 Urban Gardening: Do you know how many tomatoes you can get from one plant alone? Lots along with fresh greens and succulent onions. You could grow practically anything with the right conditions. Anyone and everyone can grow herbs, leafy greens and vegetables, and thus lessen dependence on a oil-based system which imports food from thousands of miles away. If you have plants in the house, why not make them work for you? Have some yard space, make it productive? Instead of useless grass why not plant some cucumbers or beans? Many will say, 'I have no space' yet some full spectrum lights, a few shelves or a little imagination can create some. Vertical gardens are another idea, ever heard of windowfarming? Many of us have lots of useless wall space. It could be put it to work growing fresh produce. In many urban areas building vertical gardens will be a must. Window farms and wall gardens, rooftop gardens and balcony farms is the answer to the squeezed for space urbanite. Rooftop and Balconies can certainly be used and will likely surprise you with the quantity and diversity of plants able to grow. If you're out of money use old containers or go poaching some on recycling day and get started. A crop of strawberries, fresh mint tea and a bounty of zucchinis are just a few of the plants capable of prospering on a balcony. The options are limited only by your creativity and capacity. A growing trend is using Rooftops. Imagine all that open space being utilized for dwarf fruit trees of citrus and lemon, or boxes of raspberries and vegetables. Can you get on your roof? With the pesticides, herbicides and poisons frequently used on our food many ingredients and foods are of questionable content. GMO plants are invading our fields while companies such as Monsanto lobby to inject more chemical poisons in the soil. The time is quickly coming when the chemicals used on the earth will harm us all. Look at the blooming cancer rate in North America. Maybe they are already hurting us and we don't even realize it. The point of the matter is depending on a corrupt, satanic system of profit and quality-less goods is sure to effect all of us if we hesitate to remove ourselves from this dependence. Permaculture is the answer and only way to defeat this system enslaving us all. |
What if people lost faith in the system we all depend on? What if your electricity, food supplies, money and water were not reliable, or cut off. This is the reality many are awaking too. The vulnerability of an aging electrical grid, the unpredictable future of conflicts or the looming ecological disasters which we've already witnessed with the BP spill and Fukushima are knocking the point home. Should we be depending more on government? This is not to mention the government induced poisoning of the populace through the water supply, air and gmo's. The need for self sustainability will be the essence of struggle for the conscious citizens of the twenty first century. Cheap energy and renewable technologies are making it possible for any determined citizen to remove themselves from the grid, to grow their own food and capture their own water, to produce their own electricity and side step fiat currencies. What if all of used our ingenuity to create a better world, one person at a time? For know one can preach without doing, and if you believe in achieving self sustainability, self reliance and battling the corporate 'Empire' you best get at it! Independent Energy With solar flares on the increase, ice storms and tornadoes and an aging electrical grid, many of us are awaking to the utter vulnerability of our power dependence. What happens if the lights went out, for weeks? There is an increasing amount of options for the motivated Gaian. Solar and wind are the obvious, both having been reduced in price to be affordable the same as a fridge or stove. Often the batteries to store the power are just as expensive. Yet new energies are coming on the market including generators that use water and low-energy nuclear reactors like the Rossi e-cat or even get some exercise and use bicycle generators. Wouldn't it be great if each time you worked out you gave the batteries some juice. Cheap energy is essential for human civilization to continue to expand, we all must depend on our own sources in the end. |
