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["Darren Doherty" <darren@permaculture.biz>]

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@intrex.net> wrote:
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>  Subject: Marin Carbon Project 'Soil Carbon Study Results Release'
>  From: "Darren Doherty" <darren@permaculture.biz>
>  Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:38:17 +1100
>  To: "permacultue discussion list" 
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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@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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