Focus Area: Ecosystems
This is the focus area for you if you want to explore these questions:
• How can ecosystem stewardship help to recapture and draw down carbon from the atmosphere?
• How do we enhance the resilience of ecosystems to climate extremes?
• How can these resilient landscapes enhance urban community resilience to climate extremes?
Topics might include:
Carbon sequestration | Sustainable agriculture | Forestry | Pollinator protection | Pesticide policies
Learn More About Our Ecosystem
from these helpful resources, websites, and stories
This community report outlines the work of both the city organization and the broader community in 2018 to address the connections between climate change, climate action, community, and ecosystems. View Report
Carbon Farming isn’t just for farmers. You can become a carbon farmer and reverse climate change right in your own backyard! Eco-Cycle and the City of Boulder are working together on a three-year study program.
The Soil Revolution Conference invites farmers and ranchers of all scales and production systems to explore topics on regenerative farming. Sessions include: the good, the bad and the ugly; soil your undies demo; building resiliency and the triple bottom line on your farm with organic matter; no water, no problem—jumpstarting your biological activity on rangeland; infiltration demonstration; practical methods for healthy soils on diversified vegetable farms. Learn More
Building Soil Health To Combat Climate Change
The problem and solution are simply a matter of balance. Here’s why carbon farming is important and how it works.
Small Scale Farmers Cool the Planet
How industrial agriculture has contributed to climate change and small farmers are solving the crisis with regenerative agriculture.
Soil Carbon Restoration: Can Biology do the Job?
A great deal of discussion in scientific and governmental circles has been focused recently on how to deal with greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting weather extremes they have created. Read Essay
The Soil Solution: Regenerative Farming
“People keep talking about reducing carbon emissions and getting to carbon neutral, but that’s not enough anymore,” Hoffman says. “We’re already heating, so we need to take the excess from the atmosphere. A lot of people want to make new technology that can help solve our previous technology problems.” Read Boulder County Home & Garden
Carbon Farming: The Future of Food
There are two ways to go about solving climate change. We can either reduce greenhouse gas emissions or draw them out of the atmosphere. Scientists are now telling us that we must do both as quickly as humanly possible. Read on Boulder Lifestyle
Mingle and Feast at 63rd St. Farm
Whether you are a CSA-member or not, pick-up days are a great community event. Join us Thursday evenings during the season, to mingle with other farm-food lovers, sample our homemade brick oven pizza, listen to live local musicians, and enjoy the great farm life for an evening. Find out More
Recently Submitted Comments & Suggestions
Let’s Look At: Humans as part of ecosystem not separate – returning to right relationship with the rest of our community of plants and animals Mental health and processing the grief of extinction Boulder Housing Partners sequestration on all properties, trees, gardens, compost with community involvement Heavy timber/CLT Boulder as a prooving ground Signs for yards drawing down carbon (education/inspire)
Show Recently Submitted Comments & Suggestions
- Humans as part of ecosystem not separate – returning to right relationship with the rest of our community of plants and animals
- Mental health and processing the grief of extinction
- Boulder Housing Partners sequestration on all properties, trees, gardens, compost with community involvement
- Heavy timber/CLT Boulder as a prooving ground
- Signs for yards drawing down carbon (education/inspire)
- Bybi – Copenhagen, Denmark
- Addressing the insect collapse
- Limit the % of property that is not carbon-friendly – like lawns
- Hemp plantings
- Always ask, “how does this build soil, improve soil health?”
- Read Braiding Sweetgrass
- Arts
- Drone-based tree planting
- Educate about the deleterious effects of excessive rock-scaping
- Divest from fossil fuels
- Restoring riparian ecosystems
- Dandelion appreciation week!
- Gratuitous landscaping with fossil fuels, chemicals and nasty noise
- Ecosystem resilience
- Wildlife corridors in collaboration with our neighbors