POLITICAL : 4 Simple, Natural Solutions to Oil Spill Cleanup - Using the Power of Nature to Reclaim Its Own

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Some hopeful news - 4 proposed natural solutions regarding the Gulf oil-spill.

Enjoy,

Draper

From:

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Four Natural Solutions to Oil Spill Cleanup with Benefits to Other Areas Needing

Pollution Cleanup

There are at least four simple, natural methods capable of oil spill cleanup

that are able to prevent further damage to our precious

ecology. When combined, they offer a powerful solution to not only the oil spill

cleanup, but also to the 8,500 square miles of Dead

Zone Area at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico - caused

by the other form of pollution in that area -

chemical farmland runoff from all along the Mississippi River that has killed a

vast amount of the sea life in that region.

Dead Zones in the Gulf of Mexico and Around the World

There are at least 405 Dead Zones worldwide in bodies of water where oxygen

levels get too low to sustain marine life. Dead zones

are largely caused by chemical nitrate fertilizers used by farmers and home

gardeners along with animal and human sewage disposal

sent into our waterways. Excessive nitrogen causes an algal bloom that uses up

available oxygen in the water, vastly reducing marine

life populations in the region.

Dead Zone Reversal

Quoting from the research listed in Wikipedia

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" Dead zones are reversible. The Black Sea dead zone, previously the largest dead

zone in the world, largely disappeared between 1991

and 2001 after fertilizers became too costly to use following the collapse of

the Soviet Union and the demise of centrally planned

economies in Eastern and Central Europe . Fishing has again become a major

economic activity in the region. "

1) Environmentally Conscious Farm and Garden Practices

So clearly, replacing the use of chemical fertilizers with natural fertilizers

is essential to improving marine life in these dead

zones and reducing pollution worldwide.

On the other hand, immediate stop-gap measures include adding Pyrophyllite Clay

(Silica Rich) to farmland soils, lakes, and in the

waterways themselves, to prevent the toxic runoff from reaching the major rivers

that lead to the ocean.

2) Oil Eating Microbes (Archaea)

This is the simplest and most effective remedy. The oil eating capabilities of

various strains of archaea can clean both your soils

and waterways from a wide variety of toxins, including oil spills of any size.

The United Nations Environmental Program tests have

even demonstrated the natural ability of archaea strains to clean up some of the

worst toxins of the chemical industry. Other

benefits? The dead zones of the world would also disappear.

3) Stamets' Mushroom

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Oil Spills

The Mushroom Solution link takes you to a world authority on mushrooms and their

ability to help us clean up our environment. In the

middle of the TED video (located toward the bottom of the article), you will see

a picture of a small mountain of mushrooms that

grew off of a combination of petrochemicals, drastically reducing its petroleum

count, while building the beginnings of a dynamic

ecosystem.

4) Hey, What About Hay?

Here is a revealing, simple approach from the practical side of farmers. This

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in the ocean will attract the oil to itself (remember, oil and water don't mix,

but hay and oil become a bonded pair), and continue

to float on the surface until large seaweed harvesters come by and pick it up.

It can then be delivered to a future forest,

inoculated with mycelia from mushrooms which would feed off of the oil and

convert it to food. The resulting biomass will pick up

some of the diverse flora and fauna of the region as seeds are delivered to the

pile by the local birds and animals. Trees can be

planted nearby, and based on known evidence, one of the most lush forest areas

in the state will soon follow.