The Drift: Clearcutting Clouds...plus: Sands of Time vs the Time of Tar

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Wed, 01/05/2011 - 12:00am
Interviews with Lisa Arkin on pesticide drift & Zack Porter on tar sands environmental damage.

The websites you want:  www.allagainstthehaul.org and www.fightinggoliath.org.  Then search engine oregontoxicsalliance and see what you get.  Synergy is what happens when serendipitous elements swarm together to create something new.  If the elements in the swarm are for the most part benevolent, you get a Good Animorph;  conversely, if they are bad you get things like kudzu, glow-in-the-dark carp,  Sarah Palin and Fox...

Permaculturists have been saying this for years.  Now research confirms that no-till farming  is the way to go.   Crop land that’s left unplowed between harvests releases significantly smaller amounts of a potent greenhouse gas than conventionally plowed fields.   new study that suggests no-till farming can combat global warming.  Purdue University  Researchers said the findings could also help farmers make more efficient use of the costly nitrogen-based fertilizers used to promote plant growth. No-till farming apparently slows the breakdown of fertilizers in the soil.   No-till farmers don’t plow under their fields between crops and disrupt the soil surface as little as possible, although they do cut into it to plant seeds and inject fertilizers. 

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