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Sept 17, 2010 2:37:00 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Sept 17, 2010 2:37:00 GMT -8
TERRA PRETA Terra preta soils are of pre-Columbian nature and were created by humans between 450 BC and AD 950.[5][6] The soil's depth can reach 2 meters (7 ft). Thousands of years after its creation it has been reported to regenerate itself at the rate of 1 centimeters (0.4 in) per year[7] by the local farmers and caboclos in Brazil's Amazonian basin, who seek it for use and for sale as valuable compost. Left - a nutrient-poor oxisol; right - an oxisol transformed into fertile terra pretaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
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Nov 22, 2010 20:44:33 GMT -8
Post by clone on Nov 22, 2010 20:44:33 GMT -8
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Nov 22, 2010 20:46:26 GMT -8
Post by clone on Nov 22, 2010 20:46:26 GMT -8
July 6, 2009. A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have found a substantial link between increased levels of nitrates in our environment and food with increased deaths from diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes mellitus and Parkinson's. The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. www.physorg.com/news166078729.html................................................ The researchers graphed and analyzed mortality rates, and compared them with increasing age for each disease. They then studied United States population growth, annual use and consumption of nitrite-containing fertilizers, annual sales at popular fast food chains, and sales for a major meat processing company, as well as consumption of grain and consumption of watermelon and cantaloupe (the melons were used as a control since they are not typically associated with nitrate or nitrite exposure). The findings indicate that while nitrogen-containing fertilizer consumption increased by 230 percent between 1955 and 2005, its usage doubled between 1960 and 1980, which just precedes the insulin-resistant epidemics the researchers found. They also found that sales from the fast food chain and the meat processing company increased more than 8-fold from 1970 to 2005, and grain consumption increased 5-fold. The authors state that the time course of the increased prevalence rates of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes cannot be explained on the basis of gene mutations. They instead mirror the classical trends of exposure-related disease. Because nitrosamines produce biochemical changes within cells and tissues, it is conceivable that chronic exposure to low levels of nitrites and nitrosamines through processed foods, water and fertilizers is responsible for the current epidemics of these diseases and the increasing mortality rates associated with them.
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Nov 22, 2010 20:53:30 GMT -8
Post by clone on Nov 22, 2010 20:53:30 GMT -8
The New Agriculture blog'I won't rest until farming is cooler than rock 'n roll' thenewagriculture.blogspot.com/arable farmlandThe War Was Never Meant To End -George Orwell arable-farmland.blogspot.com/Discover the Secrets of Soil Mineral Balance and Create Your Own Ideal Soil! Waaay Beyond Just Organic!The secrets of soil mineral balance that create ideal soil, plant, and animal health are revealed here for the first time. The amazing results that can be achieved by balancing the major cation minerals Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Sodium in the soil according to the teachings of Dr William Albrecht and Dr Carey Reams have changed the world of agriculture. www.soilminerals.com/
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Nov 22, 2010 20:56:20 GMT -8
Post by clone on Nov 22, 2010 20:56:20 GMT -8
Biological agriculture is a ‘best of both worlds' combination of organic and conventional agriculture oriented towards increasing soil humus levels and improving the vitamin and mineral levels of our food. It is a natural sciences approach based on chemistry, physics, biology and microbiology using sound agricultural management practices. www.bioagnz.com/home/Dr Arden Andersen BSc. Ag. Sc. PHD.BioPhysics D.O. F.S Dr Arden AndersenArden Andersen is a soil scientist, agricultural consultant and a physician. He specialises in the management of soils, crops and animals in a productive, profitable and environmentally sustainable way. He is a consultant on education, product formulation and market development, and a world authority in biological agriculture. He holds a BSc. in agricultural education, a PhD in Biophysics and has a medical degree. www.bioagnz.com/about-us/?a=about_arden
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Nov 22, 2010 20:58:33 GMT -8
Post by clone on Nov 22, 2010 20:58:33 GMT -8
July 6, 2009. A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have found a substantial link between increased levels of nitrates in our environment and food with increased deaths from diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes mellitus and Parkinson's. The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. www.physorg.com/news166078729.html Alzheimer’s, Dementia Rise Faster Than Expected, Report Says Last Updated: September 21, 2009 00:01 EDT www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=aTPqewBpVnTc
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Nov 22, 2010 21:01:30 GMT -8
Post by clone on Nov 22, 2010 21:01:30 GMT -8
U.S. Wants Farmers To Use Coal Waste On Fields January 2, 2010 The federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as it considers regulating coal wastes for the first time. The material is produced by power plant “scrubbers” that remove acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide from plant emissions. A synthetic form of the mineral gypsum, it also contains mercury, arsenic, lead and other heavy metals.healthfreedoms.org/2010/01/02/us-wants-farmers-to-use-coal-waste-on-fields/
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Dec 12, 2010 12:19:31 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Dec 12, 2010 12:19:31 GMT -8
Dirt problem overlooked in global food crisis As seeds get better, much of the world's soil gets worse updated 5/8/2008 3:04:14 PM ET WASHINGTON — Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in. As seeds get better, much of the world's soil is getting worse and people are going hungry. Scientists say if they can get the world out of the *economically triggered* global food crisis, better dirt will be at the root of the solution. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24524912/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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Dec 12, 2010 12:36:30 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Dec 12, 2010 12:36:30 GMT -8
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Aug 13, 2011 9:22:26 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Aug 13, 2011 9:22:26 GMT -8
WIKI: Max Gesner Beauvoir (b. August 25, 1939) is a Haitian biochemist and houngan. Biography for Max Beauvoir www.imdb.com/name/nm0064737/bioOne Day in Port-au-Prince - THE VOODOO PRIEST: Mass burials were a desecration Fri., January 7 Earlier, he had elaborated on the beliefs he said had brought comfort to many Haitians following the earthquake - beliefs blending familiar facets of Christianity such as a single God with animist and supernatural elements. “This is how we view ourselves in the universe, where we stand among the sun, the moon and the stars and the earth and everything that exists, with the trees and the plants and the animals: we are part of the whole thing. We build a relationship with all of them. "We have our own ideas about creation," he continued. "It certainly doesn’t resemble the idea of Adam and Eve – Eve swallowing a bad apple, giving a bad apple to her husband and having to pay. That isn’t part of our mythology.” www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/one-day-in-port-au-prince/the-voodoo-priest-mass-burials-were-a-desecration/Nidhoggur Biochemist And High Priest wn.com/Nidhoggur_Biochemist_and_High_PriestNeite Decimus, a chosen vodou priest by: Romero Estinvil co-editor Jeune Haiti Magazine Yesterday morning, I had the pleasure to meet with Mr. Neite Decimus for JeuneHaiti.com who genially accepted to give me an exclusive interview, about the religion of vodou. Decimus is 42, and an anthropologist by training. On Saturday, June 12, 1981, Decimus became a priest of vodou; he was only 12 years when he was chosen by the ancestral spirits “loas” to hold this superior position in that religion. That day, he was ordained and was given a mystical name: “Green Butterfly”. A name that sounds both mystical and poetic. He had a specific “mission” to take over his father’s position in the temple. His father, deceased in 2001, had been a well-know home healer in the l’Atibonite Department... www.jeunehaiti.com/decimus.htmIn this perspective, Green Butterfly greatly appreciates the attempts of purification and unification of vodou hierarchy in Haiti under the direction of Dr. Max Gesner Beauvoir. This work is not easy in the sense that in almost every region of the country, the sacred ceremonies are performed differently. About Mr. Beauvoir, he has written several books on this religion. This biochemist taught at Tufts University in Boston. Since 2008, he is the new leader of the Konfederasyon National Vodou Ayisyen as “Supreme Chef”. In 1996 Beauvoir founded with his friends, The Temple of Yehwe, a USA based non-profit organization for the Promotion of Education Regarding African-American religion. He became Involved in 1997 with The Creation Of The KOSANBA group at the University of California. “Green Butterfly” claims to have very good relationship with Mr. Beauvoir as well as other hungans that are living both in Haiti and in the Diaspora. He mentions names such as Carole Demesmin, Dr. Lunie Pierre-Jerome, Maude Evans, Anthony Pascal (Compe Filo), Elien Isak, Roland Hillaire and so on. Before to get into his temple or “peristile”, Green Butterfly always asks visitors to remove any shoes. Why this measure, I asked? He told me that his hair quivered by answering this question. This gesture is because the spirits are holy and clean. Also, it's a way to clean himself to better communicate with God or “Granmet”.
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Aug 31, 2011 20:37:22 GMT -8
Post by clone on Aug 31, 2011 20:37:22 GMT -8
Immediate release (31 Aug 2011) It’s Official: Glyphosate used on GM crops found in US rivers, rainfall Monitoring by the US Geological Survey (USGS) has revealed that glyphosate and its breakdown product Aminomethylphosphonic acid (known as AMPA) are frequently found in rainfall and rivers in the Mississippi Basin, where most GM crops tolerant to glyphosate are grown. [1] www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/165/
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Nov 15, 2011 7:16:27 GMT -8
Post by clone on Nov 15, 2011 7:16:27 GMT -8
US Scientists warn of acidifying soils Living Planet | 11.11.2011 | 06:30 The problem of acid rain may not be new, but it is far from solved. # wave of acidity moving across the land, massive chemical shift in the make up of our planet # ammonium nitrate used to improve crop production, reacts with oxygen that generates acidity # 3 factors: over-fertilization, burning of fossil fuels, coal/metals mining # maps: land, fresh water and oceans # marine life is less productive as a result of the slightly lowered pH of the ocean Karen Rice, Janet Herman - "Earth’s Acidity Rising -- Major Causes and Shifting Trends Examined to Guide Future Mitigation Efforts" www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2946www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6656976,00.html
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Nov 22, 2011 20:16:37 GMT -8
Post by acidic nonoysters in oregon on Nov 22, 2011 20:16:37 GMT -8
# marine life is less productive as a result of the slightly lowered pH of the ocean
Karen Rice, Janet Herman - "Earth’s Acidity Rising -- Major Causes and Shifting Trends Examined to Guide Future Mitigation Efforts" www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2946 Northwest Oyster Die-offs Show Ocean Acidification Has Arrived 21 Nov 2011: Report It was here, from 2006 to 2008, that oyster larvae began dying dramatically, with hatchery owners Mark Wiegardt and his wife, Sue Cudd, experiencing larvae losses of 70 to 80 percent. “Historically we’ve had larvae mortalities,” says Wiegardt, but those deaths were usually related to bacteria. After spending thousands of dollars to disinfect and filter out pathogens, the hatchery’s oyster larvae were still dying. Finally, the couple enlisted the help of Burke Hales, a biogeochemist and ocean ecologist at Oregon State University. He soon homed in on the carbon chemistry of the water. “My wife sent a few samples in and Hales said someone had screwed up the samples because the [dissolved CO2 gas] level was so ridiculously high,” says Wiegardt, a fourth-generation oyster farmer. But the measurements were accurate. What the Whiskey Creek hatchery was experiencing was acidic seawater, cause e360.yale.edu/feature/massive_oyster_die-offs_show_ocean_acidification_has_arrived/2466/
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May 17, 2012 18:11:50 GMT -8
Post by Nitrogen on May 17, 2012 18:11:50 GMT -8
Gardeners need a sense of humus - May 13, 2012. Let's pay homage to humus. No one can say exactly what humus (pronounced HUE-mus) is because it's a witch's brew of thousands of organic compounds that result from the decomposition of dead plants and animals... Tilling the soil and using concentrated nitrogen fertilizers accelerate humus decomposition. Tillage charges the soil with air, causing microbial populations to soar, and these hungry microbes then gobble up humus quickly. Following an initial burst of nutrients, the soil is left poorer. Concentrated nitrogen fertilizers have a similar effect, so go easy on tillage and concentrated fertilizers. www2.timesdispatch.com/lifestyles/2012/may/13/tdflair10-gardeners-need-a-sense-of-humus-ar-1903559/Humus is a workhorse. It buffers acidity, which means that you don't have to be precise about your soil acidity (pH). And humus binds with nutrients like iron to make it easier to be absorbed by plants. And its sponginess makes soils fluffier.
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Post by NH4NO3 on May 8, 2013 8:03:18 GMT -8
The Price of Our Fertilizer Addiction - 05-07-2013 On April 17, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas.We can maximize crop productivity by putting these microbes to work for us. Instead, “conventional” farmers routinely kill them by using nitrogen fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) that depletes their soil. Critics of nitrogen fertilizer often compare it to a drug. The first hit feels really good, and your crops grow big and beautiful. But as the microbes in your soil die and your carbon is depleted, you need more and more fertilizer just to get the same yields. Meanwhile, fertilizer runs off, polluting nearby waterways. And because fertilizer is made with natural gas—often obtained these days via the extreme drilling process known as fracking—it devastates the environment when it’s manufactured as well as when it’s used. ecowatch.com/2013/the-price-of-our-fertilizer-addiction/
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