I'm under the gun at work and regret not getting to the end of Jeff Goebel's slides today, but those that I saw were excellent and totally apropos for a Wanderers meetup, as the content was science.
Lots of STEM.
The topic was global climate change, but from a refreshing new angle.
Jeff works with ranchers, farmers, foresters, tribes, subcultures, to formulate land use and long range resource management plans based on buy-in and consensus.
He's been working with Deidre Schuetz, who presented last week, about her land and resource management projects in Senegal and Guinea.
As his slides made clear, keeping our atmosphere viable is all about the race between photosynthesis on the one hand, and carbon being lost to the atmosphere.
Rather than limit his focus on the fossil fuel problem (peak oil etc.), he understands that increasing biomass in and of itself is a way of countering global warming.
His arguments require only a high school understanding of geo- and biochemistry. However, unless you've been doing your homework, you might not have the puzzle as put together as Jeff does.
Great talk. We're still in for rough times though. Jeff doesn't know how much a difference his approach will make, but he feels good about catalyzing it spreading quickly.
Perma-culture and so on are known sciences i.e. he's not looking to science fiction to save our butts, though I'm sure he'd welcome a few deus ex machina maneuvers, if we can swing 'em.
Lots of STEM.
The topic was global climate change, but from a refreshing new angle.
Jeff works with ranchers, farmers, foresters, tribes, subcultures, to formulate land use and long range resource management plans based on buy-in and consensus.
He's been working with Deidre Schuetz, who presented last week, about her land and resource management projects in Senegal and Guinea.
As his slides made clear, keeping our atmosphere viable is all about the race between photosynthesis on the one hand, and carbon being lost to the atmosphere.
Rather than limit his focus on the fossil fuel problem (peak oil etc.), he understands that increasing biomass in and of itself is a way of countering global warming.
His arguments require only a high school understanding of geo- and biochemistry. However, unless you've been doing your homework, you might not have the puzzle as put together as Jeff does.
Great talk. We're still in for rough times though. Jeff doesn't know how much a difference his approach will make, but he feels good about catalyzing it spreading quickly.
Perma-culture and so on are known sciences i.e. he's not looking to science fiction to save our butts, though I'm sure he'd welcome a few deus ex machina maneuvers, if we can swing 'em.
