6 to 9pm, Friday November 13, 2009
Campus Center, UMass Amherst

In our onrushing confrontation with multiple limits
of our planet’s Carrying Capacity,
Earth-changing events are moving rapidly,
and this calls for quick collective social action.
We have to form organizations and businesses
to advance this new carbon sequestering,
soil-regenerating, species-saving strategy
and its carbon-negative technologies.
Therefore, this Founders’ Meeting will ratify
a call to action,
two instruments of organization,
and two initial Board of Directors:
Biochar Northeast, inc.
to facilitate & accelerate connections, services, policy & capital
to rapidly disseminate & deploy carbon-negative strategy
using biochar as a high-value tool in environmental management
Northeast Biochar Research Consortium
to monitor, evaluate and recommend biochar production technologies,
and strategies to use biochar on soils, crops, animals, foods,
farms, forests & watersheds.

Program
6pm	Banquet Dinner
7pm	Inspiration & Insight
	?, Host Carbon-Negative Food & Energy for Green Northeast Communities ?, Speaker
8pm	Founding Members Meeting ?, Chair
	Biochar Northeast, inc. Northeast Biochar Research Consortium 2nd North American Biochar Conference
9pm	Meeting Adjourns Celebration Begins

The Banquet Dinner is $35, by reservation only, with limited spaces
Reserve your seat when you register for the Biochar Symposium:
www.nsm.umass.edu/biochar09/

Anyone can attend the after-dinner Founders Meeting
The Dining Room will be opened to all members after dinner

To participate and vote at the Founders Meeting,
enroll as a Biochar Northeast member:
complete a short survey and pay $25 membership fee
www.carbon-negative.us/membership

To nominate a member to either initial Board of Directors:
dyarrow@nycap.rr.com
(at this initial moment, self-nomination is acceptable)