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June-August 2020
June-August 2020
June 01, 2020
Change, Innovation, Well-Being
June 15, 2020
The Power of Now
July 01, 2020
Have you noticed?
July 15. 2020
Soybeans — A Harbinger?
August 01, 2020
This Unusual Summer
August 15, 2020
Environment and Interconnectedness
June 01, 2020
Change, Innovation, Well-Being
The wave of change which has swept the planet in recent months has brought forth necessary adaptation, resilience and new perspective.
New perspectives extend to countless areas of our global culture — both locally and planet-wide as our interconnectness has been made starkly apparent.
Among that which has come to the forefront:
• There is now a new appreciation for the value of well-being.
• Supply chain disruptions have brought forth new considerations and the evolving of solutions — a re-thinking on a large scale.
We can expect further waves of change.
Viewing the world through the currently obvious changes-in-process offers us the opportunity to notice that we have been well advised to insightfully address further waves of change as expeditiously and effectively as possible.
Concurrent with the primary concern of recent months, weather anomalies continue to affect growing regions around the planet. The implications are broadly-scoped, including food supply. Some desert regions, now receiving ample rain, are becoming fertile growing areas. Other areas which until recently were productive are now losing viability. The reasons though varied are primarily weather-related or the results of depleted soil.
The weather patterns are not expected to stabilize. Rather, it is we humans who must adapt — personally, locally, regionally, globally.
While we at Green Oasis Now are 100% in accord with the grow-your-own movement, which remains viable where weather is favorable, we also know that year-round indoor agriculture powered by renewable energy is rapidly becoming essential. Super-nutrition, also, is only just beginning compared with what is possible.
With a focus on well-being — within the ongoing waves of change — the Green Oasis Now Innovation Center has been meticulously planned to meet the needs of these times.
June 15, 2020
The Power of Now
The winds of change continue to bring forth the opportunity to view our world — and our participation within it — through new eyes, and with enhanced perspective.
Looking carefully at our Green Oasis Now projects, we see that we are uniquely positioned to make a major contribution in meeting “back to basics” needs of these times. Our decades-long meticulous planning rapidly comes to the forefront as “relevant”. What was once “visionary” is now seen as essential. This, in itself, is a breakthrough!
Increasingly, the following considerations are being acknowledged from numerous sectors:
• the significance of changes in weather patterns
• increasing food supply issues
• the importance of renewable energy
• the need for environmental harmony and balance
Our new website page, Green Oasis Now Innovation Center, provides a succinct and simplified view of the Green Oasis Now “back to basics” focus on well-being — both personal and environmental.
For Green Oasis Now “back to basics” includes, initially:
• super-nutrition growing in unprecedented abundance
• the prototyping of our honeybee habitats, for beekeeping re-defined
• renewable energy, produced quietly and unobtrusively on site
The power of now is energy — both personal and renewable — applied in new ways. It is only through a perspective of interconnectedness, and a focus on well being — both personal and environmental — that humanity as a global culture can achieve the possible: harmony, balance and peace.
July 01, 2020
Have you noticed?
Weather anomalies continue. The effect on food supply and prices is becoming increasingly obvious globally. As we consider ongoing food supply there are a number of considerations, a few of which are noted here:
• Some areas are affected by record rainfall events, and thus flooding; planting is delayed or entirely prevented.
• Other areas are affected by extreme drought; growing is not viable.
• Unseasonable frosts have influenced formerly reliable growing seasons. For example: Damaging May frosts in Europe have affected strawberries and other fruits. It is expected that fruit prices will skyrocket across Europe and the countries that buy and import European fruits.
• Where crops have successfully matured, there is (due to lockdown) a shortage of migrant workers, upon whom harvesting is dependent.
• Locust swarms, with their collectively voracious appetites, have inundated Africa and Asia in recent months. They are now active on a third continent — South America.
• From South America, where they are causing great concern in a number of countries, the swarms are heading straight north. Hundreds of trillions of these insects are in motion.
• It is expected that, from Central America, the locusts will move into California and across the U.S. — at the height of the crop maturation season. The locust outbreaks may cause serious reductions in yield; food prices will be affected accordingly.
On the Bright Side
The ongoing effects of weather anomalies are increasingly stirring interest in new ways of approaching our relationship with Mother Nature.
This includes our relationship with an essential basic — the food which sustains our well-being.
The receptivity to growing food indoors continues to increase as the reasons for doing so become more and more apparent.
July 15, 2020
Soybeans — A Harbinger?
There are many barometers of change.
Several days after posting the July 1st blog, “Have you noticed?”, we experienced another specific indicator — tofu.
It began with a simple inquiry at the area Whole Foods Market. Three brands of tofu which are normally stocked were all missing — completely sold out.
“When will the tofu be restocked?”
“We don’t know. We have it on order. None of the Whole Foods distribution centers have any tofu. It could be weeks.”
“Tofu is not available because soybeans are not available.”
“That’s exactly right.”
This soybean shortage has far greater implications than tofu alone because soy is an ingredient in many food products.
The soybean crops have been affected by weather anomalies which have impacted growing conditions.
This circumstance provides an excellent example of the importance of re-thinking how food is produced in our changing environment.
Soybeans are not a tall plant. They could easily be grown indoors in multiple layers — well protected.
The numerous reasons for growing food in indoor environments, year-round, are consistently becoming more obvious.
August 01, 2020
This Unusual Summer
With the opportunity to observe and experience ongoing global change in countless forms, the value of tangible basics becomes more apparent. Food is one of those basics.
During this unusual summer:
• food prices continue to rise
• produce quality appears to be deteriorating under the current stresses
• supply chains are affected
• brand choices are increasingly minimized
• flooding conditions affect many areas of the planet
• drought and fires affect other areas
• unseasonable temperatures have become common
• intense wind events are occurring more often in more places
• locust swarms are expanding globally
In addition to one’s own experiential observation of these patterns, those who chart and follow the relevant indicators point out that there is no short-term solution to the increasing food supply issues.
There is no expectation that these issues will resolve themselves as, for example: perfect weather for the successfully sustainable growing and harvesting of food suddenly occurring for all regions on the planet.
Rather, the changing environmental and economic circumstances necessitate a rethinking about how to thrive.
The ripple effect turnaround from diminishing and irregular supply to abundant and consistent supply can only be attained through new approaches which take into consideration these changing circumstances. It is the ingenuity of innovation, intelligently brought forth and well-applied, which will provide much needed solutions for a sustainable future.
During this unusual summer, Green Oasis Now consistently observes that our unique approaches, which for decades were visionary, have become essential. We are poised to provide them.
August 15, 2020
Environment and Interconnectedness
During this time of ongoing and extensive change, we who reside on planet Earth continue to have expanded opportunities to experience and observe the implications of global interconnectedness — both societally and environmentally.
That which occurs in one area reverberates in others — like an energy wave sent forth globally.
The embracing of change is a choice which opens a doorway to adaptation and thriving with new perspective.
Whatever is occurring societally is happening within the Earth environment. Our interconnectedness takes place within all environmental conditions, whatever they are.
The effects of unexpected weather events continue to become more pronounced.
The changing weather patterns, though often appearing localized, have extensive ripples throughout Mother Nature’s world.
Thus, these changing patterns have extensive ripples in our societal world as well. For example:
• Some regions have become uninhabitable while others, now greening, are becoming viable.
• Power outages occurring during storms are becoming more frequent with more wide-spread effects.
• Outdoor crops — both the growing and harvesting, whether small or large scale — are subject to weather anomalies and other factors which are the result of these weather anomalies.
Some of the societal basics for thriving within the context of change include well-being, reliable electrical power and nourishing food — all of which are interconnected with our environment.
As humans, our ability to acknowledge our interconnection with Mother Nature’s world — and make choices which promote thriving for both the environment and ourselves — serves everyone.