Spokane’s Healthy Soil Virtual and Hybrid Session June 20 2024
June 20, 2024 2:00 pm PST Spokane Conservation District Training Room – Virtual Hybrid
4422 E 8th Ave. Spokane Valley, Washington
Biochar Energy Systems Can Eliminate Fossil Fuel Dependency
“If sourced cautiously, biochar energy systems could eliminate fossil fuel dependency, bring new life to desertified landscapes, purify drinking water, and build carbon-negative homes, communities and economies.” says Bates.
I met Kathryn Alexander through Humanity Rising back on 2020 and last year reconnected at Regenerate Cascadia.
Kathryn said to me:
“I think understanding the bionic pump and how we can help cool the planet is SO important, and just not understood. If there was a strong focus on just that for the next ten years by masses of folks, we might have a very different future. Joe is working on rivers, but rivers only happen when the soil is able to hold water. Soil is key to everything, but it’s only part of the pump, and all of it has to be in place to bring rain.”
Healthy soil is key to a healthy city. Discover an old technique, available to everyone, that
creates soil fertility. Join the discussion needed to make this available here in Spokane.
Confirmed presenters: Albert Bates, author: “The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and
Climate Change” and “Burn: Using fire to Cool the Earth, with Kathleen Draper” as well as
many other books; Kelpie Wilson, author of the soon to be released, “The Biochar Handbook: A
Practical Guide to Making and Using Bioactivated Charcoal” and inventor of the Wilson Kiln;
Tevon Lautenbach of Sagit Soil Inc. who sells biochar and compost, with more to come.
Biochar is one of the methods that can be used to speed up soil health and then support it over
long periods. What will it take for us to bring it here in quantities large enough to make the
difference we need?
Albert Bates, is a member of the intentional community and ecovillage movements. A lawyer, author and teacher, he has been director of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology[1] since 1984 and of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee, since 1994. A former attorney, he argued environmental and civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and drafted a number of legislative Acts during a 26-year legal career. He proposes a carbon-oriented agricultural revolution that could double world food supplies while simultaneously building soil fertility and lowering atmospheric and oceanic concentrations of carbon. Bates suggests that, if sourced cautiously, biochar energy systems could eliminate fossil fuel dependency, bring new life to desertified landscapes, purify drinking water, and build carbon-negative homes, communities and economies.
Learn about biochar and its benefits and challenges, and engage in a discussion about the next steps for Spokane. Confirmed presenters: Albert Bates, author: “The Biochar Solut…
