No-Till Farming
Tilling the soil accounts for 6% of anthropogenic GHG emissions. Reducing the amount of turned soil will be a good thing, for this and many other reasons. So far my search hasn't been thorough (let me know if you find a better link!), but these two groups are working toward this approach: The Climate and Energy Project, a project of The Land Institute, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, which belongs to Duke University.
International
Insist that there be language in the treaty to be signed this December at the international climate meeting in Denmark that:
• Agrees to a goal of stopping the CO2 level before it hits 400 ppm, then reducing GHG emissions to a CO2 equivalent of 350 ppm by 2080. Emphasize that this agreement cannot be diluted with “market” solutions.
• Requires nations to set up a system of removing subsidies for all conventional tillage and passing those on to no-tilling farming practices, nationwide.
In Your Country
Pressure your elected officials to adopt:
• The aforementioned scheme for transferring subsidies to only no-till practices
• A Green New Deal plan that heavily favors low-tech, human-scale, and local projects, particularly urban and suburban community gardens and greenhouses.
Easy Lifestyle Changes that Affect this Wedge
• Eat locally as much as possible: support farmers’ markets, grow a garden or join/start a community garden, join a CSA (community supported agriculture) farm
Long-term Solutions to Accelerated Global Warming
At right, below "What is a Wedge?," are links to three proposed solutions to our climate emergency, the top being my low-tech and conservation-oriented plan, the next being a tech-heavy plan of a prominent scientist/politician, and the third being the inept Obama Energy Plan. If technology-dependent plans are adopted, by the time it becomes painfully obvious that they won't work, that will be too late. I feel that solutions relying heavily on technology will allow our excessively consumptive ways to carry on, and therefore are doomed to failure because we cannot continue forever on a path of endless growth on a finite planet. Most of the posts on this site explain my ideas in further detail. I think the best solution is right here: Relocalization, not Militarization.
For New Visitors to this Blog
As this is a blog that displays posts reverse-chronologically, if you are interested in starting with my first post, see the Blog Archive at right and start with Climate Change Basics. If you wish to make a comment that disagrees with the causes, or trivializes the severity, of accelerated global warming, then this is not the cyber site for you. Such comments will not be posted. To post your actions, click here.
For New Visitors to this Blog
As this is a blog that displays posts reverse-chronologically, if you are interested in starting with my first post, see the Blog Archive at right and start with Climate Change Basics. If you wish to make a comment that disagrees with the causes, or trivializes the severity, of accelerated global warming, then this is not the cyber site for you. Such comments will not be posted. To post your actions, click here.
11 February 2009
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