This is often a point of confusion when reading about climate change. The Landscape Carbon Calculator is measuring Carbon Dioxide. It is typical for Carbon and CO2 to be used interchangeably in daily conversation. Carbon is often used as “short” for carbon dioxide, but they are indeed different, vastly different.
This is often a point of confusion when reading about climate change. The Landscape Carbon Calculator is measuring Carbon Dioxide. It is typical for Carbon and CO2 to be used interchangeably in daily conversation. Carbon is often used as “short” for carbon dioxide, but they are indeed different, vastly different.
Recently, a design-build firm sent in their question to us, and we thought some of you might be thinking about this as well.
“..we are already pretty busy. How can I most efficiently insert this into my workflow?
I am going to break this into two categories: design and LA firms and contracting firms. I am also going to assume this is for pre-build estimating and not post-build analysis. I’ll cover post-build analysis in a future blog.
After diving deep into two scientific studies, it appears that a lawn sequesters at a similar rate as a wild meadow. However, the lawn’s NET sequestration rate includes fertilizer, mowing, water, etc.
Good for humans and the economy or good for the planet. This is a false binary.
We cannot build systems that are considered suitable for humanity and the economy if they do not consider the planet we inhabit. Colonizing Mars is great and all, but……
The scientific stance fact that climate change is real is not truly debated. It is not actually a partisan issue at its core. It is not at odds with any religion. It is not incomprehensible.
It is a big problem to solve, and the solutions to allow us to live a lifestyle that resembles what we live today while reversing climate change ARE complex, but it is not beyond us.
Our good friends at Daily Acts overhauled a public landscape with excellent results. We have attached the full report here, along with a brief synopsis.
Natural and human-centered activities emit carbon Dioxide. Plant material takes in some carbon dioxide and converts it to sugars.
Most of those sugars are used to build plant tissue, and the rest are pumped into the soil to be used by soil microorganisms.
We call this the photosynthetic liquid carbon cycle.
21st-century cities are stepping up to address climate change with Climate Action Plans and other like-minded mandates intended to take responsibility for carbon and prepare the developing carbon market.
Carbon Literacy is a mandatory minimum skill if we are to be considered relevant for the 21st century.
Design is inherently optimistic. We are starting from a thought, a vision, or a feeling and bringing that through a long and detailed process to manifestation.
We often accomplish what is not considered possible simply because we choose to begin.
The Landscape Carbon Calculator was designed to raise our awareness and give us a practical tool to get moving on solving the global climate crisis, but there is more.
Carbon is the current most important of three central underleveraged systems in the landscape to consider, not the only factor to consider in a 21st-century landscape.
Our landscapes are part of the climate crisis, and they can be part of the solution
We know that plants are magnificently designed to pull carbon from the atmosphere and use it to create tissue and pump it into the soil through various exudates! So yes, our landscapes ARE part of the solution.