tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873071508743446712024-03-04T22:58:59.144-08:00It happens Accidit.....June's blog, from Inside Outsider Publications.dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-61339795915516364722017-08-15T12:07:00.000-07:002019-10-30T11:49:36.719-07:00"Below our feet and behind our backs" (1) Soil: An answer to climate change.Below the surface of the earth is an incredibly complex place, teeming with life and it is here that the answer to climate change lies. If you have a couple of moments to spare, look down.<br />
If you are in the city, what do you see... pavement? concrete?
tarmac? But what if you were standing in a field of grass, a warm wind
blowing and a blue sky above, a place where no pesticides or fertilizers
had been sprayed, what would you see if you could travel below the
waving green blades into the dark kingdom below? A place of pillars of
roots, of thousands of small animals busily working away, burrowing
through the soil, eating the decaying matter and turning the soil into
good tilth. A place so populous that "Each shovel of soil holds more
living things than all the human beings ever born." <br />
There would
be tiny protozoa, nematodes, mites, and maybe you would see the
occasional glimmer of light where an earthworm had pulled a leaf down
from the surface and left a vertical tunnel. These tunnels let rainwater
reach lower layers of soil and help to prevent water runoff and
flooding. <br />
Watch out for the long lengths of tubes connecting
different plants and species which seem to come from the roots. What
are they and why are they there?<br />
These are some of the mycorrhizae
that live alongside and partially inside the roots. It's quite a word,
but just comes from the Greek, myco meaning fungus and rrhiza, meaning
roots.<br />
Have a look at the roots. Maybe you're wondering why they
seem so much larger than you expected and are so ornately decorated.
All the mycorrhizae wrapped around them increase the surface area of the
roots and this means that the plant can absorb more nutrients. There
will probably be some mycorrhizae and bacteria round the roots which
protect them from disease and other threats.<br />
How long has this
been going on? Fossil evidence shows us that they were associated with
the first land plants over 400 million years ago.<br />
What are they
doing there? Around 80% of plants use the incredible network of
mycorrhizae and their multiple fine branches, or hyphae, to get food,
especially minerals. The roots of the plants even have their own "go
between" bacteria to introduce a new mycorrhiza to make sure that it's a
good idea to let their defences down! <br />
What do they get out of
it? In sunlight, plants photosynthesize water and carbon dioxide to
release oxygen and make carbohydrates. They use some of the carbon for
energy, some to grow and they share some with the mycorrhizae. They
also leak some sugar to attract microbes.<br />
Mycorrhizae don't
produce carbon; sunlight doesn't happen much underground and anyway they
really don't like being in the sun. They rely on the plant for their
carbon shots.<br />
What else do these mini-fungi do? As well as feeding
the plants the kind of smoothie ionic food they like, they can link up
different species, like birch and larch for example, sharing carbon
between them. They are also an information network!<br />
But that's not all. <br />
As
the plant grows, the roots push out further... around you the earth is
moving... and new hyphae are growing too. The mycorrhizae grow out
around the new root tips. Their hyphae are probably waterproofed by
those sticky globules that look like chewing gum on their surface and as
the plant grows, the old hyphae slough off leaving "chewing gum string
bags" littered around. Into these bags fall particles of soil, minerals
and other debris. These are probably the most important sticky old
bags in the world.<br />
Why? The bags are made of glomalin, the chewing
gum stuff, as well as strands of old root and hyphae. Depending on the
composition of the soil they stick to, they can store carbon for up to a
hundred years. In fact, deep down in the soil they can probably store
it for thousands of years.<br />
How much can they store? The Rodale Institute says: <br />
“Simply put, we could sequester more than 100% of current
annual CO<sub>2</sub> emissions with a switch to widely available and
inexpensive organic management practices, which we term "regenerative
organic agriculture."<br />
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Experiments have
shown that the more carbon dioxide is in the air, the longer the hyphae
grow and the more glomalin is created. This means that more carbon is
stored. However, you don't just need increased CO2, for this. If the
soil is properly looked after, it will store more and more carbon.<br />
If
these mycorrhiza are so important, maybe it's a good idea to find out
what makes them happy. We know some of the things they really don't
like: They don't like the light, they don't like being disturbed and
they specially don't like being squashed. They can also suffer very
badly from pesticides, herbicides and synthetic fertilizers.... Let's
face it... if the plants get all the phosphorus they need from fast
food, why bother sharing their carbon with the mycorrhizae? These
hardworking fungi become less numerous and may even be stopped from
reproducing.<br />
Another problem is that the plant only gets what's on
offer from human beings, whereas the mycorrhizae can give them lots of
different minerals that are in the soil and they have a quick response
system to deal with pests and diseases. They also don't cause nitrogen
to be leached out into the soil or to increase air pollution.<br />
Does
this matter? Yes. This rich kingdom which sustains us is mostly only
about two to eight inches deep. It's fragile. Plato wrote that the
fall of Greece was because the once fertile soil had become degraded. He
didn't know why. Ancient kingdoms whose prosperity was on based on rich
soil also fell because they didn't care for the soil; maybe they
overworked or over irrigated land to produce more and more food and it
became degraded. They probably didn't know why. We probably do.<br />
Long
term research has shown that with organic farming, where a plentiful
supply of compost is given to the earth for the hard working population
of microbes and small creatures, land flourishes and is more
productive. It is also better protected against floods and drought,
especially where diverse species are encouraged to grow. Furthermore,
there is good evidence that growing food organically can feed the
world.....the whole world.<br />
So there we have it, regenerative
organic agriculture can sequester more than 100% of current annual CO2
emissions and feed the world.<br />
Yes it can, but there are a few snags to deal with...mostly of human origin. <br />
Ancient
kingdoms fell because of soil degradation, but we have the capacity to
mess up monumentally on a global scale and there's no stopping some
people...or is there<b>?</b><br />
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<a href="http://dandelionithappens-dendelion.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/three-part-series-below-our-feet-and_46.html"><i>Link to part two</i></a><br />
<i>Our Earth, the wreckers and the wrecked.</i><br />
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<b>Petitions.</b></div>
For Ethiopia: Defend the oppressed people in Ethiopia<br />
<a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Defend_Ethiopian_peasants/?pv=105">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Defend_Ethiopian_peasants/?pv=105</a><br />
Save Nallamala from Uranium Mining <br />
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<b>Sources and Resources</b><br />
Titles: Helpful organisations. The case for organic farming. History. Sources of material in order.<br />
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<b>Helpful organisations</b>:<br />
Grain.org <a href="https://www.grain.org/">https://www.grain.org/ </a><br />
HIVOS <a href="https://www.hivos.org/focal-area/open-source-seed-systems">https://www.hivos.org/focal-area/open-source-seed-systems </a><br />
IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.) <a href="http://www.ifoam.bio/en">http://www.ifoam.bio/en</a><br />
IFOAM EU <a href="http://www.ifoam-eu.org/">http://www.ifoam-eu.org/</a> <br />
Navdanya (Indian based movement) <a href="http://www.navdanya.org/home">http://www.navdanya.org/home</a><br />
OCA,The Organic Consumers Association (USA but international reach). <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/">https://www.organicconsumers.org/</a><br />
Open Source Seed Initiative OSSI (USA but international reach) <a href="http://osseeds.org/">http://osseeds.org/</a><br />
Open Source Seeds (Germany based) <a href="http://www.opensourceseeds.org/en">http://www.opensourceseeds.org/en </a> <br />
Regeneration International <a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/">http://regenerationinternational.org/</a><br />
Save Our Soils <a href="http://www.saveoursoils.com/"><span class="url">www.saveoursoils.com</span></a><br />
Seed matters (USA) <a href="http://seedmatters.org/">http://seedmatters.org/</a><br />
Seed savers exchange <a href="http://www.seedsavers.org/">http://www.seedsavers.org/</a><br />
Soil Association (UK) <a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/"><span class="url">https://www.soilassociation.org/</span></a><br />
SAT (Tanzania) <a href="http://kilimo.org/WordPress/">http://kilimo.org/WordPress/</a> <br />
The Carbon Underground <a href="https://thecarbonunderground.org/">https://thecarbonunderground.org/</a> <br />
The Oakland Institute <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/"><span class="url">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/</span></a><br />
The Rodale Institute <a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/ </a><br />
<b>The case for organic farming:</b><br />
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/"> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/ </a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/</a> <br />
<a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/">http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/ </a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/soil_as_carbon_storehouse_new_weapon_in_climate_fight">http://e360.yale.edu/features/soil_as_carbon_storehouse_new_weapon_in_climate_fight</a><br />
<a href="http://saveoursoils.com/en/soilution/the-issue.html">http://saveoursoils.com/en/soilution/the-issue.html </a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/ </a>
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<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world</a><br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/6-reasons-organics-can-fe_b_1399380.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/6-reasons-organics-can-fe_b_1399380.html</a> <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT">https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/organic-can-feed-the-world/249348/ </a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up </a><br />
Three UN items below:<br />
<a href="http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf">http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT">http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT </a><br />
<a href="http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp/new-un-report-we-can-feed-world-without-using-pesticides">http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp/new-un-report-we-can-feed-world-without-using-pesticides </a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/">https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4672/7-ways-to-save-our-soils-2016.pdf">https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4672/7-ways-to-save-our-soils-2016.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland</a><br />
<a href="http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/solutions/organic-industrial-agriculture">http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/solutions/organic-industrial-agriculture </a> <br />
<a href="http://ecofarmingdaily.com/organic-agriculture-can-feed-world/">http://ecofarmingdaily.com/organic-agriculture-can-feed-world/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.soilsforlife.org.au/index.html">http://www.soilsforlife.org.au/index.html</a> (Australia)<br />
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/13/food-farming-and-climate-change-its-bigger-everything-else">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/13/food-farming-and-climate-change-its-bigger-everything-else </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/679-saying-no-to-chemical-farming-in-india">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/679-saying-no-to-chemical-farming-in-india </a><br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/site/2017-03-29-08-02-10/industrial-vs-living-agriculture">http://www.navdanya.org/site/2017-03-29-08-02-10/industrial-vs-living-agriculture</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html">http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html </a><br />
<a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-its-time-to-stop-punishing-our-soils-with-fertilizers-and-chemicals">https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-its-time-to-stop-punishing-our-soils-with-fertilizers-and-chemicals </a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1">http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1 </a></div>
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Reference below: <br />
<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174">http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil</a> Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA</a> Video: Please watch if you can. <br />
<a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/world/report-special-rapporteur-right-food-ahrc3448">http://reliefweb.int/report/world/report-special-rapporteur-right-food-ahrc3448 </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/scientists-discover-another-cause-bee-deaths-and-its-really-bad-news.html">http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/scientists-discover-another-cause-bee-deaths-and-its-really-bad-news.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsantos-sealed-documents-reveal-truth-behind-roundups-toxicological-dangers">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsantos-sealed-documents-reveal-truth-behind-roundups-toxicological-dangers </a><br />
<b>History:</b><br />
<a href="http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/">http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/ </a><a href="http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf">http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf</a><br />
<b>Some sources of material in approximate order:</b><br />
<a href="http://saveourwoods.co.uk/articles/expert-articles/soils-biodiversity-by-dr-james-merryweather/">http://saveourwoods.co.uk/articles/expert-articles/soils-biodiversity-by-dr-james-merryweather/</a><br />
<a href="http://mycorrhizas.info/vam.html">http://mycorrhizas.info/vam.html </a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/sustainable-farming/benefits-of-earthworms-zm0z16amzbre">http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/sustainable-farming/benefits-of-earthworms-zm0z16amzbre </a><br />
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fossilised-remains-of-oldest-form-of-land-dwelling-life-ever-discovered-found-on-remote-scottish-a6908756.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fossilised-remains-of-oldest-form-of-land-dwelling-life-ever-discovered-found-on-remote-scottish-a6908756.html</a>
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<a href="http://www.nofamass.org/sites/default/files/2015_White_Paper_web.pdf">http://www.nofamass.org/sites/default/files/2015_White_Paper_web.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/mycorrhizae_and_plant_communication.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/mycorrhizae_and_plant_communication.php </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.carbon-negative.us/docs/Glomalin-HiddenSoilCarbon.pdf">http://www.carbon-negative.us/docs/Glomalin-HiddenSoilCarbon.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SAG-10">https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SAG-10</a> <br />
<a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/">http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sicirec.org/definitions/carbon-capture">http://www.sicirec.org/definitions/carbon-capture</a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/ </a><br />
<a href="http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A2835533">http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A2835533</a><br />
<a href="http://plato.acadiau.ca/isme/Symposium25/xavier.PDF">http://plato.acadiau.ca/isme/Symposium25/xavier.PDF </a>
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https:/<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259221729_The_impact_of_pesticide_on_arbuscular_mycorrhizal_and_nitrogen_fixing_symbioses_in_legumes">/www.researchgate.net/publication/259221729_The_impact_of_pesticide_on_arbuscular_mycorrhizal_and_nitrogen_fixing_symbioses_in_legumes</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/media/7202/glyphosate-and-soil-health-full-report.pdf">https://www.soilassociation.org/media/7202/glyphosate-and-soil-health-full-report.pdf </a><br />
<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php </a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272828938_Arbuscular_Mycorrhizae_and_Grassland_Ecosystems">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272828938_Arbuscular_Mycorrhizae_and_Grassland_Ecosystems</a> <br />
<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027381">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027381</a><br />
<a href="http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf">http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/">http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/ </a><a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up </a> 2009 GRAIN.org article <br />
<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world</a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/agroecology-report-from-the-roots-up-web-version.pdf">http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/agroecology-report-from-the-roots-up-web-version.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21306&LangID=E">http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21306&LangID=E </a><br />
<a href="http://saveoursoils.com/soilution/the-issue.html">http://saveoursoils.com/soilution/the-issue.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/">https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1">http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1</a>/<br />
<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174">http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174</a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237993599_Nitrous_Oxide_Emission_from_Crop_Fields_and_Its_Role_in_Atmospheric_Radiative_Forcing">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237993599_Nitrous_Oxide_Emission_from_Crop_Fields_and_Its_Role_in_Atmospheric_Radiative_Forcing</a>
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<a href="http://grist.org/article/2009-11-11-the-dark-side-of-nitrogen/">http://grist.org/article/2009-11-11-the-dark-side-of-nitrogen/</a> <br />
<a href="https://hubpages.com/politics/Artificial-Nitrogen-Dangers-Of-Mankind-Playing-God">https://hubpages.com/politics/Artificial-Nitrogen-Dangers-Of-Mankind-Playing-God</a><br />
<a href="http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/nitratenitrite2ndadd.pdf">http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/nitratenitrite2ndadd.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7489769">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7489769</a><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1638204/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1638204/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226489981_The_Blue_Baby_Syndrome">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226489981_The_Blue_Baby_Syndrome</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5270-the-exxons-of-agriculture">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5270-the-exxons-of-agriculture</a> 2015 GRAIN Fertiliser report.<br />
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/return-to-the-radiation-zone-fukushima-clean-up-operation-mired-in-fear-and-misinformation-8810158.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/return-to-the-radiation-zone-fukushima-clean-up-operation-mired-in-fear-and-misinformation-8810158.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/22/fukushima-deep-trouble/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/22/fukushima-deep-trouble/</a><br />
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<a href="http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000chttp:/mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000c">http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000chttp://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000c</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/struggling-with-japans-nuclear-waste-six-years-after-disaster.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/struggling-with-japans-nuclear-waste-six-years-after-disaster.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/is-chinas-new-plan-to-tackle-soil-pollution-t/blog/56643/">http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/is-chinas-new-plan-to-tackle-soil-pollution-t/blog/56643/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/black-smelly-citizens-clean-chinas-polluted-rivers">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/black-smelly-citizens-clean-chinas-polluted-rivers</a><br />
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/why-were-mapping-chinas-hazardous-chemicals-f/blog/57555/">http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/why-were-mapping-chinas-hazardous-chemicals-f/blog/57555/</a>
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<a href="https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/almost-28-000-rivers-disappear-in-china-8009">https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/almost-28-000-rivers-disappear-in-china-8009</a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/chinas_dirty_pollution_secret_the_boom_poisoned_its_soil_and_crops/2782/">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/chinas_dirty_pollution_secret_the_boom_poisoned_its_soil_and_crops/2782/</a> <br />
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<a href="https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/9028-China-s-tainted-soil-initiative-lacks">https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/9028-China-s-tainted-soil-initiative-lac</a></div>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/asia/china-underground-water-pollution.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/asia/china-underground-water-pollution.html?_r=0</a><br />
<a href="https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/8892-Changzhou-pollution-scandal-highlights-holes-in-China-s-environmental-enforcement">https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/8892-Changzhou-pollution-scandal-highlights-holes-in-China-s-environmental-enforcement
</a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_warriors_of_qiugang_a_chinese_village_fights_back/2358/">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_warriors_of_qiugang_a_chinese_village_fights_back/2358/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYGHpyJKK4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYGHpyJKK4</a> (Video Warrors of Qiugang)</div>
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<a href="http://ejatlas.org/conflict/cancer-village-qiugang-develops-in-anhui-china">http://ejatlas.org/conflict/cancer-village-qiugang-develops-in-anhui-china </a></div>
<a href="https://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/03/world/life-and-death-inside-chinese-cancer-village">https://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/03/world/life-and-death-inside-chinese-cancer-village </a>(Village of Liuchong) <br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1R70M9vbPN104K-YqFlUnK1xUDoY&hl=en_US&ll=30.187076758346265%2C112.28646500000013&z=4">https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1R70M9vbPN104K-YqFlUnK1xUDoY&hl=en_US&ll=30.187076758346265%2C112.28646500000013&z=4
</a><br />
<a href="http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202010/made-in-china-full.html">http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202010/made-in-china-full.html</a><br />
<a href="http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/the-environmental-problem-china-can-no-longer-overlook/">http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/the-environmental-problem-china-can-no-longer-overlook/</a>
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<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5736-cambodia-communities-in-protracted-struggle-against-chinese-sugar-companies-land-grab">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5736-cambodia-communities-in-protracted-struggle-against-chinese-sugar-companies-land-grab</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/china-ukraine-farmland-food-security-investment-overseas">https://www.channel4.com/news/china-ukraine-farmland-food-security-investment-overseas </a><br />
<a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/china-buys-up-agricultural-land-in-central-france/">https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/china-buys-up-agricultural-land-in-central-france/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/21/rich-countries-are-buying-up-farmland-from-poorer-ones-around-the-world/?utm_term=.e050e54daa7c">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/21/rich-countries-are-buying-up-farmland-from-poorer-ones-around-the-world/?utm_term=.e050e54daa7c</a><br />
<a href="https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/dangerous-ground/">https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/dangerous-ground/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/land-grabbing-cambodia-richard-rodgers">http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/land-grabbing-cambodia-richard-rodgers</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5622-grow-ing-disaster-the-fortune-500-goes-farming">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5622-grow-ing-disaster-the-fortune-500-goes-farming </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5570-a-high-price-mounting-debt-means-tragedy-for-tens-of-thousands-of-farmers-in-vietnam">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5570-a-high-price-mounting-debt-means-tragedy-for-tens-of-thousands-of-farmers-in-vietnam</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4575-land-grabbing-and-food-sovereignty-in-west-and-central-africa">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4575-land-grabbing-and-food-sovereignty-in-west-and-central-africa</a><br />
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/kathambi-kinoti/land-grabs-threat-to-african-women%E2%80%99s-livelihoods">https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/kathambi-kinoti/land-grabs-threat-to-african-women’s-livelihoods </a><br />
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/mariama-tarawallie/women-in-sierra-leone-resisting-dispossession">https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/mariama-tarawallie/women-in-sierra-leone-resisting-dispossession </a><br />
<a href="http://www.zukunftsstiftung-entwicklung.de/media/Bilder_ZSE/UEber_Uns_Dateien/Grundlagentexte/Land_grab_article.pdf">http://www.zukunftsstiftung-entwicklung.de/media/Bilder_ZSE/UEber_Uns_Dateien/Grundlagentexte/Land_grab_article.pdf</a> (in English)
<br />
<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/landRush.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/landRush.php</a><br />
<a href="https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27121-brazil-home-of-amazon-rolls-back-environmental-protection">https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27121-brazil-home-of-amazon-rolls-back-environmental-protection</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil </a><br />
<a href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-global-land-grab#whatisnew">https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-global-land-grab#whatisnew</a> <br />
<a href="https://ejatlas.org/conflict/land-grabbing-and-forced-evictions-by-koh-kongs-sugar-industry-cambodia">https://ejatlas.org/conflict/land-grabbing-and-forced-evictions-by-koh-kongs-sugar-industry-cambodia</a><br />
<a href="http://licadhocanada.com/about-cambodia/land-evictions-in-cambodia/">http://licadhocanada.com/about-cambodia/land-evictions-in-cambodia/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/world-bank-sides-agribusinesses-against-farmers-indigenous-communities">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/world-bank-sides-agribusinesses-against-farmers-indigenous-communities </a><br />
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-millionaires-and-billionaires-buying-land-in-africa-2011-6?op=1&IR=T/#uce-rastetter-and-his-various-companies-are-accused-of-breaking-promises-to-hire-locals-1">http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-millionaires-and-billionaires-buying-land-in-africa-2011-6?op=1&IR=T/#uce-rastetter-and-his-various-companies-are-accused-of-breaking-promises-to-hire-locals-1 </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5714-green-oil-palm-plantations-are-a-scam-the-case-of-olam">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5714-green-oil-palm-plantations-are-a-scam-the-case-of-olam</a><br />
<a href="https://www.globalpolicy.org/world-hunger/land-ownership-and-hunger.html">https://www.globalpolicy.org/world-hunger/land-ownership-and-hunger.html </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4576-slideshow-who-s-behind-the-land-grabs">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4576-slideshow-who-s-behind-the-land-grabs</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5575-pension-funds-fuel-land-grabs-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5575-pension-funds-fuel-land-grabs-in-brazil</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5493-land-grabs-expand-the-frontier-of-industrial-agriculture-says-grain">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5493-land-grabs-expand-the-frontier-of-industrial-agriculture-says-grain</a><br />
<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/land-rights-issue">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/land-rights-issue </a><br />
<a href="https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27089-world-bank-fuels-land-grabs-in-africa-through-shadowy-financial-sector-investments">https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27089-world-bank-fuels-land-grabs-in-africa-through-shadowy-financial-sector-investments</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/swidden">http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/swidden </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5693-large-scale-investments-and-climate-conservation-initiatives-destroy-forests-and-people-s-territories">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5693-large-scale-investments-and-climate-conservation-initiatives-destroy-forests-and-people-s-territories</a><br />
<a href="http://www.developmentperspectives.ie/virtual-water-how-much-do-you-use/">http://www.developmentperspectives.ie/virtual-water-how-much-do-you-use/</a><br />
<a href="https://qz.com/275489/in-ethiopia-foreign-investment-is-a-fancy-word-for-stealing-land/">https://qz.com/275489/in-ethiopia-foreign-investment-is-a-fancy-word-for-stealing-land/ </a><br />
<a href="https://www.gfbv.de/en/information/campaigns/flowers-of-love-flowers-of-sorrow/">https://www.gfbv.de/en/information/campaigns/flowers-of-love-flowers-of-sorrow/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.inclusivedevelopment.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Outsourcing-Developmnet-Introduction.pdf">http://www.inclusivedevelopment.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Outsourcing-Developmnet-Introduction.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4516-squeezing-africa-dry-behind-every-land-grab-is-a-water-grab">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4516-squeezing-africa-dry-behind-every-land-grab-is-a-water-grab </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/584-bija-swaraj-is-our-birthright">http://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/584-bija-swaraj-is-our-birthright</a> (seed sovereignty)<br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/site/living-seed/seed-freedom">http://www.navdanya.org/site/living-seed/seed-freedom </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5748-a-grain-of-truth-rcep-and-the-corporate-hijack-of-indian-agriculture">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5748-a-grain-of-truth-rcep-and-the-corporate-hijack-of-indian-agriculture</a><br />
<a href="http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/new-alliance-food-security-and-nutrition">http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/new-alliance-food-security-and-nutrition</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA</a> From Ghana: Whoever controls seeds controls the food system. Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil</a> Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="http://wrm.org.uy/articles-from-the-wrm-bulletin/section1/trade-deals-threaten-peasant-farmers-stewardship-of-seed-biodiversity/"> http://wrm.org.uy/articles-from-the-wrm-bulletin/section1/trade-deals-threaten-peasant-farmers-stewardship-of-seed-biodiversity/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5722-20-years-of-gm-soy-in-the-southern-cone-of-latin-america-20-reasons-for-a-definitive-ban">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5722-20-years-of-gm-soy-in-the-southern-cone-of-latin-america-20-reasons-for-a-definitive-ban
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<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html">http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html">http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html">http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange</a> Also about the work of SAT<br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5333-we-are-the-solution-african-women-organise-for-land-and-seed-sovereignty">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5333-we-are-the-solution-african-women-organise-for-land-and-seed-sovereignty</a><br />
<a href="http://moofafrica.com/about/">http://moofafrica.com/about/ </a><br />
<a href="http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/farmers-are-saving-bangladesh-s-endangered-soil/">http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/farmers-are-saving-bangladesh-s-endangered-soil/</a>
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<a href="http://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/agroecology.html">http://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/agroecology.html</a> </div>
<a href="http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf">http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf</a><br />
(Eco-farming can double food production in 10 years.)<br />
<a href="http://www.srtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pesticides-and-right-to-food.pdf">http://www.srtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pesticides-and-right-to-food.pdf</a><br />
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<a href="https://previa.uclm.es/Actividades/repositorio/pdf/doc_3721_4666.pdf">https://previa.uclm.es/Actividades/repositorio/pdf/doc_3721_4666.pdf </a></div>
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dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-17837548575940360922017-08-15T12:03:00.000-07:002019-10-30T11:48:03.848-07:00"Below our feet and behind our backs".. (2) Our earth, the wreckers and the wrecked.<div style="text-align: left;">
<b> </b></div>
I
read that it can take a thousand years to build up three centimetres of
topsoil. Currently we are losing the area of 30 football pitches of
fertile soil every minute. One third of the world's arable soil is
degraded and at least a quarter of that severely degraded. The good
news is that organic farming can rescue around 720 million hectares of
lightly degraded soil. This isn't a trivial matter; in the UK the Soil
Association says that the countryside only has 100 harvests left in it.
A global estimate given in around 2014 was that in 60 years' time all
the world's topsoil could be gone if current rates of soil degradation
continued. Spelling it out, that means no more food grown in the ground.<br />
So
what is going wrong? Well, have a look at these figures from an
article written in 2009 by Grain.org and see what you think. "For each
kg of nitrogen applied, 226kg of maize were obtained in 1961" (a time
when global industrial farming was starting), "but only 76 kg in 2006."
And it wasn't just maize. The figures were down from 217kg for rice to
66 kg. They had fallen from 131kg to 36kg for soya and from 126kg to
45kg for wheat.<br />
Apparently, this has been known for years and to quote Grain again. "It is not uncommon to hear organic farmers<i> </i>say that they turned organic because their yields collapsed after<i> </i>years of heavy industrial fertiliser<i> </i>use"<i>. </i><br />
From
my searches, I discovered that synthetic nitrogen fertilisers can
cause huge problems. Firstly, if applied liberally they can diminish the
role of natural nitrogen fixing bacteria in the soil. Other soil
microbes, faced with a feast of fast food, are stimulated to multiply,
eat all the soil organic matter they can, then, when supplies run out,
they die. There is also an imbalance of minerals which affects plant
growth. Secondly, the fertilisers can acidify the soil and this can kill
off a lot of bacteria. Thirdly, even if they are slow release, they
still aren't doing anything for the topsoil, they aren't providing
anything to help its structure or maintain it. That lovely air-spaced,
microbe-laced soil organic matter slowly disappears. Fourthly, there's
probably a lot of stuff I don't know yet.<br />
What happens then? The
soil becomes compacted. It can't hold as much water. Roots grow shorter
and absorb less nutrients. Surface layers of soil erode and water and
fertiliser are leached away, affecting more soil and waterways and
aquifers.<br />
A study in 2015 linked nitrates with uranium levels
which were way above the EPA guidelines, from water samples in two
aquifers in the Midwest of the USA and California. The naturally
occurring uranium in the rocks is said to be mobilised by excess
nitrates. It's unlikely that they are the only aquifers where this is
happening in the world. A number
of illnesses, including blue baby syndrome, are cited as being caused by
excess nitrate in drinking water.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The link between the fertiliser industry and fracking </b></div>
What I hadn't realised was the
connection between the fertiliser industry and fracking. According to a
report by Grain in 2015, it takes a lot of energy to make fertilisers.
In fact, the fertiliser industry is responsible for consuming over one
to two percent of annual world energy. (Ammonia, NH3, is the basis for
artificial nitrogen fertilisers. The inert nitrogen is taken from the
air and the hydrogen, mostly from natural gas.) It is the fertiliser
companies who, according to the report, were using most of the natural
gas produced by the fracking boom in the USA. Incidentally, apparently,
natural gas from fracked wells leak 40% to 60% more methane than
conventional wells and methane is a greenhouse gas which is 25 times
stronger than CO2.<br />
That, however, is nothing compared to the N2O
released once the fertiliser reaches the land. It is estimated that
around 3 to 5% of global greenhouse gases are from N2O released by
nitrogen fertilisers. This figure might even be too low, because farmers
have to use more and more fertiliser every year just to try to keep
yields the same and the rate of N2O emissions increases exponentially
with the application of more fertiliser.<br />
Stating the obvious, the
more artificial nitrogen fertiliser they use, the more hydrogen is
needed to manufacture ammonia and the more hydrogen is bought from the
fracking companies.<br />
Can organic farming really take out the
problem? Yes, absolutely and it's been proved and is being proved...and
I'm coming to it, honest, but there are other problems with growing food
safely that can't be dealt with so easily. In fact it will take years
and years...and years.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Long-term pollution</b> </div>
Can you imagine what over 9 million black
bags of nuclear waste, each of one cubic metre, and mostly containing
topsoil, look like when they are piled up in banks? That's the official
September 2015 figure from the Fukushima Prefecture and the Environment
Ministry....and it's still rising. The Ministry is quoted this year as
estimating that it had bagged 3.5 billion gallons of soil and planned to
collect much more. The trouble is, that it's an ongoing problem. They
clean up an area then the rain washes more radiation down from the
mountains.<br />
In China, huge industrial expansion has come at
environmental cost to the countryside and around one fifth of their
farmland is, reportedly, severely polluted. The government is
introducing an ambitious "soil pollution prevention action plan." People
in China are being asked to report polluted waterways. Greenpeace, East
Asia, has also started their own map of China's hazardous chemical
facilities.<br />
Meanwhile, the number of rivers in China has been
reported to have halved, waterways and soil have become heavily polluted
with chemicals such as Cadmium, Caesium, Chromium, Mercury and Lead,
and there is a published list of "Cancer Villages". <br />
Change can't
come quickly enough for the little village of Liuchong, revisited by a
journalist in 2016. He found that it was towered over by a 200 foot high
hill of the grey ash of phosphogypsum, still being dumped daily by a
local factory producing fertiliser. Phosphogypsum is radioactive and
according to the EPA, contains chemicals like uranium, radium and
arsenic....all cancer causing.<br />
A doctor working in the village
said that thirty of three hundred villagers living near the factory had
already died from cancer and five more were likely to die soon. He
spoke anonymously about the owner of the factory. “He has told us that
if we say anything bad about his company, he’ll have us killed." He
said that their only hope was that journalists got the word out.<br />
China
needs to feed its people. They are importing food. China has been
buying swathes of agricultural land or entering food production contract
in other countries.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Land grab</b> </div>
They certainly aren't the only country to
have soil problems or to be buying up, leasing or entering land
contracts in other nations. Some countries in Africa, South America and
South East Asia, have been especially badly affected, but the problem is
widespread. People who have farmed their land for generations can be
suddenly driven off, beaten, even killed. The foreign companies can do a
deal with intermediaries or governments and wait until the clearances
have happened... and they do. It's not just companies from different
countries or their own opportunist governments who are land grabbing. As
might be expected, corporations are involved for profit and
surprisingly, so are some pension funds. Your teacher's pension might
come off the bruised back of any displaced farmer in the third world.
You may say, "I know that they don't do that." Are you sure? Do you know
that the assurances they give you are real? Do you know what is
happening in the fields and pastures of once fertile areas of the
world? Do you know how much scarce water is being guaranteed for these
projects? <br />
We are blitzed with information about how the world
population will rise and how we need to feed them. Who are these hungry
people? Apparently, they are mostly the very neighbours of the small
farmers who are being displaced. What are some of the crops now being
grown on their land by the new owners or leaseholders? Cut flowers and
roses for the European market, (I am not joking) and especially flex
crops such as palm oil, sugar cane, cassava and corn.What are they
mainly grown for? Export.<br />
Even where farmers keep their land, it
can now be illegal for them to sell their own seeds. They may be
pressured into buying patented seeds annually. Seed patenting laws are
being resisted in countries around the world.<br />
There are acres and
acres of genetically modified mono-crops. In the southern cone of Latin
America, there are over 54 million hectares of G.M. soy, according to
Grain.org. Millions of peasants were displaced to achieve this, and
thousands had to abandon producing local food, unable to co-exist with
G.M.soy. Hundreds of peasants were criminalised, persecuted and murdered
trying to defend their land. <b> </b><br />
Grain.org has produced a downloadable <a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5722-20-years-of-gm-soy-in-the-southern-cone-of-latin-america-20-reasons-for-a-definitive-ban">poster</a>
giving 20 reasons for opposing the G.M. soy crop. Two of them are that
the land is being depleted and destroyed with an unprecedented loss of
nutrients<b> </b>and that every study to date has found GM soy varieties to be less productive than conventional varieties.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<a href="http://dandelionithappens-dendelion.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/three-part-series-below-our-feet-and_15.html"> <i>Link to part three</i></a><b> </b><br />
<i>The answer: small organic farms and seed sovereignty.</i><br />
<i> </i><b> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Petitions.</b></div>
For Ethiopia: Defend the Oppressed Peoples in Ethiopia <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Defend_Ethiopian_peasants/?pv=105">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Defend_Ethiopian_peasants/?pv=105</a><br />
Save Nallamala from Uranium Mining: <br />
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<b>Sources and Resources</b><br />
Titles: Helpful organisations. The case for organic farming. History. Sources of material in order.<br />
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<b>Helpful organisations</b>:<br />
Grain.org <a href="https://www.grain.org/">https://www.grain.org/ </a><br />
HIVOS <a href="https://www.hivos.org/focal-area/open-source-seed-systems">https://www.hivos.org/focal-area/open-source-seed-systems </a><br />
IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.) <a href="http://www.ifoam.bio/en">http://www.ifoam.bio/en</a><br />
IFOAM EU <a href="http://www.ifoam-eu.org/">http://www.ifoam-eu.org/</a> <br />
Navdanya (Indian based movement) <a href="http://www.navdanya.org/home">http://www.navdanya.org/home</a><br />
OCA,The Organic Consumers Association (USA but international reach). <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/">https://www.organicconsumers.org/</a><br />
Open Source Seed Initiative OSSI (USA but international reach) <a href="http://osseeds.org/">http://osseeds.org/</a><br />
Open Source Seeds (Germany based) <a href="http://www.opensourceseeds.org/en">http://www.opensourceseeds.org/en </a> <br />
Regeneration International <a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/">http://regenerationinternational.org/</a><br />
Save Our Soils <a href="http://www.saveoursoils.com/"><span class="url">www.saveoursoils.com</span></a><br />
Seed matters (USA) <a href="http://seedmatters.org/">http://seedmatters.org/</a><br />
Seed savers exchange <a href="http://www.seedsavers.org/">http://www.seedsavers.org/</a><br />
Soil Association (UK) <a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/"><span class="url">https://www.soilassociation.org/</span></a><br />
SAT (Tanzania) <a href="http://kilimo.org/WordPress/">http://kilimo.org/WordPress/</a> <br />
The Carbon Underground <a href="https://thecarbonunderground.org/">https://thecarbonunderground.org/</a> <br />
The Oakland Institute <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/"><span class="url">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/</span></a><br />
The Rodale Institute <a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/ </a><br />
<b>The case for organic farming:</b><br />
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/"> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/ </a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/</a> <br />
<a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/">http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/ </a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/soil_as_carbon_storehouse_new_weapon_in_climate_fight">http://e360.yale.edu/features/soil_as_carbon_storehouse_new_weapon_in_climate_fight</a><br />
<a href="http://saveoursoils.com/en/soilution/the-issue.html">http://saveoursoils.com/en/soilution/the-issue.html </a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/ </a>
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<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world</a><br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/6-reasons-organics-can-fe_b_1399380.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/6-reasons-organics-can-fe_b_1399380.html</a> <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT">https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/organic-can-feed-the-world/249348/ </a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up </a><br />
Three UN items below:<br />
<a href="http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf">http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT">http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT </a><br />
<a href="http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp/new-un-report-we-can-feed-world-without-using-pesticides">http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp/new-un-report-we-can-feed-world-without-using-pesticides </a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/">https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4672/7-ways-to-save-our-soils-2016.pdf">https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4672/7-ways-to-save-our-soils-2016.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland</a><br />
<a href="http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/solutions/organic-industrial-agriculture">http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/solutions/organic-industrial-agriculture </a> <br />
<a href="http://ecofarmingdaily.com/organic-agriculture-can-feed-world/">http://ecofarmingdaily.com/organic-agriculture-can-feed-world/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.soilsforlife.org.au/index.html">http://www.soilsforlife.org.au/index.html</a> (Australia)<br />
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/13/food-farming-and-climate-change-its-bigger-everything-else">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/13/food-farming-and-climate-change-its-bigger-everything-else </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/679-saying-no-to-chemical-farming-in-india">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/679-saying-no-to-chemical-farming-in-india </a><br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/site/2017-03-29-08-02-10/industrial-vs-living-agriculture">http://www.navdanya.org/site/2017-03-29-08-02-10/industrial-vs-living-agriculture</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html">http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html </a><br />
<a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-its-time-to-stop-punishing-our-soils-with-fertilizers-and-chemicals">https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-its-time-to-stop-punishing-our-soils-with-fertilizers-and-chemicals </a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1">http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1 </a></div>
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Reference below: <br />
<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174">http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil</a> Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA</a> Video: Please watch if you can. <br />
<a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/world/report-special-rapporteur-right-food-ahrc3448">http://reliefweb.int/report/world/report-special-rapporteur-right-food-ahrc3448 </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/scientists-discover-another-cause-bee-deaths-and-its-really-bad-news.html">http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/scientists-discover-another-cause-bee-deaths-and-its-really-bad-news.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsantos-sealed-documents-reveal-truth-behind-roundups-toxicological-dangers">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsantos-sealed-documents-reveal-truth-behind-roundups-toxicological-dangers </a><br />
<b>History:</b><br />
<a href="http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/">http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/ </a><a href="http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf">http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf</a><br />
<b>Some sources of material in approximate order:</b><br />
<a href="http://saveourwoods.co.uk/articles/expert-articles/soils-biodiversity-by-dr-james-merryweather/">http://saveourwoods.co.uk/articles/expert-articles/soils-biodiversity-by-dr-james-merryweather/</a><br />
<a href="http://mycorrhizas.info/vam.html">http://mycorrhizas.info/vam.html </a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/sustainable-farming/benefits-of-earthworms-zm0z16amzbre">http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/sustainable-farming/benefits-of-earthworms-zm0z16amzbre </a><br />
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fossilised-remains-of-oldest-form-of-land-dwelling-life-ever-discovered-found-on-remote-scottish-a6908756.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fossilised-remains-of-oldest-form-of-land-dwelling-life-ever-discovered-found-on-remote-scottish-a6908756.html</a>
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<a href="http://www.nofamass.org/sites/default/files/2015_White_Paper_web.pdf">http://www.nofamass.org/sites/default/files/2015_White_Paper_web.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/mycorrhizae_and_plant_communication.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/mycorrhizae_and_plant_communication.php </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.carbon-negative.us/docs/Glomalin-HiddenSoilCarbon.pdf">http://www.carbon-negative.us/docs/Glomalin-HiddenSoilCarbon.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SAG-10">https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SAG-10</a> <br />
<a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/">http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sicirec.org/definitions/carbon-capture">http://www.sicirec.org/definitions/carbon-capture</a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/ </a><br />
<a href="http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A2835533">http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A2835533</a><br />
<a href="http://plato.acadiau.ca/isme/Symposium25/xavier.PDF">http://plato.acadiau.ca/isme/Symposium25/xavier.PDF </a>
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https:/<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259221729_The_impact_of_pesticide_on_arbuscular_mycorrhizal_and_nitrogen_fixing_symbioses_in_legumes">/www.researchgate.net/publication/259221729_The_impact_of_pesticide_on_arbuscular_mycorrhizal_and_nitrogen_fixing_symbioses_in_legumes</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/media/7202/glyphosate-and-soil-health-full-report.pdf">https://www.soilassociation.org/media/7202/glyphosate-and-soil-health-full-report.pdf </a><br />
<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php </a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272828938_Arbuscular_Mycorrhizae_and_Grassland_Ecosystems">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272828938_Arbuscular_Mycorrhizae_and_Grassland_Ecosystems</a> <br />
<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027381">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027381</a><br />
<a href="http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf">http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/">http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/ </a><a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up </a> 2009 GRAIN.org article <br />
<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world</a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/agroecology-report-from-the-roots-up-web-version.pdf">http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/agroecology-report-from-the-roots-up-web-version.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21306&LangID=E">http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21306&LangID=E </a><br />
<a href="http://saveoursoils.com/soilution/the-issue.html">http://saveoursoils.com/soilution/the-issue.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/">https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1">http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1</a>/<br />
<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174">http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174</a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237993599_Nitrous_Oxide_Emission_from_Crop_Fields_and_Its_Role_in_Atmospheric_Radiative_Forcing">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237993599_Nitrous_Oxide_Emission_from_Crop_Fields_and_Its_Role_in_Atmospheric_Radiative_Forcing</a>
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<a href="http://grist.org/article/2009-11-11-the-dark-side-of-nitrogen/">http://grist.org/article/2009-11-11-the-dark-side-of-nitrogen/</a> <br />
<a href="https://hubpages.com/politics/Artificial-Nitrogen-Dangers-Of-Mankind-Playing-God">https://hubpages.com/politics/Artificial-Nitrogen-Dangers-Of-Mankind-Playing-God</a><br />
<a href="http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/nitratenitrite2ndadd.pdf">http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/nitratenitrite2ndadd.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7489769">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7489769</a><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1638204/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1638204/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226489981_The_Blue_Baby_Syndrome">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226489981_The_Blue_Baby_Syndrome</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5270-the-exxons-of-agriculture">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5270-the-exxons-of-agriculture</a> 2015 GRAIN Fertiliser report.<br />
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/return-to-the-radiation-zone-fukushima-clean-up-operation-mired-in-fear-and-misinformation-8810158.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/return-to-the-radiation-zone-fukushima-clean-up-operation-mired-in-fear-and-misinformation-8810158.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/22/fukushima-deep-trouble/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/22/fukushima-deep-trouble/</a><br />
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<a href="http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000chttp:/mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000c">http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000chttp://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000c</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/struggling-with-japans-nuclear-waste-six-years-after-disaster.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/struggling-with-japans-nuclear-waste-six-years-after-disaster.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/is-chinas-new-plan-to-tackle-soil-pollution-t/blog/56643/">http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/is-chinas-new-plan-to-tackle-soil-pollution-t/blog/56643/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/black-smelly-citizens-clean-chinas-polluted-rivers">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/black-smelly-citizens-clean-chinas-polluted-rivers</a><br />
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/why-were-mapping-chinas-hazardous-chemicals-f/blog/57555/">http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/why-were-mapping-chinas-hazardous-chemicals-f/blog/57555/</a>
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<a href="https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/almost-28-000-rivers-disappear-in-china-8009">https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/almost-28-000-rivers-disappear-in-china-8009</a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/chinas_dirty_pollution_secret_the_boom_poisoned_its_soil_and_crops/2782/">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/chinas_dirty_pollution_secret_the_boom_poisoned_its_soil_and_crops/2782/</a> <br />
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<a href="https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/9028-China-s-tainted-soil-initiative-lacks">https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/9028-China-s-tainted-soil-initiative-lac</a></div>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/asia/china-underground-water-pollution.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/asia/china-underground-water-pollution.html?_r=0</a><br />
<a href="https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/8892-Changzhou-pollution-scandal-highlights-holes-in-China-s-environmental-enforcement">https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/8892-Changzhou-pollution-scandal-highlights-holes-in-China-s-environmental-enforcement
</a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_warriors_of_qiugang_a_chinese_village_fights_back/2358/">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_warriors_of_qiugang_a_chinese_village_fights_back/2358/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYGHpyJKK4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYGHpyJKK4</a> (Video Warrors of Qiugang)</div>
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<a href="http://ejatlas.org/conflict/cancer-village-qiugang-develops-in-anhui-china">http://ejatlas.org/conflict/cancer-village-qiugang-develops-in-anhui-china </a></div>
<a href="https://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/03/world/life-and-death-inside-chinese-cancer-village">https://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/03/world/life-and-death-inside-chinese-cancer-village </a>(Village of Liuchong) <br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1R70M9vbPN104K-YqFlUnK1xUDoY&hl=en_US&ll=30.187076758346265%2C112.28646500000013&z=4">https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1R70M9vbPN104K-YqFlUnK1xUDoY&hl=en_US&ll=30.187076758346265%2C112.28646500000013&z=4
</a><br />
<a href="http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202010/made-in-china-full.html">http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202010/made-in-china-full.html</a><br />
<a href="http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/the-environmental-problem-china-can-no-longer-overlook/">http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/the-environmental-problem-china-can-no-longer-overlook/</a>
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<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5736-cambodia-communities-in-protracted-struggle-against-chinese-sugar-companies-land-grab">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5736-cambodia-communities-in-protracted-struggle-against-chinese-sugar-companies-land-grab</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/china-ukraine-farmland-food-security-investment-overseas">https://www.channel4.com/news/china-ukraine-farmland-food-security-investment-overseas </a><br />
<a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/china-buys-up-agricultural-land-in-central-france/">https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/china-buys-up-agricultural-land-in-central-france/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/21/rich-countries-are-buying-up-farmland-from-poorer-ones-around-the-world/?utm_term=.e050e54daa7c">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/21/rich-countries-are-buying-up-farmland-from-poorer-ones-around-the-world/?utm_term=.e050e54daa7c</a><br />
<a href="https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/dangerous-ground/">https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/dangerous-ground/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/land-grabbing-cambodia-richard-rodgers">http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/land-grabbing-cambodia-richard-rodgers</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5622-grow-ing-disaster-the-fortune-500-goes-farming">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5622-grow-ing-disaster-the-fortune-500-goes-farming </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5570-a-high-price-mounting-debt-means-tragedy-for-tens-of-thousands-of-farmers-in-vietnam">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5570-a-high-price-mounting-debt-means-tragedy-for-tens-of-thousands-of-farmers-in-vietnam</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4575-land-grabbing-and-food-sovereignty-in-west-and-central-africa">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4575-land-grabbing-and-food-sovereignty-in-west-and-central-africa</a><br />
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/kathambi-kinoti/land-grabs-threat-to-african-women%E2%80%99s-livelihoods">https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/kathambi-kinoti/land-grabs-threat-to-african-women’s-livelihoods </a><br />
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/mariama-tarawallie/women-in-sierra-leone-resisting-dispossession">https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/mariama-tarawallie/women-in-sierra-leone-resisting-dispossession </a><br />
<a href="http://www.zukunftsstiftung-entwicklung.de/media/Bilder_ZSE/UEber_Uns_Dateien/Grundlagentexte/Land_grab_article.pdf">http://www.zukunftsstiftung-entwicklung.de/media/Bilder_ZSE/UEber_Uns_Dateien/Grundlagentexte/Land_grab_article.pdf</a> (in English)
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<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/landRush.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/landRush.php</a><br />
<a href="https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27121-brazil-home-of-amazon-rolls-back-environmental-protection">https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27121-brazil-home-of-amazon-rolls-back-environmental-protection</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil </a><br />
<a href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-global-land-grab#whatisnew">https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-global-land-grab#whatisnew</a> <br />
<a href="https://ejatlas.org/conflict/land-grabbing-and-forced-evictions-by-koh-kongs-sugar-industry-cambodia">https://ejatlas.org/conflict/land-grabbing-and-forced-evictions-by-koh-kongs-sugar-industry-cambodia</a><br />
<a href="http://licadhocanada.com/about-cambodia/land-evictions-in-cambodia/">http://licadhocanada.com/about-cambodia/land-evictions-in-cambodia/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/world-bank-sides-agribusinesses-against-farmers-indigenous-communities">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/world-bank-sides-agribusinesses-against-farmers-indigenous-communities </a><br />
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-millionaires-and-billionaires-buying-land-in-africa-2011-6?op=1&IR=T/#uce-rastetter-and-his-various-companies-are-accused-of-breaking-promises-to-hire-locals-1">http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-millionaires-and-billionaires-buying-land-in-africa-2011-6?op=1&IR=T/#uce-rastetter-and-his-various-companies-are-accused-of-breaking-promises-to-hire-locals-1 </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5714-green-oil-palm-plantations-are-a-scam-the-case-of-olam">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5714-green-oil-palm-plantations-are-a-scam-the-case-of-olam</a><br />
<a href="https://www.globalpolicy.org/world-hunger/land-ownership-and-hunger.html">https://www.globalpolicy.org/world-hunger/land-ownership-and-hunger.html </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4576-slideshow-who-s-behind-the-land-grabs">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4576-slideshow-who-s-behind-the-land-grabs</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5575-pension-funds-fuel-land-grabs-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5575-pension-funds-fuel-land-grabs-in-brazil</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5493-land-grabs-expand-the-frontier-of-industrial-agriculture-says-grain">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5493-land-grabs-expand-the-frontier-of-industrial-agriculture-says-grain</a><br />
<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/land-rights-issue">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/land-rights-issue </a><br />
<a href="https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27089-world-bank-fuels-land-grabs-in-africa-through-shadowy-financial-sector-investments">https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27089-world-bank-fuels-land-grabs-in-africa-through-shadowy-financial-sector-investments</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/swidden">http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/swidden </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5693-large-scale-investments-and-climate-conservation-initiatives-destroy-forests-and-people-s-territories">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5693-large-scale-investments-and-climate-conservation-initiatives-destroy-forests-and-people-s-territories</a><br />
<a href="http://www.developmentperspectives.ie/virtual-water-how-much-do-you-use/">http://www.developmentperspectives.ie/virtual-water-how-much-do-you-use/</a><br />
<a href="https://qz.com/275489/in-ethiopia-foreign-investment-is-a-fancy-word-for-stealing-land/">https://qz.com/275489/in-ethiopia-foreign-investment-is-a-fancy-word-for-stealing-land/ </a><br />
<a href="https://www.gfbv.de/en/information/campaigns/flowers-of-love-flowers-of-sorrow/">https://www.gfbv.de/en/information/campaigns/flowers-of-love-flowers-of-sorrow/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.inclusivedevelopment.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Outsourcing-Developmnet-Introduction.pdf">http://www.inclusivedevelopment.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Outsourcing-Developmnet-Introduction.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4516-squeezing-africa-dry-behind-every-land-grab-is-a-water-grab">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4516-squeezing-africa-dry-behind-every-land-grab-is-a-water-grab </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/584-bija-swaraj-is-our-birthright">http://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/584-bija-swaraj-is-our-birthright</a> (seed sovereignty)<br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/site/living-seed/seed-freedom">http://www.navdanya.org/site/living-seed/seed-freedom </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5748-a-grain-of-truth-rcep-and-the-corporate-hijack-of-indian-agriculture">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5748-a-grain-of-truth-rcep-and-the-corporate-hijack-of-indian-agriculture</a><br />
<a href="http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/new-alliance-food-security-and-nutrition">http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/new-alliance-food-security-and-nutrition</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA</a> From Ghana: Whoever controls seeds controls the food system. Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil</a> Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="http://wrm.org.uy/articles-from-the-wrm-bulletin/section1/trade-deals-threaten-peasant-farmers-stewardship-of-seed-biodiversity/"> http://wrm.org.uy/articles-from-the-wrm-bulletin/section1/trade-deals-threaten-peasant-farmers-stewardship-of-seed-biodiversity/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5722-20-years-of-gm-soy-in-the-southern-cone-of-latin-america-20-reasons-for-a-definitive-ban">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5722-20-years-of-gm-soy-in-the-southern-cone-of-latin-america-20-reasons-for-a-definitive-ban
</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html">http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html">http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html">http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange</a> Also about the work of SAT<br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5333-we-are-the-solution-african-women-organise-for-land-and-seed-sovereignty">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5333-we-are-the-solution-african-women-organise-for-land-and-seed-sovereignty</a><br />
<a href="http://moofafrica.com/about/">http://moofafrica.com/about/ </a><br />
<a href="http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/farmers-are-saving-bangladesh-s-endangered-soil/">http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/farmers-are-saving-bangladesh-s-endangered-soil/</a>
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<a href="http://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/agroecology.html">http://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/agroecology.html</a> </div>
<a href="http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf">http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf</a><br />
(Eco-farming can double food production in 10 years.)<br />
<a href="http://www.srtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pesticides-and-right-to-food.pdf">http://www.srtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pesticides-and-right-to-food.pdf</a><br />
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UN special rapporteurs report. Especially see item 90<br />
<a href="https://previa.uclm.es/Actividades/repositorio/pdf/doc_3721_4666.pdf">https://previa.uclm.es/Actividades/repositorio/pdf/doc_3721_4666.pdf </a></div>
dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-33924324039958684222017-08-15T11:54:00.002-07:002019-10-30T11:42:59.019-07:00"Below our feet and behind our backs"..(3) The answer: small organic farms and seed sovereignty.<div style="text-align: center;">
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When it comes to feeding the world and halting climate change, it's so easy! It isn't what we have been taught over the past few decades.</div>
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Some
people, however, have always been doing it right: Not the
corporations, not the fertilizer and pesticide manufacturers, but lowly,
small farmers round the world... and they are mostly women. Seeds are
handed from one generation to another, mother to daughter, shared with
neighbours, tried under different conditions, planted in rich variety.<br />
Small
farms are, overall, more productive than large ones. In fact, small
farms produce most of the world's food, but they are having to do it on
less and less land. They only have a quarter of the world's available
farmland and this unbelievably small share is shrinking rapidly. If the
landgrab around the globe continues, they may not be able to do this any
more. <br />
Not only are small farms better at producing food, growing
organically, and sequestering carbon in the process, but often, with
help from neighbours and NGO's showing them new ways of farming
organically, they are increasing crop harvests dramatically, while
enriching the land.<br />
Take SAT, Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania.
This small NGO has their training centre in the dry area of Viazal, the
antithesis of the kind of land offered to investors. Janet Maro, head of
SAT, said "If we can do it there, we can do it anywhere." Trees are
planted to conserve water when it rains and their irrigation system uses
water bottles to consume less. Farmers are taught how to make compost
with plants cut from their own fields. They are taught mixed cropping
and how to make extracts from local plants to control crop pests and
diseases.<br />
SAT also trained farmers in an area where the government
gave subsidies to buy fertiliser. Many farmers were so successful that
they returned the vouchers to the government, asking "Why go into town
to buy expensive synthetic fertiliser?" The government has now asked SAT
to train farmers because the quality and quantity of water in two
rivers has worsened because of their own agricultural projects and they
have seen that SAT's projects have a much better effect on the
environment. <br />
There are many NGOs doing this kind of work; the
battle against "smart" industrial agriculture which is anything but
smart, is being fought, field by field, farm by farm. The NGOs are
there, waiting to help. Farmers and gardeners are learning from each
other. People are working together for the ecological restoration of
the planet. Grass roots movements start on the ground, our common
inheritance.<br />
Does it work? In 2011, an analysis of 114 cases in
Africa showed that converting farms to
organic methods increased agricultural productivity by 116%. That same
year, Olivier De Schutter, special rapporteur to the UN on the right to
food, said that global food production in critical regions could be
doubled within a decade by small scale farmers using ecological methods.
This year, the new rapporteur, Hilal Elver has produced a <a href="http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/34/48">report</a>
together with the special rapporteur on toxics, Baskut Tuncak.
Outlining the dangers of hazardous pesticides, they say "A rise in
organic agricultural practices in many places illustrates
that farming with less or without any pesticides is feasible. Studies
have indicated that agroecology is capable of delivering sufficient
yields to feed the entire world's population and ensure that they are
adequately nourished."<br />
In the words of Warren Bam, growing organic
grapes in South Africa, "If we look after the earth, the earth will
look after us." Three minute video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoJZ7eeWec4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoJZ7eeWec4 </a><br />
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<b>Petitions. </b></div>
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For Ethiopia: Defend the Oppressed Peoples of Ethiopia: <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Defend_Ethiopian_peasants/?pv=105">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Defend_Ethiopian_peasants/?pv=105</a><br />
Save Nallama from Uranium Mining: <br />
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<b>Sources and Resources</b><br />
Titles: Helpful organisations. The case for organic farming. History. Sources of material in order.<br />
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<b>Helpful organisations</b>:<br />
Grain.org <a href="https://www.grain.org/">https://www.grain.org/ </a><br />
HIVOS <a href="https://www.hivos.org/focal-area/open-source-seed-systems">https://www.hivos.org/focal-area/open-source-seed-systems </a><br />
IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.) <a href="http://www.ifoam.bio/en">http://www.ifoam.bio/en</a><br />
IFOAM EU <a href="http://www.ifoam-eu.org/">http://www.ifoam-eu.org/</a> <br />
Navdanya (Indian based movement) <a href="http://www.navdanya.org/home">http://www.navdanya.org/home</a><br />
OCA,The Organic Consumers Association (USA but international reach). <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/">https://www.organicconsumers.org/</a><br />
Open Source Seed Initiative OSSI (USA but international reach) <a href="http://osseeds.org/">http://osseeds.org/</a><br />
Open Source Seeds (Germany based) <a href="http://www.opensourceseeds.org/en">http://www.opensourceseeds.org/en </a> <br />
Regeneration International <a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/">http://regenerationinternational.org/</a><br />
Save Our Soils <a href="http://www.saveoursoils.com/"><span class="url">www.saveoursoils.com</span></a><br />
Seed matters (USA) <a href="http://seedmatters.org/">http://seedmatters.org/</a><br />
Seed savers exchange <a href="http://www.seedsavers.org/">http://www.seedsavers.org/</a><br />
Soil Association (UK) <a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/"><span class="url">https://www.soilassociation.org/</span></a><br />
SAT (Tanzania) <a href="http://kilimo.org/WordPress/">http://kilimo.org/WordPress/</a> <br />
The Carbon Underground <a href="https://thecarbonunderground.org/">https://thecarbonunderground.org/</a> <br />
The Oakland Institute <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/"><span class="url">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/</span></a><br />
The Rodale Institute <a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/ </a><br />
<b>The case for organic farming:</b><br />
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/"> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/ </a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/</a> <br />
<a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/">http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/ </a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/soil_as_carbon_storehouse_new_weapon_in_climate_fight">http://e360.yale.edu/features/soil_as_carbon_storehouse_new_weapon_in_climate_fight</a><br />
<a href="http://saveoursoils.com/en/soilution/the-issue.html">http://saveoursoils.com/en/soilution/the-issue.html </a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/ </a>
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<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world</a><br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/6-reasons-organics-can-fe_b_1399380.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/6-reasons-organics-can-fe_b_1399380.html</a> <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT">https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/organic-can-feed-the-world/249348/ </a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up </a><br />
Three UN items below:<br />
<a href="http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf">http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT">http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56311#.WW0hD7pFwcT </a><br />
<a href="http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp/new-un-report-we-can-feed-world-without-using-pesticides">http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp/new-un-report-we-can-feed-world-without-using-pesticides </a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/">https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4672/7-ways-to-save-our-soils-2016.pdf">https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4672/7-ways-to-save-our-soils-2016.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland</a><br />
<a href="http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/solutions/organic-industrial-agriculture">http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/solutions/organic-industrial-agriculture </a> <br />
<a href="http://ecofarmingdaily.com/organic-agriculture-can-feed-world/">http://ecofarmingdaily.com/organic-agriculture-can-feed-world/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.soilsforlife.org.au/index.html">http://www.soilsforlife.org.au/index.html</a> (Australia)<br />
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/13/food-farming-and-climate-change-its-bigger-everything-else">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/13/food-farming-and-climate-change-its-bigger-everything-else </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/679-saying-no-to-chemical-farming-in-india">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/679-saying-no-to-chemical-farming-in-india </a><br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/site/2017-03-29-08-02-10/industrial-vs-living-agriculture">http://www.navdanya.org/site/2017-03-29-08-02-10/industrial-vs-living-agriculture</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html">http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html </a><br />
<a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-its-time-to-stop-punishing-our-soils-with-fertilizers-and-chemicals">https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-its-time-to-stop-punishing-our-soils-with-fertilizers-and-chemicals </a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1">http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1 </a></div>
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Reference below: <br />
<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174">http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil</a> Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA</a> Video: Please watch if you can. <br />
<a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/world/report-special-rapporteur-right-food-ahrc3448">http://reliefweb.int/report/world/report-special-rapporteur-right-food-ahrc3448 </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/scientists-discover-another-cause-bee-deaths-and-its-really-bad-news.html">http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/scientists-discover-another-cause-bee-deaths-and-its-really-bad-news.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsantos-sealed-documents-reveal-truth-behind-roundups-toxicological-dangers">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsantos-sealed-documents-reveal-truth-behind-roundups-toxicological-dangers </a><br />
<b>History:</b><br />
<a href="http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/">http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/ </a><a href="http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf">http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf</a><br />
<b>Some sources of material in approximate order:</b><br />
<a href="http://saveourwoods.co.uk/articles/expert-articles/soils-biodiversity-by-dr-james-merryweather/">http://saveourwoods.co.uk/articles/expert-articles/soils-biodiversity-by-dr-james-merryweather/</a><br />
<a href="http://mycorrhizas.info/vam.html">http://mycorrhizas.info/vam.html </a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/sustainable-farming/benefits-of-earthworms-zm0z16amzbre">http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/sustainable-farming/benefits-of-earthworms-zm0z16amzbre </a><br />
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fossilised-remains-of-oldest-form-of-land-dwelling-life-ever-discovered-found-on-remote-scottish-a6908756.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fossilised-remains-of-oldest-form-of-land-dwelling-life-ever-discovered-found-on-remote-scottish-a6908756.html</a>
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<a href="http://www.nofamass.org/sites/default/files/2015_White_Paper_web.pdf">http://www.nofamass.org/sites/default/files/2015_White_Paper_web.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/mycorrhizae_and_plant_communication.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/mycorrhizae_and_plant_communication.php </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.carbon-negative.us/docs/Glomalin-HiddenSoilCarbon.pdf">http://www.carbon-negative.us/docs/Glomalin-HiddenSoilCarbon.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SAG-10">https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SAG-10</a> <br />
<a href="http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/">http://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sicirec.org/definitions/carbon-capture">http://www.sicirec.org/definitions/carbon-capture</a><br />
<a href="http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/">http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/ </a><br />
<a href="http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A2835533">http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A2835533</a><br />
<a href="http://plato.acadiau.ca/isme/Symposium25/xavier.PDF">http://plato.acadiau.ca/isme/Symposium25/xavier.PDF </a>
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https:/<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259221729_The_impact_of_pesticide_on_arbuscular_mycorrhizal_and_nitrogen_fixing_symbioses_in_legumes">/www.researchgate.net/publication/259221729_The_impact_of_pesticide_on_arbuscular_mycorrhizal_and_nitrogen_fixing_symbioses_in_legumes</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/media/7202/glyphosate-and-soil-health-full-report.pdf">https://www.soilassociation.org/media/7202/glyphosate-and-soil-health-full-report.pdf </a><br />
<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php </a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272828938_Arbuscular_Mycorrhizae_and_Grassland_Ecosystems">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272828938_Arbuscular_Mycorrhizae_and_Grassland_Ecosystems</a> <br />
<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027381">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027381</a><br />
<a href="http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf">http://mycorrhizae.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soil-Life-and-Carbon-PDF.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/">http://scienceheathen.com/2015/01/05/desertification-effects-causes-examples-top-10-list/ </a><a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/735-earth-matters-tackling-the-climate-crisis-from-the-ground-up </a> 2009 GRAIN.org article <br />
<a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world">https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/organic-and-sustainable-farmers-can-feed-world</a><br />
<a href="http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world">http://www.panna.org/food-democracy/feeding-world</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/agroecology-report-from-the-roots-up-web-version.pdf">http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/agroecology-report-from-the-roots-up-web-version.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21306&LangID=E">http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21306&LangID=E </a><br />
<a href="http://saveoursoils.com/soilution/the-issue.html">http://saveoursoils.com/soilution/the-issue.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/">https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-soils/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1">http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizer-zmgz16fmzkin?pageid=1#PageContent1</a>/<br />
<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174">http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174</a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237993599_Nitrous_Oxide_Emission_from_Crop_Fields_and_Its_Role_in_Atmospheric_Radiative_Forcing">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237993599_Nitrous_Oxide_Emission_from_Crop_Fields_and_Its_Role_in_Atmospheric_Radiative_Forcing</a>
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<a href="http://grist.org/article/2009-11-11-the-dark-side-of-nitrogen/">http://grist.org/article/2009-11-11-the-dark-side-of-nitrogen/</a> <br />
<a href="https://hubpages.com/politics/Artificial-Nitrogen-Dangers-Of-Mankind-Playing-God">https://hubpages.com/politics/Artificial-Nitrogen-Dangers-Of-Mankind-Playing-God</a><br />
<a href="http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/nitratenitrite2ndadd.pdf">http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/nitratenitrite2ndadd.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7489769">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7489769</a><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1638204/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1638204/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226489981_The_Blue_Baby_Syndrome">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226489981_The_Blue_Baby_Syndrome</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5270-the-exxons-of-agriculture">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5270-the-exxons-of-agriculture</a> 2015 GRAIN Fertiliser report.<br />
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/return-to-the-radiation-zone-fukushima-clean-up-operation-mired-in-fear-and-misinformation-8810158.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/return-to-the-radiation-zone-fukushima-clean-up-operation-mired-in-fear-and-misinformation-8810158.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/22/fukushima-deep-trouble/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/22/fukushima-deep-trouble/</a><br />
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<a href="http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000chttp:/mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000c">http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000chttp://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20151210/p2a/00m/0na/020000c</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/struggling-with-japans-nuclear-waste-six-years-after-disaster.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/struggling-with-japans-nuclear-waste-six-years-after-disaster.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/is-chinas-new-plan-to-tackle-soil-pollution-t/blog/56643/">http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/is-chinas-new-plan-to-tackle-soil-pollution-t/blog/56643/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/black-smelly-citizens-clean-chinas-polluted-rivers">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/black-smelly-citizens-clean-chinas-polluted-rivers</a><br />
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/why-were-mapping-chinas-hazardous-chemicals-f/blog/57555/">http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/blog/why-were-mapping-chinas-hazardous-chemicals-f/blog/57555/</a>
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<a href="https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/almost-28-000-rivers-disappear-in-china-8009">https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/almost-28-000-rivers-disappear-in-china-8009</a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/chinas_dirty_pollution_secret_the_boom_poisoned_its_soil_and_crops/2782/">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/chinas_dirty_pollution_secret_the_boom_poisoned_its_soil_and_crops/2782/</a> <br />
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<a href="https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/9028-China-s-tainted-soil-initiative-lacks">https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/9028-China-s-tainted-soil-initiative-lac</a></div>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/asia/china-underground-water-pollution.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/asia/china-underground-water-pollution.html?_r=0</a><br />
<a href="https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/8892-Changzhou-pollution-scandal-highlights-holes-in-China-s-environmental-enforcement">https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/8892-Changzhou-pollution-scandal-highlights-holes-in-China-s-environmental-enforcement
</a><br />
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_warriors_of_qiugang_a_chinese_village_fights_back/2358/">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_warriors_of_qiugang_a_chinese_village_fights_back/2358/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYGHpyJKK4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYGHpyJKK4</a> (Video Warrors of Qiugang)</div>
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<a href="http://ejatlas.org/conflict/cancer-village-qiugang-develops-in-anhui-china">http://ejatlas.org/conflict/cancer-village-qiugang-develops-in-anhui-china </a></div>
<a href="https://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/03/world/life-and-death-inside-chinese-cancer-village">https://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/03/world/life-and-death-inside-chinese-cancer-village </a>(Village of Liuchong) <br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1R70M9vbPN104K-YqFlUnK1xUDoY&hl=en_US&ll=30.187076758346265%2C112.28646500000013&z=4">https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1R70M9vbPN104K-YqFlUnK1xUDoY&hl=en_US&ll=30.187076758346265%2C112.28646500000013&z=4
</a><br />
<a href="http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202010/made-in-china-full.html">http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202010/made-in-china-full.html</a><br />
<a href="http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/the-environmental-problem-china-can-no-longer-overlook/">http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/the-environmental-problem-china-can-no-longer-overlook/</a>
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<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5736-cambodia-communities-in-protracted-struggle-against-chinese-sugar-companies-land-grab">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5736-cambodia-communities-in-protracted-struggle-against-chinese-sugar-companies-land-grab</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/china-ukraine-farmland-food-security-investment-overseas">https://www.channel4.com/news/china-ukraine-farmland-food-security-investment-overseas </a><br />
<a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/china-buys-up-agricultural-land-in-central-france/">https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/china-buys-up-agricultural-land-in-central-france/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/21/rich-countries-are-buying-up-farmland-from-poorer-ones-around-the-world/?utm_term=.e050e54daa7c">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/21/rich-countries-are-buying-up-farmland-from-poorer-ones-around-the-world/?utm_term=.e050e54daa7c</a><br />
<a href="https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/dangerous-ground/">https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/dangerous-ground/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/land-grabbing-cambodia-richard-rodgers">http://www.lifegate.com/people/news/land-grabbing-cambodia-richard-rodgers</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5622-grow-ing-disaster-the-fortune-500-goes-farming">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5622-grow-ing-disaster-the-fortune-500-goes-farming </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5570-a-high-price-mounting-debt-means-tragedy-for-tens-of-thousands-of-farmers-in-vietnam">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5570-a-high-price-mounting-debt-means-tragedy-for-tens-of-thousands-of-farmers-in-vietnam</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4575-land-grabbing-and-food-sovereignty-in-west-and-central-africa">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4575-land-grabbing-and-food-sovereignty-in-west-and-central-africa</a><br />
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/kathambi-kinoti/land-grabs-threat-to-african-women%E2%80%99s-livelihoods">https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/kathambi-kinoti/land-grabs-threat-to-african-women’s-livelihoods </a><br />
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/mariama-tarawallie/women-in-sierra-leone-resisting-dispossession">https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/mariama-tarawallie/women-in-sierra-leone-resisting-dispossession </a><br />
<a href="http://www.zukunftsstiftung-entwicklung.de/media/Bilder_ZSE/UEber_Uns_Dateien/Grundlagentexte/Land_grab_article.pdf">http://www.zukunftsstiftung-entwicklung.de/media/Bilder_ZSE/UEber_Uns_Dateien/Grundlagentexte/Land_grab_article.pdf</a> (in English)
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<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/landRush.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/landRush.php</a><br />
<a href="https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27121-brazil-home-of-amazon-rolls-back-environmental-protection">https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27121-brazil-home-of-amazon-rolls-back-environmental-protection</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil </a><br />
<a href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-global-land-grab#whatisnew">https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-global-land-grab#whatisnew</a> <br />
<a href="https://ejatlas.org/conflict/land-grabbing-and-forced-evictions-by-koh-kongs-sugar-industry-cambodia">https://ejatlas.org/conflict/land-grabbing-and-forced-evictions-by-koh-kongs-sugar-industry-cambodia</a><br />
<a href="http://licadhocanada.com/about-cambodia/land-evictions-in-cambodia/">http://licadhocanada.com/about-cambodia/land-evictions-in-cambodia/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/world-bank-sides-agribusinesses-against-farmers-indigenous-communities">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/world-bank-sides-agribusinesses-against-farmers-indigenous-communities </a><br />
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-millionaires-and-billionaires-buying-land-in-africa-2011-6?op=1&IR=T/#uce-rastetter-and-his-various-companies-are-accused-of-breaking-promises-to-hire-locals-1">http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-millionaires-and-billionaires-buying-land-in-africa-2011-6?op=1&IR=T/#uce-rastetter-and-his-various-companies-are-accused-of-breaking-promises-to-hire-locals-1 </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5714-green-oil-palm-plantations-are-a-scam-the-case-of-olam">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5714-green-oil-palm-plantations-are-a-scam-the-case-of-olam</a><br />
<a href="https://www.globalpolicy.org/world-hunger/land-ownership-and-hunger.html">https://www.globalpolicy.org/world-hunger/land-ownership-and-hunger.html </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4576-slideshow-who-s-behind-the-land-grabs">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4576-slideshow-who-s-behind-the-land-grabs</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5575-pension-funds-fuel-land-grabs-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5575-pension-funds-fuel-land-grabs-in-brazil</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5760-canadian-pension-funds-grab-farmland-in-brazil </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5493-land-grabs-expand-the-frontier-of-industrial-agriculture-says-grain">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5493-land-grabs-expand-the-frontier-of-industrial-agriculture-says-grain</a><br />
<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/land-rights-issue">https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/land-rights-issue </a><br />
<a href="https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27089-world-bank-fuels-land-grabs-in-africa-through-shadowy-financial-sector-investments">https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27089-world-bank-fuels-land-grabs-in-africa-through-shadowy-financial-sector-investments</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/swidden">http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/swidden </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5693-large-scale-investments-and-climate-conservation-initiatives-destroy-forests-and-people-s-territories">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5693-large-scale-investments-and-climate-conservation-initiatives-destroy-forests-and-people-s-territories</a><br />
<a href="http://www.developmentperspectives.ie/virtual-water-how-much-do-you-use/">http://www.developmentperspectives.ie/virtual-water-how-much-do-you-use/</a><br />
<a href="https://qz.com/275489/in-ethiopia-foreign-investment-is-a-fancy-word-for-stealing-land/">https://qz.com/275489/in-ethiopia-foreign-investment-is-a-fancy-word-for-stealing-land/ </a><br />
<a href="https://www.gfbv.de/en/information/campaigns/flowers-of-love-flowers-of-sorrow/">https://www.gfbv.de/en/information/campaigns/flowers-of-love-flowers-of-sorrow/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.inclusivedevelopment.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Outsourcing-Developmnet-Introduction.pdf">http://www.inclusivedevelopment.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Outsourcing-Developmnet-Introduction.pdf </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4516-squeezing-africa-dry-behind-every-land-grab-is-a-water-grab">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4516-squeezing-africa-dry-behind-every-land-grab-is-a-water-grab </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange </a> <br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/584-bija-swaraj-is-our-birthright">http://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/584-bija-swaraj-is-our-birthright</a> (seed sovereignty)<br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/site/living-seed/seed-freedom">http://www.navdanya.org/site/living-seed/seed-freedom </a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5748-a-grain-of-truth-rcep-and-the-corporate-hijack-of-indian-agriculture">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5748-a-grain-of-truth-rcep-and-the-corporate-hijack-of-indian-agriculture</a><br />
<a href="http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/new-alliance-food-security-and-nutrition">http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/new-alliance-food-security-and-nutrition</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKfg0d63SA</a> From Ghana: Whoever controls seeds controls the food system. Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5490-tanzania-fighting-for-seeds-and-soil</a> Video: Please watch if you can.<br />
<a href="http://wrm.org.uy/articles-from-the-wrm-bulletin/section1/trade-deals-threaten-peasant-farmers-stewardship-of-seed-biodiversity/"> http://wrm.org.uy/articles-from-the-wrm-bulletin/section1/trade-deals-threaten-peasant-farmers-stewardship-of-seed-biodiversity/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5722-20-years-of-gm-soy-in-the-southern-cone-of-latin-america-20-reasons-for-a-definitive-ban">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5722-20-years-of-gm-soy-in-the-southern-cone-of-latin-america-20-reasons-for-a-definitive-ban
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<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html">http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317/farming_with_the_grain_john_letts_and_his_evolutionary_made_for_organic_heritage_seeds.html">http://www.theecologist.org/magazine/features/2988317</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html">http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2985620/agroecology_leading_the_fight_against_indias_green_revolution.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland">https://www.grain.org/article/entries/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland</a><br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5633-tanzanian-farmers-are-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-if-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange</a> Also about the work of SAT<br />
<a href="https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5333-we-are-the-solution-african-women-organise-for-land-and-seed-sovereignty">https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5333-we-are-the-solution-african-women-organise-for-land-and-seed-sovereignty</a><br />
<a href="http://moofafrica.com/about/">http://moofafrica.com/about/ </a><br />
<a href="http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/farmers-are-saving-bangladesh-s-endangered-soil/">http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/farmers-are-saving-bangladesh-s-endangered-soil/</a>
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<a href="http://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/agroecology.html">http://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/agroecology.html</a> </div>
<a href="http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf">http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/press_releases/20110308_agroecology-report-pr_en.pdf</a><br />
(Eco-farming can double food production in 10 years.)<br />
<a href="http://www.srtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pesticides-and-right-to-food.pdf">http://www.srtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pesticides-and-right-to-food.pdf</a><br />
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UN special rapporteurs report. Especially see item 90<br />
<a href="https://previa.uclm.es/Actividades/repositorio/pdf/doc_3721_4666.pdf">https://previa.uclm.es/Actividades/repositorio/pdf/doc_3721_4666.pdf </a></div>
dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-79435421464336809842016-01-01T08:04:00.000-08:002016-01-01T16:43:54.323-08:00Why don't you build on flood plains?... Because they flood. What don't you put there?... A nuclear power plant.The flooding which is affecting so many countries so badly has come to Britain and one of the worst affected parts of Britain is Cumbria, which encompasses the Lake District, a mountainous and beautiful part of England.<br />
Written about by the Lakeland poets, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, the district was also loved by Beatrix Potter, the children's author and illustrator, who also farmed Herdwick sheep there and is credited with preserving much of the land which is now the Lake District National Park. According to Wikipedia, "She supported the efforts of the National Trust to preserve not just the
places of extraordinary beauty but also those heads of valleys and low
grazing lands that would be irreparably ruined by development."<br />
Skip to 2015 and I have been re-reading the <a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-moorside-biggest-nuclear-development-in-europe">petition</a> and <a href="https://mariannewildart.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/moorside-rafl-report-19-9-141.pdf">pdf report</a> in <a href="https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/">Radiation Free Lakeland</a> by Marianne Birkby about the proposed nuclear plant, Moorside, in Cumbria. This has been billed by the nuclear industry as the largest new nuclear development in Europe. There would be up to three nuclear reactors on what is currently farmland, woodland, hedgerows, marsh and shore in an area called Greenmoorside, which stretches from Sellafield to the villages of Calder Bridge, Braystones, Beckermet and down to the Irish sea.<br />
This kind of countryside can hold substantial amount of water in the soil...Worms make straight tunnels up to the surface which allow rain water to penetrate to the deeper levels. Certain types of soil can even hold up to twenty times their weight in water! <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0100e/a0100e08.htm">http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0100e/a0100e08.htm</a> and <a href="https://www.fginsight.com/news/aiming-to-increase-soil-organic-matter-content-by-20-per-cent-in-20-years-8371">https://www.fginsight.com/news/aiming-to-increase-soil-organic-matter-content-by-20-per-cent-in-20-years-8371</a> This assumes, however, that they have not been built on!<br />
As a matter of some importance, the area planned for the Moorside development includes the floodplain for the <a href="https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/category/river-ehen/">River Ehen.</a> <br />
Now, according to the UK government's own live flood warnings, on December 29th the River Ehen was, at times, above the level at which flooding can occur at Braystones; on December 26th at Egremont; and on December 26th, 27th and 30th at Bridge Bleach Green Weir, at the west end of Ennerdale Water. There may have been more occasions, but these are the ones I have in my screenshots.<br />
I understand from the 2014 Radiation Free Lakeland report, that the plant site for each of the planned reactors would require 9.6 acres apiece and huge cooling towers perhaps another 15 acres. Maybe there would be giant cooling tunnels and heat exchange out at sea as well. How much concrete and steel and pipes would that take... and where would the flood water go, as well as the water in the soil which had been displaced by the buildings and roads and infrastructure? <br />
The River Ehen is a site of special scientific interest, as well as being very beautiful. The area is currently rich in its wildlife, and contains increasingly threatened species. It was supposed to have been left as a buffer zone around Sellafield, which apparently already has the largest amount of radioactivity on the planet.<br />
Will the government listen to reason? Well you have to understand what reason is, if you are listening to it. According to The Guardian, Greenpeace has discovered that almost half of the areas fast tracked for new housing development by George Osborne, are on floodplains. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/dec/11/cumbria-george-osborne-build-homes-floods"> http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/dec/11/cumbria-george-osborne-build-homes-floods</a><br />
If you live in the UK and you have time to sign the petition, as well as the one about flooding at <a href="https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/drigglockthegate-letter-to-cumbria-county-council/">Drigg</a>, it would be greatly appreciated. Sadly these aren't open to anyone outside the U.K. But if you have got this far, thank you for reading the post and my very best wishes for the new year, which we saw in just over an hour ago to the hum of a helicopter overhead as the celebrations took place in London.<br />
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<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-79998375055648819942015-10-26T17:27:00.000-07:002015-10-26T17:27:20.695-07:00Human rights and government collusion.Britain used to be a place considered to have principles...For anyone abroad who is appalled by our present government's obsession with nuclear power and nuclear weapons at any cost, especially human, I can only add that I am also appalled at the government's decision to ask for Chinese involvement in designing and building new plants... and so are a lot of other people.<br />
According to Amnesty International, since July there has been a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists in China. The state of affairs on October 13th was, to the best of their knowledge, 248 lawyers and activists targeted, of whom 28 were still missing or in police custody. (<span style="background-color: black;"></span>1)<br />
One of those interviewed by the police has also now been "placed under residential surveillance as part of a wider crackdown on activists who
are resisting the removal of crosses from churches." Residential surveillance at a designated place is nothing like house arrest...it is far worse (2) and (3).<br />
Prisoners of conscience... such as some Christians, members of Falun Gong (a banned religious practice in China) Tibetans, Uighurs and other vulnerable people, may also face death.<br />
Chinese officials announced that there would be an end to the unethical organ harvesting from executed prisoners by January 2015, but the prisoners of conscience were excluded from the announcement.<br />
<a href="http://www.dafoh.org/">DAFOH</a>, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, have considerable evidence about this crime. To quote from their website:<br />
"In 2006, first witnesses and then the Kilgour & Matas Report alleged
that organs were harvested from living prisoners of conscience, mostly
from detained Falun Gong practitioners. The data suggest that organ
procurement was “on demand” because organs were harvested without
acceptable consent and the donors were killed in the process."<br />
The last sentence..."the donors were killed in the process." means exactly what it says and the crime has been practiced on a massive scale. <br />
<a href="http://www.dafoh.org/unethical-organ-harvesting/">http://www.dafoh.org/unethical-organ-harvesting/</a><br />
If you are so minded, you can join over two million people who have signed <a href="http://www.dafoh.org/petition-to-the-united-nations/">the petition</a> to the UN calling for an end to this murder. The closing date for the petition this year is November 30th.<br />
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(1). <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2015/08/china-list-of-lawyers-and-activists-targeted/">https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2015/08/china-list-of-lawyers-and-activists-targeted/</a><br />
<a href="http://chinalawandpolicy.com/tag/residential-surveillance/"> http://chinalawandpolicy.com/tag/residential-surveillance/ </a><br />
(2) <a href="https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/29/chinas-secret-detention-of-lawyers-threatens-the-rule-of-law/">https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/29/chinas-secret-detention-of-lawyers-threatens-the-rule-of-law/</a><br />
(3)<a href="http://chinalawandpolicy.com/tag/residential-surveillance/"> http://chinalawandpolicy.com/tag/residential-surveillance/</a><br />
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dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-49177029860439258842015-09-30T13:08:00.000-07:002015-09-30T14:32:29.696-07:00Dump it in the sea and hope no one notices - but what if they find out?It comes to something when a film which is made about the waters surrounding the United Kingdom is shown on German television, French television, but not on English television.<br />
What have they got to hide in this country... and where have they hidden it?<br />
The film, entitled "<b>Radioactive waste: dumped and forgotten</b>" is being shown at the<a href="http://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/programm-berlin-2015"> International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin</a> tonight. It was directed by Thomas Reutter and Manfred Ladwig and is an Arte, SWR, German, production. It looks at our legacy of nuclear waste dumped in the sea, and the effects on the health of people living on the local coasts and the practice of pumping nuclear waste through pipes out to sea. <br />
This is a powerful documentary and it can, fortunately, still be seen on YouTube. The link is to the English version and I cannot recommend it too highly. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX_lzoYl9AU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX_lzoYl9AU</a><br />
I hope it will continue on tour with the Uranium Film Festival. These are facts which should be known, not buried. This is history which is not just in the past; we are living it today and so, especially, are the children.<br />
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<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-22524642536652173432015-09-12T12:12:00.000-07:002015-09-12T12:25:06.286-07:00The Man Who Saved The World...Well, yes, he probably did! On a September night, over thirty years ago, most people in the world were completely unaware that one man had probably saved them from a nuclear war. <br />
It came at the height of the cold war, when the USSR had recently shot down a South Korean passenger aircraft, carrying 269 people, after it had strayed into Soviet territory and both sides were on the alert for a nuclear attack.<br />
The man is Stanislav Petrov and he was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. He was the duty officer that night at the command centre for the Oko nuclear early warning system, when the computer showed one, and then another four missiles being launched from the USA. <br />
The protocol he had written himself stated that he had to inform the Commander in Chief ...but he waited .. he weighed up the probabilities and the terrible consequences, and sent the message that it was a system error. <br />
What had happened?<br />
Sunlight had been in a rare alignment with high-altitude clouds and the warning satellites' Molniya orbits. It had been a false alarm.<br />
He probably prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack on the USA and its NATO allies that could have resulted in nuclear war.<br />
In the 1990s, his actions became known internationally and he was later honoured with the UN world citizen and other awards in the USA and Germany.<br />
A narrative feature and documentary film was made about the incident and about his life, including his trip to the USA , where he met Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro and Matt Damon who star in the film.<br />
He comes across as someone who loves, who is vulnerable, and above all, who thinks for himself. Perhaps that is why he is "<a href="http://www.themanwhosavedtheworldmovie.com/#home">The Man Who Saved The World.</a>"<br />
The film is the first to be shown at the <a href="http://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/programm-berlin-2015">Uranium Film Festival in Berlin</a>, which is being held from September 24th-30th.<br />
There is a second film of the same event, in Russian and with English subtitles, and entitled <a href="http://www.logtv.com/films/redbutton/">"The Red Button."</a> which is being shown on September 25th. This has already won a best feature film award at another Uranium Film Festival screening. It also discusses the repercussions of the event.<br />
The<a href="http://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/programm-berlin-2015"> programme</a> of all the varied films which will be shown at the festival makes compelling reading, even if you can't get to Berlin! These are the films that governments would often rather you didn't see. They are by people who have looked at the problems caused by the nuclear industry from very different angles. Some of the films are lyrical and moving, some are startlingly factual; they all contribute to our awareness of the extent of the problems.<br />
Incidentally, September 26th was the date 32 years ago when Stanislav Petrov made that decision... since then there have been <a href="http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/close-calls/"> more close calls</a>. <br />
September 26th is also the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/nuclearweaponelimination/">International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons</a>. It can't come soon enough.<br />
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Other sources: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov</a><br />
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dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-45448717257204317712015-07-13T08:45:00.000-07:002015-07-13T08:45:32.179-07:00International Uranium Film Festival 16th and 17th July in Rio de Janeiro. Clips online. Nearly 50 years ago, two American planes collided over Palomares, Almeria - Spain causing four H bombs to fall to earth. Two of them exploded their conventional charge and due to the strong wind radioactive material was scattered all over the region. The material was apparently several kilograms of plutonium.<br />
A film called "Broken Arrow. Nuclear Accident in Palomares" is being shown at <a href="http://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en">The International Uranium Festival</a>, which takes place in Rio de Janeiro on 16th and 17th July. <br />
"Broken arrow" is a US military term used for an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads, or components, but which does not create the risk of nuclear war, according to Wiki. Well that's good to know!<br />
The festival is showing some brilliant short animations and clips which can be seen online..."<a href="https://vimeo.com/51787061">After The Day After</a>" by Nathan Metz is one.. I must admit, I really liked "<a href="https://vimeo.com/34774632">Beloved Sun</a>" about a firefly who falls in love with the sun...but the variety and artistry of the films amazes me.<br />
The sheer nonsense of safety of nuclear power plants for surrounding populations is highlighted in "<a href="https://vimeo.com/96615872">The Plan?</a>" showing a down to earth series of interviews with people living within 10 miles of Indian Point, the ageing nuclear power plant which sits 35 miles north of New York City. What are they told to do in an emergency? Go to the special bus stop and wait for the bus..I'm not joking.<br />
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<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-19701224951207557152015-06-08T15:48:00.000-07:002015-06-08T17:24:16.303-07:00Don't get sucked in - A deadly silence.<span style="font-size: small;">When we were very young, we were taken as a Christmas treat to a pantomime. Part of the show usually had a scene where the hero or heroine had just chased away a bad character and had resumed the story. They then faced the audience and said "You'll let me know if they come back again, won't you?" </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Charged with this unusual and fearsome responsibility, when the baddie reappeared, the kids would be sitting on the edge of their seats shouting "Look behind you!" </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The hero or heroine would pretend not to hear until the volume became huge, by which time the baddie had disappeared, and when they looked round, they came back to face the kids with "I can't see anyone!" and got on with the story.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The baddie would reappear, this time to the left or right, and the same farce would be played with the kids getting more and more frustrated at the adult stupidity, the hero or heroine turning round a second after the baddie had adroitly skipped sides and the kids had been shouting their lungs out, "He's on the left." Even to the smallest child, it surely seemed complicit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Well, today is World Oceans Day, and I am just as frustrated as I was then as a small child. You can join any number of worthy organisations to protest against over fishing of the seas and plastic polution...and quite rightly so... You can protest with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PewEU?tsr&utm_campaign=2015-06-08%20Overfishing%20NWE%20-%20English&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua">The Pew Charitable Trusts</a>, become a wave maker with <a href="http://oceana.org/">Oceana</a>, or a Seachampion with the <a href="http://www.mcsuk.org/">Marine Conservation Society</a> in the UK. If you are a famous film star you might be invited to take all your clothes off and be photographed nuzzling up to a dead fish by the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3104801/Judi-Dench-Julie-Christie-Fiona-Shaw-pose-nude-dead-FISH-highlight-plight-world-s-oceans.html">Fishlove Campaign</a> .</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Now I might be wrong, and if I am, I apologise, but as far as I can see, there is not a word there, I mean seriously, not a word, about the millions and millions and millions of fish eggs and fish and other small marine animals killed annually by the once-through cooling systems of nuclear power plants. Not a word.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On behalf of the fish I would like to take the stage, and before I am hauled down for spoiling the show, give you some facts.</span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> "A single power plant can obliterate
billions of fish eggs and larvae and millions of adult fish in a single
year," They produced a very readable, long, document, <a href="http://vault.sierraclub.org/pressroom/media/2011/2011-08-fish-blenders.pdf">"Giant Fishblenders:How power plants kill fish and damage our waterways (and what can be done to stop them)."</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">and there is a very short, thought provoking piece written in 2008 about work done by Dr. Peter Henderson.</span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">He
mentions Dungeness Nuclear Power Station in the U.K. where outfall pipes have become
clogged with dead fish. “We are talking as many as 250 million fish in as little as five hours,” Dr. Henderson said. <a href="http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/nuclear-plants-sucking-sea-life-from.html#.VXXzD0ZKWf_">This is the link</a> and there are more detailed ones below the blog. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">What happens is this: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Fish and animals that are sucked in, which are
too big to go through the filter screens, are smashed and mutilated when they
come up against the screens. It's known as impingement. Fish, other little
animals, larvae, and millions of eggs, which are small enough to go through the
1cm mesh screens, go through the cooling pipes and according to Dr. Henderson, many die
after being heated to 30 C, chlorinated and given small doses of radiation. This process of going through the cooling pipes is called entrainment. <br />
In the Southern Region of the North Sea the calculated mortality of eggs and young for sole was so high that it had been equal to 46%
of commercial fishing, Herring mortality off parts of the East Coast of the U.K. was 50% of commercial landings. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">As I understand it, any power plants that use water for once-through cooling, cause problems, but nuclear power plants pull in huge amounts of water.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">If you wonder what it's like to be entrained, there is a graphic description in another really excellent document, <a href="http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensedtokill/LiscencedtoKill.pdf">"Licensed to Kill"</a> by NIRS.. "How the nuclear power industry destroys endangered marine wildlife and ocean habitat to save money." A diver called Bill Lamm </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">suffered nightmarish
and life threatening entrainment in the St. Lucie nuclear power plant in Florida in 1989 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(See page 34)</span>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">It's the sort of stuff disaster movies are made out of. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">For some of the fish around Fukushima, a different disaster movie is already happening and if this seems far away, don't forget that in Europe the nuclear power industry is allowed to discharge nuclear waste into the sea, by building kilometres of underwater pipes through which radioactive effluent now flows freely into the sea; something which would be banned if this same waste was in containers! Links: <a href="http://enenews.com/tv-plutonium-being-pumped-ocean-miles-underwater-pipes-nuclear-waste-left-lying-beach-kids-playing-sand-machines-scoop-plutonium-day-video-photos">http://enenews.com/tv-plutonium-being-pumped-ocean-miles-underwater-pipes-nuclear-waste-left-lying-beach-kids-playing-sand-machines-scoop-plutonium-day-video-photos</a> and <a href="http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/resources/nuclear-power-in-france-setting.pdf">http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/resources/nuclear-power-in-france-setting.pdf </a><a href="http://fukushima-diary.com/"> </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> So who will join me on stage and shout "Look behind you!" before it's all too late and the lights go out on the last fish? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />Sources: <a href="http://vault.sierraclub.org/pressroom/media/2011/2011-08-fish-blenders.pdf">http://vault.sierraclub.org/pressroom/media/2011/2011-08-fish-blenders.pdf </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><a href="http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/nuclear-plants-sucking-sea-life-from.html#.VXYEOUZKWf_"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/nuclear-plants-sucking-sea-life-from.html#.VXYEOUZKWf_</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/nuclear-plants-sucking-sea-life-from.html#.VXYEOUZKWf_"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensedtokill/LiscencedtoKill.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensedtokill/LiscencedtoKill.pdf</span></a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ocean/cwa316/rcnfpp/docs/foe_cmmnts_to_bechtel.pdf">http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ocean/cwa316/rcnfpp/docs/foe_cmmnts_to_bechtel.pdf</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/giant-bass-o-matic-power-plants-killing-millions-of-great-lakes-fish.html">http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/giant-bass-o-matic-power-plants-killing-millions-of-great-lakes-fish.html </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-59853241706759846012015-05-18T18:27:00.000-07:002015-05-18T18:33:35.085-07:00Trident.... Tried and found wanting.Several committed people from the UK are bravely rocking the boat this week, and the boat just happens to be Trident. One is William McNeilly, a whistle blower who has been serving on HMS Victorious, one of the Royal Navy's four nuclear submarines. "<span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 761px; word-spacing: -1px;">I am a Strategic Weapon<span class="l6">s Systems engineer who has sacrificed everything to tell the public </span></span><span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 866px; word-spacing: -1px;">how close it is to a nuclear catastrophe." </span><br />
<span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 866px; word-spacing: -1px;">A short account of security and safety issues recorded by him can be found at the Nuclear Information Service. <a href="http://www.nuclearinfo.org/"> http://www.nuclearinfo.org/ </a> </span><br />
<span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 866px; word-spacing: -1px;">The article is entitled '</span><span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 866px; word-spacing: -1px;"><span class="field-content">Submariner: Trident is “so broken it can't even do the tests that prove it works”</span><b><span class="field-content">' </span></b></span><br />
<span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 866px; word-spacing: -1px;">It's certainly worth reading. He expects to go to prison for making this public. Incidentally, the original post that he wrote at Scribd has now been deleted.</span><br />
<span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 866px; word-spacing: -1px;">The other protesters will go on trial today, following their arrest last year for blocking the gate of Devonport Docks, where the nuclear fleet is serviced. </span><br />
<span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 866px; word-spacing: -1px;">They are Theo Simon and Nicki Clarke. I was privileged to hear Nicki give a speech at the rally commemorating the fourth anniversary of the disaster at Fukushima, outside Parliament, earlier this year. These are people who protest because they care.</span><br />
<span class="a" style="left: 429px; top: 866px; word-spacing: -1px;">Theo explains in his blog that he has been charged with 'interrupting the "lawful" work on the HMS Vengeance Submarine.' and continues:</span><br />
'My position is that it
is the government who are breaking an international treaty by upgrading
Britain’s nuclear arsenal, and that work on maintaining a nuclear
weapons systems is itself unlawful.
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At my trial three expert witnesses will testify on international
humanitarian law, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the threat
that holding nuclear weapons poses to our security and safety in the
southwest. Because it is an indiscriminate “Weapon of Mass destruction”,
the Trident warheads could never be fired without committing a crime
against humanity, as set out by the International Court of Justice.'<br />
You can find the rest of his post at Theo's blog: <a href="https://theosimon.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/my-case-against-trident-in-plymouth-19515%EF%BB%BF/">https://theosimon.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/my-case-against-trident-in-plymouth-19515%EF%BB%BF/</a><br />
Theo has some kind back up from his neighbour, Michael Eavis, dairy farmer and founder of the Glastonbury Festival, who has offered to help with his costs if he loses the case in court. Michael Eavis has been a life-long opponent of nuclear weapons and Glastonbury Festival has showcased the anti-nuclear cause since its beginning.<br />
Maybe the voice of reason is beginning to be heard, and maybe the tide is turning.dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-22828181889026420592015-05-16T13:08:00.000-07:002015-08-19T13:07:00.001-07:00A spoon<span style="color: #38761d;">Usually I'm writing about issues, but just for once, tonight I want to write about some of the lovely things my friends do, as well.</span><br />
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It was a spoon, a hand carved pale wooden tasting spoon, the dark rings in the middle of the bowl created by the sapwood going over into the heartwood. At the far end, the finger groove had been carved to allow perfect hand balance when you lifted it.<br />
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About six inches of pale English wood, a surprise present from my good friend, Michael Smith, it might not seem much, but there was so much more to it.<br />
Michael's alias is Veshengro, which is is Romany for "man of the woods", woodsman, or forester. He writes a blog using that name at <a href="http://greenreview.blogspot.co.uk/">Green (Living) Review</a>. He has a written book about woodland management, full of interesting facts, and a guide to reusing and upcycling trash, called "Let's Talk Rubbish". Michael is also the brains behind <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ReuseCentral?group_id=0">Reuse Central</a>, a collection of ingenious upcycling ideas on Facebook and he works full time... I've never been too sure how he does it all.<br />
I asked Michael how long it took him to make a spoon like this and he replied that they take between two to four hours, all told, to make, at least... <br />
He wasn't sure exactly what kind of wood he had made it out of, having already sent it to me, but he thought it was probably Serviceberry or Ash. Serviceberry wood is very strong and Ash is very resilient. I had wondered if it was Sycamore, because of its pale lustre. <br />
The point is, that this wood hadn't been discarded or burned, but turned into something beautiful which I shall treasure and use for the rest of my life and hopefully it will still be in use a generation or so later. All the while it survives, some of the carbon dioxide the tree took in while it was growing will be locked in there.<br />
This is a picture of a sample eating spoon that Michael made for himself. It's carved out of Hazel wood. I really like it and he is going to make a couple for me, soon. They will probably be made from Alder wood.<br />
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Another of my friends, Reg Mabbett, also makes thumb sticks from coppiced hazel wood. The handle of the stick on the right is a traditional design... and the left hand one is a joke on the name, but very good to hold as well.<br />
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According to Michael, a properly managed coppiced stool can live for several thousand years, way outliving a single standard tree. <br />
The woods live on if they are properly cared for and aren't destroyed by politicians and developers. Our most treasured woods go back centuries. Ancient woodland in England is woodland that has existed since 1600 AD and some ancient woods may link back to the woods that covered the UK around 10,000 years ago. Only around two percent of the land area of the UK is covered by ancient woodland and whole communities of animals and plants live there. These woods can be beautiful and peaceful places for everyone to visit. It only takes weeks for modern machinery to completely destroy them and they needs protecting, especially now. We need the trees as much as they need us!<br />
This reminds me, <b> if anyone wants to buy one of Michael's spoons, he can be contacted at<a href="http://greenreview.blogspot.co.uk/"> Green (Living) Review.</a> I don't have any idea how much he charges for them as mine was a present, but I'm sure he'd be happy to let you know</b>.<br />
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Information about ancient woodland and campaigns taken from the Woodland Trust.<br />
<a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/">https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/ </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/planning/11500924/Ancient-woods-face-gravest-threat-for-decades-Woodland-Trust-warns.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/planning/11500924/Ancient-woods-face-gravest-threat-for-decades-Woodland-Trust-warns.html </a><br />
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Declared interest: Michael once wrote a very kind review of one of my books..and that's how we became friends. <br />
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dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-16650162641410698262015-02-24T18:26:00.000-08:002015-02-24T18:26:49.536-08:00Remember FukushimaIf you are in or around London on the 4th anniversary of the 11/3/11 disaster, do join us to remember Fukushima. All the dates of events are on the poster and there is a dedicated website with the details <a href="http://www.fukushima2015.com/">www.fukushima2015.com</a> Please can you let us know if you are coming to the meeting, because we need to know the numbers. Thanks.<br />
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If you are anywhere else in the world, there is a link to other events, on the website and there is another list which I found, on Facebook, courtesy of "Beautiful Energy : The stand for a nuclear free world."<br />
The list is from Nick Thabit at<a href="http://fukushimafourthanniversaryevents.blogspot.co.uk/"> Fourth Anniversary of 3.11 Fukushima Nuclear Accident Events and Actions Worldwide.</a><br />
If you can't get to an event, but would like to join in, you can light a candle to link into the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1055175217830908/?source=1"><span class="entity _4v1s" data-fulltext="Global Candle Chain - 3/11 Fourth Anniversary Remembrance by Beautiful Energy" data-group="all" data-icon="null" data-select="group" data-si="true" data-text="Global Candle Chain - 3/11 Fourth Anniversary Remembrance by Beautiful Energy" data-type="ent:event" data-uid="1055175217830908">Global Candle Chain - 3/11 Fourth Anniversary Remembrance by Beautiful Energy</span></a><span data-si="true"></span>dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-66304555841354129432015-02-23T12:10:00.000-08:002015-11-15T18:08:12.319-08:00What does ISIS believe? Recently, having heard and read a fair amount about ISIS and what it represents, I came across a scholarly and brave post by two liberal Muslim feminist journalists. The headline of the article in "The Daily Beast" is "Will It Take The End of the World for Obama To Recognize ISIS as Islamic?"<br />
As a Christian, I find the content important and I would suggest to anyone with an interest in the subject to read it, with the warning that quite a lot of it is based on the murder of the Christians from Egypt. It isn't pleasant reading.<br />
This is the link <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/20/will-it-take-the-end-of-the-world-for-obama-to-recognize-isis.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/20/will-it-take-the-end-of-the-world-for-obama-to-recognize-isis.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon</a><br />
If you have time, the link in the article "seeing the symbols for months" gives a good picture of what is happening.<br />
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<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-2589602335854735712014-12-20T17:06:00.000-08:002015-11-15T18:09:00.679-08:00Cosy upHow much notice do you take of your Dad's opinions? Seriously... or your Mum's opinions or your partner's or your sibling's or even someone you respect who's older than you?<br />
I'm asking, because a very good article in The Ecologist, which I think deserves to be widely read, brings a new light to this question. It's succinct, readable, and when I got to the section headed "<b>It's the money, stupid</b>" in bold font.... even I was bowled over by the length of the list of politicians.<br />
Head over to "Nuclear power trumps democracy" by Donnachadh McCarthy. He is a former Deputy Chair of the Liberal Democrats. Here's the link<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2587477/nuclear_power_trumps_democracy.html"> http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2587477/nuclear_power_trumps_democracy.html</a><br />
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Well, that's reason enough for me, but there is another cogent article, this time by the editor of the Ecologist, OliverTickell, about keeping the U.K's status as a WMD (weapons of mass destruction) state and about tritium production. It's entitled "<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2530828/bombs_ahoy_why_the_uk_is_desperate_for_nuclear_power.html">Bombs Ahoy! Why the UK is desperate for nuclear power</a>"<br />
I prefer "Peace on earth. Good will towards men." Do some politicians miss out those words when they sing the carol?<br />
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dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-83322372666272057362014-08-22T04:55:00.000-07:002014-09-08T11:40:11.387-07:00Lessons from the past.Throughout this year's Edinburgh Festival, a play called <a href="http://newsnetscotland.com/index.php/affairs-scotland/9398-3000-trees-the-last-hour-of-willie-mcrae">3000 Trees</a> was performed at the fringe. It's based on a man called Willi McRae. He was a human rights champion and an anti nuclear campaigner. In fact, the play was about the untimely death of William McRae.<br />
By some strange coincidence, there were two plays with the same title, both about the death of Willi McRae, being performed at the festival. One was by George Gunn and the other by Andy Paterson. <br />
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In the comments below the description of the former play, is a lead to an article in <a href="http://www.electricscotland.com/independence/scotEUMcRae.pdf">Electric Scotland </a>written by John McGill, Scotland - UN founder and secretary.<br />
A little way down, he describes how his own car had previously been shot at ... An attempted murder and a murder...What else could it have been? This led me on a trail through the reports available on the internet. <br />
The starting point came from the testament by a former Strathclyde P.C.. Donald Morrison,<br />
<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/210087/I-will-sign-affidavit-tying-MI5-to-McRae-murder"> http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/210087/I-will-sign-affidavit-tying-MI5-to-McRae-murder </a><br />
which was recently made more relevant by another article, <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/492477/Police-probing-killing-of-SNP-activist-have-interfered-with-my-statement">http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/492477/Police-probing-killing-of-SNP-activist-have-interfered-with-my-statement</a><br />
One line stood out for me in <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/the-death-of-willie-macrae-1.688252">The Herald Scotland report</a>, which says that the Scottish lawyer had also had a puncture on his way back to his country cottage...which he was never to reach. If he did have a puncture, had someone fired at the tyre? Was it that which led up to his death? If so, then perhaps John McGill was fortunate that the bullet which hit his car had missed the tyre and hit the body of the car. It was also fortunate, perhaps, that Willi McRae was still there to advise him which police station to go to.<br />
Willi McRae would have been vulnerable while he was changing the tyre.... and it takes time. <br />
It was reported that the damaged tyre was on the back seat of the car, but the rolls of maps tied up in pink ribbons and the spare briefcase which had been seen there by the police constable, were nowhere to be found in the car. <br />
Why would anyone want to murder Willi McRae? It could not have been suicide. Even I understand that people don't shoot themselves behind the right ear and then completely dispose of the bullet casings, wipe the gun clean of finger prints and throw it at least 40 feet out of the car window. <br />
One thing is for sure, he was renowned for his success in leading the successful opposition to the storing of nuclear waste in the hills around Mulwharcher, which led to a public inquiry, and which the protesters won.<br />
"Nuclear waste" McRae sad, during the inquiry, "should be stored where Guy Fawkes put his gunpowder". <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span><br />
According to The Scottish Express, and other reports, he, himself, was on the verge of being elected to Westminster on the back of his anti-nuclear campaign. <br />
As I understand it, Willi MacRae was soon to have given evidence at a preliminary hearing which would lead to a public inquiry into the fast-reactor proposals for a "European Demonstration Reprocessing Plant'' at Dounreay. The day before the shooting, he had told John McGill about information he had regarding the plans for storing nuclear waste.: "They're going to bury the stuff where the sand never dries!" John McGill explained that this referred to a proposed underground storage facility at Applecross sands. Willi McRae carried a copy of the Dounreay papers with him at all times, (his office and homes having been repeatedly burgled), but they were not seen by the people who went to assist him, when he was found unconscious in his car.<br />
Another well known anti nuclear campaigner, Hilda Murrell, had been murdered three years before in 1984. A pacifist and famous rose grower, she was passionately against the dumping of nuclear waste and was due to present a paper at the Sizewell B inquiry entitled "An Ordinary Citizen's View of Radioactive Waste Management". She was, it has been recorded, very worried that something was about to happen to her.<br />
The U.K. is not the only place that this apparently, happened. In the USA, Randolf and Joy Thompson, found themselves having to flee Pennsylvania after they had tried to make public the fact that the radiation releases from Three Mile Island were far higher than than the government and industry acknowledged. <br />
<a href="http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/04/post-4.html">http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/04/post-4.html</a> <br />
All this was a long time ago; one would hope that it could never happen again. One asks "What kind of industry needs to go to such lengths to cover up the truth?"<br />
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In a few days' time, the people of Scotland will vote on whether they want to become independent or stay in the union. The country is exceptionally rich in wind and wave power. If they choose independence they can become nuclear free. <br />
<a href="http://www.banthebomb.org/ne/scotlandnato.pdf">http://www.banthebomb.org/ne/scotlandnato.pdf </a><br />
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Sources.<br />
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Mullwhacher
Enquiry, against nuclear dumping there, and joint founder of the
"Oystercatcher Movement", against dumping in Glen Etive, was the nuclear
lobby's most formidable and feared antagonist in Scotland - See more
at:
http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMWhoKilledWillieMacRae.aspx#sthash.7r3LNoHr.dpuf</div>
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Mullwhacher Enquiry, against nuclear dumping there, and joint founder
of the "Oystercatcher Movement", against dumping in Glen Etive, was the
nuclear lobby's most formidable and feared antagonist in Scotland. - See
more at:
http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMWhoKilledWillieMacRae.aspx#sthash.7r3LNoHr.dpuf</div>
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Mullwhacher Enquiry, against nuclear dumping there, and joint founder
of the "Oystercatcher Movement", against dumping in Glen Etive, was the
nuclear lobby's most formidable and feared antagonist in Scotland. - See
more at:
http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMWhoKilledWillieMacRae.aspx#sthash.7r3LNoHr.dpuf</div>
http://www.electricscotland.com/independence/scotEUMcRae.pdf<br />
http://www.whale.to/c/death_of_william_mcrae.html <br />
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/the-death-of-willie-macrae-1.688252<br />
http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMWhoKilledWillieMacRae.aspx <br />
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/the-mcrae-mystery-960817<br />
http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/william_mcrae.htm<br />
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"Oystercatcher
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http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMWhoKilledWillieMacRae.aspx#sthash.Sas2PZyb.dpuf</div>
http://www.disclose.tv/forum/willie-macrae-murder-t87205.html<br />
http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2014/07/01/from-the-province-of-the-cat-29-the-struggle-of-life-and-death/<br />
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/492477/Police-probing-killing-of-SNP-activist-have-interfered-with-my-statement <br />
http://3000trees.com/ http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/210087/I-will-sign-affidavit-tying-MI5-to-McRae-murder<br />
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/mar/20/who-killed-hilda-murrell<br />
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/mar/18/hilda-murrell-michael-mansfield?guni=Article:in%20body%20link<br />
http://hildamurrell.org/ <br />
http://hildamurrell.org/source-documents/ <br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Murrell<br />
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/04/post-4.html<br />
<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-83494435369460084122014-06-18T13:25:00.000-07:002014-09-11T07:52:37.176-07:00Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting. A petition to the UN. China's secret state transplant business.One of the most important petitions I think I have ever come across is the petition to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling for the immediate end of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China.<br />
Incidentally, this isn't just Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted, but other groups including Uighurs, Tibetans and house Christians.<br />
The petition is open for you to add your support until November 30th 2014. To quote from the DAFOH website, "Between July and December 2013, nearly a million and a half people from 50 different countries and regions signed the petition to call for an end to this unprecedented evil. On December 13th the EU adopted an urgent resolution on organ harvesting in China."<br />
There is a lot more information and the link to the petition on the DAFOH home page. <a href="http://www.dafoh.org/">http://www.dafoh.org/</a> There is also a very good video.<br />
In May, the International Conference on Organ Transplantation took place in London and Falon Gong practitioners in the UK gathered outside the conference venue in Westminster to raise public awareness of the way organ transplant operations are carried out in China and to collect signatures for the petition.<br />
As well as the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting website, there is more information and up to date news at the website of the <a href="http://endorganpillaging.org/">International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China</a>. I would urge anyone who would like to really understand the issue and not be placated by official statements, to visit their news and articles section... I found them all to be very helpful... but especially the public lecture, given in the University of Toronto by David Matas, a lawyer who knows a great deal about human rights violations in different countries, including China. The lecture is entitled "Flip flopping in China over sourcing organs from prisoners".<br />
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<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-30700048237173451292014-06-15T15:59:00.000-07:002014-06-15T15:59:31.646-07:00You have to be joking..... You're not!Thanks to an article by Alan Simpson, Labour MP for Nottingham South from 1992-2010, and published recently in the <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-6e7a-Chuggers-for-nuclear-take-us-for-mugs#.U54Zwij5dXI">Morning Star</a>, I discovered that EDF proposes to have company volunteers who will... 'go out into the community and schools to tell the story.' <br />
Yes, on the streets... Hundreds of them, jogging. "Their stated objective will be to 'normalise
nuclear to consumers.' " He also, in the same article, explains briefly how the nuclear power industry uses Public Relations in relation to MPs. and it's a bit of an eye opener.<br />
Frankly, the idea of hundreds of EDF volunteers jogging round the streets trying to normalise nuclear, strikes me as quite funny. The company volunteers going into schools, does not.<br />
A quick Google search for the EDF website, revealed that they have been offering the "Pod", a free programme for greener schools,... to our educational establishments and according to the Met Office figures, posted I guess some time ago, this has been ongoing since 2008 and had more than 14,300 schools involved and over 3.7 million school children involved. If you are wondering what the Met Office has to do with EDF, well, the web page I found had it neatly subtitled, "Education >> Collaboration >> Working with EDF Energy."<br />
Don't get me wrong, some of the things that they do are really good and they are "collaborating" with some excellent organisations. It reminds me of Monsanto's and Bayer's funding towards "National Pollinator Week" in the USA from June 16th to 22nd. The Organic Consumers Association would appreciate it if you would share their article <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30250.cfm">http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30250.cfm</a><br />
It also reminds me, perhaps unfairly, but then that's the way my memory works, of some research that the NIS (Nuclear Information Service) and Medact did over a two year period and made public in February. They found that over fifty British universities, that's over a third of British universities, receive funding from the Atomic Weapons Establishment, AWE. Although much of the work supported by AWE is "Blue sky" research and not aimed at any special application, some of it is considered to have"dual use" potential. This is the link: <a href="http://nuclearinfo.org/article/awe-aldermaston/atoms-peace-investigation-int-links-between-uk-universities-and-atomic">http://nuclearinfo.org/article/awe-aldermaston/atoms-peace-investigation-int-links-between-uk-universities-and-atomic</a> <br />
In<a href="http://www.nuclearinfo.org/blog/nuclear-information-service/2014/02/universities-its-time-action"> a following short blog post</a>, which I found very helpful, they examined AWE's own comments, which led them to this conclusion, "AWE aren't funding
research in universities for philanthropic purposes: they're doing it
because they think the results will be of use to Britain's nuclear
weapons programme."<br />
This means, the way I see it, that even if you think you are going to be doing research purely for the good of humanity, there could be a horrible twist to it. You can find out which universities are involved from the article and I shall be blogging about this again later!<br />
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Meanwhile back at EDF and their company volunteers, who, I gather, will be taking <a href="http://www.edfenergy.com/sustainability/community/employee_participation.shtml">"Talk Service "</a> into schools:<br />
"The concept is simple. Use the best advocates – our people – to talk to
colleges, schools and other organisations in the communities where we
work. The aim is to create open and honest dialogue and to help people
understand more about the industry."<br />
Really? Well, if that's the case, perhaps it would be only fair, and in accordance with a balanced education, if the schools invited someone from CND or Greenpeace, or the local groups campaigning against new nuclear power plants or nuclear waste, to come along and give their views at the same time. Not, by the way, a troll in anti-nuclear clothing, but a genuine, clear thinking, moral activist.<br />
Are children in Britain today taught to think for themselves, or is it "Don't rock the boat, we have to keep the sponsors happy." ?<br />
Happily, across the Irish Sea, which is apparently the most radioactively polluted in the world, there are school students who seem to be very aware of the problems. I don't think that EDF would cut any ice with the then 14 to 17 year olds who made "Nuclear Winter" an animated film which was given a special recognition award at the recent International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro. <br />
"A ship dumps its cargo of nuclear waste in the Artic, stirring something strange up from the depths".<br />
Wow! <a href="http://www.pureproject.ie/what-we-do/pure-animation-movies/">http://www.pureproject.ie/what-we-do/pure-animation-movies/</a> (Scroll down a few films to find it... but worth the trip.)<br />
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<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-48025939623336632312014-05-30T15:26:00.000-07:002014-05-31T07:29:50.261-07:00Rio's International Uranium Film Festival 2014 announces winners.Thirteen atomic documentaries and movies from eleven countries were awarded five Yellow Oscars and eight Special Recognitions at a ceremony held in the Modern Art Museum Cinematique. What an array of films to choose from, though; more than sixty movies, documentaries and animations from over twenty countries! This is the link to the winners: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/226956062/Yellow-Oscar-Winners-2014">http://www.scribd.com/doc/226956062/Yellow-Oscar-Winners-2014</a><br />
The good news, for me, is that although the festival is over, the films are archived and you can find trailers and whole films under 'past IUFF's' and look at them again, at the website of the <a href="http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/">International Uranium Film Festival</a>. The festival also travels to different countries around the world. I'd love to write about them all tonight, but at least I can reference them and write about them in future posts. It's one thing saying " Do you remember that bit in the film where...." and another to be able to say "Here's the link to..." and let people who may never have seen it, understand what is so important about it.<br />
So "Thank you" to the directors of the film festival and their team and "Thank you" again to all the people who made the films.<br />
A complete "First" for me was the use of sand animation in a beautiful tribute to the children of Chornobyl by Kseniya Simonova, called "Eternal Tears" <a href="http://simonova.tv/en/blog/article/in-rio">http://simonova.tv/en/blog/article/in-rio</a> <br />
As a child she grew up in a seaside resort in the south of Ukraine on the Black sea, where children came from Chornobyl after the accident....but let her tell you about it, herself, in this moving little film.<br />
What struck me as especially poignant, although she didn't mention it, was that the the clouds of radio-active contamination from the accident would probably have blown over the very place she was living as they crossed the Black Sea on their way to Turkey and other European countries.dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-40500335616477739142014-05-18T05:49:00.000-07:002014-05-18T05:49:21.920-07:00 Common knowledgeOn May 15th, in Rio de Janeiro hundreds of people took part in a march against the alleged corruption surrounding the building and re-vamping of the world cup football stadiums and against their huge cost, in a country where the money could have been spent on services to the people. There were protests in other cities as well.<br />
I like the fact that the Brazilian people, who are famous as a nation of football lovers, have the courage and insight to stand up for what is really important.<br />
Not far away, in the same city, in the Modern Art Museum, Flamengo Park, more uncomfortable truths were being aired on the second day of the International Uranium Film Festival.<br />
This festival is unique, gathering together films from around the world by filmmakers who have the courage to make films about the nuclear industry process from uranium mining, to atomic bombs and nuclear waste. These films are often made with risk to the film makers themselves. They can show the real picture of what people are suffering .. they tell the truth about wind-born radioactive particles and the contaminated food chain... Sometimes the films are short animations and darkly humorous; sometimes they are fictional; sometimes, documentary. <br />
Somewhere, they take the facts from being common knowledge to a small community of people to becoming open knowledge in the global community. When you know that the water you have to give your children to drink is contaminated, you probably want the rest of the world to know why.<br />
I strongly recommend reading the descriptions of the films, the directors' statements and watching some of the films or the trailers, which there are links to. The progamme and notes made compulsive reading for me and left me humbler and wiser. This is the link <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/222613160/4th-Rio-de-Janeiro-Uranium-Film-Festival-2014-Program-English"> http://www.scribd.com/doc/222613160/4th-Rio-de-Janeiro-Uranium-Film-Festival-2014-Program-English </a><br />
or go directly to the festival's brilliant website <a href="http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/">http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/</a> and follow their direct link to the programme.<br />
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dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-29810534001872153062014-05-04T04:03:00.000-07:002014-05-04T04:26:25.297-07:00Brilliant short trailer for International Uranium Film Festival - Worth going viral.This is a link to the trailer for the International Uranium Film Festival. I think it is absolutely brilliant! (It's very short). <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUTjJ_drmp0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUTjJ_drmp0 </a><br />
The festival is held in Rio de Janeiro a few weeks before the FIFA world cup football. <br />
Also promoted on <a href="http://nuclear-news.net/">Nuclear-News </a><br />
<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-72979949283088556522014-05-03T16:34:00.000-07:002014-05-04T04:20:33.361-07:00Red sand from the SaharaA few weeks ago a mixture of fine red sand and dust blew into Britain from the Sahara. It travelled thousands of miles before it landed and, within a few days, there were people complaining of grit in their eyes and warnings were put out for anyone with respiratory difficulties. Schools in affected areas were advised to keep children indoors during lunch and playtime.<br />
Apparently, once lifted from the ground by strong winds, clouds of dust can
reach very high altitudes and be transported worldwide, covering
thousands of miles. The U.K. met office gave an elegant description and put up a short video of the route the dust took..<br />
<a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/learn-about-the-weather/weather-phenomena/sahara-dust">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/learn-about-the-weather/weather-phenomena/sahara-dust</a><br />
I read that dust from the Sahara has been blown as far as Florida, five thousands miles away.<br />
As usual, this set me thinking.<br />
We know that the sand was there, because we could see it, feel it, cough it, sneeze it. It was definitely there. We also know that one of the ways radioactive particles can travel is in dust blown into the air and carried in the same way as the sand. We can't see them and we may not know that they are doing us any harm until years later, but there they are, hitching a lift in a dust storm and no passport control can keep them out.<br />
This week Mochizuki posted in Fukushima Diary that 10,000,000 Bq of Cesium-134/137 are emitted from 4 crippled reactors <span style="text-decoration: underline;">every single hour</span><br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/04/fukushima-prefectural-gov-shrank-fallout-survey-still-10-million-bq-of-cs-134137-emitted-from-fukushima-every-hour/"> http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/04/fukushima-prefectural-gov-shrank-fallout-survey-still-10-million-bq-of-cs-134137-emitted-from-fukushima-every-hour/</a></span><br />
I don't think that the radioactivity is just going to stay around Fukushima. Meanwhile, you can understand why some parents who actually live in the area are unhappy about letting their children play outside.<br />
How do you find out about what's really happening to people affected by the nuclear power chain? One way is from films. From May 14th to May25th, the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio De Janeiro is showing films chosen from all those submitted, at the Modern Art Museum. <br />
<a href="http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/">http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/ </a><br />
It's the place to go, but if like me, you can't get there, the festival has a great website and, from past experience, once the films go up, you can learn a lot about them. They also have a good archive of films, and one of them is Abita a short animated film about children who can't play outside because of the radioactive contamination. It's about their dreams and realities and you can watch it at this link.: <br />
<a href="http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/arquives/films/462-en/past-iuffs/iuff-2013/usa-2014/new-york-city/sunday-feb-16/at-1-30pm/1121-abita-children-from-fukushima">http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/arquives/films/462-en/past-iuffs/iuff-2013/usa-2014/new-york-city/sunday-feb-16/at-1-30pm/1121-abita-children-from-fukushimaI </a><br />
Abita is a beautifully told story, full of poetry and imagery. I just wish it hadn't had to be made.<br />
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<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-27300647214084349362014-04-01T14:07:00.000-07:002014-04-08T01:57:08.984-07:00The EU consultation on state aid for the proposed new nuclear power plant, Hinkley Point C. Quick copy and paste submission. Closed 7/4/2014<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> The consultation closed 7/4/2014. THANK YOU to everyone who wrote in.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">This is the submission done by Global 2000 ,which they say you are welcome to copy and paste - Just add your name, email address and the date at the end. Send to <span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="mailto:stateaidgreffe@ec.europa.eu">stateaidgreffe@ec.europa.eu</a></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">You don't have to send it all and if there are any other points you want to raise, the scruffily put together facts in <a href="http://dandelionithappens-dendelion.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/your-voice-in-eu-about-proposed-new.html">my last blog</a> might be useful. There are some good links there too.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To: EU
Commission - </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Directorate-General
for Competition <br />
E-mail: stateaidgreffe@ec.europa.eu</span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Subject:
Hinkley Point C </span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am very
concerned about the current plans of the UK government to make a new nuclear
power plant possible by granting enormous support for it.</span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We would like
to encourage the EU Commission to stick to its clear analysis, because we as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon;">CITIZENS/ NGOS/ BUSINESS</span></i></b> <span style="color: maroon;">in the UK</span> do not want to be forced into paying a
fixed high electricity price to EDF for several decades, with no chance of the possibly
of making use of lower electricity prices.</span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It does not
seem fair to me, that one type of energy receives this amount of support in
addition to the fact that EDF would get this size of contract without even
having had to win a tender, because EDF simply received this deal
competition-free. </span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The supplier
AREVA became known in the past years for having severe problems with the
construction of its “flagship reactor” EPR on time: The ongoing cost increases!
Delay of completion is ongoing both at Olkiluoto and Flamanville, so it cannot
be expected that EDF would complete the EPR reactors at Hinkley according to
schedule. The delay at the Finnish site Olkiluoto is already 5 years, Areva was
reported as having left the construction site a month ago, so no new reliable
date is known.</span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are many
more possibilities to secure the electricity supply for the UK. It does not
enhance energy diversity and independent supply if the enormous amount of up to
£17 billion in public subsidies is spent on two units of EPR. </span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are
convinced that the state aid for Hinkley Point C would be at the expense of
other energy forms in the UK, because the money set aside for the support of
low-carbon projects up to 2020 (counterparty body) will be spent mostly on the
new NPP. </span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Carbon Connect report</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=987307150874344671#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="Funotenanker"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="Funotenanker"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "DejaVu Sans"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> shows that the investors can expect bigger returns on
the Hinkley project than with comparable projects thus proving that the Hinkley
Point C project would not only receive state-aid, but to such a high level,
that it is over-compensation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Furthermore the EU Commission made clear that the existence of market
failure need be doubted, because in Finland and in France the reactors were
ordered without granting state aid as is now planned for Hinkley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The UK government’s plan for the next NPP,
is utterly incomprehensible to us, because the EU Commission characterized the
chosen financing model (CfD – Contracts for Difference) with the following
words:</span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”<span style="color: black;">…the CfD is conceived to entirely eliminate
market risks from the commercial activity of electricity generation, for a
period of time, the initial 35 years of operations of the plant.”</span></span></i><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is an extreme preference for one type of
electricity generation, one specific project of one specific investor, which we
believe the EU Commission will not see as compatible with the rules of the
Common market. </span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">From.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">First name:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=987307150874344671#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""></a><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/cc/research/report-future-electricity-series-part-3-power-nuclear</span><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-29748920493264453172014-03-24T00:36:00.000-07:002014-04-02T11:06:07.285-07:00Your voice in the EU. about the proposed new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C in Somerset.UKA few weeks ago, Global 2000, part of Friends of The Earth, Austria, contacted me about writing to the EU commission for competition. They already have a brilliant, fast, submission for people to send, but it's in German, so here are some scruffy facts and a quick DIY guide for people I've put together in English. It would be lovely if lots of us wrote.<br />
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<![endif]--><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The EU commission opened a public consultation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on March 7<sup>th</sup> for a month about the
U.K. state aid case for the new nuclear power plant, Hinkley Point C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The EU
Directorate- General for Competition would really like to hear from you</span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">!</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The more people who write, the better; you don’t have to be an expert.
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">…..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can email them at </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="mailto:stateaidgreffe@ec.europa.eu">stateaidgreffe@ec.europa.eu</a></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have until April 7<sup>th</sup>
to write and it’s an opportunity to tell them how the possibility of higher
electricity prices will affect you, especially if you are running a business<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;">*Help on how to
write at the end of the post! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Background:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government would give EDF a strike price
of £92.50/MWh … (around twice the current rate) for the electricity. This would
be index linked and fixed for 35 years from the time the nuclear power plant is
supposed to start production in about 15 years’ time.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This means <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that householders’,
businesses’, industries’, schools’… electricity bills might have to cover much
larger energy costs than from renewables, as well as their suppliers’ costs.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The UK government would also give EDF a very large loan to help build
the nuclear power plant as well as other benefits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they, later, build two more of the same
design at a second site at Sizewell B in Suffolk, the strike price would fall
to 89.50/MWh.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Meanwhile, the cost of solar and wind are falling and expected to go
on falling, as are the costs of other low carbon renewable energies. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Solar energy: </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The
STA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The Solar Trade Association]</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has asked
for a strike price of £91/MWh in 2018 and expects this to fall to £86 by 2019,
falling year on year thereafter, paid over 15 not 35 years and with no nuclear style
small print permitting a possible increase in strike price once those terms are set.”</span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">…Quote from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Seb Berry, head of public affairs at Solarcentury and board member of</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the STA. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Ref page 6 Item 7)<br />
</span><a href="http://www.nuclearpolicy.info/docs/nuclearmonitor/NFLA_New_Nuclear_Monitor_No34.pdf"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">http://www.nuclearpolicy.info/docs/nuclearmonitor/NFLA_New_Nuclear_Monitor_No34.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Why did the Government fix a higher strike price for 2019 than they asked for?</span><br />
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onshore wind costs could fall to £48/MWh by the 2020s potentially making it the
U.K.’s cheapest power source.</span></div>
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contribute to an increase in retail prices….”</span></b></div>
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or you know anyone who has<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">….</b>the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EU Directorate-General would especially like
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respect that a support<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mechanism which
is specific to nuclear energy generation might crowd out alternative investments
in technologies or combinations of technologies, including renewable energy
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">“</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Renewable technologies
will be unfairly constrained by the size of the Levy Control Framework funds available,
the bulk of which will probably be used up by Hinkley Point C after 2023,
despite the fact that solar and offshore wind are likely to be cheaper by then.”</span></div>
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truly is a public consultation.... Will you be able to export to Europe <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if other countries are paying a fraction of
our electricity costs by 2023?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
someone comes up with a great idea for a new renewable product are the funds
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This is a real chance for people power .... don’t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let’s waste it! </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You can ask the European Competition Commissioner <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to declare the State Aid which the UK
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should reject UK Government deal with EDF for financing Hinkley Point nuclear
reactors. It is illegal state aid and a distortion of the electricity market.</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</b></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The Directorate-General for Competition<br />
State aid Registry<br />
Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200<br />
1049 Bruxelles/Brussel<br />
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<br />dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-75459693683208657402014-02-19T10:31:00.000-08:002014-02-19T14:11:43.742-08:00See it, even read about it, don't miss it.As I write this blog, it's around one o'clock in New York City, and it's around six o'clock in London. This means that if I were planning on what to do, if I were New York City this afternoon or evening, I'd perhaps have time to think about going to a film.. and if I was going to a film, I know where I'd be heading.<br />
Today is the last day of the travelling Uranium Film Festival's stop over in the USA.<br />
Film after film by courageous, innovative and talented directors have been shown over the past few days and culminate in an evening of three films, "08:15 de 1945", "In My Lifetime" and the film based on the famous book of the same name, "Quietly Into The Disaster"...<br />
To find out more, go to the festival's website, <a href="http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/traveling-festival/usa-2014/new-york-city/wednesday-feb-19">http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/traveling-festival/usa-2014/new-york-city/wednesday-feb-19 </a><br />
Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, a report which has taken two years to compile was launched by NIS, The Nuclear Information Service, and Medact. It states that over fifty (over one third) of British Universities have received funding from the Atomic Weapons Establishment. <a href="http://www.nuclearinfo.org/article/awe-aldermaston/atoms-peace-investigation-int-links-between-uk-universities-and-atomic">http://www.nuclearinfo.org/article/awe-aldermaston/atoms-peace-investigation-int-links-between-uk-universities-and-atomic </a><br />
I am so grateful for the people who keep showing us what is happening, when a whole lot of other people would rather they didn't! <br />
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dendelionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10941946179470013773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987307150874344671.post-30790874999992013142014-02-06T17:33:00.000-08:002014-02-06T17:33:13.395-08:00Listening to the director of the film discussing it.If you are in Washington DC or in New York City in the next couple of weeks, there is a rare chance to see some films you may not have come across. You may also be able to hear several of the directors of the films discussing them as part of a panel about the theme they are in.<br />
At a time when old fashioned copyright can be transformed into a form of modern censorship, when concealed censorship is probably as common as direct censorship in some countries...but at a time when, happily, there is so much protest against the disregard for individual privacy, liberty and the freedom to know... then this is perhaps a good time to find out from films, that history which governments would perhaps prefer we did not know.<br />
This chance is being brought to the USA by the travelling Uranium Film Festival. The films are being shown at the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC from February 10th-12th 2014 and at the Pavillion Theater in NewYork City, from the 14th-19th February 2014.<br />
One of the films to be shown is "Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1". This is about the nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands in the 1950's and the subsequent treatment of the people of Rongelap. Another is "<a href="http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/index.php/en/washington/monday-feb-10/440-at-6-30pm/1072-tailings">Tailings</a>", about a 200 acre heap of toxic uranium waste.. just outside Grants, New Mexico where after 30 years of failed clean up, the waste has contaminated the air and the water.<br />
Both directors will be on the panels for themed discussion and there are other excellent films to be seen and discussed. More details are on the <a href="http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/index.php/en/">Uranium Film Festival website</a>; the Washington and the New York City films are there with pictures and links to previews, and there is plenty of real information about all the films.<br />
At last, some countries are waking up to the bright and powerful future of solar and wind power... If ever there was a cogent reason why this is so utterly necessary... as well as being wonderful (!) I would suggest that you visit the website to find out...or better still, if you are in Washington or New York and can make it....see the films.<br />
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