Arcos Cielos Research Center

“We did not come into this world. We came out of it, like buds out of branches and butterflies out of cocoons. We are a natural product of this earth, and if we turn out to be intelligent beings, then it can only be because we are fruits of an intelligent earth, which is nourished in turn by an intelligent system of energy.”

…Lyall Watson, Gifts of Things Unknown.

After a Copper Mine in Butte, Montana closed in 1982, the pit mine filled with groundwater, becaming a Toxic Lake - an “extreme environment,” where “normal” life forms could not exist. Dissolved metal compounds such as iron pyrites dropped the lake’s pH to 2.5, making it an “Acid Pit,” in which normal aquatic life could not survive.

In 1995, Andrea Stierle, a chemist from the University of Montana, analyzed the lake’s waters and was surprised to discover novel forms of bacteria and fungi in the lake. Stierle’s science team found a strain of fungus that produces a compound that binds to a receptor in the human body which causes migranes, and thus has the potential to block migrane headaches. The group also discovered another strain of penicillium fungus which inhibits the growth of lung cancer cells. Most recently, the researchers discovered that another strain of the penicillium fungus produced a novel compound (berkelic acid), which reduces the growth-rate of ovarian cancer cells by 50 percent. (more…)

A Company called Angel Labs in Lodi, California has developed a unique new Internal Combustion Engine which they call The “Mighty Engine” (ME) or the “Mighty Yet Tiny” Engine (MYT). Weighing in at a mere 150 pounds, the inventors claim that this radical new engine can deliver 848 horsepower. In addition to its high power-to-weight ratio, low number of parts, low maintenance, high mechanical efficiency, and reduced air pollution, this engine could conceivably replace existing conventional engines, and possibly small jet engines as well. The unique design is classified as neither rotary nor Wankel Engine, but the pistons travel in only one direction, all parts are of an already proven design, and the engine itself acts as a heat sink, and radiator. For more information and photos Click Here.

“Given enough opportunity, even seeingly impossible transformations can occur. Thus, it is by creating endless opportunities, that we can all work together to transform the World - each in our own small and positive way.” …Elliott Maynard

“Human beings over the course of their evolution have had frequent contact with a wide variety of wild animals and plant species and ecosystem structures. These were and are intricately bound up in what and how human beings are. Such contact generates specific types of responses in people that have been a part of human experience since our species began. As the number of wild animals, plants, and healthy ecosystems are depleted - as local ecosystems become homogenized - children have less and less occasion to come into contact with them. (In those instances where children could have access to wild ecosystems they often spend the majority of their time in school or watching television, and as a result have little time for interacting with the ecosystems around them). There is then no activating factor to generate Biophilia [a love for and bonding with nature]. Though children do often have contact with domesticated house pets, house plants, and the lawns surrounding their houses, this is not the same thing. If you have ever had the opportunity to look into a wolf’s or coyote’s eyes, even in a zoo, it is immediately apparent that they are significantly different in nature from dogs.

A two-thousand-year-old tree or an ecosystem filled with a tumultuous, complex riot of interacting plant species feels markedly different from a lone sapling, surrounded by the grass planted in the front yard of a new housing development, or the Norfolk pine in the corner of the kitchen. The green orderly lawns surrounding children’s homes do not bear any relationship to the up and down uneven landscapes filled with giant, craggy outcroppings of the immeasurably ancient stones of Earth that wild landscapes often possess.”

…Steven Harrod Buhner, 2002 - The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth, p. 65.