Okay, Alex, here’s my take:
1. Combine the clear implications summarized in this article.
2. The fact that the City of Irving landfill has trash brush and treefall taking up twenty acres, twenty feet deep.
While City of Irving gives away as much of this in the form of mulch as they can, turning this stuff into char for the gardeners and landscapers would turn a costly trash product into something that could serve to:
- cut carbon out of the local air (this is an issue b/c TX is, unfortunately, largely dependent on coal-fired power)
- increase the general fertility and water-retention of the area due to increased soil fertility
- improve the Las Colinas Tufa that is both (relatively) infertile, and ridiculously instable, by increasing the amount of humus in the soil.
What I need to do is to get with the City’s folks at the landfill (and hopefully avoid having to make a City Council presentation in the process), and potentially pull a grant working on the “global warming plus TXU pollution plus landfill issue” angle. But my labor in that process would inevitably be relatively small unless sufficient grants were available to turn that into salary: and even then, I’m hard-committed to teach six, and possibly seven, courses this semester.
Input welcome.
