Peace Portal is a project designed to help fund, organize, and implement associated projects that lead to long term sustainable development.  They Provide a space designed to encourage and reward acting consciously and cooperatively rather than egotistically and competitively.

Peace Portal is a open rallying point for those working to implement practical solutions that address our common planetary dilemmas.
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Earth Architect, Steven Travis designed this fully self-sufficient modular home based on the structure of a DNA Molecule, this design is to be used in the GaiaTech Ecovillage currently under development by Worldwide Developers Foundation and Light of Life Society Information Age Ministry located just outside Yelm, Washington.  This fully self-sufficient and environmentally friendly home sets the standards for positive impact with an off-the-grid western-comfort style of living. 

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While the DNA Home looks very complicated, construction is fairly simple. Most of the wall, roof, and floor panels are equilateral triangles, eight or ten feet along each edge depending upon the size of the selected floor plan. The panel skins consist of materials graded according to the climatic conditions at the installation site. These skins encase insulating materials, creating a very strong stressed-skin panel with an R-28 insulation value. The roof panels are covered with a durable, reflective, and self-glazing material.  The structure exclusively uses ecologically sustainable materials. 

The DNA Home structure:

·         Is adaptable to various climates by virtue of the thickness and specifications for insulating materials, with a minimum value of R-28.

·         Is resistant to microbial and insect invasion without the use of fumigation or pressure treatment.

·         Encases all materials with a propensity to out-gas in impenetrable barrier materials.

·         Provides the option for convenient, spacious living with the option for modular add-ons.

·         Able to sustain 130 mph sustained winds.

The internal systems of the DNA Home include:

1.      Heat storage -

         The inner layer of insulating material is dipped into a phase change material. At 70° this material begins to melt, while remaining bound. It absorbs a great deal of room heat as it melts, keeping the air temperature at 75° until all of the phase change material has melted. As the room cools, the phase change material solidifies between 70° and 65°, releasing as much heat as can be stored in 3" of concrete. Since every surface is releasing this heat, the room air warms to the temperature of the walls. When all the phase change material has melted, the room temperature rises above 75°. This heats and expands carbon dioxide gas in a piston at the peak of the house, which pushes an actuating rod, opening a vent and exhausting the excess heat.

2.      Crystal energy  -  The house utilizes the properties of crystal energy to create a healing, clear environment.  Lightning rods at the peaks attract the ambient electrical charge of the sky and transmit this charge along the edges of the structure through copper wires to quartz crystals at each point, then down to grounding rods buried in the Earth.

3.      Lighting  -  The quartz crystals (mentioned under “Crystal energy”) resonate to the frequency of this conducted charge and emit electrical energy. These crystals are enclosed in glass spheres from which the air is drawn out and replaced with gases that ionize and fluoresce with the crystal charge. The spheres emit a warm, natural light and are controlled via a variable switch.  Photovoltaic panels, an optional wind generator, and batteries power full-spectrum compact fluorescent lights. When daylight is not sufficient, these lights are switched with light and motion sensors, so the room lights up when entered and darkens when exited,.  The wall and ceiling surfaces may also contain phosphors that absorb the sun's light during the day and glow through the night.

4.      Windows  -  Sunlight enters the south windows, warming the surfaces directly and also indirectly as the warm air circulates to the shaded surfaces. The windows consist of no less than three layers of clear Tedlar film, a very strong material that does not degrade in sunlight. The windows are soft like pillows.

5.             Air heat exchange  -  The windows exchange heat from warm stuffy room air being exhausted to cool fresh air entering. The room air enters the inner air space at the top of the window and as it loses heat through the window it sinks out the bottom of the window. The fresh air enters the outer air space at the bottom of the window, picks up the heat being released by the room and old air through the film, and rises into the room at the top of the window. This captures about 85% of the heat in the exhausted room air plus the heat lost through the window from the room, giving it an effective insulation value equal to 5" of fiberglass (R-14), while the house has the fresh breath and scent of the outdoors.

6.             Solar hot water and refrigeration    -  Solar collectors on the south sloped roof panels both heat the water and cool the refrigerator. These panels are filled with a material that adsorbs ten times its volume in water. During the day the 200° heat generated within the panels evaporates the water contained within this material.  The resulting expansion from vapor pressure evenly fills a piping system with water vapor. Water vapor carries 17 times as much heat as an equal volume of dry air. The vapor condenses in tubing within the hot water tank, transferring the heat of condensation to the water within the tank. The condensed water pre-heats the incoming cold water at the bottom of the tank, then flows down to tubes in the refrigerator box. After sunset, the solar collectors cool down and the adsorbent material reclaims the vapor, thus dropping the vapor pressure of the piping system. As the vapor pressure drops, the water in the refrigerator tubes evaporates very readily. As the system pressure approaches near-vacuum, the evaporation absorbs so much heat from the refrigerator water that it freezes the water remaining in the tubes. The resulting ice keeps the refrigerator cold during the following day. As the vapor rises back to the adsorbent material, it is diverted through a bypass valve around the hot water tank. Each shelf in the super-insulated refrigerator is an individual drawer.  When opened, the cold, heavy air is retained within the drawer, versus conventional refrigerators with side-hinged doors, which allow the cold, heavy air to tumble onto the kitchen floor each time the door is opened.

7.      Electricity  -  Solar photovoltaic panels generate electricity. They can be mounted where most convenient or in treetops in a forested location.  Wind power from an optional wind generator in the tree tops increases in winter and during storms, just as solar power is decreasing and as the lighting needs increase. Solar and wind electrical power feed through a charge controller into batteries. When needed, it flows through an inverter to change the 12v dc current to 110v ac.

8.      Rainwater  -  Rainwater on the roofs runs into gutters, then flows into a cold water tank located in the ceiling between the rooms, above the closets. This tank also filters the water through a high-grade micron filter. The optional ozonator further ensures water purity and optional flow-form enhances bioactivity.  The water flows to over-sized faucets through one-inch pipes, to give full flow at very low pressure. It also flows to the hot water tank. A low-flow showerhead requires very little water. A thermo-siphoning solar collector located in the southern deck heats and further filters water for a covered, insulated hot tub.

9.      Waste water  -  Greywater from the sinks and shower flows through a sand filter, then to the hydroponic gardens. The toilet flushes with a ball valve instead of a U-trap, thus requiring very little pressure and only a pint of water to flush. The toilet wastewater flows to a clear fiberglass tank beneath the south deck.

Sunlight enters this tank, where algae feed on the sewage. The algae water then flows through a one-way valve to a second black-colored tank and is thus heated by the sun. Here anaerobic bacteria feed on the algae, and produce methane. These organisms produce five times more methane from the algae cellulose as they would from raw sewage.  When the pressure has sufficiently risen, an exit valve in the bacteria tank bursts open, releasing the water and bacteria to a solar still. With the pressure released, the exit valve closes and a fresh load of algae water flows into the tank. The pressurized methane later flows through a regulator, and proceeds on to the cook stove and a quiet, high-efficiency back-up electrical generator.

Between the opposite polarities of algae growth (oxidation) and the anaerobic bacteria digesting the algae (reduction), an electrical potential develops. It is a living battery. An anode in the algae tank and cathode in the bacteria tank collect this current, which can then be transformed and inverted for household power.

The solar still evaporates the water and pasteurizes (sterilizes with heat) the bacterial solids left behind, which make excellent fertilizer. The water vapor rises up a tube and condenses in the hot water tank in the peak of the house, completing the water cycle.

10.        Hydroponic Gardens  -  Hydroponic trays are fitted to the structure which are automatically feed by the filtered greywater system and provide food source for the family.  In temperate zones, these trays are mounted on the exterior of the structure during the spring and summer and move inside during the fall and winter months.

As an architect, artist, inventor and instructor (San Jose State University Art & Design), Lloyd Turner has accumulated an impressive body of eclectic accomplishments:  patented childproof bottle caps, methods to build curvilinear concrete structures, kinetic sculptures, children's toys, and stunning watercolors.

Here are some photos of his house.  Read the articles in this section to learn more about sustainable building techniques, tips, and architects.

Mundialization is one of the oldest of municipal peace activities. The word is derived from the Latin word “mundus” meaning “world”.   It is an act whereby City Council declares its city to be a “world city”, interdependent with other communities worldwide.

Mundialization is a movement expressing the solidarity of populations of the globe aiming to transcend and transfer one’s obligations as a national citizen to a planetary scale; to declare oneself available (sovereign standing) for the fight to preserve the survival of humanity now threatened, to ensure a sustainable future where peace and justice may finally be achieved.

The mundialisation of a community is the act through which the basic cell of any social and political national organization declares having become aware of the problems which claim the attention of the world community and takes the pledge to seek, in full agreement with all the communes in the world, a just and fair solution for every one.

*Some, not all whom are expanding the mundialization concept advocate for a new political organization of humanity involving the transfer of certain parts of national sovereignty to a Federal World Authority, Federal World Government and Federal World Court. The Authority would be capable of solving, by majority decisions, the problems which call into question the future of man, such as: hunger, water, war, peace-keeping, pollution and energy.  If this concept could include and uphold the sovereign rights of individuals and collectives as communities, perhaps it could work.

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