Ecology + Economy = Sustainability

We did not inherit the planet and all its life from our parents...

Ecology + Economy = Sustainability

We did not inherit the planet and all its life from our parents - but we borrowed it from our children!
WE all want to make some money but we must not make it by harming our planet. We have a responsibility to try our best to keep this world of ours going - and it is under threat more than anyone wanted to believe me already in 2003. This is when I started my campaign trying to wake up Municipalities, Government Dept. etc. - all here in South Africa - to undertake or let us do the jobs for them - I can and I will explain a bit further down - to save and/or reconvert as much food producing land, polluted water, effluent, sewage sludge, organic material so that we can still feed at least a part of the people when global warming hits hardest.
I started with this task in 1993 seeing what the chemicals are doing to our soils, rivers, dams, lakes and wet lands. Seeing how the soils became and still become deprived of their natural soil fertility and water retention capacity - due to the chemicals destroying the most important component - the soil microbial life forms; seeing how deserts grow; knowing about the pollution of our rivers etc. This is a direct result of non organic substances (which cannot be broken down by the self cleansing powers of the water) - these nutrients feed the algae which again deprive the water of oxygen - which increases even more pollution etc. etc.
Global Warming and the slight move of our magnetic poles has changed weather patterns dramatically Some areas drown in water others get no rain anymore and turn into deserts like the Western Cape and the Free State in South Africa - to give just one example. I could now go on and on giving all the details but let me rather go to the subjects most to my heart:

I am taking South Africa as an example but of course same happens in many countries and the solutions can be taken there:

Due to global warming - and there is no doubt that we the humans are mainly at fault even though the planet is going into a warming phase as happened before but we with our treatment of the planet are hugely accelerating the whole process - more millions of people will be starving (famine will be wide spread, it started already in many countries - take e.g. Haiti where land erosion is so big that farmers have abandoned the land and now all food has to be imported - where violence, looting even killing of UN officials has happened) - we have to win the land back and we can do it. How? There are always a few microbes left in the soil - with simple inexpensive matters we can accelerate their multiplication (you must leave all old organic matter and dead root stocks on the land), the break down the organic matter, due to their activity get oxygen back into the soil - new humus begins to form - humus means soil fertility, water retention capacity and we can start growing again.

Plants that we grow need to be strong and more resistant to pests - a plant growing in a good soil is strong as it now can again spread its roots and assimilate minerals, vitamins and with a little help of a natural product (100 - 250 g needed per ha) we can strengthen these plants even further. The two most important results will be: no need for chemicals anymore (these will soon become non-affordable anyway as they are derived from oil and that is becoming very short - see the petrol and diesel prices) and the second is that we need lesser food as it contains so much more nutrients. One scientist said that before the
‘chemical revolution’ two peaches were sufficient – but fruit from so called conventional farming we would need 53 of the same type of fruit – just imagine this. I always say we need now 3 times as much salad to get the same amount of nutrients etc. as we would get from more natural grown plants.
And we do not want GM food - if I eat a tomato I don’t want to have the genes of a deep sea fish in it – and I don’t want total plant life on earth be altered – nature made it perfect for us.

Compost
As more good living compost (and there I come in again with my expertise) is given to the soils as quicker will they re-generate – so we do two things – we give the soil as it is a boost as described above and we add this wonderful compost – in 3 - 4 years our soils are again what they once were – without the compost this might take 8 years.
This compost does not contain any pathogens, antibiotics and other diseases anymore, it does not attract flies and rodents, it smells like the best soil one can find in indigenes forests or similar. I always have the feeling that had I rheumatism or arthritis all I would have to do is to bury myself in this compost and it would heal me.

From what can we make compost?
From all organic matter including sewage sludge. Now, many of you will say – pooh, one can’t take human sludge. Wrong! Think back until not even 150 years ago there were no proper sewage pipes and plants – for thousands of years humans used their excretions
to fertilizer their lands – only when we became ‘so modern and knowledgeable’ became this ancient method a ‘no go’. Why? I guess it just became fashionable – but in many parts of the world human excretions are still used as fertilizers.
But – it is not without danger using raw manure or sludge or human excretions:
First – no matter from which living being the excretions come - they will burn the young plants, the fine hair roots (these are the ones which bring the nutrients, minerals and vitamins into the plant) and of course also the so very valuable soil microbes. Nowadays these manures mostly contain also antibiotics (in this country and many others antibiotics are still in use for all young pigs, calves, poultry etc. – they use them as growth hormones) f and other chemical residue which will then go into the soil, cause destruction there, to the plants which we and the animals eat a n d one of the biggest health problems worldwide is the growing immunity to antibiotics. Plus the terrible odors, the breeding of flies, the distribution of other diseases like the ascari eggs, swine fever, food and mouth disease and many typical human diseases - no, no it is dangerous to use raw manure. (Just imagine your mother would have given you from the day you were born antibiotics – you would be a type of a zombie now – living only from medication as your immune system was never allowed to develop properly)
But there is a solution and the greatest source of natural fertilizers – the proper composting of these manures. Proper means using windrows, turning them at regular intervals, using a compost additive that stimulates the break down of all these dangerous residues. All that will take you about 6 weeks – then you have the healthy fertilizing compost I mentioned above, the one you want to lay in to heal yourself and so it health the soil. That’s where I am the expert.

Liquid Fertilizer from manure dams
The problem waste of all pig and dairy farms are the manure dams filled with solids. And then they buy chemical fertilizers – see all the above – and contribute daily to global warming, depleting more and more our oil resources, paying ever increasing prices for these fertilizers and thus their revenue is shrinking as there must be a limit to what the markets can charge the people for their food. This can end up in farmers closing down and what then? I will show you how to turn this around – we use the manure and turn it into a homogenous, aerobe (everything we do is aerobe) liquid fertilizer of highest quality – you can spray also over your plants, it is good for them.


Husbandry Where does all the medication come from that the farmers have to give to their animals – from the chemical industry(with very few exceptions). And these medications are quite expensive and the vets visit costs extra.
There is a healthier and much most cost effective way:
Ask me – I will send you the details but let me give you a bit of inside beforehand:
If you would have a natural inexpensive product that you would e.g. mix in the feed (50 - 70g/ton of fodder) and that product would a) cleans the intestines of unwanted bacteria, worms etc., b) thus increase the feed conversion, c) bring the metabolism to the best level,
d) enhance performance and appearance, e) enhance production and f) give stronger and healthier off spring – would you not do that? Of course you would because it is the cheapest and best way to keep, raise and produce happy and healthy animals, bring better eggs, milk and meat onto the market.
There is another important point: It is all natural, causes neither air nor ground- or surface water pollution - and when young piglets or calves suffer from diarrhea you will stop this in a few hours without having to use expensive (chemical) medication.

NOW THE WATERS – in capital letters because it is the most import commodity on our planet and also the most abused one. It is our life elexier – water is life and life is water

Did you know that 82% of our body consist of water or that only 2,6 % of all the water on earth is so-called sweet water of which about 78 % are fixed in ice. Of the available sweet water 8 million km3 are ground water, 126 000 km3 are lakes, 61 200 km3 are the moisture in the soils and 1 100 km3 are in rivers; 14 400 km3 are suspended as water vapour in the atmosphere. And we are now over 6 billion people on earth plus all the animals. In some regions of our earth water is most scarse and it is predicted that future wars will be about water.
We must stop wasting our precious sweet water.
How do we do that? Of course every household and every industry and farm needs to search for reducing water consumption – I could now talk about many ways of doing that but I want to concentrate on some really big and important issues of how we can save some our land from becoming unsuitable for agriculture because there is no water.
Water must be vital and full of oxygen – it must have no toxins in it and must be suitable for consumption.
For irrigation we do not need potable water – see 2)
For husbandy and the humans water must fulfill the required standards
1) One can make sure that rivers, dams and lakes become clean again and that without using chemicals, expensive filters, UV (is the worst anyway) or reverse osmosis (very expensive) – we can do that. That water will help everyone from households to farms and industry and not to forget for fish which we might want to eat.
2) For irrigation a water must be free of pathogens and be below the allowed maximum of heavy metals (just as compost) – but it can have nutrients in it – good for the plants and the soil. It does not have to be potable water. Compost is nutrients en mass. Here we can use all the effluent water from the sewage plants. We treat it that it fulfills the above needs, build pipe lines to the industry and farms and in new developments to the toilets – and with one big bang we save millions of km3 of sweet water and that for a fraction of the costs and totally environmentally safe. The water is then sold to the individual user who has a water meter on his outlet of the pipe line. An example: This pipe line runs along from farm to farm and there suddenly is a farmer who does not grow but has a pig, or dairy or poultry farm and he needs clean water for his animals – no problem – we install the necessary equipment onto his pipe line to the farm and provide him with the water he needs.
Important this equipment needs no external power, does not work with magnets, does not use filters or cartridges, is maintenance free and lasts for (according to experience) at least 20 years but we expect it to last much longer.
3) The water from wells and boreholes often contains high amounts of iron and is thus not really suitable fore consumption or irrigation. This can also be solved. The only must is that we get to the water before it is exposed to sun and air because then the iron oxidizes and we can do nothing anymore – except you buy in expensive filter which is also besides the costs for the equipment expensive in maintenance and labor.
4) Good groundwater can be bottled, especially mineral water. I am at present involved in creating the first energized hexagonal water in bottles. Are you already or would you like to participate in this market and have of know of good water – contact me.

I must stop now even though there would be a lot more to write. I hope you enjoy what you have read, get some worthwhile ideas from it and contact me for further info.

Yours Helga Dietrich

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