BAR ESPRESSO backs small St Albans Charity with BIG ambitions!

Bar Espresso has selected FREdome’s local community project, C-Green Solutions, as the worthy cause for a pre-Christmas fundraising collection in St Albans.

During December 2008, Bar Espresso, located on Victoria Street near St Albans City Railway Station, will encourage its patrons to give generously to secure our own future and that of the world we will leave to our children.

The aim of C-Green Solutions is to convert sunlight, excess CO2, and sea water rapidly into a nutrient-rich plant biomass (marine algae / seaweed) to refertilise the world’s wastelands and deserts (75% of the world’s land) and grow more than enough ethical biofuels, highly nutritious superfoods and natural materials, reversing climate change, ending pollution and stabilising the world economy in the process.

Funds raised will be used to revisit experiments done over 30 years by a 30-strong research team of a charity called Green Deserts, which at one time had over a quarter of a million supporters. Two world-wide recessions made people stop giving money. The charity collapsed and all the findings were hurriedly taken into storage, where they remain today.

Greg Peachey, founder of the FREdome Visionary Trust, said, “It would be a tragedy if so much valuable work, concerning such serious problems, conducted by so many experts, over so many years, were lost to humanity.”

The research recognises that over the generations, humanity has systematically

plundered the earth’s resources, such as fossil fuels, and turned them into excess CO2 in the air, leading to, for example, climate chaos and the energy crisis. Key nutrients, which we fail to put back into our depleted soil, have been washed out to sea, leaving us increasingly vulnerable to modern diseases, such as cancer. We chemically process natural resources and turn them into non-biodegradable or toxic waste.

To recall four key members of the original team to work for a year and unlock a 900 man-years of research to resolve the global problems, now on the horizon, would cost £120,000 – little more than the average salary of just one GP.

The Hertfordshire-based FREdome youth contingent, FREdome-YEA (Youth Encouraging Adults) raise awareness and funds for the cause.

One group organises alcohol-free club nights for school age children. These have attracted numbers rising from 550 to over 1100, and have all gone completely smoothly. The other two groups are starting to organise shows and concerts to support the cause. They have used social networking, such as MySpace, and now have over 12,000 young supporters, watching how the world of adults will react to their campaign.

What can you do? Visit Bar Espresso, give generously to our children’s future and sign our on-line petition www.ipetitions.com/petition/savesave.

More press information from Greg Peachey on 0845 225 3005 (office – direct line) 01727 823450 (Home) 07900 221347 (mobile) or by email greg@pqrplus.co.uk / greg@FREdome.org

This article was created on Sunday, 22nd June 2008. It was last tinkered with on Thursday, 15th January 2009.

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