Shea Fleetwood

I can post on social media and discuss with my family/friends the opportunity for this form of energy. I can invest stocks and provide donations for geothermal companies. I can use my voice in local and country-wide elections to vote in people who care about this form of energy, and I can call my county officials to try to discuss the importance of shifting to renewables, at least, if not geothermal itself. I can educate myself and educate people around me with respect and patience.

I think that there is an abundance of ag waste. The technology and willingness to "deal with it" may not be sufficient to make this a normal societal task, however. I think that our world would be so much more efficient if we were to utilize these immense loads of waste for environmental services and even bioenergy. 

I had very little knowledge in biomass technology prior to taking a class called "Bioenergy & Environmental Impact" (WSE473) this term. 
Now, I know that there are many different types of feedstocks fueling the production of biomass energy and power! For instance, human municipal waste, including cooking/home wastes and even sewage waste, can be gasified/pyrolized to power cities. The main biomass feedstock used is wood. Something that worried me initially was that this would induce more deforestation, which is directly fueling the destruction of our planet. However, my professor informed me that many of the bioenergy plants use forest residues from controlling forest fires and upkeeping the forest. 
 Unfortunately, these technologies are often less cheap than the fossil fuel feedstocks we rely on currently. The economy is of higher priority than the environment is, so biomass technology receives less financial and political support than the destructive resources we use today. 

People in richer countries have the luxury of not having to face the problems that meat production causes. They have money and thus power, what more could they need? (notice the sarcasm here, consumeristic attitudes must go).
Meat impacts our bodies negatively. I have learned that meat is packed with cholesterol and saturated fats, raising the risk of heart disease, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses. 
The planet suffers from the meat production industry. The dairy and meat industries contribute immense amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, chiefly through CO2 and methane gas. There is also the delivery of meat through transportation that heightens these emissions through cars, planes, trucks, trains, etc. The forests are also debilitated to create more ag lands for the animals killed to yield meat.
In my Food Justice class (FCSJ361), I learned that slaughterhouses are entirely unsafe for workers, and the workers who have jobs there are primarily there to put food on the table for their own families. It is a horrifying circle of imprisonment. Go to work, suffer terrifying injuries from unregulated, dangerous machines, get a small paycheck, suffer from food insecurity due to that insufficient paycheck, and go back to work. Terrifying. "Other people" to me means those who have to face these problems, those suffering from wealth discrimination.

A sustainable community is one where food and homes are abundant, people bonds are strong, and everybody has a fulfilling, important job that respects their mental health. The environment is not endangered by our actions.
We need to dismantle the racist, consumerist, conquering attitude maintained in America and in other industrialized countries/regions. Personality and our ability to treat others with respect and kindness must be weighed to determine worth. We need to shift power away from gaz guzzling machines and towards energy that does not hurt the planet (bioenergy from biomass residues, solar and wind power, etc.). We need to instill more global gratitude and recognize our impacts on the world and on each other.

Yes! Biochar is also a great soil amendment, as it boosts the soil's ability to retain crucial nutrients for optimal plant growth and success.