Overall: NPI will sustain & effectively expand its efforts to research, develop, demonstrate, and teach innovative self-help solutions designed to assist impoverished populations, worldwide, to rapidly attain self-sufficiency and well-being ---- while also conserving resources and acting to protect our environment. This effort will include demonstration efforts at NPI’s 50-acre training center in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, and supporting distance education on NPI’s website (www.needfulprovision.org).

Special Projects: David A. Nuttle has posted his Civic Action and Survival Handbooks, on NPI’s website, for use by our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as by volunteers working hazardous areas such as Sudan, Somalia, and other areas w/ high levels of conflict. U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps forces, in Vietnam, successfully tested the effective, life-saving techniques presented in these handbooks. Comments received from users will be used to constantly upgrade said materials, and to save lives.

Social Enterprises: As NPI develops new technologies of potential significant benefit for mankind, affiliated for-profit corporations will be formed, or contracted, to undertake related commercial ventures with a quadriple bottom-line: people, planet, profit, and program support (by providing royalty income to NPI). NPI’s current social enterprises being developed, or supported, are as follows:

Plasma Gasification. NPI is working with Recovered Energy to perfect design of, and test performance of, a demonstration plasma gasification plant to produce clean (green) electricity (from syngas) in a safe, efficient, economical, and large-scale means using 5,000 tons per day of MSW (municipal solid waste). Cost of electricity, from such a gasification plant, is expected to be half the cost of electricity from a coal-fired plant --- and gasification has zero pollution.

Biochar Fertilizer. In another project with Recovered Energy, NPI seeks to help this company perfect and market a small, inexpensive biochar pyrolysis plant for making biochar fertilizers from wood waste and old poultry litter. Research in Brazil, Australia, and the U.S. has proven that inexpensive biochar soil additives increase most crop yields from 200 to 300 percent.

Two-Way Satellite Pager. NPI is working with GIT Satellite in the design, testing, and manufacture of a two-way, satellite-type, text messaging pager with foreign language and burst transmission capabilities. Power is provided by a hand-crank generator, and each pager gives an I.D. code plus GPS position with each broadcast. This pager will be used to support NPI’s global barter operations, and will also be sold to the U.S. military as well as first responders.

Special Rescue Aircraft. The staff at NPI has assisted Millenium Aerospace Corporation (MAC) in the design and development of a special aircraft to be known as the “Swan.” This is a STOL (short takeoff and landing) aircraft that can land and takeoff on water, sand, and/or dirt. The aircraft will be made of layers of ballistic resistant materials to provide armored protection for crew and passengers. In addition, each aircraft will have special defensive systems to protect against missile attacks, or other major threats. A Swan aircraft is designed to move 6 passengers and added cargo in and/or out of remote hazardous areas with high levels of conflict.

Barter & Self-Help Items. In Kenya, NPI is working with Quick Lift, Ltd. (QL2) to undertake the manufacturing of some 20 self-help items to be marketed to impoverished populations (having a critical need for these items) by means of a unique barter program. As an example of a barter trade, QL2 might trade several of its solar powered refrigerators, solar powered ovens, composting toilets, and rainwater collection/ storage systems for several tons of Neem seeds offered in trade. QL2 would then sell the Neem seeds to W.R. Grace Co., for use in making their proprietary organic insecticide.

Quality Jobs Creation: NPI owns several patents, patents pending, and trade secrets donated by its founder, David A. Nuttle and another inventor, Hill Trammell. In order to help create quality jobs in the U.S.,with a focus on areas with income stress, NPI plans to license or sell IP (intellectual property) owned for the following technologies ---

Algal-Biodiesel Production. Using U.S. Patent No. 5,121,708 and the associated trade secrets, by Nuttle, an on-farm/ in-factory form of safe, efficient, very economical, and large-scale carbon sequestration means of algalculture may be used to produce agal-biodiesel fuels, and algal feed supplements. The production rate is about 22,000 gal/acre/year for fuels, and 8 tons/acre/year of algal feed supplements. Raceway and/or bioreactor production is feasible, and production water is recycled. Wastelands as well as old vacant buildings, and many other locations, may be used for algalculture.

Urban PentaGardens. As part of the above said patent, and other trade secrets, urban farming may be undertaken to provide jobs and supply a community with fresh, local, organic, healthful foods. With the aid of grow-lights, old buildings and other structures may have gardens included inside. Vacant lots, open areas, and a few selected sections of parks may be dedicated to food production. The PentaGarden system is an integrated, safe organic, indoor/outdoor means of efficient and economical production of produce (veggies), herbs, grains, fish, and quail (and quail eggs). In a few areas, poultry may be an option. (Several urban groups have already indicated an interest in buying the subject urban gardening system.)

Odorless Community Toilet. Under U.S. Patent Application No. 61/127,243 (by Nuttle & Trammell), a community composting toilet, biogester, and green energy system, w/ solar still, provides an impoverished community with potable water, sanitation, and methane gas for production of green electricity. This invention could easily be manufactured, in the U.S. and elsewhere, in “kit” form for export to the 2.9 billion people the United Nations believes are in need of the items listed. Due to cost savings in health services, and improved levels of productivity, a number of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) ---and Third World governments--- have indicated desires to purchase “kits” providing such benefit.

Biosecure Poultry Housing. As protected by a patent pending and several related trade secrets (by Nuttle), a biosecure poultry house may be manufactured in “kit” form ---for export to areas with a high threat from bird flu. A green constructed, and sealed poultry house provides poultry shelter and prevents the unfiltered entry of outside air. Special air filters are used to prevent the entry of viruses or bacterium, while inside filters remove dust & ammonia encouraging bacterial growth. A solar attic is used to reduce heating costs, and solar-powered coolers are used to reduce cost of cooling in warmer climates. (Usual automated water and feed equipment are used for this house.)

Biogester “Kits.” Under a section of U.S. Patent Application No. 61/127,243 and other trade secrets (by Nuttle & Trammell) a specialized biogester will safely, efficiently, and economically convert many types or oganic materials into methane gas for production of green electricity. In special applications, vacant areas of the Earth, where petroleum has been removed, may have a unique bacteria added. Thus, isolated or remote pockets of petroleum are converted into methane gas that may be easily pumped out. The design of each biogester will be somewhat unique based in the circumstances ---- and each biological methane production means may be different in each application.

Mini-Coops for Organic Food Production. NPI has developed a series of innovative (trade secret) organic food production technologies based on aquaponics, aquaculture, algalculture, sustainable crop and livestock systems, mushroom production, and niche crops. (Not less than 10 patent applications could be made to give the subject technologies added protection.) To create jobs in income stressed rural areas, mini-coops may be created to help small, poor, minority, refugee, and disadvantaged farmers produce fresh, local, organic foods for school lunch programs, farmers markets, organic food buying clubs, and so on. Use of the mini-coops allows farmers to be trained in groups, while receiving technical, financial, management, processing, and marketing support as a group. Moreover, each mini-coop would specialize in only 2 or 3 food production systems, with a network of mini-coops producing a complete menu of organic foods for various local customers.

g. Manufacture of Self-Help Items. As noted in paragraph 3e above, QL2 plans to manufacture about 20 self-help items needed by impoverished populations in the Third World. These items are not detailed herein since the QL2 effort will take place in Kenya. (Details will be provided as needed.) Some of these items, such as a very unique solar-powered refrigerator and solar-powered oven may be manufactured in the U.S., for the recreational/ camping market. Moreover, items like the solar-powered refrigerator might be used to facilitate structure cooling in the U.S., as well as cooling for Biosecure Poultry Houses. Thus, manufacturing of self-help items will be determined on an individual, or case-by-case basis.

Overseas Operations: NPI has three independent overseas operating divisions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Each of these divisions has their own staffs and charitable programs based on NPI’s guidelines. In general, these divisions are engaged in rural and community development, with some focus on health and/or environmental problems unique for their own areas. Each division raises its own funds, and accounts for its own program expenses, using NPI’s guidelines. The 2009 program outlines for these divisions are separate from NPI’s 2009 program outline, for NPI’s U.S. based staff and volunteers. To see all that NPI proposes to do in 2009, you need to study this outline plus the three outlines for each of NPI’s independent divisions. (We are thereby attempting to divide and present program planning details by geographic area.)

Date: 09 January 2009
David A. Nuttle, President