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Z Plant Rights
Has every grass blade
a kind world laid
And the Leaves
in compassion believe
Because they want
no tornados
they have decided not to mow
Because they want no hurricanes
they do not burn the sugar cane
Because they want
no rood of flood
they leave alone
the greening blood
*****
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last revised May 18, 2003
29 WAYS TO HELP TREES
50 REASONS NOT TO MOW
RETURN RAIN TO DROUGHT AREAS.. PREVENT TORNADO
AND HURRICANE, DROUGHT, FLOOD AND FAMINE PLANT TREES
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres
http://groups.msn.com/stopmowing
Why is the area of most heat and light, the
equator, only 70 degrees in equatorial rainforest and 130 degrees in
temperate zone desert? Trillions of Trees. Trees as nature's weather
stabilizers, trees, accounting for a 60 degree difference between
rainforest on the equator and temperate zone desert, have been felled
at an unprecedented rate. Harming trees causes fire, flood, famine,
tornado and hurricane. 29 ways to help trees:
1. plant trees Work for city, state, country and UN tree planting
http://www.freetree.org 2. stop mowing http://www.epa.gov/greenacres
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow/266 http://www.nrdc.org
These websites have files on not mowing
3. eat tree products.. fruits and nuts.. say yes to orchard growers
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
4. build with stone stucco brick and block not wood. You will a.
prevent termite destruction nonviolently, b save the $,
time, and environmental damage of paint, c have natural insulation
with its energy savings, d. prevent rotting wood
e. have better insulation in summer & winter f. end the
disease related to living near the mold from rotting wood g.
reduce the arsenic in the watersystems, flowing in from pressed
wood factories and h. have increasing rather than decreasing equity
in your home. Use natural barriers such as bushes, or chain link,
rather than wood fencing. http://www.greenpeaceusa.org
5. cancel daily newspaper..and magazines and newsletters printed
on felled trees, as 72% of the young have get your news on the web
http://www.protest.net Daily newspapers account for trillions of
trees slaughtered annually and most promote anti environment
corporations.
6. Print on cotton, recycled or scrap paper in downloading
7. Use a water spray instead of toilet paper
8. Buy food naturally packaged.. nuts in nut shells,bananas in
peels.. buy in bulk. Fruit is nature's most perfectly packaged food.
How many trees go into cereal boxes
http://www.goveg.com/meetmeat.html
9. Use canvas bags for shopping.. neither plastic nor paper
http://www.sierraclub.org
10. Stop eating meat, since cutting forests for cattle
grazing is a major cause of deforestation.. Animal flesh
yields a maximum of 1000 lbs an acre. Tri level agriculture (fruit
trees, vines and fruit bearing plants) yields over 450,000 lbs. per
acre.) Meat's trioxypurine is more addictive than caffein's
dioxypurine.
11. Work for peace.. work for an end to giving 10 million a day
to violent governments, for the outlawing of membership on arms
merchant boards by government officials (Lynne Cheney on the
board of Lockheed which wants to keep a 70 billion dollar plane
contract) and elsewhere radically affecting weather patterns
.. work for an end to CIA, Army and other weather
manipulation. In 1972 Seymour Hersh reported in the NY Times
the CIA's attempts through cloud seeding to cause flooding in
N Vietnam. http://www.peta.net/feat/military
12. Save fruit seeds and scatter them in wild places
http://www.ran.org The average evaporation of mature trees is 42
gallons a day..which becomes mist, then clouds, and then rain,
eliminating drought.
13. Buy books and greeting cards published on cotton, rice, or other
nontree paper.
14. Purchase furniture which is used and refurbish it
or buy metal furniture with cotton padding. There are many nontree
furniture options. The furniture, lumber, and construction businesses
have lobbied for the cutting down of US forests, whereas the UK, some
cities in Maryland and California require a permit to cut down
old trees.
15. Vote out earth abusers.. Vote out the GOP which sometimes
receives 10 times the political contributions from earth abusers
that any other party receives. Vote in
Democrats or Greens or Libertarians depending on the situation
http://www.truthout.org
http://www.greens.org http://www.democrats.org (in some instances)
16. Avoid fast food places which deforest for their
packaging and create litter which fills dumpsites and requires
labor pickup http://www.vegdining.com http://www.mccruelty.com
17. visualize sun and green trees everywhere
18. pray
19. Outlaw junk mail (as telemarketers have been). File a form with
the main post office in your area. Return to sender. The GOP & junk
mailers are requiring you to subsidize their treekilling and
invasive practices as your postal rates go from 34 cents to
37 cents, an 8.1 cent inflation rate.
20. Recycle cardboard cartons at commerical establishments. Recycle
your own scrap paper.
21. Replace the purchase of dead Christmas trees which
cause many fires annually.. with artificial trees.. or
living ones planted each year in the year. Oregon is the biggest
Christmas tree killer with 7 billion a year in slaughter sales.
22. Save seeds of trees, vines, bushes, plants and
scatter them where mowing does not occur
23. Ban the cutting of trees entirely as Thailand has
down.(The United Kingdom has banned the cutting of trees
after they reach a certain width.. while Takoma Park Maryland in
the US and other cities have required a permit to cut older
trees. The United States is still a land of skinny trees, because
of present control of the Forest Svc. and National Park Service
by lumber mining oil and cattle interests) In Mumbai elephants
are threatened by logging, as well as by poaching and war.
24. Stop through lawsuits, networking etc. the 'controlled fires'
deliberately set by the US Park
Service and the Forest Svc... fires which often are made more lethal
by the unpredictable wind.. fires which at their best destroy
trees, animals, insects.
25. Work for workplace, home, library and other printouts
on cotton, recycled, or the back sides of already printed paper.
26. stop the control of national and state executive branch,
legislatures and courts by corporate contractors
27. network with other environmentalists
28. Disinvest mutual funds, pension funds from earth abusing
corporations such as Georgia Pacific and other tree killers.
29. Replace paper towels with washed cotton rags.
Father Mother God make the earth warm where it is cold
and cool it down in Indian areas in which it is too
hot. Make earth weather gentle and nonviolent now and forever.
Cause all to obey Your commands not to kill animals.. not to
kill plants. Genesis 1 29
Please download with 100% cotton, rice, recycled, or scrap paper.
In 2002, the world has seen floods, famine, fire,
mudslides, hurricanes, tornados and other disasters created by
the unprecedented destruction of trees around the world. Trees are
nature's weather stabilizers.
50 REASONS TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE MOWING
ISAIAH: "BREAK NOT THE BRUISED REED"
THE FIFTH ANGEL OF REVELATION: " HARM NO
GREEN LIVING BEING"
BUDDHA: MAY ALL THAT HAVE LIFE BE DELIVERED
FROM SUFFERING
BHAGAVAD GITA: OF TREES I AM
THE
FIG
MAHAVIRA OF THE JAINS: KILL NOT CAUSE NO PAIN
TO ANY BEING
.GROW FREE FOOD .PREVENT MOWER ACCIDENTS .PROTECT SAPLING
TREES .CREATE OXYGEN .SAVE TIME . CONSERVE FUEL .SAVE
MONEY .GUARD FREEDOM .INVOKE RAIN. STABILIZE WEATHER
PATTERNS . STOP MUDSLIDES .NOISE BUFFER. DIVERT FLOODS .
FOSTER WILDLIFE HABITAT . FILTER AIR
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres http://www.nrdc.org
(not in the order of importance)
In the last few years the EPA has joined the
environmental groups promoting nonmowing. Their site is
http://www.epa.gov .. type in 'natural landscaping' in search to
bring up
many sites. The Green Party http://www.greens.org and many
Libertarians also support nonmowing. In June of 2002, NPR reported
that the Congressional Black Caucus has a better record than
either white Democrats or white Republicans in environmental issues.
(We know of 1 Congressional black Republican).
I: ENVIRONMENTAL (THE REDUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
MANIPULATION)
1. REFORESTATION When one stops mowing, land becomes
meadow and then
thicket and then woods. reforesting the world.
2. OXYGEN CREATION This extra greenery creates oxygen.
The average
tree creates 5 pounds of oxygen daily.
3. AIR PURIFICATION And purifies the air through leaf
filtration a.
particulate matter b.car fumes c.noxious gases d.other
airborn toxins. Removal of carbon dioxide by plants
ameliorates
pollution.
4. TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION Warms the world's winters
and cools the summers. There is a 50 degree difference between 70
degree equatorial rainforest and 120 degree desert. Each blade of
grass
is a little air conditioner. A world without drought, flood,
famine, freezes, and killer heat can be eliminated by literally
covering
the world with trees.
5. RAIN INVOCATION
Greenery calls down rain. Bayard Webster of the NY
Times wrote that each mature tree evaporates 40 gallons of moisture
daily (much greater amounts for older trees.) All
greenery is involved in the raincycle.
The drought and consequent starvation in N. Korea was
related to the cutting of nearly all trees for fuel. (as is present
drought in the NW US). (NPR Sept 98 and other sources)
6. DEW PRESERVATION Preserves dew. Not only do green
spires and leaves act as masts around which dew can gather,
but the more greenery the longer the dew lasts.
7. NOISE BUFFER Weaves a noise buffer which screens
out unpleasant traffic
8. NOISE PREVENTION Ends the peace-fracturing sound of
the lawnmower. Some communities have noise ordinances which
prevent mowing during normal sleeping hours.
9. VISUAL BEAUTY Multiplies the beauty of diversity
10. FRAGRANCE Multiply the fragrance in the air.
11. HEALING GREEN Nonmowing creates optical healing by
creating more greenery. Research has proven that looking on the jade
and forest greens reduces heartbeat and creates peace.
12. LANDFILL ECONOMY Letting lawns grow wild reduces pressure on
landfills..by not adding leaves to overburdened
systems (and saves the fuel and wages of collection
releasing workers for the labor of their hearts). (NPR Sept 1:
methane
gases leach from landfill through water into basements) As the world
evolves away from treekilling, sawdust piles which are a byproduct
of the lumber industry will be removed, making the earth safer for
children.
13. FUEL CONSERVATION Conserves fuel a. unused in
unused mowers
b. As evergreen trees break cold winter winds and
shroud dwellings they are natural insulation.
14. HYDROCARBON REDUCTION Prevents hydrocarbon mower
emission from polluting the air. Many media outlets are passing on
the
EPA recommendation that lawns not be
mowed when there is great humidity and heat. Hydrocarbons create
ozone
alerts.
15. CARBON DIOXIDE Greenery which takes in carbon
dioxide and breathes out oxygen reduces gases toxic to humans.
15a. METHANE GAS and toxic gases are purified by leaf action.
16. TORNADO PREVENTION Unstable heat is the main
factor in tornados. Greenery which reduces the temperature 30 degrees
in forest areas prevents tornados.
17. MUDSLIDE PREVENTION: The roots of living plants
absorb great amounts of water and prevent mudslides.
18. FLOOD PREVENTION:
A. On river banks and everywhere, tree, plant, bush,
and vine roots are flood preventers. As David Kidd of Canton, planter
of
more than a million trees has stated, the bigger and older the tree
the
more work it does. (The 900 year old oaks with their huge diameters
are a lot more precious to Mother Earth than skinny young trees.
http://www.freetree.org
B. Ohio Public Radio David C. Barnett Sept 9th: reported on reduction
of impervious surface by reducing concrete and adding
greenery. (The hard asphalt, concrete, and rooftops create more
runoff and flooding.)
C. Bricks and stones in roads are better for the
environment than are concrete and asphalt. They allow rain through
the
inter-brick space and have less blistering heat. Angel strips not
devil
strips (Planting grape trellises over highways re-greens the
earth and creates food.)
19. PREVENT DESERTIFICATION Only reforestation can
prevent desertification. This is the conclusion of Patrick Velasquez
of US
Agency For International Development and most other
environmentalists. We used to think a pine cone was one seed, but
apparently it is hundreds.
20. REDUCE CHEMICAL POLLUTION: Radio network show
Public Interest October 7 featuring Rodale author: Chemically treated
lawns are grass high on drugs.: Fertilizer has toxic byproducts for
the land and water. Rodale, Emmaus Pennsylvania, USA 18049 is one
leader in the organic movement.
21. FASTEST CLEANUP OF TOXIC DUMPS
Green island sanctuaries of unmolested plants,
insects, and wildlife are a protection against the biotech
manipulations
of the environment.
22. WATERSHED PROTECTION
The more greenery, plants, vines, trees, and bushes..
the more the watershed, reservoirs, and lakes and ponds, brooks and
streams are protected.
a. Arsenic is a byproduct of the pressed wood
industry. Arsenic is poisonous in the waters, and like
other industrial pollutants such as mercury, chromium
and polychlorinated biphenols is concentrated in the flesh of fishes.
http://www.nofishing.net http://www.pcrm.org http://www.ivu.org
23. BIODIVERSITY
Nonmowing or letting God be the landscaper creates
biodiversity and its many benefits (and benefirs) rather than
monoculture. (Loggers last year caused the death of David Chain,
Earth First tree activist. Write efmc@a... or call 707 923 2114
Andy Caffrey)
24. FIRE PREVENTION
In March of 2001, widescale drought in the NW has been
reported. Destruction of greenery is one cause of this. Trees'
evaporation is necessary in cloud formation.
25. FLOOD PREVENTION Nonmowing causes natural
reforestation. Tree roots on river banks prevent floods.
26. WATER CONSERVATION: Unmowed areas do not need
watering.. they are self contained systems. Nor do they need
recycling.
27. INSECTICIDE PREVENTION: Carpet lawn enthusiasts
pollute
the environment with insecticides in some cases.
II HUMAN RIGHTS: (Numbers 19 through 31)
1. FEEDING THE HUNGRY: FOOD CREATION Prevents famine
by giving a cornucopia of free food to the planet Orchards are 450
times as productive per acre as slaughterhouses..Dr. Faust,
former chief of the USDA Fruit Labs, cited centenarian orchards of
apple trees dropping two tons each of food. This is 400,000 lbs per
acre
as compared to 100 to 1000 lbs of food for meat, 10,000 lbs for
dairy, 80,000 lbs. for acre. The 400 to l ratio is only the first
step. Tri
level agriculture.. with bean and other vines around the
tree trunks and other foodyielding plants in the interarboreal
spaces.. yield even more. This also can be multiplied by those areas
which have 2 or 3 growing seasons..e.g. Southern California. Because
certain economic systems promote scarcity based profit, these orchard
systems have been deemphasized.
2. PREVENTION OF DEATH AND INJURY Prevents in the U.S.
alone, 75,000 accidents and some fatalities annually caused by
mowers and harvesters, and around the world millions of accidents
eliminated. NPR reported May 17, 2002 that tractor rollovers are
the leading cause of death among farmers, and that farming in
general is the 2nd most hazardous occupation (after commercial
fishing).
2b. Ravines are generally more protected from mowing,
as there is wider recognition of the danger of mowing.
2c. When grass is mowed on hillsides, when wet or
exceedingly dry it can cause slipping accidents.
3. PREVENTION OF HEART ATTACKS As non shoveling of
snow can prevent winter heart attacks nonmowing can sometimes
prevent
summer heart attacks.
4. FREEDOM Health departments are reducing the forced
crewcutting of lawns and the rending of
Mother Nature's garments . See below for further info.
5. EMPTY JAILS Saves money otherwise spent on jailing people (see
above)
6. PRIVACY Creates a privacy screen. Ways to avoid
grass (a transitional plant unless land is constantly mowed) include
a. pachysandra b. myrtle and other ground cover c. grape vine
trellises d. evergreen trees and shrubs as natural fences e.
berry bushes as natural boundaries.
7. HERBAL REMEDIES Nonmowing allows healing extracts and seeds to
flourish, e.g. milkthistle seeds, which regenerate cirrhosis-
afflicted
livers. The active ingredient is silymarin. (Herbology student
embyrne@s... is a non mower) Work against those who seek to patent
the world's pre-existing seeds. http://www.purefood.org (see Monsanto
file.)
8. KEEPS WASPS FRIENDLY prevents wasp stings and hive
attacks as their homes are destroyed.
9. ECONOMICS
a. saves money otherwise spent on fuel
b. Saves money otherwise spent on young trees.
c. Fruit trees ave money spent on food.
10. TIME ECONOMY frees human time hours for enjoyable
priorities a. no gas procurement time, no mowing time, no raking
time.
11. AMERICAN HERITAGE: The Native American culture
never spent time mowing Mother Earth. Her green cover is her garment.
Lawn mowing is a fairly recent thing. The original lawn mowers were
sheep and other animals later slaughtered for their flesh. The Time
Life
Gardening Yearbook mentions the 'chipped monotypic
layer of bluegrass', the crewcut which is called a
lawn. Other ecologists speak about the hazards of monoculture.
12. FREE CONCERTS Cicadas and crickets will give free
concerts, as will woodpeckers, songbirds whose habitats are restored.
Fireflies will put on silent fireworks. Buttercups
will save chalices of dew for butterflies who in turn will cool
the earth with the slight breeze from their fanning wings.
13. WEED KILLER OR HERBICIDE use (Diane Rehm Show Sept
1) causes childhood and other environmental pollutant based
cancers. Some leaches into the water system. Some is directly smeared
onto skin.
14. INSECTICIDE BASED CANCERS: Insecticides were
developed as weapons in WW 2. At the end of the war, chemical
companies wanted new markets. These insecticides cause cancer. (NPR
Sept 1) Animal products concentrate insecticides at 21 times the
intensity they occur in fruits and vegetables, since a 1000 lb.
cow ate 21,000 lbs. of food with nondegradable insecticides remaining
in the muscle cells.
15. HEALING: Studies of recovering gall bladder
patients reveal that those looking on a garden heal faster than those
not. (BJ 6 6 2000) There are now herbal therapists at Univ of
Kansas, Rutgers, Texas A&M, and Virginia Tech. Those who look on
living green have reduced blood pressure. The plant yarrow makes
children in its proximity less agressive within a few moments.
Lavender increases memory and concentration. An
ancient vedic parable says that to be healed one should look upon
green. Rather than paint the world that color, a sage says
'put on green glasses'. (The best green glasses are living in an
environment of green.)
COTTON PAPER LASTS FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS. TREE
PAPER LASTSSIXY YEARS.
III ANIMAL RIGHTS:
1. WILDLIFE HABITAT Reprovides a home for wildlife,
both those not endangered and those which are.
Keeps birds from flying away when the power motors are started.
2 ANIMAL RIGHTS Protects insects, redwinged blackbirds
and other living creatures nesting in ground cover, and prevents
the mastication deaths of millions of small field
animals chewed up in harvesters.. (Sometimes the tiny feet of these
animals can be seen in cans of food.) In Numbers 22, God causes
a donkey to speak about the beatings of her human 'owner'.
3 PRESERVE WILDLIFE FOOD SUPPLY: Not removing acorns leaves food
for squirrels and other wildlife during the winter as well as
providing
new sapling oaks in the spring. Not removing leaves provides more
thermal shelter for northern animals.
4. SONGBIRDS ATTRACTED TO WILD AREAS
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James Marcus: Dandelions: they must be God's favorite
flower for He
plants them everywhere.
IV: PLANT RIGHTS Numbers 33 and 34
1. PLANT RIGHTS Protects the rights of sentient plants whose feelings
have been documented by Dr. Chandra Bose, knighted by the
Queen of England for his laboratory measurement of plant
consciousness. Other scientists who have proven or written of plant
consciousness ares are Clive Baxter, Luther Burbank, The Secret Life
Of
Plants writers,, the owner to whose rights, Isaac Tigrett, sold all
the
Hard Rock Cafes he founded after becoming a vegetarian. (Dandelions
would rather be plucked by 7 year
old boys like Jai Len who consider them bubble blowing
sticks.. than by a machine.) Pachysandra, myrtle, snow on the
mountain,
and camomile are some ground covers which do not offend more
conservative neighbors.
2: WILDFLOWER SANCTUARY Those like Lady Bird Johnson
who have worked to foster protection of wildflowers know the
necessity
of more wild places.
3: ENDING BOTANICAL RACISM E.Woodford is the
first person who has spoken to us of botanical racism. This phrase
means different things to different people. To us it means that weeds
have as much right to exist as do plants with cultivated blooms.
The spirit-filled volunteers called weeds are usually
stronger, more and more prolific than cultivated plants.
V: DIVINE RIGHT:
1. Mother Earth blesses those who abandon controlling
and manipulating her.
2. God does not like lawnmowers.
(Joel 1: The land mourns the destruction of plants.)
(Isaiah: Break not the bruised reed.)\
3. George Bernard Shaw: I love little children, but I don't cut
off their heads and stick them in vases.
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SO AT freelibrary27@y... There is no financial, action, or
other obligation. In an editorial on March 19, 1977, the Washington
Post
editorialized:
"the tall grass can only benefit the citizens who seek
the beauty of Rock Creek Park". That year the National
Park Service instituted a 'meadows' program to let some areas
return to nature. The Post mentioned the federal court case
victory of an Akron citizen who fought the city's compulsory
lawnmowing ordinance. "Nature is ready to cooperate.
Some citizen cooperation is next." In addition the Post's Richard
Cohen reported on a lawn mowed by a guinea pig named Bijou.
Phil Shenon of the New York Times has covered no-mow activists
such as Alice Herrington, then president of Friends of
Animals. The BBC, NPR, and Australian Broadcasting are some
international networks which have covered the
advantages of nonmowing. The Los Angeles Times also editorialized in
favor of not mowing. The Atlanta Constitution outlined reasons
not to mow in an article by Lewis Regenstein. Omni Magazine, The
Christian Science Monitor, Organic Gardening, Anita
Manning of USA Today, Vegetarian Times, OMNI magazine, German
newspapers, and many other publications have promoted
the idea of nonmowing.
Patrick Velasquez of the US Agency For International
Development studied Senegalese forest. He said the cost of
planting other country exotics there was $25 to $50 per tree,
with 19% survival rate whereas natural regeneration (which occurs
from
nonmowing) is free. The USDA in 1998 has signed onto the National
Wildlife Federation's Backyard Conservation plan.. which
encourages people to let the area behind their homes grow wild for
the
sake of the environment.
Even these corporate media and hunting promotion
groups are promoting the environment. 'Corn on the curb' is an
increasingly visible thing. The Spanish poet Lorca,assassinated by
Franco:
"They cut timber and lioness teats as easily as if they were baking
bread". Sterling North: We are but the ephemera of the moment,
the brief custodians of redwoods which were ancient when Christ was
born. Recently the governor of one of the largest states in the
country
promised to plant l million trees in his state and
said that trees, do indeed, call down rain. (Those areas with the
most
devastation this winter from icestorms, mudslides, flood and tornado
were for the most part places which had cut down
tens of thousands of trees in the last 20 years.)
. The Nicaraguan Network Environmental Task Force
calls on multinationals to stop devastating Atlantic forests.. linked
to
Hurricane Mitch
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The bombing of Afghanistan has been a factor in the drought..
as trees which invoke rain were destroyed and river courses
altered. Napalm burned the trees of Vietnam. At present
herbicides are being dropped in Colombia and Ecuador borders.
Richard St Barbe Baker convinced Franklin Roosevelt, US president, to
plant billions of trees.
Garrison Kieler of Prairie Home Companion recently wrote a piece
about a family which had decided not to mow.
