Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Aqua-plantpod Hab wall- in supermarkets

2011 Vegilogi - Aqua-plantpod Hab Walls; aquaculture garden pod wall for grocery stores

Goal: Eliminate mass Shipping of conventionally grown leafy green produce.
Health goals;- provide non-irradiated food, limit range of travelling contaminants

Investigated Aqua-(pod) culture technology currently;-  For grocery stores/ Vegilogi Lifestyle Hab.

One thing that I have never liked, the amount of nutrition vs. amount of chemicals in transported with produce. The most pronounced thing in my mind as a vegan for the past 20 years is that the quality of more selective organic and chemical free meal replacement powder that need water or other liquid hydrator were nutritionally effective. The luxury of consuming plump lettuce leafs, and conventionally grown produce to constitute a salad with high water content & pesticide exposure has diminished in significance. This is aside from the need to adjust for a macro/micro-biotic lifestyle that is more congruent with one's environment by keeping plant species within their climate range and naturally occurring habitat. All to deter the need to ship such vegetables, and or fruits and their contaminants such as molds and small pests.

So, Vegilogi Aqua-plantpod Hab. does not seem that it would not work in several instances due to higher maintenance of cleaning what I see as a wall display. The perfect wall display would have  live, edible, hydroponic/aqua culture plants without soil contaminants being present and clean hoses and in event where mold occurs. At first seemed the aqua-pod wall seemed feasible due to sprayers over already picked produce. To be contaminant free from human touches it seems that the system would really need to be more contained with a pod vending conveyor belt. 

Ideally, if this weren't such a Dept. of Health issue;- the Aqua-plantpod walls could exist as a complete yet enclosed community garden or community agriculture projects supported from Solar energy to maintain pumps and temperatures. Existing community agriculture communities are generally privileged with acreage. However, part of the idea behind in store installation is to encourage Aqua-culture pods being used in elementary schools & communities across the globe as a way to take social responsibility in lower-income communities where children can learn how to eat healthy.

Another big part of the motivator is to bring fresh, clean, non-irradiated food back to the plate as a biological reset. Most all food shipments today are irradiated at some point in the process, or at least through the East Coast & Pennsylvania from my private sources. That may however, be negligible in comparison to current produce pile shopping style displays that can smell like mold from uncleaned quantity driven displays (ones noted at Langley, VA to Kailua, HI). The smaller Aquaculture plant pod wall designs should fit within refrigerated shipping container as a small display for vending POP.
  1.  The POP (point of purchase) should enable the consumer to take the plant home intact to plant in a soil based medium or to continue to live for consumption within a week of purchase. Print out basic instructions, receipt, app development for instruction, etc.
  2. Benefits to the store are a live, beautiful display of fresh edible greens. 

2011 Vegilogi Product Needs:
General Specs:
  • Aquaculture-pod wall fixture 6'-10' or 16'-20'- 2 options: 1. entire wall enclosed  or 2. not enclosed. 
    • conveyor system to work unenclosed wall to rotate for maintenance
    • enclosed system to have a dispenser & POP outlet for the pod(s)
    • easy access to remove flush/clean hoses running through aqua pods. 
    • employees or IC's who can maintain & restock Aqua-plantpod Hab wall(s) and have background. All vegetables/plants grown on site. - will require a time commitment for new growth. 
    • ie,. Butterhead lettuce, Oak leaf lettuce, Arugula, Herbs, possible sprouts,  Aqua-plantpods to contain plants that can be taken home as is and plugged into a compatible home system for growth, or removed from the pods for current consumption.

Friday, November 11, 2011

APEC Leader's week- Receive Lei

Just happened behind me. APEC Leaders Week, Delegates receiving Lei @ 5PM Hawaii Time.

ABAC Small Medium Enterprise Symposium


IP, Intelectual property rights panel put forth "the First to file" discussion at Topics for Small Medium Enterprises at the Public Meeting and ABAC SME Symposium November 10, 2011 at the Halekulani in Waikiki, Hawaii. Other topics, that were generally covered, included discussion about 1. Using the Cloud for SME's (Small Medium Enterprises) to grow the business & how SME's can be "nimble" and staat responsive in crisis situations for business support 2. Import-Export insurances, 3. Ethical businesses raise the GDP of nations, Corrupt nations have lower GDP. 4. Policy control to enable rather than inhibit small businesses 5. SME's doing the groundwork for Large businesses and trying to maintain a level playing field for SME's to compete.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Nuclear Generation Child

I'm a product of the Nuclear generation. I'm ùnmarried at 36 years old and have no children as a result of it. One of my parents is Japanese, and still a Japanese national, who was only a toddler when the bombing of Hiroshima occured in Japan. My Japanese biological parent was nowhere near Hiroshima when the bombing occured but was completely exposed to the Nuclear Fallout afterwards. My Uncles and Aunts who were born after the Nuclear event occured were not exposed to any Nuclear radition and thus have little health complications. When i was growing up in the USA near Washington's Crossing, my Japanese parent was diagnosed with cancer. I was barely 6 years old and was told at one point that my Japanese parent was dead (by the doctor). I was instructed as a child of 6 about the collateral damage of nuclear fallout, nuclear war, and what it meant for my life because it was so affected. Things that changed in my life at the recommendation of Japan & doctors were: `

  1. Eating an entirely vegetable based diet called Shojin Ryori by my Japanese relatives.

  2. Supplements of raw barley

  3. not putting expectations of having children or a married life on me due to birth defects concern.

  4. Finding that my Japanese parent nearly died from the Iodine during cancer treatment and that I am completely allergic to Iodine and developed a shellfish allergy by age 8.

Hiroshima fallout impacted my life in its entirety. I have lived as westerners call it "vegan" for over 25 years now. I cannot trust western medicine to diagnose me on certain things because it is clearly a money & politics game for them once I enter a hospital. Instead for many years since college, i chose alternative medicine and even found a very reputable Native American herbalist for my medical needs. I rarely take prescription medications and because I am mixed race on a genetic level, was told by a Board member of National Institutes of Health, that the cellular level they test on is for persons of the Majority genetic population in the USA. And, that the medications for this genetic population (primarily caucasian) in toxicology testing reaches toxicity at a higher level of chemical tolerance than for genetic populataions of mixed genetic backgrounds (such as caucasian/asian or caucasian/latino persons).

I was healthy for quite a while throughout my life after becoming a "vegan" and the added help from the Native American herbalist kept me flu & cold free in the Northeastern USA year-round (for approximately 10 + years). And, that was primarily in Ithaca, NY where the international student crowd and closed indoor environment for 75% of the year allows exotic flus to be passed easily. It took me 2 years in the college environment to seek the alternative herbal treatment. Mostly it was a simple intake of an herbal tincture when I got the sniffles. Never got sick after it was introduced in my life and I took it as instructed. Now with the current news and Japan, I have a new worry. That is being exposed to more Nuclear radiation. Obviously, I cannot take the iodine pills, or I will not be able to breath any longer, aside from other side effects. In my late twenties after being a non-profit work-horse and rarely slept, worked 80+ hrs. a week at low pay with multiple jobs and independent consulting gigs for business & entrepreneurs I believed in;- i collapsed due to a burnt out Thyroid. In conjunction with that it happened when i was consulting for a business owner with a humanitarian project that was based within sight of a Nuclear reactor near the Schyukill River near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I took several herbal thyroid supplements on the market after talking to another organizer at a clinic in Richlandtown, PA who was undergoing chelation and vitamin drips from radioactive exposure in Mexico. So, what i did which cost another good chunk of change, was go through all the thyroid supplements on the market that I could take. I found which ones worked best and then I purchased all the ingredients seperately and took them individually to try and isolate the main ingredient that I needed. After months of trying this, my choice thyroid supplement was standing with Deglycerrized Licorice or DGL (a $5.99 supplement on its own). And, it was the one thing that my body craved at the time. I would get mental pictures of it from my biological system when it was missing. And, it has been the only supplement that my body has Ever craved in my life. Since this time, I have lived/camping in remote areas of upstate NY as I have systematically developed allergies to cosmetic & toiletries at a higher rate, intense building allergies that keep me away from viable job opportunities, I cannot take any prescription medications as I experience nearly ALL listed side effects and some may stop my heart, and I can rarely find buildings in which I can live (due to intense allergies to the materials). In my life I have done non-profit work on the East Coast, as an unpaid intern/volunteer etc even with my own organization and done my own think-tank research due to the generally hostile political climate I experienced being Japanese-American for the past 36 years of my life. Because of the hostilities directed at me and my now deceased siblings;- I cannot see a future for me in the united states. I have been treated in Totality as "the ENEMY" all of my life by other Americans outside of my immediate family. And so, my situation is strained unless i manage to find individuals with causes to make a statement to those who consider me an enemy since my birth. This means financially, I have never been able to get off the ground to have any dream of having a home or family realized. I was fortunate for a more cultured relative, a Kelly from Philadelphia who was an entertainer, who gave me the musical instrument to see me through my childhood life. I do pray for peace, however, I feel that the USA has made a very loud statement of hating the Japanese. Even one of my Martial arts instructors here in Hawaii made a comment to me after the 3-11 Tsunami that he thought Japan is better off now. Since he seems to control & undermine my life in Hawaii, I could only take this statement of his Japanese hatred as part of his discontent with his own predominantly Chinese heritage. Someday, I hope that peace blankets the world. My life has been full of tumultuous fighting between other groups of people and their stances on a Nuclear world. Though, it is not my whole life, it is blaring so loud due to these outside parties that I can barely tone it down.