Thursday, October 17, 2019

Climate Solution Changes



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The Climate Change Solution That Nobody is Talking About!




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Sunday, October 13, 2019

Soil and Land Management Solutions

Soil and Land Management Solutions

 


Considering the measure of nourishment item Mr. Pollan enumerated that is delivered in a solitary year
on only 100 acres of land, while regenerating the land simultaneously, as opposed to obliterating it
 with synthetic fertilizers and monoculture cultivating, it has demonstrated itself to be very pragmatic
 and sustainable. 


He clarified this in the video - that is one of the jobs of the laying hens. As they eat the maggots,
 while spreading the cow fertilizer manure, they are  likewise defecating a lot. Their waste is high in
 nitrogen, which returns nitrogen to the soil. The model is an entire circle of use and regeneration as
 the moves it over his land. 

Agreed that is good recycling but as pointed out above, removing meat out of the ecosystem implies
 an overall deficit of nitrogen from the framework. This must only be supplanted by nitrogen fixation
 from the air which must be considerable. 


1) How much corn do we actually use for real food nourishment?

-We utilize enormous percentages of the corn crop for chemical and food additive uses, corn 
derivatives are used in over 95% of all processed foods.

-We over-eat on a massive scale all of these processed foods, as well as industrially produced
 meats, which are fed mainly corn. Feeding an animal is never as efficient as directly consuming the
 food plant, if it is consumable by humans (i.e. corn vs grass or roughage)

2) The world has limited resources of both land and renewable energy sources, so sooner or later
 the universes populace must quit developing. This is a disastrous financial and ecological eventuality
 given our current perpetual growth-based model, yet in any case a genuine one.

- Modern farming produces more than manure and grass-sustained frameworks ever could, but not
 forever. Should we just continue using fossil fuel-produced food supplies and permitting exponential 
populace development until the earth is devoured? Except if an arrangement of supportable food 
production is embraced, the world only has an abrupt and disastrous halt of production to look 
forward to.

3) Efficiency amounts to nothing if the resources used to fuel an  essentially unending framework are
 limited in nature.

Evolution is astounding; it's a steady challenge, species utilize different species for their own 
survival. This discussion delineates that we humans are part of that utilizing and being utilized! 



This is completely entrancing. The coevolution among consumers and plants, honey bees and plants, 
etc. is so extraordinary and is the best case scenario of the wonderfulness and flawlessness of 
evolution. This demonstrates to us how nature consummates *itself* through, basically, irregular 
transformation which indicate make flawless frameworks everywhere throughout the Earth. Totally

 astonishing.

Friday, October 4, 2019

6 Ways MUSHROOMS Can SAVE the WORLD


Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the World: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu viruses.



  1.   Cleaning Up Oil Spills: Stamets laid some mycelium on an oil spill as part of an experiment to compare it with other solutions. The fungi consumed the oil, broke the carbon hydrogen bonds and re-manufactured it into carbohydrates. Before long, insects were pulled into the pile, then fowls came to eat the bugs, the birds dropped vegetation seeds and a new biological system was on in route. “Our pile became an oasis of life,” Stamets said. “The other piles were dead, dark and stinky.”
  2. Absorbing Farm Pollution: Encouraged by the oil test, Stamets then made burlap sacks loaded with garbage and mycelium and put them downstream of farms to channel overflow. “We’ve seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of coliforms,” he said, noting that in a few days the mushrooms had reduced the bacteria by 10,000 times. 
  3. Fighting off Disease: Stamets presents a mushroom called agarikon. It lives just in old-development forests, is believed to be wiped out in Europe and is exceptionally uncommon in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. He attempted to test the fungus with the Department of Defense and found that three strains are exceptionally dynamic against pox viruses and three are profoundly dynamic against the season’s cold flu virus. “I then think that we can make the argument that we should save the old-growth forest as a matter of national defense,” Stamets said. 
  4. Combating Insects: Termites, carpenter ants and different bugs can be a scourge to individual’s homes, and some fungus-based insecticides spray don't work in light of the fact that the animals know to evade the spores. So Stamets built up a mycelium that didn’t create spores and laid it down in his home. “The ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there’s no spores,” he said. “They gave it to the queen. One week later, I had no sawdust piles whatsoever.” Then, mushrooms grew out of the insect carcasses, which had spores and cautioned different ants to maintain a strategic distance from the house altogether. 
  5. Re-Greening the Planet: One of Stamets’ innovations are the life box, which incorporates fungi spores that you add to soil, water and cardboard. That makes a rich environment to plant different seeds, similar to corns, beans, squash and onions for refugee populations. You can likewise utilize tree seeds to kick-off a new forest. “You end up growing — potentially — an old-growth forest from a cardboard box,” he says.
  6. Creating A Sustainable Fuel Source: Perhaps the most remarkable guarantee of mycelium is the possibility to move us away from non-renewable energy source in a maintainable, earth-accommodating way. Rather than squandering vitality going straightforwardly from cellulose to ethanol, he utilizes mycelium as a go-between, enabling the fungus to normally convert over to cellulose into fungal sugars. “I think that we need to be ecologically intelligent about the generation of fuels,” Stamets said. “So, we build the carbon banks on the planet, renew the soils.”