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May 2012 Digest
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Dear
John,
Welcome to the May Northwest
Biocarbon Initiative (NBI) Digest. NBI is helping the Northwest become
a leading incubator for biocarbon innovation, advancing cutting-edge
practices and policies to increase carbon storage in forests, farms and
communities.
This month’s highlights include:
A new video
 Garbage Gone Green: This
new Solution
Stories video shows how a family-owned composting
business is turning organic ‘wastes’ in King County into a resource that
creates jobs, builds soils and helps our atmosphere.
Our newest NBI Innovation Partners:
Friends of
Trees brings
people in the Portland-Vancouver and Eugene-Springfield areas together to
plant and care for city trees and green spaces, engaging thousands of
volunteers each year in tree planting efforts on public and private property.
 The Northwest
Natural Resources Group uses the marketplace
to restore sustainable forests and local economies. Membership in their
Northwest Certified Forests program includes 170 small woodland owners across
160,000 acres in Washington and Oregon.
Biocarbon blogs
 Brent
Davies: Partnering
with Nature: How one city’s growth could be greened highlights a new
Ecotrust report, Partners
With Nature, that tallies up the potential for
increasing biocarbon in the Portland Metro area’s riverside and urban forest
landscape.
Patrick Mazza: Climate
Solutions’ Research Director reports from the frontlines of the Northwest’s
biocarbon conversation with On
the road with the NBI team and Creating
markets for nature’s goods and services.
 Jeannette
Allan: Talking
Waters shows how the Oregon cities of Albany and Millersburg
joined forces to transform a wastewater treatment plant into a fantastic
example of biocarbon innovation that is helping a local ecosystem thrive.
Steve Banchero: Cedar
Grove’s solution story is composting and energy. Compost builds
carbon-rich soils, fuels more robust growth of carbon-sucking plants, and
significantly decreases our regional carbon footprint by diverting some
400,000 tons of material from far-away landfills.
Read more Biocarbon blogs here.
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with NBI:
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