Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations.
May 08 2018 Uncategorized 1 Comments
By David R. Montgomery. In his case studies of ancient Greece and the Italian peninsula, Montgomery dispels the idea deeply rooted in Western mythology that ancient peoples lived in harmony with their environment; most societies followed a path of slow and steady population growth followed by an abrupt decline !!! We have learnt NOTHING from (a very long) history.
Forget Climate Change. Stop buying at Supermarkets, stop supporting the Throu-away Society and start making Biochar and home gardens. Shun specialization. We now have the technology to go beyond Central Control of ever growing Big everything.
People at Abu Hureyra (the headwaters of the Euphrates River in modern Syria) were forced into the labor-intensive business of agriculture between 13,000 and 10,500 years ago for a number of reasons including climatic shifts, population densities, and few options to move elsewhere (pp. 30-31). Subsequent development of more intensive and effective subsistence methods enabled human populations in that region to grow beyond levels that could be supported by hunting and gathering, and eventually for the first time in history, communities came to “depend on enhancing the productivity of natural ecosystems just to stay even, let alone grow” (p. 34). Crop production and animal husbandry enhanced each other and maximized food production, and in the process, human population began to double every thousand years. Yet shortly after societies began to settle into agricultural practices, soil erosion and degradation caused by intensive agriculture and goat grazing began to undermine entire crop yields and forced abandonment of whole villages. In order to survive, communities were eventually pushed onto more marginal lands, and irrigation systems requiring considerable technical expertise and organizational control were introduced, spawning the “inseparable twins of bureaucracy and government” (p. 37). Private property was born, class distinctions grew as not everyone had to spend their time in the fields in order to eat, and writings in the form of cuneiform indentations in clay tablets, were produced in order to help a diversifying society “manage food production and distribution” (p. 38). Eventually, salinization, extensive erosion from upland farming, and other accumulating effects of soil degradation began to plague these early civilizations. The decline of these once-great societies followed as populations outstripped productive capacities and pushed agriculture onto “the surrounding slopes initiating cycles of ‘soil mining'”
by Allan Niass
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Soil Carbon Regeneration in P4C May 08 2018
Soil Carbon Regeneration
May 08 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
The current economic system is unsustainable. By buying subsidised supermarket food you are supporting wars, land grabs, deforestation, mass extinctions and climate change. One consequence of agricultural subsidies is that they encourage people to support corporate food producers and so, small scale sustainable food producers struggle or fail.
http://www.soil-carbon-regeneration.co.uk/a-soil-based-economy/
Australia needs a BBQ that creates Biochar and reduces Bushfire Waste, eg – see below
Soil Building
Adding high carbon organic matter such as composted chipped wood can benefit damaged or poor soils in the short term if the conditions for stabilising that carbon are not met.
Turning some of that wood chip to biochar before adding it to the soil or by using it in a mulch is one way of stabilising it whilst generating heat from the pyrolisis process.
Encouraging AMF to proliferate through minimum dig and having plant roots present will result in increased glomalinproduction, another form of stabilised carbon.
Using biochar, glomalin and other methods to optimise soil aggregate formation will result in a soil structure which resists drought and flooding and which holds onto the other soil organic matter.
We are all responsible for meeting our own needs. We have allowed corporate control of our food and energy supplies to lead us to the brink of complete environmental collapse, we have to reclaim power. Forget worrying about where we get our Electricity and Fuel. Correct the now. Choosing the Throwaway Society can be fixed in an instant. Bunning are selling a Battery Light for $4. When the battery runs out, it is designed to be thrown away – all the un-recyclable and noxious parts.
by Allan Niass
May 08 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
The current economic system is unsustainable. By buying subsidised supermarket food you are supporting wars, land grabs, deforestation, mass extinctions and climate change. One consequence of agricultural subsidies is that they encourage people to support corporate food producers and so, small scale sustainable food producers struggle or fail.
http://www.soil-carbon-regeneration.co.uk/a-soil-based-economy/
Australia needs a BBQ that creates Biochar and reduces Bushfire Waste, eg – see below
Soil Building
Adding high carbon organic matter such as composted chipped wood can benefit damaged or poor soils in the short term if the conditions for stabilising that carbon are not met.
Turning some of that wood chip to biochar before adding it to the soil or by using it in a mulch is one way of stabilising it whilst generating heat from the pyrolisis process.
Encouraging AMF to proliferate through minimum dig and having plant roots present will result in increased glomalinproduction, another form of stabilised carbon.
Using biochar, glomalin and other methods to optimise soil aggregate formation will result in a soil structure which resists drought and flooding and which holds onto the other soil organic matter.
We are all responsible for meeting our own needs. We have allowed corporate control of our food and energy supplies to lead us to the brink of complete environmental collapse, we have to reclaim power. Forget worrying about where we get our Electricity and Fuel. Correct the now. Choosing the Throwaway Society can be fixed in an instant. Bunning are selling a Battery Light for $4. When the battery runs out, it is designed to be thrown away – all the un-recyclable and noxious parts.
by Allan Niass
Hugel Logs are Permaculture’s answer to Carbon Capture and Bushfires in P4C Apr 25 2018
Hugel Logs are Permaculture’s answer to Carbon Capture and Bushfires
by Allan Niass
Apr 25 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
Instead of burning piles of wood waste, bury it. Keeps the Carbon in the soil, maintains moisture, prevents ...
Rest seems lost
by Allan Niass
Apr 25 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
Instead of burning piles of wood waste, bury it. Keeps the Carbon in the soil, maintains moisture, prevents ...
Rest seems lost
Home Build Future in P4C Mar 26 2018
Home Build Future
Mar 26 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
Uniqueness – every person is an individual and their most important uniqueness is their Home. We may accept Mr. Ford’s design regime but not the constraints of Project Builders’ drive for economy over life style.
IOTA is showing the value of facilitating communicating & collaborating within a Society while enabling the uniqueness of Homes. https://cryptoslate.com/rwth-university-germany-iota/
https://cryptoslate.com/rwth-university-germany-iota/
by Allan Niass
Mar 26 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
Uniqueness – every person is an individual and their most important uniqueness is their Home. We may accept Mr. Ford’s design regime but not the constraints of Project Builders’ drive for economy over life style.
IOTA is showing the value of facilitating communicating & collaborating within a Society while enabling the uniqueness of Homes. https://cryptoslate.com/rwth-university-germany-iota/
https://cryptoslate.com/rwth-university-germany-iota/
by Allan Niass
Growth is still in its infancy in P4C Mar 01 2018
Growth is still in its infancy
Mar 01 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
Boom & Bust, be they Tulips or Industrial Revolution, are merely a factor of the early stages of Growth. Unrelated to the major stage of Blockchain.
CONSUNERISM within the Western Democracy Middle Class has spurned World Growth.
Next is Globalization, as the rest of the world (lead by China) develops a Middle Class that will
demand to be Consumers.
CREATIVITY will replace Consumerism as the driver of Growth. But it requires Diversity – hence Decentralization of Bureaucracy. I cannot see how a centralized Civilization such as China can work, unless we all bow down our freedoms (One World Government).
by Allan Niass
Mar 01 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
Boom & Bust, be they Tulips or Industrial Revolution, are merely a factor of the early stages of Growth. Unrelated to the major stage of Blockchain.
CONSUNERISM within the Western Democracy Middle Class has spurned World Growth.
Next is Globalization, as the rest of the world (lead by China) develops a Middle Class that will
demand to be Consumers.
CREATIVITY will replace Consumerism as the driver of Growth. But it requires Diversity – hence Decentralization of Bureaucracy. I cannot see how a centralized Civilization such as China can work, unless we all bow down our freedoms (One World Government).
by Allan Niass
WTF Happened to Fiet $ and Banks ? in P4C Feb 17 2018
WTF Happened to Fiet $ and Banks ?
Feb 17 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
The new feature, dubbed Coinbase Commerce, will enable merchants and vendors to accept payment in several different cryptocurrencies. After payment, the funds will be sent directly to the merchant’s own wallet address. This follows Shopify – the Payment Gateway for small online Vendors.
And we are not done yet with February. How long before Real Estate will be commonly transacted in cryptocurrencies, by Individuals directly (Peer to Peer), bypassing the useless Middlemen? Not to mention the extra expense of selling the farm or home, to the Chinese. Cryptocurrencies are the international measure & medium of exchange.
Definition of fiat money. Paper money or coins of little or no intrinsic value in themselves and not convertible into gold or silver, but made legal tender by fiat(order) of the government – which has been abdicated to a Consortium of non-government Big Banks.
by Allan Niass
Feb 17 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
The new feature, dubbed Coinbase Commerce, will enable merchants and vendors to accept payment in several different cryptocurrencies. After payment, the funds will be sent directly to the merchant’s own wallet address. This follows Shopify – the Payment Gateway for small online Vendors.
And we are not done yet with February. How long before Real Estate will be commonly transacted in cryptocurrencies, by Individuals directly (Peer to Peer), bypassing the useless Middlemen? Not to mention the extra expense of selling the farm or home, to the Chinese. Cryptocurrencies are the international measure & medium of exchange.
Definition of fiat money. Paper money or coins of little or no intrinsic value in themselves and not convertible into gold or silver, but made legal tender by fiat(order) of the government – which has been abdicated to a Consortium of non-government Big Banks.
by Allan Niass
Change in Q1 2018
Change in Q1 2018
by Allan Niass
Feb 07 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
Q1 should see the start of a Decade of violent change – endless possibilities. Importantly, as those in ...
Rest seems lost
by Allan Niass
Feb 07 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
Q1 should see the start of a Decade of violent change – endless possibilities. Importantly, as those in ...
Rest seems lost
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