Founders Meeting, Biochar Northeast

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE
Founding Members Meeting
of
Biochar Northeast, inc.
not-for-profit association to study, advocate and use biochar in environmental management
and the
Northeast Biochar Research Consortium
collaboration of institutions, industry, farmers, foresters & landowners

8pm, Friday, November 13, 2009
Campus Center, UMass Amherst

In our onrushing confrontation with multiple limits
of our planet’s Carrying Capacity,
Earth-changing events are moving rapidly,
and this calls for quick collective social action.
We must form organizations to advance this new carbon-negative,
soil-regenerating, species-saving strategy and its technologies.
Therefore, this Founders’ Meeting will ratify a call to action,
two instruments of organization, and two initial Board of Directors:
Biochar Northeast, inc.
to facilitate & accelerate connections, services, policy & capital
to rapidly disseminate & deploy carbon-negative strategy using biochar as a primary tool
Northeast Biochar Research Consortium
to monitor, evaluate and recommend biochar production technologies,
and biochar use of on soils, crops, animals, foods, farms, forests & watersheds.

5pm Social Hour downstairs auditorium lobby
6pm Banquet Dinner upstairs 10th floor dining room
7pm Insight, Inspiration & Awards
The Road Ahead:
Carbon-Negative Food & Energy
for Northeast Communities
8pm Founders Meeting open to all supporters
9pm Meeting Adjourns — Celebration Begins

The Banquet Dinner is $35, by reservation only, and space is limited
Reserve your seat when you register for the daytime Biochar Symposium:
www.nsm.umass.edu/biochar09/
Anyone can attend the after-dinner Founding Members Meeting
The Dining Room will be opened to all members after dinner
To participate and vote at the Founders Meeting, enroll as a Biochar Northeast member:
complete a short survey and pay a $25 membership fee
www.carbon-negative.us/membership
To nominate a member to either initial Board of Directors, send email to:
dyarrow@nycap.rr.com