Pamela Melcher
Happiness, Health, Peace and Abundance for All.
I'm offering weekend permaculture courses in the SF Bay area. Info (and more) at http://patternliteracy.com
Bob Dobbs wrote:I do know that spiderwort flowers change colors in response to radiation.
Pamela Melcher
Happiness, Health, Peace and Abundance for All.
Pamela Melcher
Happiness, Health, Peace and Abundance for All.
Pamela Melcher
Happiness, Health, Peace and Abundance for All.
Certifiable food forest gardener, free gardening advice offered and accepted. Permaculture is the intersection of environmentalsim and agriculture.
Nick Garbarino wrote:Watching TV, medical tests like X-rays, etc, and air travel also increase radiation exposure. The Fukushima problem is not a threat to the continental U.S. Don't worry, be happy.
Certifiable food forest gardener, free gardening advice offered and accepted. Permaculture is the intersection of environmentalsim and agriculture.
Nick Garbarino wrote:we can't afford to pay 3-4 times more for electricity than we pay now.
Idle dreamer
Roxanne ...AKA Wilde Hilde
"Ensnar'd in flowers, I fall in the grass."-Marvell
Roxanne Sterling-Falkenstein wrote:
It's true we cannot all move to the woods, but we can all use a whole lot less, limit our family sizes ( an unpopular idea to some) and plant a whole lot more where EVER you are.
Idle dreamer
Elaine Alexander wrote:Hi. I was looking at this forum and remembered something relevant I had come across recently.
I found it again. It's from the "Humanure Handbook" By Joseph Jenkins. An amazing,revolutionary and enjoyable book!
From Page 57:
" An Austrian farmer claims that the microorganisms he introduces into his fields have prevented his crops from being contaminated by the radiation from Chernobyl, the ill-fated Russian nuclear power plant, which contaminated his neighbors fields. Sigfried Lubke sprays his green manure crops with compost-type microorganisms just before plowing them under. This practice has produced a soil rich in humus and teeming with microscopic life. After the Chernobyl disaster, crops from fields in Lubke's farming area where banned from sale due to high amounts of radioactive cesium contamination. However, when officials tested Lubke's crops, no trace of cesium could be found. The officials made repeated tests because they couldn't believe that one farm showed no radioactive contamination while the surrounding farms did. Lubke surmises that the humus just "ate up" the cesium."
Referenced from an article in Acres USA, December 1989 page 20. "All things considered in the wake of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident".
Grow your soils!!!
circles, cycles, phases, and stages
Pamela Melcher
Happiness, Health, Peace and Abundance for All.
Pamela Melcher
Happiness, Health, Peace and Abundance for All.
"If we use our minds in a clear coherent manner, we will not accept the unacceptable."
~John Trudell
Elaine Alexander wrote:Hi. I was looking at this forum and remembered something relevant I had come across recently.
I found it again. It's from the "Humanure Handbook" By Joseph Jenkins. An amazing,revolutionary and enjoyable book!
From Page 57:
" An Austrian farmer claims that the microorganisms he introduces into his fields have prevented his crops from being contaminated by the radiation from Chernobyl, the ill-fated Russian nuclear power plant, which contaminated his neighbors fields. Sigfried Lubke sprays his green manure crops with compost-type microorganisms just before plowing them under. This practice has produced a soil rich in humus and teeming with microscopic life. After the Chernobyl disaster, crops from fields in Lubke's farming area where banned from sale due to high amounts of radioactive cesium contamination. However, when officials tested Lubke's crops, no trace of cesium could be found. The officials made repeated tests because they couldn't believe that one farm showed no radioactive contamination while the surrounding farms did. Lubke surmises that the humus just "ate up" the cesium."
Referenced from an article in Acres USA, December 1989 page 20. "All things considered in the wake of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident".
Grow your soils!!!
yukkuri kame wrote:If I remember correctly, the half life of tritium is 12 years. It is indeed a nasty radionuclide, as it is so small (h3) it is near impossible to filter and it moves through human membranes very easily.
Creighton Samuiels wrote:
yukkuri kame wrote:If I remember correctly, the half life of tritium is 12 years. It is indeed a nasty radionuclide, as it is so small (h3) it is near impossible to filter and it moves through human membranes very easily.
I got that from here....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Health_risks
yukkuri kame wrote:
Tritium's half life is a little over 12 years, so the tritium from Fukushima will be with us in the environment for 100 years, though any tritium we ingest, inhale or absorb through skin will mostly be gone in a few months.
John Elliott wrote:
The biological half-life of tritium is much less than "a few months". The standard treatment for a tritium uptake where I used to work (this is hearsay, because I personally never had an exposure) was to go home and drink many beers for a few days. The diuretic action of the beer was enough to flush the tritium out of the system.
John Elliott wrote:
yukkuri kame wrote:
Tritium's half life is a little over 12 years, so the tritium from Fukushima will be with us in the environment for 100 years, though any tritium we ingest, inhale or absorb through skin will mostly be gone in a few months.
The biological half-life of tritium is much less than "a few months". The standard treatment for a tritium uptake where I used to work (this is hearsay, because I personally never had an exposure) was to go home and drink many beers for a few days. The diuretic action of the beer was enough to flush the tritium out of the system.
Oh the stink of it! Smell my tiny ad!
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