The Green Disk given to UN Delegates at COP15 in Copenhagen will include RTE
Official Green Disc Press Release at COP15
The Green Disc: New Technologies for a New World. United Nations Climate Change Conference COP15 in Copenhagen December 2009
UN Delegates learn about Remineralize the Earth (RTE) & Soil Remineralisation through “The Green Disc: New Technologies for a New World”. The environmentally friendly disc is a 40 chapter interactive multimedia disc of innovative, proven, cost-effective new technologies for integrated sustainable development, adaptation to rising temperature and sea level and solutions for reversing global ...
Soil scientist Jairo Restrepo Rivera of COAS has books and a video available in Spanish on remineralization
"It is lamentable that as soil scientists coming from the university classroom we are not acquainted with the natural solubility of the minerals found in rocks. What would Julius Hensel say!"
"What we need to discuss is, what gives life to plants? What animates the minerals so that they can be transformed into biodiversity? For this we have to make a great effort as scientists to understand that agriculture and plants aren't the arbitrary sum of minerals: plants are harmony, a symphony, a miracle of nature. For me, is enough to respect the miracle, feel that life is ...
First International Conference on Rock Dust and of Soil Health in Mexico
The Mexican organization COAS - Consejeros en Agricultura Sostenible y Permacultura (Council on Sustainable Agriculture and Permaculture) and CUCI (Centro Universitario de la Cienega (University Center of la Cienaga) will be celebrating the First International Conference on Rock Dust and Soil Health from November 30 through December 2, 2009.
For information and registration please contact info@coas.com.mx.
Tel (33) 3620-1946 10 PM 2 PM
PLACE: Auditorium Dr. Jesus Mario Rivas Souza University Center Cienega University of Guadalajara in Ocotlan, Jalisco, Mexico
DATE: ...
Dan Kittredge Offers Hope and Prevention on the Late Tomato Blight Panel at NOFA
Dan Kittredge Offers Hope and Prevention on the Late Tomato Blight Panel at NOFA
"Insufficient soil mineralization is at the heart of our vulnerability to plant diseases. Only through building sufficient mineralogical and biological reserves in the soil to feed the crop through extreme weather years such as this one are we capable of preventing diseases outbreaks on our farms like late blight."
-Dan Kittredge, Director of the Real Food Campaign
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RTE At RETECH 2009 Conference
Remineralize the Earth Announces:
2009 RETECH Conference
Las Vegas, NV, February 25th-27th,Las Vegas Convention CenterRPM Ecosystems Fast-Growing TreesThe International Biochar Initiativeand Remineralize the Earth
"There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massiveburial of charcoal. It would mean farmers turning all their agriculturalwaste - which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summersequestering - into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying it in the soil.Then you can start shifting really hefty quantities of carbon out of ...
Moira and Cameron Thomson of the Seer Centre on YouTube
RTE just found these wonderful YouTube videos and we would like to share them with you! Originally filmed by BBC Television, the Seer Centre in Scotland has received enormous media coverage through the years in newspapers and on the radio and television in the UK. Their center attracts many visitors every year and has been supported by the actor Sean Connery. They now have a product in the UK distributed by Angus Horticulture Ltd.
Rock Dust Organic Remineralisation
Rock Dust
Rock Dust in Scotland
Brazil Conference on Remineralization!
From September 21-24, 2009, the Brazilian Conference of Rochagem will be taking place in Brasília. With the help of various Brazilian Institutions, the congress will cover topics on the most recent cutting edge research, as well as regulation and mineral production for soil remineralization to form a coherent policy making strategy. The conference will be attended by Carlos Cristan and Alberto Machado, our international coordinator in Brazil as well as many agrogeologists from Canada and South America. The conference is being sponsored by Petrobras and other companies and ...
Farming with Nature for True Taste
Have a look at this great article written by Bruce Boyers in the January/February 2009 Organic Connections Magazine, the magazine of Natural Vitality, on the Bob Cannard, remineralization's most famous farm.
The produce from his fields is so bursting with taste and nutrition, that a number of years ago, he was hand picked by world-famous chef Alice Waters to supply fruits and vegetables to her Chez Panisse restaurant.
http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/2009/01/bob-cannard-farming-with-nature-for-true-taste/
ACORE Issues Call for Action in Response to Barack Obama’s Commitment to Renewable Energy
President-elect Obama presents his America Recovery & Reinvestment Plan. ACORE issues Call for Action Plans to Meet the Three-Year Goal
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Dr. Arden Andersen and Dan Kittredge Giving Workshops at the NOFA Winter Conference
Barre, MA – When more than 100 farmers converge this February in Barre for a 3 day seminar, they'll be focusing on a topic of serious concern to a growing number of consumers: the nutrition and taste of our food. The Northeast Organic Farming Association, Massachusetts Chapter has arranged for the worldwide farmer consultant, Dr. Arden Andersen, to give this intensive seminar to farmers on how they can increase the nutrient density, taste, and yield of their crops.
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