Houston Climate Protection Alliance Panel Discussion

Title: Houston Climate Protection Alliance Panel Discussion
Location: Hermann Park Garden Center, 1500 Hermann Drive, Houston, TX 77002
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Description: “We could end global warming if we restored the fertility in the soils in
the state of California.” said Dr. Elaine Ingham of Soil Food
Web. Each year plants remove a quarter of the carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere and turn it into carbohydrates. As creatures eat plants,
half of this is quickly returned to the atmosphere. The other half
becomes soil organic matter which enriches soils and sequesters huge
amounts of carbon. Much of it is sequestered for more than 100 years
according to a more detailed UN grapic. But soil organic matter
has long been declining due to what people do to land.

Organic growers work hard to build soil organic matter because it is
their only fertilizer. You can support local organic growers by
buying at one of Houston’s farmers’ markets. If you compost your
kitchen and yard waste instead of landfilling it, you are
sequestering carbon.

To learn more, join us for the panel discussion.

For more info www.HoustonClimateProtection.org

Start Time: 06:30 PM
Date: 2011-02-14