Here he is again, is the picture still clear as mud? Hint: No that is not a Taliban beard.
Below is one of their research projects.
Still, no?
Come on now, I am quite sure everyone knows what a plant root looks like, now don't you?
The Land Institute is one of those dedicated organizations to prevent crop collapse when no one ever cares about it. The Land Institute has dedicated itself to finding species that would sustain drought. It is easy to say they are way ahead of everyone else.
In case no one guessed, the Perennial Wheat Grass is on the right in this picture. The long beard like structure extending to the bottom of the cloth is it's root structure. That long root structure out performs annual wheat in a million different ways, but, besides production there is being drought proof while it prevents soil erosion.
I am not the only fan Wes Jackson has, recently Thomas Friedman found him very interesting company on a trip to the MidEast.
Ah, the Climate Crisis and the Arab Spring.
August 13, 2013
Thomas Friedman: The parallels to be drawn between prairie, al-Qaeda (click here)
I’ve spent the last few months
filming a Showtime documentary about how climate and environmental
stresses helped trigger the Arab awakening. It’s been a fascinating
journey because it forced me to look at the Middle East through the lens
of Arab environmentalists instead of politicians.
When you do that, you see the problems and solutions very differently. Environmentalists always start by thinking about the health of the “commons” — the shared air, soil, forests and water — that are the basis of all life and which, if not preserved, will undermine the whole society. The notion that securing the interests of any single group — Shiite or Sunni, Christian or Muslim, secular or Islamist — over the health of the commons is nuts to them. It’s as laughable as pictures of gun-toting fighters strutting on the rubble of broken buildings in Aleppo or Benghazi, claiming “victory,” only to discover that they’ve “won” a country with eroding soil, degrading forests, scarce water, shrinking jobs — a deteriorating commons.
Our film crew came to look at the connection between the drought in Kansas and the rise in global food prices that helped to fuel the Arab uprisings. But I stumbled upon another powerful environmental insight here: the parallel between how fossil fuels are being used to power monoculture farms in the Middle West and how fossil fuels are being used to power wars to create monoculture societies in the Middle East. And why both are really unhealthy for their commons....
When you do that, you see the problems and solutions very differently. Environmentalists always start by thinking about the health of the “commons” — the shared air, soil, forests and water — that are the basis of all life and which, if not preserved, will undermine the whole society. The notion that securing the interests of any single group — Shiite or Sunni, Christian or Muslim, secular or Islamist — over the health of the commons is nuts to them. It’s as laughable as pictures of gun-toting fighters strutting on the rubble of broken buildings in Aleppo or Benghazi, claiming “victory,” only to discover that they’ve “won” a country with eroding soil, degrading forests, scarce water, shrinking jobs — a deteriorating commons.
Our film crew came to look at the connection between the drought in Kansas and the rise in global food prices that helped to fuel the Arab uprisings. But I stumbled upon another powerful environmental insight here: the parallel between how fossil fuels are being used to power monoculture farms in the Middle West and how fossil fuels are being used to power wars to create monoculture societies in the Middle East. And why both are really unhealthy for their commons....
