Keeling Curve

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The community centric model using waste products as resources (biomass and food waste) to make carbon negative energy and soil regenerating amendments has a specific goal of reviving home gardening and food preservation as cultural practices. A current project funded by the EPA/CEC - Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience Grant Program: Upper Gila Watershed Alliance (New Mexico) - combining elementary school-based food resilience labs with emerging soil restoration technologies to combat risks from climate-related fire, drought, and extreme heat, is collecting and mixing food waste from schools, liability biomass, and biochar at GWN. A YCC team is making static pile reactors using the Johnson-Su method for making fungal dominant composts to be distributed back into the community via the students for home gardens. The J-Su compost, developed by Dr. David Johnson at NM State University, has been shown to increase soil productivity and save water, while storing 5 tons of carbon per acre/year using permaculture practices.  

GWN is also collaborating with Spirt Farm/Covenant Pathways on the Navajo Nation, supporting an indigenous agriculture revival project with a B+ES, making biochar and heating a greenhouse. Another collaborator is RidAll Green Partnership, a African-American food sustainability operation in central Cleveland.

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https://www.troll.works

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To conduct research and development activities for efforts relating to forest ecosystem restoration; perform restoration thinning projects; innovate value-added wood products from liability biomass; educate and assist the general public about circular economies; support local wood products businesses with technical and physical support, and a supply of raw material.