permaculture:Eat Fresh Food all Year

Enjoy Fresh Food in Winter

Be more self-reliant by using natural cold storage.

Picture yourself on a frosty Christmas Day(okay in the Nth Hemisphere) serving your own tomatoes or carrots so sweet they’re like candy. And there you are in January, pulling crisp, fresh, raw heads of Chinese cabbage from a box in your cool cellar. Now it’s February, and in one hand, you’re hefting one of those big, rough-looking but fine-grained ‘Long Season’ beets for dinner and, in the other hand, several apples for the lunch box.

Fast-forward to March, and you’re returning to the warm kitchen with a fistful of carrots. Even in April? Of course. That’s you proudly adding your own garden-grown potatoes and garlic to the dinner menu.

In May, you might even find yourself, as we have, eating homegrown sweet potatoes. If you don’t grow a garden, you can buy carefully grown local vegetables in the fall, when they are at peak condition and prices are low, and store them for winter………..

Natural cold storage dovetails beautifully with the best use of your garden space. Many storage crops can be grown as succession crops after early peas, lettuce, radishes, spinach and snap beans.

This fall crop is the second half of the growing season, the half we miss out on if we don’t replant. When you have a cold place waiting for them, these fall-harvested vegetables can carry you well into a new-year bonus of productivity from the same patch of garden soil.

Nigeria: Shell admits 2 oil spills to deny 6800

Restoration of Nigeria’s environmentally devastated oil-producing Niger Delta region could take up to 30 years, cost $1 billion and become the largest cleanup operation in history, the United Nations said Thursday. A landmark report from the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) concluded that pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations in Nigeria’s Ogoniland region is more far-reaching than thought. The assessment, commissioned by the Nigerian government and funded by oil giant Shell, comes on the heels of the company admitting liability for two spills in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Niger Delta, the world’s third largest wetland, is diverse and rich with mangroves and fish-rich waterways. But oil drilling has turned it into one of the most oil-polluted places on Earth with more than 6,800 recorded oil spills, accounting for anywhere from 9 million to 13 million barrels of oil spilled, according to activist groups. But the environmental disaster has never received the kind of attention paid to last year’s oil catastrophe along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Amnesty International, which has researched the human rights impacts of pollution in the Delta, said people in the region have experienced oil spills on par with the Exxon Valdez disaster every year for the last half century. This has been going on for 50 years, with corruption, Neo Colonialism and the criminal Oil Corporations working together. The damage would take at least 50 years to remedy, but this will never happen-.

Shell's defeat is also important for the future in that it highlights the effectiveness of taking court cases in the main homeland of a Corporation.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/04/nigeria.oil.cleanup/

Cops forced to retract call to ‘Report all Anarchists’

The Metropolitan police initiated an embarrassing climbdown after a police station in Belgravia, west London, published a leaflet asking the public and businesses to report anyone with anarchist sympathies.

The call for information on a political rather than criminal group echoed a similar appeal for information about al-Qaida activity and “could have been better worded”, Scotland Yard admitted.

City of Westminster police’s “counter-terrorist focus desk” had last week called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers, stating next to an anarchist emblem: “Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police.”

The move angered some anarchists who insisted that being an anarchist does not imply criminal behaviour, indeed the biggest problem with the anarchist movement is the predominance of Pacifists..

Capitalists, on the other hand are unanimously criminal and should be reported immediately

The City of Westminster is not a fan of anarchists, it seems, after their counter-terrorism unit sent out a document that includes a warning about the dangers posed by anarchists. Helpfully, the document defines anarchism for us. In fact, it defines anarchism in exactly the same words (and with exactly the same punctuation) as the Wikipedia entry for anarchism. Isn’t that a coincidence? Anyway, the document urges the reader to report any instances of anarchism to the police.

we’ll need 27 planet Earths by 2050,

Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and other species that provide Earth’s life support system increased tenfold, it would not be enough without dealing with the big issues of the 21st century: population, overconsumption and inefficient resource use.

Without dealing with those big issues, humanity will need 27 planet Earths by 2050, a new study estimates.

The world population, currently at seven billion, is well beyond Earth’s ability to sustain. By 2050, with a projected population of 10 billion people and without a change in consumption patterns, the cumulative use of natural resources will amount to the productivity of up to 27 planet Earths, the study found.

Sustaining the current seven billion people on the planet requires a major shift in resource use. At present, the average U.S. citizen’s ecological footprint is about 10 hectares, while a Haitian’s is less than one. The planet could sustain us if everyone’s footprint averaged two ha, Mora said.

Another of the authors, Peter Sale from the Canadian Institute for Water, Health and the Environment, put it like this:
"We are just taking too much - managing forests in such as way as they degrade, same with coastal waters, and we have to stop doing this as a species.
"I don't have a solution - I have struggled for some time trying to think what is the way to get people to realise how important this is - but if we don't find it soon, the future is a very grim one.
"We're talking about losing 50% of species in the next half century - that's faster than any previous mass extinction event - and anybody who thinks we can go through a mass extinction and be perfectly fine is just deluding themselves."

THE SOLUTION To Over Consumption (some notes)

Assuming that a World anti capitalist revolution is not going to happen right now… more’s the pity… It’s high time that radical environmental groups began to think REAL.

One step that could be taken is to stop using fossil fuels. A huge but not impossible task. Renewable energy is approaching the level where it’s ‘cheaper’ than using fossil fuels. A safer, CO2-free non polluting fuel for vehicles has always existed SEE HERE https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/

But the root of the problem is the mad greed and superconsumption that is the basis of the universal capitalist system.

A common sense moral approach would be for example to sabotage a coal plant, an arms or car factory etc. This is already happening, on a very small scale. Check it out HERE, https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/prison Such largely symbolic publicity actions maybe only benefits the competition and put people out of work, but if many thousands of people were to start doing it …

Blogging to the consciences of middle class youth is all fine and good, but Direct Action on a massive scale is now needed.

Another sane and moderate idea (since their actions are destroying the planet) would be to physically attack investors and directors in the worst Corporations. Let them retreat already to the luxury bunkers they are urgently preparing. However the ‘ruling class’ have all the security forces on the planet just itching to pounce on anyone who ‘gets real’ in this way, and every media outlet ready to scream ‘terrorist’ for the next 20 years. Also the question of guilt is very relative, few really understand what they are doing, and all of us know we are participating in trashing the Earth…. cont/

Runaway Ice Melt NOW in Arctic

Here in Spain we’re having a cool summer. The Atlantic has been blocked by high pressure, giving us north winds. But in the Arctic temperature are up to 10 degrees C above normal, and ice melting may set a new all time record, causing unexpected and possible ‘runaway’ climate events worldwide.. Far from being a wakeup call, climate talks are ‘dead in the water’, and the arctic ice melt has sparked an obscene capitalist power struggle to exploit natural resources in this fragile wilderness.

tundrafire11-620x250 — After a 10,000-year absence, massive wildfires have returned to the Arctic tundra

‘Arctic sea ice extent declined rapidly through the first two weeks of July, at a rate averaging nearly 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) per day. Ice extent is now tracking below the year 2007, which saw the record minimum September extent.” So far this summer, Arctic sea ice has been melting at a record pace. Satellite data, which go back to 1979, show that ice extent is currently lower than it was at the same time in 2007, the year that went on to shatter all previous records for low ice extent in September, the end of the melt season. Global Warming is both a cause and an effect of the ice melt- Runaway Climate Change is caused by ‘Feedback’ or ‘Loop’ effects.. Less ice means heat is absorbed instead of reflected melting more ice which… Melting permafrost releases methane which raises temperature which melts more permafrost which…… Unheard of tundra fires release methane and blacken earth raising temperature , melting permafrost and causing more fires…. ETCETCETC We live in a fragile skin of breathable gas in an immense vacuum. The imminent danger is of uncontrollable climate change which could make the whole planet uninhabitable, like all others in our Solar System. The only solution is to immediately begin transition to an economy without CO2 releases.. This is perfectly possible. See other posts on NH3 fuel,.. cheaper, safer and CO2 -Free! https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/

Tar Sands: stop this Carbon Bomb

Join us this summer.

Posted on July 13, 2011 by admin

From August 20th – September 3rd we’re planning a peaceful protest in Washington DC to defuse the largest carbon bomb in North America.

With people power and time-tested tactics of civil disobedience – join thousands of people from across the continent in a wave of sustained sit-ins. Together we’ll amplify our voices and escalate the movement and stop the Keystone XL pipeline to the Canadian tar sands

Sign up here to join in.

Libertad Silvia, Costa, Billy. Anarchists sabotage IBM nanotech.

3 yrs jail.. 3 a por resistir la NanoTech

Este viernes 22 de julio fueron condenadxs lxs tres compañerxs bajo los cargos de “actos preparatorios para cometer un atentado incendiario” y “comercio ilegal de explosivos”. Según el Tribunal, son culpables de “incendio voluntario” contra un centro de invetsigación de IBM en Rushlikon, en al ribera de un lago en Zurich; y también fueron consideradxs culpables de “dismulación de explosivos”, lo que explicaría las condenas tan duras

El cargo por “transporte ilegal de explosivos” se derrumbó ya que hay no evidencias sólidas que afirmen el contrabando desde Italia. Sin embargo lxs compañerxs fueron sentenciadxs a condenas más largras que las solicitas por el fiscal.

Billy fue condenado a cumplir 3 años y 6 meses, más 22 días de una condena anterior. Costa, acusado como el principal organizador del atentado fallido, condenado a 3 años y 8 meses. Silvia fue condenada a 3 años y 4 meses.

A lxs tres compañerxs se les descontará el tiempo que pasaron en prisión preventiva, es decir les restaran 1 año y 3 meses a la condena dictada.

Los tres están acusados de un intento de ataque en el centro de investigación en nanotecnología de IBM en Rüschlikon, que por entonces aún se encontraba en construcción. Deben responder a las acusaciones de actos intencionales de preparación para un incendio, ocultación y transporte de materiales explosivos no autorizados.

Luego de permanecer mas de un año en prisión, con transferencias, restricciones y censura postal, el aparato represivo estatal tratará de dar un nuevo golpe a lxs tres compañerxs, acusadxs de: actos preparatorios de un incendio intencional contra un centro de investigación de nanotecnología IBM en construcción, ocultación y transporte de material explosivo y trafico no autorizado de explosivos.

Esta maniobra represiva no sólo apunta a golpear a lxs compañerxs investigadxs, sino que también será dirigida a todxs aquellxs que rechazan el actual estado de cosas, que sienten la urgente necesidad de atacar y subvertir el orden existente, considerando la acción directa como un paso fundamental en el camino de la lucha por la libertad en contra de la sociedad actual.Un guión que ya se vivió hace varios años, cuando llegan a Marco Camenisch, pensando en intimidar su oposición a la energía nuclear. Un golpe vacío, ya que Marco, a pesar de su encarcelamiento, nunca se inclinó y sigue luchando, animado por el espíritu revolucionario y rebelde!

Hoy, con este ataque, piensan que pueden aplastar la lucha contra las nuevas tecnologías (biotecnología, nanotecnología), una lucha que en Suiza no era aún muy activa, pero que después de la detención de lxs tres compañerxs se está radicalizando y ramificando con luchas de crítica social.En nuestra opinión, el deseo de subvertir lo existente, es el indicio que anima a la solidaridad con Billy, Costa y Silvia, por esto llamamos a la movilización para asistir al proceso, reiterando que cualquier ataque a unx compañerx es un ataque hacia todxs aquellxs que luchan fervientemente por la libertad contra Estado y capitalismo!

Presencia en el salón y fuera, para estar al lado de Billy, Costa y Silva. Para no dejar que la solidaridad se convierta en una palabra estéril, sino más bien para garantizar ánimo en nuestros ojos y en nuestros actos.

Esos ojos que brillan ante la idea de libertad y se llenan de sangre y rabia al pensar en todxs lxs compañerxs que el Estado arrancó de la lucha y aquellos actos que nos hacen tener aún a nuestro lado a lxs compañerxs rehenes del enemigo.

¡LIBERTAD PARA BILLY, COSTA Y SILVIA!
¡LIBERTAD PARA MARCO CAMENISCH!

LEER MÄS

http://libertadalos14a.blogspot.com/2011/07/ya-han-caido-condenas-sobre-lxs.html