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Vortex Leopold : soil, water, air, flora, fauna, geneosphere

click ►▼, links, and ••• — January 7, 2012, 5 pm Denver

 
explorersfoundation.org/leopold.html — a vortex is a region of Explorers Foundation research and investment.
 
Changes:
07Dec12: link to work of W. C. Lowdermilk •••

Conquest of the Land through Seven Thousand Years, by W. C. Lowdermilk ••• — What has happened to the soils of our planet, how, who, and why. Thanks to Jim McNelly of Renewable Carbon Management •••. Jim has figured out what it takes to rebuild soils on a massive scale by making use of the network of intermodal shipping terminals and their millions of containers, and he has started doing it.
 
“Bio-conversion”, Jim McNelly, 1996 •••

Regenex Management Group ••• — water, especially in Colorado and California

Sand County Foundation •••


 
Enduring Seeds, by Gary Paul Nabhan — on the need biological diversity
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1453.htm
Enduring Seeds
Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
Gary Paul Nabhan — all Nablan's University of Arizona books
225 pp. / 6.0 x 9.0 / 2002
Paper (978-0-8165-2259-0)

Seed Savers Exchange


Notes — Louis Bromfield; John Burroughs, Henry Ford
Henry Ford gave John Burroughs an early model-T. They became good friends. See The Wild Wheel, a biography of Ford by Garet Garrett.
Louis Bromfield (1896-1956), Malabar Farm (1948), Pleasant Valley (1945)
Deborah Fleming, Ashland University, wrote:

Louis Bromfield (1896-1956) produced at least two books which should be included n the canon of environmental writing and place him among the ranks of notable literary environmentalists — Pleasant Valley (1945) and Malabar Farm (1948). These books, as well as five other nonfiction works on sustainable agriculture and ecology, deserve to be placed in the literary tradition of Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. Bromfield himself should be considered to be a forerunner of the philosophies of Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, and Wes Jackson. Bromfield's great success at popular fiction has caused him to be slighted not only by literary critics but also by environmentalist scholars; however, several recent critics have asserted that his fiction—much of which is concerned with environmental themes such as encroaching industrialism, despoilation of nature, and alienation of people from the land—as well as his nonfiction, should be reassessed. Placing him in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson, they believe that he has made a substantial contribution to the American literary canon.
The above was taken from: http://oae.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/3/309 — 27 Dec 08
Glyphs related to this vortex
Our investments related to this vortex
Dec 2007: Seed Savers Exchange: Cobden-Bright Award of $250.
Dec 2007: Sand County Foundation: Cobden-Bright Award of $250.
History and Participants

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