Positive News Release 13/02/12
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Positive News Release 13/02/12
Invitation
The FREdome Visionary Trust is convening a second All Party Parliamentary Meeting at the Houses of Parliament on the 7th of March 2012 at 4pm, in the Jubilee Room, House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, LONDON SW1A 0AA UK, on the economic and environmental merits of Operation OASIS. Contact: Greg Peachey to reserve your seat with CEO's and business leaders from Leading Companies and hear what they have to say about our plan to lead us out of recession with sustainable growth. Tel: +441727823131 Email: Greg (AT) fredome.org
Summary
(Are we flushing our chances of recovery down the toilet?)
For thousands of years humanity has farmed the land and failed to stop the onset of desertification due to poor soil and irrigation water management.
Food and fuel prices are out of control as crops continue to fail and fossil fuels are being exhausted.
Drought and famine are becoming acceptable failures and millions of people are again staring death in the face.
Deserts are expanding and farmers are forced to migrate to cities; pollution is inevitable from our consume-and-dump-lifestyle.
Unemployment is rising and economies are teetering on the brink of economic meltdown.
Flash floods and forest fires are becoming all too familiar as uneven distribution of rainfall wreaks havoc. Erosion of top soil spills into rivers and pours into the ocean along with wastewater from our toilets.
If business as usual continues unchecked and these trends continue, our very survival is threatened and we are destined to go the way of the dinosaurs!
Operation OASIS wins Herts Green Award
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Operation OASIS Winner of Herts Green Communications Prize
Great news. Our carbon cycling project Operation OASIS has won the 2011 Herts Green Award for a communications project.
Our founder Greg Peachey accepted the award on behalf of the FREdome volunteer team at the ceremony at the Hertfordshire Green Exhibition, Knebworth Barns on October 25th.
Greg writes:
Just to let you know, FREdome &
Operation OASIS was a finalist in two categories of the Hertfordshire Green
Awards (Green Project & Green Communications) and we won the Green
Communications category!
Thank you, Suzanne, for writing our successful application! And, of course, thank you Andrew for the
brilliant project!”
Main aims of Operation OASIS
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The Operation OASIS Logo shows the true extent of global deserts and desertification captured insode a raindrop. Today fertile land is being converted to desert at an unpresedented rate and we are already wittnessing global food shortages. Something has to be done now!
Operation OASIS is a plan to utilize the return ballast capacity of Bulk Crude Oil Carriers to treat and transport screened wastewater from Europe to the desert coastlines of countries affected by desert and desertification including, North and South Africa, Australia, USA, Middle East, Pakistan, China, Thailand
Objective: To create self sustaining coastal rainforests in deserts, working from the coast so that fog and rain can assist the operation by reducing the need for further irrigation, affording the project to move inland and along the coast.
Currently Thermal currents rise from dry sands along the coast of the Sahara and other arid deserts creating an effective thermal barrier that prevents the moisture that rises from the ocean during the day, from crossing onto the land to provide vegetation with sufficient water.
Operation OASIS Will prime the naturally occuring coastal atmospheric moisture with additional transpiration and evaporation from the coast, affording the cloud cover to cross onto the land more frequently by moving the thermal barrier inland.
Can trees and vegetation cause cloud formation?
Advisory Circular AC 00-6A published jointly by the FAA Flight Standards Service and the National Weather Service (NWS) is issued to Pilots and Flight Operations Personnel. The publication discusses “each aspect of weather as it relates to aircraft operation and flight safety”. It therefore contains well-verified, practical information. One section is devoted to assisting pilots to soar on the thermal air currents that rise from shore lines.
Figure 4 : Sea Breeze Soaring
This section states that “over arid regions” there is virtually no cloud: ”little or no cumulus development may be anticipated with a sea breeze front.”
Vegetation, however, does cause cloud formation: “Over vegetation, where air is usually moist, sea breeze cumulus are the rule.”
Where there is a large difference between land and sea temperatures, as there is at a hot desert coastline, then the moist air currents rise to great heights, forming towering cumulonimbus (storm clouds) and the on-shore breezes extend far inland:
“When convection is very deep, the frontal effect of a sea breeze may sometimes trigger cumulonimbus clouds provided the lifted air over land contains sufficient moisture.”
“A large difference in land and sea water temperature intensifies the convective cell generating a sea breeze. Where coastal waters are quite cool, such as along the California coast, and land temperatures warm rapidly in the daytime, the sea breeze becomes pronounced, penetrating perhaps 50 to 75 miles inland at times.”
See: http://www.aviationweather.ws/097_Sea_Breeze_Soaring.php.
Below is an image showing how low level clouds and fog banks hug the coastline of California. The same scenareo is evident on many arid coastlines and on occasions during a dry spell in the hot summer months takes place in my home town Paignton in Devon. Take note of the forested area in the upper part of the photograph that shows how these fog banks are able to move inland over coastal forested areas, in particular the area where the coast is parted by an expanse of water ajoining an inland expanse of sea water.
The constant up well of warm humid air from the proposed irrigation pilot project will rapidly cool the local atmosphere and this will alter the pressure below the clouds, fog and mist drawing them in from the ocean onto newly forested land. As well as providing efficient storage of carbon emissions, Trees can be used for removing heavy metals from soils, release a constant stream of moisture into the atmosphere and are very effective at condensing airborne moisture in the leaves and returning the distilled water back to the soil.
The trees ability to harvest atmospheric moisture has been successfully copied for thousands of years using nets to catch the mist. Today using a simple mist and fog harvesting system in the form of plastic netting suspended to catch moisture and return it to small farming communities in Arizona, Lanzarote and many other areas with an inherent lack of potable water bring life to lands where rain seldom falls to growcrops and trees.
These same nets can be used to great effect on the innermost borders of Operation OASIS to assist in the irrigation of trees and also to provide potable water for workers and animals, effectively converting waste water into clean fresh water through recycling evaporation from the irrigated sites.
Image credit NASA
FadeAfrica Meets Operation OASIS to resolve drought & famine Video | |
One small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind!
FADE Africa partners with Operation OASIS BBC I.M.O. Invaders From The Sea: Shipping Ballast Water Transports Invasive Marine Species | |
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A BBC Worldwide-IMO ProductionInvaders From the Sea" gives a unique insight into an important environmental issue: the transfer of harmful organisms in ships' ballast water. Filmed by the internationally renowned BBC Wildvision, this amazing story looks at how this phenomenon is affecting our coasts and millions of lives around the world and the measures taken by the global community to fight against these alien stowaways. Globallast is a cooperative initiative of the Global Environment Facility, United Nations Development Programme and International Maritime Organization. Operation OASIS eliminates this serious problem that only arises when ballast water is taken on board and returned back to the sea near a distant port, by providing shipping with an environmentally sound and profitable land based solution that will help to resolve climate change and secure global food, fuel, timber resources, wildlife habitats for future generations. OASIS will provide shipping with new a paid return ballast, new connections to more sustainable future cargoes moving produce generated from relaiming arid land to market. Operation OASIS involves transporting treated waste water, instead of seawater, from countries with excess, to arid desert coastlines to irrigate and plant new coastal forests and encourage agroforestry based practices which intrun will offset carbon emissions from shipping by locking away the excess carbon they prduce from burning fossil fuels into trees, fertile soil and crops. This action will restore the organic material in soils and bind the sand to improve fertility and most of all wat retention. The knock on effect of this approach should generate increased rainfall in some of the dryest regions on earth. Instead of depleating fish stocks and decimating coastal marine habitats OASIS offers a chance for us as a species to manage our environment sustainably.
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Davos, Switzerland, 28 January 2011 - Secretary-General's remarks to the World Economic Forum Session on Redefining Sustainable Development
We mined our way to growth. We burned our way to prosperity. We believed in consumption without consequences. Those days are gone. In the 21st century, supplies are running short and the global thermostat is running high. Climate change is also showing us that the old model is more than obsolete. It has rendered it extremely dangerous. Over time, that model is a recipe for national disaster. It is a global suicide pact. So what do we do in this current challenging situation?How do we create growth in a resource constrained environment?How do we lift people out of poverty while protecting the planet and ecosystems that support economic growth?How do we regain the balance?All of this requires rethinking.
Here at Davos – this meeting of the mighty and the powerful, represented by some key countries – it may sound strange to speak of revolution. But that is what we need at this time. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. A free market revolution for global sustainability.It is easy to mouth the words “sustainable development”, but to make it happen we have to be prepared to make major changes -- in our lifestyles, our economic models, our social organization, and our political life.
We have to connect the dots between climate change and what I might call here, WEF – water, energy and food.
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Fredome OASIS MP3 All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group Meeting- Houses of Parliament | |
MP3 Discussion about our successful presentation at the Houses of Parliament, attended by shipping consultants, eminent scientists, politicians, NGO's, environmental charities and general public. The discussion was well received and led on to building our team from people who attended and saw that the logic and feasibility of our approach worthy of further consideration. The sound files on this site were recorded at the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group debate on 18th November 2010. Podcasts
The chair of the Debate was th e Rt Hon.Katy Clark MP
Stab Team | |
Members of our team met in London at University College to discuss Operation OASIS Left to right: Andrew K Fletcher, Robin Buller, John Aitken, Tristan Smith, Greg Peachey, Colm Bowe, Craig Embleton.
The discussion aimed to identify risks and establish a framework for moving forward.The input from the meeting proved to be of conderable value. The outcome was that we identified and established work packages to help share the workload throughout the team.
The meeting ran over it's alloted time by 1 hour and everyone agreed that we must find a way to bring this project to fruition. Our main immediate objective is to seek International Partners in, Local community led agroforestry, Irrigation, Shipping, Water companies, Arid Coastal Land owners, Environmental groups, Oil Companies, Government Departments, and identify possible funding sources. We are curently persuing and E.U. application for funding our communications.
We need to establish a pilot project to demonstrate self sustaining agroforestry and anticipate a 4 kilometer strip of coastline will suffice to show that reforestation will induce additional rainfall and that trees will condense moisture from the increased humidity on the leaves and return it to the soil. Once Proof of concept is established Operation OASIS can be set up along the coastlines of many arid deserts.
Looking for answers to Climate Change? partt1 of 2.avi | |
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On the 18th of November 2010 at the Houses of Parliament a very important presentation relating to a feasible solution to climate change and rising green house gasses took place. |
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Operation OASIS is backed by the Fredome Visionary Trust Our aims: To bring rain back to deserts, so the world can grow enough trees and crops to stabilise the climate and provide desperately-needed food, fuel, safe materials and employment.
