Re: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE Wheat
I don't mean to discourage anyone. Let's keep building awareness, and rejection of the vogue agendas such as Monsanto's. But quite frankly I see little salvation in this alone. What will help us most is if things get a LOT worse. SNIP Like I said, things may have to get a LOT worse before they will get significantly better. I totally agree with you, Hugh, with the exception that in this particular case they are playing with the very basis of our civalization: our basic cultivars and in such a way that there may be no returning to the plants we have now. Seeing the SUPER WEED Canola in Schmeiser's slides makes it pretty clear to me that even if things get bad enough to stop Monsanto, there may never be an opportunity to grow food plants en masse that contain the same DNA that our ancestors co-evolved with. Sally Fallon has commented extensively on how difficult it is for our bodies to actually thrive when estranged from our traditional food. I realize how futile the effort is at this point, Hugh. Thank for your good post. -Allan Allan, I know. So it goes. A similar thing happened in Atlantis. I suppose we will have to become more adaptable. Hugh Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
Re: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE Wheat
Hugh, what do you think about beginning some trials with eradicain these super weeds with peppers??? sstorch Dear Steve, We've tried peppers and they didn't work as well as we expected. So we need to try some more things, such as running some of the weed through the blender and using that. What we want, of course, is something that works like a charm the first year, not by the fourth year. Best, Hugh Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
FW: [globalnews] Bush's War on the Dolphins
Title: FW: [globalnews] Bush's War on the Dolphins Environmental News Service U.S. Changes Meaning of Dolphin Safe Tuna Label By Cat Lazaroff WASHINGTON, DC, January 6, 2003 (ENS) - The Bush administration has decided that a controversial fishing method involving encircling pods of dolphins with mile long nets to catch tuna has no significant adverse impact on the dolphins. Conservation groups say the determination, which will allow tuna from Mexico to be sold in the U.S. under a dolphin safe label, could spell disaster for imperiled dolphin populations. On December 31, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced that after new research, it had concluded that the tuna purse seine industry practice of encircling dolphins to catch tuna has no significant adverse impact on dolphin populations in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. The announcement came less than a month after a conservation group released an unpublished NMFS report indicating that thousands of dolphins, particularly baby dolphins, are still dying in tuna nets in the eastern tropical Pacific. label The Commerce Department's Dolphin Safe tuna label. (Logo courtesy NMFS) The New Year's Eve finding cleared the way for tuna caught under the terms of a binding multilateral environmental agreement, particularly in waters off the coast of Mexico, to be imported into the United States with the dolphin safe label, so long as no dolphins are injured or killed during the set in which the tuna are caught. One of our main goals is to reduce dolphin deaths and to conserve living marine resources, while at the same time maintaining the sustainability of the Eastern Tropical Pacific tuna fishery under the international agreement, said NMFS director Bill Hogarth. This agreement has reduced dolphin mortality from hundreds of thousands of dolphins to approximately 2,000 dolphins per year. In 1991, NMFS implemented the dolphin safe labeling system as a way of reducing dolphin deaths due to tuna fishing. Under the initial label criteria, tuna harvested in the Eastern Tropical Pacific could be labeled dolphin safe only if no nets were intentionally set on dolphins during the fishing trip. Under the December 31 decision, the criteria have been changed so that tuna harvested in the Eastern Tropical Pacific by large purse seine vessels can be labeled dolphin safe even if dolphins are encircled, so long as an on board observer certifies that no dolphins are killed or seriously injured during the set in which the tuna were caught. Hogarth NMFS Director Bill Hogarth during a wetlands restoration day in Baltimore Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Bill Folsom, courtesy NMFS) The dolphin safe label was developed as a way to help protect and conserve dolphins, said Hogarth. With this decision, Americans can continue to have confidence that when they purchase tuna with the dolphin safe label that dolphins are being protected. But conservation groups warn that the relaxed requirements for dolphin safe labeling could lead to the deaths of thousands more dolphins each year. The whole point of the 'dolphin safe' label is to give consumers a choice of tuna that wasn't caught by netting dolphins, said William Snape, vice president for law and litigation at Defenders of Wildlife, one of several groups planning to challenge the NMFS decision in court. We have great confidence that the courts will strike down this blatantly illegal decision, Snape added. In the 1950s, fishers discovered that yellowfin tuna in the Eastern Tropical Pacific could be found beneath schools of dolphin. For years after the discovery, the predominant tuna fishing methods in the region involved encircling schools of dolphins with fishing nets to trap the tuna concentrated below. Hundreds of thousands of dolphins died because of this fishing method. Under the International Dolphin Conservation Program (IDCP), fishers were required to change their purse seine fishing methods, and since the 1980s, confirmed dolphin mortalities have dropped to about 2,000 per year. dolphins caughts Dolphins caught in tuna nets. (Photo courtesy Greenpeace) Critics of tuna fishing in the Eastern Tropical Pacific say the actual number of dolphins harmed is probably much higher. A 96 page report by NMFS scientists, made public last month, found that the fishing methods favored by commercial tuna fisheries in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and other nations may stress dolphins, even when they are not caught in nets, or when they are released from nets alive. Many of the region's tuna fishers chase down schools of dolphins in order to target the tuna on which the dolphins feed, than encircle the tuna with nets that can also ensnare dolphins. At least six to 10 percent of eastern spinner dolphin mortality, and 10 to 15 percent of northeastern offshore spotted dolphin mortality, is caused by the separation of baby dolphins from their mothers during the chasing and netting process, the report found. Despite
FW: [globalnews] Environmental Community to Support the Cape WindProject
Title: FW: [globalnews] Environmental Community to Support the Cape Wind Project >From globalnews own Jon Naar: Beautifully written, important statement on which we can all take positive action as indicated. jn - Environmental Community to Support the Cape Wind Project by Charles Komanoff January, 2003 Dear colleague - Perhaps you read the Dec. 29 NY Times article detailing the ecological and social devastation being caused by coal-bed methane development in Wyomings Powder River Basin. The article took me back to a time 25 years ago, in the mid-1970s, when the future path of energy development was up for grabs and activists mobilized to stop the fossil-nuke industry from laying waste to natural and human communities all over the U.S. Defending the American West from ruinous energy development was a particularly intense, gut-level part of that struggle for many of us, including me. I was living in New York then but spending as much time as I could in the Northern Rockies, hiking the high country and getting out onto the land, meeting ranchers, Indians, environmentalists and fellow eco-freaks. I fished for my breakfast in Shoshone streams, played barrelhouse piano in a Montana renewable-energy road show, and got high inhaling Amory Lovins Soft Energy Paths at 12,000 feet in the Wind River range. Natural gas, or methane, occupied a middle position in the energy debate back then. Gas was a fossil fuel, hence non- renewable, but it was less polluting than coal or oil and seemed well suited for democratically scaled small engines and generators that could later switch to quasi-renewable fuels like hydrogen. Gas could be the bridge carrying us from our bondage in the Egypt of oil, nukes and coal to the promised land where thermodynamically correct renewable and conservation technologies could warm our houses and cool our beer without draining our pocketbooks and plundering the planet. Conventional natural gas deposits in the Lower 48 were running out, we thought, but there was hope that unconventional sources would take up the slack. One such source, coal-bed methane, promised to be especially simple and benign; just sink a pipe and collect the gas. A few decades later, the reality revealed in the Times is anything but benign: the austerely beautiful Powder River Basin is now laced with saline creeks and flammable rivers; the vast Wyoming silences are shattered 24-7 by screaming compressors; fifth-generation ranchers, their wells ruined, are being forced off the land and driven to violence. The Times article is yet another reminder of the ongoing devastation wrought by Americas overuse of fossil and nuclear fuels. Last month, I circulated an open letter (http://www.cars-suck.org/littera-scripta/windfarm.html) in support of the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. The immediate backdrop to that letter was the destruction of hundreds of miles of Spanish coast by the spilled cargo of the oil tanker Prestige. The Wyoming coal-bed methane horror has spurred todays letter, but there is no shortage of relevant news: record melting of the Greenland ice sheet; dwindling glaciers in the Alps, Andes and Rockies; Appalachian forests and towns obliterated by mountaintop strip-mining of coal; and of course the daily flow of oil money from U.S. motorists to al Qaeda via the House of Saud. Against this onslaught the projected output of the 170 turbines comprising the Cape Wind project is, to be sure, a drop in the bucket: one part in 2,500 of U.S. electricity production, and one part in 7,500 of all energy consumed in the fifty states. On the other hand, 17 other proposals for off-shore wind farms totaling over 3,000 turbines have been advanced for the East Coast outer continental shelf, from Massachusetts to Virginia, according to a draft brief by the Humane Society of the United States, which opposes the Cape Wind project. In round numbers, these proposals would sum to one percent of U.S. electricity production. Add the onshore wind projects underway and proposed in California and the Great Plains, and the share multiplies. Not the 18% share that wind supplies in Denmark, far from it, in fact, but clearly getting somewhere. Wind clutter, the towers and turbines are already being called. For me, this is a sourly evocative phrase. When cyclists locked their bikes to poles outside the World Trade Center, the Port Authority guys called it bike clutter to justify clipping the locks and taking the bikes. That was in 1990, before global warming from burning fossil fuels had manifested itself beyond any doubt, before Gulf War I (or II) had set the Middle East afire, and of course before the twin towers themselves were reduced to ashes. And before some residents of Cape Cod - among them, we may be certain, shareowners in the corporations taking the methane out from under the
Re: Epiphany
We have several trees in the DC area rigged to broadcast the bd remedies, so ask the trees to send the bd energy to the area within the circle you have sprayed, they will understand...sstorch Will do. Thank you. Mary AnnThe new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months
Joly to speak in Oregon Feb 15
For those on the west coast and who do not receive mailings from the BDFGA (this workshop doesn't appear to be posted on www.biodynamics.com calendar as yet): Nicolas Joly, proprietor of Coulee de Servant, Savennieres, France and author of Wine From Sky to Earth will be giving a workshop titled The Truth of a Place: Rebirth of the Appellation and Biodynamics, on Saturday, February 15, 2003, from 10:00 to 4:00 at Cooper Mountain Vinyards, 9480 SW Grabhorn Road, Beaverton Oregon. Fee $100 includes lunch Contact BDFGA 888.516.7797 ___ Barry Lia \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Seattle WA
Fwd: [compost_tea] Alternative Viticulture Meeting
Don't forget, we'll be doing a similar thing here in Loudoun CO, VA the weekend of Nov 14 this year. Steve Storch, Alan York, Bob Shaffer, a couple of French BD viticulturists, and Soils Wizard Jerry Brunetti will be bringing information to Mid-Atlantic Viticulturists and horticulturists on how to bring maximum health to plants and maximum quality to produce by working with the soil and the atmosphere. More information soon. -Allan Folks, I just wanted to pass this invitation along to the group in case anyone wants to attend. Don Lotter and I will be presenting information about compost tea in organic agriculture on the first day. We will also be discussing our proposed SARE project which will investigate the efficacy of compost tea for disease prevention in Mid-Atlantic vineyards and in other horticultural crops such as pumpkins and potatoes at The Rodale Institute. Below I have included the brochure and registration information. Matthew Ryan Research Technician The Rodale Institute 611 Siegfriedale Road Kutztown, PA 19530 (610) 683-1405 Alternative Viticulture - A Closer Look at Sustainable, Organic and Biodynamic Grape Growing Penn State Day January 28 and 29, 2003 Spring Garden Conference Center Middletown, Pennsylvania Registration Fee - $80 Pre-registration deadline is January 17. The goal of the meeting is to bring perspective and information to the often fuzzy realm of non-conventional commercial viticulture. This would include sustainable, organic and biodynamic methods. Recently, there has been a tremendous growth in interest in these new techniques of farming wine grapes. Because much of the practices and technologies exist outside of our customary agricultural experience, it is the objective of this meeting to give sound and practical information on subjects that are too often tainted with hyperbole and unrealistic expectations. A group of serious consultants, researchers, growers, vendors and extension agents will present their views and experience of this new frontier in grape growing. These are truly some of the best minds in the business and many of their names will be familiar to you. It is hoped that, armed with this information, new and experienced growers alike will be able to decide for themselves if they want to employ these practices on their own farms. We are seeking to encourage creative, innovative, disciplined and intelligent wine grape growing that will produce high quality wines with a minimum impact on the environment and continued profitability to the farmer. There are great challenges to successful alternative practices under Eastern growing conditions, hopefully this meeting will put these challenges and the risks into proper perspective. Please plan to attend and pass the word about this meeting to all your wine growing friends. The Wine Appreciation Guild will have a variety of publications on these special topics available for sale and equipment/supply vendors will be present. Program Tuesday, January 28 7:00 Registration and Coffee 7:50 Mark Chien, Penn State Cooperative Extension - Welcome and Introduction 8:00 Alice Wise, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Riverhead, LINY. Alternative Viticultural Practices on Long Island 8:45 Al MacDonald, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR. Oregon Low Input Viticulture and Enology (LIVE) 9:45 Break 10:00 Vicki Bess, BBC Labs, Tempe, AZ. Soil Microbiology and Microbial Diversity - Tools for Vineyard Management 11:00 William Brinton, Woods End Research Lab, Mt. Vernon, Maine Overview of Organic Agricultural Practices Noon Lunch 1:00 Nancy Wenner/Elwin Stewart, Dept of Plant Pathology, Penn State University - Vine Decline Research in Pennsylvania and New York Jim Travis et. al., Dept of Plant Pathology, Penn State University - Use of Compost in Commercial in Pennsylvania 2:00 Richard Fiegel, Silver Thread Vineyard, Finger Lakes, NY. Rob Russell - Westport River Vineyard and Winery, Westport, MA - Grower Experiences with Organic Viticulture in the East 3:15 Break 3:30 Vicki Bess - Strategies for Making Compost Tea 4:15 Don Lotter, Rodale Institute, Kutztown, PA- Experience with Compost Tea and Organic Agriculture 5:00 QA - All Speakers 5:30
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All this talk about using trees as prep broadcasters- howdoes this work? Tara
Re: (trees as broadcasters)
Tara YG Welty wrote: All this talk about using trees as prep broadcasters- how does this work? Tara May I prevail upon contributors NOT to send messages with a blank subject line please? That is how may hoax and virus-carrying emails are sent and my system is programmed to automatically dump them into the trash can (which is where I found this one). Roger -- %% Show gratitude to all living things %% Reiki Earth Healing, Natural Energy Divination Earthcare Environmental Solutions PO Box 2057 Queanbeyan NSW 2620 Australia Ph: +61 2 6255 3824 Fax: +61 2 6255 1028 Mob: +61 410 469 541 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tree topic
My BDNOW (email) folder has over 2495 entries. I was pretty sure the topic of trees as broadcasters has been addressed before now, but I can't locate it in all the conglomerated mess that is BDNOW folder. I DID locate one (off in my Biodynamic folder of documents I've saved as Word docs), called 'trees as healers' but it's totally blank. (March 4, 1999, also The Cow Being in that same timeframe, a blank document too.) These may / may not be important documents, but I sure would like to find out what we were discussing 'back then'. I remember some of it 'of salmon and stream' came from Ferdinand, and some of the cow auras did too. I think the old discussions are important so we don't just sit around, chewing over the same old ground, and not learning anything from the prior postings. Interesting and on the topic of trees. Two friends and I took a walk last Sunday, looking for likely bridle paths for them to come back and ride later on. We walked around my very tiny woodlot (7 acres), along a dirt road. One lady decided to stop and take a 'pee break'. We walked on, letting her conduct herself in private. A few steps ahead, we felt a distinctive buzzing, and looked up. A very active (for January) bee colony was entering and buzzing around a broken limb off an (obviously hollow) tree trunk. We hugged the tree and put our ear to the trunk and could feel it alive with the inner activity. Darla kept saying, DON'T MAKE THEM MAD... she was in a rather 'compromised' position at the time G. But they were intent on their own world, and paid us no attention at all. Whenever I see bees, especially wild ones, I always feel enormous hope.
Re: tree topic
Title: Re: tree topic From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:27:41 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tree topic I always feel enormous hope. Hey Sweet Heart I'm so glad your back writing Often In Love Markess
From Greg Willis: Fwd: Re: Executive Position
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:55:16 -0800 From: Greg Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was amused to read Mr. Palmer's email. My, what an extraordinary command of the English language! Personal attacks don't replace a reasoned arguments or refutation of my facts and statements. He makes no attempt to argue his side. I'm sorry I upset Mr. Palmer so much. Nevertheless, the facts are still the facts: nothing the Anthros have done has moved Steiner's agricultural forward into the 21st Century and nothing they have done has advanced Steiner's remedies beyond what they were 79 years ago. Everyone else in the farming world knows this. Why don't they? Steiner envisioned farmers, gardeners and just regular folks using his remedies over the world. Has this happened? No. Who's to blame? The very people who took the responsibility for this to themselves, to the exclusion of all others in the world - the Anthros and the BDidiots. Can this be fixed? Yes. See my next email. Greg Willis Agri-Synthesis®
Re: tree topic
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:27 PM Subject: tree topic My BDNOW (email) folder has over 2495 entries. I was pretty sure the topic of trees as broadcasters has been addressed before now, but I can't locate it in all the conglomerated mess that is BDNOW folder. July 2001 there are several articles 'trees as cosmic pipe ' or similar Peter Michael Bacchus, Hugh Lovel, et al Lloyd Charles
Re: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE Wheat
- Original Message - From: Hugh Lovel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:17 AM Subject: Re: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE Wheat Hugh, what do you think about beginning some trials with eradicain these super weeds with peppers??? sstorch Dear Steve, We've tried peppers and they didn't work as well as we expected. So we need to try some more things, such as running some of the weed through the blender and using that. What we want, of course, is something that works like a charm the first year, not by the fourth year. Best, Hugh Hi Steve , Hugh, I guess we are talking about peppering GMO wheat out of normal wheat, pretty tough to do! Genetically the plants should be different enough to allow something to work - a pepper will induce some weakness, making the plant more susceptible to disease and insect attack, and these GMO's are inherently less robust anyway, so thats a start. Nutrition can also be a part. IF we can identify the intruders in the main field that will allow us to monitor brix levels and try to influence that with foliar nutrition - OK I know thats not BD but we are talking about a serious problem here, anything that might work is worth a look ? So I figure a well concocted foliar spray combined with peppering might improve the result? Mother nature will provide us with a way of handling this. Cheers Lloyd Charles
Re: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE Wheat
Hugh, what do you think about beginning some trials with eradicain these super weeds with peppers??? sstorch
Trees as broadcasters
Greetings sstorch--I'd like to participate in implanting the preps in some good broadcasting trees here in the Ozarks to help with this type of networking. Please say something re: your ideas of what kinds/sizes of trees are best and how you decided (dowsing, other guidance). I'd love to hear from others as well who are doing this. The latest Lord of the Rings movie is a real imaginative inspiration, I must say, as far as the power of trees goes. Deborah
