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A [[transition town]] group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow. | A [[transition town]] group that searches and manages vagrant urban zones that for some reason have been left to fallow. | ||
- | We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects. see: http:// | + | We go around by bike and we scrutinize google.earth for local outburst of weed, crypto-forests and other potential climax vegetational rejects |
- | http:// | + | We are in Utrecht, the Netherlands, |
- | Our manifesto is called "Fight the Google-Jugend", | ||
- | We will hook-up with the local TT people | + | http:// |
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- | Nomadic people, contrary to popular misconception, | + | |
- | TT Nomad cultivates metaphors | + | Nomadic people do not roam free. The Yanomami, the Waorani, the kayapo, to randomly name three former nomadic tribes, are not surrealists navigators, they are not tossing a coin at every turn to decide where to go next. Trails are not desire paths, they are not deviations into the unknown, they are not inconsequentel. It is the duty of the nomad to walk the paths that are their ' |
- | The rainforest is the wildest of wildernesses. But of course, being the end-stage of ecological succession, the rainforest is not the most wild but the most ordered | + | TT Nomad cultivates metaphors not gardens, we add pressure to self-willed ecosystems no matter how small. [[forest gardening]] is perhaps a misleading term; gardening is a buzz word, a artistic fashion that underestimates |
+ | The rainforest, according to cliche, is the wildest of all possible wildernesses. But of course, being the end-stage of ecological succession, the rainforest is not the most wild but the most ordered and crystallized of all possible ecosystems, self-sustaining and self-perpeptuating: | ||
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The Effects of deforestation (of the Amazon and all other (rain)forests that remain) are of direct consequence to every place on earth. Loss of biodiversity is tragic for many reasons but it is a local event, global warming however is a global event and deforestation is one of it's most important components. Not because the Amazon are the lungs of the world (a persistent myth, the Amazon is carbon neutral) but because deforestation releases a staggering amount of CO2: in 24 hours deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. The most amazing thing is about the speed of deforestation worldwide is that there are still rainforests at all. The rate of deforestation in Brazil has risen for at least the last decade. 2009, due to the economic low is the only exception. We are live, in a sense, in the Amazon, just as we all, in a sense, live on the North-Pole. Rain forest protection is not just about short-term benefits; rainforests are millions of years old, trees are strangers from a different world, and a clear cut area may take 10.000 years to regrow. And that is an optimistic estimate. | The Effects of deforestation (of the Amazon and all other (rain)forests that remain) are of direct consequence to every place on earth. Loss of biodiversity is tragic for many reasons but it is a local event, global warming however is a global event and deforestation is one of it's most important components. Not because the Amazon are the lungs of the world (a persistent myth, the Amazon is carbon neutral) but because deforestation releases a staggering amount of CO2: in 24 hours deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. The most amazing thing is about the speed of deforestation worldwide is that there are still rainforests at all. The rate of deforestation in Brazil has risen for at least the last decade. 2009, due to the economic low is the only exception. We are live, in a sense, in the Amazon, just as we all, in a sense, live on the North-Pole. Rain forest protection is not just about short-term benefits; rainforests are millions of years old, trees are strangers from a different world, and a clear cut area may take 10.000 years to regrow. And that is an optimistic estimate. |