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This grassroots site is about management for simultaneous social, financial, and ecological benefit. Our goal is to promote change toward a future that works. More… Today's featured photo:
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Recent additionsSoil Carbon Coalition founded. Enterprise, Oregon, January 2008--The Soil Carbon Coalition, with pending 501c3 nonprofit status, plans to advance the practice of turning atmospheric carbon into soil organic matter, and to advance public awareness of the soil carbon opportunity to enhance biosphere processes and reverse global heating.
Australian author reveals comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. Enterprise, Oregon, July 2007--Biosphere Media has published a US/UK edition of Allan Yeomans's controversial book Priority One: Together We Can Beat Global Warming. Allan Yeomans has a background in physics, chemistry, meteorology, and agriculture. He realized that the rapid development of soil organic matter could solve the global warming problem, in combination with a switch to nonfossil energy sources. But most scientists, experts, organizations, and governments are unfamiliar with soil-enhancing farming and grazing methods, or the large and rapid increases in soil organic matter that they were achieving. "The undue influence of the coal, oil, and gas industries on every aspect of American politics has blinded Americans to the opportunities we have to stop global warming," he said. Continue article... Forestry that Works. 30-minute film about excellent forest stewardship, highlighting the opportunities for public land management, and some observations on fire. Forestry that Works page, with a trailer and ordering info. Discover the most common cause of droughts and floods worldwide. Viewable as a Flash movie with quiz, HTML slide show, or downloadable Flash and PowerPoint versions for classroom use, presentations, and offline viewing. In 6 languages: Today's featured storyGrowing community powerby Peter Donovan (May 2001)Here in northeast Oregon's Wallowa County, our local economy has depended on the export of commodities--lumber, cattle, and grain. People feel powerless, as if their future is being dictated by outside markets and money, urban environmentalists, and federal regulations. When you are powerless, you can't hide the fact from the younger generation. They leave. By nature they want a chance to play, on the "A" team perhaps, and to swim with the current instead of against it.Read article… Sample articlesGardeners of Eden: Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature — book review by Peter Donovan. Author Dan Dagget explains how human management has been crucial factor in creating many of the environments that we mostly now regard as natural, and what that means for ongoing preservation and restoration of today's landscapes. Grazing management for healthy soils: An excellent article by Australian botanist Christine Jones. Includes bibliography. Enterprise Facilitation creates jobs in Canada: On site at two Canadian entrepreneurial development projects. More stories about new business development Low Stress Livestock Handling, Part 1: by Steve Cote. Practical instruction on Bud Williams's low-stress livestock handling methods. More low-stress livestock handling stories
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