Humus - the essential ingredient: Graeme Sait at TEDxNoosa

[@suneetsalvi1200]

This was a video that has greatly shaped the way we farm. We do not use any synthetic fertilisers, pesticides etc. We only focus on mulching our soil with biomass and increasing the microbial variety and count in our soil. This has made a tremendous difference to soil fertility and water percolation and water holding capacity.

[@whitefarms3274]

We call it armor(cover)on the Soil with diversified Living Plants with live Roots growing as long as possible feeding exudates to organisms Living in a Humus Matrix 🕊

[@rajnisahu6306]

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[@wadepatton2433]

Excellent. Since revamping my personal health by changing the biology of my own gut flora, it was EASY to understand how the soil food web works. And now I'm changing all of my gardening habits as well as adding livestock (properly grazed) to improve my lands. It's scary how UN-known this information is. Keep spreading the word. A better future for humanity demands it. We've really made a mess to clean up.

[@tjones3406]

Thank you for not leaving out the livestock in this equation for fixing our soils nutrients/minerals. A lot of people think cows are killing the planet, but they are a key component in our food supply be it plant or animal.

[@Imwright720]

I’ve done my share from composting all my food scraps, worms and a backyard garden. I plant all my vegetables with fungi to build the soil. I create my own biochar. It’s time for everybody else to get with the program.

[@Andee1688]

Ditto.

[@catherinewissner6012]

I've been teaching this, Humus and Microorganisms, in my soils portion of my Master Gardener class for the last 18 years.

[@FindingecoAu]

Great to see awareness on soil health and its importance is being spread! Growing up on a certified organic farm I saw the impact first hand of how soil health affected plants, animals and improved my health. Great talk I will be sharing this!!

[@ashoakwillow]

TED at it’s best; essential information delivered with inspiring passion.

[@jeffdill366]

😂😂😊

[@trackin951]

Love this. Learning all about permaculture currently and I suggest you each read a book on the subject. Very eye opening.

[@muritumbogo4022]

Aha, what is the exact title of the permaculture book?

[@ruedaricardo]

I have 40% more carbon in my soil than what I had 9 years ago. It can be done!

[@Tom.Livanos]

The etymology of the words human, humus and humility is 'of and for the Earth'. Actions which will improve the conditions we live in: 1. Buying food from those who practise regenerative farming e.g. from farmers' markets; 2. Paying carbon credits to primary producers for increases in soil humus; 3. Composting becomes the mantra for everyone - particularly local councils; 4. Inoculating our soils with humus building organisms - the most important of these is mycorrhizal fungi; 5. Legislating to protect the existence of humus building organisms in soil; 6. Banning the burning of crop residues. This is carbon which ought to be returned to the soil rather than adding to the problem i.e. released into the atmosphere; 7. Including a carbon source with every nitrogen-based fertiliser; and 8. Extracting humates from brown coal to build humus in soil.

[@juliamarple3058]

Tom Livanos not everything on farmers markets are organic . Some of the food can be poorly produced. So you will need to double check

[@whitefarms3274]

Come to know & support your local producers for food security & health 🕊

[@Tom.Livanos]

@@whitefarms3274 I begin and end my reply to your reply in the same way, because it is the most important point in this comment. I begin: thank-you for your input. When I wrote my original comment 6-7 years ago, I was in Armidale. It is a long story but I am back in my place of birth and upbringing, Sydney. Coming to know local producers is a lot easier in a regional town of 30,000 people than it is in a city of 5 million. Still, even here in Sydney, I dare say that some inroads may be made in terms of coming to know local producers. I feel that a lot may be learned by learning about supply lines in terms of all products we consumers buy. I actually think this is an employment opportunity, at least conceptually. About as meaningful as any employment may be. Okay, I take your point and end where I began (because indeed it is the most important part of my reply to you/this comment): thank-you for your input.

[@rineric3214]

This is still the best and most important speech I have ever heard. This is true politics. Thank you Graeme!

[@healingfoundations101]

Food with forgotten flavors! Love the way he put that.

[@jamesspry3294]

Brilliant! Everyone in the world (or at least the western world) should be made to watch this video.Just one more thing I would add - Get to know your farmer, look him or her in the eye when you buy your food. Ask him or her how they grow their food, and what they are doing to regenerate their patch of the earth. If they can't look you in the eye when they answer, then find someone who can.Use your power as a consumer to support and create the world that you want to live in.

[@cindyhollings2079]

Excellent presentation! As a home gardener I have searched for micorhyzzal fungi to add to my soil as an amendment, but can’t find anything affordable, unlike the USA which seems to stock in every garden centre. It would be great to source backyard quantities here. I am an avid composter and vermicomposter with a side line in leaf humus!

[@ceilao1]

Thank you, Graeme,for your utter dedication and invaluable insights that we or direly need. God bless. Gail, Fred and the rest of us.

[@Mrgruffy44]

I built my home in 1972 which had a large yard. That was the thing--a big yard. I sowed it with rye and blue grass. But the soil had been abused for many years that crab grass, crowsfoot, and buckhorn was what grew best. About 20 years later, and after reading a book on soil, I decided to plow it under, then ran a garden tiller over it. When the old soil drys out in summer, it gets hard as a rock. But before I tilled it, I contacted a lawn service, and asked him to dump all of his leaves and grass clippings on my plowed and spaded up lawn. Then in the autumn, I drove over town begging people for their leaves. The more, the better. Finally, I tilled all the leaves and grass into the soil. I let it winter over. Then I sowed blue grass the next spring. The best blue grass I had ever seen. Though I prefer to sow grass seed in late Sept. as the cooler weather and the angle of the sun's rays promote blue grass growth while the junk grass and weeds die out.

[@Emiliapocalypse]

Mrgruffy44 wow, what a great way to change your yard’s soil! I’m going to try that this fall with my yard. It had been neglected for 50 years and the soil is hard like concrete!

[@hosoiarchives4858]

Look into no till. Back to Eden gardening using a woodchips mulch is the best. Don't till the soil

[@jumbledguts953]

Grass is the least eco-friendly thing you can have in your yard. Natural biodiversity would have done all of that for you without the damage done by tilling. Lawns are a bygone fad.

[@SoilsforLife]

An excellent presentation. Healthy Soils = Healthy Landscapes = Healthy People.

[@Out_the_Doors]

“Human initiative knows no boundaries if it’s well funded” exactly! If we show enough interest in renewable energy, big companies will start investing in it too

[@pietrad]

Thank you Graeme for a great presentation which exposed the causes of soil degeneration and offered real methods for renewal. I sure hope this message gets widely heard.

[@rjm420silverback]

Excellent video! I resonate with this idea and love it! Namasté.

[@raymondrobbins9495]

Amazing Video I really had no idea what humus was for. Thanks to the TED production team for educating me on humus. I just added it to my soil for years lol no idea the importance of the stuff.

[@bennielamb8911]

Well done. Schools don't teach this. I had to live 37 years and going for my only learn a lot of this stuff. It's a shame!

[@mhchoudhurymd]

Thanks for the education and emphasis on the humus in the soil the forgotten wealth.

[@perrywelsh8722]

Oh so true. The sooner we support those farmers who are actively giving life back to their farmland by way of humus the sooner we can get great tasting, healthy food back on the table. Support your local farmers market, but make sure it's grown properly. Not purchased from outside the region from crappy farmers.

[@xuyahfish]

I was looking to grow alfalfa on my soil as a perennial for adding to my compost & add as a mulch. I wonder if growing it (with it's deep roots) will improve my well water?

[@yashnimbre8823]

Thank you for adding valuable knowledge ❤

[@pepper419]

Brilliant talk, thank you very much.

[@KatherineBright]

So sensible an outlook. Yes humans are stubbornly hoping not to take notice of this information so often but we are all catalysts for change so spreading the word on my facebook and twitter and hope many others do the same.

[@plejaren1]

Me too spreading the info :)

[@louieweng588]

hehe..misread the talk...thought I was gonna learn about the essential ingredient for hummus. Interesting talk tho.

[@CoachZed]

hahaha, I saw this hoping it was going to be about humus, then on the new page, just before the video loaded and i reread the title, I had started hoping it wasn't about to be about hummus!

[@xyzsame4081]

It's been a while but if you still chase the perfect hummus: Channel of Refika's kitchen. It is the method: remove the skins from the cooked chickpeas (she cooks them with baking soda, which I don't do) and let the food processors run for a long time (I think she said 7 - 8 minutes). I seem to remember that letting it stand for a while so the flavors can mend together (well, not it is usually eaten before it has much chance), and that chick peas that you cook at home after soaking them for a night are better (I do that anyway). And plenty of garlic.

[@katbird158]

Love this video, it's so important!

[@Urkuwayku]

Single most important TED-talk out there.

[@rineric3214]

Bless you! Fabulous talk!

[@Spirit-mg6wq]

Food 4 wealth is the best system. Food forests, No dig Gardens. Geoff Lawton. God Bless This guy is a saint.

[@eleanorwilliams9245]

That was so informative and inspiring! Thank you! :)

[@geoffplayoflight]

Yes! Request that your council compost your green waste if you can't do it yourself (or even if you can, on behalf of the fact that so much good carbon is wasted rather than returned to the earth). Replace helpful organisms to the soil! Stop the awful poisoning of arable land - dominant farming methods are hastening the collapse of so much of the biosphere. Investing in renewable energies and technologies. YES! Thanks Graeme.

[@Andreas-kf6ys]

inspiring and necessary message

[@spiritfarmer463]

This just makes sense!!!! Brilliant !!

[@saltwindful]

I agree with almost everything, except mass composting (for farming ). Composting does produce great material, but you lose quite a bit of carbon during the process. It would be far better to use a biological matrix and to mulch the material into the soil.. so in other words use nitrogen fixing perennials and rugged grasses planted into fields of material which has been covered with wet organic matter, and then straw or leaves. You would retain most of the carbon, and also wouldn't bind up as much oxygen as co2 producing compost does. Composting makes sense on a small scale, as an adjunct, but not as a mass technique. You would also be steadily creating meadows, diversifying life, and making habitat, as well as ideal ground for planting trees. This could be used in the amazon as a low cost way to bring back the forests, and in America to bring back the prarie and forest.

[@beewinfield]

Saltwindful, I think of compost as an inoculant. A compost heap is a breeding ground for beneficial soil microbes. You can use a small amount to make a large amount of aerobically brewed tea to introduce those microbes to broad acres, but they must land where there is either organic matter to eat ( as in mulch) or living plants to feed them with sugary root exudates. So I love your concept of organic matter being grown in fields in the form of perrenial pasture species which in combination with animals and these good guy critters (sprayed out ) would decompose into that wonderful humus which absorbs any rain that falls and holds it. Love your vision of rehabilitating landscapes with trees and grasses we so need to be removing carbon from air and storing it in soil fro a safe climate.

[@nathanielbrigham2501]

4 years late but I'll give it a shot. Can you explain more what you mean when you say composting loses a lot of carbon? And you don't think its a good idea on a large scale. And what do you mean by biological matrix?

[@thomasa5619]

Nathaniel Brigham I assume he means hot composting, which is making a big pile and as it decomposes it heats up to around 65°c Would be easy to assume that cooks out a lot of volatiles I guess, mulching doesn’t break down as fast or generate the high temperatures

[@rickbrewerzxc]

this IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE YOU[HUMANS] WILL EVER RECEIVE. AND IF WE DONT RESPOND ACCORDINGLY ON MASS WE CAN KISS OUR ARSES GOODBYE

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Chickpeas are an *essential ingredient in humus :-)*

[@healthylivingtips4u]

Brilliant! Crucial information at a crucial time. Yes, I agree with Danny's comment... pass on this link to as many people as possible. Another link worth sending out is the recent Australian SBS Catalyst show (4.7.13) on what drives extreme weather events. Dove-tails nicely in with Graeme's TED Talk

[@KristoferYoung]

Valuable words for all! #globalwarming #humus #food #organic

[@deniseward002]

Wonderful video.

[@jensltaxi9288]

Great simple message - we can all do something now.

[@karnaag]

Why does every solution to every damn problem have to involve the government? The govt should always be the last choice because of their wastefulness and incompetence.

[@zuni5353]

+Paul Kenyon In answer to your question: The vast majority of land and/or land useage is influenced (if not controlled outright) by various government agencies. Agri-businesses influence the governments decisions. And there you are...

[@davidonfim2381]

What problems have been solved without the government? Did companies just randomly all decide to stop using children for labor? did slave owners just randomly decide to let all slaves go? did factories and businesses do research into their pollution and decide to stop dumping their waste into rivers just because they were nice? Was it a grassroots organization the one that eradicated smallpox from the face of the earth, and which is very close to eradicating guinea worms and polio too? I could go on and on and on, but the point is that I literally cannot think of a SINGLE important and widespread change that has been done without very heavy influence by the government. If you want to do anything in a meaningful way, you have to pass laws and enforce them.

[@biodynamichawaii]

Love you Graeme!

[@dannybeger]

I think the most influential thing each of us can do right now is to send a link to everyone we know.

[@joedragon3707]

I'm all for healthy soil with lots of humus.I'm also for turning waste into methane.It's a technology that preserves the nitrogen and minerals by fermenting that waste anaerobically producing concentrated organic fertilizer and methane which when burned = CO2+water.This frees us from serious pollution,not the nonsense of global warming. I'm all for more trees,because they are a great investment in our future in more ways than we can count.I am not against the burning of grasses,weeds,etc.This can be a part of improving the land by returning minerals,raising the PH and thus creating favorable conditions for growing legumes to add nitrogen to the soil.This needs be done carefully.Showing a scenario where the ash simply blows away onto someone elses property,especially there rooftop is not a fair representation of burning.Heating homes using wood or pellets made of grasses is becoming more and more popular here in the U.S.A. The ash is excellent as a soil buffer/fertilizer.We don't have to destroy our forests.In my state(new York)there is as much forest as when the Europeans arrived. We made that an important priority.Don't concern yourself with global warming,CO2,methane and nonsense.Plant more trees,shrubs and vines because it makes the world better for people and other living beings,not because it's very good at absorbing CO2.

[@replicant70]

Tremendously important video. Thank you Graeme.

[@itspeekaboo]

Nice talk well done enjoyed much

[@foobargorch]

An important issue with respect to climate change is also the rate of change. Compare 200 years of industry with 800,000 years of azolla, which is hypothesized to be the previous organism to have radically changed the climate (see "Azolla event" on wikipedia).

[@duffland_au]

Brilliant!!

[@JonMow]

huh,Ben Carson actually being useful for the first time ! i now gain new knowledge

[@jumbledguts953]

This isn't Ben Carson...

[@suzyfarms]

We use No chemical input, purely organic in our climate gardens. have some videos on this. So cool

[@xyzsame4081]

There is only the automatic transcript function of youtube active. - I will make a transcript based on that text.

[@MISHA12314]

Dirt, which we have a lot of, becomes topsoil with the addition of humus. Older texts states that top soil can be produced at the rate of an inch per 100 years. Using modern ag procedures such as commercial fertilizer, manure, and green manure crops allow the soil to be improved in tilth in a much shorter period of time. Best way I know to think of this.... is to assume you are raising soil, and go on from there. There are some areas in the corn belt that have been in production for well over 100 years, and are just as healthy as the original breaking of the ground.

[@marcelouellet5548]

Thomas Dobyns un

[@wanderingrockhounds904]

I don't think you've taken a walk through many "modern ag"chemical filled fields. The dirt smells utterly disgusting, is devoid of life, cannot retain water and in some areas they are facing dust storms akin to those faced during the great depression. "Modern ag" is completely unsustainable and killing our planet. Check out Gabe Brown. Using polyculture he is able to get far better yields which means more money (i know thats all some people care about), spend far less to produce that yield, retain 10x as much water as a standard farmer'and produce a variety of products meaning if one has a bad year his whole year isn't screwed.

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

Using pure seeds thanks.

[@isaiah5343]

I just bought a com- poster it was made in Sweden it's name is joraform, it is an excellent com-poster, in the processes I discovered that the law in Sweden is the whole Nation must compost.

[@zvipatent]

When I was a boy and planted trees with my father, we put humus in the soil. Now I eat hummus (ground chick peas). Honest, on both accounts

[@mbailey12341]

Why are you wanting to pay carbon credits to farmers when farmers are the one’s doing the most damage to our soils? They are already receiving too many subsides to overproduce in the name of food security. But then we also subsidize ethanol and other biofuel production to get rid of the extra grain. Not to mention the subsidies going to the crop insurance programs.👎

[@TBoneZone]

Give Property Tax Credits to Regenerative Farmers, and those who maintain Rich Forest Lands, as well as Income Tax Credits.

[@mehrmeer6108]

Water, Minerals and Carbon for land and fields and our garden

[@NeilBlanchard]

Biochar along with composting is many times more effective way to sink carbon, and build the soil. Biochar also holds much more water, and cleans the water even better. And biochar invites in the living things in the soil.

[@mehrmeer6108]

+Neil Blanchard There is no competition between humus and biochar. It's all awesome stuff!

[@NeilBlanchard]

Right, soil and biochar is a symbiotic combination.

[@beewinfield]

+Neil Blanchard Hi Neil, I would like to see your evidence for this statement. Drs Maartenn Stapper, Elaine Ingham , Walter Jehne and Christine Jones would all disagree with you. Bio Char worries me because it involves burning wood and thus creating carbon emmission. Ingham points out that organic matter provides all the condiminiums the bacteria need, humus cleans the water . I would be very surprised if biochar could hold more water than humus. Terra Pretta is worm castings according to Dr Christine Jones, and Dr Stapper says there may be a plant response to biochar due to the ash but it is short lived. Ive heard a lot of unscientific hype about biochar and am concerned that so many grants are being directed to biochar research when at least these 4 eminent soil scientists are not impressed by it.

[@zuni5353]

+Neil Blanchard Biochar requires vast amounts of energy. It is not a substitute for natural decomposition. See cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/FS147E/FS147E.pdf

[@NeilBlanchard]

Zuni, using a biochar retort uses energy from the wood itself - some is burned and all the volatile gases from the rest is used. So, nothing "vast" about it. It is much better than decomposition - because the carbon is stabilized and stays sequestered AND it holds onto the nutrients and the water. Biochar is not in competition with compost - it is a symbiotic thing and biochar is a massive multiplier of the benefits of organic farming and the cycle of life.

[@managementplan]

Great idea , how do we do it easily, increasing organic matter on a small scale, is easy but Graeme is talking world wide , it's the prairies and plain that are over cultivated that need to increase organic matter , not our back gardens

[@richardlocke488]

According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8° Celsius (1.4° Fahrenheit) since 1880. Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15-0.20°C per decade.

[@Sam-do4oj]

he does a great job outlining the problems however I think the solutions he proposes are insufficient. Capitalist profit motif is at the root of basically all of these problems and they wont be resolved until we change that. We should strife for a system that works for ALL the people and that includes the environment we live in.

[@whitefarms3274]

Capitalists profit from patrons ! By your food from people that grow it ; not peddle it ! 🕊

[@Abrahami]

Ramial chipped wood (check Wikipedia) is probably the best solution for humus regeneration.

[@styxga7894]

André Abrahami I try and keep my wood out of the chipper

[@rseyedoc]

Curious that corals and clams evolved during the Cambrian period when CO2 was in the 5000 to 7000 ppm. that's 10x the CO2 levels of today. How is that doubling CO2 would cause extinction of many life forms?

[@finlarg]

+Rory Smith The problem is the _rate of change_. Species cannot evolve or adapt quickly enough to cope with the changing environment - hence the mass bleaching of corals in the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere.

[@beewinfield]

Im quoting from a climate science forum www.skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm "when people refer to the very high CO2 in the Paleozoic, 400 million years ago, they need to realize that it was countered by what was a much lower solar irradiance. If CO2 hadn't dropped over time, the world would be more or less uninhabitable today. Or, another way of putting it is that a much smaller increase in CO2 today will produce a climate that would have required much higher CO2 to achieve in the Paleozoic " Rory, theres lots of denialist trolls at work muddying the waters of truth on these matters. The Cambrian period was so far back its hard to know what was going on then.

[@jumbledguts953]

Rate of change, excess pollutants, carbon sequestration in water, etc.

[@vijaythallam]

Inspiring

[@gaganjain5191]

Wow amazing facts

[@plejaren1]

How do we pay carbon credits? Thanks- sorry for my naivete'

[@thomasa5619]

It used to be how the government incentivised carbon friendly activities

[@zvipatent]

The oceans are absorbing most of the CO2 we spew out. Info that is not spread much. Thx TED and thanks Graeme !

[@hosoiarchives4858]

Gabe Brown has the answer

[@vidaripollen]

no humus no humans.

[@hanzketchup859]

Maybe one day the scientists will leave politics alone , the problem with political ‘scientists’ or ‘professors of science’ seeding their lectures with politics is that this puts the elected representatives in a hard spot , especially if there is a censorship of alternative or dissent , one ‘scientist says glaciers melting is bad , the other one says its good .. these political debates need to be held in conferences and other appropriate ‘arenas’ where All the perspectives can be heard , the punchline is this , science is such a wonderful thing why waste time on politics when there is such a vast ocean of information awaiting to be ingested and brought to fruition .. when I see one ‘scientist’ lecturing , almost invariably the lecture becomes political , Frankly , that sux !

[@AronNeagu]

Does anyone know where i can find something (video,TEDtalk,website) about the superfunds of John Houston he mentions at 14:20?

[@DocGreen15]

I'm looking for that too... no luck yet...

[@gaiazyme]

☀

[@Ed19601]

'we put in some humus, we put in some compost' OK, whats the difference? isnt humus the topsoil we get from composting?

[@dudleybarker2273]

yup - humus is compost made naturally whereas compost is humus made by people... ;)

[@zackscott8636]

Dudley Barker maybe humus is not compost. It's been said to be in compost, and is a silky, smooth, slimy material that takes a century to create, perhaps more efficiently by human methods??

[@markovichglass]

He says that the carbon that we have has always been the same amount of carbon, just in different forms. Is this correct? I am not calling out, I want to learn. From my understanding, all atoms came from hydrogen(well quark's and neutrinos) then hydrogen then helium, lithium, barium etc. Is this a valid statement to say all our carbon has been created it just changes forms, but no new carbon is created?

[@Forester-qs5mf]

Yes

[@xyzsame4081]

The elements on earth do not change, nothing is lost of added. Sometimes the carbon is part of rocks, of soil, plants, oceanlife, maybe some is deep down as part of lava , and definitely as part of oil and coal - and a part of it is in form of gas (like CO2 or CH4 = methan), but the amount of carbon has not changed for billions of years. Yes all elements come from hydrogen, and the other very common element is helium when a star has nuclear fusion going on, all elements above that are created in supernovas at the end of a life cycle of a star. if the element is higher on the table of elemetns than iron it is an element that is "recycled" and upgraded in another supernova (or severals). The 92 natural elements of earth needed at least they cycles of two large stars (galaxies ?), with stars ending in supernovas to form. They assume that some large (gas like ?) object with lots of water hit the earth so we have more than our share. (hydrogen alone will eventually escape from a planet the size / mass of earth, it is too light to be contained by our gravitational field (which is determined by the mass of the earth), so the orginal Hydrogen atoms either found something to react with, like a Carbon or Oxygen atom or they eventually were lost to space. Only a star like the sun or a large planet like Jupiter is heavy enough = gravitational field to contain these volatile atoms. A star is an object that has such high mass that its atoms eventually "collapse" under the force of "weight" as the hot gasball contracts to form an object (plantet, star, moon, ...) Or more precisely: the forces that make hydrogen atoms reject each other (they are very powerful but only over extremely short distances) are overcome by the forces of gravitation. So the atoms are "crushed" and nuclear fusion starts. 2 hydrogen atoms become 1 helium and lots of energy. And early on there must have been a collision with moon, we got some of moons metals (which is a good thing because we have now a core that creates magnetism. but we probably lost some lighter elements because of the collision (I think that was indirect). And moon lost all of its atmosphere (would have even w/o that massive collision). The ball that became the moon must have had the same mix of elements as the ball of gases that became the earth later - when it contracted and cooled down. So that at least the metals etc. became solid.

[@sameasis.knownreligion]

(37) Planting the Rain to Grow Abundance | Brad Lancaster | TEDxTucson - KZbin ALL MAN MADE CONCERNS AND IT HAS TO DO WITH PREVENTION THAN ACTIONS.

[@colincrisp1592]

I wonder if this man has heard of chemtrail they is changing the soils PH all over the world And dos he know about haarp the weather controlling device With out addressing these issues How can we create good soil but unless under stand the new world order [look it up] we will not have gardens to grow food in But .top marks for his talk though

[@sooocheesy]

please make sure your aluminium foil hat to protect against the mind reading satellites is made from recycled material

[@albertobaylon3245]

We should start composting otherwise the Earth will decompose everything.

[@curtisgrantham2392]

why can't we build structures in outer space to block sun heat

[@finlarg]

+Curtis Grantham Too expensive and impractical. In order to build something big enough and mobile enough to cast a continual shadow, would require many times the natural resources that we actually have on this planet. It would be FAR cheaper to paint the deserts white!

[@richoz27]

+Curtis Grantham Also some corporation would own it and then start charging us for sun light.

[@jumbledguts953]

Material scarcity and pointlessness.

[@francisgraf6393]

Is it billion tons, or giga tons? He said Billions, but his immediately following comment seems to imply it is rather 476 gigatons.

[@phillipmcgrath4833]

How outdated are these concepts? Do they still hold true?

[@jenniferbrodie7088]

yes

[@muhammadsiddiq2745]

Nice

[@limbodog]

This is 8 years ago. Is anyone paying carbon credits to farmers yet?

[@theodorefong]

Humus, yes, good stuff. But please leave the business and taxation to professionals. I doubt central planning(in the form of taxes and subsidies) by uninformed and corrupt politicians will save the world. Good topic, bad talk.

[@annieduffy5449]

seems to me the current system of taxation and other selective corporate benefits the bureaucracies offer to skew things there way have been monopolizing the planet to their benefit at the expense of all life. What he is suggesting is to do a 180 and put it the other way round. a totally necessary spoke in the wheel of life if we are to make a go. a good topic and a great talk

[@clockwatchin]

the solution seems so easy, when do the world is gonna wake up???

[@duffland_au]

A+ ...

[@justgivemethetruth954]

OK, let's assume we buy this ... he goes on and on about how great humus is, but not really what is how, how we can create it, and what specifically can we do with it once it is created. I am a gardener, and my shed has a container of humid acid it in that I found ... but what the hell can I do with it? People need specifics, not just all this rambling happy talk.

[@silvertogn]

The humus that is being talked about is basically COMPOST, meaning well rotted plant material, for the most part, along with worm castings (worm poop). I`m not sure what you mean when you say you have a container of "humid acid". IF you mean that you have acidic humus it can be used (as is) to fertilize acid loving plants like Rhododendrons or blueberry plants. If you need to neutralize the acidity just add limestone or white wood ash.... Humus can also be Peat Moss, it is mostly just organic material.

[@justgivemethetruth954]

silver togn If you do not know what humid acid is, or is used for or how to use it, your post is of no use to me. Here is what Wikipedia says: Humic acid is a principal component of humic substances, which are the major organic constituents of soil (humus), peat, coal, many upland streams, dystrophic lakes, and ocean water.[1] It is produced by biodegradation of dead organic matter. It is not a single acid; rather, it is a complex mixture of many different acids containing carboxyl and phenolate groups so that the mixture behaves functionally as a dibasic acid or, occasionally, as a tribasic acid.

[@calebfuller4713]

If it is a commercial product, doesn't it explain the what, why, and how on the label? I would assume that, like most liquid fertiliser products, it is diluted with water and applied to the soil. As for ratio, again, it should specify, but as a rule of thumb 10:1 would be a safe bet.

[@andrewtowell6074]

silver togn Spot on, he did say it in the video though but he can't have watched it long enough. He needs to start a compost bin for his green (grass clippings) and brown (fallen leaf) waste and a worm bin for his kitchen scraps (veg pealing). It takes some time to make but once you get a system/cycle going its good. Also try and source some locally produced compost, I get mine from a diary farm that produces its own. I also like to get a bit of organic horse and chicken manures too to increase that organic matter.

[@dudleybarker2273]

silver togn i think he means (humic acid) [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humic_acid] - #Justgivemethetruth , do some reading into #permaculture design - basically what it teaches is that by imitating natural systems, we can heal soil faster than Nature can. also, by getting chickens to manure your plot you're getting a type of ecosystem going that will provide you with food at the same time as restoring your soil - you might find that your local extension officer (or whatever they call them in the States) will be only too willing to assist you as well. enjoy :)

[@pertwang]

The relationship 170,000 litres of water per hectare for 1% increase in OM is not a realistic figure unless that 1% is all humus and is increased over a soil profile depth of of more than one metre. If we accept that humus holds its weight in water, each square metre would have to be increased by 17 kg of humus. A 1% increase in the top 10 cm would be equivalent to 1 kg, assuming a bulk density in the top 10 cm of 1 tonne/cubic metre. The figure claimed by Graeme requires 17 times more extra OM/humus per square metre. Visualise this in bulk terms 17 kg is a good sized bag of bullshit. There is an awful lot of exaggerated bs talked in the soil C space and unfortunately this talk like many others is a mixture of fact, fiction and wishful thinking.

[@beewinfield]

Hi Pertwang, if it was humus to a depth of one meter, it would be an increase in OM of a whole lot more than one percent. Ive heard it said that humus holds 10 times its weight in water and believe it from personal experience. So re do your figures on that basis and lets see then.

[@andrewwhite1576]

Recorded history this a popcorn fart in the big picture of this planet. It’s hard for people to understand this part for some reason

[@joeypeterson9198]

6 years old and we've only gotten worse

[@arrancockroft2834]

You must ✌️

[@marinadyck1701]

Good ideas, but a lobbyist. Way too much fear mongering. Our world is not going to end if we don’t do what he says. Farmers are producing more than ever, better quality than ever, and doing a great job.

[@paulolivier3254]

100%

[@usrdgroup9901]

WoW...........:):):)

[@juliamarple3058]

No till. No dig too.

[@anthonybianco1982]

does this guy not realise that humus is formed by a processing of fermentation which releases methane gas?

[@peterburton8796]

Carbon credits are a scam.Everything else presented is right on.