Tear Aid Australia

4 days ago

Change starts with the individual…. revolution lives in your own back yard….

Food waste is an often overlooked driver of climate change. Every year approximately one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is going to waste.

That’s almost 1.3 billion tonnes.

In Australia, the emissions of CO2 and Methane from food waste accounts for more than the steel and iron ore industries combined, about 8%.

When food scraps are set to the dump with other general waste, it often ends up anaerobically rotting and producing the unwanted biproducts of the emissions.

When the food scraps are used correctly in a compost, the emissions are retained and turned back to humus rich soil, turning it back to a valuable resource.

Therefore, composting is so important, it’s the most sustainable way for you to create your own fertiliser while getting your own backyard garden pumping.

The compost sequesters carbon from the atmosphere and returns it to the earth through the process of humification.

Permaculture is a framework that we can use to make equitable decisions for a better world. These principles can be used to guide the way that we run our homes, our businesses, the way that we educate our kids, even the way that we run our countries. We need to consider the implications of what this could look like in a completely self-sustaining community which utilises the principles of a sharing economy, or ‘closed loops’ to reduce its waste. By integrating these systems into the way that we interact with the outside world, we can become more self-sufficient. Which means that we can reduce the amount of resources that we need to consume from ‘outside the system’.

Once the energy comes into our community, in the form of money, we can share that energy around and recycle it by making sure that that money stays within that community.

This is where our quiet, and peaceful revolution begins.

Permaculture and closed loop economies offer one of the only viable solutions for creating the greatest amount of change as an individual.

Remember, revolution lives in your own back yard.

Definitions..
*Anaerobic bacteria are bacteria that live without oxygen.

*Compost is solid organic waste that is broken down by microorganisms, in the presence of oxygen.

*Humus is the organic component of soil, formed by the decomposition of leaves and other plant material by soil microorganisms.

*Humification is a process of formation of humic substances (organic matter that has reached maturity) decomposed from plant remains.

*Sequestering is the process of removing a chemical from the environment.

*Revolution is a sudden, or great change.

*Permaculture is a set of design principles centred on whole systems thinking, simulating, or directly utilising the patterns and resilient features observed in natural ecosystems.

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