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We live in a world that our questions create. Our small coalition is about asking better questions, and engaging more people in asking and answering. Much of our work involves supporting peer-to-peer learning networks, community science, and local groups seeking to grow a shared intelligence on the circle of life.

We do not support or engage in carbon trading, offsets, or credits. Soil carbon is important because of its leverage on water cycling, on the soil's ability to accept and retain water.

We have a strong desire, and plenty of tools and programs,
to carve the circle of life up into separate problems, which then camouflage it.
Can knowing and doing be reconnected?

Latest blog posts

Monte Bottens interviews me

About a month ago Monte Bottens with the AgEmerge podcast interviewed me.

Soil health principles

A very well-presented video by Cat Buxton of Sharon, Vermont on the soil health principles.

The trouble with carbon

Many states, including Oregon, have passed legislation with incentives for agricultural and forestry practices that ...

Monitoring solar energy

In working on soilhealth.app, I continue to wonder what sort of visualizations of energy ...

Dave Chapman interviews me

Dave Chapman of the Real Organic movement interviewed me in February 2023.

Patterns for thinking

Reverting to the pen for this piece on carbon offsets and ecosystem services

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The shell game of carbon markets

Since the Soil Carbon Coalition began in 2008 I've sampled soils and measured soil ...

Cat Buxton

Today Cat Buxton, leader and networker in Upper Valley of eastern Vermont (and board member ...

Matt Collins on place-based collaboratives

Here's a very significant and interesting talk by Matt Collins on place-based collaboratives. The ...

Deborah Frieze on change and localism

Deborah Frieze's remarkable TED talk on change.

What I learned from the Soil Carbon Challenge

This nonprofit organization, the Soil Carbon Coalition, was inspired in part by Allan Yeomans's ...

Why learning networks?

I've spent a dozen years reporting on ranchers, farmers, and groups in North America ...

Commodifying and financializing nature

The rush continues to commodify soil carbon or other "ecosystem services" and trade these on ...

Online presentation and discussion on soilhealth.app

The recording of the session announced below is now available here.

What is nature, how ...

Andhra Pradesh successes

Vijay Kumar, Didi Pershouse, Walter Jehne, and others participated in a recent inspiring 3-hour webinar ...

Judy Schwartz: The Reindeer Chronicles

YES! magazine recently published a review of Judy Schwartz's new book plus some interview ...

Soil‑microbe systems are self‑organising states

by Susan Cousineau

(Instagram @susan.cousineau)
Neal, A. L., Bacq-Labreuil, A., Zhang, X., Clark, I ...

Enabling good questions

In discussions of regenerative agriculture, soil health, and climate change, it's common to encounter ...

Abe Collins: hiring farmers to grow deep topsoil watersheds

Abe Collins presented at the Grassfed Exchange in February 2018 on Landstream. A great presentation.

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