Saturday, January 15, 2011

Build Your Own Bio-Dome for $100


Much Love and Support to America's Third Party!

Self-sufficiency with the least cost possible. Bio-Domes give us the opportunity to grow all year round under any weather conditions or geographical location.

Build your own, take charge of your Life, Food, Flowers, and Happiness!

Challenge yourself and use as many Recycled materials as possible!

Special thanks to David Sponheim and Sarah Hart.

ONE LOVE.




Links:

1- Udgar & Puja Parson I take my hat off to you two! True innovators of this field. I have so much love and respect for your work. You guys are WONDERFUL human beings!






Lew Godfrey
Green Harlow Productions

Thursday, January 13, 2011

GiVing Vacations

Giving Back Vacations
It is possible to see the world. It is possible to fit in awesome in what many people consider a normal life.
It is possible to be one person helping towards a difference. Be that by reaching out and helping others, or by simply supporting good planet energy by enlightening thy self.
Each day and moment we have on this earth needs to be lived and appreciated.  


What is it you would love to do?
Pick grapes at a winery in France or bella Itlaia, track the migration of endagered animals, bring the world to an isolated child by giving them a laptop, preserve the coral reef and/or other environmental damage we witness are being done, work in a desert on an archeological site… build a new home for someone else..
They say the highest vibration of growth and soul enlightening is when you experience the true pleasure of helping another for absolutely nothing. True charity from the heart.. Its like Jackie Evanchos’ voice, its like the state music can raise you to… Heaven.

Check it out my friends, go on a Giving Vacation (a.ka. Volunteer.. yeah you, lol.).. and not only have fun and travel. but feed your soul. Live your life.
Habitat for Humanity has several locations, however I suggest you go directly to where is most needed at this time:

Let's all sit down at the table together shall we.
These are just a few of many government and private programs available.

There are countless get away giving vacations opportunities out there. The world IS your oyster!

My personal favorite.. winery work, Check it out!:
Also, love Photography:

Wanna get away for good! Here’s the Holy grail =).. (pay the stupid fee and sign up for the site, its pennies.. you can basically live off traveling these farms and other amazing opportunities.)


My last choice would be the Peace Core, Red Cross, or Unicef, nothing against anyone here, well at least I am not stating my opinion pubilcally, but my preference is nothing government backed.
However, you’re an individual, and you can make and support your own choices.
Here is the Full list government backed agencies:
Here is a beautiful Peace Core success story (..and the beautiful young lady gracing one of the pics on this post!):

God Bless you, God bless me, Gos bless this planet. ONE LOVE.

P.s.
This is one of my FaV new sites.. I really need to lay off it. Lol.
Check it out, this site rocks!
Article related to this post:

Good Links for Travelers:
1- Student Travel Association:  http://www.statravel.com/
2- Some SOS travel insurance:  http://www.internationalsos.com/
4- Get yr documents RFID, just don't get physically chipped, lol: http://www.getyouhome.gov/html/rfid/RFID.html


Lew Godfrey
Green Harlow Productions

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Terra Preta

Terra preta (literally “black earth” in Portuguese) is a type of very dark, fertile anthropogenic soil found in the Amazon Basin.  It is also known as “Amazonian dark earth” or “Indian black earth”. In Portuguese its full name is “Terra preta do índio” or “Terra preta de índio”. Terra mulata is lighter or brownish in color.



Make your own: Terra Preta!    http://terra-preta-gardens.com/


Terra preta owes its name to its very high charcoal content, and was indeed made by adding a mixture of charcoal, bone, and manure to the otherwise relatively infertile Amazonian soil over many years.

Terra preta is characterized by the presence of low-temperature charcoal in high concentrations; of high quantities of pottery sherds; of organic matter such as plant residues, animal feces, fish and animal bones and other material; and of nutrients such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), calcium (Ca), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn).

It also shows high levels of microorganic activities and other specific characteristics within its particular ecosystem. It is less prone to nutrient leaching, which is a major problem in most rain forests.

Terra preta zones are generally surrounded by terra comum, or "common soil"; these are infertile soils, mainly acrisols, but also ferralsols and arenosols.

Terra preta soils are of pre-Columbian nature and were created by humans between 450 BC and AD 950.

Thousands of years after its creation it has been reported to regenerate itself at the rate of 1 centimeters (0.4 in) per year by the local farmers and caboclos in Brazil's Amazonian basin, who seek it for use and for sale as valuable compost.




Terra preta soils are found mainly in Amazonia, estimate that they cover at least 0.1 to 0.3%, or 6,300 to 18,900 square kilometres (2,400 to 7,300 sq mi) of low forested Amazonia; but others estimate this surface at 10.0% or more (twice the area of Great Britain).

Terra preta sites are also known in Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, in Benin, Liberia), and on the South African savannas. Similar soil was found in late Roman Britain.

Biochar is low temperature charcoal produced from a biomass of wood and leafy plant materials.

Amending soil with biochar has been observed to increase the activity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Tests of high porosity materials such as zeolite, activated carbon and charcoal show that microbial growth substantially improves with charcoal.

It may be that small pieces of charcoal migrate within the soil, providing a habitat for bacteria that decompose the biomass in the surface ground cover.

This process may have an essential role in Terra preta's self-propagation; a virtuous cycle develops as the fungus spreads from the charcoal, fixing additional carbon, stabilizing the soil with glomalin, and increasing nutrient availability for nearby plants. Many other agents contribute, from earthworms to humans as well as the charring process.

If biochar becomes widely used for soil improvement, it will involve globally significant amounts of carbon sequestration, helping remediate global warming.




Links:



  • Terra Preta Amazonian Earth - Interview with Dr. Bruno Glaser in META magazine


  • "Book for download about Amazonian Dark Earths (Terra Preta de Índio) in Portuguese". http://www.cpaa.embrapa.br/TerraPreta. 


  • "Putting the carbon back: Black is the new green" (PDF). Nature. http://bestenergies.com/downloads/naturemag_200604.pdf. Retrieved 2008-07-10. 



  • Lew Godfrey
    Green Harlow Productions

    Tribos Indígenas Nordestinas - Brasil

    O Brasil possui 258 tribos indígenas, com uma população de aproximadamente 378 mil pessoas.

    No Nordeste encontram-se 39 tribos, com 81 mil pessoas (21% do total Brasileiro).

    Destas:
    • 15 tribos, infelizmente, já não falam mais sua própria língua
    • 18 têm trabalho missionário evangélico: 17 em andamento e 1 trabalho emancipado, ou seja, o povo foi alcançado!

    Veja os detalhes:



    Tribos do NE, Não-Alcançadas: (Nome, Estado, População)
    1. Jiripancó (AL/PE), 1.500
    2. Kantaruré (BA), 353
    3. Karapotó (AL), 796
    4. Kariri (CE/PE), ?
    5. Krejê (MA/PA), 30
    6. Pankaru (BA), 84
    Tribos Nordestinas Não-Alcançadas:
    1. Guajá ((MA/PA/TO), 300
    2. Guajajara (MA), 15.000
    3. Gavião (do MA), 466
    4. Fulniô (PE), 5.000
    5. Kaimbé (BA), 1.270
    6. Kapinawá (PE), 2.500
    7. Kariri-Xocó (AL), 2.500
    8. Kiriri (BA), 1.401
    9. Krikati (MA), 620
    10. Pankararé (BA), 1.500
    11. Pankararu (AL/PE/MG), 5.000
    12. Pataxó (BA/MG), 7.000
    13. Potiguara (PB), 7.575
    14. Tapeba (CE), 2.491
    15. Tremembé (CE), 3.500
    16. Tuxá (BA/PE), 1.630
    17. Xukuru (PE), 6.363



    Tribos Nordestinas Não Alcançadas, mas com presença Católica
    1. Kambiwá (PE), 1.578
    2. Paiaku (CE), 220
    3. Pataxó-Hãhãhãe (BA), 1.865
    4. Pitaguari (CE), 871
    5. Tingui-Botó (AL), 350
    6. Truká (BA/PE), 1.333
    7. Tupinikim (BA/ES), 1.386
    8. Wassu (AL), 1.447
    9. Xocó (AL/SE), 250
    10. Xukuru-Kariri (AL/BA/MG), 1.820
    1. Kalankó (AL/PE), 230
    2. Karuazu (AL/PE),
    3. Pipipã (PE), ?
    4. Tumbalalá (BA), 900
    5. Tupinambá (BA/PA), 1.200


    Lew Godfrey
    Green Harlow Productions

    Agroforestry

    Agroforestry is an integrated approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems.




    According to the World Agroforestry Centre, Agroforestry is a collective name for land use systems and practices in which woody perennials are deliberately integrated with crops and/or animals on the same land management unit.

    The integration can be either in a spatial mixture or in a temporal sequence. There are normally both ecological and economic interactions between woody and non-woody components in agroforestry.

    In agroforestry systems, trees or shrubs are intentionally used within agricultural systems, or non-timber forest products are cultured in forest settings.

    Knowledge, careful selection of species and good management of trees and crops are needed to optimize the production and positive effects within the system and to minimize negative competitive effects.
    In some areas, a narrow definition of agroforestry might simply be: trees on farms.

    Hence, agroforestry, farm forestry and family forestry can be broadly understood as the commitment of farmers, alone or in partnerships, towards the establishment and management of forests on their land.

    Where many landholders are involved the result is a diversity of activity that reflects the diversity of aspirations and interests within the community.


    Impacts
    Agroforestry systems can be advantageous over conventional agricultural and forest production methods through increased productivity, economic benefits, social outcomes and the ecological goods and services provided.



    Biodiversity in agroforestry systems is typically higher than in conventional agricultural systems. Agroforestry incorporates at least several plant species into a given land area and creates a more complex habitat that can support a wider variety of birds, insects, and other animals.

    Agroforestry also has the potential to help reduce climate change since trees take up and store carbon at a faster rate than crop.


    Alley Cropping

    Alley cropping, sometimes referred to as 'sun systems', is a form of intercropping, and can be applied by farmers as a strategy to combat soil erosion, to increase the diversity of farmland, as a means for crop diversification and to derive other integrated benefits.

    In this practice, crops are planted in strips in the alleys formed between rows of trees and/or shrubs. The potential benefits of this design include the provision of shade in hot, dry environments (reducing water loss from evaporation), retention of soil moisture, increase in the structural diversity of the site and wildlife habitat.

    The woody perennials in these systems can produce fruit, fuelwood, fodder, or trimmings to be made into mulch.

    Potential impacts of agroforestry can include:


    -Reducing poverty through increased production of agroforestry products for home consumption and sale

    -Contributing to food security by restoring farm soil fertility for food crops and production of fruits, nuts and edible oils

    -Reducing deforestation and pressure on woodlands by providing fuelwood grown on farms

    -Increasing diversity of on-farm tree crops and tree cover to buffer farmers against the effects of global climate change

    -Improving nutrition to lessen the impacts of hunger and chronic illness associated with HIV/AIDS

    -Augmenting accessibility to medicinal trees, the main source of medication for 80% of Africa's population.


    Forest Farming

    Forest farming, also known as 'shade systems', is the sustainable, integrated cultivation of both timber and non-timber forest products in a forest setting. Forest farming is separate and distinct from the opportunistic exploitation / wild harvest of non-timber forest products.

    Successful forest farming operations produce: mushrooms, maple and birch syrup, native plants used for landscaping and floral greenery (e.g. salal, sword fern, bear grass, cedar boughs and others), medicinal and pharmaceutical products (e.g. ginseng, goldenseal, cascara or yew bark), wild berries and fruit.




    Permaforestry

    Permaforestry is an approach to the wildcrafting and harvesting of the forest biomass that uses cultivation to improve the natural harmonious systems. It is a relationship of interdependence between humans and the natural systems in which the amount of biomass available from the forest increases with the health of its natural systems.



    Examples of bioproducts derived from biomass that are created through permaforestry:
    Honey, maple syrup and other tree saps, gourmet foods, functional foods, berries, wild mushrooms, ginseng, wild rice, herbs, fiddleheads, fish, frogs and crustaceans, pharmaceuticals, natural health products, essential oils, educational products, arts and crafts, decorative products, floral and greenery, garden horticultural products, woodworking, lumber, biochemicals, biofuels and bioenergy.




    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
    Lew Godfrey
    Green Harlow Productions

    Forest Gardening

    Forest gardening is a food production and land management system based on woodland ecosystems, but substituting trees (such as fruit or nut trees), bushes, shrubs, herbs and vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting, these can be intermixed to grow on multiple levels in the same area, as do the plants in a forest.


    In part based on the model of the Keralan home gardens, temperate-climate forest gardening was pioneered by the late Robert Hart on his one eighth of an acre (500 m²) plot at Wenlock Edge in Shropshire.

    Robert began the project over thirty years ago with the intention of providing a healthy and therapeutic environment for himself and his brother Lacon, who was born with severe learning disabilities.

    Starting as relatively conventional smallholders, Robert soon discovered that maintaining large annual vegetable beds, rearing livestock and taking care of an orchard were tasks beyond their strength.

    However, a small bed of perennial vegetables and herbs they had planted was looking after itself with little intervention.



    This led him to evolve the concept of the "forest garden". Based on the observation that the natural forest can be divided into distinct layers or "storeys", he used inter-cropping to develop an existing small orchard of apples and pears into an edible polyculture landscape consisting of seven levels.




    In the 21st Century

    Forest Gardening was furthered significantly by the work of Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier with the publication of the two volume set "Edible Forest Gardening" in 2005.

    Forest Garden plots are to be found in various research trials such as those at The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute http://www.crmpi.org/Home.html, community farms and gardens like Montview Neighborhood farm http://www.montviewfarm.org/, and in small yards throughout the temperate world.

    A number of studies have looked at forest gardens in the humid tropics, and they can be a significant source of minerals and nutrients, as well as providing income and food security for the owners.




    Links:

    ShaMania Global New World Gathering 2011

      ......Birthing a New World!

    Mankind's most ancient and universal system Shamanism is rooted in many different traditions across many cultures around
    the planet. The Heart is an ancient Shaman... It is in celebration of the Collective Heart that we at The Anahata Foundation
    bring together powerful Healers and Wisdom-keepers from different cultures and spiritual perspectives in the 1st Annual
    ShaMania Global Spirit Festival to Inspire and Envision the Birthing of a New World of Authenticity, Equality, Oneness, Love
    and Spirit.

    The ShaMania Global Spirit Festival January- March 2011, Mumbai , India
    • Brings to you a series of evolutionary workshops with 3 Shamanic Healers from around the world & private healing 
    • sessions to accelerate your spiritual growth & skill 
    • Gives you the opportunity to learn from & go through powerful mystical experiences & healing with our healers 
    • Helps you prepare better for 2012 and beyond…placing you on an evolutionary fast track
    • Invites you to envision a New World in the One Day 1st Annual ShaMania Global New World Gathering 2011

    Our Workshops 

    WorkshopTeacherDates & TimeVenueParticipation Fee     
    Journey Within: An
    Introduction
    to Modern Shamanism
    Dr. Cosima Klinger
    Paul from Austria/India
    29th – 30th Jan 2011
    9am-6 pm
    The Club Andheri,
    Mumbai, India           
    Rs. 12,500/-
    USD 266.00 
    3 days Munay Ki
    Transmissions Residential Workshop
    Diane Dunn from Peru4th, 5th & 6th March 2011
    3days & 3 nights
    In a nature resort in MatheranRs. 26,500/-/ USD 564.00
    2 day Ascension Training
    Level 1 DNA Activation
    Patricia Cori from Italy11th & 12th March 2011The Club Andheri,
    Mumbai, India
    Rs. 21,950/-
    USD 468
    (inclusive of
    10.3% service tax)/ 



    All workshop participants get 1 complimentary seat to attend The Shamania Global New World Gathering 2011.
    For more details on the workshops, email us on bookings.shamania@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

    *For our International Participants we could provide assistance for hotel/serviced apartment bookings on request.
    For more details email us on bookings.shamania@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

    Private Healing Session: Andean Energy Healing sessions with Diane Dunn : 7th to 10th March 2011
    Diane works with you to clear your energy fields, release blockages, identify problem areas
    and restore inner balance using techniques of the native Andean tradition of energy healing.
    Diane Dunn is offering very few private sessions and it is advised to book early
    Cost of private session: Rs. 3500/-   USD 75
     
    ShaMania Global New World Gathering 2011
    • A One day intensive conference that will align your energies to the energies of the emerging New World
    • 4 speakers through the day – Shamanic healers, Wisdom-keepers and New Paradigm thinkers, who will introduce, expand, explore and inspire 
    • Learn from their diverse wisdom as they share their knowledge from ancient teachings and messages from other dimensions
    • Meditations, ceremonies blessing the planet and interactive Q&A sessions
    • An exciting opportunity to converge and align with New World energies.
    • All workshop participants get 1 complimentary seat to attend this 1 day intensive


    Spiritualists and a growing faction of leading scientists and human life researchers agree that a Global SHIFT of Consciousness is occurring in the world today. The world on an individual and collective level is going through an incredible and unprecedented transformation. The human race is entering a phase of intense spiritual growth, expansion and advancement and so is Planet Earth.

    Interestingly, this process of ‘Ascension’ of the Earth and its human inhabitants coincides with prophecies traced back to the thousands of years old Mayan Calendar and predictions in the Vedic Sciences of the End of Time and the Beginning of a New Age. According to the website 2012 Rising, "One of the most interesting calendar coincidences in relation to the Mayan 2012 information, is the similarity between the start dates of the last long count cycle of the Mayan system and the Hindu’s Kali Yuga."

    The year 2012 has been foretold by many different traditions including the Taoists and the Hopis as a tipping point in time, marking an acceleration of global, planetary and individual changes and upheaval sReady or not, 2012 is just round the corner. We are now "On the Brink" as we walk through 2011, and we need all the support and help to understand the challenges of the Emerging New World and the gifts the future of our race and our planet holds for all of us.

    Lew Godfrey
    Green Harlow Productions