BioEverything

Plant a plentiful future, with seed mudball bombs.

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:59:00 +0000

The revolutionary's peace bomb - Throw this at your nearest derelict property or corporate or military enclave
http://www.guerrillagardener.it/hello-world
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http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/Home/26883
...the Europe heat event of 2003 caused more than 35,000 deaths...
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http://bldgblog.blogspot.com

We're part of nature.

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:12:00 +0000

Re "naturally caused," humans beings are part of nature, so it's schizy to use this language of did we cause global warming or did "Nature." If people understood that co2 holds in heat, the argument as to its source is unnecessary. The most important concept is that everything is connected by cause and effect.

This too shall pass.

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:25:00 +0000

Define yourself as happy? Unhappy? Next!
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People in the United States have become enraptured with (enslaved by, addicted to) the illusion that it can't happen here.

9/29/9
oxfam.ca/news-and-publications/pressroom/press-releases/oxfam-launches-16-5m-appeal-for-east-africa

"...failed rains have left more than 23 million...facing severe hunger...Oxfam’s East Africa director Paul Smith Lomas...blamed climate change for the persistent five-year drought...."

Enlivening your land

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:12:00 +0000

Jim McCue to hazelwoodeditor@yahoo.com
for
http://hazelwoodhomepage.com

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Want a garden? Make soil.

Among the many changes going on at this point in history is the loss of
topsoil. There is little chance nowadays to buy really healthy
topsoil. You can approach it by buying peat, or letting manure or mushroom
manure break ...down. You can buy compost, if you can afford it, and
apply it to your dirt; that will lead toward turning dirt into living
soil. But the best thing to do is learn what makes good soil. That
way you can have more of it.

Our culture is so materialistic that most of us think that a good soil
will have such and such amounts of certain nutrients. But while
quantities of nutrients are important, the real heart of healthy soil
is that it is alive. Alive? Soil? Yes, alive.

A healthy patch of land
will have such a vast quantity and diversity of life (most too small to
see) that you could almost call it a civilization.

The various parts acted out by the plants, animals and microbes in
this great drama are what make a soil productive. For instance, if a
plant doesn't have certain fungi and bacteria on and/or in its roots,
it can't absorb nutrients. Some of these nutrients are in the soil,
but some are actually made by the bacteria. Enormously powerful
enzymes are created by living things, and these help chemical reactions
that result in the absorption of nutrients into the plants. If you
have bare dirt with little living in it or on it, seeds may sprout but
they won't thrive.

So many people nowadays say they don't have a green thumb. Their
hands are not the problem. It's that they've never seen real soil.
You can't plant in dirt that's dead and expect life to come out of it.
Start with inoculating your soil with whatever life forms you have.
Encourage the bugs we've too often been brainwashed into thinking are
ugly. Every living thing through the course of its life helps to
change bare dirt to fertile soil - by feeding, breathing, excreting,
digging, dying, and eventually rotting away as it becomes food for
other life forms. Want a fish farm? Start with a worm farm. Feed
those little things with any organic matter you can scrounge up.

Anything that was or is alive is organic and can contribute to the
community of life at the soil level.

Start feeding one animal, like an earthworm, and the next thing you
know you'll be attracting other animals - like birds, who like to eat
them. This is where it gets dicey, as we all know certain animals,
plants, and bugs we don't want. Although returning organic material
to the earth is at the heart of soil building - and absolutely
necessary if we are to survive the ocean and earth ecosystem collapse
currently taking place - the nurturing of life will if not managed
properly allow overbalances of unwanted life forms. Rats,
mosquitoes, snakes, groundhogs, raccoons, deer, foxes, and flies are
all part of nature, but must be kept in check by their natural
predators.

The most important basic of creating a healthy soil is to know that
most microbes, from a human point of view, are either directly or
indirectly beneficial. Contrary to the popular view that all "germs"
are bad (encouraged by chemical sellers that equate sterile with
clean), the vast majority of molds and bacteria are functioning parts
of our world (including in our digestive systems) and serve to produce
our food (and even synthesize nutrients in our digestive tracts -
"probiotics").

Just as through fear we have come to have prejudices against different
people, we also have learned a lot of fears of natural things that are
not true. Animals in and of themselves are not bad; it's the diseases
they can carry. It's a long established scientific fact that, just
as in a diverse ecosystem the hawks and the snakes keep each other in
check, predator/prey relationships and competition in the microscopic
world at soil level actually suppress disease because of the variety of
life in a healthy soil.

Take an organic waste like unpainted cardboard or plain brown paper,
soak it in water, and you have the beginning of an ecosystem.
Cardboard and paper are made from trees (an increasingly precious
resource at this point in history) and are mostly carbon. Add the
water and you've got food and water for some simple life forms. Place
your wet cardboard or paper somewhere in contact with the dirt and the
next thing you'll see is worms and bugs and mold multiplying on it.
Put a seed on top and cover with some more dirt and you've got a start.
Next thing you know you'll have a hungry crew of cardboard and paper
eaters - from "potato bugs" to "hundred leggers" and you'll have to go
get them some more food.

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Jim McCue

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com

http://bioeverything.blogspot.com

http://facebook.com/alllifelover

Bagpipes playing in my heart

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:45:00 +0000

It's the

Coming of the Greens

Grow plants - trees, algae, whatever, just as long as it's green.

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http://sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0407-possible_fix_for_global_warming.htm
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http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11 /091111083055.htm
"...recommends slowing...the “green loss effect” through the planting of millions of trees in urbanized areas and through the protection and regeneration of global forests outside of urbanized regions. Forested areas provide the combined benefits of directly cooling
the atmosphere and of absorbing greenhouse gases, leading to additional cooling. Green architecture in cities, including green roofs and more highly reflective construction materials, would further contribute to a
slowing of warming rates. Stone envisions local and state governments taking the lead in addressing the land use drivers of climate change, while the federal government takes the lead in implementing carbon
reduction initiatives..."
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Kickstart the Economy with Green

Some say we're recovering from the Wall Street crash. They're wrong. The environmental changes coming are so drastic they will make impossible any return to the "good old days" when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer and the rest of nature just got the hell out of the way or died. This time we human beings - all of us - are in for a tough ride. We never did succeed in subjugating nature, and the Earth itself is starting to make the point by giving us the challenge of our lives.

Take ozone layer thinning, for instance. We deluded ourselves into thinking we had that problem about licked by banning certain chemicals. And it was getting better. But keeping the heat in the lower atmosphere makes the upper atmosphere colder, and ozone-destroying chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere are faster at colder temperatures. So the greenhouse effect is making the ozone layer thinning problem worse also.

How many economists have, do you think, factored into their predictions the interaction between the ozone layer thinning and the greenhouse effect? The economic effects of World War 1 and the 1929 stock market crash and World War 2 and the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion and the 9/11 attacks and the Katrina hurricane and so many other disasters were all unexpected by people thinking inside the box of the financial markets. But they were all predictable had people not planted their own heads so firmly in the sand. When we put on our tunnel vision glasses by defining ourselves as separate from each other, and so fight with increasingly advanced tools, bigger tragedies can be expected. Throughout our history as a species, a moment's pause from our relatively little battles would have shown that we're steadily losing the war as a whole. The Earth's ecosystem is collapsing. We're challenged by historic
bigger-than-ever catastrophes. And - because we keep thinking inside the box in so many ways - we still keep going the same way.

The only way we have a chance to save our own, our loved ones, and our children's lives and futures is by working together to reverse course as fast as we can. What am I talking about? Stop mowing lawns. Refuse to buy another car built to run on anything other than biofuel or electricity. Stop filling landfills and waterways and (ultimately) oceans with pet, livestock and human organic waste. Stop manufacturing plastic and make bioplastic instead. Put white collar criminals - such as those pushing new and even more dangerous weaponry - into incarceration to stop them from hurting more people and other life forms. Start manufacturing composting toilets. Stop chopping down trees. Stop trimming trees unless you absolutely have to. Stop buying fertilizers, pesticides, and lawn mowers. Let those plants grow, wherever they grow, and stop calling the unexpected ones weeds. We need all the plant growth we can nurture to suck up the excess carbon
dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. And we need to stop putting more carbon dioxide and other pollutants there. We don't need the bloody nice and neat lawns; let them grow back to woodsy areas. Stop killing animals except when you absolutely have to. Each and every plant and animal on Earth has a reason for being and a contribution it can make to the ecosystem as a whole. Encourage a variety of life forms to keep each other in check so that one species such as the salmonella or cockroach or bedbug or rat doesn't become overbalanced. Make our elected representatives encourage energy conservation and wind and solar, and make them stop subsidizing dirty coal and other fossil fuels, and dirty and unsafe nuclear. We are in a world of trouble at this point in history, and what Wall Street is doing at the moment hardly matters. The markets won't work at all if we get the superdroughts and superstorms and massive heat waves and forest fires and
famines and epidemics that are coming if we continue treating our fellow life forms - plant and animals - as just things to be used.

We each can (need) to go full steam ahead to grow as much plant life as possible - to absorb the excess co2. And our economic development decisionmakers need to encourage biological processes that use carbon dioxide to produce food and fuel.

Oh, and happy holidays. Worse comes to worse, even if we do go ahead and extinct ourselves along with all the other species we've been killing off, the Universe is even bigger than the Earth and we haven't figured how to destroy that...yet.
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Come and get me, Copper!

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:22:00 +0000

I drink raw milk (sold illegally on the underground market)

grist.org/article/2009-11-03-i-drink-raw-milk-sold-illegally-on-the-underground-market

...Isn't it curious that at this juncture in our culture's evolution, we collectively believe Twinkies, Lucky Charms, and Coca-Cola are safe foods, but compost-grown tomatoes and raw milk are not? With legislation moving through Congress..

...the industrial food system is... demonizing, criminalizing, and marginalizing the integrity food movement...

Love is magic. Work it.

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:13:00 +0000

From:

The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
by Jane S. Smith
janessmith.com

page 262
...in 1924, Swami Paramahansa Yogananda...called on Burbank in Santa Rosa several times. Over twenty years later, he would dedicate..."Autobiography of a Yogi," to "Luther Burbank, an American Saint," and devote an entire chapter ("A Saint Amid the Roses") to their discussions of the spirit that flowed through the universe. According to the yogi, Burbank told him "the secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love." Yogananda also said Burbank confided he could heal the sick and communicate with the dead...David Fairchild, the USDA plant explorer...declared himself nonplussed when Burbank told him that he, his mother, and his sister all shared powers of clairvoyance...mystic seekers like Yogananda were happy to endorse Burbank's vision of universal harmony...

page 193
From
The Training of the Human Plant

..."Every child," Burbank wrote, "should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud-turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, waterlilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best of his education"...

The "authorities" claim to be wise

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:02:00 +0000

From Phyllis Georgic, homeopath:
My DAD hallucinated after a recent FLU VACCINE
Thu Oct 15, 2009
On October 2, 2009, my dad (age 84 years) was given a flu shot against his better judgement as the assistance of the the MDs at the VA Hospital here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He explained that he was not interested in a flu shot because when he was injected with one in the NAVY during WWII he had hallucinations from it. They told him that was not going to happen this time and that he needed it to protected him from the flu because of his feeble state of health due to his severe heart condition of extreme blockage of his heart.

So he allowed them to give him the shot and within hours afterward he became tired with body aches as though he had the flu and her began to hallucinate about various things. He thought there was a tractor in the field in front of his house knocking down trees. And he was yelling at my Mother telling her that "she was going to pay for the nasty stuff she was doing to him" when my sister just came to take her to the hospital for her blood work. Something about "put away the dishes now, look at all the people who are coming in".. meaning the house. He thought there were crowds of visitors arriving at his home and he did not feel that the place was presentable. He was telling my mother that she was lazy in not cleaning for the guests.

So my sisters forced him to go to the hospital where they did all sorts of tests thinking that he had overdosed on a pain medication that they had prescribed for him. After a three day stay at the hospital they did not find an reason for his behavior.

For those two or three days he was there is was seeing multiple doctors around his bed and large crowds of people everywhere. He claimed that there were ducks all over his hospital room and he was claiming to be giving a young boy sections of orange, which the child refused to take and then he said the child was running away from him thinking that he was the devil.

When I was called about this through my daughter-in-law (because my sisters do not wish to speak to me about any vaccine or medication screw up with my parents due to my stand on allopathic medicine I immediately called my Mother who was upset to the point of despair. "I don't know what to do. Should I just give up or what"? was her plaintive cry to me. She explained about the vaccine and what my father was telling the doctors about the vaccine. She claimed that she did not wish to take the vaccine herself and would refuse it when they attempted to push it on her. My mother was telling me that when my father explained this to my sisters they were telling him that he probably had a UTI recommending that he drink lots of water. "I have been drinking water. This is because of the FLU SHOT. I will get over it. Just leave me alone", he retorted.

When I called my sister to ask about this conversation, she insisted that my parents are just confused and really don't know what they are talking about. "Daddy was having Mummy give him his meds and she probably gave him the METHADONE that Daddy doesn't like to take that was prescribed for his back pain. He is saying that his back is painful but not that much and he is refusing to give the Nurses any more urine because they screwed up where the last samples were sent doing TWO Urine cultures looking for a UTI.. They want to look for narcotics and think that the Methadone is the reason. Daddy has a UTI, I am sure", my youngest sister insisted.

I got this story out of my father on Tuesday, October 12th when I called and spoke directly to him. He seems to be fine now yet insistent that this was a pattern of old that happened to him when he was younger and he was frustrated because the MDs refused to believe him or acknowledge that the vaccine was the culprit. He knows what I feel about vaccines and he scoffs at me over my understanding about vaccines and their dangers. He had takes any opportunity to ridicule me about my "beliefs". I had to remind him about the "heart attack" that I had in 1976 when I was 24 years old due to the the Swine Flu vaccine. He was speechless after I mentioned that and said, "Well here's your mother", and handed the phone off to her when I trying to get back his attention wanting to speak with him further. Then I heard my mother say something to him like, "she is just going on about the vaccines and how bad they are and why won't we listen". She nervously chuckled and then spoke to me, telling me that she was not going to get the vaccine herself. I hope that she is telling me the truth.

My daughter-in law just called asking me about co workers at her place of employment who are getting the vaccine asking me how susceptible she and my grand daughter would be to them breathing and working around her to the Swine Flu. I am pleased that my children are able to understand these issues and are aware of the panic associated with our latest "pandemic" mongering by the authorities...

Please refer to the email that I sent out about Dealing with all strains of the flu with HOMEOPATHY. I am sending it as an attachment to this piece as well.. Please pass it around to those you love,... Just delete it if you have saved it from a few days ago when I sent it out the first time... It is a great piece. I worked on it for your benefit... Please use it...

Love, Blessings and Peace all,

Phyllis 1.724.887.4001 or 1.412.708.2167

It's Karma time; celebrate the Earth, and work (and struggle).

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:00 +0000

Rather than say "We're fucked!" as some scientists are saying privately, we each need to concentrate on doing what we can, as best we can. Do the work you enjoy - that's what you'll be good at. And leave your fears about what you can't do to God or Love or the Universe or whatever your way is of describing this incredibly beautiful living All that we're a part of.

grist.org/article/2009-10-13-a-scary-new-climate-study-will-have-you-saying-oh-shit

...study says the United States must cut emissions 100 percent by 2020—in other words, quit carbon entirely within 10 years...

Terrorism 101

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:03:00 +0000

Fearmongering - causing fear to make money

The '76 swine flu scare is one of so many examples of how we have been terrorized into becoming afraid of everything - of each other, of plants and animals, of bugs, of sex, of life itself, even of ours...elves and our own shadows. They had us scared bats carried disease, so we killed them off (hired companies to do so); now, as the bats decline we treasure them for their bug-eating capacity...We're scared to death of bugs, so we kill them off, so now the bees and other crop-pollinators are declining so it's harder to grow food...Such frightened suckers we've so often been...

page 112
"...Testament to the force of germ theory to awaken innate anxieties about nature, the 1918 flu remains exhibit A when people seek to frighten us about potential virus-borne catastrophe today. Evidence came in the form of the swine flu affair, a 1976 federal campaign to immunize every American against a strain of flu that was, supposedly, identical to the 1918 strain. The effort ended, after only 45 million Americans had been immunized, because of a near-complete absence of cases of the illness caused by the supposedly recrudescent flu strain and the possibility that the immunization induced an ascending paralysis called Guillain-Barre syndrome in hundreds of vaccine recipients. The U.S. government paid out nearly $93 million in legal settlements and lost judgments to claimants who said they had been injured by the vaccine..."
http://philipalcabes.com

KEEP THE LIBRARIES OPEN

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0000

to hazelwoodeditor@yahoo.com
for hazelwoodhomepage.com
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Just about everyone in Pittsburgh with ears knows there are 5 libraries closing. Nearly everyone who thinks about it is angry. What do we the wiser thinking people do with all the energy of this anger?

When there was a decision to build another coke plant in Hazelwood, the fear and anger slowly grew to become almost unmanageable. Veterans of the controversy share strong emotions still remembering it. People called each other some very uncivil names, and it at times came near to violence. When you're dealing with your child having emergency visits to the hospital at pollution incidents (when the old mill was running), or not being able to afford higher education for that child because you're an out-of-work steelworker, you're dealing with life and death issues. We managed that energy by knocking on doors, gathering disease and mortality statistics of those living closest to the pollution, demanding the Health Deparment see us as more than numbers, organizing and attending meetings, talking, demonstrating, and - at times - hollering it out, because hollering is better than no communication at all. It was an exercise in democracy I'm grateful for having had. We learned we are a community, with common concerns. And we learned that corporations can be extremely powerful, brutally uncaring, and dishonest.

By coming to respect each other, we forged a new relationship with the city, county and state governments. We became stakeholders by refusing to just accept every decision that comes down the pike. We have to display that same power now by refusing to allow Hazelwood to go one day without a library. The government's not going to save us; we're going to have to do it ourselves.

Our schools are closed. We no longer have a grocery store. Who would want to invest here now ? How dare they the distant deciders presume to make wise decisions for us. Don't they see the children with skinny legs, asthma inhalers, diabetes and heart problems? No wonder they don't want to get out of their cars as they hurry down Second Avenue - they're afraid they might learn something. God, these children are so beautiful despite their problems. Where do you think they're going to go if they can't go to the library?

Just as with the closing of our library, the decision to build another coke oven in Hazelwood was "a done deal" most felt helpless to resist. They, the money people, were going to build it, and the politicians were rolling with it - until we got a little crazy. We spoke (and hollered) out of turn when authorities said things we knew weren't true.

Suited corporate representatives lost our respect when we realized they were being deceptive about the amount of pollution expected from the new mill. Now someone is "telling tall tales" (as President Obama so diplomatically puts it), to say there's no money to keep these little branch libraries open, all the while big building projects are sprouting all over town to service the entertainment "needs" of those who can afford more than the simple food, shelter, clothing, and education that some of us are struggling with. Rather than call them liars, let's just say they fail to notice the discrepancies.

Public anger is on the rise. We have so much to deal with already. It's like that brief footage we've all seen of the young black protester being jacked up against the wall who fights back. It's like when the Redcoats started losing the War of Independence. It's like when development up Centre Avenue got stopped at what is now called Freedom Corner - by people saying no further, you're not going past here, we're not going to let you, PERIOD. It's when you realize you've nothing to lose because the money mad are going to take everything you have left if you let them.

How can anyone be so focused on money as to decide to close working libraries in financially stressed neighborhoods?

When the library at Alexandria burned, people lost track of the fact that past civilizations - in many ways more advanced than our present one - destroyed themselves.

Just as gardeners know that plants miniaturize themselves if not given enough room, we have to a great extent lost our memories and stopped considering the future. It's so difficult to plan when you live day-to-day in a state of conflict - budgets and businesses collapsing, homes being taken from people, more and more weapons being manufactured and bought, I could go on and on. We need to consider that, as referred to in the Bible and other spiritual traditions, the planet has seen catastrophe before caused by human conflict. We need to learn of that quiet warning from the past.

Do not shut down the centers of communication.

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Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/alllifelover

"STOP FIGHTING, OR ELSE!" - ~God

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:54:00 +0000

Please read the following vis-a-vis the fact that humanity now has electromagnetic weapons. Nikola Tesla was said to have had his papers confiscated at death by the U.S. secret service. Part of the back story of the history of censorship is that the classification (and making it proprietary information) of technology that is able to be used for either destructive or constructive purposes - "dual-use" - has resulted in a public for the most part ignorant even of the name of one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. And he lived and worked right here in Pittsburgh. Also notice the description of the being nowadays referred to as Gaia.
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From:
Atlantis: the Eighth Continent
by Charles Berlitz 1984

page208

...The desruction of Earth recounted in the old legends of the world may have been a direct result of focusing and harnessing the magnetic energy of the Earth, almost as though the Earth itself, like a vast sentient entity, had shaken off the man-made forces that were channeling and restraining its natural ones. Something similar to this rejection has occurred in modern times when earthquakes have persistently struck areas where atomic wastes have been buried or when underground nuclear explosions seem to have triggered almost simultaneous earthquakes hundreds of miles distant.

In modern times the idea of a usable electromagnetic grid spread over the surface of the Earth has been considered not only by science fiction writers but also by some scientists. Nikola Tesla, the genius who invented alternating current and who gave his name to the tesla coil, may have been following a similar line of investigation in his experiments with electricity without wires and the relationship between harmonic sound and power. In the course of his experiments with electronics and harmonics in his Manhattan laboratory, Tesla attracted such violent lightning and thunder storms in his immediate vicinity that local residents demanded that the police stop these unsettling experiments. On another occasion harmonic vibrations that he had apparently engendered shook the whole neighborhood like an earthquake. (This same eminent researcher once stated that the attainment of a proper harmonic frequency could destroy the Earth.)...

One is reminded of legends...in the distant past the axis of the Earth had changed...resulting...catastrophes...In a world in which science, as it advances, is constantly changing its concepts of space, matter, force, and even time, we should not deny the possibility that at some time in the past discoveries were made that will be made again in the future. As Einstein observed, time may be curved, and the events in time and time itself may come together again - a seeming impossibility, although no more illogical or unexplainable than time itself. In our day we may be witnessing the completion of this cosmic circle...
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Re the Great Flood mentioned in the Bible:
atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=651.0

no sugar in my lemonade, please

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:44:00 +0000

Put people to work in the new economy:

http://cleantech.com/news/4775/cuts-blade-vestas-isle-wight
Vestas Wind Systems is cancelling plans to retool a U.K. factory...citing tough economic market conditions...

We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:54:00 +0000

"...The Earth as a whole, the geat metabolism, has survived because
diverse species...insurance...alternative ways to keep the system going
in the face of change...tiny plankton...ehux...helps maintain the
planetary metabolism..helps maintain the heat balance of the planet..."

~Dianne Dumanoski, from

The End of the Long Summer

Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

http://diannedumanoski.com

the heart of the big picture

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:41:00 +0000

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The whole world has to change direction, NOW. If you're not working to heal Earth, you're not working.
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"My heart breaks for city kids with their shields in the form of attitudes,
apathy and disrespect. It's gotta be tough carrying all that armor."
~Juliette Jones
pittsburghfoodforests.blogspot.com

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safeco2.org
"...Earth's biodiversity dropped 30% in 35 years...If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted...CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm..."
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From:

The End of the Long Summer:
Why we must remake our civilization to survive on a volatile Earth

by Dianne Dumanoski 2009

scribd.com/doc/17355895/The-End-of-the-Long-Summer-by-Dianne-Dumanoski-Scribd-Excerpt

"...Accelerating climate change signals a far deeper problem - the growing human burden on ALL of the fundamental planetary processes that together make up a single, self-regulating Earth......"
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Soil, Earth's belly

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:14:00 +0000

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The Real Dirt on Farmer John
angelicorganics.com/ao/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179&Itemid=307
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Think greenhouses.

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:09:00 +0000

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Let's build greenhouses

Unlike many waiting helplessly for the powers-that-be to save them, some of us are in gear and working to make things better, regardless of whether we're being paid. At a time of instability, the thing to do is not to become paralyzed with fear. It's to do what you can - the best you can - whatever you're good at (that's what you enjoy the most). If we panic and stop trying to provide useful goods and services to each other, with the reasoning that it's no use, then we become part of the problem.

I want greenhouses in Hazelwood, and we could be making greenhouses for others. Both of these are moneymakers as long as we have a functioning economy. If the economy fails and we have a depression, we'd still have the greenhouses.

A greenhouse can be used to grow food when you can't afford to buy it. It's a season-extender. Growing plants use carbon dioxide, something we've got way too much of. Greenhouses can lessen our addiction to the corporate bottom lines that has such insane effects as people growing garlic in China to ship all the way here when we could be growing our own.

We can build greenhouses, with or without money.

Don't say "You can't do that" when somebody tells you, for example, that we can do without coal and it's pollution.

Farmer Darrell Frey
http://bioshelter.com
http://sustainabledesign.net
turned chemically ill farmland into paradisical productive ecosystem like it was before we modern humans started messing with it. He pioneered the use of composting indoors to warm his greenhouse, and high co2 levels from composting can help plants grow better.

A greenhouse can be a way to lessen pollution, whether from carbon dioxide or from other pollutants made growing food far away and shipping it here. To the extent we grow our own, we're saving life on Earth from the abrupt climate change that looks to me like it's going to become unbelievably bad.

But how can we do things without money? When inflation went through the roof in pre-WW2 Spain, the cooperative spirit that arose actually had things running MORE efficiently for awhile. Everybody, realizing the common emergency, worked together. People helped each other without the intermediary of a functioning money system. They called it anarchism.

Don't like bad news? Either grow up or move to another planet. We have plenty of bad news here on Earth, and your fear-caused ignorance is part of the cause of it. Here's some bad news for you, and you need to handle it:

The interactions between environmental changes such as global warming is making all systems unstable. An example is the relationship between the greenhouse effect and ozone layer thinning - two trends which are normally considered apart. Ozone layer thinning happens in the upper atmosphere because it's cold up there. Well, the greenhouse effect, because it keeps heat near the surface of the Earth - in the lower atmosphere - is actually making it even colder in the upper atmosphere. So the chemical reactions that thin the ozone layer are speeded up by the colder temperatures there. What a nightmare! We've got to stop almost all burning - coal, gas, oil, biofuel, whatever. And even that won't stop the increased levels of greenhouse gases from for instance carbon dioxide and methane being emitted by formerly frozen areas. Some feedback effects are good, such as increased photosynthesis in some areas of land and sea due to increased co2 availability and warmer temperatures; but the overall loss of stability bodes massive stress for all species. So we must go back to basics and back to the drawing board with doing what we can, high-tech or low, to deal with changes.

So my strategy is to do what I can to grow food. If I see some clear material available I want it for "greenhousing." A polyethylene tarp over my teeny garden (about thirty by thirty foot) would protect from some of the wild weather we all have in store. I could maybe grow some food nearly year round. A farmer's work is never done. You can compost year-round. Anyone involved with REAL farming knows that if you intend to get the most out of your land, you never put it "to bed for the winter." Let nature do that. When it's too cold to grow, you have to stop growing. I always get a kick out of people who shut down their gardens and even pull up their tomato plant as early as September, regardless of the weather and regardless of whether the plants are still producing. Duh, did you notice reality wasn't working the way your mind expected it to? Sorry to be rude, but I've had it up to here with people spreading can'ts around. Oh, you can't compost meat products for the garden, you can't use manure in the city, you can't grow enough food to make it worthwhile, you can't fight city hall, you can't make a car that doesn't run on gasoline, solar power isn't feasible this far north, there's not enough wind around here for cheap wind power, geothermal isn't viable in this area, and on and on and et cetera. Oh, and they say it takes months for waste biomass to compost. Au contraire! It depends on the situation. They say some pollutants persist in a soil for years - another false assumption. Given the proper circumstances, such as a bioreactor with the right circumstances - the right amount of water, the right temp, the right amount of oxygen, mixing, the right species of microbe - biomass and the pollutants in it can degrade in days rather than years.

The fact is we could have Heaven on Earth instead of what we have, because we're too busy competing to remember the most easy, natural thing - love.
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We need the good bugs.

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:30:00 +0000

From

International Union of Soil Sciences
iuss.org

...The roots of most plants are colonized by symbiotic fungi to form mycorrhiza, which play a critical role in the capture of nutrients from the soil and therefore in plant nutrition...

gittin the right bugz

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:04:00 +0000

http://loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00036&segmentID=6
...one of the hardest things...to recognize is the idiocy of flush toilets...a lot of water...spread disease...require a huge amount of energy. Here in California a fifth of the energy in the state goes towards treating and lifting and moving and warming water...adopt their approach to water...give it the kind of value that they do...composting toilets..turn our human waste into an asset...the lesson from the Bushmen...
~James Workman
Heart of Dryness:
How the last Bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought
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http://loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00036&segmentID=7
west nile virus...through exposure, birds and humans may be developing a natural immunity...

The Garden was a Farm

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:34:00 +0000

From:

A Reenchanted World:
The quest for a new kinship with Nature

jameswilliamgibson.com
page 252

...Moreover, enchantment gives mythic resonance to the great difficulties facing grand-scale environmental restoration...In Genesis, for example...God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to "cultivate and care for it"...

"By Love our Souls are married and solder'd to the creatures and it is our Duty like God to be united to them all."

~Thomas Traherne

Oy, another G20 event

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:53:00 +0000

From
avaaz.org/en

...more than 100,000 Avaaz members...consider signing up to host a local climate wake-up call event on the 21st. These will be quick, politically powerful, and a lot of fun. Our goal is to organise thousands of wake-up events (or "flashmobs") in public places all over the world...stop climate catastrophe and unleash a new green economy this year...

It's not just about global warming.

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:10:00 +0000

It's not just about global warming: causes and effects connect everything. Warming and ozone depletion are interacting.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=40042&src=eoa-nnews

...Ozone depletion...cools the stratosphere...the Antarctic stratosphere has cooled...changes the dynamics between the stratosphere and lower layers of the atmosphere and strengthens Antarctica's already fierce winds...
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4/1/2004
http://thenation.com/doc/20040419/graeber
...Some police officials have become notorious among activists for their Gothic imaginations. Timoney, the former Philadelphia police chief who took over Miami's department before last fall's protests, is fond of peppering his press conferences with stories of activists caught planning to release poisonous snakes and reptiles among the citizenry, officers hospitalized because of acid attacks and activists assaulting his troops with a variety of bodily fluids. Such charges invariably make splashy headlines at the time, only to be later exposed as false or fade away for lack of evidence. Timoney has also become notorious for brutal tactics: In Miami his men opened fire on activists with an array of wooden, rubber and plastic bullets, tazer guns, concussion grenades and a variety of chemical weapons.Despite calls from groups ranging from the United Steelworkers to Amnesty International for an investigation, Timoney continues to be hired as a security consultant for major protests and appears on television frequently as an expert on protest movements.

Probably one of the police's purposes is simply to rally the troops. As commanders discovered in Seattle, police often feel a little uncomfortable about orders to conduct a baton charge against a group of unarmed 16-year-old girls. A deeper reason, though, may have been a perceived need to address a crisis in public perception. To the frustration of high-level officials who were finding their meetings regularly ruined by acts of civil disobedience, the American public largely refused to see the global justice movement as a menace to society. True, the media tried to create hysteria over a few broken windows, but to surprisingly little effect. The question then became, What would it take to cast protesters in the role of the villain? The answer appears to have been a calculated campaign of symbolic warfare: Remove the images of colorful floats and puppets; replace them with images of bombs and hydrochloric acid. And if it has worked--which seems to be the case, considering the public's relative indifference to police destruction of protest art and banners in Philadelphia, or to the extraordinary pre-emptive violence in Miami--it is because on matters of public security, it rarely occurs to most Americans that so many of the officials charged with protecting them could be intentionally, systematically lying.
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appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:02:00 +0000

"Don't waste yer waste."
~Jim McCue
founder, first and only official member
International Garbage Pickers Union (IGPU)

Waste Picker Rights

Garbage Pickers of the world unite; stand up and make friends with your common enemies!

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
http://no-burn.org/article.php?list=type&type=95
...waste picker rights is an important part of... environmental justice and zero waste...

Let's make the G20 summit a love fest.

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:54:00 +0000

People who hate rich people are not going to be the only troublemakers in town for the G20:

http://sfbayview.com/2009/lynching-of-cynthia-mckinney-urged-by-‘journalist’-trained-and-paid-by-fbi

...worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an ‘agent provocateur’..taught by the agency ‘what he could say that wouldn’t be crossing the line.’”...
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http://freedomconference2009.com/G20-3.php
...Our fundamental disagreement with the G20 is that while it purports to further free market policies, the actual policies produced represent a massive and costly centralization of power...
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We hereby free..Now Gawd help us!

appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com (St. Jim the Composter) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:34:00 +0000

"I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants."
~Al Gore
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From Ken Ward
jpgreenhouse.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ken_ward
The time is now: Climate civil disobedience. Sign up.
BeyondTalk.net
I pledge to engage in non-violent civil disobedience and risk arrest in order to get our leaders to make the right climate-change choices.
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My comment:
I tremble deeply. As an activist in support of the concept of civil disobedience, I think it a possibility I will be arrested here in Pittsburgh as a pre-emptive preventive arrest as protests, civil disobedience, and direct action are planned for the G20 Summit next month. I do not expect to engage in civil disobedience, and think it may be too wide a general concept which may include many things I would not do. I hope to have an enjoyable, loving safe September - and the same for all those living and visiting Pittsburgh.
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methane feedback effect
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com/2009/05/methane-bubbling-up-through-tundra.html
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Bubbles of warming, beneath the ice
by Margot Roosevelt 2/20/9
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-global-warming22-2009feb22,0,646220.story
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video clip Frozen Heat: a global warming threat from the Arctic
narrated by Katey Walter, University of Alaska
alaska.edu/uaf/cem/ine/walter
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