Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Sure, I'm demonstrating methods that are efficient and effective on my own
place. I agree about steady state agriculture. Endless growth and
development is a cancer. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/25/2007 at 7:59 AM Phil Bunch wrote:

>I think your list of questions can easily be converted into goals. They
>also
>describe a context. Would you not agree that in the pursuit of such goals
>one would want to work both efficiently and effectively? 
>
>I think there are many things that would contribute the achievement of
>goals
>derived from your list. I think that underlying all of them is the
>implementation of a steady-state economy and population. The use of
>non-renewable resources must be carefully managed and renewable resources
>must not be consumed at any rate greater than our capacity to replace
>them. 
>
>This kind of economy would have obvious implications for agriculture. 
>
>Phil
>
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>[mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
>TradingPostPaul
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>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Efficiency
>
>
>Ok, let's put our growing talk in the larger context. Here's some larger
>related issues to be considered. 
>
>1. What approach to growing can decrease our dependence on fossil fuels
>and/or biomass fuels, and decrease pollution?
>2. What can offer growers better income incentives to farm and affordable
>places to live and work for millions of unemployed or underemployed?
>3. What can produce enough affordable food for all and reverse the
crushing
>cost of degenerative diseases and health care?
>4. What can reduce growers' vulnerability to a distribution system they
>have no control over?
>5. What can improve rather than deplete the soil for the next generation?
>6. What can conserve rather than deplete freshwater or fossil aquifers for
>the future?
>7. What can offer more community self sufficiency and individual security
>and freedom?
>8. What can leave more open land and forest for wild ecosystems to return?
>9. What can reverse the acidification of the oceans, depletion of fish
>stocks, nitrification of "dead zones", loss of critical coral reefs, and
>sequester more soil carbon? 
>
>Stay tuned.
>
>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>