Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

It an example of how organic wastes can be diverted from soil building to
prop up our unsustainable energy-hog society. With the rising cost of all
the fossil-fuel based inputs, all available organic wastes need to be
returned to the soil to rebuild soil and maintain food production. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/23/2007 at 6:21 AM Phil Bunch wrote:

>In Colombia they are developing a process to distil ethanol from coffee
>waste products. Coffee berries have a sweet pulp around the coffee bean
>that
>currently is thrown away and causes a lot of contamination of rivers. The
>preliminary testing indicates that the process will be cheap and will
>produce significant amounts of ethanol for fuel.
>
>This is a really good example of how reduced dependency on oil can create
>new opportunities and solve problems. It also will not reduce food
supplies
>as do other sources and will provide extra income for the coffee growers.
>This looks like a big win-win.
>
>Phil Bunch
>
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