RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #9 31.19 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $41.6 BILLION NET COST $699.4 BILLION NET SAVINGS Cows and trees do not belong together—so says conventional wisdom. And why should it not be? In Brazil and elsewhere, headlines condemn ranching as a driver of mass deforestation and attendant climate change. But the practice of... Continue Reading →
IMPROVED RICE CULTIVATION
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #24 (IMPROVED RICE CULTIVATION) 11.34 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 NO ADDITIONAL COSTS REQUIRED $519.1 BILLION NET SAVINGS RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #53 (SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION) 3.13 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 NO ADDITIONAL COSTS REQUIRED $677.8 BILLION NET SAVINGS Vietnamese poet Phan Van Tri writes of rice grains: “They leave rice... Continue Reading →
MULTISTRATA AGROFORESTRY
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #28 9.28 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $26.8 BILLION NET COST $709.8 BILLION NET SAVINGS Strata are horizontal layers. The word’s Latin root means “something spread out or laid down,” like a blanket. These layers are one of the defining features of forests, from undergrowth to understory, from canopy to emergent—the tallest... Continue Reading →
(two excerpts, highly advise see entire articles...) How to fix America’s misinformation crisis Teach our children critical thinking There is hardly a thing in the US that couldn’t benefit from change right now, but something I think about a lot is public education, from preschool to high school. If it were up to me, we’d... Continue Reading →
America is broken, so we asked some of its greatest minds how they would fix it
CLEAN COOKSTOVES
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #21 15.81 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $72.2 BILLION NET COST $166.3 BILLION NET SAVINGS Preparing food is at the core of family, culture, and community. Experts debate how long humans have been cooking with fire, but it is likely hundreds of thousands of years. Cooking with heat has a host of... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 