122 results for author: Hanqiu Wang

John Todd Wins Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Dr. John Todd John Todd of Ocean Arks International and Research Scientist for RTE's Agroforestry Project in Costa Rica: Food, Fuel and Income to sustain local communities using remineralization, has just been awarded the annual Buckminster Challenge with his Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge for Appalachia. The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Movie About the Appalachia Project

Forests of Champions

A Conversation with Tree Farmer David Milarch Who Sees New Hope in Old Giants. By David Yarrow Christmas Eve, 1996, I interviewed David Milarch, founder of the Michigan Champion Tree Project. Tall, bearded, with stout limbs and a thick trunk, he looks like a latter day Paul Bunyan. Or a full size chestnut tree in flesh and blood. But his lumberjack physique is dwarfed by his immense ideas - and his ardent exposition of them. However, the Paul Bunyan figure interrogating me is no lumberjack yelling, "Timber!" His vision is to grow, not cut trees - to renew, not remove, forests. And the big man is talking about the biggest of the big trees: the ...

Como Remineralizar?

Qué tipo de roca es la más adecuada? Fertilizar suelo pobre con polvo de roca mixta puede ser comparado con el alimentar a una persona enferma con una dieta variada de alimentos no refinados, alimentos naturales. Si ningún alimento es la panacea, puede deducirse también que ningún tipo de roca sea la “ideal”. Se dice efectivamente que la virtud de la grava glacial reposa en su amplio espectro de tipos de roca que este contiene. John Hamaker recomendaba el uso de polvo de grava glacial, seguida de gravas de río, orillas de mar y mezclas de roca de tipo sencilla. ...

Por qué remineralizar?

En este “experimento no-intencionado” en nuestro jardín, hemos remineralizado suelo en un caballón con residuos de granito molido proveniente de una perforación de un pozo de agua. El suelo remineralizado produjo las zanahorias a la izquierda. Las zanahorias plantadas antes, en suelo todavía no remineralizado, pero de todos modos mejorado, son mostradas a la derecha para comparar. Si se hubiera usado polvo obtenido de una mezcla de más de un tipo de roca tendría incluso resultados más dramáticos, según Weaver y Hamaker. Estos resultados fueron típicos para todas las cosechas en nuestro jardín en 1985. --Dan Hemenway ...

The Eco-Logic of Vermiculture

Each organism has a role and occupies a niche. In fact, shown by the Russian ecologist, Gause, about 30 years ago that each niche has only one organism with its specific food. If another organism is introduced, it either gets wiped out or creates its own micro-niche by living symbiotically with the first, for example, by using the waste matter of the first organism as food. (more…)

The Eco-Logic of Vermiculture

Earthworms and Bacteria Enjoy a Symbiotic Relationship By Uday Bhawalker Each organism has a role and occupies a niche. In fact, shown by the Russian ecologist, Gause, about 30 years ago that each niche has only one organism with its specific food. If another organism is introduced, it either gets wiped out or creates its own micro-niche by living symbiotically with the first, for example, by using the waste matter of the first organism as food. (more…)

Success in Brazil with Citrus and Ornamentals

In 1992, as a young citrus consultant and agronomist, I observed in an orchard that was doing very poorly in Dourado (SP), Brazil that on a particular parcel the orange trees developed more quickly and had more fruit than the other trees on the property. In the area where the citrus trees were thriving, the ground was very flat with splintery "rusted" rocks that had a dark, almost black color. On researching further I did mineral analyses and began to do practical experiments in the field. I began to research various rock deposits in the region and studied variations in their mineral constituents. (more…)

SEA-90

Remineralize Soils to Optimum Elemental Balance SeaAgri, Inc. introduces SEA-90, a 100% water soluble, natural, non-synthetic, mined mineral fertilizer approved for use by certified organic farmers is avaiable in North America. SEA-90 is a remarkable new product containing 90+ essential elements. (more…)

1994 USDA Symposium on Remineralization

Soil Remineralization An Essential Environmental Action On May 24, 1994, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Beltsville, MD), the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) (Washington, DC), the National Stone Association (NSA) Washington, DC), and the National Aggregates Association (NAA) (Silver Springs, MD) cosponsored a forum on "Soil Remineralization and Sustainable Agriculture" at the USDA Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, MD. That forum could represent a milestone marking officially-sanctioned efforts to implement long overdue action of fundamental importance to human survival, the ultimate reason for environmental concern. It deserves ...

Revisiting the 1994 USDA Symposium on Soil Remineralization

Soil Remineralization An Essential Environmental Action By Frederick I. Scott, Jr. On May 24, 1994, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Beltsville, MD), the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) (Washington, DC), the National Stone Association (NSA) Washington, DC), and the National Aggregates Association (NAA) (Silver Springs, MD) cosponsored a forum on "Soil Remineralization and Sustainable Agriculture" at the USDA Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, MD. That forum could represent a milestone marking officially-sanctioned efforts to implement long overdue action of fundamental importance to human survival, the ultimate reason for enviro...