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Saving Mother Earth from ourselves
is becoming more and more of an issue as we continue to bleed the planet
dry of its resources and pollute it with our waste products.
Slowly we are changing our design specifications so that new products
made actually have a safe end for them as part of their design. This
is like biodegradable packaging. It means that even if you throw it
in the bushes you know it will rot down and go back to the soil and
earth it came from.
Plastics of course are not on this list but some plastics are more
readably recycled into new products. Whereas some plastics once 'made'
cannot be reclaimed, remodelled, reused.
One of our biggest mistakes is in treating human exreta as waste. It
is not a waste product it is the substance we live off and that keeps
the plants and trees growing and feeds the other animals we share this
planet with.
But because we don't use our exreta smartly, because we choose to pollute
our drinking water with it and overdose our seas and waterways we now
have a growing number of areas that we cannot swim in and a growing
dependance on artificially created fertilizers for our food growing
needs.
This fertilizer emand could be satisfied with our own exreta but of
course the fertilizer companies don't need you to know this. They make
good bucks out of selling you that which you make yourself everyday.
Good garden nutrition.
Recently I read about a Japanese man named Fukuoka Masanobu who is
from Shikoku Japan. He believes that we do too much in our effort to
farm. That much more can be done just watching the land. Applying seed
and water here and there but never 'tilling' the land and exposing it
the sun and wind which rob it of it's moisture. Making it harder for
plantlife to grow and therefor provide us with food.
His book "The One Straw Revolution" is a must for any person
who wants to not farm the land, but live from it as it would support
them inits most natural way.
I also visited Osamu Ishizuka who runs his own organic farm in the
Northern Island of Hokkaido. Although he does till his land he doesn't
add chemicals to the mix. He uses his chickens to provide manure for
compost for his rice fields and his own household exreta for his dry
soil vegetable patches.
His neighbors and local shops provide him with organic food wastes
to go feeding the chickens which he in turn sells to them along with
their eggs.
His site can be found at http://city.hokkai.or.jp/~ishikoro/
I think I may have talked him into joining the WWOOF list... <grin>
My house in Japan doesn't have a "western flush" toilet and
while this seemed an annoyance at first I have come to cherish the fact.
Please take the time to have a read of my kumitori-adventure.
The way I do one small thing for the planet along with save myself from
living with a rancid smell all year long. :)
hmm .. it's rainin' better go wind up the windows on the car....
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