Comments on: Seed bombs: Make the world greener while forcing your philosophy on others

By: matt

matt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:14:43 +0000

Grow up, people are trying to make the place where they live better. How is that socialist? Do something instead of criticizing others, and don’t let your dog piss on graves.

By: Kev is dumb

Kev is dumb — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:02:30 +0000

No one suggested throwing them into people’s yards. Jesus Christ.

By: Cosmodot

Cosmodot — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:34:02 +0000

I agree with Ray, but the only thing I would ever put in these “bombs” would be marijuana… And I would never introduce a species to an area that didn’t already support its existence.

Ecosystems are fragile but adaptive. But not so adaptive as to be able to keep up with our current rate of contamination… Something radical will happen soon. I’m not a religious person, but looking at the direction in which things are moving, I don’t see much hope. Many things will die. It will be known at another great extinction…

Mankind has been walking the earth for hundreds of thousands of years… Right? What was the stumbling stone upon which we learned technology? Or better, the accumulation of knowledge? Why do our minds accumulate knowledge? Because it’s beneficial. Of course! At every step, we gain or lose… Life is built on averages. There’s always a new bar. Set above the last. We’re nothing more than one successful chemical reaction causing the next.

Depressive Realism.

By: Cosmodot

Cosmodot — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:25:17 +0000

I agree with Ray, but the only thing I would ever put in these “bombs” would be marijuana… And I would never introduce a species to an area that didn’t already support its existence.

Depressive Realism.

By: Cosmodot

Cosmodot — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:19:48 +0000

You don’t eat ‘flowers’. You smoke them.

By: Lisabee

Lisabee — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:48:34 +0000

O.K., so I’m not a hippie, I am a conservative, but I just don’t understand why people can be so angry over something as innocent as planting seeds. Lighten up, the planet needs to be a little greener anyway.

By: marie

marie — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:11:37 +0000

be a vessel for Jah almighty amen brother! Just wanted to add plant native foods, not only because of the problem of infestation but also I would assume that doing so would ensure your “bombs” would have more of a change of continuing on in multiple generations. thanks to all participating in this, and keeping in mind the balance and the respect necessary to both nature and our fellow creatures!

By: marie

marie — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:08:04 +0000

i have no negative intentions or wish do argue merely to share opinions…just because the local farms and botanical gardens do not solely germinate native species, just because others do “wrong”, doesn’t mean it justifies another to do it as well.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:07:13 +0000

Sadly the Asian world of investment capitalists have turned on the great, lovable, but unsustainable, American Neanderthals, and the South Azadegan Oil Fields of Iran have been sold to China! Robbing him of fuel for his unsustainable follies. Due to this reversal, we must plant mostly edibles in our seed bombing efforts, to feed the starving urban masses of American Neanderthals about to be disenfranchised by their own capitalists, who went seeking loans from Asia, China to be specific, but Obama’s overtures for Trillions on loans were turned down,. The need however, remains! Plant food stuffs, everywhere possible in America , they will need food, far sooner than the world suspects, as crowds of unemployables in this computer age, grow there, and the American dollar sinks like a stone on world markets, hardly able now to buy a Canadian dollar! Soon to fall much further! God help our Great, lovable, American Neanderthals, looking like deer in the headlights soon, but looking away in pride, disgruntled egoism, disbelief right now! Plant Food not Lawns! Help Yourself over your own expanded propagandized ego big fellow! Many of you, now disenfranchised from the “System”, sick and dying, without fair medical care, will vouch for my statements, and back my patter with credible experiences! Ask Them! Then plant food for them!

By: MPPdotORG

MPPdotORG — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:16:23 +0000

I’d love to do this with hemp seed. People need to learn not to fear it.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:54:15 +0000

There certainly is an uproar over planting native species. While I agree that is best, look around at what’s going on in your local farms and botanical gardens. Native? Not quite.

By: ejes

ejes — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:12:20 +0000

Buzz kill

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:11:10 +0000

Interesting. Someone could potentially use this idea for harm by creating Kudzu Bombs… which would then grow out of control, completely decimating the indigenous vegetation within a few years.

Scary.

By: Jester

Jester — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:35:40 +0000

Are humans not an invasive species then?

By: sackaveli

sackaveli — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:02:06 +0000

If we really care about the earth we need to think about what we plant and where we plant it. This type of planting, although on the surface looks as if it is a positive thing, can be very dangerous. Ecosystems are very fragile and planting hoards of non-native species by this manner creates unnatural imbalances. In other words invasive species could easily be spread by doing this. And above all remember that most the plants that we all think are beautiful were not meant to be spread across the entire world. They should be beautiful in the land that they originate in. Otherwise we get problems like that of Kudzu, Japanese bush honeysuckle, winter creeper and many other countless invasive problems. Please before you plant anything think of the Ecosystem and how that plant might spread. It is more important than you might think.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:56:18 +0000

And yes it was researched for native species. it is important to know what you are doing before you act.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:53:37 +0000

i have eco-friends that have “bombed” the gene laced fields of corn in hawaii with these. they work well in planting things where you can’t go but can throw. Just throw it and watch it grow. Disruption is not a bad thing.

By: Maui Mike

Maui Mike — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:31:03 +0000

Sorry to rain on the “green parade”, but Mr. JR is right: we don’t need more invasive species, even on so-called “brownfield plots.” Please choose your seed species carefully.

Invasive plant species are a very real and SERIOUS problem throughout the Western Hemisphere and Oceania. Where I live (Maui, Hawai’i), more than 40 percent of all “wild” plant species are classified as “weeds” and invasives. These trespassers out-compete native and indigenous species so effectively because they propagate quickly and create a desolate “monochromatic” landscape that eliminates the natural, biologically diverse balance of a patch of ground.

Unfortunately, here in Hawai’i most of the attractive flowering plants are invasive species that entrepreneurs and private gardeners have introduced as ornamental species; these plants escaped (easy-peasie for any plant worth its seedpods)and went nuts in the warm climate and fertile volcanic soils of the Islands.

If you MUST be a seed bomber, do some research beforehand and spread only native, naturalized, or indigenous seed species. Malama aina!

By: sara

sara — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:12:55 +0000

yes! I live in alabama. red clay is EVERYWHERE.
definitley doing this.

By: Jazzy

Jazzy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:05:51 +0000

I am going to do this with my kids, such a great way to teach them how to be green and have fun at the same time.