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Ideas To Save The Planet...Welcome! I hope you are Well and Happy. Thanks for being here, for choosing to care about saving the planet, and for joining me in taking action to save it. The purpose of this website is promote my book, Ideas to Save the Planet, and to get the word out about the solutions that I'm seeing which can save the Planet and all of Humanity. The main ideas in my book are the global conversion to Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen gotten from Water, which leads to a Zero Emission and Energy Independent Planet, and Ending Global Warming, Hunger and Thirst by everyone getting their Fuel and Water by Desalinating the oceans of water that are rising all around us. Please see my tabs on this site and my Table of Contents for the chapter titles and more details on the ideas discussed in my book. Thank you for Choosing to Be a Hero for the Planet by taking action to Save it. Please support my efforts to save it and to live sustainably, by buying my book. It's Published by Wordclay, my ISBN is 978-6048-1101-8, and it's available for sale on Amazon.com and on Wordclay.com's bookstore. Please click on the my tab, Buy My Book! for a link to my publisher. Peace, My Invitation to Be More Powerful to Barack Obama - II wanted to help Barack Obama win the nomination, so I wrote him in April 2008 and invited him to Be More Powerful by suggesting that he spend some of his advertising millions on running a zero emission and energy independent campaign, by traveling around in Hydrogen burning buses and limos, and powering his offices and the studios he shot his Campaign commercials in with solar panels, wind generators, and hydrogen fuel cells, and powering his microphones during his speeches with portable fuel cells. By acting on this idea he would have made his campaign more powerful and he would also have gotten more use out of his money. It would have gotten him free advertising in the news media, not just on commercials, because every time he pulled up to a town in a zero emission hydrogen burning bus he would have gotten news coverage for that. He also would have been supporting renewable manufacturing companies and jobs, instead of only supporting Media Corporations with millions of dollars for relatively ineffective 30 second commercials. He would also have raised more money, because people would have been more willing to give him money to buy Solar panels, Wind generators, and Hydrogen fuel cells, rather than contributing to just another TV commercial. He would have won over more progressive and independent voters (25% of the population) by demonstrating that he is doing what he can to not pollute us and our children and what he's going to do when he gets into office, which would be to convert the entire nation to Clear and Clean energy technologies. Homes can be truly energy independent by being powered by Solar, Wind, and Residential Hydrogen Fuel Cells. The Fuel Cell was invented 170 years ago and NASA has been using them for 50 years. All cars, trucks, trains, factories, planes, and boats can be converted to Burn Hydrogen. Doing so would make them negative emission, because they fully burn up the pollution that is already in the air as it gets burned in the existing engines and turbines. The first gasoline car to be converted to burn Hydrogen was in 1920, 89 years ago. All Coal and Natural Gas fired power Plants can be converted to Burn Hydrogen and our entire power grid could be come Zero Emission and Energy independent. Everyone can generate their own Hydrogen fuel, for their homes and cars, by electrifying water with Solar and Wind, which was invented in 1805, 204 years ago. Farmers could also be generating Hydrogen with Solar, Wind, and Water while still growing food. We can also get our Hydrogen from the 3 Oceans of water at our coasts, 24-7, by using Tidal electricity to electrify it. I suggested that he revive our economy and create millions of jobs, building, selling, installing, and maintaining all these zero emission technologies, and manifest real energy independence, while truly defending the nation by getting serious about fighting global warming, by converting the entire nation and by going all the way and "Going Clear" directly to the 100% elimination of all emissions, instead of only "Going Green" and partially "reducing" some emissions. Unfortunately, he didn't listen to me. If he had, doing so would have given more substance to his slogans about Change and he would have more powerfully countered McCain's ideas about using Nuclear Energy and off shore drilling. (We would for sure strike Hydrogen off shore in Seawater, but we may or may not strike Oil or Gas. and Hydrogen is 100% never deadly ever, and Nuclear is dead for millions of years.) And we would be further down the road to a zero emission and energy independent nation and planet. I voted for Obama and I'm glad he won, I was just trying to make him more Powerful so he could win, and to inspire him fix our economy, lead the nation to real energy independence, and fight global warming. Now that he has won, I am going to write him again and try to help him mobilize the nation to save the planet. Hopefully he will listen to me and act on these ideas in the future. All things are possible. Todd A. Norman
Go All the Way and "Go Clear" instead of just "Going Green"I think that it's great the so many people are waking up to our global environmental problems, but I just think that Going Green doesn't go far enough. So I am challenging the Green Revolution to be more powerful in their goals and their language. Because most of time people who talk about Going Green only talk about "reducing" emissions instead of "eliminating" them, our becoming "Cleaner" not "Clean," and only being free from foreign Oil, instead of eliminating Oil completely. They are also talking about Energy Conservation instead of Energy Abundance. There is more Wind, Solar energy all around us, and more Hydrogen in the Seawater, than all the Coal, Oil, and Nuclear energy on this planet, and it's all zero emission. If we all used Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen, we wouldn't have to conserve energy, or go without driving, heat, or electricity. We should have the more powerful goal of Energy Abundance, because if we lived zero emission lives we could stop scrounging, having to worry about our carbon footprints, polluting our children, or about the survival of Humanity or the Planet. Green people are also making Energy Efficiency their primary weapon against Climate Change, which is stupid thinking. Energy Efficiency is not what is polluting your children! Coal and Oil is polluting them and killing thousands of people every year. If we utilized the zero emission and Abundant Energy sources that all around us, it wouldn't matter if we used them inefficiently. What would you be wasting? Sunshine, Wind, Tidal, Wave, Hydrogen from Rain Water, or Seawater? We need to stop wasting time and money on stupid baby steps like changing light bulbs. We need to go directly to Hydrogen, Solar, and Wind, zero emissions and energy abundance, and stop killing the Planet or ourselves with pollution, then argue about efficiency later. Rather than finding ways to continue to pollute ourselves, less efficiently I agree with other people, that instead of burning carbon we should be getting the carbon out of methane, when you get the hydrogen out of it, and make stuff out of that carbon, like tennis rackets, golf clubs, and car bodies. You can also buy carbon fiber shoes right now on the internet. So we all should have the goal of living zero emission, energy independent, energy abundant lives, so we can stop worrying about our emissions, and start wearing carbon fiber shoes and make REAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS! To help manifest such a future I'm suggesting that Bono wear Carbon Fiber Boots when he says, Get Your Boots On! I'm talking about inviting the world to go all the way with their intention to save the planet and to Go Clear! That is, go all the way to 100% zero emission and 100% energy independence, by converting their cars to burning hydrogen or driving a hydrogen fuel cell cars, and power their homes with Solar panels, Wind Generators, and residential hydrogen fuel cells. It's possible to live this way and has been for decades already. We just have to decide to live Clearly. Then demand these technologies from our Governments and businesses, because its the true defense of every nation. The survival of Humanity and the Planet depends on it. You can read more details about my ideas on this issue in my book, Ideas to Save the Planet. Please see my Table of Contents and the chapter: Go All the Way and “Go Clear” Instead of Only “Going Green,” Because It’s More Effective in Saving the Planet My Call to Greatness to the American PeoplePeople are saying that it's going to take another 20-50 years to get the Hydrogen Economy and a Hydrogen Fuel Cell car. I want to say those people, "We as a nation survived the Great Depression then mobilized the entire nation to build planes, tanks, bullets, and even Nuclear bombs and won World War II, a War that killed 50 million people, and Saved the World in only 3.5 years. That's why our grand parents are called the Greatest Generation. The Hydrogen Fuel Cell was invented in 1839, 170 years ago. The Electrolyzer, that generates Hydrogen from Water, was invented in 1805, 204 years ago. During these 170 years we have overcome the huge evils of Slavery and Segregation, won 2 World Wars, achieved great technological feats like building the Golden Gate Bridge, the Interstate Highway System, and we went to the Moon in only 10 years. Are you seriously saying that we can do all that, but it's going to take another 50 years, making it 220 years, just to get a Hydrogen powered car and home? We don’t need a Manhattan Project and spend billions on researching new energy technologies, because everything we need already exists. I think that this generation could be even Greater than our Greatest Generation if we only made fighting Global Warming and Saving the World, again, a National Priority, by converting to the zero emission energy independent Hydrogen, Solar, Wind, and Water Economy. Then mobilized the nation to build and install this technology, like they did to build planes, tanks, and bullets in World War II. If we mobilized this way the United States could fully convert to Hydrogen, Solar, and Wind in only 4 years, not in 50. We have more people, more money, and higher technology than the WWII generation had. Which is harder? Defeating Hitler and Japan and waging war all over the globe, or building and installing Solar panels, Wind generators, and Fuel Cells in/on every home, building, business, and car, just in the United States? Obviously saving the Planet from Global Warming with Hydrogen, Solar, Wind, and Water would be easier. Then we can help the rest of the World to live sustainably by spreading Clear technologies like Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen, instead of weapons of Death. We also help the world to Desalinate of the Oceans of Water that is all around us and every nation, and build Water Pipelines from every coast on earth, instead of Oil pipelines, which fuels this new Water Economy. I'm talking about modernizing every Home, Building, Business, Factory, Government Building, Car, Truck, Motorcycle, Train, Plane, Bus, Boat etc... full conversion to clean Power and Fuel - Worldwide. Creating a Zero Emission Energy Independent Planet. Thus we could Save the World, again, by Ending Global Warming, Ending Hunger and Thirst, and Wars for Food, Water, and Oil, but this time without killing 50 million people. American Revolution mobilized everyday people and the WW II generation already proved that such mobilization is possible. We just have to regain the Political and Moral Will, and Choose to be Great again! The survival of our homes, our children, our economy, our country, and our Planet depends on it. So let’s Get On it! Todd A. Norman (I’ve first wrote that in 2006 and have added to it, edited it, and updated the dates since. Al Gore said a similar speech in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, but I wrote this before I saw his movie. I think my version is more powerful because I’m calling for more specific action than Al Gore did. Also please see Roy McAlister’s book, The Solar Hydrogen Civilization for more details on his expert and detailed version of this idea. Al Gore and Barack Obama are only talking about converting the nation in 10 years and our being free from foreign Oil, and not fully converting in the 4 years and our eliminating all Oil, as I am. So I am still speaking more powerfully that both of them. I wish they would speak and act more Powerfully than I am and I have been trying to get them to, for years. But at least they are making an effort to mobilize the nation. Hopefully they will finally go all the way in that intention, to 100% zero emissions, and we all will succeed in saving the planet before it's too late.) Women Are Important and Can Play a Pivotal Role in Saving the PlanetI am honoring Women in my book and suggesting that Women could be playing a Pivotal Role in saving the Planet. Women can and should be mobilizing to save the planet by demanding the technologies that saves it, because it's the true defense of their health and their children. Many diseases, such as, Breast Cancer and childhood Asthma and Autism, are caused by pollution in our food, water, and air. Global Warming Hurricanes like Katrina are also killing people and are going to get worst before they get better. I say if you want to save the planet, go shopping! I agree with Diane MacEachern who advocates in her book The Big Green Purse that Women should be using their purchasing power to support products that don't kill the planet or pollute their children. I think that what she and other women are doing is great and we should all act on their wisdom, but I am inviting them and all women to be more Powerful in the way they implement their intention to take action. Because generally they are only talking about small things and not larger systemic changes, like I am in my book. For instance they are only talking about becoming "Cleaner" not "Clean," and environmentally friendly and instead of environmentally Loving. If someone was poisoning your child, would you reduce the rate that they were poisoning, by 10% over 13 years, or 80% over 50 years? or would you stop them from poisoning your child 100%, right now? Do you want to Love your mother earth or do you just want to be kinda friendly to her? I'm suggesting that Women Go all the way and Go Clear, by going directly to 100% zero emissions and energy independence, instead of just Going Green. (It's been possible to live Clearly for 170 years already.) They can be converting their existing cars to burn Hydrogen and be cleaning the air as they drive, talk to Roy McAlister and the The American Hydrogen Association Also they can power their homes with Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen Fuel Cells, generate their own hydrogen gas for their cars, and living 100% ZEEI (Zero Emission Energy Independent) lives. Therefore they would be doing what they can to not pollute their children with their homes and cars. Women can be demanding bio plastics; baggies, bottles, trash bags, etc... that don't leech nasty chemicals into their food, and which will compost and bio-degrade in 180 days. They could be choosing to live in Super Adobe homes because they are tornado, hurricane, earthquake, fire, and wind resistant, and uses 95% less wood to build, and are 1/3 the cost to build. Women should add demanding these technologies to their political activism and demanding these technologies from their governments, auto garages, and businesses. For instance, Michele Obama should be demanding that her husband stop all nuclear energy and lead the nation to become 100% Clear and stop polluting her children. 150 million American women could be writing President Obama and demanding Solar, Wind and residential Fuels cells, and that their car be converted to burning Hydrogen. One of my Idea Bombs is ... that women demand a Fuel Cell instead of a diamond ring from their Fiancés. If they did, new couples would start out their lives together without having to pay for electricity, never have blackouts, or polluting their children, while not contributing to Blood Diamond wars and while supporting Clear manufacturing jobs and doing what they can to save the planet for their children. I'm also suggesting that women like Oprah, Ellen, Amy Goodman, and the women on The View demonstrate how powerful women can be by demanding that their shows become 100% zero emission and energy independent, by their sets, lighting, and broadcasts be powered by Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen fuel cells. I also wrote the Queen of England and suggested that she Be More Powerful by converting all her castles, mansions, cars, and boats to Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen, and that she lead her family and the entire United Kingdom to become 100% zero emission and energy independent. The reason that we aren't already doing it is because people say "it's too expensive." Well, it's not too expensive for Oprah and the Queen and if they showed the world that it's possible, they would be doing what they can and it will get the ball rolling for the rest of us. Oprah could be giving away zero emission technologies on her give away shows and her Big Give show, and facilitating hundreds of homes becoming stainable. She could also be manufacturing "the Oprah Fuel Cell." Same with Martha Stewart, she could be selling "The Martha Stewart Solar Panel" and be giving them away on her show. Also in my book I have a long list of Women who I admire and who I honor for their service and contributions to Humanity. I am trying to mobilize the Women of the world to save the planet because I believe that Love and the Wisdom of the Goddess can help to save it. We just have to Spiritually Shift to Respect and Value Women's opinions, educate them about what's possible, then empower them with the tools they need to save it. All Women could be using their motherly instinct, wisdom, love, and compassion, and be demanding political and technological change that saves the planet for themselves, their families, and their children. Please help me to manifest these ideas and intentions. The survival of Humanity and the Planet depends on it. You can read more details about my ideas on this issue in my book, Ideas to Save the Planet. Please see my Table of Contents and my chapters: Women are Important and Can Play a Pivotal Role in Saving the Planet My Invitation to Be More Powerful to Oprah My Invitation to Be More Powerful to the Queen of England My Invitation to Be More Powerful to Helen Caldicott My Invitation to Be More Powerful to Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Super Adobe Homes – Hurricane, Tornado, Earthquake, Fire, Wind, Termite, Mold, and Mildew Resistant Homes that Use 95% less Wood Activism Can Save the Planet What Everyone Can Do to Save the Planet What You can Do to Save the Planet Solutions to the Ecomonic CrisisThe Global Economic Crisis can be solved be everyone mobilizing to save the Planet. In addition to fixing our bridges and roads, we, and every nation, need to convert to Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen, and desalinate seawater water on a large scale in order to stop polluting ourselves and our children. Doing so would end Global Warming, and revive every economy by manifesting jobs building, installing, selling, and maintaining the new technology that saves the Planet. Also businesses could be getting rich on saving the planet instead of killing it and doing so is going to create millions of good jobs. Those workers will also then have even more money to spend in the economy. If we had Universal Hydrogen fuel cells, Solar, and Wind, everyone could be saving thousands of dollars a year that they currently spend on car fuel, electricity, and heat, and be spending it else where in the economy. All Coal fired power plants can be converted to burn Hydrogen and every nation on the planet could have zero emission and energy independent grids. Jobs would be created to build new burners and install them. Also all cars can be converted to burn Hydrogen, (1920) so everyone can generate their own Hydrogen gas from water and be driving a Hydrogen burning car that clean the air as they drive, then people could drive as much as they want. Then tourism would go up because people are no longer restricted by gas prices. They could spend more when they travel, too. Air planes can be converted to Hydrogen, as well, which would make traveling cheaper and cleaner. The Space Shuttle's rockets and computers have been fueled by Hydrogen for 30 years. If everyone had Universal Health care and College, they would have tens of thousands of extra dollars to spend else where in the economy, as well. Also having a smarter and healthier work force is good for business. If people were healthy instead of being killed by pollution and from not having health care, they would live longer and pay taxes longer, which would help to pay for it. All of which would be more of an economic stimulus than a one time check or a bailout of banks, and not for just for us, but for all future generations! We could be paying for it all with a "You're Killing the Planet!" Tax, not this carbon cap and trade silliness. Governments should help everyone to operate with zero emissions, but if people refuse and continue to pollute, they get a huge, "You're Killing the Planet!" tax. If they want to stop being taxed, all they have to do is stop polluting. Others who are living Cleanly, would get a "Thank you for Saving the Planet!" Grant or tax cut. Any debt that we have to go into to do all that would get paid back quicker by a stronger economy, and our children will actually get something for the debt they have to pay. They will not only get bridges and roads, but also get solar panels, wind generators, fuel cells, no black outs, free power, fuel, and heat, clean air, no wars for Oil, Education, Health Care, and a Planet to live on. I don't think our children and grand children would say, "that's too expensive." All the tools we need to save the planet and every economy, already exist. We just have to have Vision, Intelligence, and Spiritual Will to pick them up and use them, Now! So let's Get On it! You can read more details about my ideas on this issue in my book, Ideas to Save the Planet. Please see my Table of Contents and my chapters: My Plan to Save the Planet – Change Our Priorities Universal Hydrogen, Solar, and Wind, Instead of Universal Nuclear Bombs, and End Nuclear Energy too. What's "too expensive"? We don’t have to Wait Until Tomorrow to Solve the World’s Problems Our Vision, Creative Thinking, and Action Can Save the Planet We Don’t Have to “Go Without” in Order to Save the Planet Developing Nations don’t have to Pollute in Order to Develop What Businesses and Corporations Can Do What Ford, GM, and Chevrolet, and All Car Makers Can Do My Call to Greatness to the American People My Solutions to Current Events Killing Universal Health Care is the Real Terrorism What Politicians, Governments, and the United Nations, the WTO, and the World Bank Can Do to Save the Planet Philanthropy to Save the Planet, What Millionaires and Billionaires Can Do Table of ContentsWith this preview of my Table of Contents, and its Sections and Chapter titles, you can to get a taste of the ideas and concepts that are discussed in my book. About the book, Ideas to Save the PlanetMy book is about my Vision, 11 years of Activism, and Ideas that could Save the Entire Planet and all of Humanity. In it have solutions to our Social, Spiritual, Political problems, and I’m speaking even more powerfully than Al Gore is about the solutions to our Environmental problems. I’m not an expert on most of the topics discussed in my book, but I've researched sustainable living for 9 years and I refer to many people who are experts. The whole point of this book is that you don’t have to be an expert to see the information that I’m seeing, to make the connections that I’m making, or to take action to save the Planet. I invite you to read my book to educate yourself about What You Can Do to Save the Planet and to read My Invitations to Be More Powerful to Al Gore, Oprah, Michael Moore, Leo DiCaprio, the Queen of England, Bono, The Dalai Lama, The Democratic Party, Amy Goodman, Actors, Celebrities, Musicians, and all the people of the World. My Intention in writing this book is to communicate what I’m seeing to everyone, that they hear my wisdom, then Spiritually Shift to see that Saving the Planet is a Moral Imperative and the True Defense of Every Person, Child, and Nation. I Hope to inspire the World to finally make Saving the Planet a Personal, National, and International Priority. It is possible to Save the Planet. Thank you for Choosing to Be a Hero for the Planet by taking action to Save it. We can’t wait any longer and we don’t have to wait, either. All the tools we need to do it, already exist. We just have to decide to pick them up and use them, Now! So Let’s Get On it! |
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