We are running a special fund raiser to send at least a few people to this conference Sacred Agriculture The concepts behind much of what we do here (write here and how we support our selves) are in league with our belief that the Earth itself is sacred. In addition to sharing information through our blogs, Permaculture, ECO-Ethics, Trees (on wordpress) and ECO-Tours of Wisocnsin Inc. (here and on facebook), we also use our interactions in daily life to model behavior that honors the cornucopia that nature represents when we treat "her" well. We will be sending at least one of our author/guides to this event and we urge everyone to attend this four-day event.
To donate, to help send our guides to Sacred Agriculture, the conference, go to paypal and enter our account, tnsaladino42@ hotmail. Then, give what you can because what we learn and share there will go a long way to spreading the good news about sustainability. The knowlege we gain through participation in this event will translate into more great insight into how we can effectively transition into ways of life that affirm nature and our dependence upon clean air, soil and water to fully meet our potential. As we have said, it is our birthright to have clean air, water and soil, but getting back to the "Garden of Eden" will be difficult if we wait for the large seed companies and greedy agricultural interests guide our decisions for another generation or two. It is past time for us to wake up and realize that the mega-corporate interests don't have a shred of dignity or compassion for us or the planet. The only quality that they exemplify is self-absorbed greed.
We have begun to see the change that has been afoot for generations. The "new normal" promises to continue to be exacerbated by human activities. We are left to choose between learning as quickly as possible how to be responsible crew upon Starship Earth, or find ways to handle ever more extreme drought, floods, natural disasters and the repercussions of those changes in climate that we do not yet understand fully.
Honoring the sanctity of nature is something that comes naturally to me. If I do not "give back" at least my weight in organic material to the earth each year, I feel like I'm cheating the system that supports me. Composting and aeration of soils allows billions of organisms to thrive, each one holding a bit of water in their cells, stabilizing both the local ecology and worldwide climate. I never met a leaf pile that didn't look like a gold mine of soil nutrition to me. The precious open pollinated seed that has developed a relationship with humans down through the ages is truly sacred because it feeds us well for just a tiny investment of time and consideration. To date, we have not developed a single agricultural "chemical or compound" that has the power to feed us or keep us alive. Our quality of life and perhaps the very survival of our species depends on changing our perception. The Earth was never covered with dirt. It has always been set about with living soil. Even the oceans, the largest part of our planet have been tainted with agricultural chemicals, many of which have not been used for decades, that still wreak havoc upon natural systems.
Little did we know, the "modern age" of organic chemistry would yield products that would be touted as "life-saving" but that would unleash mayhem and suffering on our population. sadly, the giant corporations who hold patents on many of the worst offenders refuse to stop production of chemicals until long after those genies are out of their bottles. We need to consider what we will say when our grandchildren ask, "Grandpa, where were you when they poisoned our water? What were you doing when they turned the air to poison?" Or, "Why did you not put your foot down when they were sterilizing the soil?" Believing that we deserve change is potentially the most radical thing we can do. Acting on that belief is not radical, indeed, it may be the only thing that can save us from the crushing power of corporate big-wigs.
To donate, to help send our guides to Sacred Agriculture, the conference, go to paypal and enter our account, tnsaladino42@ hotmail. Then, give what you can because what we learn and share there will go a long way to spreading the good news about sustainability. The knowlege we gain through participation in this event will translate into more great insight into how we can effectively transition into ways of life that affirm nature and our dependence upon clean air, soil and water to fully meet our potential. As we have said, it is our birthright to have clean air, water and soil, but getting back to the "Garden of Eden" will be difficult if we wait for the large seed companies and greedy agricultural interests guide our decisions for another generation or two. It is past time for us to wake up and realize that the mega-corporate interests don't have a shred of dignity or compassion for us or the planet. The only quality that they exemplify is self-absorbed greed.
We have begun to see the change that has been afoot for generations. The "new normal" promises to continue to be exacerbated by human activities. We are left to choose between learning as quickly as possible how to be responsible crew upon Starship Earth, or find ways to handle ever more extreme drought, floods, natural disasters and the repercussions of those changes in climate that we do not yet understand fully.
Honoring the sanctity of nature is something that comes naturally to me. If I do not "give back" at least my weight in organic material to the earth each year, I feel like I'm cheating the system that supports me. Composting and aeration of soils allows billions of organisms to thrive, each one holding a bit of water in their cells, stabilizing both the local ecology and worldwide climate. I never met a leaf pile that didn't look like a gold mine of soil nutrition to me. The precious open pollinated seed that has developed a relationship with humans down through the ages is truly sacred because it feeds us well for just a tiny investment of time and consideration. To date, we have not developed a single agricultural "chemical or compound" that has the power to feed us or keep us alive. Our quality of life and perhaps the very survival of our species depends on changing our perception. The Earth was never covered with dirt. It has always been set about with living soil. Even the oceans, the largest part of our planet have been tainted with agricultural chemicals, many of which have not been used for decades, that still wreak havoc upon natural systems.
Little did we know, the "modern age" of organic chemistry would yield products that would be touted as "life-saving" but that would unleash mayhem and suffering on our population. sadly, the giant corporations who hold patents on many of the worst offenders refuse to stop production of chemicals until long after those genies are out of their bottles. We need to consider what we will say when our grandchildren ask, "Grandpa, where were you when they poisoned our water? What were you doing when they turned the air to poison?" Or, "Why did you not put your foot down when they were sterilizing the soil?" Believing that we deserve change is potentially the most radical thing we can do. Acting on that belief is not radical, indeed, it may be the only thing that can save us from the crushing power of corporate big-wigs.
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