The Yeomans Carbon Still has been instrumental for the collaborative research of an international team of environmental management and climate change researchers, resulting in an important scholarly publication. Led by Professor of Ecology Augusto Zanella from University of Padua, the research project takes the small island of Albarella (near Venice) and asks what might be …
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This is a re-post from an article by Jamie Brown in The Land, 20 Feb, 2024 Carbon farming advocate and free-thinking inventor Allan Yeomans died last Thursday aged 92. Mr Yeomans grew up on his family’s farm at North Richmond, visible from The Land’s long-held print headquarters, where his father P.A. Yeomans trialled his landscape …
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This youtube clip from 2010 has Allan in conversation with his granddaughter Micky. As you can see from this video, all of Allan’s ideas about soil carbon sequestration were already being developed and refined at this point, and he explains the process clearly here. As for what happened since 2010? Well, he created the Yeomans …
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Melbourne film maker Takeshi Kondo (TK) has made this short video about the project at Monash University Museum of Art. Thanks to Warisa Somsuphangsri and MUMA for producing this piece.
This article appeared in The Weekly Times on May 15, 2019. You can download it as a pdf here. The images in the article are from the exhibition Shapes of Knowledge at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) curated by Hannah Mathews. These photos show the installation by Lucas Ihlein and Allan Yeomans at MUMA, …
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Saturday 23 March, 2-4pmMUMA | Monash University Museum of ArtGround Floor, Building FMonash University, Caulfield CampusFREE /// All welcomeRSVP here. A round table discussion about soil carbon sequestration, its opportunities and challenges. How to do it, how to measure it, and how to legislate for it. This is your chance to join with some visiting …
On March 9, we hosted a bus trip to Hallora (about 1.5 hours south east of Melbourne) to learn hands-on about soil and the carbon economy. As the bus hurtled down the highway, Allan Yeomans and I gave a brief history of our own work, telling how an artist and an agricultural innovator came to …
In 1990, Allan was invited to the Esalen Congress on Sustainable Agriculture, where he presented this paper entitled “The Agricultural Solution to the Greenhouse Effect”. This is the genesis of his work on the Yeomans Carbon Still and the associated methodology for measuring soil carbon sequestration. You can download the paper as a pdf document …
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A few photos taken of the installation at MUMA before the exhibition launches… (see more photos here). The following are some shots taken by professional photographer Christian Capurro (see the full set here).
Listing some of the things I don’t yet understand about soil and the carbon economy: What happens to carbon when plants photosynthesize? I mean, I (sort of) get it, that they “breathe in” CO2, but then what? I’ve been imagining that they break the CO2 into oxygen (O2) and carbon (C) (how exactly?)- the oxygen …
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