Kickstarting a Green Living Economy

If you head down Virginia Avenue in New Port Richey you will witness the future. The grassy lawns have been upturned and in place are rows of vegetables. Fruit trees have been scattered across the neighborhood with fruit drooping ready to be picked. Neighbors are painting their roofs white to reduce their electricity costs by keeping cooler in the summer time. Backyard market garden entrepreneurs sell produce from their front porches. This scenic view of what our suburbs could look like has inspired me over the past few years. Inspired me to make my very own front and backyard gardens and plant nearly 20 fruit trees on my own 1/10th of an acre plot as well.

After being inspired by the neighborhood around Viriginia Avenue I ventured out into the world to see what other inspirations I could find in the Tampa Bay area. In my travels I started up a youtube series ( www.youtube.com/codegreencommunity) where followers can join me to watch the events and businesses that I travel to. I traveled to aquaponic farms in Brooksville where the water from breeding fish is used to grow vegetables hydroponically resulting in dramatic drop of 90% of the water used for agriculture. I traveled to Roosevelt 2.0 in the middle of downtown Ybor to hear how we could reduce the cost to run our buildings by as much as 50%. I traveled south to Myakka to learn of Florida's first Earthship- built out of recycled tires and rammed Earth. When complete this Earthship will be totally air conditioner free but still keep a temperature around 75 all year through passive cooling and thermal batteries that store the energy from the earth to cool the building.

What if we were to re-invent society from scratch? Re-localize our food so that it came from within 100 miles rather then 1,500 miles? Solarize our energy system by decentralizing it and producing energy while reducing our carbon dioxide footprint rather then nuclear power that Progress Energy wants us to consume (wasteful, environmentally unsafe, and costly)? Re-localize our manufacturing to bring back jobs here to America rather then have them be overseas?

All of this is acheivable when we put our minds to it and collaborate en-masse. In order to spread these ideas I've set-up a kickstarter to fundraise for equipment to make a documentary. The documentary will be a re-hash of earlier YouTube posts and new content as well as ideas. These ideas and vision of the documentary will be about supporting a re-localization effort in the Tampa Bay area.

This movement of people from all walks of life is a happening thing that is occuring sponanteously throughout the Tampa Bay area. For four years of making YouTube postings I've come across thousands of people who have inspired and informed me of ways we can transform our local economy.   We could create an economy that takes care of people, takes care of the planet, and shares the abundance. We could make an economy and live our lives based upon happiness rather then just the pursuit of money. We could have homes that take care of us rather then working constantly to take care of a home.

A green renassaince is not only on its way, its emerging right now in the Tampa Bay! Help me document this movement by pledging to the Code Green Community Kickstarter today! http://kck.st/w5jBvy