More Biosphere Reserves Named

Climate change is on the rampage, devastating many countries with different phenomena such as violent storms of unprecedented strength and rising sea levels that threaten to devour lowly elevated countries. If left unattended, climate change may grow to an extinction level event. To answer to the call to take action, the United Nations, as the biggest organization of independent countries had launched its campaign for the shift to sustainable energy also sometimes called clean or green energy.


Sustainable energy is the act of providing energy that sufficiently meets the demands of today without sacrificing the capability of the next generations to meet their needs come their time. All renewable energy sources such as such as plant matter, solar power, wind power, wave power, geothermal power and tidal power usually fall in this category. Sustainable energy sources may also include technologies that make energy generation more efficient. Conventional fission as well as other types of nuclear power can also be classified as sustainable. Such classification however, is very controversial because of the different dangers nuclear power brings along such as peak uranium, radioactive waste disposal and the risks of disaster due to accident, terrorism, or natural disaster.


The United Nations being the global leader for the advancement of sustainable energy has started helping create and develop sites for enhancing current techniques as well as developing new methods of generating green energy. The UN has recently named 13 more international sites dedicated to the development and testing of alternative approaches to environmentally sensitive economic growth, bringing the total number of such sites to 534.


The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had announced that all 534 sites are now focused on the advancement of Biosphere Technology, which involves the process of turning common waste into green electricity. The UN, in a press release, defined biosphere reserves as “places to test different approaches to integrated management of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine resources and biodiversity," the UN agency said in a press release.”

One of the latest Biosphere Sites is located in San Fernando, Philippines and aims to introduce the production of green electricity in the country, and other parts of the globe.

Climate Change: A Global Challenge, a Global Concern

Climate change is currently one of the most talked about issues of modern times. One can read about it almost everywhere. Climate change can be considered synonymous with global warming as it can be defined as a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.

Most people couldn’t care less about climate change because they think it is just a simple change of sometimes the weather’s too hot and sometime the weather’s too cold than usual. But climate change isn’t as simple as this, for climate change has the potential to alter the very ways we live our lives. Unusually hot temperatures, mostly caused by the thinning of the ozone layer and the green house effect has caused rapid melting of the polar ice caps resulting in continuous rising of sea levels. The sea levels have risen so high they have begun to devour islands, and even entire countries. Right now, a huge part of the country of Maldives has already been swallowed by the ocean, and experts believe that Indonesia might be next. If things go as they are now, time will come that the entire earth will be submerged under water.

Not only does climate change threaten to deprive us of our land, it also ends lives of living beings that cannot adapt to the chaotic weather the world is experiencing. Many species of plants and animals have already gone extinct because the abrupt alterations in weather patterns have made it impossible for them to survive. 100 to 1000 times higher than the average, or background rate, making our current period the 6th major mass extinction in the planet’s history! If we don’t act now, it won’t be long before we will be facing our won extinction.

We must act now while we still stand a chance. Each and every one of us, in our own little way, can help. Planting trees and conserving fuel and energy is the best way to stop our dreaded enemy. If you have vacant parts in your lot, grow plants and trees in it, conserve gasoline and electricity whenever possible. The less fuel and energy we burn, the less we contribute to the green house effect. One more thing we can do is spread the word to our friends and relatives. If we combat climate change together, we will prevail.

Let us patronage green energy and lessen the burdens we have brought to Mother Nature. Let us support the revolutionary Biosphere Technology – the newest process of getting sustainable energy which turns waste into green electricity.

We all live in the same planet; it is our obligation to preserve it. So let us do our part now, and save Mother Earth. Climate change is something that concerns us all, it is a challenge that we must all overcome.

Biosphere Technology

Environmental technology (envirotech) or green technology (greentech) or clean technology (cleantech) is the utilization of the environmental science to preserve our natural environment and resources, and to reduce the negative effects of human activity. Environmental technology is centered on sustainable development.

Gasification is one example of green technology. It involves a combination of techniques aimed at pulling out energy from various types of organic matter. Gasification is a process that breaks down carbonaceous materials like coal, petroleum, biofuel, or biomass, and turns them into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by using extremely high temperatures and controlled amounts of oxygen and/or steam to make raw material, for instance house waste, or compost. The gas mixture produced through gasification is called synthesis gas. Syngas in itself is a form of fuel. It is composed mainly of hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide and has less than half the energy density of natural gas.

The latest form of gasification is the revolutionary Biosphere Technology which was created and developed by the renowned author of various original contributions in scientific literature, Dr. Chris McCormack. Dr. McCormack also serves as the Chairman and CEO of Global Environmental Energy Corporation (GEECF). Biosphere Technology siphons the combustibility of solid wastes and transforms it into a fuel that generates steam of extreme heat which in turn produces green electricity. What makes the Biosphere process unique is the fact that it is performed in a controlled environment of limited oxygen to limit most of the resulting atmospheric emissions. The biosphere chamber is where the biosphere process begins. It is where the solid wastes are placed and subjected to thermal transformation to convert them into syngas. The syngas is then transferred into a combined cycle gas/steam turbine from which electricity is generated.

"Biosphere MK-V" is the materialization of the BioSphere process as a means of generating green energy while at the same time putting into effect the clean disposal of energy wastes.

The By-Products of Biosphere Technology

1.                  Pozzolanic Ash

Pozzolanic Ash is very rust resistant which makes it the chief component of rustproof materials built for underwater use. The high alkalinity of pozzolana also makes it especially resistant to usual types of sulfate corrosion. Fully hardened Pozzolanic Ash is also highly resistant to water absorption and spalling.

2.                  High Alloy Steel Wire

HASW is an alloy wire that "remembers" its original, cold-forged shape: returning the pre-deformed shape by heating. This material is a lightweight, solid-state alternative to conventional actuators such as hydraulic, pneumatic, and motor-based systems. Shape memory alloys have applications in industries including medical and aerospace.

3.                  Carbon Black

The most frequent utilization of carbon black is as a tincture and reinforcing phase in automobile tires. Carbon black is also very helpful in absorbing heat away from the tread and belt area of the tire, resulting to reduced thermal damage and increased tire life. Carbon black particles are also being used as components in several radar absorbent materials and in photocopier and laser printer toner.

4.                  Electricity

Electricity is an extremely flexible form of energy, and has been adapted to a huge, and growing, number of uses. Although electrification brought with it its own dangers, replacing the naked flames of gas lighting greatly reduced fire hazards within homes and factories. Public utilities were set up in many cities targeting the burgeoning market for electrical lighting.