This is a really interesting and provocative article that weaves 
together many of the interests we have in BEST: anaerobic 
digestion, nutrient recycling, sustainable agriculture, aquatic 
plant utilization, etc.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0506/S00068.htm

ABSTRACT

Decades of an "environmental bubble economy" built on the 
over-exploitation of natural resources has accelerated global 
warming, environmental degradation, depletion of water and oil, 
and brought falling crop yields, precipitating a crisis in world 
food security with no prospects for improvement under the business 
as usual scenario.

There is, nevertheless, a wealth of knowledge for making our food 
system sustainable that not only can provide food security and 
health for all, but can also go a long way towards mitigating 
global warming by preventing greenhouse gas emissions and creating 
new carbon stocks and sinks.

One of the most important obstacles to implementing the existing 
knowledge is the dominant economic model of unrestrained, 
unbalanced growth that has already failed the reality test. I 
describe a highly productive integrated farming system based on 
maximising internal input to illustrate a theory of sustainable 
organic growth as alternative to the dominant model.




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Jason Evans
Ph.D. Candidate, Interdisciplinary Ecology
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
University of Florida
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