Emerald Eco-CityTM Abundant Living In Harmony with Nature
Self-Sufficient, Sustainable, Zero Energy Design® Community
Of A Million Productive Prosperous People

This website is now undergoing continuous construction - We have already added our entire Emerald Eco-City set of slides to the 2010 version
of our U.S. Department Of Energy “30 Years Of Lessons Learned” Workshop, which is available on our extensive Zero Energy Design® CD ROM .

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In the last film that Walt Disney ever made , he clearly stated what our highest modern priority should be:

“I don't believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important
to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities.”

We at Zero Energy Design® strongly agree.

Walt Disney was an outstanding visionary futurist who clearly demonstrated how joyful entertainment can educate and change the world.

Disney trained, motivated and relied on his very-successful team of free-thinking, highly-creative "Imagineers." When they opened Disneyland in 1955, it was the most-advanced, integrated community ever conceived. Walt's 1966 original plan for his Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow (EPCOT) was their best community-planning effort ever. It had the potential to become an international role model of integrated, efficient, state-of-the-art solutions to the growing problems of our future cites, (but he died a few months later and his EPCOT vision has still not been implemented yet). There is NO modern city that should be imitated in the future. We are long overdue for radical reinvention.

Earth’s human population has more than doubled since Walt made his last movie. A billion people are now starving with less than one cup
of food per day. Our environment has been badly damaged. We are addicted to unsustainable lifestyles. Our chaotic megacities are way
overcrowded. Their aging infrastructures are failing, and they are rapidly going bankrupt. 21ST century sea level rise may inundate low-lying
coastal cities around the world. IF we do not make radical rapid improvements to future cities, we are now on a terrible path toward the suicide
of humanity. Walt Disney suggested that we could not continue on the path we were on in 1966. We didn’t. Things have gotten much worse!
If we do not significantly improve our declining lifestyle, our lifestyle will soon impact our lives and posterity.

After Walt’s death, profit-motivated, uninsightful, Walt Disney Corporation executives dropped the visionary ball and failed to implement Disney’s powerful proposal for his 27,400-acre Florida swampland project. They foolishly laid off Walt's expert Imagineers to cut expenses. IF Walt Disney had lived to complete his vision, the world would have a “City of Tomorrow” role model of what our future SHOULD be, instead of the growing problems that our declining shortsighted cities are facing today. Greedy executives often invest far too little in radical reinvention. Walt said:
"I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral." - We must correct that error.

Ironically, lending money for stagnant status quo declining business-as-usual offers ZERO long-term future collateral! Foolish wake-watching financiers invest trillions of dollars in unsustainable deadly fossil fuels and inefficient egotistical tall megacity glass buildings. BUT, most of them ignore ecological, efficient, community planning, and safe, clean, off-the-shelf free-fuel energy that is 10, 000 more abundant than fossil fuels.

Every valuable human lifestyle improvement began with a tiny spark of unconventional imagination in the creative mind of a prepared imagineer.
With status-quo society now facing the very-real possibility of self-imposed unsustainable suicide, the dreams of proven imagineers are worth more than the sum total of all financial assets on Earth today. How much will a ton of gold be worth, if all humans are extinct?

Small-scale incremental thinking (based on what now is, instead of what should be) CREATED today's many megacity calamities.
We Must Immediately Motivate and Facilitate Tomorrow's Creative Ecocity Imagineer BIG DREAMS and make them happen.

Mission Statement - The Purpose Of This Website Zero Energy Design® proposes scaling up Walt Disney’s motivating live-in EPCOT vision with modern science to create Emerald Eco-City – The world’s largest construction project - costing over $77 Billion (only $77,000 per occupant), starting on 200,000 acres of low-value land in the U.S. desert southwest, where solar energy is abundant, and no previous infrastructure currently exists. We will create over 400,000 state-of-the-art new permanent jobs. Emerald Eco-City will contain the world’s largest FUN Edutainment Theme Park and Sustainability University - in collaboration with some of the foremost subject matter experts from around the world.

Our future ecocity discoveries, development details, and cooperative training programs will be made available around the globe
on the Internet for the betterment of all mankind. Our endless Ecocity Lessons Learned will Rapidly Refine everything we say and do.
We will continually incorporate, integrate, optimize and advance state-of-the-art sustainable ecocity community planning.

To bring about the radical reinvention of many things, we must depart from declining status quo, business-and-politics-as-usual.
Our aggressive approach to rapid innovation necessitates Confrontational Constructive Criticism - in a joyful entertaining way.

This website discusses the details of many unsustainable things that cannot be part of any future megacity solutions, AND what we
SHOULD be doing instead. Be assured that for every problem we enumerate, we also offer a superior cost-effective sustainable solution.
Our Compelling Vision Of The Future has been evolving with over three decades of successful Zero Energy Design® innovations since 1979.

Dr. Jonas Salk spent many years developing a vaccine that essentially wiped dreadful polio from the face of the Earth. He then gave it to
the world for free. When Salk was asked: "Who owns your polio vaccine?" Jonas always replied "The people! Could you patent the sun?"
In the same way, Zero Energy Design® offers our three decades Emerald Eco-City proposal preparation to those with ears to hear.

We freely publish this copyrighted material as our legacy to the world. We are not seeking money for our extensive previous work on
Emerald Eco-City. Our objective is that readers feel helped by our generosity, and inspired to live an abundant life in harmony with Nature.
We strongly believe that everyone should strive to live a life that is worthy of being remembered, and praise from their grandchildren.

Emerald Eco-City - Zero Energy Design's
specific plan for a New Beginning

• Description and Aggressive Emerald Eco-City Community Goals
• Unprecedented Eco-City Needs, Unsustainable Trends and Strong Motivation
  Before we can correct addictive bad-lifestyle habits, we must first recognize how dangerous they are
  Emerald Eco-City offers solutions to ALL of the following:
• Overcoming Deeply-Rooted Resistance to Change
• USA is Badly Addicted to Deadly Petroleum (New 7/2010)
• Pendulum Swing Man-Made Climate Change
• Desertification - Devastation of Ample Water and Vegetation
• Potentially Catastrophic Methane Extermination Issues
• Past The CO2 Tipping Point - Sea-Level-Rise and Worldwide Coastal Flooding
• Land Water Boundaries - Essential Human Infrastructures
• Deforestation - Killing Earth’s Lungs - Suicidal Suffocation
• Terrorism - More Motivation For Emerald Eco-City
• Overpopulation and Urbanization
• Megacity Cost Of Living - 20 to 60 Times Too Much
• Tall Buildings CAN Collapse - Emerald Eco-City Cannot
• The Suicide of Humanity –Lifestyle Choices and Religious Views about Suicide
• $4 Gasoline Bankrupted Much of America - What will $6 gas do?
• Unemployment - Rising Productivity, Falling Wages, Jobless Recovery
• "Emerald” Is Much More Precious Than “Greenwash”
• Previous Work – Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
• OBJECTIVE ZERO – The Emerald Eco-City Wizard Of OZ
• ZERO Emissions – NEVER BURN ANYTHING
• ZERO Defects – No Compromise Design, Engineering & Construction Management
• ZERO Crime / Terrorism – Radical Reinvention Of Prevention
• ZERO Pollution – Automated Monitor and Control
• ZERO Waste –Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Cradle-to-Cradle – No Landfill
• ZERO Poverty – Productive Prosperous People Paid A Fair Living Wage
             Everyone who works in Emerald Eco-City can afford to live there
• ZERO Impact – Self-Contained – No Damage To Earth’s Environment
• ZERO Dropouts – FUN and Entertaining Education Motivation For All
• ZERO Energy – Self-Sufficient Clean, Green, Daily-Renewable, Free Fuel
• The Physical Eco-City
• Basic Conceptual Size, Shape and Location Suggestions
• Grow Our Own Food – Advanced 365 Vertical Farming Greenhouse Horticulture
• Exceptional Funding - World's Largest Man-Made Structure / Construction Project
• Superior Telecommunications Infrastructure Foundation
• Artificially-Intelligent, Self-Learning, Integrated-and-Optimized Everything
• Extensive Solarium Family Fun – Indoor Central Park and Attractions
• Optimized 3D All-Electric Rapid Transit – 1/50 The Space Of A Megacity
• Fully-Automated Robot Messengers – Deliver Anything Citywide In Minutes
• The Sociological and Healthy Eco-City
• Edutainment Museums, Zoo and Aquarium – Biophilia / Love Of Nature
• International Education Leader – Moon-and-Mars Colony Synergy
• Night Life and New Friends – Safe-and-Secure Social Networking
• 365 Automated Epidemiology – Prevention: Eliminate Health Risks
• The Environmental Eco-City
• Emerald Eco-City Energy
• The Cost of Energy
• Solar Thermal Energy - Warm Air and Hot Water
• Electricity from the Sun
• Electricity from the Wind
• Energy Storage for 24/7/365 days a year
• The Politics of Energy - "Why not Now"
• World’s Lowest Cost per Watt Solar Generator?
• Contact Information

Emerald Eco-City is our “NO COMPROMISE” Zero Energy Design®
Objective Zero (OZ) Compelling Vision of the Future, to in all things:
Live a Sustainable Abundant Life in HARMONY with Nature

Based on our three decades of proven elimination of energy bills, operating expense reductions, and preservation of Earth's delicate environment,
we are convinced that cities and societies based on ZED OZ will have:
(1) The lowest overall cost of luxury living in the history of humanity, and
(2) The highest standard of living for ALL that is possible on God's Green Earth

To accomplish our challenging Emerald Eco-City radical-reinvention goals,
we must:
(1) First recognize the many UNSUSTAINABLE policies we currently have today,
(2) REJECT the mistakes made by myopic mediocre misinformed mere mortals,
(3) Realize that the shortsighted self-centered decision criteria, which created
our countless current crises, can NOT possibly be used to solve them.

Most people today clearly lack Universal Consciousness and Appreciation
of Abundant Sustainable Living in HARMONY with Nature.

Drastically-different future solutions will at first sound WACKO to
“business-as-usual” greedy, profiteering, mediocre, misguided minds.
They have always been on the wrong side of history, and resisted
essential innovations that are long overdue.

To Live in Harmony with Nature, we must continually strive to understand the absolute, scientifically-provable, Universal Laws of Nature, as Einstein did.
Lifelong Learning in an Ever-Expanding Universe of Endless Possibilities TM

If we tap into the timeless, limitless, eternal energy that created the very fabric of Space and Time, which has tuned and balanced Creation over billions of years, AND, we are Compelled to make every decision based on Living in Harmony with Nature, then who in the world can possibly stand against us for very long?

Hello and Welcome

Our name comes from the dreamy image of Emerald City combined with 3 decades of eliminating emissions and energy bills, PLUS insightful Sustainable Community Planning

Imagine a sunny city that looks
like A TREE COVERED HILL
(on the north, east and west sides)

Zero Energy Design® (ZED)
did not invent solar-or-wind
energy, or sustainable
community planning
(that happened 2400 years ago)
but what we have done is to HOLISTICALLY INTEGRATE
and OPTIMIZE more
Zero Energy Design® + Ecocity
concepts than ever before

We have added our own 30 years
of ZED real-world experience
to the best-and-brightest
creative imagination of many
others, to help move the ball
forward as fast as possible

We synergistically stand on the shoulders of many intellectual giants

We Invite Collaboration With
Our Motivated Friends

For three decades, we at ZED
have demonstrated cost-effective examples of Abundant Energy in
Harmony with Nature® to try to convince the world to live a
healthy, sustainable lifestyle

The multiple crises of 2008
made it very clear that we have
failed to reach the majority:

- The World Is Past Peak Oil -
Our children will have no cheap oil

- We have exceeded the worldwide greenhouse gas tipping point -
Still increasing 2.1% per year

- We are killing well-over 50,000 acres of life-giving trees EVERY DAY , as population explodes -

- A billion humans are starving -

- Humanity is on a Suicidal Path -

Sea level WILL rise and the
lights WILL go out in many
coastal megacities worldwide

WHAT WILL WE DO THEN ?

"With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible"

Our nation must return to its roots and Live in Harmony with Nature

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