Leah Pressey

The most interesting of the Drawdown ideas I researched was the multistrata agroforestry. I recently read a book entitled "The One Straw Revolution" written in the 1970s by a Japanese agriculturalist and farmer. He spoke a lot about the "Do Nothing" farming method which is all about letting nature do most of the work and disturbing the process as little as possible. He even identified that pruning trees caused increased disease and recommended against it with fruit crops, insisting that yields will be higher with less human intervention. Many of the Drawdown farming techniques are in full agreement with the concepts in "One Straw Revolution".

Since I don't live in or near a city, the turbines would work on the outskirts of town on a hill. We have large turbines north of Orangeville, and where I live in Amaranth, we could easily have a micro turbine on my property

We need to drawdown the carbon in our atmosphere. Improving soil using green manures etc. does just that. We also need to improve our wasted soil as growing will become more difficult with climate change.

My diet contains palm oil. I have learned that palm oil is responsible for about 50% of the rainforest deforestation. I have downloaded a list of palm oil derivatives and will use it to avoid palm oil as much as possible. I have also made contact with my local coffee supplier and requested that they sell rainforest certified coffee.