Don’t get us wrong. Trees are cool. And so is Regenerative Ag. But these two will not solve or stop climate change. They will help for sure, but are only a part of the puzzle.

Basin looks for the levers. What lever if pulled makes an outsized impact?

The answers are often contrarian. When society says plant trees, we say “restore the beavers”! When politicians say “drain the swamp”, we say “fill up the bogs”!

Beavers, Biocrust, Bees & Bogs are just some examples of climate levers that have outsized impacts. Others include peatlands, mangroves, underground biomass, whale carbon, floodplains, deserts, algae. This is where Basin excels.

Excerpted from docs.basin.global

Beavers, Biocrust, Bees & Bogs was originally published in REvalue on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We humans try to fit everything into boxes: a taxonomy for this, a nomenclature for that. Correlated or Uncorrelated? We don’t know.

There is lots of room for error in Carbon and Natural Capital.

Worried about additionality? Permanence? A “unit” of biodiversity? Species drift?

If so, build in a buffer. Remove more carbon, plant more trees, restore more land than we think we need to. Kill less animals. Save for Rainy Day.

With a buffer we can do more and argue less.

Excerpted from docs.basin.global

Buffer was originally published in REvalue on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.