[CRNMC] Fwd: Good News Climate Change

[Tammy Davis]

Yes, there are a number of active carbon sequestration projects. Just 
some of the work being done in California...
CalFire Carbon Sequestration 
<calfire.ca.gov/resource.../resource_mgt_stateforests_carb.php>
The Marin Carbon Project <www.marincarbonproject.org>
Univ of Calif Forest Research and Outreach 
<http://ucanr.edu/sites/forestry/Carbon/>
The West Coast Regional /Carbon Sequestration/ Partnership 
<www.westcarb.org>
Carbon Sequestration and Storage, by Calif Forests and Forest Products 
<www.calforests.org>
Hydrogen Energy California Project 
<sequestration.mit.edu/tools/projects/heca.html>- HECA Carbon Capture 
and Sequestration Technologies

You can find all of these and more by doing a Google search.



On 1/26/2015 6:51 PM, Baile Oakes wrote:
> Today from a friend.
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> Does anyone else know of more work like this ?
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>> I want to tell you about a recent book (2014) that is more hopeful 
>> about climate change deceleration than anything else I've read or 
>> heard about. The big thing is that no one is really talk about the 
>> other half of the carbon story. And it is a huge half. The focus we 
>> hear about is only on emissions and not on organic sequestration or 
>> storage of carbon in soil and wetlands.
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>> In his book, /Grass, Soil, Hope,/ Courtney White travels the world 
>> from Marin to Australia, and England to New England and New Orleans 
>> meeting characters and learning about projects and studies that show 
>> we can sequester carbon in rangelands and wetlands at an incredibly 
>> fast rate. A UC Davis professor discovered in a field study that 
>> rangeland in CA managed sustainably could sequester carbon so 
>> efficiently that if half the rangelands in CA were managed that way 
>> _*all the carbon*_ emitted by cars and industry would be absorbed and 
>> stored deeply in the soil _*each year.*_
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>> In the foreword Michael Pollan writes this about Courtney's book--
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>> "Hope in a book about environmental challenges we face in the 
>> twenty-first century is an audacious thing to promise, so I'm pleased 
>> to report that Courtney White delivers on it. He has written a 
>> stirringly hopeful book."
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>> I first met Courtney at Bioneers and his can do spirit is part of 
>> what inspired me to go back and create Sierra Green Days in Calaveras 
>> County. When I got to the end of the book I found he lives 10 miles 
>> south of me! You can also go to www.quiviracoalition.org 
>> <http://www.quiviracoalition.org/> to see his work if you don't 
>> remember who he is. I went to the 2013 Quivira Coalition Conference 
>> in Albuquerque where Gary Snider was the keynote address."
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