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Organic Farming Yields Far Better Crop Resistance and Resiliance


Green Lifestyle  (tags: sustainable, organic, society, food )

Serge
- 75 days ago - solveclimate.com
United States agriculture is driven almost entirely by these non-renewable energy sources. Each person in the country on a per capita consumption basis requires approximately 2,000 liters per year in oil equivalents to supply his/her total food, which acc
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Daphna Yanez (112)
Tuesday September 22, 2009, 5:17 pm
thanks Serge!!!
 

serge vrabec (253)
Wednesday September 23, 2009, 1:34 pm
Monday September 21, 2009, 10:08 am
"The odds are that other sources of energy will emerge to replace much of what we get now from oil.(as long as WE keep pushing). The challenge, however, is that if the new energy sources are used in a younger culture way that merely ALLOWS more humans to prliferate accross our planet, destroying more competing species and resources and engaging in more wars of extermination against each other and the natural world, it may seal OUR doom even more solidly than would the loss of OUR fossil fuel resources.
OUR energy sources are not as important as OUR view of life, which is grounded in our culture(america) That IS WHAT MUST CHANGE, AND THE NEED FOR THAT CHANGE IS URGENT.
The good news is that we don not have to invent a new culture or way of living. WE do mhave much to learn (remember)- the ways of OUR ancient ancestors, who lived sustainably long before we were "born"- there wayof life worked regardless of available energy stores, because its inherent connection to ALL other life built into it an extraordinary flexibility. That flexibility is still available to us, and even adaptable to " OUR modern" world"...... - Thom Hartmann- The last hours of ancient Sunlight

The solution- Change OUR culture , beginning with YOUR self, WE ARE ALL important........
 

Tierney G. (310)
Wednesday September 23, 2009, 2:19 pm
Yes yes and yes! It works I did it for over twenty years and always had enough food to feed the county! One year I actually gave away heads of lettuce so they would not go bad. Had too many big heads.
Thank you so much for this excellent article Serge
 

Tierney G. (310)
Wednesday September 23, 2009, 2:21 pm
I forgot to mention I grew a 10 inch rutabega in the spring in Maryland. They said it was impossible to do that in the spring in warmer climates. I assumed it was the rich organic soil I grew it in. have a picture of it too.
 

Marion Y. (285)
Thursday September 24, 2009, 5:19 pm
Thank you, Serge. The proof is in: we cannot continue as we have been and expect the earth to provide.
 
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