Archive for 07, 2009

The making of seedballs

29/07/2009

A very informative video about the making of seedballs and how to apply them on degraded lands. The method used has been developed and described by Masanobu Fukuoka.

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Tree-Seeds and the Art of Packaging

19/07/2009

It is simply astonishing how much a tree cares for his own seeds. Trees are Masters in packaging. Have you ever looked at the seed capsule’s shapes, shades and textures? Have you examined the strength of the materials trees fabricate for the exclusive purpose of packaging their seeds? And every tree has an own design [...]

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A forest in the box

14/07/2009

Have you ever reflected how a massiv tree can fit into a small seed or pod? This is miraculous! Some seeds are feather light – they weigh a fraction of a gram only and yet they bear the blueprint for a future tree which weighs tens of tons!
Manasvi went on a Tour to northern India [...]

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Tree-education at school: a letter

12/07/2009

A letter received by Earth Re-foresting System (Translated from Marathi by Namito)
To Earth Re-foresting System
In our School we have around 500 Students from Standard 5 to 10, We want to educate our students about trees, environment and nature besides elementary school hands on, hence we are happy to start the 1 student: 1 tree [...]

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Hello world!

2/07/2009

Yes, that’s correct: the title reads hello world! which might be somewhat opposed to the bleak statements of the predictors of global goodbye. We insist on greeting the world and the planet and give kudos to our mother earth for being so patient with her children that now finally come of age. Although we often [...]

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