Historically, the economic goals of forest management were only achieved by harvesting timber. Today, landowners see revenue potential through a different lens.
The original California Goldrush started on January 24, 1848 at Sutter’s Mill. It began a seven-year complete and utter plunder of the environment in the search for gold and riches. As we all know now, during the US Gold rush, millions of acres of forest were denuded, river courses were altered–increasing sedimentation and runoff–killing native […]
In the absence of federal action to limit greenhouse gases over the last four years, thousands of corporations, cities, regions, organizations, investors, and countries have made net zero, carbon neutral, and climate neutral pledges. Bluesource applauds these efforts while at the same time recognizing that there is a pressing need to define what qualifies for […]
Have you heard of the social cost of carbon? The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a cost estimate of the future economic damages that would result from emitting one additional ton of greenhouse gas today. In other words, it’s a way to attribute a cost to the future impact of additional greenhouse gas pollution. […]
What is soil carbon sequestration? Soil carbon sequestration is a nature-based solution using the natural photosynthesis process of plants to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in the soil and plant root systems. How do sustainable agriculture projects work? Sustainable agriculture projects can help increase the amount of carbon stored by plants. These […]