Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable

Re:Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also p... by hosh on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:36PM (#23797380)

I know what you mean by "Luddite", but historically, they were not anti-tech either. They broke machines to gain leverage and put pressure over employers to give better working conditions, and not because they hated machines.

There are many design patterns in regenerative agriculture that works, but are low-tech or no-tech. It isn't that you need to be anti-tech; it is that we don't need high tech to solve these problems. They are low-tech because you are allowing natural processes to do things on its own, for the most part. Nature, not technology, is the "automation".

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Re:Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also p... by minerjoe on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:36PM (#23798285)

"Appropriate technology"

https://www.appropedia.org

I believe we are of similar understanding here. Great to read your responses here. Here's to the wish that we could share a conversation at some point. Trade notes.

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Re:Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also p... by hosh on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:28AM (#23800293)

Send me an email sometime (talktohosh at gmail). This stuff I am deep diving —- permaculture design —- is still fairly new to me. But I had started to reevaluate the existing tech in my life in the context of the main ethical principles of permaculture (care of earth, care of people, fair share).

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