VRDG ENVIRONMENTAL

[Guest guest]

Dear Prabhus,

 

I had sent a compilation of thoughts of cow members for the environmental

section of the VRDP but thre was no input. We had agreed on Envir, Soc, and

Eco. I think that the Soc, Eco is more on most of our minds. This section

includes principles to date that were agreed upon for the Environmnetal but

it needs expansion. I am sending what we have so far on Soc & Eco also.

Comments on any of them I will record and add to the outline. Let's

progress!

 

Your servant,

Chayadevi

 

ENVIRONMENTAL

RECOMMENDED

I) Land Fertility

1) Feeding the soil with on farm inputs.

a) Animal manures, crop residue, methane digester slurry, night soil, vermi

culture

b) Off farm inputs such as rock phosphates, crushed coral, seaweed,

municipal leaf gathering in fall seasons, that can not be secured fron an

on farm situation.

As an example: in Hawaii most of the soils are acidic and crushed coral is

high in lime. This is what is available and used extensively for sweetening

the soil. The coral comes from dredging of harbors and not from the

destruction of reef ecosystems.

 

II) Water Retention and Drainage

1) Erosion pervention

a) By wind (dry land farming) can be prevented by

b) By water (hillside farming) can be prevented by

 

III) Architecture of the Land

1) Agroforestry

2) Permaculture

3) Vastu Sastra

a) explain concepts

 

IV) Management of Natural Resources

1) Bio-diversity

a) microbes and

worms rank higher than nonmoving living entities (the standing people).

b) Chemical fertilizers fry biotic life, addition of bio matter enhances

it.

2) crop rotation

3) Wood lot management

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL

PERMITTED

I) Land Fertility

1) Feeding the soil with off farm inputs

a) agricultural waste products from processing plants.

Most of these waste products will be from crops which have been grown with

petrochemical fertilizers, insecticide, so that you can guarantee that these

will be non organic.

 

II) Water Retention and Drainage

1) Erosion pervention

a) By wind (dry land farming) can be prevented by

b) By water (hillside farming) can be prevented by

 

III) Architecture of the Land

 

 

IV) Management of Natural Resources