NGO'S please implement the changes as required now that you have the CO2e-money printing machines!

NGO's please take-up your new roles, act as the partner you're required, do what you've been investing in all these decades.  Since 2005, a tree is not just a tree, it's a printing machine of money. Of money of the Low Carbon Economy and let's hope we can push the CO2e-certificates to be the money of immediately a sustainable society.  But if you want that change you've been working for, then you have to get out of your trenches.  The best CO2e-certificate generating projects are those that are done with local cooperatives, as close to the people as possible: investors don't want to invest in 10 km2 of PhotoVoltaics in the middle of nowhere.  Investors want to put 10 km2 of PV on the roofs of people, schools, health centers, libraries, you name it.  But it's not happening enough because the ngo's that have the contacts with these grassroots and cooperatives and local groups, don't come out of their trenches in which they've had to burry themselves for decades.  They keep behaving too often and too long as if the 2005 turning that is the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol didn't happen.  Get trained in talking "Kyoto", it will be a very short workshop for you.  Go quickly update on how exactly you can go print that CO2e-money, who wants to invest in such projects, who needs the CO2e-certificates and take that money to where it belongs and become rich in the process of helping out !

The money is there, the Kyoto Protocol is there, the technologies are there ... it's just walking the talk now.

Skype me: SvenAERTS for a setting-up a workshop.

De vrije markt - 09/10/10

De vrije markt - 09/10/10: Open Antwerp goes bust. Where is the Toyota Prius made? What is the name of the Mazda and Honda hybrid? And where are they made? And when did they start investing in those? And what is the name of the town with the first electric car charging grid or do you have an electricity plug at home in your garage? Offer your buildings, walls, roofs, elder generation as a place where these asian tigers can come put insulation, PV, rainwater recup in at a zero-investment solution for the aging society. Winers!

+200.000 additional inhabitants in Brussels by 2020. With or withouth Climate Refugees?

By 2020, some +200.000 additional inhabitants are expected in Brussels.  I wonder if the people estimating this number took into account some Global Climate Destabilization factor.  The 1 billion people living in permanent threat of a Climate Distater according to the moderate scenario for an average Global Warming lower than 2°C, are not going to just let themselves "die".  They're going to flee if possible.

De Zenne, after the Temperature Shock, the Anoxic shock, now the Osmotic shock

It's very easy these days to have a meal in Brussels: just go to the canal with your plate and you'll find plenty of fish, death, salted and fried.

Average temperature increase due to the Greenhouse effect, resulted in algae blooms, anoxic waters, death fish this summer. Now the Acquiris - Veolia (former USFilter-Generales des Eaux/Vivendi, I know as I was their employee at the time and even worked on the project), who financed, built, owns and operates the water treatment plant for most of Brussels sewage, was confronted by a rather peculiar "water load" as it is called: not the usual sand, plastic and papers, but chunks of wall and concrete pipes. Floating fridges, an occasional tyre followed by the rest of the car. Completely above agreed upon "load", clogging the grids and damaging the filters of the station, resulting in a release untreated water, very high in toxics and nutrients, resulting in an anoxic shock for the remaining fish.

Well done all involved! The fish will now sue you in the form of Greenpeace/WWF/friends of the earth/local nature group? Or the government itself will penalise itself? Well, she's happy with the "deal". Well I don't think a minister of Environment can be very happy when she had to leave Copenhaegen for this, and confronted with fish dying from an osmotic shock from the salt now. Stop that, use something else to keep you from slipping.

The poor living water creatures, heavily weakenedd by the anoxic attack soon after faced an osmotic attack from all the salt that's generously thrown on the roads during a couple of days of snow. Do we really need to throw salt on small roads? Why not diversify with some sand, alcohol, wood dust?

I looked downstream if no orka's or other salt water fish came swimming up the river ... Acquiris people first eaten by crocodiles that survived in the sewage system, anaconda's, spiders, giant rats ... now attacked by an orka. Blue whale stuck in 3 turn to the left. Massive flooding before sea-level water rises. What a sight it would be.

A temperature shock, an anoxic shock, an osmotic shock ... what a life for those fish.

I rather get back inside, TV 's showing a nice nature documentary: Life ... in Climate Change, biodiversity to drop by 30% per °C average increase. I zap away to find the news: Kopenhaegen failed... expected limitation to 2 °C, meaning peak temperature by 2015 is ruled out. Wait a second, 1°C = -30% biodiversity, 2°C = -60% biodiversity, 4°C = -20% biodiversity? Fortunately things stop at zero. Is there no good movie? Ah: The Age of Stupid.