Join Native for a webinar with sustainability leaders from SWEEP, Klarna, and Gold Standard Foundation, to discuss a new climate finance approach for companies and organizations that want to take a more proactive role in sustainability. A Contribution Approach to Climate Finance Tuesday May 2, 11:00am EST Register Webinar Overview Several companies and organizations […]
The Realities of Soil Sampling in Northern Kenya with Jackson Kikardi
“Let me start by saying, it takes a lot. You need to have a team that is really hard-working and not afraid of getting their hands dirty.” Jackson Kikardi manages the soil sampling process with project partner Soils for the Future for the Northern Kenya Rangelands project. He and the Soils for the Future team conducted […]
How We Manage Production Risk in the Northern Great Plains
The Northern Great Plains Regenerative Grazing Project is a HelpBuild™ project, meaning that companies are helping to catalyze climate action by purchasing tonnes upfront that will be produced from the project over time. The upfront investment provides needed financing to ranchers to help cover the costs of practice change. This project has a 20-year crediting […]
How We Ensure Durable Carbon Sequestration in the Northern Great Plains
When developing soil carbon sequestration projects, a key question is: How do we ensure that the tonnes of carbon sequestered in the soil actually stay there? Soil carbon sequestration is a mechanism within a dynamic system of ecosystem processes and human decision-making – it is not as straightforward as, say, a MWh of solar energy […]
Q&A with Kieran Avery
Dr. Kieran Avery, a trained veterinary scientist and natural resource manager, joins our grasslands team after seven years in Kenya with the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT are our close partner on the Northern Kenya Rangelands project). I recently sat down with him to learn a bit more about his experiences living and working on this […]
We Want Scope 3 Reductions, Not Carbon Offsets
This is a common refrain among entities that are looking for ways to reduce scope 3 emissions instead of supporting reductions generated by projects developed to carbon offset standards. On the surface, it is an admirable position to take. Essentially, the emitter is saying, “We are not interested in just buying offsets. Instead we are […]
Climate Catalyst Initiative
As we write this, we are in the latter half of 2022 and we are all that much closer to the year in which we collectively aim to have cut global emissions by half. 2030. The amount of work that remains for us to do is significant, from regulations and effective incentives to conservation and […]
Summer Updates from Milton Ranch
This season, Milton Ranch brings us, once again, beautiful video updates of life on the ranch. Milton Ranch joined the Northern Great Plains Regenerative Grazing Project three years ago and continues to pave the way in the adoption of planned rotational grazing practices. They have had a busy summer managing and moving the herd across […]
Soil Sampling in the Rugged Grasslands of Patagonia
The Patagonian grasslands, covering 219 million acres of land across Argentina and parts of Chile and the Falkland Islands, are home to an array of native plants and wildlife including guanaco, maned wolf, and Darwin’s rhea (a flightless bird that can run up to 35 miles per hour!). Ranching on these grasslands – mainly […]
Running Towards Change, One Event at a Time: A Conversation with Terry Chiplin
Terry Chiplin is a longtime endurance runner and trail running coach who is passionate about taking climate action. As the Director of the US Trail Running Conference, Terry has cast the burgeoning trail running industry’s eye towards its climate and environmental impacts and opportunities for change. I met Terry at the 2021 US Trail Running […]