The Genetron Challenge ‑ "To Bridge Gaps"

Genetron's commitment is depicted in its logo, Neptune's Trident (as man) piercing the "Yin Yang" symbol, representing man's responsibility and purpose to achieve higher degrees of harmonics between the discordant forces.

We accept the challenge. Commitment and faith are required to create the mindset to integrate the diverse explosion of distinctions science has spawned to this point in time. This integration allows for complete expression and incorporation of every distinction into the whole. "A harmonic unity of expression achieves a new level of consciousness."

Our premise is "to create indoors what nature does best outdoors purifying and regenerating our living environment" ' Our work is based on "a high order, highly diversified ecosystem" which by definition is not reducible to its parts in any way, shape or form.

Conventional science has never been able to approach the sophistication of natural systems. Therefore, it must reduce a complex system to manageable components in order to study it under controlled conditions. By definition, the conventional scientific approach is reductionist. Ecological science, on the other hand, studies the whole system in its entire complexity.

Conventional science assumes that when an important element, mineral or trace element is missing in an ecosystem the element becomes a limiting factor to growth in that ecosystem. Our experience leads us to believe that a high order ecosystem has phenomenal capabilities of correcting itself and finding ways of sustaining itself, growing into, invading, and altering the most adverse conditions, generating greater and greater life supportability, In other words, it has a remarkable ability "to bridge gaps".

By inviting conventional scientists to observe our work, we have extended the challenge to them. In collaborating with us we have asked them "to bridge the gap" and define in their own terms why high order ecosystems are so efficient.

All Genetron ecological systems feature land and water combinations with many varieties of land and water plants and animals. All units exhibit longevity and stability with minimal maintenance. "Chaos Theory" principles bring Genetron to technology where science and art merge: ultimate beauty and ultimate function. The focus of the systems technically is to provide pure water and pure air in systems that depress pathogens and low order organisms into zero or minimal expression.

Systems that control nature rapidly fall apart. The art of the future will be practical ‑ an expression of what is functional and what really works. Value-added, affordable quality becomes more and more important as we continue in the 21st century. Technology that emphasizes efficient utility, while at the same time demonstrating beauty, will be the ultimate expression of the inter‑connection of everything in the universe or anti‑entropy.

With our beautiful indoor rainforests, we are creating indoors what nature does best outdoors ‑ purifying and regenerating our living environment".

The land‑to‑water interface environment, a Biome, is a unique and most fascinating habitat. Perhaps it is because this is where two different worlds meet, or it may be that this is where life on earth began and so, is the source of such fascination.

(Scientists have developed the term Biome to describe areas on the earth with similar climate, plants, and animals. A biome is an area on the earth's surface that has a certain set of characteristics. There are seven kinds of biomes in the world: tundra, taiga, temperate forest, tropical rainforest, desert, grassland, and ocean.)

With Genetron's technology science and art have merged. Our high order ecosystem is both beautiful and functional. Our patented design is very successful in sustaining a high order ecosystem with characteristic clean, pathogen and algae‑free water. We have created the optimal science for cleaning water and air.

Genetron's Breathing Wall™ was developed to purify indoor air. Clean waters from our high order ecosystem flow over the lava rock Breathing Wall™ and room air is passed through this wall. Joined to a home or office heating/ventilation system the "Breathing Wall™ Ecosystem" actively purifies the air.

Our "Living Wall", complete with orchids, bromeliads and airplants, becomes a passive air purification system when linked to the ecosystem. Misters rain down on the planted areas adding welcome humidity.

"Hydroponic Planters" act as satellites, making it possible to water all your plants with the clean system water. Umbilical water lines can be used to connect these planters to the main ecosystem creating connective veins pulsating living waters throughout your home.

"PROGENY" ‑ "a miniature world in a bowl" is a self‑supporting ecosystem for animal species such as fish, shrimp, snails and kuhli loaches, together with plant life. The principle behind PROGENY is the basis for our more complex installations. In fact, PROGENY is a microcosm of the bigger systems and acts as a barometer to air quality wherever it is placed.

"Chemical‑free ponds and swimming pools" are a subcomponent or spin‑off technology of Genetron's U.S. and Canadian patented water based ecosystem. With a high order ecosystem of high diversification of terrestrial and aquatic species, we are able to achieve a nutrient deficiency of the waters, which at the same time provides sufficient sustenance to support the healthy, benign flora and fauna. These waters are so stable and clear that algae can no longer compete and are starved out.

This system is, in essence, the first "Immune System" and, as with the algae, pathogens are starved out. Furthermore, these pathogens are eradicated by the system's naturally‑formed antibiotics. This is done as effectively as by any chemical means, in a very gentle, nurturing fashion.

PLANTS AND INDOOR AIR QUALITY

The planet is like a big body. When we create living spaces indoors they are like subsets of the body. So far all we've done is take life out of these living spaces creating "dead zones". No wonder there is no oxygen and we're dying in them and they're unhealthy. It is not enough to stick some plants into these very alien spaces.

Soil is a very complex, living tissue with billions of organisms in it. Potted plants become a negative contribution in an interior space. They can't sustain themselves as an ecosystem and they die. The plant reabsorbs only a small portion of the putrefying waste that occurs. It is important to understand that the studies done with plants to show them as air purifiers were done aeroponically using charcoal on the roots.

In perspective, the Biosphere is a thin film around the outer layer of the earth. The three centimeters of topsoil around the Biosphere is a film within a film where 90% of the living organisms on earth are found. In these three centimeters of topsoil we find the basis for life on earth where all the recycling and regeneration occurs. Outside when you move soil from one location to another the moved soil will graft itself to the soil in the new location. The challenge is how to have a "living soil" that will sustain itself indoors.

Genetron Systems had to find a way to generate soil within alien "Martian environments" in the Interior "toxic dead zones" of our modem buildings. To do this we work with a hydroponic substrate and then allow our ecosystems to develop their own "living tissue" by recycling the vegetation that is shed and cropped from the system, which then becomes a mulch. We work from the bigger picture incorporating the intelligence of a high order ecosystem to create very clean waters and clean air.

Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a condition where a significant number of people in a building experience acute discomfort such as fatigue, congestion, eye irritation and headaches when they are in the building. These people often feel better as soon as they leave the building. The causes of sick building syndrome are usually not recognizable and correction of sick building syndrome problems has been quite rare.

Many homes have poor air quality. Some experts say the air in private homes may be worse than in public buildings. Heavily polluted air, especially in urban areas, as well as the air‑tight environments in today's energy‑efficient, better‑insulated buildings, contribute to this situation. Add to this the "dead zones" created by toxic fumes from such things as adhesives, paints and synthetic building materials, as well as the spores from moulds, and you really have a problem. Even when you take a shower, chlorine used to purify the water is released into the air as a gas. When you use cleaning materials, hair spray or even deodorant, chemicals are being evaporated into the air.