By the time the term was recognized, the golden age of air travel had become passe, eclipsed by mundane and impersonal mass transit. What originated as something to be romantic and elite turned into a process which today is demeaning and merely a function, or series of rites designed to feign "security". This is not the only time this has occurred. My parents were around at a time when noone had televisions, but because they were some of the first to ge ton, lots of people would come to visit just to see the tee vee. Something that seemed ultra-novel and almost magical has become something we are inundated with and now almost don't recognize as the brain sucking pariah that it has become. That is why I frequently remind people that the revolution is still not being televised.
One of the difficulties that we have is to predict what the next big thing will be. It won't look like anything we can imagine. The people who will guide what it will look like have not yet found their voices. But, in pockets, across the globe there are bioneers, embarking on sustainable communities. There are geomancers, facilitating healthy relationships between humans and the environment, shamen, healing individuals and communities, curanderras working with the divine feminine to birth an evolved human community, and charmasters, devoted to healing the microbial communities that constitute soil. Evidence can be found worldwide, co-ops, schools, farms, neighborhoods and cities are working out a new way of living, one that takes a longer view of what constitutes a healthy relationship with the planet.
We continue to loosen the bonds of oligarchs. The more we learn about them, the easier it becomes to boycott them, divest from them and sanction them. We know that healing the Earth begins under our feet, at the level of soil. The process of becoming carbon neutral will not be enough. We need to actively rebuild soils and biochar will be the easiest way to do it. Especially those who routinely hang out around the campfire, making char is simple and crucial to fixing carbon in soils.
The Jet Set didn't understand that they were blowing carbon into the high atmosphere, however, the people rebuilding soils understand that they are incorporating atmospheric carbon, through dried plant material into living, healthy soils.
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| Fourteen acres per handful. Typically on an acre of healthy soil, we find as much biomass in the form of microbes as would be contained in a cow and her calf. Char holds six times it's own weight in water and acts like a nutrient sponge, holding food for plants, rather than letting it wash away. |
One of the difficulties that we have is to predict what the next big thing will be. It won't look like anything we can imagine. The people who will guide what it will look like have not yet found their voices. But, in pockets, across the globe there are bioneers, embarking on sustainable communities. There are geomancers, facilitating healthy relationships between humans and the environment, shamen, healing individuals and communities, curanderras working with the divine feminine to birth an evolved human community, and charmasters, devoted to healing the microbial communities that constitute soil. Evidence can be found worldwide, co-ops, schools, farms, neighborhoods and cities are working out a new way of living, one that takes a longer view of what constitutes a healthy relationship with the planet.
We continue to loosen the bonds of oligarchs. The more we learn about them, the easier it becomes to boycott them, divest from them and sanction them. We know that healing the Earth begins under our feet, at the level of soil. The process of becoming carbon neutral will not be enough. We need to actively rebuild soils and biochar will be the easiest way to do it. Especially those who routinely hang out around the campfire, making char is simple and crucial to fixing carbon in soils.
The Jet Set didn't understand that they were blowing carbon into the high atmosphere, however, the people rebuilding soils understand that they are incorporating atmospheric carbon, through dried plant material into living, healthy soils.
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