The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet

By Michaela Haas, YES! magazine

The idea behind regenerative farming is simple and ancient: The mother soil, which nurtures the harvest, in turn has to be nurtured and protected.

Seizing Defeat

By Albert Bates, The Great Change

When Frank and I stepped back from the Net Photosynthetic Productivity question — those physics are settled — and examined the social side of the equation, we came full circle to bioregionalism and the hyperlocal biomaterials economy, Transition Towns, and the Global Ecovillage Network.

In Praise of Carbon: Review

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

This is definitely not a case of, “Problem solved!” At this stage, the pathways outlined in the book represent a theoretically possible set of strategies that could help us escape the climate trap—if we can summon the courage to change not just policies, but significant and deeply engrained aspects of our industrial ways of life.

Native Shrubs and Why They’re Essential for Carbon Sequestration

By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening

Wherever there is a lawn, a tree and possibly a small garden, or even a tiny strip along the foundations of a building, there should be a native shrub or two, or possibly more.

US Could Meet Paris Emissions Pledge with ‘Natural Climate Solutions’, Study Says

By Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief

The US could meet its pledge to cut emissions under the Paris Agreement through “natural climate solutions” (NCS), a new study suggests. NCS comprise a group of techniques that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, or boost carbon uptake from land and wetlands through changes to the way they are managed.

Planting a Mix of Tree Species ‘Could Double’ Forest Carbon Storage

By Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief

Forests containing several tree species could store twice as much carbon as the average monoculture plantation, research finds. A study looking at the carbon storage of forests in southern China finds that each additional tree species introduced to a plantation could add 6% to its total carbon stocks.

Making Charcoal

By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry

With more careful measurements, I or others could see if we could use these techniques on some kind of fast-growing wood, like willow, and see if we could do with terra preta in temperate climates what Amazonian tribes did in the rainforest.

A Nearly Infinitely Adaptable Recipe for Ecological Regeneration and Soil Carbon Sequestration

By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening

The central, overarching question on which all sides apparently agree is this: To avoid disastrous climate change and environmental destruction, how are we humans to manage our land such that the land regenerates, biodiversity increases, and carbon is sequestered?

Analysis: How ‘Natural Climate Solutions’ Can Reduce the Need for BECCS

By Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief

Criticism of model reliance on BECCS has led researchers to examine the potential of “natural climate solutions” (NCS) to remove CO2 in the atmosphere through reforestation, land-use change and other ecosystem-based approaches.

California is Turning Farms into Carbon-sucking Factories

By Nathanael Johnson, Grist

In a grand experiment, California switched on a fleet of high-tech greenhouse gas removal machines last month. Funded by the state’s cap-and-trade program, they’re designed to reverse climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. These wonderfully complex machines are more high-tech than anything humans have designed. They’re called plants.