International Green Technology Institute.Green America Plan 2030.Building National Smart Water MultiGrid
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Les Hamasaki, CEO, * 323.350.5750 * www.i-gti.org * LesH@i-gti.org Page 1
Mitigating Midwest Floods and Southwest Drought:
GREEN AMERICA PLAN 2030 Building a National Smart Water MultiGrid
and Eco Village Network
for Rural Infrastructure and Jobs
Photos of Sun City, Arizona senior water-oriented village
and Midwest floods and Southwest drought
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The United States, with a population of more than 330 million people today, must accommodate
an additional 200 million citizens by mid-century, less than four decades from now. Whether
America will be a decent and sustainable place to live when its home to a half-billion people in
2050 will depend on how smart and creative we are during the two decades between here and
2030.
Hence the Green America Plan 2030 -- a bold plan to transport water from America's flooded
Midwestern rivers to the arid and increasingly drought-stricken Southwest to provide much-
needed water to the region's cities and towns, and to catalyze the development of a network of
new sustainable water-oriented senior "wellness ecovillage" and re-envisioned existing
"transition towns." The National Smart Water Grid is the backbone of the multigrid network,
conceived by Ronald A. Beaulieu in collaboration with Jeff Everitt and Diana Dehm. The
second edition of the National Smart Water Grid book provides a comprehensive analysis of the
problems and possibilities for developing a major water pipeline from the Midwest to the
Southwest.
Illustration of Midwest water source, by Ronald A. Beaulieu
Illustration of National Smart Water Grid Plan, by Ronald A. Beaulieu
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The heart of the Green America Plan 2030 is a National Smart Water MultiGrid -- a national grid
of water, electricity, transport, broadband telecommunications, and strategically located green
villages and new highways and high-speed levitation "sky train" railways -- and the
Infrastructure Jobs Initiative that will build it.
The Green America Plan also includes the creation of a network of model green communities in
the warm climates of the Southwest, especially for seniors.
Pipelines to transport water photos provided by the National Smart Water Grid (NSWG), by Ronald Beaulieu)
A new Midwest-to-Southwest Water Pipeline -- of some 12 to 18 feet in diameter and hundreds
of miles long -- is the core of the National Smart Water MultiGrid, but the grid will also
implement an electricity "smart green grid" that transports solar and wind power across the
region, along with a rural 4G broadband network that provides high-bandwidth access to
national and global e-commerce, online learning, telemedicine, mobile banking,
teleconferencing, many forms of telepresence, and a literal world of information.
Illustrations of rural broadband communications, solar farms for Green Smart Grid and
wheat and corn farms in the arid Southwest
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The National Smart Water Multigrid will include an advanced Eco Smart Mass Transit Levitation
System for carrying passengers and cargo throughout the network. The Smart Transit Grid
System will be integrated with solar power, a communications network, and underground water
supply pipelines. During construction of the National Smart Water Multigrid, the SMTrail system
rail technology can also be part of the construction phase by transporting pipes and material
along the grid pathway.
Eco Smart Transit Grid System (photos by www.SMTrail.com)
The Green America Plan 2030 and its Infrastructure Jobs Initiative is multi-faceted in its aims,
development, and details:
GAP 2030 will create millions of construction jobs to rebuild and reinvest in an efficient and
highly sustainable rural and exurban America -- now the least sustainable part of this country --
that can accommodate many of the 83 million U.S. baby boomers who as a group are already
retiring poorer than their parents' generation, as well as some of America's projected overall
population growth.
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The Green America Plan 2030 will also develop Native American Villages, North
America's pioneers in creating sustainable villages.
Example of an existing industrial greenhouse farm
The Green America Plan 2030 will help develop a new form of rural and exurban agriculture
(which increasingly will overlap with a similar form of urban agriculture) of efficient”vertical
farms" engaged in volumetric low-water and hydroponic specialized crop production in large
industrial greenhouses. Some of the green villages and transition towns will include facilities
and greentech parks for clean micro-assembly plants serving the growing distributed
manufacture of electric vehicles, LED components, lithium air batteries, and other new products,
and factories producing assembly parts for green modular building construction.
America must transition from today's centralized industrial rust belt economy to a distributed
"technology green belt" of new green villages and larger transition towns -- a new social and
economic "ecosystem" that integrates information and clean technologies and creates multiple
foundations for localized economic development. Each green village and town will pursue its
own individualized planning and development and will robustly share lessons learned and best
practices.
Bold and progressive public leadership will be essential to the financing of the Green America
Plan and National Smart Water Multigrid, and the communities the MultiGrid will transform,
create, and empower. Private-public partnerships will be the currency of the project, initially
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launched by federal and state land grants for the development of new townships and by the sale
of water and power. Other creative economic development strategies, for example tax-
increment financing, will be utilized too. Key to the financing of this massive project is the
successful launching of the proposed United States Infrastructure Bank, which will play a crucial
role in enabling and sustaining this 40-year enterprise. Green America Plan 2030 is President
Obama’s American Jobs Act on steroids.
Some of our country's greatest presidents have led the nation out of major economic and social
crises, depressions, and recessions -- and through wonderful periods of great national
enterprise and pride -- by creating millions of jobs while building and rebuilding America's and
even the world's infrastructure:
• Abraham Lincoln (the Transcontinental Railroad linking east and west);
• Theodore Roosevelt (the Panama Canal, national public works, and new federal functions);
• Herbert Hoover (Boulder Dam, which provided water and power to a swath of the Southwest -
- as will the National MultiGrid);
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (the Works Projects Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps
that reforested America and created 800 parks and built thousands of roads, bridges and
tunnels) (and the G.I. bill that provided education and training benefits to the World War II
veterans who built the U.S. suburbs and middle class);
• Harry S. Truman (the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe after that war);
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 a.k.a. National Interstate and
Defense Highways Act that created a new national safe highway system and a Highway Trust
Fund, maintained by the modest U.S. gasoline tax, to maintain it); and
• John F. Kennedy (a man on the moon!).
President Barack Obama has the opportunity to provide a similar framework for creating millions
of useful jobs while giving the country a roadmap for a sustainable future in the 21st century.
We think that framework will be provided by the National Smart Water MultiGrid Initiative -- a
bold, mixed-use jobs initiative just like those deployed in America’s major economic crises of the
past, visionary national projects that propelled America into the economic superpower of the
20th century.
The current generation of living Americans has a chance -- and an historic planetary duty -- to
transform America, for decades the planet's premier consumption and waste economy, into a
sustainable economy that provides lessons and new capabilities to the rest of the world.
Let's get as close as we can, as fast as we can, to a systemically sustainable low-energy, zero-
waste, zero-carbon "circle economy" that mimics and preserves the circle of life.
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Today's "perfect economic storm," raging against the backdrop of an unsustainable fossil-fueled
society is the time to do it. Consider these major threats to our free market system:
• Global climate change creating floods in the Midwest and drought in the Southwest;
• World oil peak and the end of cheap oil;
• Explosive global population growth that adds another billion people every dozen years, with
9.5 billion human souls by mid-century;
• The global food and clean water crises;
• The decade-long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, not yet ended, and the continuing "war on
terror";
• Our unending addictions to oil and drugs -- and the continuing "war on drugs";
• The massive U.S. national debt and the growing U.S. trade deficit, primarily caused by
imported oil; and
• Wall Street's financial crimes, shenanigans and schemes, Main Street's business failures,
and too many families' foreclosed homes.
We are at the end of the Industrial Revolution powered with oil and coal -- and unfortunately as
well at the end of the wonderful stable-climate interglacial world that fostered the
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human enterprise. People everywhere are embracing the green digital revolution of information
technology and green technology to create a sustainable global "flat world" where living in rural
villages in Asia will not be a barrier to attaining the American-become-Chinese Dream -- and
living in America will not be a guarantee of reaching it.
The construction of the National Smart Water MultiGrid will empower rural and unemployed
Americans, especially highly skilled and disciplined returning veterans, and their communities in
a significant portion of the central and southwestern U.S. during--and for decades after--its
creation.
America must reinvent, redesign and reengineer its economic system to put itself -- and the
world and the planet -- on a road to economic, social, and environmental recovery in this
decade and a sustainable future during the generations that follow.
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Green America Plan 2030 Team
1. International Green Technology Institute (IGTI) (www.I-GTI.org)
Les Hamasaki, President, IGTI; Planning Director of Green America Plan 2030
2. National Smart Water Grid (NSWG)
Ronald Beaulieu, President, NSWG; and author, National Smart Water Grid, second edition,
in collaboration with Jeff Everitt and Diana Dehm, Planning Director of the National Smart
Water Grid project
3. Synergy International, Inc., (www.synergyii.com)
Reinhold Ziegler, President and Planning Director, Wellness Eco Village Development and
the National Smart Water Grid project
4. SMTrail, Inc. (www.SMTrail.com)
J. P. Mobasher, President and Planning Director, Sky Train Development
5. Balaji Sriraghavan, Vice President and Director of Visual Communications
Emantras, Inc. (www.Emantras.com)
References:
1. National Smart Water Grid, Second Edition, by Ronald A. Beaulieu collaborating with Jeff
Everitt and Diana Dehm
2. Smartest Mass Transit Rail, JP Mobasher, Inventor and Founder, SMTrail, Inc.
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