Daily Affir­ma­tion

My spir­i­tual rela­tion­ship is bring­ing me inef­fa­ble peace. Paul C. Bragg

Daily Affir­ma­tion

I am begin­ning to feel the strength of the spir­i­tual sense. It brings me Divine love. Paul C. Bragg

Patri­cia Bragg Inducted into
the Nat­ural Prod­ucts Expo Hall of Legends

Patri­cia Bragg Inducted into the Nat­ural Prod­ucts Expo
Hall of Leg­ends, Ana­heim Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, March 2013

Dr. John Wes­t­er­dahl Inter­views Balz Frei, Ph.D.,
Direc­tor of Linus Paul­ing Institute

Today on Health & Longevity Radio Dr. John Wes­t­er­dahl, Direc­tor of Bragg Health Sci­ence for Bragg Live Food Prod­ucts and Direc­tor of Bragg Health Insti­tu­tion will be inter­view­ing : Balz Frei, Ph.D., Direc­tor of the Linus Paul­ing Insti­tute at Ore­gon State Uni­ver­sity. This show will be aired in honor of Linus Paul­ing who was a good friend of Dr. Paul C. Bragg. This week the Diet & Opti­mum Health con­fer­ence is being held at the Linus Paul­ing Insti­tute from May 15^th to May 18^th. Dr. John Wes­t­er­dahl is attend­ing the con­fer­ence on behalf of Bragg.

This pro­gram fea­tures the Linus Paul­ing Insti­tute, a research insti­tute at Ore­gon State Uni­ver­sity.  The insti­tute is named after two time Nobel Prize win­ner, Dr. Linus Paul­ing, one of the world’s great­est sci­en­tists and human­i­tar­i­ans. The Linus Paul­ing Insti­tute inves­ti­gates the func­tion and role of micronu­tri­ents, phy­to­chem­i­cals and dietary sup­ple­ments in main­tain­ing human health and pre­vent­ing and treat­ing dis­ease.  Dr. Balz Frei, Direc­tor of the Linus Paul­ing Insti­tute, dis­cusses nutri­tion, dietary sup­ple­ments and opti­mum health.  He dis­cusses the institute’s Healthy Aging Pro­gram and the role a healthy lifestyle plays in health and longevity.  The pro­gram fea­tures audio excerpts of Dr. Linus Paul­ing dis­cussing his con­cepts of sci­ence and health.

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Balz Frei, Ph.D.

Dr. John Wes­t­er­dahl

EGGPLANT AND OKRA

1 egg­plant, un-peeled, chop

½ tsp Bragg Liq­uid Aminos

1 tsp Bragg Olive Oil

2 large toma­toes, dice

1 Tbsp bell pep­per, chop

2 cups okra, slice

soy Parme­san cheese

2 cloves gar­lic, slice

⅓ cup chives or green onion tops

shake of Bragg Sprinkle

Sauté all of the ingre­di­ents except soy cheese, together in wok or pan for about 10–12 min­utes, or until ten­der. Sprin­kle with soy Parme­san cheese before serv­ing. Serves 4–6.

Daily Affir­ma­tion

I can visu­al­ize the ideal life, because I know that I have the begin­ning and the pos­si­bil­ity of it within me. Paul C. Bragg

Daily Affir­ma­tion

I will use pure truth to develop and shape my future know­ing that the power of my body will only be acti­vated by the true power of my spir­i­tual sense. Paul C. Bragg

Patri­cia Donates To Resqcats!

Resqu­cats, a Santa Bar­bara orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to sav­ing cats
recently received a gen­er­ous dona­tion from Dr. Patri­cia Bragg.
Below read a thank you to Patri­cia from their newsletter.

For more info visit www.Resqcats.org.

“An Angel in Heaven” does not even begin
To describe Patri­cia Bragg.
Her com­pas­sion and gen­eros­ity earns
Her the title “Angel on Earth,” too.
From my heart, thank you! ~ Resqcats

Algae-powered apart­ment com­plex blooms in Hamburg

BIQ House, a 15-unit net-zero energy apart­ment com­plex clad with an algae-filled bio-adaptive shell, is com­pleted in Ham­burg, Ger­many, as part of the Inter­na­tional Build­ing Exhibition.

Today, here’s a look at a freshly com­pleted res­i­den­tial com­plex in Ham­burg, Ger­many, where even Slimer would feel right at home. And while it may not con­tain an ounce of ecto­plasm, tiny pho­to­syn­thetic organ­isms com­monly asso­ci­ated with pesky green slime are key to the zero-energy structure’s ground­break­ing renew­able energy systems.

As the world’s first build­ing pow­ered by algae, the 15-unit Bio Intel­li­gent Quo­tient (BIQ) House gen­er­ates bio­mass and heat with the assis­tance of 129 inte­grated glass biore­ac­tor pan­els (read: microal­gae har­vesters) mea­sur­ing .78 inches thick and cov­er­ing approx­i­mately 2,150 square feet of the four-story structure’s south­east and south­west fac­ing sides. Most con­ve­niently, the algae-cultivating bio-façade pro­vides the build­ing with ther­mal insu­la­tion, shad­ing from direct sun­light, and noise reduc­tion in addi­tion to gen­er­at­ing a ready-to-harvest source of biomass.

The project’s Inter­na­tional Build­ing Exhi­bi­tion (IBA) pro­file pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive overview:

The algae flour­ish and mul­ti­ply in a reg­u­lar cycle until they can be har­vested. They are then sep­a­rated from the rest of the algae and trans­ferred as a thick pulp to the tech­ni­cal room of the BIQ. The lit­tle plants are then fer­mented in an exter­nal bio­gas plant, so that they can be used again to gen­er­ate bio­gas. Algae are par­tic­u­larly well suited for this, as they pro­duce up to five times as much bio­mass per hectare as ter­res­trial plants and con­tain many oils that can be used for energy.

The BIQ has a holis­tic energy con­cept: it draws all of the energy needed to gen­er­ate elec­tric­ity and heat from renew­able sources — fos­sil fuels remain untouched. It is able to gen­er­ate energy using the algae bio­mass har­vested from its own façade. More­over, the façade col­lects energy by absorb­ing the light that is not used by the algae and gen­er­at­ing heat, like in a solar ther­mal unit, which is then either used directly for hot water and heat­ing, or can be cached in the ground using bore­hole heat exchang­ers — 80 metre-deep holes filled with brine. This remark­ably sus­tain­able energy con­cept is there­fore capa­ble of cre­at­ing a cycle of solar ther­mal energy, geot­her­mal energy, a con­dens­ing boiler, local heat, and the cap­ture of bio­mass using
the bio-reactor façade.

Three years in the mak­ing, the $3.4 mil­lion euro pilot project — it was designed and built for the IBA by the joint team of Austria-based sus­tain­able archi­tec­ture firm Spit­ter­w­erks Archi­tects, Colt Inter­na­tional, Strate­gic Sci­ence Con­sult, and global engi­neer­ing firm ARUP — will be used to test the fea­si­bil­ity of algae-cultivation as a source of renew­able energy for city­bound build­ings in the future.

Elab­o­rates Jan Arup, a research leader for ARUP, in a news release issued by the company:

Using bio-chemical processes in the façade of a build­ing to cre­ate shade and energy is a really inno­v­a­tive con­cept. It might well become a sus­tain­able solu­tion for energy pro­duc­tion in urban areas, so it is great to see it being tested in a real-life scenario.

Very cool. How­ever,  Co.Exist brings up a good point: Despite the strate­gic ori­en­ta­tion of the biore­ac­tor pan­els, Ham­burg isn’t exactly known as the most sun­shiny of locales and, obvi­ously, algae repro­duces when pre­sented with abun­dant bright sun­shine. The pan­els will be sup­plied with liq­uid nutri­ents and com­pressed CO2 via a sep­a­rate water cir­cuit for opti­mum grow­ing con­di­tions but with­out the key ingre­di­ent of pho­to­syn­the­sis, sun­shine, BIQ’s green shell may strug­gle in the algae-production depart­ment dur­ing the win­ter months.

Dur­ing the sum­mer, how­ever, when the sun is out in full-force, BIQ will no doubt go into full “bloom” mode. As Curbed notes, the pan­els, act­ing as “mas­sive, algae-driving tran­si­tion lenses,” will grow notice­ably darker when filled with ele­vated lev­els of algae. In turn, the inte­rior of the build­ing will be kept nice and cool. So much for win­dow AC units when you have bacteria-sized organ­isms mul­ti­ply­ing on the side of your build­ing to help you beat the sum­mer­time heat, eh?

As for the balcony-blessed apart­ment units which each clock in beween 538 and 1,291 square feet:

Two of the total of fif­teen apart­ments to be housed in the BIQ do not have sep­a­rate rooms, but rather enable the inhab­i­tants to con­fig­ure their liv­ing arrange­ments ‘on demand.’ Depend­ing on their needs, indi­vid­ual func­tions of the apart­ment — bath­room, kitchen, sleep­ing area — can be swapped about or com­bined to form a “neu­tral zone.” In this way, the neces­si­ties of every­day life deter­mine the appear­ance of the apart­ment, and the ver­sa­tile lay­out can be adapted to suit the res­i­dents and their daily lives at any given time.

BIQ’s bio-façade sys­tem is due to go live later this month.

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CELERY AND WILD RICE

⅓ cup wild rice

1⅓ cups dis­tilled water

Boil water and rice for 20 to 30 min­utes. Do not stir.
Drain off most of the water and steam until fluffy.

½ cup veg­etable stock

1 cel­ery root, thin slices

Egg Replacer equal to 1 egg

3 Tbsps red onion, chop

⅓ cup peanut oil

spray of Bragg Liq­uid Aminos

Mix and pour in oiled casse­role dish with rice and
bake in 350°F oven for 30 min­utes, or until cel­ery is ten­der. Serves 4.