Land Listening
October 11, 2024 9am - 4 pm
Sliding Scale
In Person TBD
Location: The Spokane Conservation District
Presented by: Peter Donovan
Soil health is increasingly recognized as a key or hub for water cycling and carbon cycling on land, watershed function and water quality, atmospheric regulation, human health, and of the viability of civilization itself. The enormous flows of energy and matter in and out of soils remain camouflaged by our natural human focus on problems, on categories, species, and the constituents of soil. These problems organize and categorize our policy efforts, government and foundation funding, the disciplines of knowledge, and the boundaries between them.
If we can grasp soil health and watershed function, we have great potential to connect most of our serious problems and challenges into actionable opportunities. Yet we routinely turn this opportunity back into problems with our traditional modes of information delivery: lectures, dogma, expert information, and even advocacy of best practices.
October 11, 2024 9am - 4 pm
Sliding Scale
In Person TBD
Location: The Spokane Conservation District
Presented by: Peter Donovan
Soil health is increasingly recognized as a key or hub for water cycling and carbon cycling on land, watershed function and water quality, atmospheric regulation, human health, and of the viability of civilization itself. The enormous flows of energy and matter in and out of soils remain camouflaged by our natural human focus on problems, on categories, species, and the constituents of soil. These problems organize and categorize our policy efforts, government and foundation funding, the disciplines of knowledge, and the boundaries between them.
If we can grasp soil health and watershed function, we have great potential to connect most of our serious problems and challenges into actionable opportunities. Yet we routinely turn this opportunity back into problems with our traditional modes of information delivery: lectures, dogma, expert information, and even advocacy of best practices.
Biochar: Promise for Healthy Soil
October 24, 2024 at 2:00 pm PST
Virtual Free
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; Korina Stark resenting Kelpie Wilson's work, Kelpie is the author of, “The Biochar Handbook: A Practical Guide to Making and Using Bioactivated Charcoal” and inventor of the Wilson Kiln, Julie Anderson from the Washington Commerce Department, and John webster, Communication Director at US Biochar Iniative and Go Biochar.
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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?
October 24, 2024 at 2:00 pm PST
Virtual Free
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; Korina Stark resenting Kelpie Wilson's work, Kelpie is the author of, “The Biochar Handbook: A Practical Guide to Making and Using Bioactivated Charcoal” and inventor of the Wilson Kiln, Julie Anderson from the Washington Commerce Department, and John webster, Communication Director at US Biochar Iniative and Go Biochar.
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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?
Rethinking Lawns
November 11, 18, 25, Dec 2
Session A - 7:30 am PST
Session B - 2:00 pm PST
Virtual - $100
Presented by Kathryn Alexander MA, John Webster and Carl Welty
Lawns are getting a bad rap. Under the guise of saving water, we are encouraged to rip them up and use gravel and mulch instead. What if laws could be a part of the ecology? What if lawns could help us fight climate change? Come explore another way of thinking about that most American thing, the green lawn.
November 11, 18, 25, Dec 2
Session A - 7:30 am PST
Session B - 2:00 pm PST
Virtual - $100
Presented by Kathryn Alexander MA, John Webster and Carl Welty
Lawns are getting a bad rap. Under the guise of saving water, we are encouraged to rip them up and use gravel and mulch instead. What if laws could be a part of the ecology? What if lawns could help us fight climate change? Come explore another way of thinking about that most American thing, the green lawn.