Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

There are answers, and they all work together.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/25/2007 at 8:23 AM TradingPostPaul wrote:

>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
>