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Computare
ASABE – CSBE Conference, Pacific Northwest Section
 Bridges to Sustainable Agriculture
September 9 – 11, 2010
Lethbridge, Alberta
Making an Asset of Carbon Dioxide Emissions:
Fine Tuning the Carbon Cycle
Duane Pendergast, Ph.D., P. Eng.
Computare, Lethbridge, Alberta
Email: still.thinking@computare.org
Phone: (403) 328-1804
Website: www.computare.org
Presentation to:
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen!

I’m a mechanical engineer with experience in the nuclear industry. As one trained in the burning of fossil fuels, I became interested in the climate change issue about twenty years ago.

That interest evolved into participation in  Canada’s studies of   means  to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as taken on under the Kyoto Protocol. I represented the Canadian Nuclear Association on several committees a decade ago.

We are still a long way from deciding how to cope with climate change.  It seems we have some doubts about the need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide and just how that might be done.

I’m here to seek your help with one more process which could remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and might simultaneously improve the planets soil. It depends on tweaking the carbon cycle to enhance the soil carbon sink.

Is it possible we could turn our carbon emissions into an asset toward a sustainable future?