Bioremediation
Bioremediation
We all have to deal with pollutants. But Nature and time will heal all wounds. Nurturing a good variety and quantity of life forms can much decrease the time needed.
A good example is what's happened at Everybody's Garden, with it's history of being near a lead smelter and the J&L mill that sat in the area we now call Hazelwood Green. A lot of the pollutants have been biodegraded via application of wood chips, cardboard, leaves, kitchen scraps, grass clippings, and manure to have surprisingly low amounts of available pollutants. Much of the synthetic organic toxics have been biodegraded, and much of the minerals have been chelated to forms which are either plant nutrients or separated by the community of life, primarily at the microbial level, so that they are not harmful. This confirms James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis, which says that the Earth as a whole acts as a self-regulating organism, a being, to re-balance and regenerate the ecosystem. There IS something, call it what you will - God, The Great Spirit, Allah, whatever, which has everything under control in a coherent, harmonious plan. That that plan includes extinctions, ipencluding now possibly we humans, need not be regarded as all bad. Some of the birds, animals, animals, and plants now existing descended from those that went extinct with the dinosaurs. The essence of our best features will be a part of the new ecosystem coming.
This time of great catastrophes is also a time of huge improvements in our technological capacities. The stresses we are all encountering serve to bring us together as one civilization to allow Earth's regeneration. It's not just the tomb. It's also the womb. A new age is dawning. We make the future better by not giving up, working together. These weather changes are part of a whole, harmonious plan.
Here are a couple of the many things we can do to make things better:
Solar radiation management. Barges, manned or robotic, may throw water from cold parts of the ocean in the air to form snow, which shades the sun - lessening the greenhouse effect;
The life in the oceans can re-diversify water ecosystems via the addition of nanoparticles of iron to feed the single-celled plants called plankton which feed larger life forms like fish. The dust that falls everywhere, including on the surface of the oceans, has all the nutrients necessary for life. Iron is the one mineral which is heavier, so most of it falls to the bottom of the ocean before being consumed by the algae plankton. But nano-particles of iron are quite light and so remain on the surface long enough to be consumed by the algae. This is a very inexpensive way to repopulate our waters with the whole community of life.
One of the reasons many scientists now concur that our species is in peril can be looked into on the internet by typing in "methane burp theory". When that comet hit the Earth, it caused a huge amount of earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and methane to be released to the atmosphere. There is a massive amount of methane frozen under the cold parts of the ocean now warming which has been frozen. It's now being released in thousands of smaller burps of "pingos", which are putting massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere. There is an amount of methane in these frozen hydrates much greater than the amount we humans have emitted. Regardless of whether we stop burning and so stop putting co2 into the atmosphere, this other greenhouse gas is our destiny - unless we put our best technological solutions into effect to change this trajectory. Believe it or not, there is serious talk now about re-freezing the Arctic to restore the Sun's being reflect away from the Earth.
I continue with the opinion that we can make a heaven on Earth, provided we all get on the same page. Robotic aerial planting of trees; re-wilding of formerly forested areas; and a new respect for all life such as insects and snakes and rabbits and rats and woodchucks ("groundhogs"), possums, raccoons, wolves, coyotes, fungi (mushrooms), skunks, pigeons (mourning doves), mice, and "weeds" - all these may help.
Even damage from radiation (of great concern now that earthquakes and weather changes are crippling nuclear power facilities and nuclear was storage areas) can be remediated with the help of, for instance, certain species of oyster mushroom inoculated with pine chips at Fukushima, as has been suggested by Paul Stamets.
A great part of the problem we face is that so many are absolutely convinced (and so, by their expectations and consequent actions based on those beliefs) make things worse. Those who are sure, for instance, that we're going extinct and there's nothing can be done about it, have stopped trying and gone passive. They are part of the problem, as are the many others who don't know how drastic the changes coming are and so don't do anything.
Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher
412-880-7237
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com
We all have to deal with pollutants. But Nature and time will heal all wounds. Nurturing a good variety and quantity of life forms can much decrease the time needed.
A good example is what's happened at Everybody's Garden, with it's history of being near a lead smelter and the J&L mill that sat in the area we now call Hazelwood Green. A lot of the pollutants have been biodegraded via application of wood chips, cardboard, leaves, kitchen scraps, grass clippings, and manure to have surprisingly low amounts of available pollutants. Much of the synthetic organic toxics have been biodegraded, and much of the minerals have been chelated to forms which are either plant nutrients or separated by the community of life, primarily at the microbial level, so that they are not harmful. This confirms James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis, which says that the Earth as a whole acts as a self-regulating organism, a being, to re-balance and regenerate the ecosystem. There IS something, call it what you will - God, The Great Spirit, Allah, whatever, which has everything under control in a coherent, harmonious plan. That that plan includes extinctions, ipencluding now possibly we humans, need not be regarded as all bad. Some of the birds, animals, animals, and plants now existing descended from those that went extinct with the dinosaurs. The essence of our best features will be a part of the new ecosystem coming.
This time of great catastrophes is also a time of huge improvements in our technological capacities. The stresses we are all encountering serve to bring us together as one civilization to allow Earth's regeneration. It's not just the tomb. It's also the womb. A new age is dawning. We make the future better by not giving up, working together. These weather changes are part of a whole, harmonious plan.
Here are a couple of the many things we can do to make things better:
Solar radiation management. Barges, manned or robotic, may throw water from cold parts of the ocean in the air to form snow, which shades the sun - lessening the greenhouse effect;
The life in the oceans can re-diversify water ecosystems via the addition of nanoparticles of iron to feed the single-celled plants called plankton which feed larger life forms like fish. The dust that falls everywhere, including on the surface of the oceans, has all the nutrients necessary for life. Iron is the one mineral which is heavier, so most of it falls to the bottom of the ocean before being consumed by the algae plankton. But nano-particles of iron are quite light and so remain on the surface long enough to be consumed by the algae. This is a very inexpensive way to repopulate our waters with the whole community of life.
One of the reasons many scientists now concur that our species is in peril can be looked into on the internet by typing in "methane burp theory". When that comet hit the Earth, it caused a huge amount of earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and methane to be released to the atmosphere. There is a massive amount of methane frozen under the cold parts of the ocean now warming which has been frozen. It's now being released in thousands of smaller burps of "pingos", which are putting massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere. There is an amount of methane in these frozen hydrates much greater than the amount we humans have emitted. Regardless of whether we stop burning and so stop putting co2 into the atmosphere, this other greenhouse gas is our destiny - unless we put our best technological solutions into effect to change this trajectory. Believe it or not, there is serious talk now about re-freezing the Arctic to restore the Sun's being reflect away from the Earth.
I continue with the opinion that we can make a heaven on Earth, provided we all get on the same page. Robotic aerial planting of trees; re-wilding of formerly forested areas; and a new respect for all life such as insects and snakes and rabbits and rats and woodchucks ("groundhogs"), possums, raccoons, wolves, coyotes, fungi (mushrooms), skunks, pigeons (mourning doves), mice, and "weeds" - all these may help.
Even damage from radiation (of great concern now that earthquakes and weather changes are crippling nuclear power facilities and nuclear was storage areas) can be remediated with the help of, for instance, certain species of oyster mushroom inoculated with pine chips at Fukushima, as has been suggested by Paul Stamets.
A great part of the problem we face is that so many are absolutely convinced (and so, by their expectations and consequent actions based on those beliefs) make things worse. Those who are sure, for instance, that we're going extinct and there's nothing can be done about it, have stopped trying and gone passive. They are part of the problem, as are the many others who don't know how drastic the changes coming are and so don't do anything.
Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher
412-880-7237
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com
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