SolaRoof | Eco Living

Throughout history human populations have had, over time, a devastating impact on the local and regional ecology. Forest resources have been especially exploited far beyond their possible rate of recovery, resulting in the near total loss of old growth forest, degradation of the natural environment, and the elimination of habitat for wild life. The world wide consumption of wood for fuel, fiber and construction material and the clearing of land for agricultural use have reached such vast proportions that the global ecology is now threatened.

To add a further level of injury to our seriously damaged global ecology, our modern civilization has loaded the environment up with unsupportable levels of pollution. Billions of tons of petrochemicals, including agricultural chemicals, are consumed annually; with the residues absorbed into the environment. The result is toxic soils and contaminated water resources. Similarly, the combustion of fuels has produced waste gases at such a rate that the global equilibrium of the atmosphere has been drastically altered in just a generation.

The life style of our so-called “advanced nations” is the most dangerous of all in terms of production of man-made wastes and, as the global population doubled to 6 billion in one generation, and these populations now aspire to the same way of life, we will find that global ecological collapse is a real possibility. Never before has civilization faced such a compelling need for fundamental change and renewal. We need an ecologically conscious way of life. We need to live without producing wastes and pollution. The science of closed ecological life support systems requires that all resources are reused and therefore such systems produce no waste. Eco Living is a new way of life, built on such sustainable life support concepts. The result will be a safe, non-toxic environment. This distinct change in life style will contribute to the rebuilding and restoration the local ecology and if widely adopted Eco Living will, over the long term, benefit and strengthen the global natural environment.

The Eco Living revolution is made possible at this time by our Open Eco Design approach which integrates a combination of technology breakthroughs, which used together, can produce communities that are truly advanced. The new, underlying systems for building living structures are referred to collectively as “Sola Roof Tech”, which is based upon biomimicry and the biological cultivation of living plants within the structure of buildings and the infrastructure of communities thus creating ecological habitats for people.

“Transparent Structures?”, “Controlled Environments?” and “Closed Ecological Life Support Systems?” and the Blue Green concepts are among the key technology advances that together enable the broad application of living structures, which use the Phyto Mechanisms? of live plants for the purpose of using them to process solar energy, purify water and to clean and oxygenate the atmosphere within controlled environment structures. Secondarily, the plants and/or the fruit, leaf and root of the plants may be harvested for food, feedstock, fiber, biomass or biochemicals. Lastly, the plants may beautify the living spaces, workplaces and recreational areas of the community and cut flowers and ornamental plants may be produced for the local market.