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Archive for perennial crops

Permaculture and Perennial Crops as a Geo-Engineering Strategy

geo-engineeringGeo-engineering has received a bad rap over the last decade as radical ideas get mixed reviews on the scientific stage.  For those not familiar, geo-engineering is a term used to describe a combination of technology, innovation and environmentalism aimed at changing the trajectory of climate change.

Historically, geo-engineering has fallen into two categories: solar radiation mitigation and carbon dioxide removal.  One strategy attempts to reduce the solar radiation received in the atmosphere by reflecting the sun’s rays.  The other strategy aims to collect and sequester carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

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Blog Action Day: Perennial Crops, Sustainable Agriculture – A 21st Century Green Revolution

I am proud to take part in Blog Action Day Oct 16, 2011 www.blogactionday.org

To help celebrate Blog Action Day 2011, I am republishing this article on sustainable agriculture that I originally wrote for Planetsave.com. GlobalWarmingisReal.com applauds the efforts of Blog Action Day to focus attention on the pressing issue of food and sustainable agriculuture

Annual wheat - Wes Jackson proposes transforming the farmscape to perennialsWhen two German scientists figured out how to how to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, in what is now known as the Haber-Bosch process, human society was, at the risk of cliche, transformed.

Considered by many as the most important invention of the 20th century, Haber-Bosch harnessed, for the first time, the abundance of nitrogen in the atmosphere, from which ammonia could be created on an industrial scale. Once oxidized, the ammonia became the nitrates used for the production of nitrate fertilizer. Human population soared through the Green Revolution of the last half of the 20th century. Read More→