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  • From: trevor william johnson <john2116@msu.edu>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] carbon sequestration
  • Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:41:20 -0500

This past weekend i attended the organic conference in east lansing michingan. the keynote speaker was Tim LaSale who is the CEO of the rodale institute. he presented on research that quantifies the amount of carbon sequestered in the soil by using sustainable/organic techniques along with a tool called the roler/crimper to create a mulch on the top of the soil from the winters cover (i saw vetch and rye used). the crops are then planted through the mulch with a no till seeder/transplanter. the numbers were as high as 1500 pounds per acre. he suggested tat the government should create a program that pays farmers to use these techniques and sequester carbon rather than sell whatever they are growing for less than the cost of production through subsidies. he was really inspiring and i am now going to create my own version of the roller crimper to use in a 2.5 acre community garden i participate in.

Regarding Pimental, LaSale quoted him a few times but not for data, just for conversations about the roller crimper. i have found pimental to be a double edges sword in sustainable ag. i have seen his ethanol research and read what he has to say in regards to coal and it is clearly crap. However just like an allelopathic plant like the black walnut...nothing is all bad or all good and pimentel clearly has two distinct faces on sustainability. does anyone on the list know pimental and is willing to comment on his character?

trevor
On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote:

Darren Doherty wrote:

People might like to know that one of my Marin County (CA) clients has
sponsored Dr David Pimental of Cornell University (through CFA) to conduct a
wide ranging monitoring study on a range of different methods applied by CFA
farmers (across the US) that they use to increase Soil Organic Carbon (such
as Managment Intensive Grazing or MIG, Keyline Plowing, Soil Amendments,
Compost/Compost Teas, and just about everything else that we think, but have
not necessarily quantifiably, increases SOC.


Your clients need to be informed that David Pimental was exposed by
the investigative journalist Jack Anderson as being a fraud who was
actually drawing a regular salary from Mobile Oil when he did his phoney
studies on ethanol production. Pimental even admitted it during a radio
interview. David Blume, in his great book, "Alcohol Can Be A Gas", which
is about the permaculture way to energy independence, spends some time
exposing the fraud in Pimental's "study". It's also quite telling that
Pimental publishes a lot of his work in a "peer-reviewed" journal that
is the mouthpiece of the mining and coal industry, and, indeed, Pimental
says himself that coal is the real answer to all our energy needs.


--
Harmon Seaver
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