"...the great resource was never the timber itself but the ecosystem with its soils and functionality that held the long term value." Symbioticfuture~2015 The New Indigenous Knowledge Series ~ authored in Clatskanie, Oregon: Part one: Water security in the greater Clatskanie Region Coupling rich soils to mega-ecology was truly the sponge with no equal that… Continue reading The New Indigenous Knowledge Series ~ authored in Clatskanie, Oregon

Resources were wrongly defined by the past several generations of our leaders and prominent men and women. What we have been led to see as resources for our prosperity are often either pieces of an ecosystem, geological support for ecosystems, or the temporary non-renewable excess created by ecosystems. The engine of renewable and the keystone… Continue reading Agroecology as the Holistic Ecology of People and Planet

Caution! This is a MAD AS HELL post. Poverty has been a rallying cry for developers, Multinational Investment, and top down control to monetize the developing nations "for their good". The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is strongly self funding through investment promoting multinational profiteers that they are partnering with. Some of the Investment "Leverage" includes: Chemical… Continue reading Poverty, Bill and Melinda Gates Ignorance, Davos 2015, and Big Money Has a Plan!

All photos are in Clatskanie, Oregon. The Sheep pictures were on Stewardship Farm and the Cattle on River Run Farm, a supplier for the first conclusive fats profile testing done by Utah State University. The same meat from River Run Farm also won number one ranking for flavor and tenderness both by Gourmet Magazine and… Continue reading Agroecology vs. Antibiotic Resistance plus real answers of Grassroots Gumption

"My name is Roy Sesana; I am a Gana Bushman from the Kalahari in what is now called Botswana. In my language, my name is 'Tobee' and our land is 'T//amm'. We have been there longer than any people has been anywhere. When I was young, I went to work in a mine. I put off… Continue reading Roy Sesana – First People of the Kalahari, Botswana ~ 2005

Recently, I responded in a forum on the struggle of organic certification to keep up with the growth of the market. Someone was asking how we can regroup on certification to enable it to go from 5% of the market to 50%. Here is my answer: "... 5% to 50% happens like this: Local create… Continue reading Creating food democracy in a hostile system

I said shockingly: "Let's now move for the full voting rights down to age 13." I mean it and can support it. In short form, following is a key concept in empowering democracy. Start by extending full voting rights down to age 13 in an unprecedented move to reach a societal artery vested in the… Continue reading Voting Rights Extended to age 13…(super short)

The Pocket Revolution Demystified "Pocket revolution takes no great risk, but mediates the risks we already face. It does not complicate or confuse, but rather deconstructs the complexity to find reason and benefit of local relevance." Symbioticfuture ~ 2015 It’s an understood that those ambitious for power and wealth will often take advantage of others… Continue reading Intro to the Pocket Revolution and non-disruptive activism

We live in a time when the world around us is not what we want it to be; even we are not the people we want to be. The scale of the disconnect is literally out of this world. To get up another day and do the basics of our life another day is often… Continue reading We dreamt now we do…

Resources were wrongly defined by the past several generations of our leaders and prominent men and women. What we have been led to see as resources for our prosperity are often either pieces of an ecosystem, geological support for ecosystems, or the temporary non-renewable excess created by ecosystems. The keystone resource is clearly the ecosystem… Continue reading Agroecology: the new science…short and to the point