Our Compost Climate Connections webinar series features the crucial role of compost to protect the climate. Calla Rose Ostrander joined us in the second webinar of the series to discuss the Marin Carbon Project and the Project partner’s work on carbon farming and its potential to mitigate climate change. Carbon farming involves implementing practices that are known to improve the rate at which CO2 is removed from the atmosphere and converted to plant material and soil organic matter. For more than a decade, the Marin Carbon Project has demonstrated that managing for carbon can actually increase the system capacity to hold even more carbon. Its first experiments involved applying a thin layer of compost to grazed rangeland. One finding: per hectare, a single application of compost, on average, sequesters one ton of carbon per year on an ongoing basis. View the recording below!
This webinar is one in a series ILSR offers to advance composting. View our webinar resources here.
To learn more about ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative, click here.
Speaker
Calla Rose Ostrander
The Carbon Project at People Food & Land Foundation
Calla Rose Ostrander is a Strategic Advisor to individuals and organizations dedicated to the well-being of people and planet. She specializes in climate change and agricultural policy, science communications and movement building. Since 2013 she has worked to support the advancement of carbon farming, compost production and climate beneficial material economies in California. In partnership with John Wick and Jena King, Calla Rose has supported the successful scaling of the model for regenerative agriculture created by the Marin Carbon Project to the state scale through strategic organization, economic development, local and state policy, and communications.
From 2008-2013 Calla Rose served as the Climate Change Projects Manager for the City & County of San Francisco where she created and managed internal sustainability and GHG reporting systems and inventories, the San Francisco Carbon Fund, and community wide climate planning. While with the Canary Initiative at the City of Aspen, 2005-2008, she co-authored Aspen’s first Climate Action and Adaptation Plans, created the ZGreen green business and events program, and launched the first municipal carbon credit program in the county. Prior to her work in municipal climate policy she was a Communications & Development Fellow for Rocky Mountain Institute, and worked in ecological economics with Seattle based Earth Economics.
Calla Rose Ostrander
