Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

That whole bogus business of carbon credits is a government program, a
loophole for pollution. Sustainable practices for feeding ourselves is
widely demonstrated and researched, and millions of families could be
taking advantage of them and be self employed in a time of corporate
outsourcing and pension bankruptcies. 

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net

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On 6/19/2006 at 12:29 PM Andy Hupp wrote:

>Okay.
>
>I don't deny that increased yeild is a benefit (and a big one, if not
>obvious from the discussion, at that).
>But I don't understand how selling carbon credits, if the sequestration
can
>be reliably quantified, could not be additional economic boon.
>
>This income would not come from the government.  It would be derived from
>companies (mostly heavy industry) who cannot meet regulations and must buy
>carbon credits from those who sequester it until they can bring thier
>emissions into line with the regulation.
>
>
>On 6/19/06, TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> This is the point about economic benefit to farmers: promoting the
>> microbes
>> and organic matter that support them can cut costs dramatically and
raise
>> profits. That can be the difference between living well and going under.
>> And it doesn't need anything from the gov'mint.
>>
>> This is from Attra:
>>
>> The benefits of a topsoil rich in organic matter and humus are many. 
>They
>> include rapid de-composition of crop residues, granulation of soil
>> into  water-stable  aggregates,  decreased  crusting and clodding,
>> improved
>> internal drainage, better  water  infiltration,  and  increased  water
>> and  nutrient  holding  capacity.    Improvements in  the  soil.s
>>   physical
>> structure  facilitate  easier tillage,  increased  water  storage
>> capacity,  re-duced erosion, better formation and harvesting of  root
>> crops,  and  deeper,  more  prolific  plant root systems.
>> http://attra.org/attra-pub/PDF/soilmgmt.pdf
>>