Forward The Evolution

A carbon negative  lifestyle is possible without returning to the cave…

If the law enabled people to move onto the land and implement a program of reforestation following permaculture edible forest garden principles. This way of growing can provide for their needs and create a positive closed loop system where carbon is taken out of the atmosphere, food is locally produced, clean carbon negative energy is also produced with charcoal/biochar as the co/product, fertility of the soil is increased by perennial polycropping and biochar amendment  sequestering carbon whilst addressing our needs.

All that we need is to take on the challenge to change a broken system which is in crisis and which is totally destroying us and the world we live in.

Planning laws enacted when no-one had heard of climate change and peak oil; that were passed when politicians thought that the fossil fuel derived chemical fertilisers of the green revolution meant that the condition of the soil was irrelevant.

We have NO TIME to waste maintaining blind rules born in a past when such catastrophic scenarios were unforeseen :

Damage to the environment is real and is becoming irreversible.

The argument boils down to planning law or the survival of our species!!! Can you think of anything more pressing than that?

Are we going to let something like planning law stop us from leading carbon negative lifestyles in an era when reducing consumption and removing co2 is the only answer?

How can we let the interest of archaic land use laws prevail on such a fundamental RIGHT ? It is our HUMAN RIGHT to live and not contribute blindly to the death of our species. We believe this can be achieved at the grass roots by people given the right incentive.  It’s imperative that we MUST stop this non sense NOW,and start working at saving our planet. Rampant consumption  is not going to stop resource depletion and carbon emissions, and this is suicidal.  We are not going to change if change means giving up everything we have got,  but this doesn’t have to be the case. If we get back on the land, which is all we have to work with and where we belong, and start from there by planting and nurturing forest gardens we will start a healing process which will enable yield more in terms of food, energy and materials whilst improving the condition of the land for future generations. Stop the emissions and conserve the planets finite resources. Look through the pages of this site for carbon negative alternatives, or carbon neutral ways of living. The solution is not that hard to achieve.

We can no longer  wait for the failing system to tell us what to do? What are their proposed solutions? When we run out of oil, they will start with the tar sands, which are even more detrimental to the environment. They have no answers on how to go about reversing the effects of climate change, they are merely accepting that climate change is happening, without proposing any viable solution. There is a solution which is workable, scalable and holistic: a carbon negative lifestyle, where our needs for energy can be satisfied while the biosphere thrives and grows, absorbing more and more CO2 in the process. Do we need to beg permission to get started ?

On each page of this site we’ll provide facts supported by links to the most credible sources, that prove that such a lifestyle is possible, is happening and does not equate to a life of hardship and renouncement, but actually the opposite. We will still have transport, we will still have warm, well lit houses, we will still have food on our table, we will still be using our computers and washing machines. There are working technologies out there which will allow us to do so without costing the earth, rather in a way that addresses the problem instead of exacerbating it. With the use of gasifiers, fueled by biomass, the more biochar/electricity we’ll produce and utilize, the more CO2 will be permanently sequestered from the atmosphere-and on top of that we will gain what this system of continual and growing imposed consumption has denied us: the time for each other and ourselves, to nurture our children, to provide for our needs, to look out for each other and to be empowered by growing our food and fuel around us, increasing biodiversity, enriching soil and building our own passively heated house, surrounded by the spectacle of nature.

Whether we welcome it or not, change is happening. It’s upon us. We cannot avoid it. Climate change, energy crises and food crises are going to affect us more and more with catastrophic consequences. Do we want change to hit us when we will no longer be able to do something about it, or do we want to start taking control over our lives and start adapting while we are still in time to do so???

..who else is going to do it? For the next generation it will be too late, and those in power have shown at Copenhagen that they CANNOT take action. More like a cop-out-hagen.

THE TIME IS NOW- I T ‘  S   I N   O U R   H A N D S!!!!

Our Aims and mission:

We need to develop  a model community/communities which, as much as possible are self sufficient, low impact and carbon negative,and whose main objective will be to reforest/replant, as we believe that this is the starting point to solve the problems facing humanity. Assisting the Earth to regenerate biomass, soils, water and nutrient capacities. Following permaculture principles, we will address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions whist providing a source of fuel, food and material for shelter which will allow people to create low impact homes, and small communities and to provide for their needs locally and organically. By creating forest gardens/polycultures to provide for our food supply, we will also work at increasing biodiversity, reducing carbon in the atmosphere,increasing carbon in the soil, at retaining more water in the soil and re establishing nature’s way of controlling the water cycle, at increasing the fertility of the soil and stopping soil erosion, and the list of endless benefits that intelligently replanting achieves goes on.

What’s more,   planting up will give us a surplus of the resources needed to create clean carbon negative energy, biomass being the fuel  which creates clean electricity and biochar/ charcoal. The role of biochar in reducing the level of carbon in the atmosphere is huge. By turning biomass into biochar in fact we permanently sequester carbon from the atmosphere and are left with a potent ingredient to replenish the soil. It has been proven that digging charcoal into the soil enriches it and hugely improves growth rates, overall yield and soil life/health, thus feeding into a positive cycle of aiding the regrowth of trees and plants on which a low impact system relies.

Research shows biochar can also be beneficial for the production of carbon negative energy(“Bioenergy with biochar carbon storage facilitates the generation of carbon-negative energy” UN) .  Biochar is produced by cooking biomass in a machine called a gasifier in a zero/low oxygen environment, simultaneously producing syngas  through a process known as pyrolysis/gasification. Gasification is a very efficient way of extracting energy from plants whilst permanently sequestering carbon from the atmosphere (up to 85% efficiencies at the moment) . The syngas co-product is then transformed into electricity via a gas turbine engine and alternator into electricity. This is 240 v AC carbon negative electricity with which we can keep our computers and washing machines running and charge up the electric car.