Vt. Candidate, Jaccaci, Discusses Soil Regeneration, Carbon Sequestration, Abe Collins
Seth Itzkan
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http://gus4congress.com/2010/09/19/discussing-abe-collins-and-soil-regeneration/
Discussing Abe Collins and Soil Regeneration
September 19, 2010
Gus Jaccaci calls Swanton "carbon farmer" Abe Collins a “Vermont genius”. Says, if elected, he’ll talk “dirt stories”.
Comments from Gus Jaccaci:
“Abe Collins in my opinion is a Vermont genius. He’s a ‘Vermonumental Idealist’ and his medium is the regeneration of soil”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6eWVH4df04
Jaccaci says that the generation of topsoil demonstrated on the Collins farm, will capture ” tons of carbon in the air where we don’t want it, and put it back in the Earth where it does the best and most important good”.
“He’s added ten inches (of soil) to the eight inches that were here. The beauty of that is, that the soil that we’re standing on here will capture ton upon millions of tons of carbon in the air where we don’t want it, and put it back in the Earth where it does the best and most important good for the Earth itself, for the animals, for the grasses, for life in general.”
“When I get excited by this, what I’m really saying is that Vermont is the state to reinvent the United States, because we can reinvent how we generate soil, how we purify water, how we clean the air, and clean the atmosphere of things that are causing us trouble, like global climate change, .. and here we are in Swanton doing it, and this is fit for distribution all over the world.”
“What I like about this, is this is a Vermont field. This is Vermont success…This is Vermonumental Idealism ready for export to Washington, and if you send me down there and I’m going to talk dirt stories, soil stories in Washington…”
Comments from Abe Collins, Carbon Farmers of America:
Is a matter of inches something to write the New York Times about? In this case, yes.
“Is a matter of inches (of increased topsoil) something to write the New York Times about? In this case, yes its, because the difference between this and this (pointing to topsoil boundary lines) is the difference between runaway climate change and water shortages, and flooding, and droughts, and wildfires, and bad crop production years because it didn’t rain for a month. The difference between this and this (again pointing to topsoil boundary lines) is the buffer that shaves all that danger off…We’ve seen it happen in a single year, eight inches of conversion of this mineral, to this darker, aerobic, root filled, topsoil.”
More info:
Carbon Farmers of America: http://www.carbonfarmersofamerica.com/
Savory Institute: http://www.savoryinstitute.com/