The Next Steps for 2012

Beloved, allow your hearts to breathe the Christ Light and feel the celebration taking place at the heavenly domes. The Hierarchy of Light has gathered along with the Galactic Federation of the Planets* and head on full action now to planet Earth, transmitting a powerful vibration... 

Beloved, open your hearts to the celebration of Love taking place inside you. Open your hearts to your sacred truth, the Light I seeded in your heart. Beloved ones, you are this Light and you need to let it shine now.


The communities of the Light within you are the ones who ask for it now!


The company of heaven celebrates the coming of this Light, the coming of truth in your hearts. Allow the ecstasy and your Love for the Divine to spread in the communities of Light of your own heart. I come in direct contact with you now like never before. You are the bearers of Christ consciousness, lilies in the garden of the Divine.


Now allow your Love to shine and as you do this, the star of birth shines in your heart. The star of birth which guides you through three wise truths. Love, Wisdom and Power!
Beloved, you know that this is a period of change and transition. You have prepared for this period. So now allow these three wise truths of your heart to manifest in your every day reality and lead you to the star of your soul.


The birth which is about to happen within you is the birth of the Christ!


It is the birth of my presence in you! That’s why we celebrate loved ones, because the Light workers, the workers of God’s work receive this Light in their hearts and the birth gets completed in this era in the hearts of men.

The Rainbow Energy & the 12:12:12 Portal

In the outer reality you experience, many changes will happen which will be followed the one after the other, gradually and in a balanced pace, leading the planet to the final alignment. The energies of Love, of the rainbow are coming now to your planet through the Christ energy to the crystalline grids of the planet and embrace the Earth. This energy will be completed on the 12th of December 2012 (12:12:12).


Like I told you at the beginning of this gathering, the Hierarchy of Light along with the Galactic Federation of the Planets are directed to the Earth transmitting a powerful vibration. It is about the Mahatma energy, the integrated energy of the Divine Source which will secure the smooth transition of the Earth to the fifth dimension.


Beloved ambassadors of the Light, you know in your heart, in your own sacred silence, the truth which is radiated through the Regions of the Light and this is Love. Love needs to manifest on Earth! Love needs to spread everywhere and embrace everything, all that are manifested in existence. This is the Divine Plan and this is the Love of the One! 

The Next Steps for 2012:

Manifested Love, Peace, Unity and Togetherness!

Beloved, in the next year you are called to remove all imprints of fear that others have set there for you or you set for yourselves. You need to be released and to release. Peace will be your compass in this journey. The Light in your heart will be the star of your soul which will be guiding you.


A big event will happen in March 2012 which will affect Europe and the entire planet. This occurrence will bring together all groups of Light workers. It is about an event which will unite people like an embrace of love towards existence itself. Prepare for this and prepare your hearts, awakening the flame which burns inside you, giving her Love every day through your thoughts, your words and actions. Let this flame grow in you. This flame is about to spread from heart to heart in the next period.


This is the flame that will claim you as living Sons and Daughters of God!


Beloved ambassadors of Light, you live in times where many have died in spirit and live in matter. This period you are called to resurrect from the dead the souls of truth which exist in them. This work was assigned as a mission to you, the bearers of Light of Christ Love.


At the same time there is great help from all the Masters of Wisdom on multiple levels, from the entire Hierarchy of Light, all the Saints and Wise ones, who work on a higher level for the restoration of truth, justice, peace and love on the sweet earth.


Be attuned, now like never before with this flame which burns in your heart!


Your security and your happiness is in there, nowhere else. Reality is the one which lives in there and that reality will become your own outer reality. Let it leave in you, let it be. Give her the space to expand in other aspects of your life. Allow her to become your sun!

Embodiment of the Sacred Christ Heart!

I am here for you...
I hear your thoughts from the moment you were born...
I listen your heart in the eternity where your Being is...
I talk in your heart...
I speak and all of you hear me...
I am always here beloved!
Let your heart sing the song of your soul, the songs of the divine. Having the inner compass you find the way and you lead with your consciousness those who have lost their compass. Stay tuned beloved ones.
I let this Sacred Fiery Heart, the Living Heart, the Christ Heart to radiate to all of you.
I let my heart merge with yours.
We are One Beloved!
Allow this reborned heart vibrate in you.
Hear her, feel her, follow her while the portals will be opening the one after the other, month by month. As you approach to the alignment, that heart will be feeling my presence more intensively, in every step of yours, in your every word and deed.
The time of return in your heart is here.
This is the hearth you will enter. The hearth of the heart.
She who gives life, to your body.
She who helps to all of your vital functions.

She who shares her Love everywhere and you function as human beings.
This is home.
This is the portal which embodies all portals.

Plosion of Psychological Consciousness: Stay in Love!

Beloved, like I told you before, the coming things don’t need to scare you. Don’t get into fear because simply it’s not Love. Stay in Love and you will see things differently. Fear will lead many of your fellow people in situations of non balanced psychological consciousness, the next summer. Many people will feel a psychological wave of imbalance which will be coming from you as humanity. This needs to be relieved.


The wave that is coming, the Mahatma energy, the Christ energy of the rainbow that will embrace the Earth will transmute all these energies and will open the way for all souls to be taken to their new land, the land of the heart. Through in there you will communicate, through there you will perceive the reality you will be living.


So in order to help in this process, in order for more people to be resurrected in the consciousness of the heart, you need to shine this Light at the areas you live, in your close environment. Allowing the star of the soul to guide you, the core of your heart burning unceasingly with the Light of the integrated Christ, absolutely balanced in your heart. The one which is brought by the spherical consciousness of Mother Goddesses and Father God in union inside you.


Become workers of Peace and Love of Light of your heart and your path will be unfaltering, because you will be walking on the path of the heart and the ground will hold you. The ground which you name as reality.


Through the star of the heart which transmits the Christ energies, I spoke truly,


Yeshua/Sananda.
Channeling from Master Yeshua through Paschalis Kazakopoulos | 21 Dec.11 

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Note: The Galactic Federation of Light: An organisation of 200.000 Star Systems which was created million years ago in order to prevent the beings who thirst for power and fear to make wars and occupy other Star Systems. It is an organisation whose purpose is to transmit Light and Love. The Galactic Federation of Light for this quadrant of our Galaxy is located in the Etheric of Sirius.

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Having trouble sleeping?

Having trouble sleeping? Do you constantly feel like you’ve had ten cups of coffee and are running on adrenalin lately? Is your tiredness level set to Extreme Exhaustion but nothing is helping because even while you try to rest, the blood and heart are pumping away at a furious rate? Welcome to the Sunspot/Solar Flare stage of our process!


Sunspots are scientifically explained as dark spots that appear and disappear on the Sun’s surface, caused by intense magnetic activity. According to science, a sunspot by itself has a relatively small affect on the Earth (yet still does have AN affect). When lots of sunspots appear in close proximity to each other it tends to be a pretty good sign that a Solar Flare (solar explosion or release of energy) will happen from that area, which has a relatively big affect on our Earth.


On an energetic level I see the sunspots as mini-eruptions or releases of the sun’s energy while Solar Flares are mega-eruptions. I tend to receive downloads of information first, and then later receive scientific or other ‘real life’ confirmation, so it’s always exciting to read research that matches exactly how I am being shown things. The way I see Solar Flares, and what actually happens, is that they slam into our Earth’s magnetosphere triggering geo-magnetic storms, which play havoc with our internet, navigation systems, computers, radio waves, television and weather. 


Yes we have had Solar Flares before on our planet, but we’ve never had the MEGA Solar Flares we are due to experience while we’ve had SO much technology running the planet. As my sister Jel pointed out recently “People have been scared that our future is based on a world where machines rule the planet, but look around, the machines are running the planet now!!” A big solar flare cycle in 1913 is going to have an entirely different affect on us than a big solar flare cycle in 2011-13. Contrary to the fears that this will signify the end of us, this has potential to be a very positive thing, albeit temporarily chaos-creating.


We are being disconnected from our artificial sources of power, which will force us to connect with authentic and natural sources of power. Short term challenge = long term benefit for all. This doesn’t mean we’ll all go back to the horse and cart and have to give up our dependency on Facebook. Rather we will be awakened to the reality of free, natural energy solutions so that we no longer drill the Earth for her oil. People will no longer have to work to spend half their pay cheque on electricity bills and fuel. There ARE free, natural energy alternatives, and it seems more and more likely that one of the reasons the existence of other-planetary life is constantly denied by official military and government sources is that once we finally do make collective conscious contact with these intelligent highly evolved beings we will realise the degree to which we have been denied so much that is easily available to us! The official Denial stance has nothing to do with thinking contactees are crazy nor is it a matter of national security. It has everything to do with the power and money held by a very small group of people, that they will no longer have once the people are free and empowered. The rules of the game are changing right before our eyes because another affect of this major eletro-magnetic action is that it is waking us all up big time. Pretty soon we are not going to have to wait for official disclosure. The truth will be revealed to us because we collectively ask for it. I don’t know exactly how that will play out, but that is the exact sentence I was given to include here for you all today!


Something that scientists don’t really mention (to my knowledge, and I would love to find out if they do) is that as we are made up of electro-magnetic energy all this sunspot and solar flare activity also hits and ‘electrifies’ our energy bodies, affecting our vibration, mental focus, clarity, nervous system and emotions. I also think the sunspots have a greater than we realise affect, acting perhaps more as little ‘pushes’ rather than big ‘slams’. Yet if you have day after day after day of little pushes, it sure starts to feel like you’re being slammed, solar flare or not, and this is what we are experiencing daily in 2011.


We have just emerged (2008-2010) from a Solar Minimum period. In 2009 for example there were 260 sunspot free days. Even for a Solar Minimum period, this was very strange and scientists were starting to wonder what was happening with the Sun. Some started predicting (in line with ancient predictions) that we were witnessing the calm before the storm, and that such an intense period of quiet would be followed by a very intense period of activity. 


Cut to 2011 and hello activity! Do you know how many sunspot free days our Sun has had this year? One. Throw in monthly mega Solar Flares in January and February and a couple already this month (on March 1 and March 7) and you have a planet and a humanity that feels akin to sticking your hand in an electric socket for a few months, with only a one day reprieve in all that time before the hand went in again for another round!


So this first week of March for many people has been INTENSE not only because of the solar flares but because our bodies are still barely recovering from the ones in January and February! It’s a bit hard to rest in between Flares when you have daily sunspot activity continuing to prod you right? Ah, no rest for the unawakened, or that which is unawakened within us.


So here we come to the point – that which is unawakened within us is being prodded, pushed and slammed awake. The specific theme that is going on right now is one of doors within us collapsing, doors within us opening, and entire rooms expanding to Let the Light In!


Imagine that our energy field is made up of hundreds of little rooms. We have the Power room, the Confidence room, the Freedom room, the Abundance room, the Support room and so on. Imagine we have a room for every possible emotion, quality and energy you can think of, and rooms for things you haven’t even dreamed of. We ALL have ALL available rooms within us, that’s not a problem. The ‘problem’ is that we all have very interesting beliefs around these rooms, determining which are shut, which are open, and which can only be open if certain others are shut and vice versa.


Some of us think if the Love room is open, then the Freedom door has to be shut. Others think that if the Freedom room is open then the Support and Abundance doors will close. We have subconsciously made negotiation deals with all of our rooms. “Will give up Honesty to have Harmony, will be okay with no Power as long as I have Happiness.” I have no idea who our Energy Lawyers were, but these negotiation deals are really not working for us anymore! Sure they worked once upon a time. 


Of course we created all these lovely beliefs and stories because hey if ALL of us was open ALL of the time throughout ALL of our evolutionary process, then ironically we may not have had a chance to evolve in the way we have. What’s the point of being on a 3D free will planet if you can’t throw in some restrictions and limitations to make things a little interesting? So we all get that, ‘it happened for a reason’, blah blah blah.


So we’ve been trucking along, having fun (or not) with our personal stories, when someone upstairs decided it’s time to start turning the lights on – more specifically, it’s time to open all the doors, and let the light in to all of our rooms. Just in case we didn’t get our personal wake up call, Mr Galactic Centre is now working in partnership with Mr Sun and Mother Earth and blasting us with megawatts of Light on a daily basis. It’s like having a giant helicopter hovering over your mansion with a massive spotlight, with someone on a loudspeaker shouting “OPEN YOUR DOORS!!!”


You will know that the light is honing in on a closed door because it will feel somewhat like you are being squeezed between two vices to keep that door closed. It doesn’t feel good AT ALL!! Say that you have your ‘Assertive’ door shut, and you are used to saying “Oh it’s okay, that doesn’t matter, it’s all good.” 


Well you might have noticed that if you have said that this week it feels like you are speaking and punching yourself in the stomach at the same time. Or, perhaps you had the realisation it would infuriate you to say those words one more time and out of nowhere you stood up for yourself and said “That is not okay, it does matter, this is what I want, and this is what I will have!”


It’s not always a simple open and shut case, pardon the pun. You might have a belief that automatically slams the Assertive Door shut when the Asking for what you Want door is open, but the Assertive Door is wide open when the Helping Others door is open. So this tells us there is nothing wrong with our Assertive room or door, we have just had a trip wire activating it open or shut depending on the situation.


In what life areas do you feel restricted right now? Your living situation? Finances? A health issue? What story are you telling yourself to justify that restriction? Eg, “I don’t earn much but it’s because I am doing what I love. I could have lots of money if I joined the rat race but I don’t want to.” Why can’t you earn what you truly want while doing what you love? Why can’t you have BOTH those rooms open? 


You can of course, you just have that trip wire set up making it up until now impossible! Others may have “I am not happy in my job but I have to pay the bills.” Hmm.....So if you had the “Happy in my Job” door open, you couldn’t have the “I can pay the bills” door open too? Who says? They say, I know. Forget what they say. Open both doors right now! Open them energetically, open them mentally, open them emotionally, then they will eventually open physically – they have to!


This week has triggered a heightened awareness of where you may be boxing yourself in to express a limited version of your self and life. Jelena (artist and art therapist, check her out at www.jelenamrkich.com) recommended I do some artwork to help shift some energy, and I pass that recommendation on to you. 


All you need is a box of crayons, a big sheet of paper and a life area that is feeling stuck, restricted or frustrating in any way. What I found was that three drawings emerged. The first symbolised how restricted part of me felt when in a particular situation. The second was a drawing of me being free, but it seemed to be a pseudo or fake freedom, because it came at the expense of pushing the other part of my life to the background – something I didn’t really want to do. I saw how I had a pattern of see-sawing between the two, ultimately fulfilling one aspect of me to the denial of the other. 


My soul wanted both aspects to be fulfilled, in complementary harmony with each other. This led to drawing number three, which was all about wholeness – allowing all aspects to be fulfilled, meeting my needs and the needs of others in a balanced way, in all life areas. So get out your crayons because the images that emerge on paper really make you see so clearly what story your energy has been playing out. The third ‘ultimate outcome’ drawing is perfect to hang on your wall, symbolizing what you would like to embody and how you would most like to feel.


The frustrated eruptions of this week and month are ultimately leading to our expansion, to a wider perspective when it comes to who we are and who we can be. Any trade-offs of “Well if I am this I can’t be that” will tend to feel literally like you are cutting off your circulation or flow, you might feel a tightening in your chest or a feeling of pressure bearing down on you. 


The universe is shouting “Stop it!” at any sign of self-restriction or self-limitation. I can hear people saying ‘If I didn’t restrict my eating I’d put on weight in a second! Restriction can be good.” Ideally, a healthy, fit person isn’t coming from a place of self-restriction – rather coming from a place of eating healthily and wanting to feel good, and when you come from that place you naturally choose foods that are good for you and naturally don’t over-indulge because it doesn’t feel good.


 Restriction in it’s literal sense, say in the form of a strict diet, rarely works in the long term because our bodies will always rebel against being told no. Our bodies will very happily move toward what we are saying yes to.


So the universe is also asking us right now to know why we are doing what we are doing? Do you want that fast car to give you a feeling of freedom, a feeling you don’t feel in your home? If so, you need to stop and check in with your Freedom door and ask why you feel it is shut when you are at home. 


Is it a perception issue from childhood or a past life, or is it a real issue? If you are craving something, let’s use the example of Success, chances are you haven’t connected with it fully within. That is, you keep shutting the Success door when certain other doors are open. 


What are those other doors? We can’t escape whatever it is we are running from. We have to face all unowned aspects of ourselves, otherwise they will eventually catch up to us, usually in a way we didn’t want or expect.


So what’s the big deal, why not just have the fast car and use that wonderful freedom feeling to avoid the whole home situation? Well remember that spotlight on top of your mansion? It’s not going away anytime soon. You can still have the fast car, but you can’t use it to avoid connecting with what it is really wanting you to connect to which might be your Inner Authentic Freedom or Inner Authentic Success or Inner Authentic need for True Love or Emotional Intimacy or whatever it is.


We are no longer being allowed to use external things to feel restricted, or feel expanded. We are undoing the restrictions from the inside, and expanding from the inside, so that when we do connect with things external to us we are doing so not out of an unmet need or not for an escape or not out of obligation, but out of the pure desire to be, do or have that certain something as a natural extension and expression of the authentic inner connection. The extension and expression leads to inner expansion, and as your inner expands so too will your outer and on it goes as an ever-evolving spiral.


On a final note, I’ve had a certain car on my vision board for years. A few weeks ago I woke up thinking what am I waiting for? I'm going to buy myself this car for my birthday! (March 11). Well I bought it this past weekend and guess what, the registration is my birthday and the girl I bought it from has my birthday! Magic happens once we finally get up the courage to say I'm going to do this NOW! What have you been waiting to do or have, that is waiting for you to say "I'm ready now"? There is a tonne of energy washing over you right now – use it!

(c) Dana Mrkich 2011. Permission is granted to share this article freely on the condition that the author is credited, and the URL www.danamrkich.com is included.

Volcano / Earthquake Watch March 14-19

Significant Geomagnetic Storms was observed during March 11, accompanied with powerful solar winds this new geomagnetic activity is expected to be geoeffective March 14-16 and could produce two large 7.5 magnitude earthquakes during this watch.

Northern Hemisphere is the main area of watch, coronal hole targeted sits 29-33 degrees north latitude. main areas at risk for a potential 7.5 magnitude earthquake are : Baha California/LA, Ryukyu Islands-Japan, Southern Iran, less probable are the regions Sichuan China, Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge or Volcanic activity in the Canary Islands Region(La Palma)
Southern Hemisphere watch has a coronal hole 5-9 degrees South Latitude, possible regions at risk are Banda Sea, Flores Sea or the Kepulauan Babar region-Indonesia

Large coronal hole in the southern hemisphere puts the New Zealand region at risk(41-44degrees) during the March 13-14 time frame if solar winds drop significantly. presently solar winds are at 5.50km/s and if they remain at these levels for 24-36 hours the area should not receive a significant earthquake.

More information from this video :
Believersunderground - youtube channel
for more information regarding "earthquake lights phenomenon"

Astrologer charts and information
Alandra.rayner@yahoo.com

Excellent information websites for solar watchers and researchers
http://solarimg.org/artis/

http://www.solen.info/solar/
http://www.solarmonitor.org/
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://helioviewer.org/

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2012 - The Revolution Has Begun

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Future Power

By Sylvia Wright

You will be living a more environmentally friendly life in the future. Here’s how.

In 50 years, we will look back at 2007 as the Summer of Carbon Consciousness, when Americans stopped debating whether we were changing the climate and instead started changing our ways.

Here at UC Davis, researchers have worked for decades to help keep planet Earth from losing its ecological balance. The campus is an international leader in many aspects of environmental research and education—particularly sustainable agriculture, energy efficiency and conservation, and advanced transportation technology and policy.

Recently, UC Davis launched a new initiative to foster greater collaboration among the more than 60 faculty members working on energy-related problems and solutions. Named Energy for the Future, it is led by the College of Engineering. It will add 12 new faculty researchers and an administrative home to build on the university’s established strengths in three major areas: reducing energy use (conservation), increasing the benefits of energy used (efficiency) and developing lower-emission energy sources (alternative fuels).

Here is a time-traveler’s look at the possible future of energy as influenced by UC Davis activities—a preview of everyday life as we might experience it five to 50 years from now. The scenarios are not at all fanciful; in fact, some of these energy revolutions are just around the corner.

2010: In the wind

In this infancy of alternative energy, when we are just beginning to wean ourselves from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), a significant portion of our electricity comes from thin air. But in the 1980s, when the first California wind farms sprouted in the passes at Altamont, San Gorgonio and Tehachapi, it was not a sure bet that we would ever get here.

Early wind-turbine designs varied widely—and so did their effectiveness at harnessing the wind profitably. When General Electric asked UC Davis engineering professor Jean-Jacques Chattot to look into its design problems, Chattot was surprised to find that there were very few computer programs that could accurately predict how much energy the machines would produce. Some codes underestimated by 50 percent; others overestimated by 200 percent.

Starting in 2006, Chattot and his Ph.D. student Sven Schmitz helped the industry make a series of technological advances that ensured the success of wind in our green-energy portfolio.

Their first achievement was writing an ingenious software program that combined one method of calculating airflow within three feet of the blade with another method that calculated the rotor wake beyond that distance. This “parallelized coupled solver” very accurately predicted airflow around turbine blades at all speeds.

Soon turbine makers moved from heavy, relatively stiff, metallic blades to lighter, more flexible, composite structures. They installed sensors and micromotors on the blade surfaces to match the blades’ shapes to changing wind conditions. Turbines got bigger, too, until at 300 feet across, the width of a football field, their blades bent several feet at the tips.

So Chattot wrote correspondingly complex programs that coupled the fluid dynamics of airflow with the mechanics of those enormous blades. In his first programs, turbine blades were rigid, like the pre-lube Tin Man. In the new codes, the blades are limber and alive, flapping and twisting and producing energy much more efficiently as they twirl in the California breeze.

2015: An ultrabright idea

While the lights in our homes have changed from energy-hogging incandescent bulbs to efficient compact fluorescents, the lights in our offices are neither. Instead, they are light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. And they came to our offices via a technology pioneered by UC Davis in 2007.

Back then, we were familiar with LEDs in traffic lights and automobile headlights; compared with their conventional counterparts, LEDs were brighter, lasted longer and used less energy. But the truly big energy gains in lighting were waiting in our offices, where lights accounted for one-third of building electricity use.

The main barrier to progress was the lack of a technology that gave good task lighting. Then engineers and designers at the California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis designed a suite of LED-based office lamps.

Dubbed the Personal Lighting System, the fixtures were slim, ultrabright and went anywhere—mounted under cabinets, or freestanding on desks and floors. They gave users full control over their office lighting environments at half the energy, with less glare and eyestrain.

The program was a landmark in university-government-industry collaboration: The UC Davis group developed the lighting system with funding from the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research program. Industry partner Finelite, of Union City, co-developed the system and led the marketing and distribution program.

CLTC Director Michael Siminovitch and engineers Erik Page and Kevin Gauna watched with satisfaction as throughout California, the Personal Lighting System was incorporated into both new construction and office retrofits. Within just a few years, the LED lights saved the amount of energy that would have been produced by three medium-size power plants.

Once upon a time, food labels told you if tuna was dolphin-safe or milk was BST-free. Today you can scan a food label and tell how much energy it took to bring that food to you.

2017: Farm-to-fork footprint

Just as the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies pioneered the measurement of life-cycle environmental impacts of auto fuels, the UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute has quantified the costs of growing, harvesting, processing and transporting food products. The institute’s industry partner in the effort was a leader in socially responsible food sourcing, Bon Appetit Management Co. One of the world’s largest food buyers, Bon Appetit serves millions of meals daily in offices, museums and university dining halls.

The Agricultural Sustainability Institute’s first director, Tom Tomich, launched the Low Carbon Diet labeling project in 2006. An agricultural economist, Tomich held the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems. His collaborator was food systems analyst Gail Feenstra of the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, which is also based at UC Davis, along with senior researcher Sonja Brodt and graduate student Erica Chernoh.

“Once we figured out how to calculate the energy cost of a number of foods in a reliable way, we could label foods with their carbon footprint,” Feenstra said. “In transportation, it was an analysis of energy costs from the oil well to the wheel. In food, it’s farm to fork.”

2020: Setting the standard

When the California governor announced plans for a new “low-carbon fuel standard” for our cars in 2007, he named UC Davis transportation expert Daniel Sperling to write the policy. Good call: Sperling had first broached the idea in clean-fuel circles 15 years earlier. Shortly after he brought it up again in 2005, environmentalists carried it to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office, which soon steered it into the fast lane.

The policy (which Sperling co-authored with Bryan Jenkins, Marc Melaina and Joan Ogden of UC Davis and Alex Farrell of UC Berkeley) has worked because it gave oil companies flexibility in choosing how they met the low-carbon requirement.

Some have used new technology to reduce carbon emissions in the refining process. Others blend gasoline with low-carbon biofuels or make low-carbon hydrogen fuel. Still others buy carbon credits from utility companies selling clean electricity that is used to power plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles.

With leadership from Sperling and the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, California has become a global model for clean-vehicle policy. Implemented in 2010, the new fuel standard has cut lifetime, or “well-to-wheel,” greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels sold in California by 12.5 percent, exceeding the goal of a 10 percent reduction by the year 2020. What’s more, after California enacted its new standard, 32 other U.S. states and the European Union followed our lead.

2022: A sweet ride

Few of us understood President Bush in his 2007 State of the Union speech, when he called for revved-up development of “plug-in and hybrid vehicles.” But UC Davis engineer/visionary Andy Frank did. The president meant that the automobile technology Frank had labored over, virtually alone, for 30 years, had finally arrived. That was the year when millions of petroleum-gulping, carbon-farting gas hogs (only
9 to 33 miles per gallon!) began one-way trips to the bacon factory.

And now we all know what a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is. It’s a PHEV (pronounced fev)—a car that carries four; gets its power from renewable sources, not oil; travels 50 miles on one charge; and goes from 0 to 60 in seven seconds.

The average American family owns two PHEVs. When not in use, the cars are plugged into a charging station at home or work.

Some drive the older model with metal-hydride batteries and a conventional induction motor. Those of us with a brand-new PHEV have one with lithium batteries, a permanent-magnet motor and continuously variable transmission. It was named Motor TrendCar of the Year and winner of the Nader “Enviro-Safe At Every Speed” Award. As long as it runs on the electric motor, it emits no carbon.

But wait, there’s more! Right now that PHEV sitting in the garage is serving as a community energy storage facility. The electricity in its batteries is virtually carbon-free because it was produced at the Santa Cruz Wave Farm, which harvests energy from the constant motion of the ocean. Also, that electricity was made in “off-peak,” or low demand, hours and will be summoned back into the grid later today when demand is greatest. That makes the PHEV doubly green: It emits no pollution when driven, plus it eliminates the need to satisfy peak power demands as we did back in Bush’s day—with power from the oldest, dirtiest plants in the West.

2025: Garbage in, gas out

Sorting the curbside recycling: Paper and glass go here; they’ll be back as, well, paper and glass. Plastics go there; they’ll return as clothing, carpets, fence rails and lawn furniture. And that third bin? That’s for banana peels, leftover lasagna and stale bagels.

The garbage truck now coming down the street is running on compressed natural gas made from the table scraps it got from you last week. How’s that for a nifty bit of green futurism? The truck takes your food scraps to a nearby processing plant where, in a series of big stainless steel tanks, bacteria eat the carbon compounds and excrete hydrogen and methane gases. The gas mixture is pumped into the garbage truck’s fuel tank. And away the truck goes, back on its collection rounds, with nary a trip to the local landfill.

This “anaerobic digester” process was perfected in 2010 by Ruihong Zhang, a UC Davis professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and her industry partner, Dave Konwinski, the CEO of Onsite Power Systems Inc. Digesters now reclaim 45 million tons of food annually that we Americans used to bury underground, wasted. Today California homes, restaurants, soup kitchens and college dining halls—even farmers and canneries—send their vegetable- and animal-based leftovers to biogas energy plants.

So let the kids leave the pizza crusts; UC Davis has turned them into oil wells.

2027: Keeping our cool

It is a hot summer Saturday in California. Global warming has meant record high temperatures here for the past decade, but inside your home it’s a comfortable 75 degrees (and feels cooler). Producing that cucumber coolness was easy on the environment, thanks in part to the UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center, founded in 2007.

Whereas at the turn of the century, air conditioning caused major summer disruptions in California’s electricity network, today’s AC technology uses far less energy and helps even out electricity demand over the 24-hour cycle.

The revolution began when UC Davis experts ripped up cooling technology from its humid eastern U.S. roots and redesigned it for dry western climates. Gone are the droning, Freon-filled condensing units that sat behind our homes and cycled endlessly, off-on-off-on, adding hundreds of dollars to monthly electric bills. Instead, water silently circulating in pipes in our floors and ceilings absorbs heat and carries it away, needing no help from compressors, air handlers or fans.

The founding director of the Cooling Center, engineer Dick Bourne, put one of these radiant cooling systems in his new Davis home way back in 1994. Now Bourne proudly notes that he and his wife, Carol, have never paid more than $25 per year to run their silent and comfortable cooling system, which uses electricity only at night to discharge heat to the cool sky.

This and other advanced cooling systems nurtured by the Cooling Center have now been installed on millions on homes in the Western U.S. and have made a large contribution toward stabilizing regional electricity rates.

2030: Tiny powerhouses

It seemed possible at the turn of the millennium that fuel cells would soon power our cars and homes with clean, cheap electricity made from water. Hopes were high; unfortunately, so were the cells’ operating temperatures and their manufacturing costs.

The best fuel cells in 2007 operated at 1,500 to 1,800 degrees F (800 to 1,000 degrees C), and merely reaching and maintaining that heat took quite a bit of energy. The heat also quickly degraded the machines’ metal, ceramic and plastic components. Furthermore, the prevailing fuel-cell design required an expensive platinum catalyst.

Meanwhile, at UC Davis, a number of researchers were exploring the possibilities of nanomaterials—metals, ceramics and composites assembled from infinitesimal clusters of atoms and molecules. In one lab, materials scientist Zuhair Munir and his colleagues were manufacturing new nanomaterials using a novel process of their own invention. Their results included two oxides with crystals 15 nanometers wide (about 1/5,000th the width of a human hair).

To Munir’s great satisfaction, when the team tested the new materials, they found they conducted electricity not only at normal room temperatures, but also without a catalyst.

Today many of the millions of fuel cells in our homes and vehicles are built with nanomaterials based on Munir’s breakthrough development. Water goes in, electricity comes out. It’s a small world—and a healthier one—after all.

2060: Sunlike, from the sea

Ironically, the ultimate solution to the greenhouse effect was harnessing the power of the sun—not solar energy but its precursor, fusion energy, the energy production method that powers Earth’s sun and all the other stars in the universe.

In what many people consider the most difficult scientific achievement ever, an international collaboration of scientists (including
several at UC Davis) perfected the process of making electricity efficiently by fusing hydrogen atoms.

Back in 2007, virtually all the world’s electrical power production (about 15 terawatts annually) came from burning fossil fuels—oil, coal and natural gas mined from underground. But today, most electricity comes from burning hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium) mined from seawater. Whereas fossil fuels were projected to last until perhaps only 2200, the hydrogen isotopes in seawater should supply our power demands for billions of years.

Besides solving the supply problem, fusion energy solved the greenhouse gas problem. Whereas every pound of fossil fuel burned produced a pound of carbon dioxide, the fusion of hydrogen isotopes produces helium, which is not a greenhouse gas. (Like fission reactors, fusion reactors produce radioactive waste, but fusion waste is far less dangerous to human health and there is far less of it.)

Central to this achievement was the work of UC Davis plasma physicists David Hwang and N.C. Luhmann Jr. and their colleagues in the Department of Applied Science (founded by Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen fusion weapon, the H-bomb). Hwang’s group helped figure out how to continuously refuel a fusion power plant. Their experiments with a particle accelerator made it possible to send a steady stream of hydrogen atoms into the million-degree reaction chamber, much as one would feed a fireplace with fresh logs. Luhmann’s group helped devise the necessary techniques for monitoring the conditions inside the super-hot fusion chamber, using light and electromagnetic waves.

In June 2007, there were roughly 18,000 carbon-emitting power plants in the world. China alone was building a new coal-fired plant every week. Now those dirty power-makers are dinosaurs, rapidly being driven to extinction by a mere 1,000 plants making energy from the original solar power: fusion.

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Sylvia Wright writes about the environmental sciences for UC Davis.

The Rising Cost of Food And Other Commodities

A long time ago, I had reached the conclusion that seeds "will" be the currency of the future. I personally will not invest in Gold or other metals because there must be goods for me to buy with that currency, and that I may be overpaying for the goods when I pay with a bar of gold or gold coins - who's going to give me change for the loaf of bread when I pay with a bar of gold? You also need to take into consideration that the person(s) you are trading with will find the metal to be of value - since one can not eat the precious metals.

Seeds or livestock, on the other hand, are self propagating. You plant the seeds and you get the crop. You take out the seeds and you do it all over again. With livestock you have the offspring, which will again give you more offspring. Therefore, in theory, you have the ability to sustain yourself, without going outside of your homestead. With these goods: crops, dairy, eggs, etc., you can trade for other goods.

When you have to go to work to exchange your time and intellect for money, that money is ultimately used to purchase the food and goods you need in order to live. If your job is to work in your garden, tending to your livestock, then your compensation is the goods themselves, which self propagate.


I think that if we all truly understand this principle, we could all be free from this wheel of "slavery" to the financial, monetary system; and we'll get back to basics and more in touch with Mother Earth.

Things don't happen for no reason. Earth Changes happen to cleanse our planet and to help in transformation. Perhaps a global financial crisis and global food crisis is also necessary so that we understand what is important to us and how to re-connect to Source!
I personally have acquired the following:


Seeds of all kinds, specifically vegetables and Herbs
and Fruit Trees

Because I am raising chickens and other livestock, I needed to be able to be self-reliant when it comes to their feed - because I may not be able to afford feed at a store if prices soar and the supplies decrease. So yesterday I bought seeds for the crops necessary to produce feed for my livestock. I bought 50 Lb bags of the following seeds: Barley, Wheat, Oats, Buck Wheat, Rye and Amaranth I also bought a 50 LB bag of Protein mix of Garbanzo bean, Adzuki bean, Mung Bean and Green peas - all packed with protein and nutrients.

I am also stocking up with Rice, Flour, Peanut Butter, Can Foods, Water, Toiletries, First Aid, Medications and anything I can pick up. I also go to Craig's List to find other things that I may need.


Do this every time you go to the market.

My Father, who is a skeptic, always tells me that he hasn't prepared nor is he leaving Florida because he knows that The Father is looking out after him. And I tell him, all the time, that The Father gives us signs and information so that we take action. He didn't come down in the physical nor put a shield around Noah. He gave Noah the information that things were going to get bad and told him to prepare. Noah listened and took action - despite the fact that he was ridiculed and shunned by his community. Noah was saved by the fact that he listened to the Voice and Understood that he needed to get up from his hiney and do something to protect himself and his family. But, my father forgets this logic, and I keep spending my time trying to get him to see this perspective. Even though he's old and set in his ways, I still try - because he's my father and I love him.

I will also keep trying with all of you. I'm hoping you're all younger and not so set in your ways, and that you have some molecule of common sense that allows you to read the signs and listen to reason.


If you all own any type of insurance policy, then please think of putting food and goods away as an insurance policy against rising food costs and possible shortages.

I wish you all the best of luck in getting through the times ahead.

Ari Kopel
http://12-21-2012.ning.com

Our world is changing

We live in a very magical time. One of the most amazing periods of time to ever exist on planet earth. In fact, right at this very moment our planet is in a state of rebirth. The changes have already started and there is no need to be afraid. We have an amazing opportunity coming our way.

We have 2 YEARS to change the way we live. (humans that is)


There are thousands of books available that discuss the issue of 2012, and yes we have learned a few things from these books, but do you know the Mayan people only started discussing the issue a few months ago? Do you know what they’re saying? They are telling people to not have fear and to rejoice inside of your hearts because it will be beautiful.
We have an opportunity to move humanity forward and become enlightened. (when you are enlightened, all things make sense and you live through your heart)
Do you know now that we use much less than a 1/3 of our brains? Well, very soon, we will be able to use much more.


I know it may be hard to read this article, but try to break through your everyday thought process and relax your mind. (We fear what we do not understand)


When you become enlightened all things fall in to place and there is nothing to fear. Grandfather Alejandro, the grandfather of all Mayan people said “the very walls we see falling around us are only the walls that kept us in prison. We should be excited, happy and rejoice. This is a great period of change.”


Whatever you give your energy and emotion to will become reality. It is every humans gift.


In the next 2 years many things are going to change and you have a choice. You can stay in fear because you do not know what is coming, or you can stay in your heart and live in joy.
Let me try to rephrase: “If you are fearful, you will live in fear. If you stay in your heart and spread love, you will live in joy.”


Again, there is nothing to fear. If you knew tomorrow the whole world would change for something much more beautiful, would you be afraid?


Heaven on earth is coming and you can live on heaven, it is your choice.
If you stay in your heart and be love, you will become enlightened and move to a higher plane.


It is said by the Mayan people who have lived through a pole change before that the full change only happens within several minutes, (it’s very fast) but there will be a few days of full darkness. This is the time period where it will be very important to stay in the heart. Gather your families and just be in love, stay calm. Do not give over to fear, it will all be OK.


Finally, when the sun rises again you will see a new earth and everything will make sense. (you will become enlightened) We will move forward in a new humanity, one which is ruled by love.


Many people do not understand how the world will shift and sometimes it can brings a lot of fear to individuals wondering if there will be mass destruction. There will be some natural disasters but  humanity always survives  disasters? (it happens all the time)
Planet earth has a very hard center. Around the planet is hot lava much like a ball bearing with grease around it. The crust of the earth sits on top of this grease. When the poles change the center will not move it will hold strong, but the crust of the earth will move.
It is not going to be as tragic as everyone thinks. The earth will stretch, move and fall into its perfect state. After this occurs, we will be living in a new state of consciousness here on planet earth.


The shift has already begun. The poles have already started to move. Right now, large amounts of energy have begun to come to planet earth. In the last year alone the amount of energy coming to planet earth has nearly tripled.


The energy is now beginning to arriving in short intervals and some of us are already feeling the side effects of these new energies. Our bodies are simply trying to work through these new energies.


When the big shift occurs a massive amount of energy will come to planet earth, and if we’re not given small amounts to get used to first, we will die. But it is true that it has already started and there is more energy vibrating on planet earth then ever before.
Many of us on planet earth think this is a story the indigenous have been telling for a long time, but we do not realize it is actually happening right now. The world is changing, our bodies are changing, our DNA structure is actually changing! It is real!


We will experience this shift. We are the one’s who will be alive during this shift, and it really is up to us to change the way we live.


If we do not change and we stay living from the mind and ego, we will be removed from the planet because we are killing the earth. The earth will go on, but it is up to us to change if we want to participate in its future.

All we have to do is be love. Your soul will always 

lead you in the right direction, ALWAYS.

http://www.thehalsreport.com/2011/01/our-world-is-changing-2012-a-shift-in-consciousness/