We have been sailing s/v Copepod around Europe and across the Atlantic Ocean for the last 6 years, collecting data on plankton productivity, microplastic pollution and measring the concentration of partially combusted carbon particles. One of the outcomes was the peer reviewed published report. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364821580_Climate_Disruption_Caused_by_a_Decline_in_Marine_Biodiversity_and_Pollution
We have now sold our boat and are establishing a shore based educational facility in Bocas Del Toro in Panama. We have 10 acres of rainforest, mangroves, sea grass and coral reefs that we need to protect.
We invite postgrad students, researchers and anyone wishing to connect with nature to visit. The facility will be used to demonstrate;
- Zero discharge from toilets, biogass production, methane is used for cooking.
- All plastic, metal and glass are recycled
- All water is rainwater from the roof
- All power is solar
- Most of our food is grown in the forrest
- We will be designing and demonstrating true sustainable technology and living a nature-positive life style.
Howard Dryden,marine biologist, founder of www.DrydenAqua.com, and inventor of AFM activated filter media used to replace sand in sand filters. 50% of all coloured bottles in Scotland and Switzerland are used to make AFM. Over 1 million water treatment systems use AFM for drinking water and wastewater, including many of the world’s largest marine aquarium life support systems. His research focused on the development of AFM to make it the best possible filter media to remove microplastics, toxic chemicals, and parasites from water.
Howard Dryden
After 34 years running Dryden Aqua working on the world’s largest marine life support systems and most toxic industrial wastewater, Howard realised that lipophilic chemicals from municipal and industrial wastewater were destroying marine life. The water industry’s mantra is the solution to pollution is dilution. This does not work for lipophilic toxic chemicals that do not dissolve, instead they float on the ocean surface and are concentrate millions of times on the surface of microplastic and particles of black carbon soot. Plankton eat the toxic particles, leading to a fatal dose of chemicals. Marine plankton maintain the SML surface micro-layer, a 0.1–1 mm thick layer of oil and surfactants that float on the ocean surface, the SML equates to 71% of the surface are of the planet. The SML skin regulates 50% of all gas diffusion, including humidity. 70% of all greenhouse gases are humidity, carbon dioxide is less than 20%. The SML regulates wind velocity, cloud formation, and 80% of our rain.
The oceans are the planet’s life support system, but pollution and ocean acidification have destroyed more than 50% of them since the 1970s and will destroy 90% over the next 10–20 years. Carbon mitigation is important for climate change, but humanity cannot survive the loss of marine life in the oceans
Howard sold 100% of all financial interest in DrydenAqua and purchased a blue-water ocean going yacht, and left Scotland with his wife Diane to run the world’s largest citizen science project to collect data on oceanic microplastics, partially combusted carbon particle pollution as well as plankton productivity. The equatorial Atlantic had over 1000 particles per litre of carbon and plastic and almost no marine life https://tinyurl.com/2s3tzx9j
We are now in Bocas del Toro, Panama, and plan to start a research facility to study the relationship between the rainforest, seagrass, mangroves, coral reefs, and oceans. There is a bioclimatic solution to climate change that will work, but it is feared it will not be implemented in time, and humanity will have totally annihilated the planet in 10 to 20 years.
Diane Duncan
I’ve been part of a wasteful generation that’s really messed things up for our kids… We will not have an economy if we do not take care of the environment, so I have decided to join the ranks of dozens of other social entrepreneurs who want to use business principles to produce measurable positive environmental impact.So it is time to fight for nature, clean water from source to sea, think outside the box, and not take no for an answer.
Although we pay lip service to the fact that water is our most valuable resource, we still use toxic chemicals in our homes, places of employment, and factories, and we accept subpar water treatment.
It is my absolute pleasure to now be able to fight to make sure everyone can access clean, safe water, especially in the most vulnerable communities.
With a solid insight into how both good and bad policies is developed, it’s time to really use my ‘skills’ and passion for Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Awareness, and Market Research. It is time to build on partnerships and accelerate unique collaborations with friends and colleagues who care and who want to address the ‘too difficult’ root causes of climate change.
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