permaculture

[Michael Thompson <mike.brian@gmail.com>]

Oh hey. Since I've never brought it up or said anything.. I joined
this mailing list a long time ago because I had become depressed and
just needed some email so I'd have a reason to log on at all. These
messages from this list have become something of a fixture and I only
ever read this small fraction of them on a strictly out of the blue
basis. I admire the permaculturalists but myself - I like the idea of
millions of micro farms so long as they have machines to automate all
of the work. I like machines and technology.

On 11/22/12, Michael Thompson <mike.brian@gmail.com> wrote:
> The article notes that the short growing season presents a challenge.
> Maybe this momentum of self-sufficiency could be combined with, say,
> greenhouses and modern high efficiency LEDs and they could potentially
> become exporters of food...
>
> On 11/22/12, Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Lawrence London wrote:
>>
>>> Russia’s small-scale organic agriculture model may hold the key to
>>> feeding
>>> the world | True Activist
>>> http://www.trueactivist.com/russias-small-scale-organic-agriculture-model-may-hold-the-key-to-feeding-the-world/
>>
>> Just to continue my theme, this is countered by
>>
>>> Due to a lack of local supply, Russia imports around 40 percent of its
>>> food consumption
>>
>> http://www.nzte.govt.nz/explore-export-markets/market-research-by-industry/Food-and-beverage/Pages/Food-and-beverage-market-in-Russia.aspx
>>
>> Russia is, I believe, the largest food importer in the world. They are
>> just
>> over half-way to feeding themselves. So of the numbers in that report,
>> 90%
>> of their potatoes, 59% of meat, etc., should be cut roughly in half,
>> since
>> the meaningful percent  is "of the food consumed by Russians," instead of
>> "grown by Russians." The main reason they aren't all starving is that
>> they
>> sell vast amounts of oil for food. 35 million small farms aren't doing
>> it.
>>
>> I must have gotten up on the doomer side of the bed this morning.
>>
>> Toby
>> http://patternliteracy.com
>>
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