Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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* NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible 
collapse'? uhhh... YES

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists

Which strongly suggests - among other things - a mass transition to a 
low-tech, low resource consumption model of agriculture, or agroecology. 
Modern agriculture is a huge part of fossil fuel, water, phosphate, & 
other resource consumption. If some of us can do it, then it's 
absolutely feasible. Plus it can allow some degree of economic leveling 
at the local level when the majority can feed themselves. After all 
they've fed themselves since they learned to stand upright on two legs.