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Two Percent Solutions for the Planet
Courtney White by Courtney White, Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont, 2015
This collection of “Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Solutions “for “Combating Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change”. has some handy advice for “implementing a wide variety of regenerative land management practices.”
Make compost by covering manure with wood chips, straw, and a little corn. It will keep your cows warm all winter. Then, in the spring, feed your pigs while they aerate it, turning the anaerobic into “fluffy aerobic soil.
“What can I do for the planet?”…Eat less feedlot meat.” Feed lots are “crowded, stinky, and grassless.” They’re also cheap, and too abusive. “They make no ecological sense for the stress the cows ;suffer. They make cattle lose 15% of their weight, while being more “susceptible to disease.” Eat grass fed meat.
Plant food crops in rows between “solar panels at a height of four meters.” That’s good for water efficiency and could reduce transpiration needs.
Waste vegetable oil from restaurants should be warmed or stored for a few weeks so food bits can settle, then given free to farmers for automotive or tractor fuel.
Since it takes so much water for sanitation disposal, human waste should be collected, heated, checked with PhyloChip, and used as fertilizer in agriculture. See CCC’s Thermophile Project, Marin County, CA’.
For other manure disposal, bring on more dung beetles.
Check out grandin.com and the Wild Farm Alliance for strengthening the alliance between farmers, ranchers, and conservationists worrying about wildlife vulnerability-- “habitat destruction, or fragmentation…water pollution, pesticides, and other effects of industrial production.
We may be thoughtless or feel helpless, but we don’t need to trash the planet.
This collection of “Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Solutions “for “Combating Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change”. has some handy advice for “implementing a wide variety of regenerative land management practices.”
Make compost by covering manure with wood chips, straw, and a little corn. It will keep your cows warm all winter. Then, in the spring, feed your pigs while they aerate it, turning the anaerobic into “fluffy aerobic soil.
“What can I do for the planet?”…Eat less feedlot meat.” Feed lots are “crowded, stinky, and grassless.” They’re also cheap, and too abusive. “They make no ecological sense for the stress the cows ;suffer. They make cattle lose 15% of their weight, while being more “susceptible to disease.” Eat grass fed meat.
Plant food crops in rows between “solar panels at a height of four meters.” That’s good for water efficiency and could reduce transpiration needs.
Waste vegetable oil from restaurants should be warmed or stored for a few weeks so food bits can settle, then given free to farmers for automotive or tractor fuel.
Since it takes so much water for sanitation disposal, human waste should be collected, heated, checked with PhyloChip, and used as fertilizer in agriculture. See CCC’s Thermophile Project, Marin County, CA’.
For other manure disposal, bring on more dung beetles.
Check out grandin.com and the Wild Farm Alliance for strengthening the alliance between farmers, ranchers, and conservationists worrying about wildlife vulnerability-- “habitat destruction, or fragmentation…water pollution, pesticides, and other effects of industrial production.
We may be thoughtless or feel helpless, but we don’t need to trash the planet.
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