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[Food and water]

Food is a big problem in the monetary system

because it can only be obtained with money.

People cannot live without food,

and the monetary system controls all the food.

If you do not believe me,

give up the monetary system,

take a bow and arrow and start hunting for food where you live.

It's very possible to be arrested by police

because you broke the rules of the monetary system,

although the Earth and it's resources cannot be owned.

It is also possible that you don’t find any animals,

probably because of habitat degradation

and the control of animals with farms.

Fruits and vegetables are difficult to find outside

of the monetary system as well.

Food is closely controlled by the monetary system.

As a result it is difficult to obtain it outside the system.

If you want to build a house with a farm,

to create your own conditions (food, electricity),

you have to buy land and materials from the monetary system

and then pay various taxes.

Food is the main weapon used to enslave people.

Once you have food control, you can manipulate beings who need it.

Food is a problem in the monetary system

because it comes along with other products

that are considered commodities.

Food is a commodity?

Analyze humans and with that information,

decide whether food is a commodity.

No wonder the monetary system transformed food into an event:

romantic dinner,

Thanksgiving dinner,

all holidays promote food in some way.

Many people die daily from lack of food

or because of poor food quality.

People accept the monetary system

because they are unable to live without the resources it controls.

Drinkable water was abundant decades ago

and nobody had any reason to sell it,

that’s until it was transformed into a business.

This situation is as ridiculous as purchasing air to breathe.

- I think Jacque, you mentioned a statistic that I've...

was about water scarcity, that we are on pace to run out of water.

- Was that a statistic that you had, I couldn´t remember."

(Jacque Fresco) - While there is floods going on all over the country,

how can you have a water shortage?

- What we have to do is harness the flood waters.

-Right -The people live near a giant waterfall, with lots of water,

nobody steals water.

- Nobody packages the air in front you, and takes it home with them.

- There is so much of it, there's just no need to steal it.

What we have to do is produce an abundance,

make it available to most people.

Crime is based on scarcity, most crimes.

The answers are really very simple they're not complicated. -Sure

What is complicated is the educational system today, which is false.

If we dump stuff into the ocean, toxic materials

and we pollute the air, we are not civilized.

As long as we have prisons and military solutions,

you know, military people are sincere

they really want to defend the country, but they don´t know how.

Armament, airplanes and machine guns, all that is crude and vulgar.

The same as a caveman,

they're not much different.

[Alternative solutions]

Instead of millions of dishes

we produce just a few, but enough for everyone.

What would you think about food abundance?

What about supermarkets that are always filled with food

but only those who have money can buy it?

What about foods that expire and are thrown away,

this when thousands of people die of hunger every day?

What about the tons of food wasted every day?

What about animal foods?

We could just produce something similar for humans instead.

After all, the monetary system is for humans.

Why not produce bread with vitamins in it

for those who die of hunger, an abundance of them?

If I tell you that a tonne of wheat now costs EUR 100,

and if you compare that to what road grit costs,

what the salt costs that we put on the roads in winter,

well its just unreal.

Nowadays grit costs more ...

than the wheat the farmers produce.

People should know about that,

they really should.

There should be a fair price for our produce.

People shouldn't say things like:

"a schnitzel shouldn't cost more than 2 euros".

Then everybody's suprised that

we have factory farms with 20,000 pigs.

That's the issue: whether that's what we want.

But evidently it is what people want,

because it's getting worse and worse.

We take away about 2 million kilos of bread a year,

but there's nothing wrong with it.

It's no more than two days old, fit for anybody to eat.

And I still see, even though I´ve been in the business

more than ten years now and I always drive the same route,

I still see old people stopping and staring,

because they just can't believe what we're doing.

The amount of unsold bread sent back

to be disposed of every day in Vienna

Welcome back to Good Morning Northwest HD. Well It is said that on average a family will throw away about 1/3 of all the food that they purchase.

Karen Obrien is here with a cool clip one that will show you how turn expiring food into a meal.

That's right, yeah if you're like me I hate to waste food, but inevitably,

I will throw away that almost rotten group of vegetable, and it pains me, I hate throwing away food.

But this web site, lovefoodhatewaste.com,

It will show you how to turn anything from stale breads to dried out mushrooms,

and bottom of the cereal bread crumbs into the actual meal.

So let me show you the first waste saving tip they have on this web site,

and it's something I struggle with, that's portions, and it's right here in the red tab.

And... all you have to do is choose from the popular food here, that people have problems with portions.

I never choose pasta because I always either cook too much or too little.

Nothing wrong with left over though; when you cook too little that's a little disappointing.

So here I'm usually cooking for two adults, no children, but you can also choose for children.

Next step you need about 200 grams of pasta. Another helpful tip is that with rice they use

a handfull portions, or halfmug portions, so really easy to understand.

Another one is the meal planner, save time and money

they make a list for you, right here, two weeks meal planner, where all you have to do is print out the shopping list,

shop for it and your meals are already planned. So you're not gonna waste any food, you're not gonna buy too much or too little, that's a great thing.

Now coming up the next half hour I'm gonna show you, the best part of this web site and that is:

all you have to do if you have something about to expire or food that's just getting to that point where it's a little bit limp, the veggies, you know what i'm talking about?

Choose from this list, it will show you

how to make a meal out of that almost expired food.

And there's actually a way to use the crumbs of the bottom of the cereal box darling?

Yeah, this is for the people who hate wasting food so much that they lick their plates, it's true.

You can use the bottom of the crumbs in the cereal bag,

put it into a bread mixture, and take out the equal amount of flour, and it actually adds texture to your bread,

as according to this website. So you can put your favorite cereal into your bread. Yum! Sounds good to me.

So, what I wanted to explore this half hour is, you have some food expiring, you have some veggies that are going limp,

What do you do with them? You don't want to waste them.

Well this will show you a recipe to use all of your expired items.

So it does the work for you, cause recipe books don't always... you know, categorize things

by expiring foods, so this takes all the guessing out of it,

let's explore it here, all we have to do is go to this blue tab, called recipes...

well wait for it to get there...

and then at the top there's four categories,

you want to go to "rescue recipes" and of course the word rescue is the main word here

so let's say you have... I have a problem with celery always going to waste because it gets that little ???

I don't want to use it, but apparently we can, and here is four recipes here that you can use, celery that's gonna go to waste.

Same thing with cheese, you can go to cheese.

Really easy so explore this website lovefoodhatewaste.

With these new cages

even farmed fish would be able to travel the ocean.

They were created by researchers at MIT by attaching two

huge propellers to spherical cages nineteen meters wide.

The new fish homes could become an alternative to conventional cages

which are anchored in one place.

Large amount of fish feces can become trapped under cages,

and damage the seafloor and marine life nearby.

Since the swimming cages are designed to drift with water currents

they never sit in one place long enough to cause harm.

And if they flow too far off course

they can take control by powering up their own propellers.

A small boat tethered above

carries a diesel generator to power the motors.

The researchers recently tested the prototype in Puerto Rico

and found that it was easy to maneuver.

The cage was able to propell itself at a steady rate of 0.3 meters per second.

Hi, I'm Matt Scol with Discovery News. We're here in New York City at the science barge to learn about sustainable urban agriculture.

Sustainable urban agriculture is a way to grow food in the city,

either on buildings or in vacant lots and available space to reduce food transport in the cities and really grow food where people live,

for more carbon neutral fresh flavorful nutritious products. The Science Barge floats in the Hudson River in NYC

and is the only working example of a sustainable urban farm in the area. Their mission is to not only grow food

without damaging the environment around them, but also to educate people on the benefits of sustainability.

Sustainability is really reducing the impact on the environment with choices you make.

What you decide as a consumer to purchase as a food product you are really voting with your food dollars

in what you believe in. The sustainable production methods that we're looking at are controlled environment agriculture,

so we are looking at greenhouses coupled with recirculating hydroponic systems, powered by

renewable energy sources and irrigated by rain water collection. On the barge these renewable energy

systems consist of solar panels, wind generators and a biodiesel generator, that energy is used

to power pumps that help grow plants to water based technologies, and it can even help grow fish.

We can't really see them but, because the water has all this compost in it, but we have Tilapias in this tank,

and so what we are doing is all the plant material that we have left over that we're not eating, we compost that,

we compost it with worms and then those worms we feed to our fish, our fish waste goes to a biological filter to convert some of the...

elements, then that will go to feed our plants and then the plants will take up those nutrients, clean water

for the fish, so this is just a continuous cycle and that lets us to produce fish and plants in the same space,

still using controlled environment agriculture but eliminating some of those other inputs that we're using like fertilizers.

To get water for these systems we have two ways, we get water from the rain and from the river.

So these are our rain water storage tanks, we have twelve hundred gallons of storage capacity here,

we get the rain from the greenhouse roof. The greenhouse is thirteen hundred square feet so in a one inch

rain event we can collect about eight hundred gallons of water. And with the collection of this water that will be

used and reused before being dumped back out in the environment without hazardous waste,

the cycle of sustainability is complete. This type of sustainable farming works

for the barge in New York, which now can urge people to think about the best sustainable process for their area.

Sustainability is important for every decision that you make and that decision that you do make is dependent on

where you are and what is available to you.

Have you ever wondered how far your food travels before it winds up on your plate?

Well we live in one of the world's largest cities, the fresh vegetables or even pork may no longer come from a few

states away, but may soon come from a 30 story building down the block.

This is Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier. Despommier and his students have developed

a concept called vertical farming. The aim is to grow crops and raise animals inside skyscrapers in city centers.

A vertical farm in our view is a tall building, transparent, in an urban center, that grows our food. The vertical farm

of the future which is a 30 story building will be one which grew out of a classroom project that I gave my students after we decided to farm indoors.

So I asked them how many stories high and how large a building would you have to build In order to feed

50,000 people a year. And they came back to me and said it's 30 stories high, and it's a full city block

which is 5 acres of land. Through hydroponics the solution based method of growing crops without soil,

and by decreasing the distance between producer and consumer, Despommier believes vertical farming can

significantly reduce our dependance on fossil fuels. He feels this will then in turn reduce food costs

and lessen pollution. 1/5 of all the fossil fuels used in USA is used for agriculture even to plow the fields

to harvest the crops, to store the crops, to refrigerate them or to ship them, or to process them further for value added things like high fructose corn syrup.

So, fossil fuels plays a huge role in normal agriculture. They will not play any role whatsoever in urban vertical farming, none.

The idea of vertical farming has spread far beyond Columbia University and has now caught

the attention of people around the world.

Water

70% of the Earth is covered in Water.

70% of the Human Body is composed of Water.

Water has been dubbed...

"The source of life"

but It can also be...

a source of Death.

In the developing world, most people do not have running water.

2.5 Billion people do not have a toilet or latrine.

Feces can easily reach the drinking water.

A single piece of fecal matter contains:

1,000,000,000,000 viruses

and 10,000,000 bacteria

Without sanitation and hygiene,

water sources can become contaminated.

People who drink the water can contract water-related diseases like cholera, most of which cause massive diarrhea

Diarrhea kills 4,100 children per day

90% are under 5 years old

Children who drink unsafe water often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any given time.

Death due to dehydration

can occur within hours of contracting diarrhea

Each year, 443 million shool days are lost due to diarrhea and water-related illnesses.

Young girls are often forced to abandon their education in search of clean water.

This trend continue into adulthood, often perpetuating female disempowerment.

Diarrhea episodes can be reduced...

50% by household treatment

42% though hand-washing

23% by improving sanitation

and 23% by improving water supply

Affordable water-treatment solutions include...

Chlorine tablets

Ceramic filters

Solar disinfection

and Flocculation / Disinfection.

These powerful water treatment solutions can cost as little as a penny a day.

After a few failed prototypes, I finally came up with this, the Lifesaver bottle. Ok now for the science bit.

Before Lifesaver the best hand filters were only capable of filtering down to about 200 nanometers. The smallest bacteria is about 200 nm.

So a 200 nm bacteria is gonna get through a 200 nm hole. The smallest virus, on the other hand, is a about 25 nm.

So that's definitely gonna get through those 200 nm holes. Lifesaver pores are 15 nm, so nothing is getting through.

So some water from the river Cherwell and the river Thames, the floater here and this is the water.

But I got to thinking... you know, if we were in the middle of a flood zone in Bangladesh, the water wouldn't look like this.

So i've gone and got some stuff to add into it, and this is from my pond. Have a smell of that Mr. Cameraman.

Right. We're just going to pour that in there.

Ok. We've got some runoff from a sewage plant farm, so i'm

just gonna put that in there... there we go.

And some other bits and pieces. Chunk that in there and I've got a little

gift here from a friend of mine's rabbit. So we're just gonna put that in there as well.

Now, the life saver bottle works really simply.

You just scoop the water up, today I'm gonna use a jug just to show you all, it's got a bit of that poo in there.

That's not dirty enough let's just stir that up a little bit.

Ok. So I'm gonna take this really filthy water and put it in here.

Do you want to drink it?

Ok. There we go.

Replace the top.

Give it a few pumps, ok?

That's all that's necessary. Now as soon as I pop the teeth, sterile drinking water is gonna come out.

I got to be quick. Ok, ready? Here we go. That is safe, sterile drinking water.

Here you go Chris.

Lifesaver bottle is used by thousands of people around the world. It lasts for 6,000 liters and when it's expired

using fail safe technology the system will shut off, protecting the user. Pop the cartridge out, pop a new one in,

it's good for another 6,000 liters. So let's look at the applications. Traditionally in a crisis what do we do?

We ship water. Then, after a few weeks we set up camps and people are forced to come into the camps

to get their safe drinking water. What happens when 20,000 people congregate in a camp? Diseases spread

More resources are required the problem just becomes self perpetuating. But by thinking differently,

and shipping these, people can stay put. They can make their own sterile drinking water and start to get on with

rebuilding their homes and their lives. Now, it doesn't require a natural disaster for this to work.

Using the old thinking of national infrastructure and pipework is too expensive.

When you run the numbers on the calculator, you run out of notes.

So here's the thinking different bit. Instead of shipping water and using man made processes to do it,

let's use Mother Nature. She's got a fantastic system, she picks the water out from there, desalinates it for free,

transports over there and dumps it onto the mountain rivers and streams. And where do people live?

Near water. All we've got to do is make it sterile. How do we do that? Well we could use Lifesaver Bottle.

Or, we could use one of these. The same technology, in a jerrycan. This will process 25,000

litres of water. That's good enough for a family of 4 for 3 years. And how much does it cost? About half a cent a day to run.

Thank you. So, by thinking differently and processing water at the point of use,

mothers and children no longer have to walk 4 hours a day to collect their water. They can get it from a source nearby.

So with just 8 billion dollars, we can hit the millennium goal's target of halving the number of people without access

to safe drinking water. To put that into context, the UK government spends about 12 billion pounds a year on foreign aid.

But why stop there? With 20 billion dollars, everyone could have access to safe drinking water.

So the 3.5 billion people that suffer every year as a result, and the 2 million kids that die every year will live.

One of Australia most vital resources is being created out of thin air, an airline company is producing limitless

quantities of drinking water using nothing but the air we breath.

This rather ordinary looking machine is turning the air we breath into a precious resource that's fast running dry.

Beautiful tasting water. Yes, just like normal water. The most abundant source of water available on the

planet right now is in the atmosphere. I mean, you see it fall as rain. What we do is we take that vapor

that's available in the atmosphere, we condense it into drinking water, and you don't have to wait for the rain.

Air is sucked in through the bins, filters purify it, moisture then condenses in this tank,

it's treated with ozone and then filtered. Up to 20 liters a day is ready to drink, the larger industrial size

can supply even more. That machine will make 1,000 litres of water a day, it will supply all your water needs

for your entire house. The smaller version will initially cost around 1,600$ then another 16 cents for every

liter of water made. By adopting this kind of technology we could have an endless supply of water. After all

it's all around us, it's in the air that we breath, all we've got to do is capture it.

And we're looking to build bigger and bigger units. I think it could be a huge part of the solution for the problem

here in Australia.

With current techonology, those who die of hunger, do not die, they are killed.

That's the truth.

Water is already abundant on the planet,

and purifying it is just a problem of using technology,

not even a problem of technology.

Solutions through technology exist

and could be applied starting yesterday,

but the monetary system is limiting the technology

to maintain the cycle of consumption.

If an organization,

created by intelligent beings,

does not have necessities as its main concern,

then the organization itself must be the one to blame.