Collect Earth Online CEO
Collect Earth Online (CEO) enables users to efficiently collect up-to-date information about their environment and observe changes over time at no cost. Organizations around the world use CEO to detect deforestation, forest degradation, and other changes in the landscape.
Helping American Forests Help Underserved Landowners
Spatial Informatics Group is partnering with American Forests to help them make resilient reforestation more affordable and accessible for underserved landowners.
Carbon Credits with the White Mountain Apache Tribe
SIG serves as the forest carbon technical advisor to the White Mountain Apache Tribe (WMAT) for the Tribe’s Improved Forest Management California carbon projects.
Washington Rainforest Renewal Project
The Nature Conservancy hired Spatial Informatics Group to develop a carbon credit program on coastal rainforest on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. The Washington Rainforest Renewal Project seeks to leverage carbon financing to fund restoration efforts aimed at mimicking the characteristics of late-successional forests.
Land Trusts In Northeastern U.S. Can Enroll In The Carbon Market And Become Future Ancient Forests
Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT), SIG Carbon, and the Inlandsis Fund have teamed up to create an exciting new forest carbon aggregation initiative called Wildlands Carbon. Land trusts across the Northeastern United States
With Biomass Energy, The Carbon Savings Are In the Details
Biomass energy, Michael Moore’s new documentary Planet of the Humans faces criticism from environmentalists for using outdated data and simplistic analyses on renewables.
Forest Carbon Markets: Native People Quantify The Growing Value Of Native Lands
Carbon markets are based on the premise that sources (greenhouse gas-emitting power plants, vehicles, farm animal waste) and sinks (greenhouse gas-absorbing forests, biogas digesters, healthy soil) can be “traded” between states, regions and countries to help each other offset and reduce overall carbon emissions. While carbon markets are not a perfect solution to atmospheric carbon reduction, they have benefits…not least of which is getting communities to take stock of their natural resources and find ways to better manage, protect, and restore them.
