Shall We Rename The Pacific, 'The Plastic'?

In a recent C & EN magazine publication the American Chemical Society mentioned that plastic did not hold up very well, of all places - in museums! This tickles our senses when we contemplate the irony that as our society attempts to preserve within our sacred institutions, the fine works of 'plastic artists'; their art pieces are actually breaking down under the hot lights and moist air of the museums. In fact, we are still learning much about how insidious our man-made creations are, for in some cases, the broken down molecules of plastic art are drifting to other museum pieces and causing corrosion and staining. Scientists meanwhile, are scratching their heads over the fact that the new decade bio-degradable plastics are not breaking down nearly as fast as they'd predicted. Dazed in confusion, they continue to ponder over how a plastic bottle can break into a million pieces and still not manage to disappear in our vast salt water seas. It seems that if one wishes to amp up the break-down process, one only needs to submit one's garbage to a museum curator. Perhaps museums and kitchen cabinets may pave the way to solving the plastic garbage issue. As a matter of fact, if a scientific study were done on kitchen cabinets, we might find out that if we just left our food in plastic containers long enough, the plastic would eventually leech enough into our food, so as to morph into edible nuggets. It's too bad cancer is the result of leeching plastics because otherwise, we could all just age our container goods like fine wine and ultimately feast on plasti-cookies. Thus, we could solve the world pollution problem with just one well coordinated, globalized dinner meal! With that thought in mind, we suggest that a good healthy glass of clean, filtered water at this time may help us all to better digest the magnitude of our toxic waste issues.

Living Machines Via Water Technology!

Back in the 60's and early 70's, Hollywood produced an explosion of sci-fi movies and outer space television shows that delivered very entertaining scripts featuring inventions of our future times. Flash forward forty years and those of us now not willing to admit to watching such tv fodder for fear of aging ourselves, now get the pleasure of seeing old sci-fi ideas actually come into manifestation. One particular 1972 movie, 'Silent Running' with Bruce Dern says it all; as in the movie plot, he and three robots, Huey, Dewey and Louie prance about on a floating biosphere in space. Everything is self sustaining in the floating domes and in a heart-wrenching ending move, Freeman Lowell, the last remaining astronaut kills himself in order to save the last living forest. One remaining robot, Dewey floats away in space tending to the remaining plants. One can't help but wonder if movies such as that didn't have a heavy hand in turning the minds of baby boomers back toward Save-The-Earth endeavors; as we now witness in today's times, the creation and implementation of 'living machine systems' in the corporate world. What are THEY, one might ask? A corporate living machine system can look like a lush tropical garden area in a plush office or hotel lobby and yet beneath the beautiful foliage, lies a self sufficient wastewater system that produces clean water. These patented water technologies may have once been just the ideological means to which a script writer made his millions, but a few decades later, they've actually become REAL and WORKING inventions! With so many floods, water main breaks, oil spills and tsunamis of the past five years, our water concerns are indeed somewhat of a pressing matter. Luckily baby boomer scientists, now all grown up and yet still tinkering, can be proud that their imaginations ran away from them for just a bit. Because now what we have for the first time in history, are viable solutions for an infrastructure that has desperately needed water treatment and safe water management ideas. We at Aquaverve shall continue in our unique water cooler methodology for helping society keep the safe water flowing and along with the corporate powers that be; in simpatico, may we as a collective, mastermind even greater future water technologies.