January 2022

I’m not going to lie: It’s hard for me to do new stuff, and it always has been. It’s hard to learn and get good at things. It’s hard to communicate my vision when the vision is strange and foreign to other people. It’s hard to invest time and resources in a cause that does […]

We organized our data science team last week. We are now officially building steam, with projects and accountability and goals and everything! In the next few weeks we’ll build out similar volunteer teams in other functional areas. The most urgent objective for the data science team is to design and build a minimum viable carbon

Wouldn’t it be great if you could be personally carbon neutral or even carbon positive? Unfortunately, as it currently stands, few individuals can accurately measure their own carbon footprint, and even if they could, they can’t afford the steps available to accomplish carbon positivity. At LOT our plan is to introduce minimum viable carbon accounts

Carbon accounts need to start somewhere, and the first versions will rely heavily on the broad shoulders of those who have gone before. We’ll lay out a general roadmap here, and increase it’s precision, ubiquity, and value over time. Accounting “Credits” and “Debits” are the key accounting concepts we will follow. Unfortunately, confusion emerges when

The movement LOT has joined depends on millions of people understanding what a pound of carbon is. REALLY understand. Only then will they comprehend the impact of their daily lives on the environment. The average American carbon footprint is 16 tons per year. What does THAT even mean? THAT’S the number I read about regularly,

Carbon accounts need to start somewhere, and the first versions will rely heavily on the broad shoulders of those who have gone before. We’ll lay out a general roadmap here, and increase it’s precision, ubiquity, and value over time. Accounting “Credits” and “Debits” are the key accounting concepts we will follow. Unfortunately, a handful of

Behold, the carbon footprint calculator. It usually helps individuals and households identify how much carbon dioxide they produce each year, and appears in conjunction with appeals to fund carbon offset programs. These are really useful in the reduction of environmental carbon, BUT THEY COULD DO SO MUCH MORE! What are the current problems with most

“The Greatest Generation” are the group of people born between 1901 and 1927, shaped by the Great Depression in the 1930’s, and World War II in the 1940’s. The term, made popular in the United States by Tom Brokaw in his book of the same name, describes the outsized influence this group has exerted on

It’s not perfectly affirming to be only a little bit evil. It’s like saying you’re a bank robber, but when you empty the safety deposit boxes you only steal the gold bullion contained there, and nothing else. Refusing to cross that particular line wouldn’t make me feel much better about myself. How about you? Similarly,

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