(the answer’s been right under our feet all along? – promoted by eli_beckerman)
Something is happening in the organic farming community. This year the Northeast Organic Farming Association has been exploring carbon farming, “regenerative organic agricultural techniques for sequestering atmospheric carbon in stable soil aggregates.” The NOFA Summer Conference at the beginning of August (http://www.nofasummerconference.org) had a Soil Carbon and Climate Track with eight presenters, including the keynoter, Dr. Elaine Ingham, who gave workshops about farming methods that take carbon from the air and add it to the soil while improving fertility and tilth.
The sessions are available at
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9j2…
In September, the MA chapter of NOFA (NOFAMASS) (http://www.nofamass.org) held two seminars in Amherst and Newton with the Australian soil scientist, Christine Jones explaining the science of soil systems and talking about practical ways to sequester carbon in soil:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lvp…
My notes from the Newton workshop
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot…
On Monday, November 3, 2014, NOFAMASS will have an all-day workshop on Succeeding with Grass-Fed Beef: Human Health, Carbon Sequestration, and Farm Viability at Heifer International, 216 Wachusett Street, Rutland, MA led by Ridge Shinn, an expert in grass-fed and grass-finished beef with experience in all parts of the industry.
http://www.nofamass.org/events…
Registration questions: Christine Rainville, 508-572-0816, registrationma@nofamass.org
Event information: Ben Grosscup, 413-658-5374, ben.grosscup@nofamass.org
“What we are learning from the presenters recorded above is that not only is the world in enormous danger from climate disruption, but also the regenerative organic agricultural practices that NOFA promotes offer genuine promise for a livable future on this planet.”
Organic farming saves the world. Rebuild soils while producing more and more nutritious food all while taking carbon out of the atmosphere. Sounds to me like ecological systems design or geotherapy.
At the end of November, 11/21-23, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (http://bio4climate.org) is hosting a conference at Tufts University in Medford on Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming (http://bio4climate.org/conference-2014/) (I’ve been tangentially involved in the planning) which will explore ecological systems design in more detail:
“While emissions reductions are absolutely essential, at this point they are no longer sufficient to address the accelerating pace of climate change, even if they were suddenly to go to zero (and we know they won’t). But here’s the good news: restoring degraded ecosystems around the world has the capacity to capture and store all excess atmospheric carbon, pulling it out of the skies and into the soils where it does a world of good. It uses nature’s very own basis for all multicellular life on earth, photosynthesis.
“At the same time that low-tech eco-restoration quickly and inexpensively addresses climate, it brings biodiversity, water, food and economic stability to local communities, especially in developing countries. But even in the industrialized nations it could turn the California drought on its head, calm the battering of our shorelines, cool the wildfires, and moderate the wild swings in temperature and rainfall.”
https://www.indiegogo.com/proj…
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