Our brains do not know how to deal with climate change; A call for visionaries and leaders
The scientific stance that climate change is real is not truly debated. It is not actually a partisan issue at its core. It is not at odds with any religion. It is not incomprehensible. It is a big problem to solve, and the solutions to allow us to live a
Municipal Carbon Asset Management in the 21st century
21st-century cities are stepping up to address climate change with Climate Action Plans and other like-minded mandates intended to take responsibility for carbon and prepare the developing carbon market. Without reliable metrics and tools, there will be no way to translate these plans into the fundamental changes we need to
Carbon Literate Design in Practice: The Cavanaugh Center Study
Our good friends at Daily Acts overhauled a public landscape with excellent results. We have attached the full report here, along with a brief synopsis. This project is a small city landscape that was primarily lawn. Daily acts designed and installed a multi-storied, perennial, polyculture food and habitat system with
It’s a cycle, not a dumpster; The carbon emission and sequestration relationship
Natural and human-centered activities emit carbon Dioxide. Plant material takes in some carbon dioxide and converts it to sugars. Most of those sugars are used to build plant tissue, and the rest are pumped into the soil to be used by soil microorganisms. We call this the photosynthetic liquid carbon