Biodynamic Agriculture documentary: One Man, One Cow, One Planet 2007

Education is always essential the other thing we can do is live the change we want to be. Take a que from Peter Proctor and start doing what we want to see happen and teach by example.

I have set up a website for a model for a better society. and here are some solutions I have outlined to start planting the seeds of a new society. Others are already doing different aspects of this but it needs to all come together as one and thatis my goal to bring it all together into a cohesive model for a new society.

"It’s easy to complain it is always harder to come up with solutions. Here’s some main points and solutions I jotted down:

"Problem: petroleum based factory farming is unsustainable and ruining the environment and our health with synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and GMOs etc. Most food travels an average of 1400 miles to get to our tables. Which of course uses a ton of energy too.

Solutions: We need local/regional food production. Aquaponics, and green house technology can save us energy, increase yields and use less water with vastly less travel to our tables. It needs to be natural, organic, heirloom, and non-hybrid as much as possible. Nature has spent millions of years developing and evolving the fruits of the earth and our bodies have also developed and evolved on those foods so natural is what is best for us.

Problem: Oil is peaking (not running out) as far as production meaning we produce less then we did 30 years ago but demand is higher and increasing. The low hanging fruit (easy to get oil) is much less now days (we have got most of it in the last century) and shale and other means is harder and more expensive to get and process so prices will be going up while production continues to decrease…

Solutions: Ethanol, Biodiesel, methane, and wood gas/gasification etc. all need to be ramped up along with research into alternative energies such over unity devices etc.. They also need to be done locally and regionally not using the gasoline model with centralized processing plants trucking fuels thousands of miles or they are not as cost effective. However the idea they don’t put out as much energy as they take to produce is a myth put out by big oil (more to come on that in other articles). We will have to cut energy use while in transition and learn to be more frugal with its use all around regardless and even if we stayed on oil.

Problem: we waste tons of water. Ssewage and water treatment plants are not sophisticated enough to filter out exotic all chemicals that we consume in medicines and food like caffeine etc. and they are showing up in the water supply now. Water use is increasing exponentially and our aquifers are not being replenished as as fast as we are depleting them in some areas.

Solution: we need to compost our manure and collect and filter rainwater locally and individually. 1 inch of rain on 1000 square feet of roof is 500 gallons of water. Nature brings water right to us but we let it get away and then have to expend lots of energy to get it back out of the ground when all we need to do is collect it right were we live.

Problem: Credit based fiat debt system is completely unsustainable and could implode at any moment and we see the effects already with the 2008 crash and we are heading for a bigger crash.

Solution: Sound or hard money such as gold and silver and local currencies that are backed by precious metals or commodities. Not leaving it in the hands of government anymore. No more credit based currencies and no more fractional reserve period!"

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It never even occurred to me that bees might be caged. What a horrible story. And sold as "natural!" Good for the farmer to have left. I'll keep him in my prayers. If you ever see him again, please tell him about the Spikenard website. Yes, I think there is hope. But with bees, it's kind of hard to control their diet on account of the radius in which they forage, hard to have bona fide organic honey. Still, ANYTHING would have to be better than force-feeding them corn syrup, when over 60% of corn syrup is from GM crops. FYI, this was an eye-opening documentary on the subject of the bee decline, "Silence of the Bees." Pretty scary is the area in China where honeybees are now gone - forever. I don't think that those on the other thread criticizing and calling people "statists" for having grave concerns about GMO's (and the heavy pesticide use that goes along with that) quite realize what's at stake. (And honeybees aren't the only pollinators dying off.) http://video.pbs.org/video/995224587/