1) INDIGENOUS WELCOME & Orchard Food Production Efficiencies

Show # 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBM3R-J2Ntc

Show 2.  8 minutes 9 sec. Grapes, Staghorn-Sumac, Bartlett-Pears, Cherry-Tomatoes, berries & more.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4EkJDU1Tt4

Show 3, 6 min. 22 sec. Crab Apples summer/winter, Himalayan Balsam flowers & seeds, strawberries, Lambsquarter leaves & seeds, Sprucebuds,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx9lmCwBTjE

Show – 4. Living in Community to accomplish or ecological goals together  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu4gxoKPrRY

Shelby TV http://m.shelby.tv/video/youtube/kBM3R-J2Ntc/how-to-grow-your-own-raw-vegan-food-garden-1-in-series

Even though 'Agriculture' (Latin 'ager' = 'field') & its Genetically Modified Organisms destroy people & our ecosphere as well as having 1/100th the productivity of 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') Polyculture Orchards (10,000% more productive), these out-of-touch individuals being institutionally indoctrinated have no knowledge of their abundant 'indigenous' roots. Polyculture restores a 3 dimensional productivity where all species thrive simultaneously, restore water balances, rivers, lakes, fish, air, soil etc.  https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/design/1-how-to-grow-your-own-raw-vegan-food-garden

RAW VEGAN GARDENING - How to grow a raw vegan garden with biodiversity in an urban setting. Douglas Jack (Indigene Community Founder - educated by Dukobour, Mennonite, Quaker & First Nations peoples) takes us on a tour through the wonders of raw vegan backyard gardening. Learn how to feed yourself and family. Learn how to grow your food in harmony with nature. A polyculture orchard is easy and abundant. Our indigenous ancestors know how to create a sustainable agriculture. Also known as permaculture, forest gardens, agroforestry; this the first show of an ongoing series. Brought to you by Indigene Community, Healing Inspirations & Vision Media Communications. For more information contact (514) 984-9626, (514) 365-9594

METAPHOR 'Organizing from the Tree Roots' takes the biological function of trees, their deep penetrating roots and high canopies, as 3-D concerted 'organic' action by grouped specialised organs as an allegory/metaphor for what indigenous peoples are doing for millennia in social and economic organisation.  Indigenous peoples facilitate or group various specialties into Production Societies as well as each specialized community economy as the foundation for their multihome housing buildings (eg Longhouse or Pueblo).  The word 'caucus' from the Iroquois means 'grouping of like-interests'.  Caucussing practice is to identify differences and similarities among participant perspectives in their council or consensus processes and invite those with diverse and similar views to group together as subgroups to cultivate their views together.  In critical numbers grouped together indigenous peoples act as interactive teams living and working in proximity.  Multihome housing's clustered proximity of private family dwellings allowed for women (and men of this bent) to better coordinate and group domestic labours.  With critical numbers domestic labours and community service, normally excluded from monetary economies, are accounted for and organised into Production Societies.  Indigenous peoples recognize, "Humans are a voice of the earth speaking", hence the way to heal our relationship with the earth is to heal our relations with each other.

SOLAR PHOTOSYNTHESIS

As the third planet from the sun, earth receives enormous amounts of solar energy, or the calorie equivalence of Hiroshima size atomic bombs per year in urban regions.  The depth of trees at many tens of metres in polyculture orchards, cultivated by humanity's traditional indigenous ancestors worldwide are the exact depth to capture 92 -98% of solar energy falling on any given district.  See  29 POLYCULTURE 3-dimensional POLYCULTURE ORCHARD BIO-SPHERE SERVICES below.

UNIVERSAL TIME-BASED CAPITAL ACCOUNTING allows for the participants of each caucus to be recognised economically for their contributions both within the Production Societies and Villages, communities and nations as having distinguished gifts for the whole.  Caucusses provide quality control or internal policing of production quality from within each caucussed field of expertise and Production Society.  Cultivation of diversity and specialisation allows communities to employ their collective and connected intelligence.  Human diversity is a strength in sustainable economy and culture.  Livelhood becomes an essential and unifying function of all caucuses and Production Societies being our first recognition of the right to existance by all participants as well as a practice of open welcome to all humans for their strengths.

CAUCUSING / TWO ROW WAMPUM When the European Dutch, English and French came to the north-east of Turtle Island Onowaragen (North America) they were welcomed under the 'Two Row Wampum' treaty to live side-by-side with First Nation communities upon which they were often dependent for many life essentials such as materials, food and clothing as well as keep their traditions and technologies.  The First Nations who were far superior in numbers and organisation could have eliminated the then sparse visitors but chose to welcome and nourish often very sick ocean travellers back to life.  The Two Row Wampum arises from the practice of caucussing of like-interests as well as a positive view of human nature.

'SYLVALIZATION' (> L 'Sylva' = 'Wood or Forest') or the cultivation of the Orchard-Forest is considered among indigenous circles as a key to sustainable city habitat in the mixed multi-level orchard. Western 'civilization' (> Latin 'Civis'='city or citizen') based in 'agriculture' (Latin 'ager' = 'field') lacks the abundant food, material, water, energy, soil producing capacities of ancient indigenous ecological and economic balance of three-dimensional tree based production and high-density clustered housing (Longhouse or Pueblo styles) in the productive Orchard-Forests.  On this scarcity the colonies and empires of agricultural society are 'exogenous' (Latin = 'other-generated'), continually on the scrounge for additional essential supplies to feed, shelter, cloth, heat and provide health.  Without internal self-generating capacity civilizations become militaristic both internally and externally.  Suppression of human spirit then compounds and confuses human psychology to not be able to distinguish needs from wants as well as to lack compassion and solidarity with society as a whole.

RESEARCH ... on the Food Production capacities of Orchard-Forests from United Nations scientists can be googled under terms 'Agro-forestry', 'Traditional Knowledge'. Impetus comes from concern for the alarming growth of the Sahara Desert and Sahel dry lands in North Africa as well as deserts worldwide. Researchers ask, "Were these lands always desert?" Archaeology - anthropology show that the Saharan lands were deep ecologically productive forests before the Egyptian (starting 6000 years ago), Greek, Carthaginian, Roman periods cut them down, monocropped cereal / field crops and thus eliminated the indigenous peoples.  Please refer as well to the 2006 book 1491 by Charles C. Mann for an ethno-historical rewrite of the history of the americas.  There are excellent sections on the Aymara peoples of the Amazon of South America  Their Number Become Thinned by Henry F. Dobyns gives some of the first calculation of pre-Columbian populations as well as looks at the orchard food production efficiencies of the Timucean longhouse peoples of Florida and the Carolinas.  Permaculture by Australia's Bill Mollison, All of these works represent a ground swell of peoples from around the world rediscovering indigenous mixed multi-level orchard food producing capacities.  The best sources are from First Nation and Aboriginal communities who cultivate traditionally.  Living Machines by Ocean Arks International, John Tood and Nancy Jack as well as Humanure by Joseph Jenkins are good sources for understanding unadulterated bio-technology.

TWO VS THREE DIMENSIONAL FOOD PRODUCTION AND MIND  The word 'Agriculture' from the Latin 'ager' means 'field' implying in most cases that the trees have been 'cleared'.  2-D empires and their colonists destroy their own indigenous memories of 3-D Polyculture Orchard tree-led production.  So the European colonists fleeing the hierarchy, destroyed biospheres and induced scarcity of Europe did not remember their own Oak (acorn) production and the hundreds of other nuts, fruits, vines and carefully arranged productive 3-D landscapes when they cut down this same abundance and lifeblood of First Nation inhabitants in various parts of the Americas.  Still to this day, Agricultural journals, schools and government policy doesn't understand or remember our abundant heritages.  The word 'Farm' from the French derives from 'Ferme' referring to the: c.1300, "fixed payment (usually in exchange for taxes collected, etc.), fixed rent," from O.Fr.ferme "rent, lease," from M.L. firma "fixed payment," from L. firmare "to fix, settle, confirm, strengthen," from firmus "firm" (see firm (adj.)). Sense of "tract of leased land" is first recorded early 14c.; that of "cultivated land" (leased or not) is 1520s.

It's important to understand this rent or lease is a relation not of independence or interdependence but of subjugated serf to aristocrat once the 3-D abundance of the polyculture orchard and hence the sovereignty of polyculture inhabitants is lost.  While obvious serfdom from local aristocrat to serf has become overtly disfavored here in western countries, it is still the inherent foundation of the relation between the overworked rural agricultural food grower and the leisure-class urban populations who in effect still maintain an aristocratic relationship.  This serfdom is also evident in many industrial level farm agglomerations where 'farm-hands' have few rights of ownership.

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CALCULATING ABUNDANCE VS SCARCITY  A RESEARCH DRAFT 

3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARD FOOD PRODUCTION EFFICIENCIES VS 2-D AGRICULTURE

FOOD AS HUMANITY'S ECONOMIC & ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

Food production and harvesting are the foundation of human relationship with the earth.  Food is subjective being a core of our body's energy & physical matter renewal thus being our most constant interaction with the earth.   Food is a key that keeps humans in harmony with the earth giving all other derivative economic and ecological activities a solid core.  The earth is designed as a polyculture orchard forest.  The primary keepers of the biosphere are trees.  When humans as care-taker stewards plant, encourage & maintain orchard covered lands, we thrive in its abundance.  If we cut the orchard, we throw the earth's biosphere into disarray and ourselves into scarcity.  It is on this 2-dimensional mistake that 'agricultural' (Latin 'ager' = 'field') hierarchal societies integrated excessive overwork, relationships of exploitation for each other, animals and plants into the core of human society and governance.  Faced with such agricultural misery which is not capable of feeding the world's populations, most 'exogenous' (Latin = 'other-generated') peoples adopted a hyper commercial and industrial model of development, which not only pollutes the landscape, taking land completely out of human and biosphere production, but as well adds increasing pressure to indigenous polyculture orchard foundations to produce more.

CALCULATING 3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARD VS 2-D AGRICULTURE

Polyculture Orchards work with the leadership of the tree but as well include vines, vegetables, small nuts & fruit trees and bushes as well as mushrooms etc.  Indigenous peoples cultivate a holistic, elemental (sun, air, water, soil & life analysis) complementary solar charted landscape rising many tens of meters for what can be calculated at a 100 fold (10,000 %) efficiency increase over agriculture.  These factors have great impetus because of the unintended consequences of our present petroleum fossil fuel (oil, coal, nuclear, gas) based economy.  Climate Change as a factor caused by destruction of the 3-dimensional biosphere and the unharnessing of solar energy into the atmosphere is causing the oceans to rise where humankind has built its cities and infrastructure.  The Ecological Footprint of the western consumer-based economy is appropriating and destroying lands and productive biosphere needed by the whole population of the earth.  Human cruelty through inefficient resource scarcity competition with each other, plants and animals breaks off traditional mutual-aid and collaboration.  Humans are a social-animal used to deep collaboration with each other as is the whole animal population and biosphere.  Human interventions imposed on the biosphere without the responsibility of a clear understanding of Ecological History and consequences such as: Laboratory aquaculture and Genetically Modified Organism GMO efficiencies are short lived (ten years before inherent imbalances creep in) in Biosphere systems collapse.  These artificial interventions at their most productive reach some 15 % but in the process are causing collapse to essential biosphere and human services.  Biosphere services to our whole living and livelihood environment have huge economic value if properly calculated as any other factor.

TRUE COST, FULL COST, WHOLE CYCLE ACCOUNTING

This 100 fold Polyculture Orchard efficiencies calculation is made as a function of human labour inputs and both physical food and material products as well as ecological services as outputs.  Indigenous peoples were estimated to have worked only one hour per day at biosphere harvest.  Without having to recreate natural biosphere services as we do today in artificial systems, indigenous peoplesWe can calculate the multiplying efficiencies in terms of what it costs humans to artificially recreate orcharded nature's energy, material and ecological services.  These costs in artificial systems are always stolen as materials or energy from other intact ecologies either close at hand or far away with huge linear destruction and transportation costs.  Included in this calculation of total inputs are all planetary inputs fed through human labour and infrastructure. Many of the ecological services are multi-functional producing more than one benefit.  Benefits are calculated in terms of human labours reduced or enabled to achieve essential community services.  One makes a productivity calculation comparing inputs to outputs on any given system.  Here are just a few of the Polyculture Orchard efficiency factors.  All these factors together add up to 100 fold but each polyculture combination and attributes are unique.  These are rough estimations, some from established research and some are approximations or as a further research proposal given as # X so as to give a rough guide to proportions adding up to 100 fold (100 times or X), which as well can be considered as percentages contributing to the whole.  Each fold or multiplication factor doubles efficiency compared with the agricultural equation described as a 100% efficiency so that 100 fold becomes a 10,000% efficiency.  These 27 factors form an area which needs greater research qualification, quantification, precision and detailed calculation.  Sometimes some factors are similar to each other but none overlap in the estimates given.  The polyculture orchard productivity in each bio-region of the earth will vary these factors considerably.  These are to be considered as descriptive estimations which will allow further research to precise calculations in each locale although some of the estimations and benefits such as Continental Weather Attraction are measured both locally and across continents.  ***

THE ECONOMICS OF ECOSYSTEMS & BIODIVERSITY TEEB  http://www.teebweb.org/   Please refer to this excellent testimony and articulation of accounting for life.

We need to fully account for environmental components and social actors in order to fully appreciate and integrate them as part of our economic life.  Although humans only understand a small part of life, it is generally true that if we don't measure something, then we can't manage it.  When humans don't account for nature, we take it for granted and neglect to factor in its gifts into our economic calculations. 'Manage' derives from the Latin 'manus' meaning 'hand' implying close caring and nurturing interaction of caring.  Please watch the following video with Pavan Sukhdev of the TEEB group, which applies true, full and whole cycle cost accounting to nature and biosphere services in order to help humanity fully appreciate the natural gifts of which we are part.

http://fora.tv/2010/08/03/Pavan_Sukhdev_What_Is_the_World_Worth    with Pavan Sukhdev

bio:  http://www.teebweb.org/AboutTEEB/Personnel/BiographyofStudyLeader/tabid/1080/Default.aspx

One way to visualize 3-D Polyculture productivity is to look at the high canopies of trees surrounding us and imagine these branches covered with nuts and fruits, vines climbing up some trees, lower trees and bushes, vegetables, berry bushes, mushrooms etc all planted in complementary ways.  Did you know that people can transform and eat maple seeds?  The Oak-acorn, Butternut, Cherry, Peach etc have massive productivity / square land area compared with cereal and vegetable production.  If people align with life-forces for essential goods and services, working with nature, what are the advantages or efficiencies we may benefit from?  When we account for biosphere benefits within our economic balance sheets, what are the factors we would assign to each component of life and livelihood's equation? The following are estimates based in full human and environmental cost accounting comparing 3-D Polyculture to 2-D Agriculture harvest economies.  Multi-dimensional whole ecological systems are required for maintaining life and producing necessary economic or ecological goods and services.  While the 100 fold (10,000%) increase is obviously a broad estimate, involved are real costs for artificial (man-made) systems versus natural system benefits.  As humans we do well to align ourselves in knowledge, as we have originally for tens of thousands of years as indigenous peoples, about how natural systems work.

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POLYCULTURE ORCHARD BIO-SPHERE SERVICES

for FOOD & MATERIAL ELEMENTAL PRODUCTION EFFICIENCIES = 100 fold = 10,000% with multiplication '# X' factor estimates *** given for whole system productivity increase over 2-D agriculture.  We know that many industrial and commercial economic activities degrade nature and the biosphere's ability to provide fundamental services to living species including humans.  Calculating the value of nature's eco-system services can be done by asking the question, "What would it cost us in human, natural and economic energy to create or replace these natural services?  Services are compared with agriculture's human labour, material and energy costs considering all factors. Natural capital or the values / services provided by the biosphere to human livelihood are the largest factor (known or unknown) in any economic balance sheet.  Each one factor multiplier (fold) = 100 %

1. HUMAN LABOUR TIME FACTOR (eg. LIFETIME PLANTING) Indigenous human labour is greatly diminished working with nature.  A number of studies (Petr Kropotkin Mutual Aid 1905, Henry F. Dobyns Their Number Become Thinned 1970's and others) put:  a) labour in indigenous communities at one hour per day compared with worldwide 10 hours per day presently under modern industrial systems. b) 3-D Polyculture orchards absorb 92 - 98% of solar energy, pump water, minerals & nutrient from as deep (metres) as the canopy is high compared with 2-D agriculture's:  2 - 8% of solar energy, c) centimetre deep root systems and are heavily reliance upon fertilizer inputs. d) Non-plough Planting in mulch and other soil & cover mediums compared with ploughing  as a factor of efficiency productive food and material trees requires once every 50 - 500 years from a seed works with nature.  e) Ergonomic Design: Food is harvested at the body's waist and arm length levels eliminating constant clearing, weeding, ploughing, sowing seeds, watering, picking at ankle (back-breaking labour) levels.  f) Tree seeds, nuts, fruit and greens come 'packaged' in simpler 'garbs', have less moisture content usually requiring less processing, dehusking, winnowing, drying and storage requirements (less mold produced). Whole-system design is also called Permaculture, Agro-forestry or Forest Gardening.        14 X

2. CANOPY PRODUCTION The tall and wide 3-dimensional canopy of trees captures more sun, condenses more humidity, dries food to greater density of nutrients and produces 10 times more nuts, seeds and fruit than the equivalent 2-dimensional ground area of field crops will bear.  = 10 X

3. LOWER PLANT ASSISTANCE  Smaller complementary vines, berries, nuts, vegetables, mush-rooms, herbs etc. grow around the trees or in natural meadows, along paths, stream-beds etc are fed nutrients (fallen leaves, wood etc) from larger trees, absorb sun plus other derived energy forms with frost, wind, heat, flooding and other stable states to produce abundantly.    3 X 

4. DEEP TREE-ROOT PENETRATION of the substrate tens of meters into the ground and pumping water, minerals and the products of root nutrient colonies (bacteria and small animal inhabited) to fertilise the surface.  Root colonies of trees constantly unite air, water, minerals, nutrients, energy elements to create deep abundant nutrient factories for the whole polyculture ecology.    4 X

5. MASSIVE WATER PUMPING recirculation and equilibrium from root systems and leaf condensation and emission eliminates most watering requirements if good mulches (leaves and other wastes) are laid around each desired plant.  Both as individual trees and over districts pumping is solar-driven, evenly distributed without transport costs and massive.          3 X

6. SLOW PERCOLATION OF WATER through tree root and polyculture plant systems keeps streams, ponds, rivers and lakes at stable levels and thus close at hand for human, drink-ing, washing, soaking, cleaning, swimming and other requirements.   Slow percolation has a significant effect on ocean, mitigates seasonal variations and lake levels.   3 X

7. WATER EQUILIBRATION Trees and plants not only capture moisture into plant matter but as well emit moisture when needed thus keeping land dry yet waters flowing.  Slow releasing water as needed into the environment for productive tree or plant and animal use eliminating the irrigation, salting of soils from agriculture.                 3 X

8. SOIL & RIVER-LAKE-SEA BANK RETENTION maintaining the fabric of life in soils helps to lighten heavy clay soils, strengthen loose black soils for biosphere production from wind erosion (blowing-away and precipitation run-off.  Protects building, landscape, plants & transportation infrastructures, greatly lowers storm sewer silting, maintenance repair and cleaning.  Protects wildlife habitat and functions.                                3 X

9. UNDERGROUND WATER Restoration of substrate reservoirs through tree & polyculture root systems.  Access to underground water represents a great resource for the biosphere and humankind acting as an insurance policy on our interventions.                    3 X

10. CONTINENTAL WEATHER ATTRACTION Regionally and continentally absorbing solar energy through tree-led leaf chlorophyll photosynthesis and converting it into matter, energy and water cycle.  This energy conversion creates a cold energy attraction from the ocean to the sea.  Warm moisture laden winds are drawn from the sea to the continent by 92 - 98 % rates of solar absorption (agriculture is only 2 - 8 % absorption).     4 X

11. INSECT CONTROL  Because indigenous communities used Bird & Bat boxes next to river & lake communities, they act as constant insect eaters keeping water-side communities pleasant.  Trees absorb surplus waters keeping insect breeding habitat and populations low.                 2 X

12. INSECT CONTROL Fish, amphibians and large Dragonfly type insects which thrive in 3-D polyculture treed landscapes as well make major impacts in harvesting and converting insect bio-mass for wildlife & human benefit.    2 X             

13. BIO-DIVERSITY Massive 3-D tree-led polyculture plant production nurtures thriving wild animal populations.  Diversity provides a whole livelihood spectrum of specific biosphere services for humans such as lowering green brush (the favorite food of ungulates), lowering fire hazard around human communities.  Many animals such as beaver work for humans by creating micro-dams thus increasing biosphere abundance. 4 X              

14. OXYGEN & HUMIDITY air levels are kept optimal for human lung pleasure by plant photosynthesis.                                           3 X

15. AIR, WATER & SOIL PURIFICATION through absorption of C02, nitrogen and air, water and soil toxins is constant and thorough.  In our toxic environment today the storage of complex synthetic bio-toxins in tree wood matter (trunks etc) can safely gather and  store toxins for hundreds and thousands of years while these toxins break down (half-life degeneration) into more inert forms.                                                                    3 X

16. RE-MINERALIZATION of surface soils mined from tens of meters and brought to the surface for healthy productive plants.            3 X

17. ABSORPTION OF SOLAR ENERGY at 92 - 98% of rays falling on earth's surfacer (versus 2 - 8% for agriculture) keeps the 'felt-environment' temperature habitable (constant 20 degrees Celsius) both outside and inside homes eliminating the need for air conditioners valuable to both animal and plant life.                                 3 X

18. HEAT-PUMPS Trees acts absorb solar energy in summer pumping it down into the ground for biosphere energy and matter uses deep in the substrate, while in winter releasing energy through root system transfer and bio-mass energy exothermic bio-chemical reaction into heat releases.  2 X                                                                                                    

19. WIND HARVEST through branch, cell & tissue functions, which convert energy into usable heat & other functions for the tree transformed and transfered into ATP chemical energy.  Wind harvesting function stabilizes winter blowing snow, lowers wind chill factor, protects housing and sub-stories of plants from extreme winds such as tornadoes.   2 X

20. BUILDING MATERIALS Wood, bark & roots from the trees, bushes or other materials are harvested to be used as safe bio-friendly (non-toxic or disease causing) for housing, canoes, containers, tools, etc.  Eliminates transport from foreign wood cutting.      3 X

21. HUMAN NATURAL HEALTH HARMONY - All of the above climate, weather, moderated temperature, oxygen, humidity, insect-control, whole mineralized & micronutrient rich foods edible raw (little processing required) & other health & ecological benefits also contribute to human well-being and health of body and mind, day-lighted circadian rhythms,  and long-lives, increased pleasure of living, healthy mind & decision-making, relationships, livelihood productivity &lowered medical costs.  Polyculture orchard dwelling peoples are traditionally not afraid of their nudity which is extremely important for healthy levels of Vitamin D formation on our exposed skin.  Vitamin D assists in the proper formation, maintenance and restoration of healthy bones and teeth. Peace, health and well-being begets love, fairness, compassion and solidarity.   3 X

22. 'MUTUAL-AID, a Factor of Evolution' circa 1905 by Petr Kropotkin Russian Geographer, describes indigenous workdays as being 1 - 2 hours per day with all needs and desired luxury met.  One must understand this collective intelligence as a function of indigenous social-economic-scientific technologies which facilitates human harmony with each other and nature.   Do agricultural (L 'ager' = 'field') people being baked without canopy protection in the sun, become violent from constant elemental exposure?        3 X

23. DECENTRALIZED ABUNDANCE FOR PEACE Abundance of decentralized energy, water, soil, air, food & materials allows smaller communities of people to live with sovereignty, independently if needed but interdependently by choice intentionally choosing relationships of collaboration among indivi-dual, family, extended family, community, village, region, nation, confederacy, confederacies, continent, hemisphere and world eliminating death, injury & weapon expense.                        2 X

24. LOWERED LAND TRANSPORT Local production brings a micro-stability to the local biosphere and human community with more interaction among people, plants, animals and place as well as less comings and goings.  Food produced, locally stored and managed culturally goes from tree and understory to local transformation or storage and doesn't need highways, roads, train, air, ship and other environmentally expensive infrastructure.  Presently wheeled mostly internal combustion engine transport is facilitated by asphalt and concrete road systems which occupy 33 1/3 % of urban community landscapes.  Nationally surfaces under road and roof tar amount to 112,610 square kilometres (43,480 sq. miles) in the USA and about 1/10th of this surface in Canada.  People reorient from competitive single detached nuclear living to collaborative multihome living & planning (private quarters with public services).  WATER TRANSPORT enabled by tree stabilization of water levels is low energy, low impact, fluid & easy.      2 X

25. FOOD TRANSFORMATION  & PROCESSING Trees 'package' their nuts, seeds, fruit and other products in robust shells and coverings, tree canopies dry and disinfect food stuffs aerobically so that when humans gather these products they are easily further dried or processed and require little transformation for storage, eating or various uses.  Many foods can be left on the vine or branch until they are required for meals by those who gather them plant to mouth or to table.  2 X

26. RECYCLING:  Materials and Energy are recycled in tree-led food production right on site.  When human communities are able to live in the 'living-canopy larder', populations are able to assist nature in recycling streams of branches, leaves, roots, bark, shell leavings (the origin of the word 'garb' from which we derive 'garbage'), water cycling throughout the biosphere, energy stored and released upon demand.  Mushrooms for example feed on energy held within the decomposing mulch-matter of the polyculture orchard forest floor.            Separation of humanure into fecal and urine body leavings each placed separately into different production purposes long and short term, absorbed by tree-led polyculture biodigestion is powerful and decentralized and in context of sun, air movement, multiple life kingdom, plant, bacteria, fungus, insect, animal (reptiles, birds etc) and other whole systems bio-digesters.        2X

27. CARBON SEQUESTRATION / CLIMATE CHANGE:  Trees absorb and store atmospheric and water source carbon into their living matter.  When planted intentionally for food, materials and ecological benefit as well as managed by benefiting and stewardship communities, massive carbon can be stored.  Reduction of Petro-driven transportation through material, energy and water availability in distributed polyculture orchards is an intelligent cultural approach.  Absorption and photo-synthesis transformation of solar energy into material goods & services, energy and water cycle enables glaciers and ice-caps to re-establish on mountain tops and in the north & south poles.   3X

28. SPECIALIZED PRODUCTS DIVERSITY SPECIFICALLY FOR HUMAN USE:  Trees and Polyculture produce an abundance of:  complex foods with diverse nutrients, material wood 'plastic' (durable shapes for multiple purposes), pharmaceuticals (natural multi-functional whole body ecology compounds & nutrients).  Human and animal populations need this high-quality diversity. 1X

29. Polyculture Orchards as a foundation for the Biosphere operate without mechanical & machine based infrastructure and maintenance costs.  Without engines, pumps, exogenous energy, material inputs, labour, supervision, policing, etc. the biosphere produces abundantly, silently and in concert with every other living factor.  5X

TOTAL of all BIOSPHERE SERVICE factors.  Each fold or multiplying factor can be considered as a 100% percentage of Polyculture Orchard whole efficiencies 100 X = 10,000% over agriculture.  Of course this list is a short one for the thousands of Biosphere services enabled through the indigenous polyculture orchard.  Human-kind really doesn't have the intelligence to destroy life's existing systems and replace design a livelihood system so immaculately integrated across so many factors.

ATTACHMENTS & Web Links below:

1) Indigenous Welcome and Orchard Food Production Efficiencies by Douglas Jack

FOOD, MATERIALS & RESOURCES Food harvesting and generation is humanity's most frequent interaction with the environment.  Indigenous mixed multi-level orchard food production provides 100 times the productivity for food, materials and ecological resources (water, air, soil, energy and wildlife).  Structured employing Welcome among people allows for us to well have long term strategies of encouraging, planting and developing perennial and tree based production.

2) Resumé en française, Indigène Aliments des Vergers, La civilization et l'agriculture de defrichage examinée traduit par Oscar Chica

3) Agroforestry in LaSalle Heights Perceptions by Diana Rivadeneira  

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Senior scientists at the World Agroforestry Centre come from an array of disciplines, including foresters, economists, soil scientists and social scientists. Their high-level skills and expertise equip the Centre to conduct quality research into the diverse roles of trees in agricultural landscapes, and to use this research to advance policies and practices that benefit the poor and the environment.

Support units  The World Agroforestry Centre has several support units, including:

Communications Unit  Based at our headquarters in Nairobi, but working closely with communication staff in regional offices, this team spreads the word about what the World Agroforestry Centre is doing. The Unit takes care of publications and library services, web publishing, media and public relations.

Training Unit  With a strong focus on assisting our scientists and their partners to build and strengthen capacity, the Training Unit promotes ongoing learning opportunities that are compatible with our research priorities.

Human Resources Unit  Ensuring our centre attracts, retains and develops excellent staff is the role of our Human Resources Unit.

Research Methods Group  The ILRI–ICRAF Research Methods Group helps staff from both organizations and their research partners with research design, data management, analysis and reporting, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

11) Forest of Peace 

http://forest-of-peace.org/