Book Progress

Finished first rough draft of chapter one, "A growth event" of the book about how composting is going to save the world.  It's a pretty good book so far.  It's called, "FutureHope" for now.  I'm still not %100 sure about the book title, but it's good enough for now.  Actually, the first chapter was written all at once and I've just been editing and re-working it, over and over, until at some point, it will be more like a real first chapter of a meaningful and important literary work.

I'm pretty excited about this project.  The table of contents is up as well, although I keep coming up with better chapter titles.  For instance, I'm considering adding a chapter about medical waste and how it will change in order to become more sustainable, and the title for that proposed chapter would be, "healthy people are good for the environment", or maybe, "healthiness is good for our planet".  Something like that.

Essentially, I would really like to have a solid chapter and a clear table of contents before I approach any publishers about actually getting published.  That includes crowd-funding sources.  There are so many!

bokashi composting

Once the idea is clear and some of the writing is completed, it would be good to get some funding to support the research that must be completed in order to fill in the spaces in the subject matter and to develop some graphics and stuff.

Other stuff to do:

• Fix truck
• Complete crowd sourcing information
• Make/find letter for publishers
• Print/reread chapter 1
• Finish moving stuff in garage
• Build new garden boxes
• Clean compost buckets

It's not that composting is going to save the world, exactly.  I mean, there's so much work to do, but good composting technique is at the end of all the different channels, turning organic waste into an important agricultural product that builds soil and increases fertility and productivity.  Without composting, all that bio-waste has the possibility of becoming environmentally destructive instead of profitable and beneficial.

Completed bokashi compost

With composting, bio-degradable waste is just another beneficial input.  Paper products, food waste and even organic medical waste are all compost-able.  Outputs from gasification plants and from sewage digesters are also excellent inputs for industrial composting operations.

My composting processes are rapid and insect and odor free.  There may be some dispute about the philosophical facets of my composting beliefs, but my processes promote positive biological growth by controlling the bacterial and fungal populations in the sludge, and eventually, in the ground.  My output is capable of eradicating many bacterial and fungal problems in fruit orchards.  These statements are provable.

With funding, we would be able to obtain a property and some vehicles and other machinery so that we could begin collecting and processing food waste in this area.  Once the system is proven, it would be possible to begin consulting other similar operations around the country and around the world.

Back to growing plants for now.  My creative well just seems to have dried up.  I'll keep posting articles about the types of technology that I'm looking at  but I don't think a lot of progress is going to be made on the book.  It's just time consuming and I have to rewrite stuff a lot to make it clear and precise and remove any kind of writing that sounds like propaganda rather then a straightforward discussion of technology and how the natural progression of that technology is producing systems that are beneficial for the environment and how that natural progression is going to change many different facets of modern industry.

The book is written in my head, but I can't seem to get it out.  I write a little and then stop and then I re-read it and it sounds like garbage and I have to rewrite the entire thing and it lacks flow and read-ability or intellectual ergonomics or something.  The writing just seems bulky and non-fluid, rather then communicating the connectivity between so many seemingly unrelated technologies.