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So we’ve made some good progress on building out the LOT Carbon Accounts system. We’ve almost completed Minimum Viable Product zero (“MVP0”). Those scoring at home will notice that “MVP0” is a brand new concept, and it is. Pro-tip, tech people invent new stuff like this to make us feel good about what we have […]

LOT’s mission is to help people reduce their carbon footprint, AND to give them opportunities to directly participate in projects that remove carbon from the environment. Proactively removing carbon from the environment is a relatively new (decades old, perhaps) idea, but is absolutely logical and necessary. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution we have

TLDR; We are all somewhere on the path towards carbon awareness and carbon positivity. We need to build awareness about our footprint, build “intentionality” about our carbon consumption, and we need to do something about it. Let’s commit to getting steadily better. Just as important, let’s make space for others going the same direction, even

I’m a product of a Christian Religious Tradition, and a scripture we like to quote comes from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5 verse 48, which reads (King James Tranlation): “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your father in heaven is perfect.” This is daunting. How can I possibly perfect in life given all my

In the early 1970’s gasoline in the United States was inexpensive, at about 35 cents per gallon. Today the price is $3.21 in my state, and more expensive in many other parts of the country. The world has changed, and the biggest change when it comes to petroleum is that oil-producing countries discovered their ability

We have an opportunity to prototype a hands-on carbon removal project, this summer, 2022. A group of volunteers will harvest at least 125 tons of dead wood and put it away for thousands of years, and in the process, prevent 229 tons of CO2 from entering the air. Huzzah! This project will serve as foundation

You’ve noticed by now the name of our organization, “Let’s Own This!”, or “LOT” for short. It’s a catchy title, but more importantly, captures the spirit of our movement. It encourages us–individuals, families, and households–to take responsibility for the environmental degradation that surrounds us. Believe it or not, this admonition is somewhat controversial. Is it

For you kids out there, in the olden days we learned about the world through a thing called “newspapers,” delivered to our homes or purchased at a newsstand. Every now and then the writer or the editor or the printer would make a mistake. At some point over the next few days the mistake would

This is the first post in a series about consumption and the carbon footprint it creates. An overriding thesis is that most of us are not really aware how much CO2 we habitually create, and if we were, we would be more inclined to do something about it. Hence, “carbon currency” and “carbon accounts” are

Every now and then, technologies come along that make a big difference. They might be public and sudden, like the development of Android and Apple smartphones. These were a game changer, and everyone knew it. Other revolutionary technologies are less visible in the public eye, but no less important. The invention of software markup languages