Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts

Saturday, October 11, 2008

New Awareness

This won't last long, this jag I'm on, but as long as it's on my mind I'd like to tell you about this kid I met in Greece last summer (2007). This is Micheal from Australia. (do any of you lurkers from New Zealand recognize him? He and his younger brother and sister had been visiting cousins in England) Any way he told us about where he had been working for a farmer in Canada who was pumping tractor exhaust into his soil as he plowed. The claim is that they used no other fertilizer and it was a record harvest. The neighbors are still paying their fertilizer bills from 2 years ago.
Well it makes sense, the elements which came out of the soil to make fuel, (all those decayed dinosaurs and dung) are floating in the debris of emissions. This genius of a man has a cooler on the exhaust pipe, then he pumps it back into the dust from whence it came. I admire the idea and I admire the deed.