Mission

The "Home" page gives a little taste of each section of the website, while conveying pertinent information; so that if you do not read anything else, one can no longer be blind to the necessity to act, especially when one is in a place of political power and will. There are currently 8 sections. This website merely started from an idea that I needed to write more than a letter, in order to express the urgent priorities Baltimore should and must have for the Baltimore City Government. What I soon learned that my letters weren't too long, the issue is simply, people just don't want to read, let alone study and do research. Through testimony experience, I learned that what stands in for professors are lobbyists (mainly unregistered lobbyists).

Baltimore Serenade is a personal, self-supported website by the Creator, Writer, and Researcher. Baltimore Serenade is solution-oriented; investigating and sharing in-depth, the issues that imperatively need to be addressed - in order for Baltimore - to HAVE a future. Many pictures are clickable; meaning that it will lead you to corresponding article.

There is a tremendous amount of information, and it will take some getting used to comprehending the connections and entire picture of all actions and decisions that are before us. I recommend taking breaks, as it is quite depressing to ingest the amount of suffering - so please come back over and over again. I hope "little lightnesses"; songs and more, will offer you the ability to know, all that is needed to be done - can be done - with an open mind, heart, soul, and - with me. As society has succumbed, be assured, Baltimore Serenade is a 100% "ReaL" educational website; nothing "artificial." I and I alone have written and built this website, letter by letter.

MISSION: To bring, awaken, and guide reparative environmental consciousness planning and implementation on every level, especially for all animals' welfare and well-being (including humans), and physical: transport, land allocation, utilities, infrastructure, and homes in order for Baltimore to not only survive Greenhouse Affect/Effect, but thrive, as via template of Baltimore's Peace Resolution of 2001.

VISION: To express what is in my heart by contemplating topic-specific reparation hypotheses Baltimore needs to make, determine through research and evidence - validity, create a page directory for each specific topic through the creation of a website I write and create myself, and offer recommendations and plans regarding how to make enormously popular and successful reparations with forever changing the trajectory of not just the recipients, and their families, but all Baltimoreans, Maryland, and United States.

To move Urban Homesteading - Dollar House program to becoming BALTIMORE REPARATIONS: 15,000 HOUSE PLAN. As I continue to place content on more pages. Eight main topics have been identified, and each has its own directory. Some subjects overlap, and are noted on those pages. But first is the decision that reparations are necessary. Better than money: a net zero and net positive renovated house and an entrepreneur career.

Goal: To rehabilitate 15,000 HOMES ~ SHELTERS.
Goal: To use these 15,000 houses for Baltimore City and Baltimore City Department of Housing Reparations of Ownership: for Indigenous People, Slavery, as well as "rent-to-never-own" own swindles of the late 1960's and 1970's and those who were forced out their homes with projects that never transpired.
Goal: Through partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, Trade Unions, and other training facilities, rehabilitate these houses by those who will be living in them
Goal: Opportunity to experience personal and family pride and accomplishment - both in career in a trade and homeownership
Goal: For the houses to be, "net zero" and "net positive" houses, in other words, ready for continuous Baltimore living, as ready for global warming and climate change.

Goal: For the houses to be, "net zero" and "net positive" houses, in other words, ready for continuous Baltimore living, as ready for global warming and climate change.
Goal: To implement the need for restructuring streets for streetcars and trolleys, vastly reducing the need for amount of automobiles. Less automobiles means less traffic, something that car drivers and owners would want, right?
Goal: Baltimore use primary energy hydrothermal and geothermal (waves, tides) and ancillary energies solar, and wind. These are the TRUE "NATURAL" ENERGIES.
Goal: To have the 15,000 homes be renovated and set up with all superior materials, especially stone foundations that do not collect radon inside home (remortared - "Good for another 100 years) and superior energy technologies such as solar tiles and textiles, not solar panels (no investment in old technology/ies)
Goal: For all Baltimore City homes and commercial be retrofitted. Become ready for "direct use" hydrothermal and geothermal energy through hydronic radiant floor for heating and cooling systems using heat pumps (no more furnaces - take up valuable space and are noisy)

Goal: To end amount of trash that currently sits 6 of 7 days to a trash and recycle receptacle communal collection system that people can use everyday, thereby ending need for trashcans and alleys being filled with excess, and rats and raccoons being able to feed and endanger with diseases and rabies.
Goal: The creation of a complete Baltimore City Transit independent system, which focuses exclusively on needs of Baltimore Citizens and Residents that will never, ever be served through "regional" means. MTA has had 53 years to rectify, and continues, more than ever, to choose segregation, racial, and classist routes. MTA continues to build "regional" which in reality through subway and light rail, is for mostly county people who already have transportation, the automobile, to use, so they will never ever have to take a bus, made for the "poor" and grimy. Baltimore Link (changing all routes but one, the 22 in 2017) has failed. Rapid Bus Transit has failed, with crumbling painted streets, as automobiles continue to clog those paths, with even buses never being able to get to them.
Goal: A citywide Baltimore City Transportation System - absent for 53 years. Name? BATS: Baltimore Accurate Transport System becoming eventually BATSS: Baltimore Accurate Transport Streetcar System
Goal: BATS/BATSS ends redundancy through looped Neighborhood Connectors, and Main Streets connecting each Neighborhood Connector. First current use of buses, converting to all streetcar routes.
Goal: Streetcars make up BATSS; running exclusively on dedicated lanes, never again having to compete with motor vehicles. Many of the rails are buried in our streets. Streetcars, even 125 years old, are still running routes in USA today. If streetcars were running on dedicated lanes in the first place, we would still have the only true Net Zero Carbon Emission Transit.
Goal: Streetcars will reduce drastically ground ozone, both from gas exhaust, but more prominent tire erosion carbon emission.
Goal: Streetcars goes seamlessly with Generation Y "Millennial" and Generation Z trend to not even bother with a driver's license, much less purchase an automobile. The cost of insurance, repairs, upkeep, parking and storage, tickets, emissions testing, gasoline, and even more expensive electric-battery replacements (One estimate: $22,000), makes personal transportation second only to a place to live in cost. Extinguishing that cost allows especially these generation populations the ability to achieve homeownership. Without, the president is imminent. They will be at best, lower-middle class, mostly renters, of which property owners, "landlords" will continue to dictate their future.

The trees and their leaves of Civilian Conservation Corps saplings evade global warming for most of south. In other words, it stalls the affect of global heating.

"The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature. The 'Warming Hole' has been a real mystery and while this doesn't explain all of it, this research shows there is a really important link to the trees coming back.” - Mallory Barnes, environmental scientist at Indiana University.

"The question needs to be asked: Will use of these technologies result in continued harm to frontline communities {cities}, where residents suffer from health issues caused by their neighborhood's power plant, incinerator, factory, or other chronic polluter? ...
If retailers and distributors, like Amazon, invest in forest offsets in Appalachia to offset their carbon dioxide emissions from shipping, it does nothing to repair the cardiovascular system damage in people who live near their shipping centers." (2022)

"RESOLVED, an exemplary "Peace City" is a city that does not use or promote anyone or product hurting any of its citizens, chooses to concentrate its energy on mentoring, works with the vision that opportunity and prosperity is indeed unlimited for all, integrates efficient land allocation and conservation, and is not afraid to say compassionate love is the central focus of politics." - "The Peace Resolution"

"This is a case where conscience and convenience cross paths, where dealing with this existential threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one in the same. When I think of climate change... I think of jobs." - President Joe Biden, January 27, 2021

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