gg3 wrote:Ahh, the allure of the lawless life, the ability to cast aside civilized inhibitions, give free play to the unbridled Id, to loot and rob, rape and pillage, and to murder without fear of judge and jury!
Almost a ton of produce for the needy By Joseph Sapia • FREEHOLD BUREAU • December 5, 2008:
The 50-foot by 50-foot, fenced-in plot sits dormant, covered in earthy tones of brown and tan.
But its size and present colors are deceiving, masking the lush greens and its productivity when this garden was in full force in warmer weather. The final count is in and the garden, operated by the Monmouth County Master Gardeners Class of 2008, produced 1,737 pounds of vegetables and herbs for the needy in the western part of the county. ...snip...
lawnchair wrote:(notice... this was not organic, natural gas fertilizer was used)
dohboi wrote:You have to have some kind of input. Maybe they compost the humanure of the people who eat the produce, but I really doubt it.
dohboi wrote:What I was referring to was Jo Jenkins' excellent work on using properly composted human poop to replenish soils.
Rudolf Steiner wrote:BD #505, the oak bark preparation, uses ground oak bark and the fresh skull of a domesticated animal from which all brain tissue has been removed, while retaining the meninges membrane lining the brain cavity. The bark is then packed into the empty skull.
dissident wrote:stupid title
Novus wrote:best top soil in the world
InToWishin wrote:soil is something you make
dissident wrote:What a stupid title for the thread. Only in the magical thinking of the uneducated and ignorant are there no constraints on anything. Malthus was making a scientific observation about the existence of mass and energy conservation. Ever since assorted voodoo practitioners such as economists have been claiming he was wrong. No, the planet does not have an infinite carrying capacity no matter what technique or technology humanity contrives.
Malthus thought that population would approach a sustainable limit, then hover there, with many people living in poverty and misery. He did not imagine overshoot and sudden collapse. He did not understand that technology was converting mineral concentrations and much of the biosphere into windfall stocks that would stimulate rapid population growth. Now, two hundred years after Malthus, humans have multiplied their numbers far beyond any sustainable limit, and the end of the windfall stocks is in sight.
it is only 12 years since the six billion mark was reached. And just 100 years ago, the human population stood at 1.6 billion. The urgent search for solutions to population growth has been a hot topic ever since the Rev Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798, stating that the "power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".
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