[SustainableTompkins] Carbon-Trading for New York Farms and Landowners - learning the ins and outs of

Wed Sep 27 17:25:42 PDT 2006

Free and open to the public.  Lunch is on your own.   Please register w Kim 
Totten  

TITLE:   Carbon-Trading for New York Farms and Landowners - learning the ins 
and outs of  c-trading
DATE:  Thursday, October 5, 2006    
TIME:   8:00-5:30pm                                  
LOCATION: Room 135 Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca,  NY
PLEASE REGISTER: w Kim Totten, kimberly.totten at ny.usda.gov or  607-334-3231, 
x 4 
DIRECTIONS, Hotels etc:  please scroll to the  end of the agenda.

Carbon-Trading for New York Farms and  Landowners – learning the ins and outs 
of carbon-trading  

Sponsored by  Central New York Resource Conservation and Development, 
Environmental Defense,  and the Department of Crop and Soil Science at Cornell  
University

AGENDA:

8:00-8:30

Coffee/bagels

8:30-8:45      
How we got here: Central NY Resource Conservation & Development  
Bob Aman (_  www.fieldsofdreamscompost.com_ 
(http://www.fieldsofdreamscompost.com/) )
exploring c-trading aggregation funded by  Environmental Defense
chair, CNYRCD carbon  committee

8:45-9:15     
Why Climate  Change Matters:  Risks and opportunities on the land
David Wolfe (_  www.climateandfarming.org_ 
(http://www.climateandfarming.org/) )

9:15-9:45      
Cap and Trade 101
Stacie Edick (CNYRC&D) _www.cnyrcd.org/projects.htm_ 
(http://www.cnyrcd.org/projects.htm) 

9:45-10:15    
Opportunities for farms and landowners: Sources and Sinks  101
Jeni Wightman (CNYRC&D) _www.cnyrcd.org/projects.htm_ 
(http://www.cnyrcd.org/projects.htm) 

10:15-10:45   
Coffee Break

10:45-11:15 
Policy  perspective:  Offsets and RGGI - Regional Greenhouse Gas  Initiative
Lois New (_  www.dec.state.ny.us_ (http://www.dec.state.ny.us/) )
Department of Environmental  Conservation

11:15-12:00 
Creating environmental commodities  from farming activities.  How a 
digester project generated revenues  from multiple environmental markets.
John Kunz (_www.ert.net_ (http://www.ert.net/) ) Environmental Resource  Trust

12:00-12:45
Seven Montana non-profits create unique  opportunities for landowners to 
participate in market-based Greenhouse Gas  mitigation
Ted Dodge (_ www.ncoc.us)National_ (http://www.ncoc.us)national/)   Carbon 
Offset Coalition

12:45-1:30   
Lunch  

1:30-2:00     
The case for  energy efficient improvements /renewable energy
TBD  

2:00-2:30     
The case for soil  fertility, no-till, crop productivity and air quality
John Duxbury  (CU)

2:30-3:00     
Carbon  sequestration and biomass energy in New York forest land
Peter Woodbury  (CU)

3:00-3:30     
Coffee  Break

3:30-5:00     
Panel:   Farm Economics/Decision Making 

RECs&GHG Offsets from  Anaerobic Digesters (some wind)
George Hoguet (_ www.nativeenergy.com_ (http://www.nativeenergy.com/) )

Farm Net and  Agricultural Innovation Center
Ed Staehr (_ www.nyfarmnet.org_ (http://www.nyfarmnet.org/) )

Maximizing the  potential for agriculture to participate in the carbon market 
Ron Rausch  (NYSDAM/SWCC)

Digester Farm experience in evaluating options for  trading credits
Doug Shelmidine (Sheland Farms)

My  "limited" experience with Carbon Credits (Digesters & NoTill) 
Connie  Patterson (Patterson Farms)

Farm ecology brokering for renewable  energy and sustainability
Jeffrey Frost (_ www.AgRefresh.org_ (http://www.agrefresh.org/) )

Digester Farm  experience in exploring c-trading
Rob Noble (Noblehurst  Farms)

5:00-5:30    
General Discussion,  Where to go from here
Phil Metzger (CNYRC&D) 

Free and open to the public.  Lunch is on your own.  Please  register w Kim 
Totten
kimberly.totten at ny.usda.gov  
USDA-NRCS
Central NY RC&D
99 North Broad Street
Norwich, NY  13815
607-334-3231, x 4
607-334-4744 fax
_www.cnyrcd.org_ (http://www.cnyrcd.org/) 

Location of Workshop: 
The workshop is being held in 135  Emerson Hall on the Cornell University 
Campus in Ithaca, NY.  Emerson Hall  is attached to and behind Bradfield Hall.  
Bradfield Hall is the tallest  building on campus, located on Tower Road.  It 
is an 11 story brick  building w very few windows.   

For a  map of campus:
_http://www.cornell.edu/maps/
_ (http://www.cornell.edu/maps/) 

For Directions to Cornell:
_http://www.cornell.edu/visiting/ithaca/visiting.cfm_ 
(http://www.cornell.edu/visiting/ithaca/visiting.cfm) 

For Parking on Cornell Campus: 
The closest pay parking is  Patterson lot, just east of Bradfield/Emerson 
Hall on Tower Road near the  intersection with Judd Falls Road.  Otherwise you 
can visit the Info Booth  between Patterson Lot and Bradfield/Emerson and 
purchase a visitor day  pass.  The staff there will direct you to visitor parking  
spots.

For bus schedules, hotels and eating in  Ithaca:
_http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Ithaca/Travel.html_ 
(http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Ithaca/Travel.html) 

For Hotel: 
Holiday Inn 
_222  SOUTH CAYUGA STREET 
ITHACA, NY 14850 UNITED STATES _ 
(http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hotel/ithce/transportation) 
Hotel Front Desk:  1-607-2721000 | Hotel Fax: 1-607-2771275
>From there you can catch many buses  from Green Street up to campus to avoid 
parking on campus.   

Jenifer Wightman
Bioenergy and Greenhouse Gas  Inventory
607-255-4230
905a Bradfield Hall
Cornell  University
Ithaca, NY 14850

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Gay  Nicholson, Ph.D. 

607-533-7312 (home office)
607-279-6618  (cell)

1 Maple Avenue
Lansing, NY  14882
gaynicholson at aol.com

Sustainable Tompkins 
Program  Coordinator 
w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/) 

Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities
Regional  Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow  Ave., Ithaca, NY  14850
agn1 at cornell.edu