.
Throughout my years in construction, I have found that the Architectural, Construction, and Lumber/Hardware industry, are nothing more then ambulance chasers, feeding off the misfortunes of others. And let us not forget their bedfellows, the U.B.C. (United Building Codes), I.B.C. (International Building Codes), and Local City, County and State Codes, whom have not made any real change in code to preserve or protect the people, land, animals or resources they govern over.
On Wednesday Jan. 20th 2010, I was listening to a Bioneers broadcast on KYRS Thinair radio here in Spokane WA and heard a lecture by Paul Hawken, about saving the earth, and how we can all do our part. Now I have nothing against Paul Hawken or the Bioneers, yet I can not help to ask were is their creams of outrage when it comes to the needless death and destruction do to inadequate building design based on no code reforms. Most of all, were dose the Insurance Companies stand in all this, for it has brought on a rise in all insurance cost across the board. To the point people can't afford to pay so for it, so now our government is trying to take it over too! And this whole time it is their inability to act that has brought us here.
Am I the only one calling out for change? Am I the only one that feels the folks in charge of codes should be held accountable for their inability to act on the planets or our behalf? In ancient Egypt, if someone died do to your choppy construction methods, you were put to death. This is not saying we need to kill anyone (for far to many have died already), but someone should be held accountable and pay for the death and destruction left behind by their inaction!
In-closing, like I have said before, “Why build green, if the structure you build will be a bio-hazard tomorrow!” Furthermore, if the material you use to build green, pollutes the earth in order to make them, why use them? Sometimes two rights can make a wrong, this is one of them! To truly Build Green we must learn to "Build to flow with nature not resist it!"
Monday, January 18, 2010
“HAITI” I want to save LIVES!
“HAITI” Once again we see the needless destruction and countless lives lost do to buildings being inadequately built for the environment they preside in.
Haitian Interior Minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime can make a change right now and rebuild his country to “Flow with Nature not resist it!” Far to long the powers that be around the world (this includes the US) have not truly cared for the citizen they govern over when it comes to Building Codes and the Architectural Industry.
We must force for change! We the People of the World, must all come together as one voice and make change. We cannot wait any longer for “Our” leaders to stare caring. Year after year, to see the death and wreckage of their inability to act on our behalf. We were not meant to be a throwaway society. We were once stewards of this great land we call Earth, now we are no more then termite in the house of God(call him by the name you know and love) / Mother earth. Change is a must, please help me help you, so we may all see a better tomorrow.
P.S. My Liphe Podds could be helping in rescue relief for those stranded by water.
Haitian Interior Minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime can make a change right now and rebuild his country to “Flow with Nature not resist it!” Far to long the powers that be around the world (this includes the US) have not truly cared for the citizen they govern over when it comes to Building Codes and the Architectural Industry.
We must force for change! We the People of the World, must all come together as one voice and make change. We cannot wait any longer for “Our” leaders to stare caring. Year after year, to see the death and wreckage of their inability to act on our behalf. We were not meant to be a throwaway society. We were once stewards of this great land we call Earth, now we are no more then termite in the house of God(call him by the name you know and love) / Mother earth. Change is a must, please help me help you, so we may all see a better tomorrow.
P.S. My Liphe Podds could be helping in rescue relief for those stranded by water.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Life or death, Building Codes are meant to save Lives
Over the last 37 yrs I have worked in and out of the construction industry, lived in or visited at some point all the lower 48 states in the US as well as the US Virgin Islands, east and west Canada & Mexico and Navasota. Throughout this experience I have see and heard many thing and learned much from all. However, one thing has range true throughout, the lack of Building Code Revisions.
Year after year we see tornadoes devastate the central part of the United States. We continue to live in fear along coastal areas and riverbanks. Avalanches of snow and mud are still wiping out whole villages. Volcanoes are still not being taken seriously in the lines of fortification. We must also speak of landslides coming down on to homes or coming out from underneath the homes, for where was the building codes when these building were built?
While living on the coast of Maine, I began to ask myself where was the I.B.C., U.B.C. and local code. Why are codes being implemented for these earthquakes and not for Tsunamis, Floods, Tornadoes, Avalanches of Snow, Volcanoes, and Landslides?
Then in the year 2000, I attended Spokane Community College in Spokane Washington, were I received my A.A.S. Degree in Architecture. So now I am ready to step up and do something myself. In order to make change one must be willing to stand up for what one believes in, even if ridiculed, stay firm, and have no reservation.
For I truly believe that I can and will make a difference when it comes to saving lives. I am a solution finder, a problem salver, perseverance is my name, and common since is my game. Code change makes good since!
Year after year we see tornadoes devastate the central part of the United States. We continue to live in fear along coastal areas and riverbanks. Avalanches of snow and mud are still wiping out whole villages. Volcanoes are still not being taken seriously in the lines of fortification. We must also speak of landslides coming down on to homes or coming out from underneath the homes, for where was the building codes when these building were built?
While living on the coast of Maine, I began to ask myself where was the I.B.C., U.B.C. and local code. Why are codes being implemented for these earthquakes and not for Tsunamis, Floods, Tornadoes, Avalanches of Snow, Volcanoes, and Landslides?
Then in the year 2000, I attended Spokane Community College in Spokane Washington, were I received my A.A.S. Degree in Architecture. So now I am ready to step up and do something myself. In order to make change one must be willing to stand up for what one believes in, even if ridiculed, stay firm, and have no reservation.
For I truly believe that I can and will make a difference when it comes to saving lives. I am a solution finder, a problem salver, perseverance is my name, and common since is my game. Code change makes good since!
Monday, December 21, 2009
2012 & Beyond
We have so much out there being said, whom should one believe? I personally can and will say something is upon the horizon! But much like the Bible, it is all left to interpretation. I do however, feel that the same old way of building is and has been below the standers of our evolutionary existence. We still do not “Build To Flow With Nature And Not to Resist It™.” If we do not heed the warnings of our past failures in architectural design, why would we heed the warnings of our ancient ones? Year after year, we sit back and watch as our communities are wiped out do to the same old design! Never excepting the fact that the buildings we build are inadequate for the environment it is built in. I feel I can change this! Please believe in me as I believe in you! Arch.E.S.D.T. ™
Note: Some of the first records of Architects are from Egypt, state that if a building gave in and people were killed the Architect was put to death. Maybe that’s why the Egyptian Architectural structure still stand and ours continue to fall every day do to foreseeable circumstances. We need to hold Architects more accountable for their failures and fight for code change!
Note: Some of the first records of Architects are from Egypt, state that if a building gave in and people were killed the Architect was put to death. Maybe that’s why the Egyptian Architectural structure still stand and ours continue to fall every day do to foreseeable circumstances. We need to hold Architects more accountable for their failures and fight for code change!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Visionary now or later
Why is it that a true visionary is always rejected in his or her own time but held as a hero when they are dead? I hope this dose not happen to me! If just one of you out there believed in what I can do, we would be prosperous beyond our wildest dreams. I have an unending supply of Ideas for Building Designs, New Products, a whole line of New Safety Products and Business Ventures that would be a Franchise in 3 to 5 years.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
MY VISION FOR NEW ARCHITECTURE
NOTICES: Salutations;
To all Investors, Developers, and regular folk tired of the
same old style of home and business structures designs. Only to find you can’t
sell do to the mundane and repetitive design rut the Architectural Community
has been in for the last 300 odd years? Furthermore, Want a designer that can
plan for anything & brake through to a NEW EVOLUTION in ARCHITECTURAL
DESIGN.
I am ready to step up & create standards of building
design no other has thus far & where the IBC, UBC and Local Codes have
not.
MY VISION: with the right team of 3-Architects and
1-Engineers is to;
1). Built a home or business in tornado alley, and know that
after a E-5 tornado goes through my structure stands 75% to 100% better chance
it will still be standing.
2). To have a home built in the 2000 ft above sea level with
no cares if you became snowed in or warriors of suffering “Cabin Fever”.
3). Know in flood zones with Liphe Podds™ in place in
everyone's backyard, no one would have to die from floods anymore. As well as
with my new foundation system in place home and business has 75% to 100% better
chance of no water damage to the structure.
4). Create for you the Investor an impenetrable resort,
hotel, or home along the coast lines where tsunamis are prevalent.
5). Eliminate the endless cost of Mother Nature’s fury. No
more boarding up windows, packing sandbags, NO MORE NATURAL DISASTER ZONES do
to everyday weather for that particular reign
These are just a fraction of what I have in mind. The
Keywords being “Environmental Survival” of said structure.
6). Introduce the "Saddleback Foundation System"
6). Introduce the "Saddleback Foundation System"
NOTE: Elements being, wind, water, Tornado, Tsunami, land
erosion, lava, tidal waves, fire, avalanches, extra.
For me Environmental Survival means:
To build a structure that in design according to the
environment with which it must exist in. Thereby insuring it's further existence
even after being subject to the elements that be. For remember, Natural disasters
are natural!
PROTECT YOUR FUTURE INVESTMENTS, BUILD TO LAST, NOT TO
DECAY. STOP ALLOWING LIVES TO BE LOST & THE NEEDLESS WASTE OF OUR
NATURAL RESOURCES. BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE NOT TO RESIST IT.
Virtually no one, not even the IBC, UBC, or Local Codes have
addressed the issues when arguing the cost to the American tax payer or the
ever increasing insurance cost do to deficient configuration of buildings for
the elements that be. Let alone the ecological damage to the surrounding area.
Every year to board up, sand bag, and rebuild due to inadequate structural
design. Buildings being built disregarding the environment with which they are
intended.
With our renewable resources running out, you have to ask
yourself how much longer will they last, rebuilding what should have never
fallen. If proper building practices were in place that addressed the
environment with which they are built in and the elements that be, we wouldn't have
losses year after year. How many homes could we have built with those same
resources used to board up and/or rebuild every year?
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Mr. President, Umaru Yar’Aduaand the Nigerian people
COPY;
I want to bring hope
I am someone that feels they have a answer to your Flood and Drought problems in your Country. I do not want money for these solutions, just your recognition for care for your people as much as you do! (For we are all equals in my eyes, no color do I see) I feel that helping your capital City of Nigeria in Abuja, as well as the rest of the country have water at all times of the year and at the same time cut down the flood waters that pelage your region, would be a blessed thing. I humbly offer my services to you Mr. President, Umaru Yar’Adua, I am yours to command for the good of your people and mine. Please I bag of you lut me do this for you and I will forever be in your debt!
Vary Truly Your humble servant in waiting, Mary Katherine
Note:This e-mail was sent this year. I MUST STRESS THAT I OFFER THIS IDEA TO ANY COUNTRY THAT NEED HELP WITH FLOOD & DROUGHT PROBLEMS EVERY YEAR!
I want to bring hope
I am someone that feels they have a answer to your Flood and Drought problems in your Country. I do not want money for these solutions, just your recognition for care for your people as much as you do! (For we are all equals in my eyes, no color do I see) I feel that helping your capital City of Nigeria in Abuja, as well as the rest of the country have water at all times of the year and at the same time cut down the flood waters that pelage your region, would be a blessed thing. I humbly offer my services to you Mr. President, Umaru Yar’Adua, I am yours to command for the good of your people and mine. Please I bag of you lut me do this for you and I will forever be in your debt!
Vary Truly Your humble servant in waiting, Mary Katherine
Note:This e-mail was sent this year. I MUST STRESS THAT I OFFER THIS IDEA TO ANY COUNTRY THAT NEED HELP WITH FLOOD & DROUGHT PROBLEMS EVERY YEAR!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Who I am
Who I am:
Age five while in Houston TX panhandling, standing outside a fanatical institute, I couldn’t help being in aw of the structures before me and of the goings-on inside. I met two businessmen that day. Telling them about the epiphany I had that day & aspirations to design, build and run my own Company someday.
They had a good laugh, then asked what I would do if given a chance. My answer was good enough to earn my family and I lunch. At their request, I sat with them separately while discussing business ideas.
Unfortunately to some, I fond myself never truly attending school or living within the society I so longed for. Only to realize latter this was the best thing that could have ever happened. Teaching myself the three R’s, at 17 my mom left home, so I put myself through school & graduated HS at 18.
Self starter, 25+ yr construction vet, Started working the trade at 17, with a background in Pastoral construction before hand l was a relief foremen at age 18 of General contractor. Exterior stonemason foreman at age 19, Rod Buster foreman at age 23. I learned to live off the land at an early age. Now trying to put myself out there as a NEW Architectural Designer with my ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SURVIVAL DESIGN FOR TOMORROW™ BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE NOT TO RESIST IT. ARCH.E.S.D.T.™
I have a un-dieing thirst for knowledge and new experiences!
LIKES:
FISHING, HIKING, Wood carving....(Master Wood Jeweler), tinkering on old cars. Having a shop would be a plus, to work in...wood, metal, Inventor. A devout devotion to friends and love ones! Working hard to be the one finger on everyone's hand I meet. Passion, Honesty, Integrity, and perseverance working at as while. There is always room for improvement in one's life, for stagnate water grows no fish...Lol The study of the three dirty words and then some, like: Religion, politics, world affairs, philosophy, contract law, and business law. Love to read, and write books. Drawing anything that comes to mined, from a Dragon to a Mountain scenery.
Age five while in Houston TX panhandling, standing outside a fanatical institute, I couldn’t help being in aw of the structures before me and of the goings-on inside. I met two businessmen that day. Telling them about the epiphany I had that day & aspirations to design, build and run my own Company someday.
They had a good laugh, then asked what I would do if given a chance. My answer was good enough to earn my family and I lunch. At their request, I sat with them separately while discussing business ideas.
Unfortunately to some, I fond myself never truly attending school or living within the society I so longed for. Only to realize latter this was the best thing that could have ever happened. Teaching myself the three R’s, at 17 my mom left home, so I put myself through school & graduated HS at 18.
Self starter, 25+ yr construction vet, Started working the trade at 17, with a background in Pastoral construction before hand l was a relief foremen at age 18 of General contractor. Exterior stonemason foreman at age 19, Rod Buster foreman at age 23. I learned to live off the land at an early age. Now trying to put myself out there as a NEW Architectural Designer with my ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SURVIVAL DESIGN FOR TOMORROW™ BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE NOT TO RESIST IT. ARCH.E.S.D.T.™
I have a un-dieing thirst for knowledge and new experiences!
LIKES:
FISHING, HIKING, Wood carving....(Master Wood Jeweler), tinkering on old cars. Having a shop would be a plus, to work in...wood, metal, Inventor. A devout devotion to friends and love ones! Working hard to be the one finger on everyone's hand I meet. Passion, Honesty, Integrity, and perseverance working at as while. There is always room for improvement in one's life, for stagnate water grows no fish...Lol The study of the three dirty words and then some, like: Religion, politics, world affairs, philosophy, contract law, and business law. Love to read, and write books. Drawing anything that comes to mined, from a Dragon to a Mountain scenery.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Will our renewable resources last
With our renewable resources running out, you have to ask yourself how much longer will they last rebuilding what should have never fallen. If proper building practices were in place that addressed the environment with witch their in & the elements that be, we would not have losses year after year. Do you wonder how many homes could we have built with those same resources used to board up and/or rebuild every year, do the inadequacy of building design.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
LOSING LANDMARKS, LOSING LIVES
“THIS IS NOT AN AD, JUST A HANDICAP, X-CONSTRUCTION FOREMEN/MOM”
TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND START A COMPANY AT THE SAME TIME
Architectural Environmental Survival Design for Tomorrow™
BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE NOT TO RESIST IT. ™
Arch.E.S.D.T. ™
LOSING LANDMARKS, LOSING LIVES
After New Orleans's grate flood and countless loss of life, I wrote the Mayor of New Orleans and sent a copy of this e-mail to one of the newspapers in the area. This e-mail addressed my concerns for New Orleans and that I could offer a product that could save countless live and that the product could be manufactured in New Orleans to help the local economy as well. For this product could be marketed worldwide. The product is called “Life Pods™.” I prefer to spell it “Liphe Podds™.”
Liphe Podds™ are an escape capsule to be use-daring floods for residence to escape drowning. Liphe Podds™ can ether be put in by the resident or deployed by the power that be before or daring a disaster, like floods, tsunamis, tornadoes, and so on. I felt, being one that has come to “LOVE” New Orleans and it unique culture, that I must do everything in my power to save the lives of these people. So Liphe Podds™ were born and I know they can save lives. I told the Mayor of New Orleans if he would agree to help get Liphe Podds™ off the ground as well as put Liphe Podds™ to work in his own community, that I would only employee local workers and never relocate as while as have a slide scale fees for low-income folk. I never received a response. No wonder, he probably mustached me for a nobody, but as Bugs use to say “He don’t know me vary well do he!” I am the real thing and I can make a difference, just try me! My motto throughout life is “You have to tell me twice I’ll quit” I never Quit! M.K.B.
TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND START A COMPANY AT THE SAME TIME
Architectural Environmental Survival Design for Tomorrow™
BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE NOT TO RESIST IT. ™
Arch.E.S.D.T. ™
LOSING LANDMARKS, LOSING LIVES
After New Orleans's grate flood and countless loss of life, I wrote the Mayor of New Orleans and sent a copy of this e-mail to one of the newspapers in the area. This e-mail addressed my concerns for New Orleans and that I could offer a product that could save countless live and that the product could be manufactured in New Orleans to help the local economy as well. For this product could be marketed worldwide. The product is called “Life Pods™.” I prefer to spell it “Liphe Podds™.”
Liphe Podds™ are an escape capsule to be use-daring floods for residence to escape drowning. Liphe Podds™ can ether be put in by the resident or deployed by the power that be before or daring a disaster, like floods, tsunamis, tornadoes, and so on. I felt, being one that has come to “LOVE” New Orleans and it unique culture, that I must do everything in my power to save the lives of these people. So Liphe Podds™ were born and I know they can save lives. I told the Mayor of New Orleans if he would agree to help get Liphe Podds™ off the ground as well as put Liphe Podds™ to work in his own community, that I would only employee local workers and never relocate as while as have a slide scale fees for low-income folk. I never received a response. No wonder, he probably mustached me for a nobody, but as Bugs use to say “He don’t know me vary well do he!” I am the real thing and I can make a difference, just try me! My motto throughout life is “You have to tell me twice I’ll quit” I never Quit! M.K.B.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Say it isn’t so.
How long have you lived in the state or town your in? Do you watch the telly(TV)? What do you see? For me, I see year after year needless destruction of our communities. Then the state, town & city officials disregard the ill constructed commercial, industrial, and residential buildings after all is lost. Consequently, they okay new construction in the same old structural designs! Only to find them selves once again pleading the Federal Government for relief money do to a catastrophe. Over and over and over again, like the three little pig in straw and stick homes! I just wish they would listen to me, for the wolf is coming once again to blow it all down.
Who pays for it in the end? You do! In your home, health, and business insurance; through local, state and Federal taxes; loss of family and friends; personal and family heirlooms; local economy (like New Orleans); in new construction cost; and much much more!
I have the answers! I just need a good team of three Architects and two Engineers. I can bring change, for I believe in change! ARCH.E.S.D.T.™
Who pays for it in the end? You do! In your home, health, and business insurance; through local, state and Federal taxes; loss of family and friends; personal and family heirlooms; local economy (like New Orleans); in new construction cost; and much much more!
I have the answers! I just need a good team of three Architects and two Engineers. I can bring change, for I believe in change! ARCH.E.S.D.T.™
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Who's really in charge in your town when it comes to new development?
What of our City’s Planning Boards? Do they not care that what they okay to be built today could be gone tomorrow do to insufficient structural designs being used thus far. Lute alone the chipboard shit-board track-homes being built all over the US. The over build alone has cost local economy more then they can afford, with foreign investor reeking the rewards. Furthermore, the life of these homes is 10 yrs on average, with bowing & warping of the poor quality construction material.
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or outside developers.,
You,
your leaders
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Who's job is it if it's not mine.
Virtually no one, not even the IBC, UBC, or Local Codes have addressed the issues when arguing the cost to the American tax payer or the ever increasing insurance cost do to deficient configuration of buildings for the elements that be. Lute alone the ecological damage to the surrounding area. Every year to board up, sand bag, and rebuild do to inadequate structural design. Buildings being built disregarding the environment with witch they are intended.
FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU FOOL ME TWICE SHAME ON ME
NOTICES: Salutations
To all Investors, Developers, and regular folk tired of the same old stile of home & business structures. Only to find you can’t sell do to the mundane & repetitive design rut the Architectural Community has been in for the last 30 odd years? Want a designer that can plan for anything & brake through to a NEW EVOLUTION in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.
I am ready to step up & create standards of building design no other has thus far & where the IBC, UBC and Local Codes have not.
MY VISION: with the right team of engineers is to;
1.Built a home or business in tornado alley, and know that after a level 5 tornado goes through, my structure stands 75% to 100% better chance it will still be standing.
2.Have a home built in the 2000 ft above sea level with no cares if you became snowed in or warriors of suffering “Cabin Fever.”
3.Know in flood zones with life pods in place in everyone's backyard, no one would have to die from floods anymore. As while as with my new foundation system in place, home and business would have a 75% to 100% better chance of no water damage to the structure.
4.Create for you the Investor a impenetrable resort, hotel, or home along the coast lines where tsunamis are prevalent.
5.Eliminate the endless cost of Mother Natures furry. No more boarding up windows, packing sandbags, NO MORE NATURAL DISASTER ZONES do to everyday weather for that particular reign.
These are just a fraction of what I have in mined. The Keywords being “Environmental Survival” from the elements for said structure.
NOTE: Elements being, wind, water, Tornado, Tsunami, land erosion, lava, tidal waves, fire, avalanches, extra.
For me Environmental Survival means:
To build a structure that in design according to the environment with witch it must exist in. Thereby insuring it further existence even after being subject to the elements that be.
To all Investors, Developers, and regular folk tired of the same old stile of home & business structures. Only to find you can’t sell do to the mundane & repetitive design rut the Architectural Community has been in for the last 30 odd years? Want a designer that can plan for anything & brake through to a NEW EVOLUTION in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.
I am ready to step up & create standards of building design no other has thus far & where the IBC, UBC and Local Codes have not.
MY VISION: with the right team of engineers is to;
1.Built a home or business in tornado alley, and know that after a level 5 tornado goes through, my structure stands 75% to 100% better chance it will still be standing.
2.Have a home built in the 2000 ft above sea level with no cares if you became snowed in or warriors of suffering “Cabin Fever.”
3.Know in flood zones with life pods in place in everyone's backyard, no one would have to die from floods anymore. As while as with my new foundation system in place, home and business would have a 75% to 100% better chance of no water damage to the structure.
4.Create for you the Investor a impenetrable resort, hotel, or home along the coast lines where tsunamis are prevalent.
5.Eliminate the endless cost of Mother Natures furry. No more boarding up windows, packing sandbags, NO MORE NATURAL DISASTER ZONES do to everyday weather for that particular reign.
These are just a fraction of what I have in mined. The Keywords being “Environmental Survival” from the elements for said structure.
NOTE: Elements being, wind, water, Tornado, Tsunami, land erosion, lava, tidal waves, fire, avalanches, extra.
For me Environmental Survival means:
To build a structure that in design according to the environment with witch it must exist in. Thereby insuring it further existence even after being subject to the elements that be.
Arch.E.S.D.T. ™
Architectural Environmental Survival Design for Tomorrow™
BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE NOT TO RESIST IT.™
By: Mary K. Butler (StonewallMary)
I have been putting to question for sometime, the structural integrity & designs of buildings for over 10 yrs. All I hear now is Build Green and yet none of these buildings truly FLOWS with NATURE, they still succumb to the natures flow for the area it was built in. To truly “Build Green” we must build to “Flow with nature, not resist it!” For, as long as we build inappropriately for the environment with witch it’s built in, the structure will fail, do to the natural environments it must survive in. Just look at Tornado alley, flood zones, coastal properties, and flashflood/drought zones like Nigeria, Africa. So much destruction and waste of natural resources, this is not “Green” Build Design! Most significant, the countless lives lost. Furthermore, the content insurance increases, for live lost, hospital stay for recovery, home and property (family heirlooms that can never be replaced) and lost jobs. Read more on my Facebook Acct: Mary Katherine Butler (StonewallMary)
Arch.E.S.D.T. ™
Please believe in me, for I believe in you and your Tomorrow!
Vary truly Mary Katherine Butler (StonewallMary)
BUILD TO FLOW WITH NATURE NOT TO RESIST IT.™
By: Mary K. Butler (StonewallMary)
I have been putting to question for sometime, the structural integrity & designs of buildings for over 10 yrs. All I hear now is Build Green and yet none of these buildings truly FLOWS with NATURE, they still succumb to the natures flow for the area it was built in. To truly “Build Green” we must build to “Flow with nature, not resist it!” For, as long as we build inappropriately for the environment with witch it’s built in, the structure will fail, do to the natural environments it must survive in. Just look at Tornado alley, flood zones, coastal properties, and flashflood/drought zones like Nigeria, Africa. So much destruction and waste of natural resources, this is not “Green” Build Design! Most significant, the countless lives lost. Furthermore, the content insurance increases, for live lost, hospital stay for recovery, home and property (family heirlooms that can never be replaced) and lost jobs. Read more on my Facebook Acct: Mary Katherine Butler (StonewallMary)
Arch.E.S.D.T. ™
Please believe in me, for I believe in you and your Tomorrow!
Vary truly Mary Katherine Butler (StonewallMary)
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