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Comment 3 for Public Input on Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds Second Investment Plan (investplan2-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Earle
Last Name: Cummings
Email Address: earlewc@yahoo.com
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Subject: Carbon sequestration in soil/disadvantaged rural greening
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Last night I attended a program in Healdsburg by a produce grower who has developed a very effective and economical, even profitable system of minimal tillage, mulching, growing transplants and interplanting vegetables to sell at local markets that has increased soil carbon nearly ten-fold in a few years. This could be adapted to food-desert urban areas, disadvantaged rural communities, and applied in areas currently managed by tillage and herbicide application, such as orchards and vineyards. It would take re-training of urban residents as well as farmers accustomed to perpetual plowing, tilling, herbiciding, and disking to control vegetation. It also improves soil conservation, water conservation, water quality and other unfortunate consequences of traditional highly mechanized agriculture. A videotape is available from the Russian Riverkeepers.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2015-11-06 07:09:45
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