Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

True, this is somewhat off topic, unless we like to eat three times a day

The Imminent Crash Of The Oil Supply:
What Is Going To Happen And How It Came To Pass That We Weren’t Forewarned
http://inteldaily.com/2010/04/oil-crash/

Municipal Bond Market Crash 2011: Are Dozens Of State And Local Governments 
About To Default On Their Debts?
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/municipal-bond-market-crash-2011-are-dozens-of-state-and-local-governments-about-to-default-on-their-debts

Tipping Point: 25 Signs That The Coming Financial Collapse Is Now Closer Than 
Ever
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/tipping-point-25-signs-that-the-coming-financial-collapse-is-now-closer-then-ever


paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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“All of the debts for society’s century-long industrial fiesta are coming due 
at the same time. We have no choice but to transition to a world no longer 
dependent on fossil fuels, a world made up of communities and economies that 
function within ecological bounds. How we manage this transition is the most 
important question of our time.”
-- Richard Heinberg

Many types of jobs will cease to exist: public relations executive, marketing 
directors, et cetera. I think work will be very hands-on, and a lot of it 
will revolve around food production.
    -- James Howard Kunstler, 2003

   “If economics is reconceived in the service of community, it will begin 
with a concern for agriculture and specifically for the production of food. 
This is because a healthy community will be a relatively self-sufficient one. 
A community’s dependency on outsiders for its mere survival weakens it. It is 
often unable to develop the policies it desires for the sake of its own 
members, since its survival depends on terms dictated by others. The most 
fundamental requirement for survival is food. Hence, how and where food is 
grown is foundational to an economics for community.”
-- Herman Daly and John Cobb, in For the Common Good
http://www.ecobooks.com/books/comgood.htm

   "If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your 
food comes from the grocery store then you are going to defend to the death 
the system that brings those to you because your life depends on that; if 
your experience is that your water comes from a river and that your food 
comes from a land base then you will defend those to the death because your 
life depends on them. So part of the problem is that we have become so 
dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become 
almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it and it's very 
difficult physically for us to live outside of it."
   — Derrick Jensen

“We need to launch an Organic Green Revolution that fundamentally changes the 
way we grow our food to maximize yield while mitigating climate change, 
restoring clean water, building soils, and protecting agricultural production 
during times of drought.”
~ Tim LaSalle, Rodale Institute CEO
Ripe for Revolution event, New York City

"Clearly, our present ways of agriculture are not sustainable, and so our 
food supply is not sustainable. We must restore ecological health to our 
agricultural landscapes, as well as economic and cultural stability to our 
rural communities."
 - Wendell Berry & Wes Jackson

How do you move from a system which has built in destruction of the planet 
and built in devastation for local communities and local economies and 
transition back to systems which formerly worked and new environmentally 
sustainable systems? That’s the project of our time.
 - Jerry Mander