Alex interviews Allan Savory of the Savory Institute. His project to capture carbon into the soil, using intelligent herd management in Zimbabwe, is on the short-list for the Virgin Earth Challenge. We follow up with Abe Collins, a carbon farming leader in Vermont, USA. Plus organizing for local food in North Carolina (even in hard times) - Aaron Newton at ASPO 2011.
Interviews by Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock
Aaron Newton speech courtesy of aspo-usa.com Recorded by Ecoshock D.C. correspondent Gerri Williams.
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Note 1: also available as two 29 minute segments posted below (allows time for station ID/announcements).
Note 2: Find more details and plenty of links in this show blog at http://www.ecoshock.info/2011/11/climate-solution-from-air-to-soil.html
Note 3: for more bio info on Alex Smith, check out this interview in Grist magazine: http://bit.ly/rxc5lj
In 2007, billionaire Richard Branson announced the Virgin Earth Challenge. He offered a 25 million dollar prize to the best method to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, with no harmful impacts.
Out of 2600 submissions, Allan Savory and the Savory Institute survived to the current short-list of 11 technolgies to do it.
We talk with Allan Savory, the 76 year old pioneer biologist and agriculturalist from Zimbabwe.
Then to Abe Collins, a Vermont farmer using those methods to capture carbon with agriculture. The extra soil also helps with flood control.
The program wraps up with a new presentation from the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas conference in Washington D.C. in November 2011.
Aaron Newton is the Local Food System Program Coordinator for Cubarrus County, North Carolina. He'll tell us how to develop your local food-shed, even in hard times. And why the most important crop may be... new farmers.
It's a really helpful short presentation from Aaron. The ways the County used the tax structure to both keep farmers, and to fund community organizing around local food. Lots of good tips for localizing your own community. The Newton talk is dead-on for how to create a local food-shed getting ready for Peak Oil.
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