Sweating global warming? Northwest Biocarbon Initiative might just cool you down
Why would 220 people come out on a rainy February night to Seattle’s Town Hall to discuss the well-known power of plants to absorb carbon?
Carbon sequestration
Guest Blog: Reflections on Savory: The science and the philosophy
This blog was originally posted Nov 20, 2012 by Chad Kruger here.
Pacific coast readies for climate superstorm
While the East Coast still struggled to recover from Superstorm Sandy, a Nov. 13th Climate Risk Roundtable convened in San Francisco to explore the challenges of keeping society’s vital systems running as the climate grows more turbulent.
Literal grassroots leadership: The Soil Carbon Challenge
The Soil Carbon Challenge is a “competition to see how fast land managers can turn atmospheric carbon into soil organic matter. If you want to find out how fast a human can run 100 meters, do you build a computer model, do a literature search, or convene a panel of experts on human physiology to make a prediction? No, you run a race. Or a series of them.”
Little known fact: sea otters are biocarbon Ninjas!
On a marine wildlife cruise in Alaska recently I got to touch a sea otter pelt–it was so luxuriously soft my knees almost buckled with pleasure. A new study found that these critters are not only super-cuddly, they also play an outsized role in sucking up carbon from the atmosphere and storing it safely away in the sea.
Guest blog: The Northwest is a biocarbon powerhouse
Lost in the current debate over how best to control greenhouse gas emissions from combustion of fossil fuels is the simple fact that it won’t be enough.
Inspired by the carbon-rich soils of Amazonia
Biochar has had an interesting run over the past several years. As with so many other emerging climate solutions, biochar burst into public awareness a few years back with a wave of grassroots
Organic residues provide a vital link to solving the climate crisis
What do yard trimmings, food waste, woody materials, biosolids, manure, municipal solid waste and other organic residues have to do with cooling our overheating climate?
Protecting shrinking farmlands
In a world of ever increasing stress on our food and energy supplies, it makes little sense to pave farmland under sprawl, but that’s what we’ve been doing.
Unpave paradise, get rid of the parking lots
Our country, America the Beautiful, boasts somewhere between 105 million and 2 billion parking spaces, according to a New York Times blog that caught my eye the other day.
The home run we need: Biocarbon
RBI. I’m a baseball fanatic -- especially in playoff season -- and I was hoping that our new program could have that acronym.
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