The Obama-Biden administration has the power to make sure that everyone has good, clean food. Change This stewardship agreement!
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=090000648084de39
"Technology/stewardship agreements required for the purchase of genetically modified seed explicitly prohibit research. These agreements inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good unless the research is approved by industry. As a result of restricted access, no truly independent research can be legally conducted on many critical questions regarding the technology, its performance, its management implications, IRM, and its interactions with insect biology. Consequently, data flowing to an EPA Scientific Advisory Panel from the public sector is unduly limited."
also see
"Rising Rhetoric on Genetically Modified Crops"in PR Watch, Volume 10, No. 1, 1st Quarter 2003.
"Their level of desperation appears to be increasing," says Michael Hansen, a scientist with Consumers Union in the US, who monitors the activities of the biotech industry as it lobbies for acceptance of genetically modified (GM) foods. Hansen has watched with increasing alarm as the pro-GM lobby escalates its vitriolic attacks on critics.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rising_Rhetoric_on_Genetically_Modified_Crops
Europe’s biggest agricultural producers are taking up new incentives for solar power to supplement farm incomes as well as help meet renewable energy targets.
The solar panels installations that are called integrated because they are built into the roof rather than superimposed, is booming in France thanks to legislation creating 20-year contracts with strong incentives to sell electricity to the grid. Government guarantees of long-term electricity contracts at an inflation-linked “feed-in” tariff, helped win the scheme bank support. The investment means constructing five enormous sheds covered by 36,000 square meters of solar panels with a capacity to generate 4.5 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 4,000 homes. At 0.55 Euros per kWh, integrated solar photovoltaic panels generate nearly twice the revenue of ground-mounted and superimposed solar panels. Another example is a group of 77 cattle breeders in the Aveyron region of south-west France, who formed a company, SAS Adder, to manage the construction of 33,0000 square meters of integrated roof panels on their farms.France whose goal is to have renewable energy make up 23 percent of its energy consumption by 2023 is imitating Germany, Europe’s leader in solar and wind power. The built-in technology is encouraged by the authorities as aesthetically acceptable, in a country where wind farms have been sharply criticized as eyesores.
With US know how, ingenuity, and innovation this could be applied by not only US farmers but by large commercial buildings also.
Source:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090224.wsolar0224/BNStory/Science/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsUp
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The ban on hemp cultivation can be lifted and control of hemp transfered to the Agriculture dept.
The DEA's highest administrative law judge ruled there was no evidence to support placing Marijuana (Hemp) on schedule 1. This ruling was overturned by presidential decree I believe.
President Barack Obama can change this unjust and cruel ban by writ ?
This change for the better can lay the foundation for and gather the support needed to address more intractible problems like health care.
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Myself i moved to a farm and i am helping two elderly people a couple get their farm back together. They are older and needed help real bad. Things are looking up here and soon they will be producing more with less. Its been about making sure they are not wasting or ruining machinery just to keep going. I have been able to help guide them in many things and do a lot of the hard work that is needed that was being put off due to their age. This summer will be a bountiful yr and will produce so much more with less work. I had to do some major weeding and organizing and now this place is really looking up. Many farmers do need help. Many are elderly and their kids have left and well they don't have funds to pay but the benefits are great if a person is willing to help them.
PS: Some pics of my horse buddy and my buggy = http://www.eons.com/images/members/2008/11/13/8/9/89609562219117541829_610w.jpeg and http://www.eons.com/images/members/2008/11/13/4/7/47019562215413541829_610w.jpeg
http://www.eons.com/groups/topic/1296571-BUDDY-THE-HORSE-WENT-BUGGY-FOR-OBAMA-IN-PA?page=1#replies
Meet Gustav, 24 hours old.
In three days he will damage several offshore drilling platforms off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
The logic behind building more offshore drilling platforms is senseless.
As global warming continues, so will the potential for more violent and destructive hurricanes in the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic. But this isn't a problem people in the South and East coast face. California has the potential to be hit by hurricanes too, though most of the time it is the remenance of an East Pacific hurricane. (As if the earthquakes and the fires are not bad enough!)
So continuing our dependence on oil, foreign or domestic will continue to increase greenhouse gasses. And the continued dependence on oil will cause economic strain as the oil industry will collect millions on insurance (something that people on dry land can't get because the insurance industry serves those with the most income in the first place) for repairs and drive the price of oil up every time a Gustav or a Katrina, Rita, Hugo, or Andrew like storm occurs.
The price of food will not decrease until farmers recieve alternative energy support first.
Some farmers do not like the idea of wind energy although the amout of space a single wind turbine occupies is very minimal. If they chose, they could use biomass as a source of energy. The oil, gas, and nuclear energy industry continues to push old number showing the flaws of wind, solar, and biomass and spreading lies about alternative energy and recalling the old problems earlier forms of alternative energy had but are now reduced or solved due to newer alternative energy technolgy.
Farmers need alternative energy support first as they produce the food that America and the world needs. We learned this summer that biodesil and ethanol are not the best choices for alternative energy, in fact they still rely on the use of crude oil and waste pleanty of resources (i.e. corn or sunflower stalks that can also be processed). Then there is the fact that ethanol is poisonous to bees that need to polinate food crops. It is more than likely that excessive ethanol usage may be a factor in Coloney Collapse Disorder (CCD) which threatens to decimate the bee population and in turn cause poor crop yeilds.
Worse yet, continued usage of ethanol drives up food prices as our energy demands are gluttonous. The more we spend on energy, the more we buy foods that are not as healthy as the foods that are healthy become more expensive. Why should America continue to suffer an obesity epidemic if healthy food is not as affordable as junk food?
The price of oil has been down the past couple of weeks, but DO NOT BE DECIEVED! Everytime we have a hurricane in the gulf, oil prices will spike, and with more offshore platforms being damaged the more likely we will pay at the pump and at the diner table.
Seriously, Folks .. especially YOU, Mr. Obama .. why is it that there is so little said about the hardest working, least appreciated and most mis-understood people in this great Nation of ours who labor every day to feed, clothe and house their fellow Americans? Yes, I am referring to the American Farmer!
Please, do not ignore my query .. I REALLY WANT TO KNOW .. who among you have any idea of the plight of the American Farmer?
Please, read on ...
In light of the recent upswing in food prices, global warming, CO2 footprints, and scary economic times, the 1950's idea of planting a "Victory Garden" once more seems like a good idea. More and more people are starting a vegetable garden in anticipation of needing to obtain food locally, rather than from a store. So I'm starting a multi-part blog on a backyard Victory Garden.
The first step to gardening is good soil, and making your own nutrient-rich soft topsoil is a good way to get your feet wet, and ease into the "Yeoman Farmer" role that Thomas Jefferson envisioned.
Thus, here's an easy guide on composting that I wrote up. It's nothing fancy, but basically just addresses the how-to, most common questions, and things I learned from my own mistakes, or the advice of those who've gotten really good at it... THE BASICS:Composting is really easy. I mean REALLY easy. All you need is a container, and vegetable matter to put in it. Placement plays a significant factor in how efficient your compost heap is at helping you out, but other than that, there's really not much thought put into it. THE CONTAINER:If you have the cheddar, there's some real fancy compost bins you can buy. A recently favored one is basically something the size of an oil drum with a spit-handle on it that you can turn the whole thing with. Personally, I prefer scrap wood and a nail gun. After all, my goal was to save money, not find new ways to spend it. Your composting process needs Oxygen to work, otherwise you end up with anaroebic bacteria, which produces sulphide gas or something, stinks, and retards the decomposition. However, it's really easy to get enough oxygen to your box, simply leave the "floor" of it open, make the sides out of something like pegboard (that fiber-board stuff with the evenly spaced grid of holes that you can put hooks in to hang stuff from), or space your side-boards each an inch or so apart. Looks biomass like grass, etc, won't fall out of the sides, because it's too fluffy, and later on, when it become compost, it tends to stick to the other compost, and not fall out the sides. You'll want some sort of loose, water-impermeable top for it. I used a couple of rubber floor mats that we had laying around. It doesn't have to fit perfectly, your aim is simply to retard the water evaporation process. Water is the highway of life. The wetter your compost is, the more quickly and thoroughly it will decompose. However, you want to avoid over-soaking it because you don't want pools of water in it (which would help mosquitos grow) and you don't want to wash your compost away either. The solution? a water impermeable top like a rubber mat catches water vapor and drips it back down onto the compost. The weight of the mat also slowly compacts the compost over time as well, which becomes more important as it fills. PLACEMENT: Most people make the mistake of putting the compost heap as far away from the house as possible. 2 problems with this I've learned over time. 1 is that compost heaps erode over time (duh) and if your drainage drains away from your yard (which it probably does) then you will lose a large portion of your soil, and leech a large amount of your nutrients through water runoff. The other problem with placing it so far away is the of hauling the fresh compost later on. 10-50 yards doesn't seem like much till you have to lug a wheelbarrel full of soil over, and over, and over, and over. The most efficient place for your compost heap depends on if you already have a garden, or if you plan to have one in the future. If you plan to have a garden in the future that ISN'T against the side of your house, then put it at the site of the future garden. That way your fresh compost soil is right there, ready to be used when it's planting season, and no hauling is needed. Plus the water runoff from the compost will fertilize the surrounding area nicely. If you already have a garden, put your compost heap uphill from it, right next to it, if possible. The advantage here is very similar, water runoff from the compost heap willl continue to fertilize your garden throughout the year, and the re-composting of your garden will be that much easier the next year because you won't have to haul very far. A third advantage of this is that if you plan to expand your garden, each successive compost heap you add is a nice patch of fresh, soft, yielding soil that you don't have to till. CONTENTS:As for the contents of your compost heap, it's real easy. Anything you look at, ask "Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?" if the answer is "vegetable", go ahead and add it. Old fruits, potato salad, leftover choppings from fresh veg, stale tortillas and hamburger buns, uneaten salads, grass clippings, egg shells, tree leaves, stale cereal, etc, all are fine additions to your compost heap. But ALSO you can add the leftovers from your vaccuum cleaner bag, the fuzzy stuff from your dryer's lint-catcher, paper towels, cotton rags and shirts, etc... all of those break down into easily composted stuff, and especially in the case of the vaccuum cleaner bag, actually help by infusing your compost with all sorts of tiny microscopic critters looking for something good to eat. Avoid salted stuff, as salt and plants don't get along well. Do not add meat and try to avoid dairy products. These do not break down as easily, stink, and attract larger vermin, like rats, cats, etc. Plain old veg won't attract anything larger than a mouse, and in 3 years of composting, I've only ever seen a mouse once. I've been told to avoid BUSH leaves (as opposed to tree leaves), as bush leaves are not digestable by wormsm, but I add them anyway as they help to mulch the compost with stuff with "water holding" matter. I've also noticed that wood does not break down well. So I'd avoid tree branches. Strip the leaves if you want, but leave the branches on the curb or burn them or something. Rose-stems I'm not sure about yet. They're practically wood, but are still -green- so perhaps are breakable. Crepe Myrtle, however, is basically the same as wood, so I'd avoid that. That said, putting "indigestables" such as woody stems or branches in your compost won't stop it from composting, it'll just make it more of a pain to turn, and be more work for you later on when you're trying to shovel or rake it, as they'll have to be removed. MAINTENANCE:The most obvious is that you have to keep your compost heap well-fed, and occasionally watered (remember, water is the highway of life). A fourth advantage of putting your compost heap besides an existing garden is that when you water your garden, you can just un-cover the compost heap and let it catch the sprinkler/mister/etc water. Mine is watered along with all the vegetables, and it requires no extra water on our part because of this placement. Turning the compost is recommended for the best results, but honestly, if your box is well ventilated, you won't have to do it very often. My most recent compost heap has been turned once in two weeks. To "turn" the heap, get anything that has a forked or hooked end (like a hoe or metal rake), and just jab it into the compost heap, move some stuff around here and there, and you're good. You don't have to stir it and homogenize it like sugar in tea, you just have to expose the buried bits to some more oxygen and water). After turning, I'd recommend watering the heap before recovering it, but this isn't absolutely needed. Mr. Johnson, who runs a really huge garden, doesn't bother with turning or even a box. He circles his garden in railroad ties (those big long squarelike log things) two-high, and piles stuff against them, and then covers it with dirt from the next space over. He never turns it, never "waters" it, and over the course of a year, has usually expanded his garden with thick, rich topsoil about a foot deep, and a couple of feed wide, all the way around. At the next planting season, he simply moves the railroad ties back outward, hoes it all even and spread out, and then plants his rows. One more useful tip. Making a trip out to your heap every time you've got a piece of vegetable matter gets tiresome real quick. But you also don't want to keep a container of nasty veg-patter just sitting open in your kitchen all day. I solved this problem by putting a bucket out in the grass, just off the porch. That way I can toss stuff in there, and every couple of days, dump it in the heap. It's a much shorter walk, turns 20 trips to the heap into 1, keeps the mess outside the house, off the porch, and critters don't mess with it because it's just rotten veg. The only ones who would care about it can't tip the bucket over easily. The only thing I've ever seen taken out of the bucket was a corn chip that made it about 3 inches from the bucket, and I think the dog did that. Lastly, you don't have to keep all your compost for the year in one heap. The more you realize you can put in the compost, the more compost you end up making. Feel free to start a new heap once yours reaches a foot or two in depth and move the box over, just cover the old heap in dirt or something and maybe some mulch (dead leaves, for instance) to keep it from drying out too much. I hope this helps. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them as best I can.
... that all our dreams must be small ones?
We represent rural communities in the State of Nebraska,
ha, that means mostly under priviledged farmers, struggling communities and we set out in our own way as a media group [established business] to CONVERT swing and republicans alike to vote for Barack.
In order to be effective in this endeavor, we needed to establish a separate website [s] for this purpose. Simply because "Farmers and Ranchers" don't just trust right away what they read and hear.
They watch the weather channel and the stockyard news early morning. By the time they come home around 9 or 10 pm, they are too tired to take in all the media. Ergo, the media has quiet an impact really, much more so then in urban areas.
I call it "media hazing" - the flood of repetitions, distortions, well you name it are perfect to sneak in to the subliminal. And since earth-bound people which farmers and ranchers definitely are, they don't easily change their mind once it's made up. Even if it is a distorted and/or ill informed opinion.
Since I happen to look back at more than 20 years of being "liked" in the State of Nebraska, I discussed this issue wtih my company board and we came up with the idea to target specifically the rural market with ads.
Yes, independent of the official Obama campaign, we took over $ 200.000 of our own money and started to layout a strategy for the months until November.
We also started a donation run from our newly created website [still a lot of work to do on it] but we have the basics together.
And since we exclusively work on this to help get Barack Obama elected, we feel good about it.
I personally live in a small village andwas able to convince the majority to read Obamas Plan,
which we downloaded and posted on our website
We use and rely upon the trust we enjoy from local communities. They do listen and they actually do believe what comes out of my mouth is the truth. That is very important to be able to change a voters mind.
Please, although we at first will concentrate on the State I live in, we would like to annex also Kansas, Iowa and we have very strong business connections to California, New Mexico and Texas, where a large percentage of Latino population resides.
We are not able to finance it all from my private /business budget, so we ask for donation.
The GOAL is to reach at minimum 200.000 donors at $ 5.00 per person at least.
This is not a pipe dream, when using the internet as a vehicle.
Please be so kind and spread the word.
Thank you!
Michele
BIZ ETHIC COMPANY
RADAR MEDIA GROUP [which now also hold Obama Radar]
I wrote the following email to one of my groups seeking information from our Research Committee and thought I'd post it here for others to help with too.
If anyone has sources that connect Obama's personal history, track record, agenda for future to any of the aspects of this many-sided issue, please give specific links and how you think it relates:
Lynn
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Hi Folks!
The immigration issue is where I think we can highlight Obama's skills and demonstrated history in bringing diverse sides of an issue together to solve a problem. If we could get some examples of how he's done this before, that will help. This is the type of work that Obama excels in and why he attracts so many of us to him. These are the issues the people here in California, the other border states and the rest of the states of our Union will want to hear the Senator speak about. The whole issue of immigration is so complex and such an ingrained part of our economy, that it isn't just a matter of legal/illegal. It will take someone of his caliber to gather all sides together and get them each to give a little toward a solution everyone can work with. Achieving such a consensus will solve a lot more problems for our country than just illegal immigration. It is going to take all of us being willing to budge a little and Obama has the skills to accomplish it. As far as just giving people a bunch of links to find the information themselves, let's not exclude or ignore those people who choose not to use computers or don't have access to them or lack the knowledge to navigate a website in search of information. We have to craft our campaign literature for them as well as the internet crowd. There aren't enough bodies in the internet crowd to be able to win an election by ourselves. We have to draw in and include those other folks too. We need info that relates Obama's skills, history and agenda on these aspects surrounding the immigration issue:
