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Growing the Bioeconomy: Solutions for Sustainability

Related resource areas: Beef Cattle, Corn and Soybean Production, Entrepreneurs & Their Communities

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December 01, 2009

Description:
A 12-state alliance of simultaneous state conferences will promote agriculturally-based sustainable solutions to global climate change and energy supply. The conference will tackle the challenge by: * Exploring a systems perspective on biorenewables. * Offering solutions to current questions about grain ethanol. * Examining the potential role of biochar as an agent for carbon sequestration. * Discussing the implementation of new ideas for land stewardship with biofuels agriculture. Participants may attend at one of the land-grant university sites, sign up to host a remote viewing site or attend via a personal computer. http://www.bioeconomyconference.org/

Coverage: National

States: Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming