Planet Earth

We have a Choice

planet108 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:28:55 +0000

We have a choice -
Dr. Terry Wahls talks about her journey through MS and back using food as medicine.
http://wimp.com/mindingmitochondria/

climate change

planet108 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:25:12 +0000

Very important environmenal piece:
Natural Capital

Watershed

planet108 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:59:18 +0000

Christy Moormann

About Greater Vancouver Watersheds

Salmon Creek Watershed

Vancouver, WA

Sustainability Management

Wild Horses

planet108 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:16:49 +0000

I just heard that they are euthanizing wild horses (National Geographic,February 2009) and I thought what good farm animals they would be. Not just for hauling wood out of the forest whole, as should be done, maybe not by wild horses, they are great digesters, if people can find a way to allow them to work grasses into manure. Perhaps eventually we could cooperate enough to find more land that they could graze on, and fence half of it and grow the other half, alternatively. Hum, the best of both worlds. Permaculture has a lot to say about farming with animals. Manure is a valuable thing for crops. As for wild horses, send them to Canada alive! There is plenty of land. Sure horses take up a lot of energy if you keep them in a pen and have to feed them and run them. And they must be unhappy. Permaculture asks for more than one use or yield from all of us.

video

Aprovecho

Wild Horse and Prisoner Redemption

Permaculture asks for more than one use or yield from all of us.

Permauclture and Horses

We Are the Animals

planet108 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:53:21 +0000

Especially in the case of being vegetarian, manure is hard to come by, if you don’t have animals to work with. In the case of Permanent Agriculture, where we want to give back more than we are taking, building a reserve of abundance to have and to share, we can choose to be the animals and compost out own ‘waste’ preserve not only water but all of the valuable resources that were previously heading down our toilets to be dealt with in an overflowing chemical system of fear of our own bodies. Psychology might call this self rejection. At any rate my soul is ecstatic that this cycle is finally finding a way to close. Let the A-Bun-Dance begin!

Humanure in Haiti

Water and Sanitation

planet108 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:16:05 +0000

Akvo, the open source for water and sanitation.

Application of ecological sanitation and permaculture techniques: food
and water security for indigenous tribes and rural areas in Brazil.

Ecological Engineering

Ecological Sanitation Research

Pan African Conservation Education

Ecological Sanitation
© Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
All rights reserved
Published by
Department for Natural Resources and the Environment,
Sida, S-105 25 Stockholm, Sweden

Humanure Handbook teaches how to use nutrient rich waste as a resource. . .

The Garden Project

planet108 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:50:07 +0000

The Garden Project model for community change is an integrated, community-wide, systemic response to crime, high rates of recidivism, and unemployment which links crime and poverty with stewardship of the environment and the community. The United States Department of Agriculture hailed The Garden Project as “one of the most innovative and successful community-based crime prevention programs in the country.”

Wild Salmon vs. Farmed

planet108 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:56:14 +0000

Watershed Watch , because sometimes, nature knows best. I recommend the full version found here. . .nice animation, and delivery.

Salmon Nation

Among all the “food nations” of North
America, Salmon Nation is the richest in
mushrooms, berries, wild roots, fish, and
shellfish. Native American traditions are at its
core, but other culinary accents – from Spanish
to Japanese – have added to the mix. Renewing
Salmon Nation’s Food Traditions describes over
180 species of local plants and animals – many
now at risk, others recovering, and all deserving
of recognition – that have formed the basis of
food traditions in the Pacific Northwest.
This illustrated handbook brings together
farmers, chefs, fisherfolk, food historians, orchardists,
activists, educators, and wild foragers in an
unprecedented effort to assess the current state of
foods unique to the Pacific Northwest. The result is
a comprehensive guide to the foods that have nurtured
Salmon Nation for centuries.
Renewing Salmon Nation’s Food Traditions
describes the appearance and taste of each species,
its origin and history, geographic range, and
culinary uses. Foods range from the Bing cherry,
Hood strawberry, and Nez Perce bean to Chinook
salmon, candlefish smelt, and geoduck to wild
items such as Oregon black truffle, wapato, and
blackcap raspberry. A resource list provides names
of nurseries, seed companies, and suppliers working
to safeguard and revitalize the heritage foods of
Salmon Nation.

Quest Outreach

planet108 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:58:55 +0000

Quest Outreach in Vancouver BC

Almost two decades ago, Quest Outreach Society launched an innovative business model: to rescue food — perfectly good cans, boxes and perishables — that would otherwise be tossed in the garbage and headed for our landfills, and redirect it to hungry people in the Lower Mainland who need it most. We call it the Quest Food Exchange.

Political Ecology

planet108 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:42:45 +0000

Since green politics emerged as an ideology, it has been defined by a few key green principles. The German Greens drafted the earliest statement of this kind, called the Four Pillars of the Green Party. The Four Pillars have been repeated by many green parties worldwide as a foundational statement of the green ideology:

* Ecological wisdom
* Social justice
* Grassroots democracy
* Nonviolence

In Canada.

Mondragon Cooperative in Spain.

Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem

the Transition Network supports towns, villages and cities to work toward an energy decent action plan, based on Peak oil or global warming if you want to look at it that way and not bicker about weather or not we are in trouble. The thing to do now, is slow down, and grow more now, or grow slow now according to Permaculture. Why work at jobs we hate just so we can have a very expensive holiday, then get back to our terrible unhealthy lives. If we all get our feet in the soil, or support good, low impact solutions, then we can and will survive. But if you burn the candle at both ends, then burn baby burn and let the rest of us embrace water and flourish.