Thermal Mass ( your building material ) must be protected from outside moisture and fully insulated in order to function properly. While that almost says , in one sentence - the thrust of this article , thermal mass must also be, positively charged to be effective.  Be that heat , it normally takes at least 28 day for a mass of 24" thickness and longer for greater mass storage.  Coolness happens, at a greater rate of speed than charging & happening as heat loss but, it does take a little time. Thermal Mass is a real live "energy battery" and you must recharge that battery in order to maintain that battery, with it's energy, if you want to be able draw from that energy supply, when may be required.  Heat seeks cool and when charged the mass will pass warmth back to the cool interior ( when needed for example in Winter at night or the reverse in Summer ) .

When practical, a buildings interior walls, should also be constructed, from thermal mass too, ( as opposed to light weight materials ), with the Insulation ALWAYS outside , that thermal mass & ALWAYS protected by a great moisture barrier. If your building is Earth Sheltered , you can also add additional mass, out past your permanent exterior wall forms and locate your insulation just inside the moisture barrier then backfill ( example 4 ft. ) and then tamp the fill between the two surfaces in order to properly fill the space .

( Note To Self Choose The Polyisocyanurare insulation as it's water tight ! )

For above ground construction ( non-earth sheltered ) yet built of solid earth mixes, Insulation should be placed within that mass but, in the outer 1/2 section, leaving sufficient protective earth wall outside that insulation, to safeguard your insulation and of course, completely seal the walls exterior surface, so as not to allow a wicking of moisture into your thermal mass. The builder must tie that insulation to the earth on either side of itself and caution should be taken to not allow the ties to cause damage to the earthen mixes when completed. For example steel rebar will move at a different frequency that earth in a earthquake . Therefore one would not want steel inside a earth mix wall and other suitable ties must be employed .

Interiors also MUST BE Ventilated on a regular schedule ( Read In Here: Cooling Tubes ) This is the same for both above ground and Earth Sheltered structures so as to no have interiors that contain moisture nor other undesirable air contaminants ( think radon gas etc. that might build up in a tightly sealed environment ) That said, you will want to perhaps, on clear days open the roof ventilation as early as is practical and may not be able to due so on moist ( rainy ) days . With cool air coming in from the Northern walls of your structure , your ventilation will ideally pass through the entire building, and across the thermal mass surface ( properly exit upward ) , on the Southern most roof section
( think of a passive solar building, with the sun's heat, drawing warm moist air upward & out . Like so, Ventilation should be above all "Winter Gardens" as well, so as to remove any moisture from the growing area as well as in the rest of the structure.

In closing , one should be aware that when a properly maintained, protected & charged thermal mass is employed, through out the structures interior & at levels conducive to energy collection , the building will become much more independent of conventional conditioned air systems ( think 99 & 44/100% , except as pertains to perhaps any overt humidity gained  in the Southeast USA in Summer ) . The interiors of a charged high thermal mass structure, will when closed up at night, return to the static temperature, of the thermal mass itself & in short order too. If properly sized , this insulated thermal mass battery system, will regulate the temperature of the building normally , within about 30 minutes, after the envelope is resealed up for the evening.

I hope this help your understanding of Thermal Mass, Insulation and Ventilation and if you like this sort of thing , please tell your friends about us, "LIKE" Us On Facebook @ ( Georgia Adobe Joe Woodall www.facebook.com/pages/Georgia-Adobe-Joe-Woodall/115808091907 ) and @ ( Georgia Adobe Rammed Earth & Renewable Energy www.facebook.com/groups/114169765334209/ ) Follow Us On Twitter twitter.com/#!/GeorgiaAdobe_HQ ( Or On Yahoo Groups groups.yahoo.com/group/GeorgiaAdobe/?yguid=336472111 ) and join us in the war against mortgages and conventional inefficient homes that don't work for the occupants !

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If you ever have any questions call me directly & Initial Project Conversations Are Always Free :

Joe Woodall, Rogue Eco-Architect

Georgia Adobe Rammed Earth & Renewable Energy

231 Harris Lord Cemetery Rd.

Commerce, Georgia 30530 USA

706-363-6453

Monday Dec 05, 2011

 For me, trying to live freely, has always been a big goal. Growing up watching the world around me, I could never imagine, being able to afford to pay all the bills my parents faced monthly ! From an early age, I thought that, I should have been born 3 maybe 400 years ago ( or more ) , as I enjoy farming & I wanted to build my own home and live alone in the wilderness ( but, in comfort ). It seemed to me then as a child, that things were more affordable long ago but, as an adult I can now see that today is the best time available, to us all to live freely, if we can only learn the skills required & our Government will stay out of our way !

"Garbage" is "trashy" stuff, right ? We all just throw it away everyday but, to me it's always been thought of as "MONEY" & a basic, free building material. You see, I am the Grandson of a real life "Garbage Man" . My Father and Grandfather together, once started & then my Grandfather ( a former college professor ) operated a garbage picked up service & a trash dump, from the early 1960's, forward for 26 or so years, in total. My Grandfather was a wise man upon many levels, including just how to grow at home, all the food your family ever needed (every year) & how to fix and or build most anything you needed and all that rubbed off on me through the years.

I became independent ( so I thought ) from about 1966 or so forward until the early 1970's , as I too received an income from that garbage business , because my Grandfather would save all the drink bottles his company picked up, ( Coke, Pepsi , Orange Crush & so on all year long ) & when I would come to stay the Summer's with my Grandparents he & I would haul the bottles to the grocery stores paying the most for our bottles & we would split the money ! What a great deal for me, to be with my favorite person in the whole world and get paid too !

My Grandfather also showed me, some strangely shaped bottles he wanted to keep, the square Heineken Beer Bottle called "The Brick". (  http://inhabitat.com/heineken-wobo-the-brick-that-holds-beer/   ) 


This bottle was designed by the beer manufacturer, to become a real life brick, for the house walls of the poor, I was told. We saved these bottles & later made a short little wall, in his side yard from them, using only mud, as the mortar. I was learning way back then, just what could be done for free - even with trash. Used tires were another item, that if he could find no other use for, he sent to "The Dump". I remember him telling me "these dumps will be mined someday, just for their basic resources" but, it just wasn't profitable back then. It sure seemed to both of us, that dumping tires was a tremendous waste of resources.

Granddad made a point to teach me, through day long discussions on the garbage route of just how fine new homes could be built from Rammed earth, from hand made bricks, even from the soup cans or drink bottles mortared together & yes, tires too. One day, while we were driving to the dump, he stopped the truck to show me, how used tires were employed by the Greenville County Roads Dept. on their landscaping projects, whereby an entire embankment was held in place, just by used tires filled with packed earth. These high tire walls were stepped back, at a 1/4 to 1/2 of a tire width rate, on each rise up the bank & they held back the force of the hill very well. The road & the bridge above, was over 25 years old then & still holding up quite well. The tires were open to the weather & I could see the tires turning gray & breaking down from the direct sun, even with grass all growing out of their tops. A house built this way but sealed with mud he said, "might just last forever ".

Later that summer, he showed me how to make hand made bricks, lay the bricks & bottles too. "Tires could become my wall building boulders" he said & if I wished, I could even build Castles from them, all I had to do, was plan the building around my materials. He showed me how, he had even hand dug his own basement, back in the late 1940's & he would sure up his walls, with a combination of hand made bricks & stucco too. With soft drink bottles, he taught me, a colored picture glass window could be hand crafted. To teach me more , later we made a window from drink bottles, stacked inside a 55 gallon barrel's lock ring, just to see how it would look. Through conversations about greenhouse gardening and construction, using free materials ( most he was paid to remove ) he was able to educate me, about self sustainability in the here & now. Free home construction, window & door building and even brick roofs and living roofs were possible all because of all this & so, in the early 1980's I began putting that knowledge to work and scavenging landfills again for building materials, for a 7,000 sq. ft. home. It was Granddad's guiding hand, that led me to complete that home & for only pennies on the dollar and yes, become such a "trashy" builder today.

I know now that , Anyone can afford to build their home, if they could just learn what to use, if they have the basic building materials available & and their Government, stays the heck out of their unconventional way !  Look around & I believe you may find, ( as I did from about the age of 7 forward ), that there's a great number of things you can build with,  from just what you have on hand.

My very partial resume in no special order:
I have built many homes, retail & commercial structures & I Still Do Today !
operated a commercial nursery & landscaping/design company for several decades, 
I own a tractor & backhoe for hire service,
own a towing service,  
I design & custom build renewable energy & fuel systems for both Residential & Commercial
I own a Christmas decorations manufacturing company specializing in large displays for cities,
owned &/or operated movie theaters since the 1970's,
acted a little as a kid ,
worked on movie sets,
built props and shot films myself on my own Indy projects and commercials.
I owned a couple of Advertising agencies,
Started & ran 2 magazines,
I have done pest control work in my family's P.C. business, ran my own pest control company and still sell do it yourself products online,
I've sold Insurance,
remodeled old buildings,
rebuilt old movie theaters, and built a few new theaters too,
I've built & owned a few car lots & a salvage building materials store too .
It was then that I actually started designing buildings professionally, for my materials clients. My skills are mostly self taught and came about directly, out of  my own needs of building a large but inexpensive home.
The very first house that I designed & built for myself was (mostly built it by myself too ) was a little over 7,000 sq. ft. ( with an unfinished basement of 3000 sq. ft. and the house was designed to eventually become a 50,000 sq. ft edifice ). It was also, about then perhaps due to me having the time to day dream a little alone, about how I might could build that monster, that I better remembered, my very early childhood education.

Years later, after my many personal & business projects & as the Governments of our world have started becoming a looming force upon us all then the foreclosure crisis of the 2000's hit , becoming a real pestilence upon most of the people of Earth, that I started "Georgia Adobe" to design & build with "alternative materials" completely independent self sustainable carbon -0- homes, that heat and cool themselves, make their own power and grow the food needed, for an entire family, designed so as to live freely and to also, teach these same skills to others .

If you like this sort of thing, more stories are yet to come and, Education is an old family tradition for us Woodall's so; Please don't forget to tell everyone were building a new school to train anyone interested in learning about the art of building the Georgia Adobe self sustainable way. And Please , tell your friends about Georgia Adobe's services !

Joe Woodall, Rogue Eco-Architect

Georgia Adobe Rammed Earth & Renewable Energy

Commerce Georgia 30530

706-363-6453

http://www.georgiaadobe.com

Sunday - December 4, 2011

Some NEWS For The New Year 2012 & A New Cool How To Blog Entry !

Since our last Blog entry, we have been very busy, on several new projects for some clients. Yea Team Georgia Adobe ! We really have the greatest help ! Funny how all that real work keeps the boss away from his computer ! Hopefully, I will be able to update this section more often.

Several people have emailed us to say, they wanted to stop in and visit with us in the last 2 months. :>) Thank You All So Much, For Your Interest In Georgia Adobe But, as of yet our offices are not yet open to the public. Money is as much a problem for us as is time but, I personally intend to make this drop in ability , become a reality by April. 2012.

In addition, we are still working on the initial landscaping, ( Cutting Roads Now ) for our Georgia Adobe Self Sustainability University's Class Location. Having to leave and work off property on projects, for our clients is our greatest dream come true but, it makes it difficult, to be here and elsewhere also. And of course our onsite tractor is broken down too so that will have to be fixed before much else is done ( estimates are about $1,500 to fix it ) 2 Rear Out-riggers need building & 1 front cyl. too.

 
And, we need to raise funds , for our road gravel and various system elements for the  1 room classroom project, ($25,000+ or so ) . If you would like to make a donation to help us reach these initial goals I would so appreciate it ! Any Amount Will Help !


For those able to contribute at the $1000 Founders Level, in appreciation of your vast consideration, we will add your name to our Founders Party Night List ( Event to be held here on the opening session weekend ) & you will also receive special invites, to our other events here at the New School, at vastly discounted rates (as much as up to 20% off certain events) as a return on your Donation. You might also use this discount ( Given to Founders Level Donors ) to attend classes or to send someone to our Self Sustainability Classes !

I would like to think we will be able, to offer the first weekend class this coming spring, perhaps the first work shop could be in mid June of 2012. Please Stay Tuned ! With only 6 months to go, it will be a difficult job to be ready and Your Volunteer Help Is Most Welcome. We would like to hear from those of you that are interested in assisting us, here in Commerce GA 30530 on our grounds work and other sections too, in preparations for the class sessions. Please contact us by phone at 706-363-6453 to enter your name and receive further details from our offices.

Anytime you have a question for us, please don't hesitate to telephone our offices and I or someone qualified to answer your questions will get right back to you ASAP !  Also often, I will forward the office calls to my cell phone so hopefully we can  speak when I'm out of the office.

WINTER SPRING SUMMER & FALL
YOU CAN GROW YOUR OWN FOOD SUPPLIES INSIDE A GEORGIA ADOBE
And, We get a lot of questions about what house plants work best in the "Winter Garden" section of a Georgia Adobe and it's a good line of thought ~ I Think . All Plants in general fair well in our green space sections of the Georgia Adobe buildings. If you want your Georgia Adobe Home, to be as self sufficient as it can be, you will also want to grow your own oxygen !

Here below is a link to a "TED" talk, wherein the Researcher shows how adding just 3 common houseplants, in specific spots at home or at the office, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air and oxygen level rises.
 

http://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air.html

There's lots more we could write about this subject but, if your still interested, then check out our web page, read a little more and then get in touch with us to get your Georgia Adobe started today !


Contact Me Directly :
Joe Woodall ~ Rogue Eco-Architect
Georgia Adobe Headquarters
231 Harris Lord Cemetery Road.
Commerce, Georgia 30530
706-363-6453
http://www.georgiaadobe.com  

LOL, And you thought the hard work was done, back when you made mud, for your brick molds ! Now's the time to gather all those bricks from the field, haul them to the construction site and build that wall, 1 brick at a time.

Mortar joints for Adobe walls, are not required to be laid, nearly as perfectly , as the joints one finds in say in a Brick veneer job but, some consistency to your work, should be exercised . Just keep the walls construction in good form, as you go. Keep a level on your work
( brick to brick ) and check your work with a string line, tap down the bricks as you go and pack the mortar joints into the bricks - just don’t drag your mortar out of them ! This process makes for a tighter mortar joint and a better wall. 

The running bond pattern, with a half joint falling upon the center of the brick below it, makes for an attractive veneer brick job & strong one too but here, we are after ( Thermal Mass ) so, lay the bricks with the small side facing outside. This gives you a perhaps 16" thick brick wall ( to start ) and then lay one long ways ( either outside  or ) inside the wall, that can brace your wall as you go. Occasionally, tying the two walls into one another is a great idea too, do so with a staggered brick laid from the inside outwardly & a half brick laid to veneer along your small brick side (outside perhaps )   so all your brick work matches.

How High To Build The Wall ?

Ever heard the Term "Aspect Ratio" (A/R ) ? Herein it is used to refer to the width to height ratio, allowed for unfired clay Adobe buildings.
 
For an Adobe brick / block structure , that number has been long established, perhaps since even before the books of the bible were written. The maximum A/R is historically said to be 1 ft high per 10 inches of the walls thickness or a 1/10 A/R.  Brick construction specifications, are still widely available on most western building code requirements in use today and most follow this same A/R, when or if relating to either fired, or unfired clay masonry. The "standard building codes" also specify that, only specific brick sizes, are suitable for one to two story walled buildings.

All over the Middle East, Adobe buildings are still in fashion, in fact it's the traditional way most commonly build their homes still today.
The skills of Earthen construction have been passed down through out the centuries, from the elders to their young.

We in the USA also have many Adobe structures in North America, though that's not as widely known. Through out the America's including South America, Adobe is found,  also in Europe, Russia, Scandinavian & Asia too; the world over still uses Earthen mixes to build their homes. I always suspected they would have some natural bricks hand made in the Arctic too but, they just couldn’t find the solid ground , with all that ice & snow pack !

Perhaps, The tallest existing known "Adobe" brick buildings, on the face of the Earth still standing, are in the country of Yemen - South Yemen. To be exact.

You Remember that's the little area of the world, we have been told the US. is launching several of our fancy new "Kinetic Military Actions" into.  So far, there's never been any public accounting, of just how many Earthen structures have been decimated by NATO's forces in the middle East but, from 1991 in Iraq to 2011 in Afghanistan & Yemen too soldiers returning say that Iraq for 1 country, was basically decimated and in Yemen, the air to ground assaults all but, destroy most buildings, in mer seconds.

Ah, But Fear Not & Chin Up - NATO is rebuilding them in their likeness , with good old American Waferboard and 2 x 4's ! Thumbs Up Boys - that should last about a week, compared to the original masonry construction - Sure it will !

Many of the finest buildings in Yemen, are seven to eleven stories high ! (A Story is normally equal to 10 ft ). Local lore has it, that the "Tower of Babel" may actually have been more than double these little 11 story modern structures. With the aspect ratio of 1/10, the "Towers" wall heights, must have been wide. It could have needed 220 inches or 18.33+ feet - WOW ! To go two-hundred feet high, the wall at the base should be 20 feet thick at the bottom and would then have been tapered down to only ten or twenty-inches thick, way up at the very top of those walls. Now, that's a lot of high tech engineering, for what we like to think of today, as very "primitive builders".

When building their round towers, the total diameter of a tower ( A total Left To Right Measurement At Its Widest Point ) would also have been considered in the basic calculations, for the aspect ratio calculations and the individual walls, would correspondingly have to be thinner ( by about half I suspect ) at the bottom of the round wall to  allow for elements such as, an internal stair or ladder to climb &/or some useful other areas as well.

Most building codes in the USA, including those in more Adobe progressive areas of the USA such as New Mexico ,specify their building codes limit Adobe construction today, to only two stories high. Imagine what grand educations have been lost, over the years.

Stucco or plaster over your finished walls ( Inside And Outside ) is the traditional method, first with a earth plaster then perhaps with a lime/sand additions, for the last 2 coats.

The process is Progressively more lime is added to your 3 stucco coats, with the final coat being just lime & fine sand. This makes a very smooth and very white, wall !  I personally like just the Earth tones and a clear or satin sealer sprayed onto the walls but , most of all I always want to add some insulation to the outside of my walls so, as it keeps the Thermal Mass ( my big ole heat sync ) a benefit to my buildings, without any rapid heat losses, as may occur from weather changes.

If one added 4 inches of closed cell foam insulation ( Sheets Or Sprayed On ) to the outside of your wall and tied it by way of the mortar joints using some brick ties or rebar ties, then fold the outer excess down flat against the outside of the wall the stucco will hid it well and protect it too.  In this way,  walls can be Stuccoed over, perhaps with only 2 thin coats,  of lime/sand stucco and keep your new building, in tip top shape, for long periods of time.

On top of the wall before the stucco is applied, I always add a bond beam , of concrete at least 8 inches thick, with rebar tied into the beam so it will hold the entire wall, as one and create a location to tie my roof into the walls - again forming 1 unit when finished.

This is easily accomplished with a series of rebar rods ( 12" spacing ) extending from the upper 2 feet of the wall into the bond beam and then run through a 2 x10 sill plate . The rebar is Bent over flush, on to the 2 x 10 after the concrete dries and a wooden roof can be attached to this wooden sill plate. If your roof is to be fabricated of concrete, the rebar should extend a minimum of 18 inches , so as to tied to the roof & the walls in concrete .

That's a quick introduction to Adobe construction and its history. I hope it helps you decide upon, just the way you wish to build your Georgia Adobe home !  There's lots more we could write about this subject but, if your still interested, then check out our web page, read a little more and then get in touch with us to get your Georgia Adobe started today ! 

For Free Estimates On Georgia Adobe Homes & Services Contact:
Joe Woodall, Rogue Eco-Architect
Georgia Adobe Rammed Earth & Renewable Energy
Commerce, GA. 30530
706-363-6453
 

So You Think You Might Want'a Build ?

We get lots of calls each week from individuals wanting to build, in major cities and large established communities too. For many people the government will be right in your way when you start to build anything. One thing you should always remember is, large communities are already established and have a set of strict rules , often called planning & zoning and building codes, which control where and what you can build , on your own property.

For example residences can not normally be built in highway commercial districts, and so on. Often the land the individual buys, comes with a set of restrictions or covenants and a homeowners association that may also have rules & the owners are bound to these, when they were sold that land. Even the county government will set additional conditions, past the international building code ( IBC ) that regulate what size or even the style of structure , that is allowed into a certain area. For example historic districts won't allow you to build a modern building or perhaps if you allowed to build somewhere , you can only build a certain size structure, perhaps 1400 sq. ft. or larger to meet their code. This ensures tax revenues will be high and they can then force a larger amount of money from you , due to your buildings size being large. Awe, Nothing like income security is there ?

That might not fit your idea, of free building area and it doesn't fit ours either. To us, all this says move away - NOW ! Find some sleepy little community, without a building inspection department that won't require you to prove your structure before you build, red line your construction plans and require you to redraw the plans, perhaps numerous times, all before you can actually break ground.

Project Hope.

Project Hope is about finding and mapping for everyone's use, the places perhaps someone might want to build. These are locations without inspection departments and the very areas we or others felt, were places you won't have too many problems building, just whatever you want to build . Sometimes it's a city limits location, without local inspections even though it's within a county that does have an inspection department. The time frame to build , may also be short, while other times, one might find locations, that just don't have any local inspections at all past the state health department and septic tank inspection.

How do you learn what your area has ?

ASK !

Call your county government offices and ask them is there a building inspection department ?

Sometimes you will get a No Inspections for that size building or perhaps no Building Permits Required But, Septic Tanks Permits & Percolation Test Are Required By the State Government And That There Are Guidelines for setbacks of buildings from the property line to be (X) or all structures that are built in size ( X ) or within some sq. footage amount or because of the # of bathrooms or bedrooms, that can go on a certain size lot & septic tank, is their answer. Take down that information, & Ask more Questions Too :

Is there a plumbing Inspection ?

Is there a Electrical or Wiring Inspection ?

Is there A Framing Inspection ?

Is There A Finish Inspection ?

Do you issue a Certificate of occupancy ( C/O ) ?

What are their policies on building basements ?

Ask if a set of plans is required, to be submitted before building & what depth of drawings & To Which Depts. ?

Ask if a State Licensed Engineer’s Stamped, is required for your plans or if you can just draw a floor plan ?

Ask, What’s the minimum house size allowed by code To Be Permitted ?

Ask, Who reports your construction to other government agencies Within The County, such as Property Tax Dept. ?

Eventually you will get the feel for that area and if you find a location where nothing is required, consider yourself lucky ! These are the areas we want to build in as that we don't want to stop and explain over and over again, just what were building, or if our selected materials will really work and so on . End of the story is: Build in Builder Friendly Area !

Home, Home On The Range & We Need 12 ( Or More ) Disciples

For you all in a hurry, Today's Georgia Adobe Cool Building Idea can be summed up in a one line quotation , found at the bottom of this section but, there's some good reasons to read on, as it's all so simple today - if changes can come. The entire world is still scratching their heads while watching the ‘Occupy’ Wall Street protestors & their now being joined by Armed citizen militia groups. Is trouble brewing on a larger scale than the news media is reporting ?

Some of us are old enough to remember the riots in 60's and what that brought. The protestors today are being called everything from hippies, to Barry's Kids, to Total Idiots, or Stupid College Kids & worse but, is there a solid message, in what seems their misguided following, the bullhorn speaker sessions ? Yes, things are wrong & someone needs to present a Solution , they and the rest of us who see the problems can live with ! Perhaps with some good direction passed on to these young men and women, the world could be in a better position after this protest ends . I personally believe that, if only the message can be gotten out and changes made, we may can solve many of the "occupiers demands " & our own future problems too. Here's where the Disciples come in !

We presently live in a world of about 7 Billion People, If the UN estimates are on target , these numbers are projected to swell to 14 Billion People by 2050. Today, we just have a little financial problem to handle, if we add another 7 Billion people to the Earth , It's projected that massive water, food, electricity & housing shortages will result to levels that can't be handled. Well, if we can't handle the needs of 7 Billion people, due to a simple economic depression, how can we expect to provide for 14 billion mouths, without a fundamental change in the ways we do things in our future ?

The past few years, we've seen governments fail, but after they allowed millions of families at gun point to be foreclosed upon & pushed into the streets. All the while those same Governments were giving bankers, trillions of dollars world wide, to supposedly save the economy yet, nothing worked. Nothing is even trickling down to the common man on the street, since the banks have simply kept the money, locked in their vaults and a second deepening of the crisis is said to set in this Winter. Oil prices are rising again today, near $100 levels per barrel. Just a few more middle east rumors of war, is all that is required to really cause a price spike; yet the masses are not rallying to produce their own fuel at home & those not protesting are just waiting upon a solution to arrive from government !

In the 1976 Movie "Network" the character Howard Beale was maddened by these same problems from during the Carter era recession. He Screamed To His Viewers on TV: "I'm As Mad As Hell & I'm Not Gonna Take This Any More" while encouraging the viewers to do the same out their windows. Shortly There After, Someone Enlightened Him As To The Way, The Big Boys Up Stairs Wanted It All To Go, Whereupon Howard Changed His Tune To Reality.



Not long there afterwards, the fictional MR. Biel, became the first TV Talk show host to be assassinated on live TV, just for his bad ratings, as he was then preaching about the way things really were, where he offered the world no hope in his broadcasts.

I'd personally like to believe There Are No Problems , Only Solutions We Haven't Discovered Yet. And, I truly do have at least 1 solution, to some of today's ‘Occupy’ protestor problems and the world coming shortages as well !

Jobless men, foreclosed upon may feel they have nothing left to loose , as they are left out in the cold, to fend for themselves. No bail outs for them await, perhaps no more unemployment compensation either, will be available & some that were self - employed don’t even qualify for the first penny. With no income to buy food with & a benefits squeeze, from social services agencies, makes even charity a difficult thing to find if their not too proud to ask for it. Add to that, still after what is now several years, no homes to go to, at a days end for their families and the current set of internationally building codes & most local zoning departments working to stop any alternative or experimental construction projects, without a burdensome over engineering cost keeps most from building that replacement home. A home could help millions feel safer and It really doesn’t take much to go over the mental safety edge, when your walking so close to it . Cold , hunger & no affordable housing, may just be the straw that breaks the camels back in this Winter of " Depression ".

Now, add to that, those college kids realizing that after years of what passes for their studies & higher learning, they after borrowing thousands of dollars to educate themselves, can't find a job after graduation, has brought them onto the lawns of most large city parks into protest mode ! Most also now see they may never be in a financial position to pay back their college loans or afford a home on their own & If they don't pay back the loans, they know they face a default judgement that will most certainly bring a long time of court awarded garnishments, against any of their meager future potential earnings or assets.

According To UNICEF :

"Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

Every year 15 million children die of hunger &

Presently 660,000+ Americans are permanently homeless "