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This is the first in a series of posts envisioning ways individuals can participate in the removal of carbon from the environment. Providing such experiences is core to the LOT mission. The setting: Mid-summer, Park City Utah, 2022. You’ve agreed to spend A Morning harvesting dead wood in the Uintah-Wasatch-Cache National Forest on Tuesday, during […]

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I believe sequestering dead wood–i.e, preserving it in its natural form for hundreds or thousands of years–can contribute to climate change reversal, and this could be a way to get regular people more directly involved in the process. “Additionality” is an important test for ensuring a carbon offset

The LOT mission depends on the belief that carbon atoms can be counted. It’s harder than it sounds. In this post we will think about carbon as a ‘currency’. Usually we think of money as currency, like US dollars, British pounds, or even Bitcoin. A little bit further afield, you can think of calories as

Let’s Own This! (“LOT”) is organizing a set of technologists, data professionals, and data scientists, to participate in a community that furthers the LOT mission. At LOT, our overall objective is to help individuals and families become carbon positive, or in other words, remove more carbon from the environment than they create. This calculus requires

Lillien and Frank Gilbreth were real-life parents of twelve real-life children, and have been the subject of mostly biographical books and movies under the moniker “Cheaper by the Dozen.” Usually they involve all sorts of zany, mad-cap adventures, and don’t forget the precocious kids who constantly outwit school authorities, law enforcement, and even their own

Like most companies, organizations, or movements, Let’s Own This! (“LOT”) began with a set of eye-opening realizations, revelations, or as I like to call them, “epiphanies”. The foundational writings of most world religions are filled with such epiphanies. Companies fill their mission statements with epiphanies (“Treating our employees well increases customer loyalty”). Universities place epiphanies