[permaculture] Carbon Sequestration
Tyrone LaFay
earthcaredesign at peacemail.com
Thu Feb 28 13:00:49 EST 2008
A more recent report with some good data on forests and related ecosystems can be found at:
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/07Apr/RL31432.pdf
The New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has some of the most comprehensive data that I have found to date:
http://www.maf.govt.nz/forestry/pfsi/carbon-sequestration-rates.htm
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Tyrone LaFay
Earthcare Design Solutions
earthcaredesign at peacemail.com
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:43:53 -0800
From: "Kathleen O'Brien Blair" <ktho at comcast.net>
Subject: [permaculture] carbon sequestration
To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org>
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Has anyone done the calculations to figure out how much un-built-upon
green surface we need to re-absorb all the carbon we've flung up out of
the bowels of the Underworld? And what kind of surface works best?
(forest, grasslands, crop-lands etc.?)
I just don't see stopping this planetary warming trend - I think we're
going to have to improvise, adapt, and overcome until the planet can do
Her clean-up-the-carbon housekeeping. But She's gonna need lots of
un-built-on surface to do that. The built environment is incapable of
sequestering carbon at the rate it needs to be sequestered.
Bottom line- if we don't stop the "growth & development & progress"
mafia - we're toast. We can't afford any more new built environment on
un-built-upon ground. Any.
Kathleen
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