Now, a third of the population of the planet relies upon rice to survive. Corn and sugarcane use C4 photosynthesis, which is more efficient. The effort is to change the photosynthesis of rice, common strains of rice, and in doing so, it would double the production of rice
Bello addresses the land directly. Lovingly, even. With lines like “You give sweet sugarcane , whose pure sap / makes the world disdain the honeycomb.” But Bello also claims there’s a responsibility involved. To “place the fertile soil, / now harsh and wild, under the unaccustomed yoke / of human skill, and conquer it.” Keep your yoke away from Pachamama, Bello!
But after Hawaii became a U.S. territory in the late 19th century, millions of acres of land were stolen. And settlers turned much of it into sugarcane and pineapple plantations, destroying or abandoning the fish lagoons in the process. Fast-forward to today and you’ll find over 80% of Hawai’i’s food gets imported from elsewhere.
At its core, the Land Back movement is about decolonization, or undoing the ideas and systems imposed by colonization. Like the ones that decided only sugarcane and pineapple should be grown, at the expense of a sustainable food system. Decolonization means understanding that the way things are isn’t the way they have to be.
For example, we sell tree-free toilet paper, which means that no trees were cut down or recycled to make toilet tissue. It's made from bamboo grasses and sugarcane . And so that are just things that people love.
And similarly with the agaricus bisporus, when it's farmed, it's grown on off-cuts from growing wheat, corncobs, sugarcane mulch. All of that's decomposed by the agaricus mushrooms. We get the delicious mushrooms, and then that can all be composted on the soil.
And then Shigeoka is I'm Japanese ancestry. And four generations ago, my great grandparents moved from Japan to Hawaii to work the sugarcane plantations. And 14 generations ago, a long time ago, there was a noble princess who crossed social strata
So you can see things here like orange peel. We could use different waste streams from agriculture as well like hemp, and we can use sugarcane waste as well. And we're developing that into a plant-based concrete, which integrates more agricultural waste, and we're tweaking our recipe with our organic binder
And today, we're going to learn a lot about Krazy Kat, about George Herriman, and of course, about Michael's journey to get to writing this book. And Michael's previous books, "The Kingdom of Zydeco" and "Sugarcane Academy" are also well-renowned and amazing reads. Over the past couple of weeks I've had the chance to learn quite a bit about Michael, about George, and about Krazy Kat
don't know for sure because I think it was a more complicated than one reason I mean my parents are immigrants this country well but that doesn't mean that I'm not descendant of slaves my forebears were just harvesting sugarcane instead of cotton which I kind of like that idea if you're gonna be slaving sure a cane you know anyway but I do think there was a certain amount of the
even okay? Can we talk about this?" Because if you talk about this, and you tell people there's these uncontacted tribes, people have misconceptions. Ramo said to them, "Look, we've given you what we can give you. We gave you sugarcane . We gave you boatloads of plantains."
even okay? Can we talk about this?" Because if you talk about this, and you tell people there's these uncontacted tribes, people have misconceptions. morning, our friends in the community had said, "Okay, the tribe is gone. We gave them sugarcane , bananas, and said, 'Please come back, you're welcome here anytime.'" And George was driving a boat
So we had huge cash prizes for our competition. How do we ensure that water which comes within a village is not used for water-intensive agriculture, like sugarcane ?
Now, I'll get back to that later. But what's not recommended in our list, not because they're not in some cases better than what we have currently, in other cases it is not so good, are nuclear, coal with carbon capture, any kind of natural gas or biomass. Corn or cellulosic, or sugarcane ethanol, soy or algae biodiesel. Or compressed natural gas. These are not recommended options. And again I'm not trying to criticize them, although some of these you can really criticize a lot. But I'm just saying they're not so good as what we call the wind, water,