Agriculture, Forestry + Land Use
Page coming soon! In the meantime, here are some resources to explore.
Agricultural Practices
- Drawdown, read the solutions under “Food,” pp. 38-73
- Project Drawdown, Farming Our Way out of the Climate Crisis
- Jane Zelikova, “Solutions Underfoot,” in All We Can Save, pp. 287-292
- Leah Penniman, “Black Gold,” in All We Can Save, pp. 301-310
- Jannise Ray, “The Seed Underground,” in All We Can Save, pp. 319-320.
- World Resources Institute, “Regenerative Agriculture: Good for Soil Health, but Limited Potential to Mitigate Climate Change“
- Keith Paustian et. al., “Climate Mitigation Potential of Regenerative Agriculture is significant!”
- Reversing Climate Change Podcast with Keith Paustian on using Regenerative Ag for carbon sequestration
- Jan Dutkiewicz and Matthew Hayak, “Climate-Smart Farming Is a Lot Harder Than the Inflation Reduction Act Makes It Sound”
- ClimateWorks report, Mitigating Climate Change Through Regenerative Agriculture
- CarbonBrief, “What Does the World’s Reliance of Fertilisers Mean for Climate Change?”
- The Reversing Climate Change podcast interview with Dr. David Montgomery
- Book: David Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing our Soil Back to Life
- Reversing Climate Change Podcast: Can permaculture scale?—w/ Mark Shepard, author of Restoration Agriculture
- Book: Mark Shepard, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers
- Reversing Climate Change podcast, The bleeding edge of regenerative agriculture—w/ Jesse Smith of White Buffalo Land Trust
“AgTech”
- My Climate Journey Podcast interview with Irving Fain, founder of Bowery Farming (Vertical Agriculture)
- Dr. Jonathan Foley, “No, Vertical Farms Will not Feed the World”
- Climavores Podcast, “Are Vertical Farms a Real Solution?”
- My Climate Journey Podcast interview with Nicholas Pinkowski, co-founder of Nitricity (carbon-free manufacturer of nitrogen fertilizer)
- My Climate Journey Podcast interview with Bill Brady, co-founder of Kula Bio (nitrogen fertilizer through microbes)
- Reversing Climate Change podcast interview with Mike Miille, CEO of Joyne Bio (nitrogen-fixing bacteria for corn
- Reversing Climate Change podcast with founders of MicroTERRA, bioreactors growing fish food from fertilizer runoff
- Subscribe to Foodtech weekly newsletter
Land Use
- Drawdown, read the solutions under “Land Use,” pp. 108-134
- CarbonBrief, “Amazon rainforest is taking up a third less carbon than a decade ago”
- National Geographic, “How farmers in Earth’s least developed country grew 200 million trees”
Aquaculture and Kelp Farming
- Ezra Klein podcast interview with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, “The Climate Crisis is an Oceans Crisis”
- Emily Stengel, “Solutions at Sea” in All We Can Save, pp. 294-298
- “Marine Permaculture,” Drawdown, pp 179-180
- “Ocean Farming,”Drawdown, pp 206-208
- Project Drawdown Solution: Improved Aquaculture
- Book: Bren Smith, Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
- Reversing Climate Change Podcast: Kelp: Foraged, Farmed, and Delicious!—with Matt Kern, Cofounder of Barnacle Foods
Alternative Proteins
- “The Untapped Climate Opportunity in Alternative Proteins”
- Book: George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
- Michael Grunwald, “3 smart ways the US can grow more food while emitting less carbon“
- My Climate Journey podcast interview with Bruce Friedrich, Founder of the Good Food Institute
- Good Food Institute website (full of great resources)
- My Climate Journey podcast: Pat Brown, founder of Impossible Foods
- My Climate Journey podcast: Nature’s Fynd
- My Climate Journey podcast: Compound Foods
- My Climate Journey podcast: Prime Roots
- My Climate Journey podcast: WildType
- My Climate Journey podcast: SciFi Foods
- Thomas Linder, “Edible Microorganisms—An Overlooked Technology Option to Counteract Agricultural Expansion”