EM DISASTER RELIEF

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Dear Friends,

I wanted to give you a briefing on the purpose and highlights of The Earth Organization’s (TEO’s) second trip to New Orleans and the Gulf area.

Your donation contributed to me being able to take a team of three people with me into the New Orleans/Baton Rouge and Gulfport areas for eight days (from December 10th to the 18th) to begin introducing the microorganism technology to the general public as well as civic leaders and government agencies.

Our key purpose for this trip was to find out if the microorganism technology which I came across right before Katrina hit was, in fact, needed and wanted. As you will probably remember from the briefing you received on this, this technology has an astonishing number of extremely pro-survival environmental applications, including, but not limited to the clean up of soil, water, and atmospheric pollution. One of it’s many applications is that it stops mold in a highly effective, completely non-toxic way. We found that it is this that the local people are most concerned about at the moment. The toxic mold build up in those homes that were flooded is just horrifying and getting rid of it has been extremely difficult for them.

TEO’s purpose is not to do mold remediation, but to actually reverse the environmental dwindling spiral on planet earth so we and future generations have a healthy, sustainable environment in which to live. A very key element in that long-term strategy is making well known the microorganism technology.

As you may know, even before the recent hurricanes, the Gulf Coast has been one of the most polluted areas in the US. It would create a remarkable change in the environment and in the health of the people, and be a tremendous pilot project for TEO to be able to point to for future projects, if we clean up the waterways and soil in the area. However, to do that, we have to make the microorganism technology known and well thought of. For this reason, because mold is such a severe problem for people now in the area, it offers an opportunity to provide a solution that is so much better than the current toxic chemicals they are using, while at the same time getting the microorganism tech introduced.

To give you a little background on mold remediation, construction workers currently wage war against noxious mold by donning full-body decontamination suits and heavy respirators, scraping the walls with wire brushes, and then spraying with chlorine bleach or other highly caustic chemicals. What isn’t commonly known is that bleach itself attracts even more toxic mold to it within two to three weeks. So, the process is dangerous because of the potential for mold inhalation and chemical poisoning, extremely labor-intensive, and often has to be repeated. It broke my heart to see hard-working, well-intentioned volunteer relief workers with obvious chlorine poisoning, burned skin, red eyes and utterly exhausted.

Microorganisms, on the other hand, are living bacteria that digest and break down harmful substances into their nontoxic components. They can eliminate disease-causing pathogens and odor and were successfully used to decontaminate toxic waters and sewage from the 2004 tsunami in southern Asia. As a result, the 100,000 deaths from the spread of pathogen diseases that the World Health Organization predicted following the Tsunami never occurred.

Using the microorganism technology to handle mold has several benefits. It’s hugely labor-saving, and, while you still have to wear a high-quality respirator to protect you from the mold, you don’t need to wear a decontamination suit because it’s so safe you can inhale it or consume it with absolutely no potential for adverse reaction. In fact, it’s actually healthy for people and plants and animals. Additionally, once you’ve properly misted a building with this, it creates a microbial environment that doesn’t attract further mold, so it’s good to spray it in a building even if it’s been sprayed already with bleach as it eats the remaining toxic bleach residue.

So this trip was the beginning of this process: find interested people, make ourselves and the microorganism tech known to them, find out if this was truly needed and wanted by them, and, if so, begin distributing the product and educating people on how to apply it.

The following are the key things we accomplished.

A company named SCD (Sustainable Community Development based in Missouri) donated 500 gallons of the microorganism product (called Efficient Microbes (EM)) which could be dilluted up to 10,000 gallons for our relief efforts. We had it shipped in to New Orleans and it was waiting for us when we arrived.

In the 8 days, we individually briefed 87 people on the microorganism technology, including FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Association) officials, heads of 4 different churches, heads of other volunteer agencies and relief centers, the head of a hospital, two doctors, a restaurant owner, a Deputy Sheriff in charge of coordinating all the volunteer agency efforts in the Gulfport area, some oil company corporate execs, a key executive in the Environmental Protection Agency, key executives in Rotary, and a wide variety of building and home owners.

For demonstration purposes, we sprayed a hospital, two churches, 2 handicapped facilities, and several homes. The results of this were tremendously gratifying as people were extremely happy and amazed when, first, the smell was gone within a matter of minutes and then, second, the mold was completely dead within a matter of 3 days, and all done with this non-toxic liquid.

We donated to churches, individuals and a community relief center enough of the product to clean up the mold in approximately 2,200 homes, and trained them on how to use it.

I was interviewed for 20 minutes on a local radio station regarding the microorganism tech.

We were invited by a local activist group to be part of a bioremediation project in the Gulf area (bringing back the plant and wildlife).

I was invited by the President of the Vietnamese American Association of Louisiana to speak to over 200 Vietnamese when I return in a couple of weeks, to introduce the microorganism tech to them with the purpose of enlisting their help in cleaning up the local waterways.

The one thing there is no doubt of: the people of the Gulf Coast desperately need the microorganism tech, and, once they find out about it, the interest in it is tremendous.

I am again raising donations to be able to return mid January to do more of the same: introduce more people to it, follow up on projects started, get more of the product donated and distributed and move the project forward towards soil, water, and wildlife remediation.

If you have any questions or ideas, please do contact me. My email is presintearthorg@aol.com. Phone: 818 406 6321.

And again, thanks so very much for any contribution you have made toward this project.

Sincerely,

Barbara Wiseman