 I named this hyper-recycling and consumerism for the next generation, and I did that because it was kind of a Star Trek thing, you know, the hyperspace going beyond. And I know most of us already know what recycling is about. It's glass and bottles and cardboard and paper and things like that. But hyper-recycling is just those kind of recycling issues that go far beyond those items. The consumerism part should be the new consumerism because we're all talking about carbon footprint these days and how we have to be really careful about how much output the products we buy are producing in the carbon area. So I put the consumerism there. And the next generation is just to do something for the younger people to kind of give my ideas about the trajectory where we're going with this. And, okay, let's go. So I have some people that I respect and I kind of took their lead. This is kind of the backdrop for our present situation. David Suzuki, geneticist from Canada. He has this argument. He says the argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming overwhelming. Many of you have probably heard of Naomi Klein. She's the author of This Changes Everything and Environmentalist Activist Bill McKibbin. Together they jointly asked the mayor of Paris to pull all the city's investments out of fossil fuels. And the students on campuses are demanding the same thing. And the course is getting louder and louder. So that's kind of the backdrop I want to have to set the place for where we're beginning, you know, okay? And this is a bad photo, but this is kind of the ironic part that we have to always deal with, that Americans want climate action, but backing for the regulation it says here has declined. And we heard this last week from the president. He said we'll reduce our carbon loading by 28% over the 2005 level. And climate change gets most of the press these days, but we also have to remember that there's environmental concerns. And I think they've taken a second place, but I think when we look at products that we consume, we also have to think that we have environmental impacts that degrade the streams and the ocean and the air. And these issues include justice and equality. A lot of people miss that when they think about our transition to a low carbon environment. Pioneers in the science of climate change are Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, and William McDonough and Annie Leonard. And the last two are the two I'm going to kind of emphasize here in the next slide, because they hit on something that is really important to me in the work I do. And just the backdrop is this is an Australian island and the Australian protectorate. And just to give you an overview, some people are already being hit really hard by the sea encroaching onto their ancestral lands. So this group here, according to the news article, is looking for higher ground. So this is something that affects them immediately. And so they're already impacted by this. The Earth's population is projected to be 9.5 billion people by 2050. We'll be adding 2.5 billion people to arrive at that figure. They'll have the same aspirations as Americans do as far as obtaining material goods. And they estimate we need the resources of five additional Earths in order to meet these projected aspirations. And of course, this is kind of a joke because we don't have five extra, even though a lot of NASA scientists are looking for Goldilocks planets out in the universe. We haven't got those five extra planets yet. So this is the person I want to feature. He wrote a book called Cradle to Cradle. He advocates for a world of abundant goods. He doesn't think just because we have a low carbon footprint aim, we have to start reducing down to where we have this minimum of consumer goods. And the way he's going to do that is through polymers. And his book is written on paper that there's a polymer. He passed up right putting it on a tree. And these polymers apparently, chemically wise, can be broken down and reused over and over again perpetually without having a breakdown. And plastics made of algae is another thing he promotes. He claims we must innovate and invent our way out of the present dilemma. And that message hit me really hard because I feel that too. And he consults with governments and large corporations to implement his ideas. His proposals are very top-down. And I think there's a component for many of us when we look at top-down issues that we often have to be the bottom-up issue. And we have to get our elected officials moving on the things we do locally. Annie Leonard produced a video. She thought there would be 50,000 people that would watch this video. It's a caricature. It basically tells how we consume, how we waste, what the cost is. Are we happy? Are we unhappy in our consumeristic lifestyle? She thought it would have a very small showing. And in fact, it went like 5 million showings and was translated in 22 languages around the earth. So if you ever get to see the story of stuff, that's a good thing to watch on YouTube. And basically we need to change because our practices are harmful to the planet. She says, this was the key thing that encouraged me. She says that what we recycle won't solve our problems because for every trash barrel we take to the curb, 35 barrels of waste are produced by the manufacturers upstream. And most people would find that disheartening. And I found it completely encouraging because what I do is take things that have already gone through that 35 barrel trash load on those material goods. And I just start from that point and reconfigure them and repurpose them into viable products. Next. Ah, inner torima. Let me explain. I took the words, totally recycled material. I took the first two letters of the words and I put this word together called torima. The concept is really easy. We have assets that already exist and we need to just find new value in them. In doing so, we avoid those 35 barrels of upstream waste mentioned earlier. We already have the basic ingredients locally to upcycle those assets into quality products and we can make everything torima. But as they say here, what we can produce will have the lowest carbon footprint on the planet. That sounds a little boastful, doesn't it? I can produce something that anywhere in the world you would go to a manufactured place, these things have already had their ingredients put together into finished form and they will be the lowest carbon footprint on the planet. That sounds good. A lot of times when I say I repurpose things and I make things from structural materials, a lot of people say, oh yeah, I saw this dragon at the whole festival. It was made all out of bike parts and I go, that's nice, but that's not what I do. And just to show that I have nothing against artists who want to take scrap metal and pieces and reconfigure them into little art forms, I wanted to show that I made these years ago and they're still around and they're my shovel, prehistoric shovel birds, it's a new species. So anyhow, let's go to the next one here. More about torima later, but first an overview on recycling efforts. Question, do we have a food insecurity in our region? 40 million people, Americans have, not people, but more people in the world, but Americans have the food insecurity. And how does the California drought affect food security? Well, we now know that last week we've had all the federal allotments to farmers that will not be issued, so we have a lot of farm workers that are not going to have work because those allotments have been pulled. And what does the greater recycling effort look like locally? Next slide. And these should be routed to the food bank and they weren't the next. The drought has increased the food needs of farm workers in California, why not donate this to them instead of sending it all the way to the hog farms in Bakersfield? You know how you find out when you're doing this investigating thing? You talk to the truck drivers, they said, you're loading up all these pallets of food that you dumped off the new stuff and now you're backhauling the other stuff. Well, where are you taking this? And they said, well, I'm taking it to a hog farm in Bakersfield. I said, you are? He said, yep. Well, some supermarkets donate pastries and donuts to the food bank. This is headed to their composting facilities. Why not give the healthy food to the food pantries instead of sending it to the compost facilities? So that's another big store in town that has a hub and they backhaul all their stuff. And instead of, during the time of great need, this stuff is going to the composting facilities. Perfectly edible vegetables and fruits palletized for backhauling to compost facilities. That's in Davis. And what's happening is when the new stuff comes in, they clear the whole shelves of the fruits and vegetables. They stick them in those wax boxes where the new stuff arrived. And then they put them on a pallet and they shrink wrap it. And then when the trucks go back, they take them to these facilities I described earlier. Question on food providing. Can we ask that greater food gleaning occur from machine harvestings of crops in local fields? You know, we do the square of tomato here in this region. We have, a lot of times, you get 20% residue in the fields, the tomato fields, and a lot of that could be gleaned. And also, I've noticed there's a lot of experimentation on this campus here. And a lot of that is perfectly good food. I saw, you know, students from Latin America making these huge squash and all kinds of things that I think often it's just plowed under because people maybe don't have time to get it to a food bank. And there are 2,000 food deserts. That was in the news today. That's the places where the rural areas, where there's just a service station and a general store. There's no place for fresh foods and vegetables. So the nutrition is very deficient. Materials gleaning. The 4Rs are reduced, reused, recycle, repair. And perhaps, Refuse is a good one too. Products that are really harmful are products, for instance, like charcoal lighter. If I was the emperor of recycle, I would ban totally charcoal lighter fluid because it's just harmful for the environment and it's really hard to live next door to somebody who has a barbecue that's always pouring that chemical on. Anyway, observing waste in the local environment is a new skill set. Seeing that discards get into the hands of those that can use them keeps them out of the landfills. These were thrown away just because they were not clean. I power wash them. They're all aluminum. They're powder coated. This took a lot of energy and I'll explain aluminum to you in just a moment. Once they were power washed, all these notches and all will go on a 4x4 frame trellis. They will go to Robin Waxman, runs Farm 2.6 that helps a nutrition program up towards Woodland. These will be a Kiwi trellis. They're taken out of the waste stream where they would have gone to metals recycling and now they're going to go to whole Kiwi out by the airport. When this demolition took place at Taco Bell, it seems like there's a disconnect. I mean, these chairs should have been made available to people who wanted them. Instead, they went to the landfill and so there's kind of a disconnect. Sometimes we just need to have a liaison person who just basically says, when there's a demolition, I'll go out there and I'll make sure that the stuff that's still usable is deconstructed, sent to Habitat for Humanity or just put on Craigslist and somebody who needs these chairs can just come with a truck and take them away and that way we're not downcycling these things into scrap metal. This was within the last three weeks. The supermarket all of a sudden decides that they're not going to give these cinnamon buns on a tray this size and they're going to downsize it or upsize it or something. In this case, 10,000 aluminum trays, brand new food grade, were thrown into the dumpster in unopened cases. This case was opened up but the others were all still sealed up. Next slide. There's the plastic lids on them. 10,000. Next slide. Okay, let me just say there now those trays are now in the winter school district because the teachers need them for art classes and science classes so they're going to be used for petri dishes or whatever they need to be used for over there and some of them are being used in the Davis school district. A note for teachers. Teachers put out so much money to have viable classrooms these days and I think they really appreciate it when we look at something as plentiful as 10,000 trays that somebody makes the effort to get those into the hands of the people who need them. This is on campus. If you're a person who looks at dumpsters a lot you would be able to recognize where this dumpster is located but that's okay. It's a specialty. It's located despite the appeals to place them in collection bins. I have to hand it to the awards that were given to the students for sustainability and all who have gotten awards on campus. It's pretty remarkable that they have had at apartment complexes on and off campus have set up things and just said to people if it's still good, if the food is unopened put it in these bins. Please do not throw it away. Please don't put it in the dumpsters. I read recently that cotton t-shirt with all the inputs from growing to distribution, manufacturing, everything is 3,000 gallons of water per t-shirt. So that's an astounding amount of water especially in a place like California where we have the drought conditions that we have. Again, restaurants go out of business. This is a stainless deal. If you're a person who works in areas of building rocket stoves and things like that, stainless steel is just the greatest thing alive. We really like it. This unfortunately was a restaurant they go out of business and instead of calling somebody on Craigslist and bringing in a truck and saying okay, here's the deal. You got one day you got to clear out this whole thing. This was the restaurant next to Noah's Bagels that went out of business at an Italian restaurant. They threw everything out in a huge 22-yard dumpster and they threw away all the stainless steel, all the ladles, all the sieves, everything was out there. So some of us just tried to high grade it out and get it back into distribution. Down at the lumber companies a lot of people do art projects or they need rain covers or dust covers or something and this is 8 by 22 feet. I've reclaimed so much of this because these are on the lumber covers and nobody thinks you have the painters pulling up into the parking lot of the hardware stores going in there and buying thin little pieces of plastic to protect the carpet when they do their indoor painting and these are thrown constantly in the dumpsters so this is a resource that people who want to cover tables, kids are doing art projects and things like that can go. This is 10 mil plastic it's really thick it'll last a long time but it's totally underutilized. This is a disposal problem seeking a solution and I believe that people earnestly want to recycle and do the healthy thing for the environment and these, of course, are fluorescent tubes and they contain mercury and the problem is they will allow you to recycle them free in the Yolo County Landfill where I'm on the Waste Advisory Committee and I'm trying to have a lot of things changed right now but people are really worried that the dumpster will red flag it and not take the dumpster away so commercial and private people are putting on the side of the dumpster and then people are walking on them so my concept goes like this either rescind the order to recycle them or give us a place in local Davis like we have for waste oil in order to turn these things in so the environment doesn't collect all the mercury. Oak pallets are now repurposed for everything from furniture to compost bins and the student demonstrates an innovative way to transport them home. I love it, you know, when you have pictures like that and people are using their intelligence to get these things home. In the next slide, pallets can be deconstructed and made into fine furniture. This was thrown in the dumpster it's oak. We have a big problem with oak in California I think it's called, some professors here on campus are studying it I think it's called rapid oak decline sudden oak death and the problem is is we're losing all these oak trees on one hand but when these pallets arrive and they're made of still excellent solid oak that they end up like this one in the dumpster and if you go online you can see some of the finest furniture you ever wanted to see all made of recycled pallets it's really an art form now. This is bicycle recycling this is at the Davis Bike Collective and this person is a real mover and shaker Jonathan Woolies, ex-dome engineer at the Honda house in West Village he's volunteered at the bike collective and I just wanted to acknowledge that the domes can produce some pretty fine people sometimes I just wanted you to know that sometimes we wonder what they're doing out there but I've had a lot of contact with them and I admire them now I'm in trouble I see the smirks on your faces primary building materials supermarkets abandoned metal and wouldn't displays and so this is where this new skill set is kind of going by and saying the form and the function of this could be something new and changed and repurposed into something new discarded lumber for your do it yourself DIY do it yourself projects and you train your eyes to see completed projects and what I do at my inventing I'm an inventor and what I do is I see form and function I see some form out there and I say well there's an already existing object that looks just like this form and I can change this throw away article and make this new product this is the thick cut you know a lot of people chase after ambulances I chase after fence makers that are heading for the landfill and I try to stop them and I say where you going and he said landfill I said can I have the lumber and he said you want it and I said yep this lumber is the thick cut redwood it's called con-heart so because the post wrought out and the fence is falling down somebody comes in there and they replace the entire fence at great expense when all they have and this is this is the cheap small redwood trees it's called it's yellow you see the yellow striping in it so this is what they call merge grade it's really garbage and it's not going to last very long and this up here is thick cut con-heart redwood clean of knots made from larger redwood trees and what we're doing as a culture is we're sending this to the landfill for this that is not going to last as long this chicken coop was built entirely from Davis Fences 2x4 windows and doors my friends Mike and Susan up in grass valley they run a farm for showing permaculture trainees how to grow food and do raised beds and things like that and they built this out of entire recycled materials the doors the door was a throwaway at hibbert lumber so it's very useful and I had to throw this in next slide the tour to cluck has really encouraged people to raise chickens there you go and I've been on the tour and I've seen 800 dollar chicken coops and so I just had to put that there is no historical documentation of hens refusing to occupy a chicken coop made of entirely recycled materials you've heard it now I made my public statement about that you can use recycled materials a woman named Barbara when the city cut down the tree in her front yard she said can you not only cut it down in a big round square can you also slice it down the middle and she this is the other wood that we've seen previously is called dimensional lumber and this is of course the raw tree trunks and so she made two benches out of it and then used recycled materials to do her the bridges and the trellising and things like that and the soft scapes in ornamental horticulture are the greenscapes the plants and what not so she mixed them all together very beautifully and that's her front yard creation the guy sitting right here came to me one day and said I'm making a bench for the community swimming pool and he said there's no place to sit down while you're waiting for the swimmers to get out of the pool and we need a bench and so he came to me and he said you have a 13 foot 12 4 by 12 4 by 12 and I want it and I said what are you going to do with it and he said I'm going to build a bench and I need another one and he said I'm going to build I'm going to cut all this steel underneath here and I said fine and he did and this is a beautiful bench it probably weighs over 400 pounds the next picture is what he is the note that he put on it sometimes we can make things that recycle material that are just as beautiful as the ones that are come from the manufacturing houses and so sometimes it's really incumbent upon us who are promoting recycle materials that we put little notes like this on here it took six people to lift that out that was the midnight gorilla bench drop off it was really a lot of fun we wanted to put it out there before the city officials said oh no OSHA won't approve this we can't do this we figured if it's 450 pounds they're probably not going to remove it really soon and that's we owe that to Roger next slide the planter box of the delta venus about 15 years ago I wanted to learn to get my hand into landscaping and so I had a maintenance person at St. Martin's church and these are all growth redwoods beams this thick and he said they're getting rid of this redwood are you interested and I thought they'd be piddly little redwood pieces and I went down there and I saw these 16 and 18 foot beams of redwood and there were v cut you can see how they're cut in v well these were the rain gutters and the parishioners were smacking their heads on them and they had to come down so I got all these redwood beams there was a pile this high they were 16, 18 foot long so I went to the previous owner before Lee Wallfall that has it and I said I'd really like to do some landscaping so I made the I made this planter box that you can now see down at the delta venus and in the background there that handrail the city required them to put up a lot of recycle welded gas pipe that was thrown away okay this is a really important thing I put medical supply houses versus thrift store this is really important that you listen to this many of us don't think we can affect healthcare because it's a top down kind of thing people up there have to keep the cost down but a lot of people spraying their ankle or they have arthroscopic knee surgery or something what they do is the go to the doctor and the doctor says I'll give you an authorization to go over to Anderson medical supply and get your $85 crutches these crutches are $2 at the thrift stores in town so if your friends ever break a leg or something and they're still kind of conscious tell them not tell them you don't want them to go to the supply houses because we down here in the streets are starting to realize how healthcare costs just go up and up and up unless we get a hold of this issue and we start putting our own input into savings ourselves in this healthcare plant and crutches are just they're all over and the next slide I'll show you what I did I made a bike trailer out of them and what happened was there were crutches in my driveway and there was an old beat bike trailer and I noticed that the distance was about 4.5 inches between the crutches and I looked at the bike trailer and it was 4.5 inches between so I made these little kits here which I'd like to start making and giving to people and giving them instructions so that people can start making bike trailers I've taken the floor off it the wooden plywood off it so you can see but they're just I think if you can get these crutches you can make one of these bike things and so I'd like to get these going into production where people can just make these bike trailers for these crutches two shower stall channels, two bike wheels and an axle kit and you get the crutch cargo bike trailer and it's Torima totally recycled materials to make non-sagging gates from bed frames could provide full-time jobs this is a bunk bed frame you take these off completely I weld metal recycle hinges on them and the next slide shows I had to redo this rebuild this gate because it was so heavy that it was within a year the weather had weathered out the hinges that dropped on the ground and it was just kind of a useless thing that you had to keep dragging in and out so I built this metal framework and I took all the wooden boards off it and put them back onto that and now the gate closes and all some people could go around to places where they don't have a gate and just say for a hundred dollars I can have your fence boards taken down these metal frames putting up I'll put a post in and put those boards right back on the metal frame and it'll be a hundred bucks and I'll be out the door like that and somebody would just have a business and some people want more elegant and kind of flashy things and there is just such an abundance of old skis there's a room in the Salvation Army over in Sacramento where they will just give you if you come up with a truck they'll fill the truck with skis because they're donated to the Salvation Army and people just think they're not the latest version and so why have them and so this is a gate I made for my neighbor because she's an artist and she didn't want a plain brown gate and some friends of mine came to me and said we want to make a bike shelter and the landlord's not going to give us any material so the next day I brought the tin the wood the simpsons ties and the post and they said could you help us build it and I said nope I said you you have to do it yourself I said go I'll give you twenty minutes ask all the questions you want and then go get people who know something carpentry and build it yourself it won't be perfect the first time but the way you start learning how to be a DIY or a self provisioner is that you just get out there and hammer it out and learn who cares if it's not perfect I think he did a great job for his first job and later the family's in the honey business and he later dropped by with all these great big poly barrels for rain catchment that I was interested in steps of becoming a DIYer embrace self provisioning take the welding course at the craft center at UC Davis and make what you need and you can also learn to operate a 3D printer a lot of welding these days you know is beautiful artwork and it's all done with 3D printers all attached to those welding tips you can make some really beautiful am I promoting art oh yeah art so but do that if you can go to the craft center and even if you don't become a full time welder you'll know the amazing potential of making your own things where you don't have to go to stores leaf spring projects this is one item that we should not take off automobiles and trucks and ship them overseas and these are the things that are on the axles of cars that cushion the car when you hit a bump they expand and contract with the bumps and they're in pairs so I'll show you what you can do with them in the next slide this bench is the correct configuration you could just heat those leaf springs and bend them into benches like this this could be an industry this could be a cottage industry making benches for the forest department municipal parks and things like that because we have all these leaf springs let's establish something the colonial relationship between the colonists and the 13 colonies in England was that the cotton had to go to England and we sold raw materials if we continue to send leaf springs and bed frames and all these other things to China we basically put ourselves into this this untenable relationship with a colonial power it's better to have products that are already refined and finished off and then sent over for export otherwise we're taking all the gems that we have around here locally and we're shipping them off and getting very little money for them next slide a guy named Roberto and I built this trellis, it's made out of all recycle material I was at a garage sale and I said to my friend what's all this beautiful lumber and beams in your dumpster he says oh the guy was real estate agent named Corey I hope I'm not getting too much away and he said yeah we're doing a remodel on the house and we just need to get rid of it he says I got more in the backyard and I said give me it all I made three truckloads and then when we had to put knee bracing keeps the thing from collapsing and these are the leaf springs you saw earlier so that was kind of a neat invention and artistically it makes a fine line by holding that structure strong because it can't collapse this way or this way and so I'm recommending that to a lot of my builder friends who use wood that they can use these leaf springs and this is a potting table and again it's the curvature the form and function pointed out to me that we should make tables and potting tables this one's been around for 20 years so it's just getting rusty but it's bed frame on the top and leaf springs on the bottom DIY special embrace self provisioning take the welding course I already mentioned that it's okay it's repetition a huge zero waste challenge is one time use products plastic shipping crates, foaming soap dispensers and five gallon white buckets these are the things that come from Chile Mexico and they usually have tomatillos and string beans and some other vegetables it's a one time use only plastic and I am so against one time use plastic it just clutters the environment do any of you know about the big vortex of plastic hands? okay so a lot of people know it if we can't keep all this waste plastic out of our oceans and out of our waste stream it often ends up this huge vortex up north of Hawaii and these were so plentiful I kept seeing them for years and they were all being thrown away so I noticed that the poor students at the student farm they had these really heavy lugs so half of what they were lifting was the weight of the lugs that they were harvesting in and so I just started I said I'll try it and that's what you do when you're a recycler you just bring a few and you throw them out there and you walk away and all of a sudden you see them using them and you bring 10 more and you bring 15 more so now hundreds of them over the last two years have gone to the student farm they're stackable I know they're not as strong as the original ones but they really they really help out and there are so many other applications for them people want to organize their garages or anything like that it's better to take these than to take the milk carts behind the supermarkets the white buckets over there plenty of white buckets around I mean a lot of people could they use them for harvesting also the white buckets this is a this is this you can I'll pass this around while I'm talking about that just pass it there these are these one time these are the this is a great invention because you can wash your hands and you don't have that little gelatinous thing that you find all over the counters at the in the restrooms at the airports that have hit the thing and the soap the soap has to the soap can be aerated and it cleans your hands quicker and it's a great it was a great invention but the people realized when you foam it you have to water it down and they wanted to sell you they didn't want to sell you something cheap because it had just a lot of water in there and so they put a lock on it so I'll pass that around and you can't take the top off and so what I learned to do is to pick these up and to use a screwdriver and to defeat the locking mescanism and now I refill them every chance I get and when the dome we save the domes we did the project on the save the domes remember that one so I just brought a whole bunch of those that I had refilled and we had hand washing stations and they were big hit two years ago a burning man I went for the first time and it's all dusty and alkaline desert and we just put post up and put these dispensers all over there where people could just kind of refresh and soap up and clean their face and get the alkaline dust out of their face and so all these are like these are laboratory like you you see Davis places outside the campus or we're using the two on the right and they're all all of them are locking okay the this is cyclone fence pieces here somebody threw them away I cut off the gate locking places and we make the most beautiful tools to date we've made over 500 shovels in assembly line fashion the shovels break they get wet people leverage them they snap off the stubs in there we grind the rivet we pull the stub out we crease the end of these here because we have to roll it and get it into the socket and I've done seminars at four or five different places including the domes I've done the work for the EC gardens that you saw and that way we get these shovels instead of buying shovels at Walmart that come from China we have all the shovel heads in the world that we need here locally and we can just refit them onto these sturdy handles and those pitch those forks there are what they use at the student farm because the wooden ones are breaking off but these steel ones are strong and they last a long time and when we do concrete pours we always have extra concrete and this is the excess amount of concrete that we put in the barrel hoops on the old wine barrels when they fall apart so the plastic is from hibberts the rings are the wine barrels that have fallen apart and the concrete is just the end of the load when there's extra they'll take it away and throw it on the ground then they'll take it up to the yard a ticard I think it's ticard they drop this big chunk of concrete on the ground and then I ask the truck driver I said what do you do with it and he said well we have this great big forklift and we stick it in this grinder and we grind it up I said for what he said for road base we put it for road base I said that's the most energy intensive thing I've ever heard of that it's just so wasteful and he looked at me like who are you and so anyway I like to rush out there with a kit when I know my friends are doing pours and I bring the rings and I bring the plastic the trowel and the six wheel barrels and when before the guy gets out of there I just say dump the excess concrete in these six wheel barrels and we'll deal with it and he does he says fine I'll wash my truck, my chute and everything and I said fine so that's what we do and I did this at the student farm a couple months ago they have a new pad we had to lay a pad up there for the new CSA processing shed Pauline Bartoloni when she's not the health reporter for KXPR she I deliver her concrete and mosaic pieces and she does this kind of work so she's a very talented woman next here on campus this is a gripe of mine for the last year it was a great idea, band smoking remove the butt containers super break them into rubble by pushing them around with a skip loader and a bobcat not a good idea a better use for these would be planters they could use these for planters and patios and what not and this is just just this is irksome to me that at a time when the students tuition is going up 5% a year and they already had these big tuition hikes the university somehow can't get a policy going in which this stuff gets out to the public they could have say Thursday anybody with a truck can come by we'll take our bobcat we'll lift them up we'll put them in there and you have to immediately leave and take them home and get them off the campus concrete is really intensely carbon it's a heavy carbon footprint so anytime we waste concrete like this to me it kind of is very bothersome to me UC Davis greenhouse plant experiments grant money obtained equipment purchased drips of system installed sounds good next slide they haul in all the sand and all the ingredients to make the potting soil still good next that's where the experiment ends mixed loads not sorted out plastic hose pallets the crew goes in there because the transformers burn out on those big powerful grow lights they're all in there that's copper you can take that to woodland and get money for that there's no excuse you know they just throw it away and so all the plastic and all the potting soil is all thrown in one big jumble it's called universal waste and eventually it fills and fills and the next slide there's the big equipment I've seen young people go to the outskirts of Davis get a couple acres and put in a drip system with all these emitters and everything this could be a start up I talked to a guy about organic gardening and if you compost this potting soil you can put it in your organic farm and not have anything against you it would be perfectly fine to compost it and use it we're talking tons of potting soil if there are some ingredients in these greenhouses that you'd rather not have trailers could be put out the same trailers that brought those potting soil ingredients in could be put right back out there and have that potting soil that's a little toxic go in that direction and the least toxic would go here and the people could compost it so I see even on campus that gets a lot of awards and I have a way to go we're using trampolines to make greenhouses this is in grass valley at the permaculture thing and I dropped it off with the pieces and I said this is all galvanized and the insurance agents are telling people like my sister whose daughter my niece jumped off and broke her ACL and just said we're not going to ensure your house any longer unless you get rid of that trampoline so you now can configure trampolines the arching pieces of the circle of the trampoline those are the two arches the sockets are already there you run four pieces of steel pipe through them you raise it up tall and you can make this is a three trampoline greenhouse here and then you cover it with polycarbonate next bathtubs should not be thrown away they make great red worm bands and they also make containment vessels to plant fishponds and you can finish them off and make them look nice you can put redwood around them and you can put two by six redwood decking pieces around there make it a bench and you can't even tell cost wise this thing is the biggest and the best planter I've seen around for the price and these don't have any aftermarket covers the steel frames are discarded but I found out that wheelbarrel handles are the same size so now we're doing seminars and we're taking the broken handles off wheelbarrels like we did 14 wheelbarrels at the sea gardens and the domes and we're using this steel structure because people throwing away because the sun degrades the canvas and there's no longer no longer an aftermarket cover and a gallant Emma took one of these thrown away and she put plastic over it and I think most of you know this is the kind of tread you don't want on your bicycle for some reason because this is like off this is like mountain bike kind of stuff so the students want all the slick ones so these get thrown away all the time in the developing countries where I've been these are what they need so if they need them why couldn't we collect all these from bike shops and use them for cushioning when we have to send an engine or something in a crate instead of shipping a bunch of worthless cardboard or styrofoam to package something we could pack these for cushioning and tires and it would be a great day because this is a big expense for people who are low income working in third world countries these are really cool because these are DC motors from treadmills this is when the new year's resolution to lose weight and run the treadmill goes out the window and then these end up being thrown away these are 28 full DC generators and they are so excellent to hook up to paddle wheels on streams and rivers in third world countries and you can just light up you use batteries you charge the batteries it runs day and night on the stream and at night kids can study because they're lights and they don't have oil lamps where they're breathing all the fumes it's a great thing I have five of them you know anybody that wants them in third world countries I'll donate them today go, next some of you know tiny house movement Jay Schaefer it's okay this is my first all recycled Torima totally recycled material shed this was my first experiment and this is my second experiment it's a little more luxurious has a porch but I would like to see an advance where we use completely recycled materials and we make tiny houses and I'll get to the point later why I'm promoting that and this was a biotech firm they did an IPO initial public offering thank you they threw this brand new exhaust hood away and three days later there was a request to the student farm they wanted to expand their business and they needed sinks for washing vegetables and these students here took the five gallon water jug so they could attach a hose and run the gray water out to the to the plants around the packing shed metal items that we should not send overseas to the smelters car, truck, leaf springs, metal bed frames, bathtubs, garden tool heads like shovels, hose, rakes picks and axes and crutches next the Torima Dream we're getting towards the end here, hang on establish a student colony of owner made tiny houses selected from discarded lumber, 40 homes on two acres that's my dream I think you students are totally strapped with debt and obstacles there are things that are going to be in your way and we need you to work on the environment and you're not going to be able to do that if the weight of all of this indebtedness is on you or your fellow students doesn't matter if it's on you personally but if there's so many students that have more debt students have more debt than the entire credit card debt of our country now and I'd like to see a place where all these recycle materials like where I work and they're burning them in biomass at the Yolo County landfill I want to see them high grade those good materials those 4x4s and everything and put them out there and it'd be just like the Amish building a house as you move into the community everybody joins in and builds your house with you so you know exactly they're 10x12 there's a sleeping loft they're made of all recycle materials and this this has to be something that we would have to have certain rules set aside because they're normally not going to allow this on two acres north of Davis but I would like to see that that's kind of my Torima dream next Torima light industries I think they we should franchise the building of using local materials and building it and so I'll just let use 100% post-consumer and this is the important thing the people who have landfills auto dismantlers and metal recycling yards they're missing the boat they have gems they're foolishly sending all this great material overseas and we're acting like a colonial we have a colonial relationship with China now they're doing the smart thing because they're making finished products and we need to use the things from these places and allow them to increase their revenue and keep jobs here and not ship them overseas and again Torima products bring them into competitive viability this is my dream study the market marketability of Torima products among green customers you know for starters maybe Santa Cruz Berkeley and Davis are the only people are going to want to buy these things and get out of recycled materials but when people see they last a long time and they're made really well I think other people will catch on and say well why don't we do that we're now decentralizing the grid we don't want a monopoly of energy producers we want to make our energy produced locally that's the latest thing in this break up of the big monopolies we also need to take the other gems and resources that we have locally and incorporate them into employment and usage locally and TLI is just my joke because Fuji heavy industries of Japan this is Torima light industries so I think I'd like to see that take off sometime yeah I did that one already I don't know where that came from acknowledgements project compost I'm going to go back one Derrick Downey Ben Perle the domes the solar community housing association these are just people that I'm working with on this whole issue of climate change next this is Alan Doyle he's your sustainability coordinator on campus I think so this is his project all these laboratories get all these styrofoam packages with all the ice packs and stuff yeah and then they all go into the dumpster and he said no no no we're not going to do that anymore next Alice Michael these are the young people I met at the farm hack a couple years ago and they combine the two words recycle and farming and they're basically doing all kinds of things this is a rabbit tractor where you move the rabbits around there are chicken tractors look at the pallets in the background they do brewing they go out there and they say oh you do brewing and you have all the spent grains well we have animals and we want to feed them so they're out there making all these connections look them up on you have a website I've seen it look them up they have a lot of open houses to show people how to farm and how to garden and how to use recycled materials in that effort good people yeah Davis maker space it took us a long time but we finally have a building it's on the alley behind Bistro 33 and lamppost pizza is that in that row there behind so it's in the alley a lot of people have student projects if you want to go to an open house where there's going to be so many brainy people I mean brainy people they do their work for shilling robotics and they do all kinds of wonderful things and you can go down there and if you have some invention that you want to put out there and have them go over or a student project or something they can give you so much advice they just sit around there waiting for somebody who says I have this idea and I want to put it into fruition and they take off and they build it and they're very playful they do robots and trebuchets too next Davis energy group a lot of people know this building near the farmers market this was this is David born it's his project and this is one of those like the Westlake buildings this is net zero carbon lowest carbon possible and this is using heat from the earth in heat exchanging methods for cooling and heating it's just state of the art we're so lucky in Davis to have people like this that can do these kind of projects Robin Waxman farm 2.6 this I took off her website and they do nutrition programs for people in Woodland they do half of their crop output is donated they have a lot of students from UC Davis who go out there and farm she's just a wonderful person I love her she's just great cool Davis these two women Lynn Nettler and Judy Moore's effort they have a lot this is the group that gives out the eco hero awards and cool Davis these are people who like myself are kind of obsessed and they just they work day and night these two women here next and can we just can what we discard provide and improve standard of living for developing countries the case of the hot tubs there were 35 of these I rescued two of them in northern California caught on fire so they didn't want to embarrass all those hot tub owners that they had their friends over with the wine glasses and all of a sudden you smell smoke and they were so they just said let's pull all these five horsepower motors and get rid of them just because we pull them those motors are still good and I took 20 of them and shipped them to a veteran friend of mine in New Jersey who ships to Nicaragua and they're doing fine down there so that we could get less than $20 for scrap metal and take a $300 5 horsepower pump and put it into a third world country their nutrition goes up they produce so much more they can irrigate land and orchards that they hadn't before this thing these pumps could pump water up to a hill where they don't have an all around stream on the other side but they have good soil and then they could put a tank up there and just gravity feed it down there a big extensive orchards on the other side of the hill so 20 of those went and the rest of them went in northern Mexico where they're also pumping fine they're going to last for years hyper recycling is an idea whose time has come we have master gardeners should we not also have master recyclers the drought continues start your gray water diversion project today I'll talk to you I won't do it for you but I'll talk to you that's my email I find out if you want to incentivize people doing gray water give them all the free PVC and fittings they want and they will grab it and run with it next it's hard to find a good used planet so let's preserve the one we've got thank you so there's all these centers where it's kind of this intermediary in between because it just seems like you need real estate, you need space to store all these things and to allow people to stuff to the next piece excellent point I'm glad you brought it up is there something like that in Davis or like something in the world unfortunately it's all the burners who want to make projects for burning men would fly in from Hawaii and go to my house with the goods and then bring them back the whole issue of like a restore, a Habitat for Humanity restore that's right that's right up there in my priority list because we have a lot of contractors in town I've had a relation with them talking with them for years they had a website once where they were going to have something like a Craig's list for this leftover stuff and it just didn't get off the ground what I'd really like to see is a Davis City sponsored restore where if you have extra stuff from your projects if you have anything all this throw out stuff is just so massive and a restore would be a place where things could come and go like a give and take situation and it's an excellent thought but it will take some organizing and it will take some people that will push it I mean we have parks because it's a community good to have a park is it not also a community good to have a restore where all this stuff doesn't go to where I work at the landfill yeah good idea yeah Larry's house is a restore like half of somebody having my house right now came from there well I promoting these things is to get them in the hands of the people who need them so that's why I do it it's it's got to such proportions and all that I just think we need to double down on getting these things taken care of it a lot of people's future depends on us getting the whole carbon thing under control getting our jobs here not outsourcing people's jobs because of the downward spiral for lower wages we can employ people locally and do so many things there's so many pluses that we can do I take two of these I don't go down to ace hardware and pay six dollars for theirs because theirs is kind of doesn't work and so what I do is take a piece of screen which is recycled these rubber bands are great the ones that come on broccoli are the ones I like the most I make a cone I cut the tip off this fits like so and places like your compost bins chicken yards something like that where there's a fly problem during the summer my favorite bait and I take a little cut here and I put fresh corn off the cob or the tips of asparagus I found those are the two bet and I just push them in there the flies go in here and the flies naturally go for the sun after they feed they don't go off to the side so they come up and they find their way through that one at a time the hole and then they fill up black hundreds and hundreds of flies are trapped it's non-toxic and then when you have chickens you just go they take care of it and it's done and the other thing since I couldn't do a big welding project for you today I just brought the soap containers just to show you that I do these soap stations and everything so anybody else have any comments or wishes or aspirations or any of those kind of things thank you so much