Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

Now how do you make any impression on the real problem - those that make and implement government policy?  The Agribiz folks have their lobbyists.  Voices for a sustainable environment (or agriculture) are too fragmented and ineffective.  No money in it, I guess.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: activism98201@verizon.net

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:25 AM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Increase In Ethanol Production From Corn Could Significant

Many thanks to Paul for keeping us aware of this.  I feel inclined to, but it so infuriates me that I'd be doing nothing but frothing here; and that would be stupid because folks here absolutely get the enormity of all of this.

I'd like to point folks at a great DVD for exposing the myths of biofuels:

http://www.sfbayoil.org/sfoa/myths/index.html

I obtained (paid for) two copies of the DVD, and have ended up circulating something like 35 copies around (this is encouraged).  I used some of this material in my recent panel presentation (I was the only one to utilize a slide presentation), and am forever grateful to the producer of the DVD, Dennis Brumm, and to the excellent presentation by David Fridley (his presentation makes me look like a kindergartener!).

NOTE: My presentation basically kicked the "pro" biofuels folks' behinds.  I had the audience really being aggressive toward the "pro" folks.  Of course, none of this would have been possible if not from the great support of this group- you all are some of the best examples of what's right in this world.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


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From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
Date: 2007/10/28 Sun PM 12:25:00 CDT
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Livingontheland] Increase In Ethanol Production From Corn Could Significantly Impact Water Quality And Availability If New Practices And Techniques Are Not Employed

  Report Brief
  http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/biofuels_brief_final.pdf
  
  Full Report
  http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12039
    
  http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12039
 
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