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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


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


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


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


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.


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


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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http://www.synergyii.com/

http://www.smtrail.com/

http://www.emantras.com/

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