Carbon Farming: Concepts, Tools & Markets
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Carbon Farming: Concepts, Tools & Markets
- 1. Carbon Farming Permaculture for Farmers 201 NOFA Mass 2010 Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture LLC With Gratitude to Mary Johnson, Darren Doherty, Elaine Ingham, Joel Salatin, and the rest of the Carbon Farming Course trainers. Regenerative Apios Design Group Institute
- 2. GAIA UNIVERSITY NORTHEAST www.gaianortheast.org
- 3. Carbon Farming Concepts Tools Incentives
- 4. Carbon Farming Concepts
- 10. Where does carbon go?
- 11. Where does carbon go? • Sugars
- 12. Where does carbon go? • Sugars • Soil
- 13. Where does carbon go? • Sugars • Soil • Soil Foodweb
- 14. Where does carbon go? • Sugars • Soil • Soil Foodweb • Humic Acid
- 15. Where does carbon go? • Sugars • Soil • Soil Foodweb • Humic Acid • %OM
- 16. Permaculture
- 17. Permaculture: the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
- 18. Permaculture: the harmonious integration of landscape and people, providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs, in a sustainable way
- 19. Permaculture: meeting human needs while increasing ecosystem health
- 20. The Permaculture Pie biochar/ bioremediation terra preta composting & aquaculture food forestry compost tea coppice perennial woodcrafts vegetables & biomass apiculture keyline mycoscaping management- alternative intensive grazing currencies edible forest earthworks gardening natural building green architecture
- 21. Carbon Farming Concepts
- 22. Carbon Farming Concepts Tools
- 23. Carbon Farming Concepts Tools
- 24. Carbon Farming RBON Concepts RMING Tools
- 31. 8 years later
- 32. Keyline Design
- 33. Keyline: Catch+store Catch and Store Energy Source: Permaculture: A Designers Manual
- 34. Yobarnie
- 35. Yobarnie, 2007 Yobarnie, Layout, 1988 Source: Permaculture: A Designers Manual
- 36. Keyline Plow
- 39. seeding
- 40. Yeomans Keyline Plow – Plowing for Rapid & Cheap Soil Development (Pasture) Soil conditioning Existing Condition: Shallow, Compacted, Drought-Prone Topsoil 1. Soil Test & Remineralise 2. Plow to 2” below hard pan 3. Remove stock for 4-6 weeks 4. Just at onset of flowering: Hard graze to 2-4” 1. Plow to 2” below new root depth 2. Remove stock for 4-6 weeks 3. Just at onset of flowering: Hard graze to 2-4” 1. Plow to 2” below new root depth: Max out at 12-15” 2. Remove stock for 4-6 weeks 3. Just at onset of flowering: Hard graze to 2-4” And Another Thing: 1% increase in Organic Matter = 63 ton/ac capture in Atmospheric CO2 ! (That’s twice your total annual emissions)
- 41. Keyline Pattern
- 43. LittleSeed CSA Chatham, NY
- 44. 3-Shank Plow
- 46. Carbon Farmers of America
- 47. Cimarron Farm Swanton,VT
- 48. 5-Shank Plow
- 49. Italian Ryegrass
- 51. Rodale Whitepaper • A 40% reduction of global carbon emissions is possible with a switch to regenerative organic agricultural practices on the world’s 3.5 billion tillable acres. • Agriculture contributes 20% of Carbon emissions in the US, and 12% worldwide
- 52. Rodale Institute Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to Global Warming • A 40% reduction of global carbon emissions is possible with a switch to regenerative organic agricultural practices on the world’s 3.5 billion tillable acres. • Agriculture contributes 20% of Carbon emissions in the US, and 12% worldwide • Soil holds twice as much carbon as terrestrial vegetation • Midwestern soils that in the 1950s were composed of up to 20 percent carbon are now between 1- and 2-percent carbon. • Forests and grasslands generally are 6 to 10 percent organic matter, well over the 1- to 3-percent levels typical of today’s agricultural field systems. • Because soil organic matter is primarily carbon, increases in these levels will be directly correlated with carbon sequestration. While prevailing farming practices using synthetic inputs typically deplete SOM, regenerative farming practices, including the integration of crop and animal production, build it.
- 53. Carbon Farming • August 25 - September 16th. • The Farm, Summertown, TN
- 55. Carbon Farming • August 25 - September 16th. • The Farm, Summertown, TN • Next one in Hudson Valley?
- 57. Food Forestry
- 59. Food Forestry 52
- 60. 53
- 61. 54
- 62. 55
- 63. Seaberry
- 64. Hardy Kiwi
- 65. Pawpaw
- 69. Soil Foodweb
- 70. Dr. Elaine Ingham www.soilfoodweb.com
- 72. Composting
- 73. Composting
- 74. Stone barns 01
- 75. Stone barns 02
- 78. Big tea
- 80. Macedonia ‐ Design Photo: Andrew Jones
- 86. Carbon Farming Concepts Tools
- 87. Carbon Farming Concepts Tools Incentives
- 88. Incentives
- 89. Incentives
- 90. Incentives • abundant fruits/veggies
- 91. Incentives
- 92. Carbon Markets ACX, ECX, CCX, RGGI, CaCX... CFX Carbon Futures Exchange
- 93. Carbon Markets ACX, ECX, CCX, RGGI, CaCX... CFX Carbon Futures Exchange
- 94. Carbon Markets • The details of how a particular carbon-capture project must be: • Designed • Implemented • Monitored • Verified
- 95. Barriers to Small Farmers • Scale • Project planning complexity • Monitoring, evaluation, verification
- 96. Barriers to Small Farmers • Scale • Project planning complexity • Monitoring, evaluation, verification
- 97. Barriers to Small Farmers • Scale • Project planning complexity • Monitoring, evaluation, verification
- 98. Barriers to Small Farmers • Scale • Project planning complexity • Monitoring, evaluation, verification • “Additionality”
- 99. A Solution: Aggregators (?) • Aggregators gather together carbon-capture projects and trade them on the markets • Sector-focused (e.g. Agriculture, Energy) • Economy of scale • Reduced # of verifications List of All CCX Aggregators: www.chicagoclimatex.com/content.jsf?id=64
- 100. North Dakota Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program “The goal of the National Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program is to enhance the income of farmers and ranchers through economically successful and environmentally sound land management practices that reduce or offset carbon emissions.” http://carboncredit.ndfu.org/
- 102. Challenges
- 103. Challenges • Middle people = less to farmers.
- 104. Challenges • Middle people = less to farmers. • To become an aggregator, an organization or company must have $1 million in net worth, with $10 million in assets....
- 105. Challenges • Middle people = less to farmers. • To become an aggregator, an organization or company must have $1 million in net worth, with $10 million in assets.... • Tied to current global system.
- 106. Challenges • Middle people = less to farmers. • To become an aggregator, an organization or company must have $1 million in net worth, with $10 million in assets.... • Tied to current global system. • Non-local; non-accountable?
- 107. Copenhagen
- 108. Copenhagen “The climate change accord reached at the Copenhagen summit is a good outcome but is inadequate to combat global warming.” - R.K. Pachauri, head of the UN IPCC
- 109. Copenhagen “The climate change accord reached at the Copenhagen summit is a good outcome but is inadequate to combat global warming.” - R.K. Pachauri, head of the UN IPCC
- 110. Copenhagen “It is now evident that beating global warming will require a radically different model of politics than the one on display here in Copenhagen." -Alternet
- 111. Copenhagen “It is now evident that beating global warming will require a radically different model of politics than the one on display here in Copenhagen." -Alternet
- 112. Copenhagen “Many shrug off events in Copenhagen on the grounds that national, regional and local regulations are the main drivers of... investment, not international deals.” -The Economist
- 113. Copenhagen “Many shrug off events in Copenhagen on the grounds that national, regional and local regulations are the main drivers of... investment, not international deals.” -The Economist
- 114. Local Carbon Markets
- 115. Local Carbon Markets Farmers People
- 116. Local Carbon Markets Farmers People Support Organization
- 117. Local Carbon Markets • Market price: $0.10 EU 14.0 • Aggregator price: ? • Consumer price: $3.0 - 28.0
- 118. Local Carbon Markets Design Brainstorm in pairs: What would it take?
- 119. Incentives
- 120. Incentives
- 121. Incentives • abundant fruits/veggies
- 122. Incentives
- 123. Carbon Farming Permaculture for Farmers 201 NOFA Mass 2010 Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture LLC With Gratitude to Mary Johnson, Darren Doherty, Elaine Ingham, Joel Salatin, and the rest of the Carbon Farming Course trainers. Regenerative Apios Design Group Institute
- 124. GAIA UNIVERSITY NORTHEAST www.gaianortheast.org