Sunday, November 9, 2014

Lets Get to work!!!



We are raising money to build a seed repository for my fledgling grassroots organization "Spreading Healing to the Aina and Her People." 

This organization has an all inclusive vision for healing the unwell by providing a peaceful place for them to spend their energy and time on healing while volunteering to cultivate a fledgling forest where all there has been is barren arid desert.

By nurturing these plants and carrying water to them in these remote environments we will provide a healthy and structured level of light exercise that is sensitive at all times to the needs of the individual.

The hub for this activity will be centered in serene plots of land where the cultivation of organic produce and fruits, alongside our baby trees, will be a sign for hope to those who wish to spread the life force of healing energy across the globe.

We are working on offering an educational set of programs to train people in these healing centers on a variety of healthy cooking, cleaning, and breathing habits to provide people with a way to free their bodies from the prisons we build around them in our minds.

While we heal our bodies and our minds we will work together to heal our planet.

The fantastic thing is for every 100.00 we raise we can sow approximately 1,792 of one our starter trees which is Ginkgo Biloba.

Another example of what 164.00 can do is plant aproximately 34,000 Douglas Fir trees!

(Price quotes found at www.sheffields.com click on the tree seeds link and type in the variety)

This organization will make massive progress as we pick up momentum that will hopefully carry our healing and planting message across the world.

Come check out our progress at:

ainahealing.blogspot.com
facebook.com/ainahealing


Thursday, May 8, 2014

The effects of deforestation simplified



   Living on the island of Kauai I had an incredible epiphany regarding the ecological challenges  we are facing as a human civilization.  I looked at a map of the globe and what I saw was stunning. Wherever a great ancient civilization existed it is surrounded by a desert.

http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/ancients.htm

     The Middle East (Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumeria, Persia) North Africa (Ancient Egypt) the Indian subcontinent (Ancient India), Mongolia and Northern China (Ancient China) Mexico (Ancient Aztec and Mayan).


     All of these civilizations clear cut the trees around them to sustain their life and build their cities. The result has been barren arid deserts.  Its not hard to put this together when you really look at our globe.


      Its not a coincidence that the most profitable and populous nations are all centered around the remaining green belts which we are consuming. This strategy is failing miserably and we are running out of water and fertile earth. There is only one way to reverse this: Replant what we took out.

(Olympic Rainforest off the Skokomish river north fork WA State)

    Trees have a versatile job that they accomplish in our ecosystem.  They cool the earth with their shade, shed their foliage and create rich loamy dirt as that foliage decomposes. All the while they hold the earth in place by sheltering it from the elements allowing moisture to collect underneath them. This in turn builds a reservoir of freshwater which we call groundwater.


      Once we cut the trees away the earth they created dries up and blows away. Then the silt and heavy elements settle at the bottom (sand), and the air becomes arid (dry) resulting in almost nonexistent rainfall.


Moisture literally attracts moisture. This photo above is of The Weeping wall (the crater in the center of Wai'Ale'Ale on Kauai which is 5.5 million years old) it is the wettest place on earth recieving over 9 feet of rain a year! The photo below is to show how the clouds are sucked into the crater (moisture atracting moisture).


The main goal of these tree planting projects is to bring the rain back to where it falls no more thus creating ample supplies of freshwater and vegatation. (I'll be discussing the planting strategies in later entries).


The basics behind my plan is to use our human ingenuity to rapidly cultivate and replant the forests we've cut down over the last 10,000 years. Since we have so thoroughly destroyed the ecosystems in these deserts we created we are going to have install new ones in their stead.


During the Devonian Period (about 419 million years ago to about 358 million years) life was just beginning on earth. There was no major animal or plant life to speak of. Over the 62 million year period nature slowly and beautifully crafted the lush and gorgeous ecosystems we enjoy to this day.


 We have destroyed 47% of that ecosystem and the rest will fall apart much faster due to the higher populations of tree destroying and consuming human
beings.

(The Sahara Desert from space)

Our advantages to rapidly reversing our current situation are vast since we still have a large amount of resources left intact. Nature took 62 million years building this from scratch but in the beginning of it seed bearing plants didn't even exist.

(Smoke rising from the Amazon Rainforest (seen from space) as it is burned down for cow pastures to provide humanity with cheap fast beef)

      Seeds are plentiful and there are many drought tolerant warriors that are heat and cold resistant. These plants and trees, while not necessarily "native" to these areas, will get the job done. By combining responsible water management and sustainable cultivation practices we can effectively and swiftly use the tools at our disposal to transform the deserts of our world into lush forests.

(Our project starting space from space... the big bend in Columbia river where it is brown is the Hanford reach)

Please get involved and support and participate in this effort. We are facing our own extinction if we keep trotting ignorantly down it. Change or your great grandchildren will be the last of our legacy.

Social media webpage links
www.facebook.com/ainahealing

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Mission Statement


To evolve into an international grassroots organization that effectively works to rapidly restore the planet to a Devonian period state of floral cover and reverse the harmful effects of human destruction in our ecosystem. Promoting sustainable designs that properly distribute resources, we will also establish healing centers that promote acupressure and various other healing techniques while expanding peoples knowledge of healthy and sustainable eating habits.
We will work to make certain future generations will grow up in a worldwide garden paradise that's bursting with fresh food and water. This will preserve the sanctity of our quality of life and ensure the survival of our species and many others.

A new start in a symbolic place


In the beginning of most massive movements of change it is generally a good idea to find a symbolic starting point. So its with great excitement that I am announcing Rattlesnake Mountain as the starting place for this tree planting revelation.

    This particular mountain has the distinction of being the tallest treeless mountain in the western hemisphere and is also located inside the troubled and infamous Hanford nuclear reservation.

 Now I want be clear early on that this programs intentions are not stuck on the futilistic goals of trying to restore native plants to the area, though it will try to work alongside them in many ways. The unfortunate fact remains that we are way past being able to restore ecosystems to there original state. The truth of the matter is we have already irreparably damaged our native ecosystems.



    What the goal of this program is is to plant trees and maintain them where there aren't any. In essence we are going to terraform our world into a lush garden oasis once again. Its like a reenactment of the Devonian period with humans as the driver of change.



As with most massive change I expect there to be resistance and that will probably come from a lot of good groups with good goals. Unless we start accomplishing a complete forestation of our planet we will likely perish. Its my goal not only to help nature along, to flourish beside it as a species, but to also move forward in our everday lives and rebalance what it means to be human.



(Links to relevant articles)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlesnake_Mountain,_Benton_County,_Washington

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

The Red Fern

Supposedly, the red fern according to Wikipedia has never been scientifically proven to exist. I stumbled upon one in Kauai the second day I was there I hiked a mountain called Sleeping Giant and found it gazing upon the gentle passing January rainstorms on the island. This was the start of an inspiring journey to topple the current system of mans operation on earth. Here marks the beginning of restoration of the original human destiny!