Free Webinars, re: Soil, Biomass Energy, Climate Friendly Gardening & Wildlife

Dear Friends, 

You may be interested in this selection of upcoming Free Webinars:

1. Biomass Energy: Fact & Fiction, July 16

2. Your Climate Friendly Backyard, July 18

3. Wildlife & Climate Change, July 21

4. Wildlife & Wildfire. July 23 

See details below.

Regenerative Soil: How & Why

Date: Monday, July 14 at 12:00-1:30 PM (Eastern Time)

I will argue that regenerative soil could solve all of humanity’s most serious problems, including hunger and malnutrition, water scarcity and poverty, while restoring wealth and economic stability to local communities everywhere.

Regenerative farming can restore our soil, grow healthy food, and bring fresh, clean water wherever needed across the earth

RSVP:

Regenerative Soil: How & Why. Monday, July 14 at 12:00-1:30 PM - Google Forms

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1onrG_phd2aoe8f8ZpkY9yU2BsTLjE8JNtiBpAMB315E/edit 

Biomass Energy: Fact & Fiction

Date: Wednesday, July 16 at 7:00-8:30 PM

“Biomass Energy” is code for burning trees. It is heavily promoted as “renewable energy” by the United Nations, by national governments, by the timber industry and by high profile climate celebrities.

What is biomass energy, and how does it work? Why does the United Nations consider Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS) to be an essential strategy in the transition to renewable energy?

RSVP:

Biomass Energy: Fact & Fiction, Wednesday, July 16 at 7:00-8:30 PM - Google Forms

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14rKZFKowAjzyMWFjaGVD0sjbsPP7ZDaXpgFkWJ_beKY/edit 

Your Climate Friendly Backyard

Date: Friday, July 18 at 3:00-4:30 PM

What is a climate friendly backyard? What does it look like? What does it do? In this free webinar, I show you same-day pictures of my Kentucky pollinator garden and forested landscape, featuring both sun-loving wildflowers and shade. I’ll explain how these plants and trees, together with free wood chips, are busy absorbing not only carbon but water, with water, plants, trees and soil being the unsung heroes that positively impact our climate locally and beyond.

RSVP: 

Your Climate Friendly Backyard Wednesday, July 18 at 3:00-4:30 PM

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eq0F_Oa6Kn0Rpsijnd018V95eZ_AHIrlwC5HRoYvh-U/edit 

Wildlife & Climate Change

Date: Monday, July 21 at 12:00-1:30 PM

Ask the average environmentalist, “What is the greatest threat to wildlife?” They will reply, “Climate change, of course!” And they will be wrong.

Wildlife populations are seriously threatened, but not by climate change. To address wildlife decline, we need to understand the real threats and not be misled by platitudes.

We will examine a pair of articles that argue persuasively that we are being led down the wrong path and that some of the dubious “solutions” to climate change actually harm wildlife.

We will hear from conservation biologists who tell us the following: That climate change, at present, is not the most serious threat to wildlife populations; that habitat loss, pollution and agriculture are more direct, immediate and serious threats than climate change; and that conservation biologists are exaggerating the threat posed by climate change, and thereby moving away from “evidence-based science.”

RSVP: 

Wildlife & Climate Change. Monday, July 21 at 12:00-1:30 PM - Google Forms

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-FmZPZ0UiafYYFaOBr0TSNtjPm5oXFLC1SJnYu9ocvA/edit 

Wildlife & Wildfire. When is wildfire good for wildlife?

Date: Wednesday, July 23 at 7:00-8:30

Did you know? Many wildlife species depend on the regular occurrence of high intensity wildfire. Government policy seeks to suppress high-intensity wildfire. But these aims alter historical wildfire regimes, at the expense of birds, mammals, butterflies, bees and beetles. 

The spotted owl, the black backed woodpecker and the melanophila beetle are only three of many species that depend on wildfires. And yet the timber industry and our government agencies promote wildfire suppression and prescribed burns, on the pretense that these strategies are good for wildlife. 

RSVP:

Wildlife & Wildfires. Wednesday, July 23 at 7:00-8:30 PM

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12Whno4QX2zhbbt5rJXcTQGOyG0_nhxq-Bm9dWOS9Llc/edit 

I hope to see you via Zoom.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kindest Regards,

Hart

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