Diego Bonetto is creating Wildfood Store, a marketplace for the by-product of farming: weeds. This sounds good, forward thinking and inventive, but the common thread that keeps surfacing is that people do not know what to do with them.
An Artist, a Farmer, and a Scientist - intro video!
Falling in Love with Carbon - by Georgina Pollard
Baking Dirt: Soil and the Carbon Economy
Talking up weeds to farmers: can you really sell that?
KSCA at the 21st Biennale of Sydney
Here's Lucas doing a brisk introduction to 'Soil and the Carbon Economy'
https://youtu.be/T3P__T4__cc
Listening to Primo Levi's short story about a carbon atom
I think carbon is central to our understanding of climate change. From one perspective, it seems as if carbon is the antagonist of our impending climate change doom. But carbon is also the building block of life on earth. This story helped me to fall in love with carbon. The way humans have intervened with the carbon cycle is of course, the problem. But how we continue to intervene will have to be part of the solution. And as a novice biochar enthusiast, I feel like falling in love with carbon is part of that solution.
