[permaculture] Marin Carbon Project 'Soil Carbon Study Results Release'
Darren Doherty
darren at permaculture.biz
Thu Sep 25 17:06:02 EDT 2008
G'day,
My apologies Lawrence...I didn't realise that there was an attachment
contained in this post....
All the best,
Darren
On 26/09/2008, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lflj at intrex.net> wrote:
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> Subject: Marin Carbon Project 'Soil Carbon Study Results Release'
> From: "Darren Doherty" <darren at permaculture.biz>
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:38:17 +1100
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> G'day,
>
> Following is an note from Andrew Fynn, Project Officer with the Marin Carbon Project. Andrew attended a Keyline Design
> Course I led in Two Rock, CA last November 2007, that was successfully convened by the Regenerative Design Institute
> (over 100 people for a 3 day event). That was followed by me introducing the idea that Carbon markets should be
> developed locally 1st and then globally, so as to encourage local generation of sequestration funds, which are then to
> be used on farm for regenerative system development..this would then be followed by moves to attract global voluntary
> offset funds. The incentive with our approach that the more regenerative you are the more carbon you sequester, the more
> funding you get for doing so. And so the Marin Carbon Project was born. One of the project's main sponsors said, "You
> can come and visit your Carbon!".
>
> This had to start with some reality though. My close colleague and friend Abe Collins (www.carbonfarmersofamerica.com)
> and I led facilitated workshops with targeted stakeholders of various educational, governmental, and organic
> agricultural sector institutions to determine the best way forward. We used a facilitation method normally reserved for
> conflict resolution where 'best and worst possible outcomes' were at times uncomfortably 'extracted' with questions of
> the 'effects on Marin County of not building soil carbon versus building' it were asked among a many others. The main
> determinations that came out of this process were around how much and for what price could atmospheric carbon be stored
> in the agricultural soils of Marin County? This led to a 16 farm study by the University of California, the results of
> which are going to be released on October the 7th.
>
> A parallel though much larger and broader study is also being conducted across the US through Cornell University and was
> designed by Abe Collins. This will determine on these farms the agronomic potential of using a whole range of soil
> carbon procedures that are currently known to us. The metric of this is enormous, though will have as a base parameter
> the use of Holistic Management(R) Planned Grazing (AKA Management Intensive Grazing) and Yeomans Keyline Plowing.
>
> Those of us currently involved in the 'Soil Carbon movement' are naturally looking forward to the outcomes of this UC
> Marin & Sanoma study, so we have some planning baselines in moderately brittle environments. Interestingly Dr. Christine
> Jones (www.amazingcarbon.com) will be releasing the results of a similar Australian study in November 2008 at the
> Australian Carbon Farming Conference in Orange NSW....
>
> Our informed hope is that there will be big lift in activity to get a lot of this excess atmospheric carbon back where
> it should be: in the ground helping to improve the mineral and water cycles of our planet.....
>
> Below is the open invitation to the Marin Carbon Project event:
>
> _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> From: Andrew Fynn [mailto:andrew at marincarbonproject.org]
>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:47 PM
> To: Andrew Fynn
> Subject: MCP at CFDA Sacramento, Oct 7 Noon
>
>
>
> Dear All
>
>
>
> I am pleased to announce that the Marin Carbon Project's Whendee Silver will present information about soil carbon
> sequestration and preliminary results from MCP's soil survey (carried out on Marin and Sonoma rangelands), in Room 133
> of California Department of Food and Agriculture, 1220 N Street, Sacramento at Noon on Tuesday 7 October.
>
>
>
> Please attend if you can, or pass on this email to others.
>
>
>
> What is the true potential for carbon sequestration in California rangelands? Which land management practices can help
> achieve that? Future MCP research could help answer these questions and quantify
>
> the role of soil carbon sequestration as a response to the mandated targets of AB 32.
>
>
>
> If you have questions about the location of the seminar, please contact CDFA's Merry Wells at 657-4956. If you have any
> other questions, please contact me.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> Andrew Fynn
>
>
>
> Andrew Fynn
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