[Scpg] The Carbon Economy Series/ Carbon Farming and Regenerative Agriculture Series workshops in Santa Fe June-Oct 2011

Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network lakinroe at silcom.com
Tue Apr 19 21:05:04 PDT 2011


http://www.carboneconomyseries.com/home-1


The Carbon Economy, Carbon Farming and 
Regenerative Agriculture Series workshops in 
Santa Fe
June-Oct 2011
with
Gary Liss ,Nate Downey, Owen Hablutzel, Joel 
Salatin, Kirk Gadzia, Elaine Ingham







Gary Liss Workshop Schedule June 24-26

Friday June 24,  Public Talk 7-9pm
Sustainability and Green Jobs through Zero Waste
Saturday, June 25,   All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Introduction to Zero Waste and Resource Management
Sunday, June 26,    All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Communities and Businesses Building a Zero Waste Economy
Gary Liss
Gary initiated Gary Liss & Associates, where he 
is the President and Managing Director.  Serving 
international municipal and private-sector 
clients, his success has been built upon a 
history of bridging problems with solutions and 
creating environmental programs that have 
economic benefits.  He is often the "go-to" 
person for national media on Zero Waste issues 
and has been included in articles in publications 
such as Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and
USA Today. 
He has a Masters in Public Administration from 
Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey and a 
Bachelor's in Civil Engineering (Environmental 
Engineering major) from Tufts University.  In 
2005, Mr. Liss went through extensive training in 
the Zero Emissions Research Initiatives and is 
now a Certified ZERI System Designer.
Previously he was Executive Director of the 
California Resource Recovery Association 
(CRRA).   For CRRA, Mr. Liss organized workshops 
and their Annual Conference, including the first 
Zero Waste Conference in the nation in 
1997.   Under his leadership, CRRA adopted its 
Agenda for the New Millennium, which calls for 
Zero Waste as a new goal for resource
and waste management.
He has designed and caused to be implemented Zero 
Waste Programs in Several countries, states, and 
cities, including: Los Angeles, Oakland, Burbank, 
San Jose in CA, Austin, TX, Central Vermont, 
Canberra, Australia, Nelson, BC. Mr. Liss has 
worked on more Zero Waste community plans than 
any other individual in the
United States.


The subjects covered will include The Four Keys to Zero Waste :
What is Zero Waste? How is different than Recycling?
Garbage is not inevitable. It is the result of 
bad design. It can be designed out of the system.
Community Organizing & Political Strategies for 
Zero Waste Zero Waste is systemic change. Change 
comes from the outside.
Key #1: New Rules & Economic Incentives
Rules make us and we make the rules. We need new 
rules because the old ones are not working. 
Economics is not a matter of immutable laws, but 
human-made rules and institutions.
Key #2: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) & 
Local Producer Responsibility (LPR)
Local Government can't control design, 
manufacture and distribution of products, but it 
can control what is sold and disposed within the 
community (LPR), and it can collaborate with 
other local governments to drive for changes at 
the state and national level (EPR).
Key #3: Purchasing for Zero Waste & EPR
One of every five purchasing dollars are spent by 
government. We should use our tax dollars to 
purchase the future we want. The combined power 
of government/large contractor purchasing will 
dictate changes product design and manufacture 
that we cannot legislate.
Key #4: Financing & Transitioning to a Zero Waste Future
What infrastructure do we need in a world without 
landfills and garbage? Who will pay for it? What 
alternatives to landfills and incinerators do we 
need right now?
Closing: Elements of a Zero Waste Plan & Resources

	*	Information
	*	Sponsors
	*	Forum
	*	Scholarships

Nate Downey - Water Harvesting in Arid Lands - July 22-23
Nate Downey schedule:
Friday July 22,   Public Talk 7-9pm
Water Our Most Precious Resource
Saturday, July 23,  All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Pattern Applications for Water Harvesting in Arid Lands

Pattern Applications for Water Harvesting in Arid Lands

In order to increase the efficiency and 
productivity of our designed landscapes and the 
built environment, permaculture uses natural 
patterns. Branches funnel and spread energy. 
Spirals hold and release the forces of nature. 
Webs trap nutrients while they let even the most 
intense winds pass through them. We can mimic 
these patterns (and many more) to our benefit 
when we harvest water on and in the land. Join 
eco-author and permaculture designer, Nate 
Downey, for an eye-opening, knowledge-based, and 
fun-filled day that will include various forms of 
information in a wide variety of settings ranging 
from lecture and group discussion to hands-on 
learning and real-life demonstration.


Owen Hablutzel & Nate Downey        July 22-24


Owen Hablutzel
Owen Hablutzel is a consultant, educator and a 
director of the Permaculture Research Institute, 
USA. His recent focus has been on integration of 
a broad spectrum of practical, leading-edge 
solutions capable of addressing, at multiple 
scales, the accelerating global social-ecological 
crisis. These regenerative frameworks include 
Permaculture, Keyline Design®, Holistic 
Managment®, Resilience Theory and Practice, Soil 
Food Web, Zero Emissions Research Initiative, 
Watershed Restoration, Myco-restoration, and an 
assortment of emerging Social Technologies.
Owen was trained in Keyline Design under the 
world's leading Keyline practitioner, Darren 
Doherty.  He has lived and worked in Africa, 
Australia, and much of the western United States.
Owen Hablutzel is a whole farm planning 
consultant, educator and a director of the 
non-profit, Permaculture Research Institute, USA. 
His focus is on collaboration with clients to 
generate fertile and resilient farms, ranches, 
and watersheds using a diversity of proven 
practical, cost-effective, and ecologically sound 
strategies.  Owen was trained in Keyline Design® 
under the world's leading Keyline practitioner, 
Darren Doherty (http://www.regenag.com).  He has 
lived and worked in Africa, Australia, and much 
of the western United States.  Owen holds a 
masters degree in Eastern Philosophy--the 
original systems theory and science of the 
whole--from St. John's College in New Mexico.


In July the Carbon Economy Series Friday Lecture and two day Saturday & Sunday
Workshop subject is Keyline Design and Broad acre Permaculture, our featured
presenters are Nate Downey & Owen Hablutzel.

Schedule for Owen Hablutzel & Nate Downey
Friday July 22,  Public Talk 7-9pm
Water Our Most Precious Resource - Nate Downey
Saturday, July 23,  All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Pattern Applications for Water Harvesting in Arid Lands - Nate Downey
Sunday, July 24,  All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Keyline Design - Owen Hablutzel
register here

About Keyline Design
  Keyline Design emerged from Australia in the 
1940's and is one of the first farm planning 
frameworks to take a whole-system approach 
towards achieving a 'permanent agriculture'.  The 
originator, P.A.Yeoman, developed planning tools 
and innovations using his knowledge of geology, 
hydrology, and soils. He was able to 
drought-proof and diversify the farm while 
increasing yields and building topsoil at 
astounding rates, in a cost-effective fashion.
  As part of his water harvesting and soil 
building innovations, Yeoman developed a unique 
device known as the Yeoman's Plow.  This 
implement is designed to break compaction and 
aerate soil profiles with minimal undesirable 
disturbance to soil life by not inverting the 
existing soil layers.  Used in the proper 
geomorphic pattern of ripping, maximum soil 
moisture, explosive pulses of soil life, and 
rapid building of topsoil can result.  Good 
results have been found in brush control 
situations as well.
The Keyline course will cover:
·       Whole landscape water harvesting to get the most from every drop
·       Discovering secrets of rapid creation of healthy topsoil
·       Connecting and integrating farm 
infrastructure, layout, and functions for improved
         efficiencies and synergy
·       Increasing the yields and resilience of your land and your operation
·       Practicing techniques for contour 
surveying and mapping 'on the cheap' in any 
environment
·       Learning to create and implement a whole 
farm plan using the insights of Keyline Design
·       Watching the Yeoman's Keyline Plow in action

Owen has written several articles on prior Carbon Economy courses.
Here are links where you can check them out:
http://www.permacultureusa.org/2009/12/03/sustainable-land-management-course
http://www.permacultureusa.org/2009/11/07/soil-food-web-course-with-dr-elaine-ingham/

Joel Salatin - Polyface Farms  August 26 - 27

Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin, 53, is a full time farmer in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
A third generation alternative farmer, he 
returned to the farm full time in 1982 and 
continued refining and adding to his
parents' ideas.
The farm services more than 3,000 families, 10 
retail outlets, and 50 restaurants through 
on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with 
salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, 
pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured 
turkey and forestry products using relationship 
marketing.
  He holds a BA degree in English and writes 
extensively in magazines such as STOCKMAN GRASS 
FARMER, ACRES USA, and AMERICAN AGRICULTURALIST.
  The family's farm, Polyface Inc. ("The Farm of 
Many Faces") has been featured in SMITHSONIAN 
MAGAZINE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, GOURMET and 
countless other radio,television and print media. 
Profiled on the Lives of the 21st Century series 
with Peter Jennings on ABC World News, his 
after-broadcast chat room fielded more hits than 
any other segment to date. It achieved iconic 
status as the grass farm featured in the NEW YORK 
TIMES bestseller OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA by food 
writer guru Michael Pollan.

Joel Salatin schedule:
Friday August 26,   Public Talk 7-9pm
Building  Local Food Systems
Saturday, August 27,  All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Ballet in the Pasture
register here


Ballet in the Pasture (1 day workshop August 27)

Polyface Farm's choreographed plant-animal 
symbiosis heals the landscape, the community, and 
the eater. A theatrical performance mixing humor 
and bomb-shell food system analysis, Salatin's 
stemwinder educates, entertains, and encourages. 
First rate pictures let the audience take a 
virtual tour around this grass-based 
multi-species livestock farm. Salatin's 
passionate explanations offer up a veritable 
epiphany on food and farming. Life-changing and 
ultimately memorable, Ballet in the Pasture is 
Salatin's signature performance.

Joel Salatin is a masterful speaker whose humor 
and positive energy guarantees a rewarding 
course. Over two information packed days Joel 
takes us through his entire family farm operation 
from the production of pastured poultry (eggs, 
broilers, turkeys), salad bar beef, pigaerator 
pork, forage-based rabbits & forestry products 
through to the relationship marketing approach 
his family business has developed that has made 
Polyface Farm the internationally recognized, and 
strictly local farm it is today.
If you are a farmer, understand your potential to 
renew and inspire your local community through 
clean food. If you live in town, discover the 
power you have to patronize your local farms and 
decouple them from wholly unfair corporate 
forces. Help your local farmers transform their 
farms into profitable and wholesome operations 
producing food you can trust. Become instrumental 
in the conscientious transformation of the 
dangerously toxic and destructive food production 
status quo towards the wholesome regenerative 
model the Polyface Farms have proven wildly 
successful. With Joel you'll reveal the 
astonishingly obvious steps we all must take 
towards a future that is beyond sustainable.
Act to regenerate your land, water & community.
Topics Include
	*	Grass-fed beef ('Salad Bar Beef')
	*	Pastured Poultry (Eggs, broilers & turkeys)
	*	Pig Keeping ('Pigaerator Pork')
	*	Forage-Based Rabbits
	*	Value-added Forestry
	*	Relationship marketing
	*	Navigating legalities
	*	Whole farm planning
	*	Simple irrigation methods
	*	Wildlife habitat benefits the farm
	*	Developing local food networks
	*	Multi-generational family farms
	*	Principles of profitable farming
	*	On-farm nutrient cycling
	*	Buyer advice for the local food movement
	*	So much moreŠ


Local Food to the Rescue (August 26, Friday evening talk)
Biosecurity, food borne pathogens, energy, 
integrity, humane husbandry: local food can 
correct it all. But to really be a credible 
percentage of the global food system, it must 
develop six integrated components: production, 
processing, marketing, accounting, distribution, 
and patrons. Building a local food system that 
works requires aromatic and aesthetic production 
models that reintroduce the butcher, baker, and 
candlestick maker into the community. Economies 
of scale in collaborative food shed distribution 
compete with corporate volume. And patrons must 
rediscover their kitchens, eating seasonally and 
relearning domestic culinary arts.

Kirk Gadzia - Holistic Land Management     September 17-18


Kirk Gadzia

Gadzia, is a Certified Educator with the Holistic 
Management International Center. He has over 20 
years experience teaching the concepts of 
Holistic Management® worldwide.
Kirk is co-author of the important National 
Academy of Sciences book: Rangeland Health. He 
holds a BS degree in Wildlife Biology and an MS 
in Range Science.
Kirk works directly with producers to achieve 
profitability in their operations. He also 
provides customized training and consulting to a 
wide variety of conservation organizations.
Years of assisting people on the land helps Kirk 
approach the course in an interactive, hands-on 
style. His courses are known for a relaxed 
atmosphere, open dialogue and practical real-life 
examples.
In September the Carbon Economy Series Friday Lecture and Saturday/Sunday
Workshop general subject is Holistic Land Management,
our featured presenter is Kirk Gadzia.

Kirk Gadzia schedule:
Friday September 16,   Public Talk 7-9pm
Healthy Land, Healthy Families, Hefty Profits
Saturday, September 17,  All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Holistic Land Management
Sunday, September 18,   All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Holistic Range land Management

Holistic Land Management
Resource Management Services, LLC (RMS) is a New 
Mexico based consulting, training and monitoring 
organization committed to assisting private and 
professional resource managers achieve 
sustainable results. RMS was founded by Kirk 
Gadzia of Bernalillo, New Mexico. Resource 
Management Services, LLC is a New Mexico based 
consulting, training and monitoring organization 
committed to assisting private and professional 
resource managers achieve sustainable results. 
Applying a systems-thinking approach to managing 
land resources to improve production, generate 
financial strength, regenerate ecosystems, and 
improve the quality of life for those who use it.
  An intensive 2-day introduction to Holisitic 
Management (HM). A comprehensive system of land 
management that provides farmers, land managers, 
land consultants, landcare volunteers and 
professionals, permaculture practitioners and 
others with a proven set of practical methods for 
boasting fertility, increasing land carrying 
capacity, farm productivity and profits without 
sacrificing land health. Holisitic Management 
techniques are genuinely regenerative.
Holistic Resource Management was pioneered by 
Allan Savory more than 40 years ago to offer land 
stewards a way to make grazing, land management 
and financial decisions that positively impact 
land health and productivity. More than 30 
million acres of land worldwide currently benefit 
from Holistic Management practices.
When land is under Holistic Management, land 
managers manage the relationships between land, 
grazing animals, and water in ways that mimic 
nature. This approach yields incredible results.
Topics Include
	*	Improving grazing productivity
	*	Increasing annual profits
	*	Enhancing livelihoods
	*	Optimal use of water resources
	*	Growing healthier crops
	*	Obtaining higher yields
	*	Improving soil health
	*	Increasing diversity
	*	Reversing desertification
	*	Increasing food and water security
	*	Enhancing family relationships
	*	Soil Carbon Sequestration
Dr. Elaine Ingham - The Soil Food Web & 
Composting Technology        October 14-16

Dr. Elaine Ingham
President and Director
of Research at Soil Foodweb Inc., is one of the 
world's leading soil microbiologists with 30 
years of experience researching and teaching 
about the world and creatures under the soil. 
Her energetic and easy-to-understand teaching 
style brings the soil foodweb to life.
Elaine received her doctorate degree in 
Microbiology with an emphasis on soil from 
Colorado State University. She was offered 
Post-doctoral Fellowship, at the Natural Resource 
Ecology Lab at Colorado State University and 
accepted a Research Associate Fellowship at the 
University of Georgia.
She moved to Oregon State University, and joined 
the faculty in both Forest Science and Botany and 
Plant Pathology. 
At OSU she created a service offering researchers 
and commercial clients the ability to have soil 
samples analyzed for soil foodweb organisms. When 
the number of samples coming into the Soil 
Microbial Biomass Service was close to 8,000 
samples a year, and the amount of lab space 
required to process this number of samples was 
greater than originally planned. The head of 
Elaine's department asked that the commercial 
portion of the Biomass Service be taken 
off-campus. Thus Soil Foodweb Inc. became a 
commercial enterprise. Soil Foodweb Inc. now has 
labs in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and 
Eastern and Western Canada.
With the move into a private lab, Elaine's focus 
turned more to grower-related issues, focusing on 
the expense of intensive chemical use as well as 
the damage these chemicals inflict on beneficial 
organisms in the soil and on foliage.
Working on compost tea with many people around 
the world has brought a greater understanding of 
how to properly manage thermally produced 
compost, vermicompost, and compost tea to 
guarantee disease-suppressive, soil-building, 
nutrient-retaining composts and compost teas.
Rodale Institute Names Dr. Elaine Ingham as New Chief Scientist

World-renowned soil biology expert to join Rodale Institute

KUTZTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Rodale 
Institute, a non-profit dedicated to pioneering 
organic farming through research and outreach, 
today announced the appointment of Dr. Elaine 
Ingham as Chief Scientist. Dr. Ingham has lead 
Soil Foodweb, Inc. as president and director of 
research since 1996, helping farmers all over the 
world to grow more resilient crops by 
understanding and improving their soil. She is 
also an affiliate professor at Maharishi 
University of Management in Iowa and has served 
in academia for two decades.


In her new role as Chief Scientist, Dr. Ingham 
will take the lead on all Rodale Institute 
research projects; act as the scientific voice 
for the Institute as she travels worldwide; and 
help create a vision for the future of food and 
farming.

"Dr. Ingham is a true, card-carrying Soil 
Biologist-a rare entity. As one of the foremost 
authorities on practical soil biology management, 
she is uniquely qualified to pioneer new 
frontiers of organic research with the Rodale 
Institute," says Executive Director Mark 
Smallwood. "We are very excited to have her join 
our team."

Since it's founding in 1947 by J.I. Rodale, the 
Rodale Institute has been committed to 
groundbreaking research in organic agriculture, 
advocating for policies that support farmers, and 
educating people about how organic is the safest, 
healthiest option for people and the planet. The 
Institute is home to the Farming Systems TrialTM 
(FST), America's longest-running side-by-side 
comparison of chemical and organic agriculture. 
Consistent results from the study have shown that 
organic yields match or surpass those of 
conventional farming. In years of drought, 
organic corn yields are about 30% higher. This 
year, 2011 marks the 30th year of the trial. New 
areas of study at the Rodale Institute include 
rates of carbon sequestration in chemical versus 
organic plots and new techniques for weed 
suppression.

ABOUT RODALE INSTITUTE

Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit 
dedicated to pioneering organic farming through 
research and outreach. For over sixty-years, 
we've been researching the best practices of 
organic agriculture and sharing our findings with 
farmers and scientists throughout the world, 
advocating for policies that support farmers, and 
educating consumers about how going organic is 
the healthiest options for people and the planet.
Contacts

Rodale Institute
Maya Rodale, 610-683-1483
maya.rodale at rodaleinst.org

In October, the Carbon Economy Series Friday 
Lecture and two day Saturday & Sunday Workshop 
subject is the The Soil Food Web,
our featured presenter is Dr. Elaine Ingham.

Elaine Ingham schedule:
Friday, October 14, 2011    Public Talk 7-9pm
Living Soil is Where It's At
Saturday, October 15, 2011    All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Introduction to Soil Foodweb   
Sunday,October 15, 201    All Day Workshop 9:30-4:30 pm
Soil Foodweb and Compost Tea Technology
register here  

The Friday Lecture will be: Living Soil is Where It's At.
Soil guru Dr. Elaine Ingham explains why 
conventional agriculture is ruining our soil and 
how to fix it.
  Saturday & Sunday Intensives will be: Intro to Soil Foodweb
Soil Foodweb Sustainable Studies Institute Workshops
Dr. Elaine Ingham has developed three in-depth 
workshops at her Soil Foodweb, Inc.
Laboratory. Now taught through the Sustainable 
Studies Institute in Corvallis, Oregon,
the courses include classroom instruction, 
hands-on lab work, and field demonstrations.
Introduction to the Soil Foodweb - 2 days

Introduction to the Soil Foodweb Elaine Ingham, PhD
Two Days (8:00 am to 5:00 pm)
What is Biological Farming? Examples
Soil Foodweb Principles
. Productivity versus Foodweb Complexity
. Methods
. How-to-do-it Example
. Biology, Chemistry, Compost, Compost Tea
The Soil Foodweb: Myths, Roots, Compaction, Calcium
Energy
Disease Suppression
Nutrient Retention including C:N
Foodweb Picture
Nutrient Cycling
. N Cycle
. What form of nutrient do plants need?
. How much N, P, K, Mg, S, B do plants need?
Soil Structure - Who builds which parts?
Complexity revisited
Succession
Disturbance
Microscope Demonstrations
System-by-System Approaches
. Grasslands
. Crops
. Vines
. Orchards
Sampling
Data Needed to fix things biologically
Compost Technology
Prerequisite: Introduction to Soil Foodweb Workshop or Equivalent
One Day (8:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Review of Important Soil Foodweb Concepts
. The right organisms for the plant desired
. The right food for the plant desired
Making Thermal Compost: Important Parameters
. Starting materials, temperature, aeration, turning and particle size
. Commercial recipes approach
. Small scale approach
Soil Foodweb Sustainable Studies Institute Workshops
. Home owner approach
The Important Parameters in Making:
. Worm Compost
. In-Vessel Composting
. Static Composting
Definition of Good Compost
. Immature versus mature compost
. Stability
. Compost standards
How to Determine Whether Soil Needs Compost
. Rates of decomposition, smell, color
. When to do organism assays and which assays to run
. Does your soil have the right organisms in the right numbers?
Field Approach: Vegetables, Lawns, Orchards, Vineyards
Field Approach: Thermal and Worm Compost Farms
Compost Tea Technology
Prerequisites: Introduction to Soil Foodweb 
Workshop; Compost Technology Workshop
One Day (8:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Definition of Good Tea
. Maturity, stability, E. Coli, Standards
. Aerated Compost Tea versus Not-Aerated Tea
. Plant Tea, etc.
Making Compost Tea: Essential Components
. The brewing cycle, the right compost, 
extraction, aeration, water source, recipes, 
growing fungi, E. coli
issues
. Recipes
The Important Parameters in Testing Compost Tea
Determining Whether Plants Need Compost Tea
. Rates of decomposition, smell, color
. When to do organism assays, which assays to run
. Does your foliage have enough of the right organisms?
Altering the Foodweb in Soil & on Plant Surfaces
. The right organisms for the plant desired
. Bacterial or fungal dominated tea?
. The right foods for the plant desired
. Commercial products
How to Use Compost Tea in a Successful Program
. Turf
. Landscape
. Orchard
. Row Crops/Vegetables
Microscope Demonstration of Different Teas


Why we are here

Genesis

The Carbon Economy, Carbon Farming and 
Regenerative Agriculture Series workshops in 
Santa Fe a re born out of the inspiration of a 
few and the efforts of many.  First, I applaud 
with gratitude the genius, impetus and energy of 
Australian permaculturist Darren Doherty 
(http://www.regenag.com) who came up with the 
concept for this series.

I was fortunate to be hosted by the wonderful 
multigenerational Tautrim family on Orella Ranch 
(http://www.orellaranch.com) next to the 
glimmering Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, CA for 
my first Carbon Series experience in 2009.  The 
world renowned teachers and eager participants 
discussed topics which were highly enlightening 
and edifying to all. We were lovingly taken care 
of by the kind people of Quail Springs 
(http://www.quailsprings.org) who produced the 
event.  That pivotal experience inspired me to 
offer the Carbon Economy Series in Santa Fe, NM 
in 2011.

As Pablo Lugari, the celebrated pioneer of 
sustainable practices from Colombia explained to 
a group of us who visited Gaviotas 
(http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org)  last 
November; all life depends on the delicate 
balance of the gasses in our atmosphere.  This 
balance has coevolved with the vegetative skin of 
the planet.  This vegetative envelope is the 
succession of species flowing from a one cell 
organism like cyanobacteria, to algae, to 
grasses, and vegetables.
This flow continues to bushes, deciduous trees 
and finally to the mighty conifers.  This 
membrane uses sunlight, carbon, soil, and water 
to produce oxygen and food. 

The soil-food-web supports all the life we see 
and experience in our daily life.  It is more 
complex than all the species we know on the 
surface of the land and under water.  We have 
only identified 2% of the organisms in 
soil.   Three groups have been identified: 
bacteria, fungi and micro organisms like 
nematodes.  Their varying proportion sets up the 
conditions to nurture the different families of 
plants. These biological organisms use tremendous 
amounts of carbon to break down mother rock and 
her substrates into a less complex mineral 
structure which plants can utilize to 
thrive.  These organisms, along with the grass 
family, sequester more carbon and release more 
oxygen than tropical rain forests.

We can all sequester more carbon and replenish 
the biology of the earth's soil membrane with the 
natural practices to be discussed in theory and 
practice in the Carbon Economy Series.  Join us.

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