EQUAL TIME FOR ECOLOGICAL AND HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS

Several months ago $40 Billion dollars (that's $40,000 Million) was allocated by Congress to use for whatever military or intelligence means to find our terrorist enemy, wherever they are, and destroy them.

What if from that $40B we used $400 million (.1% of the military grant) to develop a plan that would catalyze the research of alternative sciences and development of environmental technologies that empower people and villages? Rather than just giving in to the forces of death, killing and terrorism, let our contribution also be toward Life, toward the Planet, toward all species. A celebration of the World's people! A compassion for their needs. A spiritual reunion of all religions...

The TERRORIST CELLS that are planning to destroy and maim innocent people and our infrastructures, have always been matched by groups of people that are working on plans and proposals for a World that is coming together and to celebrate our arrival in this new century. We are the LIVING CELLS, Earth commando units, change agents, cultural creatives, part of an emerging Peace Force which can make mid-course corrections and build a sustainable future.

What a fragile time this is for humanity!
Aside from the powerful weapons, we have a vast collection of appropriate technologies for the Muslim world and other developing countries. These technologies have not been needed because oil has been cheeper than drinking water. Our question to the parents of Bin Laden is: "How would you like to invest some of your oil money into renewable and regenerative technologies that can create a lasting peace and eliminate the need for the sale of weapons". Elegant solutions and sustainable technologies exist NOW that can pull water out of thin air, that can green the deserts of central Asia with 4 harvests a year, that can capture solar energy from the sunshine that falls on Saudi Arabia. We can still build many Solar Oasis' in Africa and the Mid-East using water to make the deserts bloom... we can rebuild the West Bank into sustainable desert eco-villages with Jew Arab, and Christian living side by side, equal and together, tending their hydroponics gardens while children are learning about conflict resolution and ecological design. We can set up ECOtels that can service tourism. We can celebrate our fragile humanity...instead of fighting and getting nowhere!

At home, for the price of one B-1 Bomber ($2Billion), we could build 2,000 1.4Megawatt windturbines with a capacity to generate 2,000 Megawatts. (That's two Diablo Canyon Nuclear Powerplants) These turbines could power cities the size of the Bay Area, everyday with no fuel-cost and no waste residues.

Throughout the world for $2Billion we could build 100 thriving eco-villages that could provide their own housing, food production, energy production, education and culture, health care, and meaningful employment and that are not based on OIL.

Our main question to everyone is: How can we build a lasting PEACE that is vibrant and exciting? How can we implement programs that create security for the people? Instead of WEAPONRY, we shall continue to build LIVINGRY which helps people to cope and feel secure with their lives. Lets us mobilize the building of life-enhancing technologies that are in partnership with nature. Demonstrate abundance for everyone! Enough for everyone's needs, but not their greeds!

Reinhold Ziegler, Co-Founder/Director, SYNERGY & DYNAMIS International,
www.synergyii.com or E-mail at synergyca@earthlink.net