Journal of Sustainability

by Barry Carter, bcarter@igc.org

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Most people have a favorite disaster scenario. Some favor global 
warming, others favor peak oil. Financial collapse is the favorite of 
many people but geological cataclysm is favored by others. Regardless 
of which disaster you may favor, the most immediate problem that 
develops, as a result of any disaster, will be related to food 
shortages. Already it is estimated that one billion people are 
starving on earth.

Most disasters reduce food production or availability. Climate change 
causes flooding, drought and unseasonable freezes which all reduce 
food production. Peak oil reduces the availability of petro chemicals 
for fertilizer and pesticides as well as the fuel to transport food 
for long distances. Financial collapse makes it more difficult for 
everyone to produce and purchase food. Geological cataclysm can even 
cause an ex-president to apologize for policies that reduced the 
local food supply in Haiti in favor of imported rice from the USA.
Even social disasters are most likely to cause suffering through 
starvation. When the structures we have built to serve us loose their 
way and begin to believe that we are here to serve them, they try to 
monopolize our sources of supply. Whether these are corporate 
structures, government structures, belief structures or religious 
structures does not change this pattern.

Regardless of one's favorite disaster scenario, certain things can be 
helpful for the people in our communities. Here are some things that 
I think we all need:

Clean air to breathe.
Clean water to drink and bathe in.
Nutritious food to eat.
Energy for heating, cooling, lighting, transportation and communication.
Materials for making and modifying the structures we live in and 
the clothing we wear.
Good health.

Since many people cannot do a lot in their daily lives to insure that 
they have:

Clean air to breathe.
Clean water to drink and bathe in.
Energy for heating, cooling, lighting, transportation and communication.
Materials for making and modifying the structures we live in and 
the clothing we wear.

I think it is most worthwhile to focus on doing what I can to insure 
that my local community has:

Nutritious food to eat.
Good health.

In service to these goals, I have been gardening organically since 
1969. I believe that the more available this kind of info is, to the 
people on the ground, the more all will benefit.

I am also engaged in a related area of "grassroots" research. Several 
hundred non-academic researchers around the world are exploring the 
agricultural and social implications of some newly rediscovered 
minerals that significantly improve the growth, taste and nutrition 
of food grown in soils where they are applied. We have accumulated 
many reports of significantly increased plant productivity, 
nutrition, freeze tolerance and drought tolerance.

These minerals can be concentrated using simple kitchen chemistry on 
sea water or rock source materials. (Anyone with access to fire and 
salt water can concentrate them.) They can also be concentrated from 
the air or from fresh water using simple mechanical "traps". You will 
find a number of links to pages which describe the results of using 
these minerals for plant growth at:

http://www.subtleenergies.com/plant-lynx.htm

The simplest method for concentrating these minerals from sea water 
is also described on the page above and other open-source methods are linked.

I think that it is also helpful to realize that growing soil 
increases carbon sequestration and that the use of these minerals 
with keyline plowing has doubled productive soil depth in one year.

The best way to guard our life on Earth may be to garden locally.

copyright 2010 Barry Carter and Journal of Sustainability

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