Anna Edey : Anna Edey Since 1976 Anna Edey has made one astonishing discovery after another, which she has been developing ever since under the name Solviva Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign Design.
Anna Edey : Anna Edey Stacking Chickens for Heat & CO2 Passive Solar Water filled temperature buffer walls www.solviva.com
PowerPoint Presentation : Our more humble efforts at FincaLuna I Started with seedlings on the ground (whole terrace for business production)
PowerPoint Presentation : Temporary for because still observing, observing, etc. & more humble efforts at FincaLuna II & now working up to the super-duper definite article (after 10yrs of observation :) Nursery in Zone 1 normally, this quite important in our case
PowerPoint Presentation : Victorian Greenhouses Research Project!
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PowerPoint Presentation : Diversity Principle, inside & outside Seeds & Plant Propagation Nurseries Habitats & Transgenics Vandana Shiva an integral exploration M3.8 Biodiversity
Seeds : Seeds "Seed" could be said to be an archetype, a very important mythical symbol, full of meaning for us (consciously or not). ¿What does 'genetically manipulating' seed come to mean on a deeper, more symbolic level, for us & for our culture?
How Dr Ingham saved the World : How Dr Ingham saved the World a horror story In the 1990s, a European biotech company prepared to commercially release a genetically engineered soil bacterium for use by farmers. They thought to engineer a bacterium that aggressively decomposes dead plant material- specifically wheat- into alcohol. In its pre-modified, natural form, K. planticola is partly responsible for the decomposition of all plant matter -a vital step in the natural life cycle--and it's notoriously aggressive in this role. The story of a bacterium called Klebsiella planticola
How Dr Ingham saved the World : How Dr Ingham saved the World a horror story Burning off dead plant material, as was the standard practice, severely pollutes the air and damages the lungs of farmers. They thought: why not turn it into alcohol instead? ¿The problem they were trying to avoid? So they spliced an alcohol-producing bacterium into K. planticola . Once their product was released, farmers would simply gather the dead plant matter into buckets and let it ferment into alcohol.
How Dr Ingham saved the World : How Dr Ingham saved the World a horror story Once the fermentation process necessary to turn that dead plant material into alcohol occurred, the sludge left over would be rich in nitrogen and other such beneficial substances, making it an ideal fertilizer. The plan was to spread this sludge fertilizer back on the fields , thus eliminating all waste from the whole process. The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions
How Dr Ingham saved the World : How Dr Ingham saved the World a horror story The fermentation process didn't kill the modified K. planticola - it was still there, ready to turn dead plant material into alcohol. BUT ... It didn't wait until the plants were dead to start. The normal K. planticola bacterium result in a benign layer of slime on the living root systems it inhabits ... What went wrong?
How Dr Ingham saved the World : How Dr Ingham saved the World a horror story but the engineered version would also be producing alcohol in this slime - with levels as high as 17 parts per million, and anything beyond 1 or 2 parts of alcohol per million is lethal to all known plant life. So the engineered K. planticola gives all plant life it touches severe alcohol poisoning, putting them more than 10 times over the lethal limit. K. planticola is present in all plant life. It would have alcohol-poisoned all plant life on the planet within months . Did they test for this? Not really ...
How Dr Ingham saved the World : How Dr Ingham saved the World a horror story This bacterium was going to be released ; it had all of the necessary approval. It was only a matter of proper marketing and shipping. It was only by virtue of a random review by an independent scientist (Dr. Elaine Ingham, a professor at Oregon State University and possibly the savior of all mankind) that it was caught in time. the Environmental Protection Agency was the only overseer for all biotech releases, and their policy was to test new bacteria in sterile soil . The problem here being that the real world ... soil is anything BUT sterile.
The Moral of this Story? : The Moral of this Story? Enjoy every day, do what you really love & make peace with Death (they could be up to anything, don't take Life on Earth for granted - much less your own life) >> if enough of us DARE to follow our passions without fear, maybe we can sort out this madness. Do whatever we can to ensure future law enshrines the Precautionary Principle : if we aren't sure it's harmless, we don't do it) & be realistic about what genetic engineering can mean for Life on Earth.
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PowerPoint Presentation : Diversity Principle, inside & outside Seeds & Plant Propagation Nurseries Habitats & Transgenics Vandana Shiva an integral exploration M3.8 Biodiversity
Vandana Shiva : Vandana Shiva physicist, environmental activist, feminist, and author of many books. “It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.”
PowerPoint Presentation : = 9 seeds She established Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmer’s rights, and directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. Navdanya was created 20 years ago, with the goal of saving seeds
PowerPoint Presentation : Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics. Grandmother's University Organic Farming Earth Democracy Seed Sovereignity Food Sovereignity Land Sovereignity Water Democracy Women for Diversity
PowerPoint Presentation : Diversity Principle, inside & outside Seeds & Plant Propagation Nurseries Habitats & Transgenics Vandana Shiva an integral exploration M3.8 Biodiversity