Welcome
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
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
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
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 ...
Pipelines versus platforms: Power and the politics of knowledge
I see three patterns unfolding:
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.
Bioprecipitation
Bioprecipitation is about the influence of biology, such as the bacteria Pseudomonas syringae, on rainfall ...