Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

Thirty years ago I looked at the possibility that global warming was  
a real threat. I looked at the best science available that I could  
find and I decided that there was a crisis and put on a Good Earth  
Idea Fair for our city to raise awareness. Twenty years ago I started  
working full time for the environment and put on eight city-wide  
Earth Days to raise awareness. All this was long before the people  
with wealth and power understood that environmentalists needed to be  
marginalized so they could continue raping the land and the global  
labor pools to feed their greed. I have a vested interest in slowing  
global warming, my children and grandchildren. So I am biased. We can  
swim around in their half truths for another thirty years being  
distracted from following what we know in our hearts is true. Living  
simply so that others may simply live is where it's at and spending  
and voting for simple living is too. Next we have to come together  
with those we like and don't like to create simple communities.  
That's about as far as I get before my ignorance about the complexity  
and immensity of the problem brings my planning to a halt. Then I  
meditate, pray or whatever, to do the next best thing in this moment  
and hope that a deep ecology kicks in for guidance.

Sure are interesting times. Keep smiling.

Marty
On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:34 PM, TradingPostPaul wrote:

> I'm with you on that. I don't have the information or expertise to  
> make all
> those judgments  either, needless  to say. My gut instinct is to  
> distrust
> the consume ethic.
>
> Cooking from the Garden by Rosalind Creasy is going to be hard  
> going. But
> well worth taking notes. If you haven't looked into it yet you have  
> a treat
> coming.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 4/9/2007 at 8:24 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:
>
> > I have viewed the video and was perplexed.  I couldn't see the  
> > motivation
> > for creating it.  It was well produced and dramatic, with many people
> > presented as scientists and experts (equally as unknown to me as  
> > those in
> > pro-climate-change movies).  The best I could come up with is the  
> > desire
> > that we should continue consuming as much as possible - hardly a  
> > motive to
> > trust.
> >
> > I see no way that we, the general public, can understand the  
> > science well
> > enough to make informed decisions about global or national  
> > issues.  I'm a
> > technologist (mechanical engineer), with a life-long interest in the
> > environment, and I can't begin to understand the intricacies that are
> > being presented.  Consequently, as I said (somewhere) earlier,  
> > I'll follow
> > my Grandmother's advice: Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst.
> > Currently that means studying nutrition and intensive gardening.
> >
> > BTW, if anyone has suggestions for study along those lines, I'd  
> > love to
> > hear them.  I've just finished the following:
> >
> > Real Food by Nina Planck
> > Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
> > How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons
> >
> > Next in line:
> >
> > Cooking from the Garden by Rosalind Creasy
> > The Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash
> > Four Season Harvest by Elliot Coleman
> >
> > E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
> > www.hillcountrynatives.biz
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: TradingPostPaul
> >  To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> >  Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:59 PM
> >  Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Climate Change
>
>
>
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