Nice to see Quivira still around and active. They were one of the first ‘hits’ when I started looking into Radical Centrism after 9/11.
E > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:27 AM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Telluride Daily Planet / Norwood Post > > UP BEAR CREEK | Quivira Takes Us Back to the Future > > > > Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 > > By Gus Jarvis TellurideNews.com > RADICAL CENTER … I like to call it the “radical middle” - the kind of Green > politics I practice – not too the far left of an issue, but right in the > middle of the muddle, where compromise leads to action. Quivira, the Santa > Fe-based coalition dedicated to narrowing the widening gap between > agriculture and environmentalism, prefers the “radical center.” Wherever you > situate it, Quivira is an attempt to bring right and left, rancher and > enviro, family farms and the organic movement into the same room and the same > discussions. Already, its founder, Courtney White, has come to Telluride and > Norwood to speak of his concept of the carbon ranch and how to capitalize on > the fact that carbon is being sequestered in the soil of family farms and > ranches, and could be increased with innovative ranching practices … That > insight, in turn, has spawned a project I’ve been working on for the last > several years, after hearing Sally Collins (then with the USDA) speak about > Payment for Ecosysterm Services and how this new environmental tool (PES) was > being utilized around the world. While serving a year as a Fellow with the > Center for Collaborative Conservation at CSU’s Fort Collins campus, I worked > with Linda Luther of the San Miguel County Open Space & Recreation Department > to develop and model a pilot PES program involving rare native plants. Now > we’d like to move on to even bigger PES projects - with weeds, with > streamside restoration to increase Gunnison Sage Grouse habitat, and with > White’s carbon ranch idea … My dream follows along the latter path. What if > we could figure out a way to lessen the carbon footprint impacts of the East > End of San Miguel County and its industrial tourism economy by offsetting > that production with the West End’s documented reduction in carbon > associated with livestock production and organic farming. I’m hoping the > County could jumpstart this process with a PES project. And the mechanism > might be a voluntary offset program. Or carbon tax credits (since a local > carbon tax was discussed at a recent Intergovernmental Group meeting) … > Imagine if there was some way to achieve our carbon reduction goals in San > Miguel County by moving money from the wealthy East End to the > wealth-challenged West End for verified and monitored carbon sequestering … > That’s why I needed to attend Quivira’s Albuquerque conference this year, > “Back to the Future: Celebrating the International Year of Family Farming and > Ranching.” I wanted to find out how to measure carbon sequestered in ag soil, > and get some feedback on pulling off a PES project like this. > > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > <http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism> > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > <http://radicalcentrism.org/> > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
