With this in mind WICEEDO has established a new company, Carbonculcha!!
Carbonculcha has been formed to take advantage of opportunities in domestic and international Carbon Credit or Carbon Offset Markets. It combines WICEEDO’s capacity development and community engagement experience with experienced Climate Change and Permaculture industry partners.
These partnerships provide Carbonculcha with:
- Access to Permaculture design techniques and tree seedlings
- Carbon credit accreditation and certification
The Carbonculcha Model
The
Carbonculcha model provides for infrastructure capital, skill development, business model structures and ongoing support for landholders through corporate investment and expert industry support. The model incorporates a framework of cultural, social, environmental and economic values based on:
- Cultural Integrity
- Community Engagement
- Community Ownership and Involvement
- Collaborative Partnerships
- Capacity Development
- Mutual Benefits
- Corporate governance
- Best Practice
Carbon Sinks
The Carbonculcha model intrinsically links the establishment of Bio diversity Carbon Sinks and or renewable energy projects with Permaculture forests and wild harvest farms. Negotiated capital is utilised for infrastructure and the establishment of Sinks and Permaculture food forests.
How it Works:
- Investors invest in the establishment of Carbon Sink and then lease
from Landowners and community.
- Investors keep the Carbon Credits to sell on or utilise to offset
their own company carbon emissions.
- Landowners and communities receive negotiated payments for
long-term leases based on amount per tonne of carbon sequestered.
- Community owns food harvested from Permaculture food forest harvest
- Community and landowners retain ownership of land
The Carbonculcha Model focuses on:
1. Education and training programmes to transfer skills in Permaculture design, sustainable
agriculture and resources.
2. The production of large quantities of quality Carbon Credits utilising the process of
bio-sequestration and/or renewable energy projects, including:
Establishing Permaculture Carbon Sinks across various regions of Australia, utilising
land held by:
- Established farming communities seeking alternative incomes
- Land Trusts of financial institutions
- Mining companies seeking to rehabilitate land
- Indigenous communities under the title of Aboriginal Land Councils
The Carbon Sinks include:
- Afforestation Projects
- Managed Forrest Projects
- Long Lived wood products
- Establishing renewable energy products where applicable
PermaCulture
Permaculture globally is regarded as the new direction in sustainable agriculture. Turning deserts into sustainable food forests. This remarkable ability to create forests in arid soils and deserts can add value to arid land holdings. The nature of the
Carbonculcha Bio diversity model gives these lands a far greater economic value than once held by the corporate sector.
• Permaculture designed plantations are suitable for producing Carbon Credits and other spin
off agribusiness enterprises.
• Utilising Permaculture techniques will add value to land and not take other valuable farmland
out of arable/animal production cycles.
• Permaculture will improve land, enhancing traditional vegetation, facilitate cultural practices
and produce a diverse risk managed income
The Permaculture element of our model provides communities with a number of extra benefits, including:
- Extra income streams through sales of produce to the native food industry
- Educational and Cultural Tourism
- Employment rather than just depending on a passive income from the lease of sinks
- Facilitates ongoing cultural practice via wild harvest
- Providing communities with large pockets of fresh healthy food for the community
- Choice of selling or keeping produce
For further information about our products please feel free to contact us or
Go directly to the Carbonculcha website.
Paul Dodd:
Mob: 0424531789 Tel: 0266763861
PDodd@carbonculcha.com.au
Jason Hayward- Jones:
Mob: 0424843021
JHaywardJones@carbonculcha.com.au
Associates :
1 Neutral and Beyond, a review of carbon neutrality and offsetting. Megan Lynch, May 2007
