Clean living.

All land, due to farming, land scaping and useless lawns, has a constant drain of all it's nutrients from that soil, being removed, and either consumed and dumped into sewers, or worse, mowed, racked, and collected to be dumped in land fills.

  What is needed is local recycling, starting with Feces sewer collection on a local scale, such as with home composting systems so that the vast value of human feces can be safely reused as fertilizer to keep the soils full of life and worth.

 Also, housing, must be moved towards large scale housing systems to share in there recycled efforts as can be done with large city blocks of apartment buildings.

Also, local recycling efforts, can end trash production, using various methods such as High Temp Cracking, and metal recycling using local solar reducing global dependence on new minerals.

1) The value and worth of all farm land is being lost down toilets, and it should be immediately collected and recycled locally, rather than mix with other sources, so that said compost can be locally used to improve soil quality and let people garden at home, eating fresh local and organic, to reduce the stress on farms. Allowing communities to sell or donate excess fertilizer to farms or the city for further processing.

2) Local waste water, which flows down city sewers and rivers, can be cleaned with solar still systems, providing distilled water for local reuse.

3) Every city face a problem of vast numbers of used cars and junk, mountains of steel, which could be used in many ways, not the least of which is as simple batteries to reduce the excess iron to rust and produce electrical energy, reducing the carbon foot print which resulted from making the steel originally. As such local cities could have some free energy, with the only by product being rust. This energy can then be used to run other processes to clean up other resources, and recycle them to local industry which can use the cheap local recycled metals.

1) Composting toilets are not new, but it would be best to allow city blocks to join together and fund their own local end of the block recycle unit to cook and process their feces producing a product they can all use safely or not use, and instead sell.

2) Local water as used by homes and in homes, is lost in vast amounts, which if also collected, cleaned, and reused locally, would result in a great reduction of water used per city block. This technology being well known.

3) Every city has vast junk yards of useless steel, which is placed in an battery cell, with an electrolyte with Iron as the anode and Copper as the cathode, the IRON will oxidize and produce electricity, with the total power being a measure of iron surface area and closeness to equal volume of thin copper sheets. THE ENERGY being virtually free, with the available iron as junk in each city being huge and its conversion back into IRON OXIDE, will directly reduce the need for CO2 production in energy production.

4) Large scale housing systems would also be more efficient - http://operationearth.empirica...  --

1) It would save all local communities money for fertilizer, and for water, and turn their feces into a valued resource.

2) It would directly reduce a cities carbon foot print, by allowing them to make use of all their junk to generate power which can be used for recycling programs.

3) Local metal recycling to produce useful metals for local industry, would reduce the need for transporting goods, making new metals, and set up a local system of reuse, helped by gov programs to encourage local production of all things, such as tools etc, as a strategic method to ensure the production of truly needed items for the daily life of any community, from street signs, to pipes and wall framing, to include anything and all possible avenues.

4) Local large scale housing systems, such as communal housing systems --- http://operationearth.empirica...      would make it possible to end most homelessness and do so in an efficient manner as people can choose to BE SELF SUSTAINING AND OFF THE GRID, using all these methods to limit and reduce their local impact on the rest of the world. These systems being of course not limited to homeless housing programs.

Nothing I have said is new, and the only PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE is to make it appealing to local communities, make it easy for them to convert, and make it slightly profitable over time for them to allow for it.  As such, there is no negative side to these efforts, and what is needed is a fast track team to examine each city, and it's needs and potentials to quickly come together with a detailed blue print they can present as a presentation to local city leaders and convince them to allow these, possibly, for profit investments.

I am currently working to build the LARGE SCALE HOUSING SYSTEMS for homeless persons, which would incorporate all these proposals and methods to be, self sustaining and off grid, with a near zero carbon foot print, not to mention efforts for desert terraforming which would then be a carbon sink system.

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IT ends the vast waste of farm land nutrients, reduces water waste, and reduces carbon output, by recycling and using steel WHICH IS IN EXCESS AS JUNK TODAY, as electrical power producing no real waste.  And makes possible off the grid, carbon free housing systems to be built with these systems in mind.

AS many as can be sold on the reasons why to do it.

A good question.