Comments on: Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon http://permaculture.org.au/2009/01/02/planting-trees-and-managing-soils-to-sequester-carbon/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Wed, 16 May 2012 18:44:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stephan Becker, Germany http://permaculture.org.au/2009/01/02/planting-trees-and-managing-soils-to-sequester-carbon/#comment-29085 Stephan Becker, Germany Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:39:13 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=958#comment-29085 I have to correct a date: It wasn't the 19th but the 20th century for Mr. van der Meulen. ;-) I have to correct a date: It wasn’t the 19th but the 20th century for Mr. van der Meulen. ;-)

]]> By: Stephan Becker, Germany http://permaculture.org.au/2009/01/02/planting-trees-and-managing-soils-to-sequester-carbon/#comment-29084 Stephan Becker, Germany Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:34:14 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=958#comment-29084 Hi, i've read your article about the discussion if it is good to use exotic plants for saving the planet. I like the view that banning plants is a form of racism. Two years ago i discovered some articles about a very special plant called kudzu (e.g. in USA it is mostly called a very aggressive weed, nickname "biological dynamite" or "mile-a-minute-vine", because it is growing like something ). It's a leguminous plant, it's leaves are very good fodder for all kind of livestock and it's a evergreen. That would be the right "weapon" for the "Green invasion" (better then the "Green Revolution", which it wasn't). But i don't know how authoritys would react if someone wants to import these plant. Then i read something of Centrosema molle (earlier: pubescens), also a leguminous plant, which can store humidity out of the air in the soil beneath. It was an article in german (describing an discovery in Indonesia in the first half of the 19th century) about a dutch botanist (?), G. F. van der Meulen, who described how to restore the rain forest after deforestation. For me the real danger isn't the CO2 (vapor contributes about 70-80% to the greenhous effect) but the deforestation, because of the disappearing cooling effect of the vanishing rain forests along the equator. I'm already very keen on your DVD about Basics of Permaculture. Thank you for your work! Hi,
i’ve read your article about the discussion if it is good to use exotic plants for saving the planet. I like the view that banning plants is a form of racism.
Two years ago i discovered some articles about a very special plant called kudzu (e.g. in USA it is mostly called a very aggressive weed, nickname “biological dynamite” or “mile-a-minute-vine”, because it is growing like something ). It’s a leguminous plant, it’s leaves are very good fodder for all kind of livestock and it’s a evergreen. That would be the right “weapon” for the “Green invasion” (better then the “Green Revolution”, which it wasn’t).
But i don’t know how authoritys would react if someone wants to import these plant.
Then i read something of Centrosema molle (earlier: pubescens), also a leguminous plant, which can store humidity out of the air in the soil beneath. It was an article in german (describing an discovery in Indonesia in the first half of the 19th century) about a dutch botanist (?), G. F. van der Meulen, who described how to restore the rain forest after deforestation.
For me the real danger isn’t the CO2 (vapor contributes about 70-80% to the greenhous effect) but the deforestation, because of the disappearing cooling effect of the vanishing rain forests along the equator.

I’m already very keen on your DVD about Basics of Permaculture.

Thank you for your work!

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