Trees and Trains – The Green Trees and Norfolk Southern Partnership

Underscoring its leadership in “conservation capitalism” — the growing understanding that environmental progress and American business are closely linked — Norfolk Southern signed a $5.6 million, five-year reforestation and carbon sequestration agreement with GreenTrees LLC and planted a ceremonial first tree at the Rick Lowery Farm here today. Under the program, NS and GreenTrees® will…

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Virginia Improves Access to Carbon Market

Carbon markets benefit the health of the Chesapeake Bay, as the properties and practices that sequester carbon also improve water quality. Virginia has capitalized on this opportunity by amending the Industrial Development Act, which now allows counties to aggregate forest and agriculture landowners in the sale of carbon credits to attract greater private capital investment.…

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The Fractal Nature of Land and Finance

“Smooth shapes are rare in the wild but are extremely important in the ivory tower and factory.” – Benoit Mandelbrot The word fractal comes from the Latin word “fractus,” meaning broken. Essentially, fractals are when you break something into smaller and smaller pieces that remain self-similar to the whole. Fractals are everywhere in nature — from snowflakes to…

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The Largest US Reforestation Carbon Credit Issuance

The National Academy of Science studied all the technologies in laboratory and commercial development and deemed tree planting as the most scalable, lowest risk solution to combating climate change. THE PLAINS, Va.,  Jun. 01 2017  – GreenTrees received the largest US reforestation carbon credit issuance for a single verification — over 1,000,000 metric tons by…

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Imagine Putting Trees on Your Balance Sheet

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Healing the Heartland

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“Farming” Carbon to Help Wildlife

Projects to fight global warming by planting forests on croplands have provided a new pool of money for habitat restoration Paul Tolmé, Dec 01, 2009 – National Wildlife Foundation Magazine https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2009/Farming-Carbon-to-Help-Wildlife

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