“The Carbon Ranch: Using Food and Stewardship to Build Soil and Fight Climate Change.”
Climate change is the most pressing issue confronting humanity. It is also a tremendous opportunity. Right now, the only possibility of large-scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is through plant photosynthesis and other land-based carbon sequestration activities. Strategies include: enriching soil carbon, farming with perennials, employing climate-friendly livestock practices, conserving natural habitat, restoring degraded watersheds and range lands, and producing local food. Over the past decade, many of these strategies have been demonstrated to be both practical and profitable. A carbon ranch bundles them into an economic whole with the aim of creating climate-friendly landscapes that are both healthy ecologically and the source of healthy food.
Confirmed Speakers:

• Dr. David Montgomery, geologist and author of Dirt!: The Erosion of Civilizations
  
• Sara Scheer, Ecoagriculture Partners
  
• Dr. Christine Jones, Founder of the Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme
  
• Dr. Jeffrey Creque, agroecologist with the Marin Carbon Project
  
• John Wick, rancher and leader of the Marin Carbon Project
  
• Greg Judy, rancher and ‘mob-grazing’ educator
  
• Jeff Moyer, Farm Director for the Rodale Institute, on organic no-till
  
• Constance Neely, consultant for land, livelihoods and climate change
  
• Dr. Bill Chameides, Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
  
• Abe Collins, New Soil Matrix
  
• Brock Dolman, Director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
  
• Nancy Ranney, rancher, Ranney Grassfed Beef
  
• Steve Apfelbaum, Applied Ecological Services
  

For general information on the conference, visit:
quiviracoalition.org/_2010_Conference/index.html
To download the conference announcement (3-page PDF), click here:
Quivira 2010 Conference Announcement
To register (or for registration details, including cost):
quiviracoalition.org/_2010_Conference/Online_Registration/index.html
To contact the Quivira Coalition:
The Quivira Coalition
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Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 820-2544 ext 0#
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The mission of The Quivira Coalition is “to build resilience by fostering ecological, economic and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship.”