#Drawdown labs full

Success in this initial East Bay capital campaign fund and deployment will justify follow-on campaigns and deployments dedicated to other Local Carbon Clusters.

We then expect the model to spread with low friction as a layover to Local Food and Local Market economies elsewhere in the US and globally. We’re creating the first “proof of concept” and template for it here in the East Bay of California.

The goal is to create a replicable model based on the common understandings and methods of Local Food and Farmers’ Market networks. Now, the membership is for ongoing local carbon drawdown, with a physical product delivered that does magical things for your garden, house plants, farm, or vineyard. We’re running this Community Supported Carbon Sequestration on the model of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) boxes you get weekly or monthly via membership. Taken together, good things happen locally across Energy, Food and Water systems– which makes good things happen globally for climate by “refossilizing” sky carbon back into the underground. And the people put it in the ground for improved plant growth, water conservation, and long term sequestration of carbon. The machines take this “waste” and make energy and carbon biochar for soil out of it. The plants are green-waste, which recently captured atmospheric carbon via photosynthesis, but are now a disposal problem. The project is an unusual collaboration between plants, people and machines. The project uses the carbon negative energy and agricultural machines we’ve been developing for the last decade, combined with hands in soil at local gardens and farms, to move carbon from “sky-to-soil” for Community Based Carbon Sequestration. The “Local Carbon Network” is a new participatory project we’re launching at All Power Labs to put a meaningful dent in the climate problem. Moving carbon from “sky-to-soil” to reverse climate change Local Carbon Network Community Supported Carbon Sequestration. PS: For those who missed the earlier APL News posts about the Local Carbon Network Project, a more detailed description of the project is reproduced below, I hope you will consider joining us in this final push, so you can enjoy the soil bounty that will come later: We need interested people to the run the test cycles to learn the potential and problems of this new model, which requires getting you into the membership program. We hope the discounts will encourage more people to try out this “carbon drawdown as a service” membership program whether to yourself or to a sponsored organization. That is how we will scale this to climate relevant size. We want to make carbon drawdown and soil regeneration a regular and accessible activity, not unlike your regular sourcing of food. Right now we can only offer biochar on its own, but integrating it with already existing mixed CSA boxes is where we want to take this. We think you shoud be able to get a bag of sky carbon included with your CSA veggie box delivery, and affirm your Local food, soil and carbon cycle together. Laying a carbon product and exchange over the top of these already existing activities and infrastructure seems a natural fit and a major point of leverage to get Local Carbon waste back into local soil. We also see using the local Farmers Markets as a network hub for moving biochar from producer to consumer, on the same infrastructure as currently being used for Local Food distribution. We think there is leverage to be found in replicating Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model of regular food box deliveries, through now as Community Supported Carbon Sequestration (CS^2), for personal scale direct action on climate and soil. Our real desire–and what we are succeeding with through this campaign launch–is the ability to run the experiment of a new model for Local Carbon Crawdown, based on the already established community scale solutions for Local Food economies. This will be adequate to set the foundations of the project in motion, with further fundraising to continue.

#Drawdown labs full

It is unlikely we’re going to meet our full $150,000 goal on this cycle, but with your help, we think we can reach at least $50,000 before midnght tonight. The total campaign is currently at $41,000, with some larger sponsorships in process today as we approach the finish line. More info on these specials is in the Indiegogo campaign here: And the 3 month membership deliveries are reduced from $75 to $45, with only 10 slots available.

The 1kg bags for the next 25 sponsors are reduced from $25 to $15. For the last 12 hours of the Local Carbon Network crowdfund campaign, we’re offering a limited set of highly discounted biochar bags in both single kg servings, as well as 3 month membership delivery form.