Sustainable Ecology Environments, Communities & Being * Healthy ecosystems healthy people  * Urban carbon traps * Urband water traps * Autarkic self-sufficient communities * Holistic business ethic Electric Ecology Renewable power and water   We live in an electric universe, even our thoughts have a charge - no wonder we use electricity for everything! Whether it's solar or wind, nuclear or coal, it all ends up as electricity... with the exception of ecological engines (natural sun driven system found in nature).

Eternal Ecology Streams of ecology, Systems, Knowledge, Wisdom Quantum science and spirituality Compassion and the world knows itself. Evolving Ecology The Interconnectedness  The evolving awakening and reflection of people on itself and ecology; our history, present and future. Honesty, trust, feelings. A deep truth is unfolding, terror is manipulating  us to feel the un-felt emotions buried for good reason, at the time, survival - yet but to survive now we must remember what we saw in the mirror and who we are because the secret of evolution is found there.

Future Ecology Scenarios with positive visions  Better decisions start from better visions, and such visions need ecological perspectives. Future Ecology looks back from the past and into the future giving us answers we need today. Dare to dream, dare to pray - be a part of the cosmic dance of light and dark information. Renewable Ecology Soil Carbon Sequestration Could Renewable Soil Carbon Sequestration be the secret weapon the world is looking for? Look at the soil, is it healthy moist and rich, or is it dry cracked and sandy? Planting native plants will help restore the soil, for they are used to dry conditions - and get the real dirt on the 100's of billions of microbes that support our life systems and their relationship with worms.

IS CO2 POLLUTION? OR IS THERE 2 MUCH CO2? I have to admit - the weatherman seems to be getting better with his predictions - and the weather isn't like it used to be (outside my window) in Sydney January 2008. It would appear the climate has changed. The cause of this is purportedly man-made because we are burning coal and oil and polluting the planet increasing CO2 levels feeding the greenhouse and trapping the suns heat. That what the global weathermen tell you, that's the essentially the message. I don't know if we are warmer - in fact we didn't have a summer this year, January 2008, very mild, (lovely in Sydney) - the climate has certainly changed for us in Sydney. We are told excess CO2 is the cause of global warming. There's too much pollution!! Pollution is driving global warming - there's too much CO2!! The real essense of the message is being obscured or blurred with the inference of polution and it's not. It wasn't pollution before... what's changed? Quite simply we have... more! CO2 is still part of the carbon cycle - there's just more now. And the opposite is true, not enough CO2, and we would be cold. A comfortable temperature is found with the right amount of CO2 level... but once again, the answer is we have more than before... so we are warming. CO2 acts as a blanket and traps the  suns heat within the atmosphere - with more CO2 the blanket is thicker trapping more heat than usual - again we have more CO2. Whether CO2 is pollution or not, the blurr shifts your focus away from the carbon cycle. But once you see global warming through the eyes of the carbon cycle, carbon sequestration will take on a new light and predictably herald in the 21st Century Gold Rush. ->

WE ARE LIVING IN A CARBON CYCLE! But what has actually changed? We breath in oxygen and breath out CO2. All animals do - and plants breath in CO2 and expel air - so we can breath. It's a cycle. CO2 is part of the cycle of life - and it still is. Next time you hear news about how CO2 is pollution, you know it's nothing of the sort, it's an essential part of our lives... it's just that there's more. Don't get me wrong, too much CO2 will kill you, but so will too much oxygen or water... but the excess CO2 in the atmosphere will not kill you. It is just going to warm the planet because it's stuck up there amplifying the greenhouse effect because it has no other place to go. Normally it would flow along to wherever it usually goes - but no it's just hanging around up there causing warming. But where does it usually go?   CO2 is heavier than air, that's why it sinks to the surface of the planet - right down to the *ground - where it is transformed with the help of light and photosynthesis into plants trees shrubs soil seaweed algae and just about everything - we are living carbon on a living carbon planet factory. Trees grow big, die, return to the earth, get carbon crushed over millions of years and becomes gases coals, oils and diamonds - it's all carbon. Because soil relies on chemicals derived from oil to grow the crops that we eat - when the oil runs out - so does the food. ->

SOIL MANAGEMENT There's too much CO2 in the atmosphere and it's causing the planet to warm. As with all systems we must keep clear the passage of travel - the heart pumps blood, but the arteries and veins need to be clear to allow the passage of blood to flow - any blockage and the body breaks down. The same applies to the planet - the planet's carbon heart pumps carbon from gas to liquid to solid - we dig it up, burn it and release the energy - and the gas - again - that's why there's more gas - and to work properly - to flow - the passage for CO2 needs to be clear. Otherwise we have a build up of CO2 in the atmosphere - just hanging around because it has no other place to go - the sea is full - the sky is full - the ocean is difficult - and the ground is dry. Any electrical engineer or school kid interested in electronics could guess, when there's too much heat generated by the circuit... "What we need is a heat sink", and they'd be right! The soil is usually a heat sink - and it's essential that we understand that soil has changed: to see the possibility that if man made the soil poor, then man can make the soil rich again. That's what is different. That's what has changed. Farming soil is different now than at any other time and mismanagement of grazing lands have left soils depleted. Farming and mismanagement of soils' role in the cycle of carbon - essentially, has been reversed. Soil has since millenium been a carbon sequester - breathing in carbon and burying it to become coal or oil - but now it has become a carbon emitter - farming soil is dependant upon chemical subsidy and can be more nutrient rich than the soil - but it's reversible, because it's man made, it can be un-man made. As the world marvels at the pace China is moving, China sets the example of what is achievable. All we need is the attitude of China. Fix the soil and we fix (or temporarily fix) global warming (because soil also has a limit to how much CO2 it can hold) but soil can re-balance the system and cool the planet - and that's it in a nutshell. Using soil as a carbon sink is a win win because we can produce more food and cool the globe, and this will buy the time needed while we changover to renewable energy. *But because the ground isn't accepting CO2 right now - it rejects the CO2 trying to nest and the CO2 has to hang around waiting for some decent soil to flow into.

THE GREENING OF THE PLANET So, I ask. We all agree we have too much CO2 in the atmosphere but is this caused by the burning of fossil fuels or do we have a blockage in the carbon cycle? It all equates to too much CO2 and comes with the same consequence of global warming but which is it? The answer is both. The good news is if we restore soil to it's natural healthy state on a global scale with soil management, soil would absorb all the excess CO2, plants would thrive and be able to grow more food, and all that greening will cool the globe...  and importantly we will buy the time to changover to renewables. How do we do this, you might ask?

Increased Photosynthetic Capacity Reverses Global Warming "Decreased soil carbon levels have been recorded worldwide under most current broadacre cropping and grazing regimes. This soil carbon has been emitted to the atmosphere. It is sobering to compare the CO2 emissions from soil with those from the burning of fossil fuels. Dr Rattan Lal, Professor of Soil Science at Ohio State University and Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, USA, has calculated that 476 Gt of carbon has been emitted from farmland soils due to inappropriate farming and grazing practices, compared with 270 Gt emitted from over 150 years of burning of fossil fuels. These trends can be reversed by increasing the photosynthetic capacity of the landscape through the adoption of Yearlong Green Farming (YGF) techniques." Christine Jones, PhD Founder, Carbon For Life Inc. www.amazingcarbon.com Increased Photosynthetic Dr Rattan Lal Director Carbon Management and Sequestration Center/FAES, OARDC The Ohio State University             "Actions that improve soil and water quality, enhance agronomic productivity and reduce net emissions of greenhouse gases are truly a win-win situation. It is true that soil C sequestration is a short-term solution to the problem of gaseous emissions. In the long term, reducing emissions from the burning of fossil fuels by developing alternative energy sources is the only solution. For the next 50 years, however, soil C sequestration is a very cost-effective option, a “bridge to the future” that buys us time in which to develop those alternative energy options." SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION BY AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY LAND USES TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE http://epw.senate.gov/108th/Lal_070803.htm

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