I have a bone to pick with how we approach agricultural sustainability, and with how I’ve approached it myself. Too often, we settle on a solution, then work outward to find the people and programs it can serve. We pay less attention to the decisions those people face, what would let them act, and what …
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I’ll never forget a meeting at a coffee shop in downtown Seattle in 2018. I was less than a year into helping launch Nori, a carbon removal market place, and we were sitting down with Dr. Emma Fuller, then at Granular, to sketch out a potential pilot for paying farmers to increase soil organic carbon. …
Most environmental initiatives start with the same challenge: How do we make the economics work to drive an environmental outcome? It’s a reasonable question. But it often points in the wrong direction. Recently, while reviewing material from John Fullerton, founder and president of Capital Institute on regenerative economics, I came across a word (coined by …
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10 strategic frameworks for clarity, alignment, and follow-through Sustainability programs rarely fail because teams don’t care or lack expertise. They fail because direction is under-specified in environments that demand precision. Across sustainable agriculture, supply-chain, and climate programs, the same frictions show up: Internal beliefs collide with external requirements Pilots proliferate without clear exit criteria Uncertainty …
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When the problem isn’t the practice, it’s the translation If you’re trying to sell environmental products in agriculture: credits, lower-CI grain, “climate-smart” programs, resilience loans, etc. you’ve probably felt this: Buyers say they want lower risk and better stories Farmers are doing real, measurable things The math can work …and yet the deals stall, shrink, or …
We at Carbon A List understand that the market for ecosystem services in agriculture can be complicated. As a solution, we created a comparison table of private sector programs and organizations that participate in the market. Use this Airtable to review program’s/organization’s: role, description, affiliation, verification standards, the stages of their carbon offsets and insets programs, …