by Win Wenger, Ph.D.
Proposed solutions to a variety of different concerns. To access any description, just click on its title in the annotated Index listings below.
- Save 40 Million Lives
Ways to prevent tsunamis from being thrown at our shorelines by collapsing islands and volcanoes… - Proposed Treatment for Expanding Ocean Dead Zones
Recent studies show not only the various specific dead zones spreading in the oceans… but the oceans as a whole are becoming anoxic, with profoundly serious consequences. - A Nation Adrift
Guest author, Ralph Cerchione, discusses the potential of mankind to solve many daunting problems by turning its attention to the oceans of the world… - New Details on CO2 and Extinction
Guest author, Dr. Paul J. Werbos, discusses the impact of CO2 gases on life and the fact that there are lots of folks out there who really don’t care whether the human species goes extinct, so long as it’s not in their lifetime. - Thinking More Clearly About “The Economy”
A useful definition of the economy might be: The current productive arrangements into which our various productive activities have been directed. - 8-Point Economic Recovery Plan
8 important points for helping America to recover from the current economic crisis. - Several Partial Proposed Solutions to the Economic Crisis
When presented with a plausible plan to pick apart or create alternative new and better solutions, groups of people very quickly move productively on into effective problem solving and generate new and better answers. - Can Methane be Part of the Solution?
Clarification and a partial solution to the energy crisis, global climate, world hunger, western and national security issues. Methane is a far greater global threat than carbon dioxide. Could this problem be made part of the solution? - How to Eliminate Malaria
A call to scientists and investors to develop genetically engineered variants of the malaria virus which are harmless to humans, but lethal to mosquitoes uniquely able to carry the present virus unharmed. - A “Blue” Revolution in World Food Production
A simple, economical system of oceanic fish farms can meet the world’s protein needs several times over. - Protect Low-Lying Areas of India and Bangladesh from Typhoons
Protect low-lying areas of India and Bangladesh from typhoons, while developing their economies with a system of lagoons and barrier islands, using Project Renaissance’s Beachbuilder technology. - A New Basis for Solutions
Actions and policies on climate change. - Effects of Global Warming and Useful Measures for Survival
A proposed criterion for actions and policies in context of climate change. - Off on a Comet
Proposed remedy for new ice age or global melt-down. - South African Education
A partial solution to part of its greatest problem. - Realize High Human Potential of Students in Developing Countries
The majority attend school, if at all, in conditions not conducive to learning, and are condemned thereby to lifelong poverty for yet another generation. That majority also represents a huge human resource for those developing nations, which now instead appears to be a huge liability and handicap for them. - Work-Study Scholarships
A proposed solution to three problems that mutually resolve each other: a study-buddy program for poor but capable students to tutor their faltering or unmotivated classmates and stop the waste of educational resources. - Nuclear Waste Disposal
Solving a great unsolvable problem by making the problem a part of the solution. - Reform the U.S. Patent System
A proposal to restore support and incentive to the individual inventor. - Five-Fold Path towards a Robust Economy
Ways to strengthen local, community, state, national or regional economies, using local resources. - A Very Inexpensive Way to Save the Amazonian Rain Forest
The iguana as a world-demand food source to make preserving its habitat more profitable.
Other Solutions Posted on this Website
- “Recommendation Concerning U.S. Energy Policy”
Winsights No. 111 (January/February 2010) provides a position briefing: Use taxes and tax credits to encourage and develop the flexfuel market. - Ten Paths to Economic Recovery proposes controversial programs which could bring us truly major, stable, sustainable long-term economic growth (as of December, 2009).
- Sequestering CO2 is arguably the most economical way, not only the least disruptive way, to geo-engineer a rapid solution to global warming. In Winsights No. 108 (July/August 2009).
- “Situations Present and Pending”
Winsights No. 103 (May/June 2008) expands on a simple, feasible proposal for Oceanic Fish Farming that can abundantly and profitably feed the world in the coming times of famine. Calling for entrepreneurs. - In How to Free Us from OPEC, guest author Robert Zubrin proposes mandating all vehicles sold in U.S. to be flex-fueled—able to run on any combination of gasoline or alcohol fuels.
- Winsights No. 101 suggests a simple solution by Susan Wenger in “How Many Grueling Hours Could This Proposal Save YOU At Tax Time?” by letting the IRS do most of the work.
- Two Major Ways to Fund the Development of Space include lease-bond sales of Mars acreage.
- Coils, an obvious use of electromagnets to deflect space radiation from astronauts.
- Winsights No. 59 outlines a bold plan for “Feeding the World” by creating low-cost, underwater fish farms, achievable with present-day technology.
- Winsights No. 53 proposes a solution for how to “Save Millions of Lives Around Bengal” and make that region prosperously productive by fending off the destructive cyclones that periodically devastate the region.
- “Reviving Appalachia” is the subject of Winsights No. 30, outlining how incentives for slag recovery could bring this poorest of regions back to life.
- Winsights No. 31, “How to Wipe Out Most Taxes in New York City, and Improve City Services at the Same Time”, is a proposal for turning a million square feet of neglected and unclaimed groundspace into income-producing and revenue-producing real estate.
- Winsights No. 32, “Quick Rummage of Profitable Answers”, suggests three obvious but long overlooked areas for profitable ventures.
- Winsights No. 34, “Bringing Peace: The Balkans, Northern Ireland, and elsewhere”, outlines how to build a long-term solution through mutual incentives.
- Winsights No. 35, “Restore Some Who Suffer Long-Term Coma?” proposes techniques for breaking through to whatever part of the brain in the terminally comatose is still responsive.
- Winsights No. 36, “How to Bring Lasting Peace to the Middle East”, is a proposal for establishing a major, permanent U.N. headquarters on the Golan Heights.
- Winsights No. 38, “Frog Warming”, describes how to rearrange incentives as a means to restoring the global temperature balance.