As Bill Mollison, founder of the global
Permaculture movement has famously stated “Though the problems of the
world become increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple”.
Too much carbon in the atmosphere is one of those complex, seemingly
unsolvable problems the world is facing right now, but as the event below
demonstrates, there are solutions! Please join us on the SBCC
campus for an evening with one of the world’s leading authorities on
Carbon Farming.
The Carbon
Farming Solution
With Eric
Toensmeier
A Live, Interactive
Video Conference Event with Eric Toensmeier
SBCC Campus
with participating
students, faculty, & the public invited
Including a panel
of key community members
Sunday,
April 30, 2017, 6- 8:30pm
Admission $5, Students
Free (with current i.d.)
Location: Fe Bland Auditorium/BC
Forum, Santa Barbara City College (West Campus)
800 Block of Cliff
Drive, Santa Barbara, CA
Learn More: www.sbpermaculture.org
If every farmer in the USA practiced
Carbon Farming, in less than 10 years,
we would sequester ALL the CARBON that has been emitted since the
Industrial Age
Joel Salatin,
POLYFACE Farm
Read more….
As the climate
crisis heats up, agriculture is in the hot seat, not only as a contributor to
climate change, but also as a potential solution. Eric Toensmeier has spent the
last several years tracking both, and put much of what he learned in his
seminal book, The Carbon Farming Solution.
Join us on Sunday, April 30th
for a unique live interactive webinar on the SBCC Campus, as Eric Toensmeier
discusses the potential of Carbon Farming, one of the best and most doable solutions
for the Climate crisis, with an audience of students, faculty and the general
public.
Carbon is a naturally occurring
chemical compound vital to life, that provides soil its fertility and water
holding capacity, but since the industrial revolution and the advent of modern
farming practices, too much carbon has been released into the atmosphere
causing climate disruption.
According
to Toensmeier, Carbon farming is a suite of practices that sequester excess
atmospheric carbon while producing food and other necessary goods. While
doing so they often provide increased yields and ecosystem benefits. The
event will explore the global context, but also focus on practices suited
to California, including annual cropping, tree intercropping, grazing, silvopasture,
perennial crops, and rainwater harvesting. Collectively carbon farming
practices are a critical component of climate change mitigation, an effort that
requires a speedy transformation of virtually every sector of our civilization.
Eric Toensmeier is a lecturer at Yale
University, a senior fellow with Project Drawdown, and the author of several
books on Permaculture. Toensmeier is also the author of The Carbon
Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative
Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security.
Toensmeier will be joined by a panel
of Santa Barbara community members, who with a diverse audience of faculty,
students and general public, will pose questions specific to our region.
Hunter Francis, Director of the Cal Poly/San Luis Obispo Center for
Sustainability, will be the panel moderator.
The
event takes place on Sunday, April 30, 2017, 6- 8:30pm, at the Fe Bland/BC
Forum, SBCC West Campus, 800 Block of Cliff Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. No
reservations required. Parking is free on the West Campus on Sundays.
For more info contact Margie@sbpermacuture.org,
www.sbpermaculture.org;
805-962-2571.
Event Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/219678348511640/
SBCC Campus Map: http://sbcc.edu/map/map.php?loc=CC
Event Sponsored
by:
Santa
Barbara Permaculture Network & the SBCC Environmental Horticulture Dept.
Cosponsors: Community Environment
Council (CEC), CAFES Center for Sustainability Cal Poly San Luis
Obispo, Santa Barbara Food Alliance,
Quail Springs Permaculture,
& Orella Ranch
~A limited amount of the Carbon
Farming Solution books will be available for sale at the event, $81, cash
or check~
Panel Members:
ˇ
Hunter
Francis, Director of the Cal Poly/San Luis Obispo Center for Sustainability,
panel moderator
ˇ
Allegra
Roth - Field Representative for California
Assemblymember Monique Limón
ˇ
Sigrid
Wright - CEO/Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council (CEC)
ˇ
Emily
Miller - Food and Climate Program Associate, Community Environmental Council
(CEC)
ˇ
Paul
Relis - Senior Vice President
CR&R, Anaerobic Digestion Project, Perris, CA; first Executive Director of the Community
Environmental Council (CEC)
ˇ
Daniel
Parra Hensel – SBCC Faculty, Environmental
Horticulture Dept., Garden Supervisor SBCC Lifescape Garden; Board Member Quail
Springs Permaculture
ˇ
Jackson
Hayes - SBCC student, SBCC Associated Student Government (ASG) Commissioner of
Sustainability, member of SBCC Students for Sustainability Coalition
ˇ
Guner
Tautrim - Orella Ranch, member of Gaviota Coast Conservancy & the Gaviota
Coast Planning Advisory Committee (GavPAC), hosted Keyline Design workshop with
Darren Doherty in 2007.
Learn more:
Articles referring
to Carbon Farming:
Californias
Grand Plan to Fight Climate Change on the Farm California/ lawmakers move toward paying
farmers to adopt climate-smart practices. http://civileats.com/2016/02/02/californias-grand-plan-to-fight-climate-change-on-the-farm-jerry-brown/
Restoring Global Soil Quality Is One Of The Best Things We Can Do For
Climate Change:
Little known climate change fact: Just the first meter of soil contains as
much carbon as the entire atmosphere. And there's potential to soak up much
more. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3052240/restoring-global-soil-quality-is-one-of-the-best-things-we-can-do-for-climate-change
Restoring Global Soil Quality Is One Of The Best Things We Can Do For
Climate Change:
Little known climate change fact: Just the first meter of soil contains as
much carbon as the entire atmosphere. And there's potential to soak up much
more. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3052240/restoring-global-soil-quality-is-one-of-the-best-things-we-can-do-for-climate-change
Permaculture RESOURCES:
Permaculture
and Climate Change Adaptation Inspiring Ecological, Social, Economic and
Cultural Responses for Resilience and Transformation ; by By Dr. Thomas Henfrey and
Dr. Gil Penha-Lopes
https://www.chelseagreen.com/permaculture-subject/permaculture-and-climate-change-adaptation
The Carbon Farming Solution
A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices
for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security
By Eric Toensmeier Foreword by Dr. Hans Herren http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-carbon-farming-solution
Articles
referring to Carbon Farming:
Californias
Grand Plan to Fight Climate Change on the Farm California/ lawmakers move
toward paying farmers to adopt climate-smart practices. http://civileats.com/2016/02/02/californias-grand-plan-to-fight-climate-change-on-the-farm-jerry-brown/
Restoring Global Soil Quality Is One Of The Best Things We Can Do For
Climate Change:
Little known climate change fact: Just the first meter of soil contains as
much carbon as the entire atmosphere. And there's potential to soak up much
more. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3052240/restoring-global-soil-quality-is-one-of-the-best-things-we-can-do-for-climate-change
Resilient Agriculture Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate,
by Laura Lengnick:
http://www.newsociety.com/Books/R/Resilient-Agriculture
Radio Interview Episode 16, COP21 Insights from the Paris Climate Conference
with Albert Bates:
http://realeyeshomestead.com/permaculture-realized-podcast-episode-16-cop21-insights-from-the-paris-climate-conference-with-albert-bates
POLYFACES FILM trailer: http://www.polyfaces.com
Documentary showcasing the work of Joel Salatin & the renowned Polyface
Farm in Virginia.
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