Founders Meeting, Biochar Northeast 13Nov09

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: http://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