[Terrapreta] Pee and Poo Was: Re: Academies of Science Call Industrialized Countriesto Lead Climate Challenge

[lou gold]

Hey Kevin,

Sure, I agree. I wasn't intending to gloss over the issues.

lou


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Kevin Chisholm <kchisholm at ca.inter.net>
wrote:

>  Dear Lou
>
> The Western Culture seems to have an irrational phobia against pee and poo.
> I grow a few pole beans every year, just to see how high I can get them. I
> pee on them, and it works. I grew one last year that was more than 20 feet
> tall. Everyone I have told about my "secret" says "You aren't going to eat
> the beans, are you?" Everyone. Yet these same people will eat food grown
> with the benefit of poisonous chemicals.
>
> There is a deeper problem that has to be addressed.
>
> Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com>
> *To:* David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com>
> *Cc:* terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:05 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] Academies of Science Call Industrialized
> Countriesto Lead Climate Challenge
>
> To add to your good words David, I would say that it could be difficult to
> get lay folks to really understand the incredible community of life in
> soils. Perhaps, it would be easier to focus on gaining an understanding that
> the relationship on-top-of and inside-of the earth needs to be reciprocal.
> As a storyteller, I've generally had better success with the concept of
> reciprocity and with the micro hard-to-see realities.
>
> Connecting to the "poo" discussions, I think it's easy to get people to see
> that when waste is returned to the earth properly, that the resulting
> reciprocity is beneficial. "From waste to resource" is an easy to understand
> slogan and I think it could be usefully linked to biochar.
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
> hugs,
>
> lou
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:19 PM, David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  more front line news about the accelerating consensus toward action on
>> climate change.
>>
>> however, still no mention of "carbon-negative", "food footprint" or "soil
>> sequestration", much less likely: "biochar."
>>
>> seems the brightest minds in the highest places still don't have a clear
>> focus on fundamental factors in ecological viability and climate stability:
>> soil fertility, where fertility is not measured as inventory of chemical
>> components, but as a biological community -- the "microbial reef" --
>> invisibly tiny living complexity that inhabits the thin skin of the land and
>> supports all the larger, younger lifeforms.
>>
>> but they're funding the scientists who are piecing the puzzle together
>> again.
>>
>>
>> *G8 Academies of Science
>> Call on Industrialized Countries *
>> *to Lead Climate Challenge
>> *By *Andrew C. Revkin*, *NYTimes*, June 11, 2008
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/11climate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>> The scientific academies of 13 countries on Tuesday urged the world to act
>> more forcefully to limit the threat posed by human-driven global warming. In
>> a joint statement, the academies of the Group of 8 industrialized countries
>> -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United
>> States -- and of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa called on the
>> industrialized countries to lead a 'transition to a low-carbon society' and
>> aggressively move to limit impacts from changes in climate that are already
>> under way and impossible to stop.
>> The statement [PDF, 2 pp<http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/climatechangestatement.pdf>],
>> posted by the Nation Academy of Science in the United States, urged the
>> Group of 8 countries to move beyond last year's pledge to consider halving
>> global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and 'make maximum efforts' to
>> reach this target."
>>
>> http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/climatechangestatement.pdf
>>
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