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What's ahead for climate action in Salem?
No corner of our state was left untouched by climate-fueled storms and harms last year.
Food and agriculture
The Peak District, England

British farmland missing huge natural benefits potential

Farm support programs that target only food production miss huge opportunities to generate natural benefits, a new British study documents.

No till agriculture

The growing buzz around the biocarbon benefits of farmland

The message is spreading that changing the way agriculture is done can draw heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere into farm soils to improve the viability of agriculture overall. 

wheat field

A low-hanging fruit overripe for the picking

What agricultural practices have the most immediate potential for making a significant contribution to protecting our climate? Think biocarbon.

Cows grazing

Guest Blog: More livestock to save the planet?

A conversation between Chad Kruger, Director of  WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Allan Savory, President and

Building natural carbon: five policy principles

Carbon dioxide levels hit 395 parts per million in 2012, the highest in four or five million years when sea levels were around 80 feet higher and temperatures up to 10° Fahrenheit hotter. If we sustain those CO2 levels, or go higher as we are doing, a completely different world will emerge. 

California redwood forest

Guest Blog: AB 32 - Funding a greener world while building jobs and a robust economy

Imagine a world where we invest billions of dollars in improving ecosystem resilience to help combat climate change, all because doing so sucks up vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and provides pure oxygen in return.

Cattle grazing

Guest Blog: Reflections on Savory: The science and the philosophy

This blog was originally posted Nov 20, 2012 by Chad Kruger here.

soil carbon challenge

Literal grassroots leadership: The Soil Carbon Challenge

The Soil Carbon Challenge is a “competition to see how fast land managers can turn atmospheric carbon into soil organic matter. If you want to find out how fast a human can run 100 meters, do you build a computer model, do a literature search, or convene a panel of experts on human physiology to make a prediction? No, you run a race. Or a series of them.”

Guest blog: The Northwest is a biocarbon powerhouse

Lost in the current debate over how best to control greenhouse gas emissions from combustion of fossil fuels is the simple fact that it won’t be enough.

Biochar

Inspired by the carbon-rich soils of Amazonia

Biochar has had an interesting run over the past several years. As with so many other emerging climate solutions, biochar burst into public awareness a few years back with a wave of grassroots enth

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Cattle grazing in Marin

Soil carbon, home on the range

Turning organic materials into compost and applying it to rangelands on a larger scale could store a lot of carbon, repurpose organic waste, improve the health of rangelands, increase climate resilience, and help farmers’ bottom lines.

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Migrating to high ground

Pacific islanders secure a refuge from rising seas, compost boosts carbon storage in California ranchlands, Venetian-style canals floated for Manhattan, and much more. 

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