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David Blume Plenary Talks at New Living Expo 4/29 and the Freestone Fermentation Festival 5/21, 2011 Provide Practical Transition Solutions for Post-Petroleum Living
Abundant Food, Fuel and Job Solutions Pave the Way for Inexpensive Energy Transformation
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA):
“We all must become the champions of hope and leaders of economic revitalization and environmental healing for our communities, our nation and planet. Locally produced appropriate-scale alcohol fuel gives us a safe, affordable and readily available alternative means to power our energy needs including cooking, refrigeration, heating and transportation.”
What: The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) announced today that its Executive Director and Founder David Blume is a featured speaker at the New Living Expo in San Francisco, CA as well as at the Fermentation Festival in, Freestone, Sonoma County, CA.
Blume, a globally renowned regenerative agriculture and Biofuels expert, is author of the Amazon.com best-selling book Alcohol Can Be A Gas! He will present ways we can:
- End global deforestation and improve health and safety conditions for women and children around the world
- Replace hazardous open wood-fueled in-door heating and cooking with clean sustainable and locally produced alcohol fuel
- Produce appropriate-scale alcohol fuel from waste, toxic/spoiled food, native and cultivated crops for less than $1.00 per gallon.
- Inexpensively convert gas and diesel engines to run on affordable and sustainable alcohol
- Develop abundant localized non-exportable jobs and create food security
According to Blume, “We all must become the champions of hope and leaders of economic revitalization and environmental healing for our communities, our nation and planet. Locally produced appropriate-scale alcohol fuel gives us a safe, affordable and readily available alternative means to power our energy needs including cooking, refrigeration, heating and transportation.”
When/where: April 29 through May 1, 2011. The New Living Expo is held at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco, CA.
Blume’s appearances feature Actress/activist Daryl Hannah’s alcohol fuel converted, movie-famous 1979 Pontiac TransAm. Hannah and Blume have appeared on radio and TV programs nationally explaining ways we can convert gas and diesel engines to power electrical generators and turbines (such as those associate with nuclear and coal-fired power plants) to provide safe, clean renewable fuel for our energy needs. Blume will speak at 5pm Friday April 29 in room 3 at the Concourse Exhibition Center. Visit http://www.newlivingexpo.comfor conference information. Click HERE for info on Blume’s talk.
Additionally, Blume is the Keynote speaker Saturday, 5/21 12:00pm at the Freestone Fermentation Festival speaking at Salmon Creek School 1935 Bohemian Hwy. 2 miles north of Freestone. Blume’s topic "Fermentation to save this Nation" explains how we create abundance through regenerative Farming and the production of appropriate-scale alcohol fuel. Visithttp://www.freestonefermentationfestival.com/schedule/ for festival schedule and details.
NLE attendees are invited to stop by booth #100 and meet the Blume Distillation team, to learn more about Blume’s new distillery manufacturing enterprise.
For more information about David Blume or the IIEA, contact:
Tom Harvey theCommunications • (530) 257-3533 • thcommunications@gmail.com
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Ty Doty
The following is a review of David Blume's book Alcohol Can Be a Gas; all figures and statistics come directly from Mr. Blume's book.
David Blume, an organic farmer and leader of the alcohol revolution, provides evidence that ethanol alcohol is a viable and renewable fuel source that can help to remove dependence on foreign oil and bring jobs back to America.
Imagine the US as an independent self-sufficient nation with a production economy once again!
Many people have concerns about food shortages because crops are grown for fuel instead of food. One of the greatest misconceptions about alcohol is that it will use up land that could be used to grow food. This belief is based on the use of corn to produce ethanol, which is very inefficient. According to Blume, there are other crops that can produce 3 times as much ethanol and those crops need not be grown on prime cropland, but can be grown on farmland that is not as level and has more shallow soil. Most of this farmland is arid and mesquite trees could passively grow there. Blume says, "mesquite harvested seedpods would generate 33 billion gallons of alcohol, without irrigation, fertilization or annual planting. That is another 21% of our annual gasoline needs from only 7.45% of our farmland."
Lowlands, swamps and wetlands can be used to cultivate high yielding plants like cattails, whicn are considered a weed. Blume says that cattails can be used inexpensively to treat sewage and that the "yields of starch and cellulose from cattails can easily top 10,000 gallons per acre. If all the sewage in the US were sent to constructed marshes, the 3141 counties would need only 6360 acres each to fulfill all of our foreseeable transportation fuel needs, both gasoline and diesel, at 200 billion gallons per year. This equals 1.4% of our agricultural land". No irrigation or chemical fertilizers would be needed. Additionally, they provide a profitable way to clean up rivers, streams and oceans by detoxifying chemicals and removing heavy metals like mercury which is evaporated out through the leaves.
Blume says that cellulose can be used as a fuel source and that the US has 30 million acres of lawn (this is about 40% of the total acreage used for corn), and it isn't counted as cropland or farmland. Grass clippings alone could generate over 11 billion gallons of fuel per year. This doesn't even include green waste from landscaping that could be added to the cellulose totals in each county.
Ethanol can also be extracted from the ocean while cleaning it! Dead zones are areas near coastlines with decreased concentrations of sea life due to elevated levels of nitrogen, usually caused by chemical fertilizer and industrial waste. The nitrogen causes a population boom in microscopic algae and then it decomposes. During algae decomposition, the oxygen in the water is consumed and kills off the concentrated sea life. There is almost 8000 square miles of dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico and dead zones also exist along the Oregon, Washington, California and and Eastern Sea coasts. Kelp is made up of brown algae; in China and Norway this kelp is dried to produce fertilizer. Blume recommends that the US adopt this strategy to eliminate the need for polluting chemical and petroleum fertilizers. He further advocates fermenting the kelp first to make alcohol and then fermenting the leftover mash a second time for methane. The California coast alone could yield almost 90 billion gallons of fuel. The remaining 2/3 of the energy as methane would provide all the alcohol plant process energy plus a huge surplus of gas/electricity for business and residential use. Combined with the other dead zones, all transportation fuel as well as the majority of natural gas could be replaced without using a square foot of farmland.
Blume says that the top four US crops are rice, wheat, corn and potatoes which are 75% starch and he suggests that malnutrition is a protein deficiency as opposed to a caloric deficiency. He advocates increasing protein production by cultivating oyster mushrooms that can be grown using just 25% of the grain straw that is annually burned off of fields as the fungi can efficiently extract the protein from the straw. Blume writes, "So if we really wanted to feed everyone, even without using a single animal as a food source, it would not be difficult".
The US uses 87% of its corn crop as animal feed; when alcohol is made from the corn, which removes the starch, the protein, fat, some of the cellulose, vitamins and minerals along with the yeast from fermentation remains. The remaining substance is called distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and is about one third of the volume of the original corn after the starch is removed. DDGS is a far superior animal feed that eliminates huge health problems in cattle because they cannot digest the starch in corn. Of course Blume, as an organic farmer, shuns GMO products.
Blume tells a fascinating story about his organic farm with less than 2 acres of uneven land in San Francisco that produced enough food to feed as many as 450 people. He converted the organic content of the soil from 2% to 22% and the adobe clay soil was transformed from 1 inch of topsoil to 16 inches of topsoil. His little patch of land produced over 100,000 pounds of food per acre.
Blume's book covers how to convert your car to run on alcohol. If you have a flex fuel car, you're good to go. You can also purchase a conversion kit from his website for $400 to $700 (depending on the size of your engine). The kits are made in the US and allow you to burn straight gasoline, E85 or 100% ethanol. Alcohol fuel conversion kits have been used successfully in Brazil on over 50,000 cars over the last 20 years with no reports of of engine damage resulting from the kits or running on ethanol. Small 2 stroke engine problems are preventable by using a lubricant and the proper grade of alcohol.
Rockefeller foisted 'prohibition' on the US in order to create a fuel monopoly with gasoline; Ford's Model T originally ran on alcohol that people could grow and distill themselves.
America is abundant and is still full of opportunity! We must think for ourselves and stop allowing big corporations tell us that the only source of energy is from that which they derive a profit. If we work with nature, we could feed and fuel the world in addition to massively reducing pollution.
Ty Doty is a Naturopathic Doctor (ND), Homeopath and Clinical Nutritionist with a focus on natural health and preventative therapies. He resides in Colorado and may be contacted through his website at www.invisionhws.com
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International Delegates arrive in Atlanta for IIEA and Project Gaia: clean indoor air and appropriate-scale alcohol fuel production Forum
Nigerian, Haitian, Mexican and US Representatives Participate in Program with Biofuel Expert and Author David Blume and Project Gaia Executive Director, Harry Stokes Initiating Plans for Development of Localized: Clean Cookstove, Abundant Jobs, Food, and Energy Solutions
WHAT: ATLANTA, GA, NOVEMBER 30, 2010. – The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) and Project Gaia welcome International delegates to their International Forum focused on the localized production and use of appropriate-scale alcohol fuel for clean indoor cooking and energy needs.
According to globally renowned regenerative agriculture and alcohol fuel expert and author of the critically acclaimed book Alcohol Can Be A Gas! David Blume, “Locally produced Alcohol fuel is an ideal source of energy for cooking, heating, refrigeration, electrical generation and transportation needs. Developing this fuel provides communities with abundant food, energy and job opportunities and can immediately help stop global deforestation, the number 1 contributor to climate change.”
“Worldwide, more than three billion people lack access to modern forms of energy and cook with traditional stoves that burn polluting fossil-based fuels,” said Harry Stokes, Executive Director for Project Gaia. “Illnesses resulting from indoor air pollution claim an estimated 2 million lives worldwide each year. In many parts of the world pneumonia in infants and small children is the primary cause of death, and evidence links wood-fire cooking smoke to chronic bronchitis in women, low birth-weight in children, active TB, and many other ailments. Clean-burning stoves and alcohol fuels can dramatically change these statistics and that is why we have Forum participants coming from around the world to learn more about these practical and affordable solutions.”
During the 2½-day educational Forum participants will learn ways to:
- Provide pollution-free energy for safe indoor cooking and other uses
- Stabilize domestic fuel production costs at less than 30 cents/liter (USD)
- Curb deforestation, black carbon emissions and global warming and earn carbon credits
- Integrate domestic food and energy production
- Identify high-value, high-yield crops for all climates to produce sustainable energy and increase soil fertility
- Create and encourage permanent local jobs
Forum registrants include governmental consultants, business and private sector leaders from Nigeria, Haiti, Mexico and the US. Participating organizations include: the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s Renewable Energy Division, Zenith Agroethanol Nigeria Limited, Nsik Motors Limited, Toloms Traves & Tours, Oranit Oil & Gas, Public Private Alliance Foundation, Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF), Grace International as well as other internationally-focused interests.
When: Monday, Nov 29, through Wednesday Dec 1, 2010
Where: Embassy Suites, Buckhead, Atlanta, GA.
Working Press is invited. Photos available. For more information about the event contact:
Tom Harvey – IIEA (530) 257-3533 • thcommunications@gmail.com, or visit the IIEA website.
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David BLUME Keynotes San Mateo County BioEd/Science teachers talk, GUALALA Arts Council Lecture Series, BonFire Heights FESTIVAL AND ACORE’s Renewable Energy Finance Forum
September Talks Present a Plan for Developing Abundant Food, Clean Water, Renewable Energy and Non-Exportable Jobs Via Regenerative Ag and Localized Production of Appropriate-scale Alcohol Fuel
WHAT: Santa Cruz, CA Sept 7, 2011 – The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) announced today that its Executive Director and Founder David Blume will keynote a series of presentations in California this September.
Blume is a globally renowned regenerative agriculture and biofuels expert and is author of Alcohol Can Be A Gas! as well as Founder and Chief Technical Officer for Blume Industries, Inc.Blume will be presenting ways we can:
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Cheaply produce appropriate-scale alcohol fuel from surplus and waste-stream resources, as well as native and cultivated crops
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Generate high-profit, high-yield, coproducts from the alcohol fuel production process including: mercury- and radiation-free fish, non-toxic fertilizer and herbicides, abundant local jobs
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Develop affordable rapid response systems for global environmental and climatic disasters
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End global deforestation and improve health and safety conditions for women and children around the world
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Support Flex Fuel vehicle development with locally produced clean emission fuel
“We have the opportunity to transform a very dismal economic and environmental future to one full of opportunity and benefits,” stated Blume. “Appropriate-scale alcohol fuel is the trim tab for resetting our energy course both domestically and globally. As is currently recognized by Ford Motor Company and many of the leading Flex Fuel auto and transportation manufacturers, our farmers can produce the fuel we need to run cars, trucks, buses and to provide the fuel to produce electricity, cooking, heating and refrigeration solutions cost effectively and right now. ”
David Blume will be presenting at the following events:
Saturday, September 10, 2011 – Noon PT
Building 22, room 22-116 at Cañada College, 4200 Farm Hill Boulevard, Redwood City, CA
Audience is comprised of San Mateo County High School Teachers and College Professors who work with more than 10,000 students in the Bay area.
Monday, September 19, 2011 – 7:00pm PT
The Gualala Arts Center
46501 Gualala Road in Gualala, CA
Open to the Public and for a $5.00 donation, Blume will present "Alcohol: A Solution to Peak Oil." Based on his book, Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Blume will discuss how each of us from the home gardener to corporate agriculture can help break America's dependence on foreign oil.
Saturday, September 24, 2011 – 10:30am PT
Asilomar, CA
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Blume Talks in Sept 2011 Pg 2 of 2
BonFire Heights features a list of leading environmental thinkers and activists. Topics range from the Tar-sands pipeline and Gulf oil disaster to organic farming and food supply chain solutions along with energy and biofuel production models to transform our lives today.
Monday, September 26, 2011 – 4:30pm PT
American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
The Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, CA, September 26-27, 2011
SESSION 5: Renewable Fuels – A Renaissance?
With renewable fuels currently a topic of much debate at the Federal level, the industry appears to be experiencing somewhat of a renaissance, but investors still seem unsure. This session will unlock the myths surrounding renewable fuels and evaluate funding mechanisms to bring these projects to fruition.
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For more information about David Blume or the IIEA, contact:
or visit http://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com/event/2011/09/10
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