Emerald Eco-CityTM Abundant Living In Harmony with Nature
Self-Sufficient, Sustainable, Zero Energy Design®
Community of a Million Productive Prosperous People

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This website is now undergoing continuous construction - We have already added our entire Emerald Eco-City set of slides to the newest updated version of our U.S. Department Of Energy “30 Years Of Lessons Learned” Workshop, which is available on our extensive Zero Energy Design® CD ROM .

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In the last film that Walt Disney ever made, he stated what our highest modern priority should be:

“I don't believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important
to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities.”

We at Zero Energy Design® strongly agree.
Walt Disney was an outstanding visionary futurist who clearly demonstrated
how joyful entertainment can educate and change the world.

Disney trained, motivated and relied on his very-successful team of free-thinking, highly-creative "Imagineers." When they opened Disneyland in 1955, it was the most-advanced, integrated community ever conceived. Walt's 1966 original plan for his Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow (EPCOT) was their best community-planning effort ever. It had the potential to become an international role model of integrated, efficient, state-of-the-art solutions to the growing problems of our future cites, (but he died a few months later and his EPCOT vision has still not been implemented yet).

There is NO modern city that should be imitated in the future

We are long overdue for radical reinvention

We must STOP perpetuating and subsidizing unsustainability

Earth’s human population has more than doubled since Walt made his last movie. A billion people are now sadly starving with less than one cup of food per day. Our environment has been badly damaged. We are addicted to unsustainable wasteful lifestyles. Our chaotic megacities are way overcrowded. Their aging infrastructures are failing, and they are rapidly going bankrupt. 21st century sea level rise may inundate low-lying coastal cities around the world. Storm surge is on the verge today (as in New Orleans). IF we do not make radical rapid improvements to future rapid-growth cities, we are now on a terrible path leading toward the potential suicide of humanity, in the 21st century.

Walt Disney suggested that we could not continue on the path we were on in 1966. We didn’t. Things have gotten much worse!

If we do not significantly improve our declining unsustainable lifestyle, it will soon impact all of our lives, prosperity, and posterity.

Our recent worldwide economic-and-environmental disasters, corporate greed, and dysfunctional politics are flashing red lights.

For the first time in history, in 2008 more than half of our planet's population lived in crowded urban environments. For billions of simple people, the rural environment can no longer sustain the essentials of life. Greedy agriculture corporations, patented genetically-modified seeds, and parasitic Wall Street commodity speculators have stolen the profit motive from family farmers. The need for expensive petroleum to grow food and transport it 1500 miles has become an unbearable financial burden. Farm bill subsidies reward the wealthy, and penalize small-scale organic farmers.

The huge urban problems we face today are NOT those that were solved long ago by our parents, grandparents, and founding fathers.

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln

Humanity refuses to react appropriately to altogether-obvious unsustainable urbanization trends. We have been warned time and again, and we have ignored all well-documented life-critical warnings. The United Nations Population Fund predicts that by 2030 (when children born today will only be 18 years old), nearly 5 BILLION PEOPLE WILL BE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE IN POORLY-PLANNED CONGESTED CITIES. http://www.UNFPA.org/pds/urbanization.htm

After Walt Disney’s death, profit-motivated, uninsightful, Disney Corporation executives dropped the visionary ball and failed to implement Disney’s powerful proposal for his 27,400-acre Florida swampland project. They foolishly laid off Walt's expert Imagineers to cut expenses. IF Walt Disney had lived to complete his vision, the world would have a “City of Tomorrow” role model of what our future SHOULD be, instead of the growing problems that our declining shortsighted cities are facing today. Greedy executives often invest far too little in radical reinvention. Walt said: "I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral."
- We must correct this serious flaw in our modern short-sighted financial systems today.

Ironically, lending money for stagnant status-quo declining business-as-usual offers ZERO long-term future collateral! Foolish wake-watching financiers invest trillions of dollars in unsustainable fossil fuels and inefficient egotistical tall megacity glass buildings. BUT, most ignore ecological, efficient, community planning, and safe, clean, off-the-shelf free-fuel energy, which is 10,000 times more abundant than expensive, environment-damaging, deadly fossil fuels. They invest in that which surly will fail, while ignoring the obvious sustainable future.

Every valuable human lifestyle improvement began with a tiny spark of unconventional imagination in the creative mind of a prepared imagineer. With status-quo society now facing the very-real possibility of self-imposed unsustainable suicide, the dreams of proven imagineers are worth more than the sum total of all financial assets on Earth today . How much will a ton of gold be worth, if all humans become extinct?

Small-scale incremental thinking (based on what now is, instead of what should be) CREATED today's many megacity calamities.
We Must Immediately Motivate and Facilitate Tomorrow's Creative Ecocity Imagineer BIG DREAMS and make them happen.

You do not need to agree with everything we present, but we hope that our decades of accumulated innovations will provoke your creativity. Walt Disney proved that no vision of the future is whole and complete on day one, but over time, it is refined by collaboration with others.

By compressing your learning curve, we are pleased when our apprentice outperforms the mentor, as we pray that you will soon do.

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

Our goal is not to elevate the stature of the mentor, but rather that those who learn from us will be able to solve the many problems that our overly-complex man-made cities face today. We wish that our posterity would learn from the wisdom of the ages, live long and prosper.

You do not need to enter anything to view our decades of intellectual property. We are NOT building a profiteering spam list.
You alone control which portions of our material you want to access, and when you want to view it. Assimilate whatever you like, and enjoy.

We appreciate constructive feedback and collaboration, but you do not need to send us anything, if you want to remain anonymous.

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other's writings, so that
you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." - Socrates

Mission Statement - The Purpose Of This Website Zero Energy Design® proposes scaling up Walt Disney’s motivating live-in EPCOT vision with modern science to create Emerald Eco-City – The world’s largest construction project - Costing over $77 Billion (only $77,000 per occupant), starting on 200,000 acres of low-value land in the U.S. desert southwest, where solar energy is abundant, and no previous infrastructure currently exists. We will create over 400,000 state-of-the-art new permanent jobs. Emerald Eco-City will contain the world’s largest FUN Edutainment Theme Park and Sustainability University - in collaboration with some of the foremost subject matter experts from around the world.

Our future ecocity discoveries, development details, and cooperative training programs will be generously made available around the globe on the Internet for the betterment of all mankind. Our endless Ecocity Lessons Learned will Rapidly Refine everything we say and do.

We will continually incorporate, integrate, optimize and advance the state-of-the-art of sustainable ecocity community planning.

To bring about the radical reinvention of many things, we must depart from declining status quo, business-and-politics-as-usual.
Our aggressive approach to rapid innovation necessitates Confrontational Constructive Criticism - in a joyful entertaining way.

This website discusses the details of many unsustainable things that cannot be part of any future megacity solutions, AND what we SHOULD be doing instead. Be assured that for every problem we enumerate, we also offer a superior cost-effective sustainable solution. Our Compelling Vision Of The Future has been evolving with over three decades of successful Zero Energy Design® innovations since 1979.

Dr. Jonas Salk spent many years developing a vaccine that essentially wiped dreadful polio from the face of the Earth. He then gave it to the world for free. When Salk was asked: "Who owns your polio vaccine?" Jonas always replied "The people! Could you patent the sun?"

In the same way, Zero Energy Design® offers our Emerald Eco-City proposal for free, to those with open minds and ears to hear.

IF our confrontational CONSTRUCTIVE material can help avoid the world's current path toward the Suicide of Humanity, then it is worth more than all of the gold on Earth.

Greedy profiteering is what created today's suicidal path. The thinking that created our problems can NOT solve them.

Why would Zero Energy Design® spend decades to develop this Emerald Eco-City material,
and provide funds to distribute it for free to all of the world?

The answer is that compassion and generosity are the path to eliminate that which plagues our chaotic world today.

Zero Energy Design® is convinced that we've been given many talents and experience because we have been called to a higher purpose.

I will not die until my destiny has been fulfilled. When I finish a video, or put the period on the last sentence of a new page, I wonder if my destiny has been achieved so I can meet my maker, but it has not happened yet.

I strongly believe that everyone should live every day in a way that they have nothing to fear from the inevitable end of their mortal body.

Emerald Eco-City material is our free legacy to those with eyes to see the wonderful potential abundance of living in harmony with Nature.

What the Creator of the Universe gave to us freely, we offer freely in return to everyone who wants to live a happy harmonious life.

One of the Fundamental Laws of Nature is that to BE happy, we need to help others be happy
- Want for your brother what you want for yourself.

We have helped others generate over $100 billion dollars in revenue -
Money does not buy happiness, but generosity does wonders for the soul.

We now want to live an abundant happy life in Emerald Eco-City - Very soon we really hope that YOU will too - Smile and Be Happy With Us. You may immediately begin to live in Emerald Eco-City in your hopes and dreams today, and make it reality in your even-happier tomorrow. We hope to help everyone in the world develop a Compelling Shared Vision of What Tomorrow SHOULD BE, (before it is too late). It's not the ultimate destination that matters the most. It is the exciting journey toward our compelling vision that is life's greatest reward.

We freely publish this copyrighted material as our legacy to the world. We are not seeking money for our decades of previous work.
Our objective is that readers feel helped by our generosity, and inspired to live an abundant happy life in harmony with Nature.

We strongly believe that everyone should strive to live a life that is worthy of being remembered, and praise from their posterity.

If you choose to live in harmony with Nature and with each other, then may you prosper and share your joy with many others too.

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Emerald Eco-City - Zero Energy Design's
specific plan for a New Beginning

• If We Could Change the World Together (Our Top Priorities)
  What we accomplish in our finite Earthly lifetime is determined by our wishes, prayers, and dreams.
  We must share a compelling vision and goal of a realistic superior future.
  
  
• The Science of Living in Harmony with Nature, and with each other,
  We must carefully study the Scientific Provable Universal Laws of Sustainable Nature
  to avoid suicide in the 21st century. Emerald Eco-City is the ultimate solution to it all.
  
  
• Description and Aggressive Emerald Eco-City Community Goals
• Unprecedented Eco-City Needs, Unsustainable Trends and Strong Motivation
  Before we can correct addictive bad-lifestyle habits, we must first recognize how dangerous they are
  Emerald Eco-City offers solutions to ALL of the following:
• Sometimes Solutions To Deadly Problems Are Simple (Laugh at how easy it is to do)
• Overcoming Deeply-Rooted Resistance to Change
• Destroying Cradle-Of-Life Biodiversity - Huge Economic Impact
• USA is Badly Addicted to Deadly Unsustainable Petroleum
• Nuclear Energy Insanity - Criminally-Corrupt Politics - Lessons from Japan (New 2011)
• Every Previous Empire Has Collapsed - The Dollar Is At Death's Door (New 2011)
• Pendulum Swing Man-Made Climate Change (Our most-popular international topic)
• Desertification - Devastation of Ample Water and Vegetation
• Potentially-Catastrophic Methane Extermination Issues
• Past The CO2 Tipping Point - Sea-Level-Rise and Worldwide Coastal Flooding
• Land Water Boundaries - Essential Human Infrastructures That Will Change Soon
• Deforestation - Killing Earth’s Lungs - Suicidal Suffocation
• Terrorism - More Motivation For Emerald Eco-City Security Innovations
• Overpopulation and Urbanization, - Unsustainable Growth Trends
• Megacity Cost Of Living - 20 to 60 Times More Than It Should Be
• Tall Buildings CAN Collapse - Emerald Eco-City Cannot
• The Suicide of Humanity –Lifestyle Choices and Religious Views about Suicide
• $4 Gasoline Bankrupted Much of America - What will $6 gas do?
• Unemployment - Rising Productivity, Falling Wages, Jobless Recovery
• "Emerald” Is Much More Precious Than “Greenwash”
• Previous Work – Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
  
  
• OBJECTIVE ZERO – The Emerald Eco-City Wizard of OZ
• ZERO Emissions – NEVER BURN ANYTHING
• ZERO Defects – No Compromise Design, Engineering & Construction Management
• ZERO Crime / Terrorism – Radical Reinvention Of Prevention
• ZERO Pollution – Automated Monitor and Control
• ZERO Waste –Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Cradle-to-Cradle – No Landfill
• ZERO Poverty – Productive Prosperous People Paid A Fair Living Wage
             Everyone who works in Emerald Eco-City can afford to live there
• ZERO Impact – Self-Contained – No Damage To Earth’s Environment
• ZERO Dropouts – FUN and Entertaining Education Motivation For All
• ZERO Energy – Self-Sufficient Clean, Green, Daily-Renewable, Free Fuel
• The Physical Ecocity
• Basic Conceptual Size, Shape and Location Suggestions
• Grow Our Own Food – Advanced 365 Vertical Farming Greenhouse Horticulture
• Exceptional Funding - World's Largest Man-Made Structure / Construction Project
• Superior Telecommunications Infrastructure Foundation
• Artificially-Intelligent, Self-Learning, Integrated-and-Optimized Everything
• Extensive Solarium Family Fun – Indoor Central Park and Attractions
• Optimized 3D All-Electric Rapid Transit – 1/50 The Space Of A Megacity
• Fully-Automated Robot Messengers – Deliver Anything Citywide In Minutes
  
  
• The Sociological and Healthy Ecocity
• Edutainment Museums, Zoo and Aquarium – Biophilia / Love Of Nature
• International Education Leader – Moon-and-Mars Colony Synergy
• Night Life and New Friends – Safe-and-Secure Social Networking
• 365 Automated Epidemiology – Prevention: Eliminate Health Risks
  
  
• The Environmental Ecocity
  
  
• Emerald Eco-City Energy
• The Cost of Energy
• Solar Thermal Energy - Warm Air and Hot Water
• Electricity from the Sun
• Electricity from the Wind
• Energy Storage for 24/7/365 days a year
• The Politics of Energy - "Why not Now"
• World’s Lowest Cost per Watt Solar Generator?
  
• Efficiency Improvement: Eliminate Transformers and Vampire Power
  
  

Emerald Eco-City is our “NO COMPROMISE” Zero Energy Design®
Objective Zero (OZ) Compelling Vision of the Future, to in all things:
Live a Sustainable Abundant Life in HARMONY with Nature

Based on our three decades of proven elimination of energy bills, operating expense reductions, and preservation of Earth's delicate environment,
we are convinced that cities and societies based on ZED OZ will have:
(1) The lowest overall cost of luxury living in the history of humanity, and
(2) The highest standard of living for ALL that is possible on God's Green Earth

To accomplish our challenging Emerald Eco-City radical-reinvention goals,
we must:
(1) First recognize the many UNSUSTAINABLE policies we currently have today,
(2) REJECT the mistakes made by myopic mediocre misinformed mere mortals,
(3) Realize that the shortsighted self-centered decision criteria, which created
our countless current crises, can NOT possibly be used to solve them.

Most people today clearly lack Universal Consciousness and Appreciation
of Abundant Sustainable Living in HARMONY with Nature.

Drastically-different future solutions will at first sound WACKO to
“business-as-usual” greedy, profiteering, mediocre, misguided minds.
They have always been on the wrong side of history, and resisted
essential innovations that are long overdue.

To Live in Harmony with Nature, we must continually strive to understand the absolute, scientifically-provable, Universal Laws of Nature, as Einstein did.
Lifelong Learning in an Ever-Expanding Universe of Endless Possibilities TM

If we tap into the timeless, limitless, eternal energy that created the very fabric of Space and Time, which has tuned and balanced Creation over billions of years, AND, we are Compelled to make every decision based on Living in Harmony with Nature, then who in the world can possibly stand against us for very long?

Hello and Welcome

Our name comes from the dreamy image of Emerald City combined with our 3 decades of eliminating emissions and energy bills, PLUS Sustainable Community Planning

There is no modern city today that should be imitated in the future

We need a radical reinvention
of almost everything

Imagine a sunny city that looks
like A TREE COVERED HILL
(on the north, east and west sides)

Zero Energy Design® (ZED)
did not invent solar-or-wind
energy, or sustainable
community planning
( that happened 2400 years ago )
but what we have done is to HOLISTICALLY INTEGRATE
and OPTIMIZE more
Zero Energy Design ® + Ecocity
concepts than ever before

We've added our own 30 years
of ZED real-world experience
to the best-and-brightest
creative imagination of many
others, to help move the ball
forward as fast as possible

We synergistically stand on the shoulders of many intellectual giants

We Invite Collaboration With
Our Motivated New Friends

For three decades, we at ZED
have demonstrated cost-effective examples of Abundant Energy in
Harmony with Nature ® to try to convince the world to live a
healthy, sustainable lifestyle

The multiple crises of 2008
made it very clear that we have
Failed To Reach The Majority:

- The World Is Past Peak Oil
Our children will have no cheap oil

- We have exceeded the worldwide greenhouse gas tipping point
Still increasing .6% per year

- We are killing 50,000-to-100,000 acres of life-giving trees EVERY DAY, as population explodes

- A billion humans are starving

- Humanity is on a Suicidal Path

Sea level WILL rise and the
lights WILL go out in many
coastal megacities worldwide

WHAT WILL WE DO THEN ?

"With man this is impossible, but
with God all things are possible"

Our nation must return to its roots
and Live in Harmony with Nature

We would love to hear from you.

Your ideas and constructive suggestions will be posted on this website on the appropriate page.

ZEDmaster@ZeroEnergyDesign.com

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