youtube.com— Gashaw Tahir returned to his birth country of Ethiopia to find the green hills that surrounded his home eroded and ruined due to deforestation.
Mar 17, 2010View in Crawl 4
I don't want to come off as Mr. grumpy, but what is to stop people from cutting the planted tree's. I mean that these are poor desperate people. Maybe educating people about their environment and alternative energy sources would help.
The whole point is the trees were providing moisture and climate zones that are required for healthy crops to grow. No trees on hills and valleys means winds will dessicate the soils and destroy them. It also means the surrounding soils dry out so the rivers stop flowing. When it rains the rivers flow too fast and destroy more lands washing away the top soils. Most people learn this stuff in grade 6 but hay....In high school you learn about soil erosion through winds stripping topsoils away - from lack of protection = trees.In University you learn how dry soils become acidic which kills plants or they become toxic when water finally penetrates them because the bacteria bloom and release far too much nutrient burning roots and again destroying crops. Wikipedia man..Healthy soils = healthy crops. Feed the soil, not the plant!
Looks like he has a plan! That bamboo is ready to harvest in ten years and all kinds of sustainable resource products can be made from it, just for one the Cutting boards made from bamboo plywood and end grain blocks. Use local labor and improve not just the environment, but the local economy also!
Bamboo has a much shorter turn around than even Pine, in ten years they can be harvesting the trees and with local labor turning out Sustainable products that they can sell world wide! you can make a lot of things out of Bamboo!
Just checked, Yep the Bamboo is native to the region! Looks like a good thing all the way around! Should do good things for the environment, economy and create jobs for the locals!
macbookformeMar 17, 2010
Love such an activism!
viol999Mar 18, 2010
I don't want to come off as Mr. grumpy, but what is to stop people from cutting the planted tree's. I mean that these are poor desperate people. Maybe educating people about their environment and alternative energy sources would help.
inactiveuserMar 18, 2010
The whole point is the trees were providing moisture and climate zones that are required for healthy crops to grow. No trees on hills and valleys means winds will dessicate the soils and destroy them. It also means the surrounding soils dry out so the rivers stop flowing. When it rains the rivers flow too fast and destroy more lands washing away the top soils. Most people learn this stuff in grade 6 but hay....In high school you learn about soil erosion through winds stripping topsoils away - from lack of protection = trees.In University you learn how dry soils become acidic which kills plants or they become toxic when water finally penetrates them because the bacteria bloom and release far too much nutrient burning roots and again destroying crops. Wikipedia man..Healthy soils = healthy crops. Feed the soil, not the plant!
x0rnMar 18, 2010
yea me too, now, with one million trees already there, we only need one million ropes
leopardsMar 18, 2010
Looks like he has a plan! That bamboo is ready to harvest in ten years and all kinds of sustainable resource products can be made from it, just for one the Cutting boards made from bamboo plywood and end grain blocks. Use local labor and improve not just the environment, but the local economy also!
leopardsMar 18, 2010
Bamboo has a much shorter turn around than even Pine, in ten years they can be harvesting the trees and with local labor turning out Sustainable products that they can sell world wide! you can make a lot of things out of Bamboo!
smanthacarterMar 19, 2010
Ethiopia - Bamboo to join country's export list<a class="user" href="http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?title=ethiopia_bamboo_to_join_country_s_export&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1" rel="nofollow">http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?title=ethiopia_ba ...</a>but I wonder if the trees they are planting are native to the region. If not I wonder how non native trees going to effect the environment? hopefully it will be only in a positive way.
leopardsMar 19, 2010
Just checked, Yep the Bamboo is native to the region! Looks like a good thing all the way around! Should do good things for the environment, economy and create jobs for the locals!