In the desert southwest, millions of gallons of brackish, unusable water lies
deep down under the parched earth. The by-product of decades of oil and natural
gas extraction in the area. The water is loaded with high chlorides and sodium, it’s
extremely dirty and volatile. On average, oil wells will produce nine times as much
dirty water as the oil they extract and in the U.S. alone there is over 18 billion
barrels of this polluted water. Too costly to treat the water, it was just pumped
back underground.

But, in this arrid land of the Navajo, times are changing. A company called Altela,
devised a innovative system to purify industrial polluted water utilizing a natural
process of desalination that’s been around for thousands of years, dating back to the
Egyptians. The process is called thermal distillation. By evaporating the water and
then recondensing it. (more…)

As promised, for those of you who do not get the Planet Green channel:

Two episodes were shown:

The first – “The Tornado”

On May 4, 2007 the town was hit by an F5 tornado, 10 people were killed in this town
of 1500. The entire infrastructure was annihilated and most of the residents left
homeless. A town that before the tornado, faced the very real possibility of
disappearing into the pages of history, as have many small agricultural based towns
in America. So why build a town back exactly the way it was if it’s future outlook is
dismal. The community decides to make it’s mark by rebuilding as energy efficient and
as green as possible. This was to be a daunting task especially monetarily as many
of the residents were under-insured if insured at all. (more…)

Today is a few tidbits that I thought might be useful information.

There are 49 million disposable diapers dumped into landfills every DAY and it takes
500 years for them to decompose. That means your great, great, great (you get the
picture) grandchildren’s diapers will start before your baby’s diapers disappear.
Cloth diapers are chemical free and switching to cloth will reduce waste by over
1/2 ton per baby per year. (more…)

Forced Green has been selected as blog of the week on Blogging Without a Blog.

http://bloggingwithoutablog.com/nbotw-promotes-living-green/#comments

AND

Also interviewed as blog of the month on Accountability Corner

http://accountabilitycorner.com/environment/former-nasa-employee-focus-of-green-piece.

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Check them out for some insight into the workings of Forced Green and how it came to be.

Enjoy!