The Soil Solution - Focus On: Marin Carbon Project

What if the solution to climate change was beneath our feet?

In this short video, Sustainable World Media interviews Jeff Creque and John Wick of the Marin Carbon Project (MCP) and Penny Livingston of the Regenerative Design Institute about the potential of grasses and rangeland soils to sequester carbon.

After conducting a four year field trial, MCP has discovered that certain land stewardship practices increase carbon sequestration in rangeland soils. Since rangelands are prevalent throughout the world, these soils have a huge potential for storing large amounts of atmospheric CO2.

Sustainable World Media's Climate Change Solutions Series explores the link between soil and carbon and documents the forward thinking ranchers, scientists , and farmers who are studying soil’s potential as a biologically based solution to the global climate crisis.

Worldwide, most soils are depleted of carbon. The atmosphere contains an excess of carbon in the form of CO2, a climate change causing gas. What if that CO2 could be removed and stored in our carbon-hungry soil through land management practices?

In our first film The Soil Solution to Climate Change, we highlighted land stewardship practices that can be used to remove excess atmospheric carbon and put it to beneficial use in soil. Rangeland management is a method of grazing that works with nature, instead of against it. Following Nature’s model of grazing, animals are moved from paddock to paddock where their impact on the land helps to create healthy soil. Many ranchers and scientists are now showing that managing cattle in this way also increases the sequestration of atmospheric CO2. Rangeland management also provides us with nutritionally rich food, cleaner water and a healthier planet for all.

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