The role played by trees in reducing CO2 has up until now been virtually ignored.
Trees soak up carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into wood, forest litter, and carbon in the soil (the process is called carbon sequestration). Exis More...
Too Many Unknowns; Too Many Higher Priorities
On February 20, 2020, just before we knew that all pandemic hell was breaking loose, the Vermont House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed More...
Back on February 11, the International Energy Agency (IEA) put out a press release with the headline: “Defying expectations of a rise, global carbon dioxide emissions flatlined More...
This morning (Feb 18) at 11AM ET I'll be on WDEV (96.1 FM, 550 AM) in VT with Bill Sayre discussing tree-based strategies for CO2 reduction and the surprising More...
The world's "all-of-the above" approach to reducing CO2 emissions is working!
According to a press release from the International Energy Agency, More...
Vermont’s forests may already be taking more greenhouse gasses (GHGs) out of the atmosphere than all our cars, trucks, furnaces, generators, cows, etc. are emitting. However, the Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP) - the one that calls for us to go much more quickly to electric cars an More...
Each acre of farmland which is turned into a woodlot removes 5.7 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for the next 20 years (numbers adapted from the UN IPCC Report). This is atmospheric carbon reductio More...
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