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ECOLOGY CENTER EVENT BERKELEY CLIMATE ACTION COALITION CONVENING: CARBON FARMINGWednesday | June 15, 2016 | 6:00 pm — 8:00 pm Ed Roberts Campus | 3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 Even if we stopped extracting and burning fossil fuels today, the wheels of catastrophic climate change have been set in motion. While reducing emissions is essential, it’s half the battle – we must also sequester carbon out of the atmosphere. The world’s soils hold roughly three times more carbon than the amount stored in the atmosphere. Carbon farming uses intensive composting and innovative land management strategies to draw down even more carbon into our soil. The Bay Area is a hub for this exciting, potentially planet-changing research and practice. Join our panel of local experts – Jeanne Merrill, Policy Director at CalCAN; UC Berkeley Professor Miguel Altieri; and farmers Elizabeth & Paul Kaiser from Singing Frogs Farm – to explore how improving the health of the planet’s soils holds tremendous potential to slow climate change. We’ll also hear from Nathan Dahl on the BCAC Land Use Working Group’s campaign to include community gardens as a “by-right” land use in Berkeley’s zoning code, and from Councilmember Jesse Arreguin on the Urban Agriculture Package, which would incentivize food growing in vacant lots. Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St, Berkeley. Accessible by AC Transit buses (#12 and #49) and BART (Ashby). Wheelchair accessible. Email [email protected] by Thursday, June 9 to reserve a meal. Co-sponsored by Berkeley Food Institute. Invite friends, colleagues, and neighbors and keep growing our local climate movement! About the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition The BCAC is a network of local organizations and community members joining together to help implement the City of Berkeley’s ambitious, forty-year Climate Action Plan. We include residents, nonprofits, the City of Berkeley, neighborhood groups, faith-based organizations, schools, businesses, UC Berkeley, and anyone else interested in helping to achieve the critical goal of 80% emissions reductions. Visit the Coalition website to learn more: www.berkeleyclimatecoalition.org Cost: Free Event Email: [email protected] This event is wheelchair accessible -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
