Greening the world one sand dune at a time: tales from a corner of Brazil. Oh, and trash.

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Sunday June 13, 2010 · 7:34 AM PDT

2010/06/13 · 07:34

Although I have been an avid reader of Daily Kos for several years, essentially ever since Kos became the best and most rational voice confronting the propaganda of the Iraq War, this is the first time I have felt the urge to write a diary. Meteor Blades compelled me to do it with the "anything that you are doing to make your community a better place" urging. Although I am a political news junkie, I don't feel the urge to do enough research to be able to write what I would consider a justifiable diary, however, MB's gentle urging made me think of something that I am doing that I feel falls into the category of "making my community a better place".
As my screen name indicates, I live in Brazil (Brazil is spelled with an S in Brasil and a Brazilian is called a Brasileiro which has a very close phonetic sound to my name, hence brasilaaron),though I am still a US citizen.
I live in a beach town that has tourism as its main economic motor. This town has grown rapidly in the last few years and as such its economic growth has given residents purchasing power that far exceeds the environmental education knowledge that would allow them to deal with the trash and environmental degradation that comes along with it. So here comes what I do to make my community a better place...

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Re-vegetating a degraded and threatened ecosystem using non-native plants to act as "nurseries" for native vegetation is:

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Re-vegetating a degraded and threatened ecosystem using non-native plants to act as "nurseries" for native vegetation is:

An unqualified good thing

18 votes

Good: but non-native plants should be avoided, but still better than allowing the degredation to continue

47 votes

Kinda good, better than bad

2 votes

Bad: didn't we learn anything from the environmental disasters created by planting exotics (eucalyptus, Brazilian pepper, leucaena etc) for reforestation

6 votes

Evil, you are an eco-terrorist

0 votes

Can you re-forest the world with pie?

3 votes

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