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.
Email rebecca@ecologycenter.org 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
This event is wheelchair accessible.