Creating a Sustainable Sunshine Coast - Nambour to Mooloolah

People may be wondering what on Earth they could possibly do about Climate Change - the problem just seems too big, too far gone, too hard.

Well, here is an interesting and hopefully thought-provoking statistic for you:

It has been estimated that if there was just a one percent increase in organic matter in the soil of the crop lands of the United States, 4.5 billion tonnes of CO2 would be transfered from the atmosphere back into the soil.

Now imagine what we could all do here in Australia in our own backyards, in school yards, community gardens, government owned lands like libraries, prisons, railway lines... the list goes on and on.

Adding organic matter to the soil (by composting, worm farming, using green manure crops, mulching and leaving the root systems of food crops in the soil after harvesting) will remove CO2 from the atmosphere and return it to the soil.

Just like a ban on fluoro-carbons (sp?) stopped the hole in ozone layer hole, we have a way to halt climate change.

I have also heard another statistic that if 10 percent of the world's farmers changed to organic farming methods, climate change could be halted...

Don't ever under estimate the power you have as an individual. If we all did our little bit, united we can make a big difference.