I wasn't quite done seeing the region, and out of self-imposed time lines, I decided to apply to law school in the final application cycle for 2009 and return to San Diego. I moved home with my parents, a multi-generational house, seems to be the new fashion in our times.
After giving some time to side projects that either didn’t pan out or are spanning out, and deciding not to go to law school, getting to know some of my community and making new dear friends, allies, reconnecting with family, some volunteer work, some stagnation, some substitute teaching, I am off again.
One year later, with a plan, and surfboard.
I have more formalized action plan to begin exploring rooting a project I have been envisioning/researching for quite sometime called Re-Generation.
Re-Generation will micro-finance farmers to cultivate regional hemp to:
Re-Source rural communities creating opportunities for local/domestic use, (ie. building materials, food for humans and animals). Meanwhile, ascertaining loyal hemp sources of collective scale to merit advanced processing (biochar, hemp concrete, fiberboard, plastics) infrastructure for environmentally regenerating value added goods intended for domestic and international markets.
Re-Capture carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas attributed to climate change. Hemp's fast dense growth has the potential to capture carbon at a high rate and provide fiber 4 times the amount per acre of trees in just a 3 month growing period. It's fiber can replace the need for harvesting trees as a source of fiber for wood and paper products to allow for reforestation, creating even more carbon sinks.
Re-Power rural communities and economies by serving as a fast growing feedstock to produce carbon negative energy through bio-gasification (heating with little oxygen) producing power and heat to be used for rural electrification.
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