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This August 4 long-form feature showcases solutions that cry out for financial leverage in the United States' ground-zero climate city.

Photo of an Appalachian stream by Payton Chung, via Flickr Creative Commons

Decades of blasting the tops of mountains for coal have clouded generations of human life and millions of years' worth of other life in Appalachia. A new approach that centers on reclaiming mine sites, supporting health in order to build livelihoods, can reset that.

This June 17 story looks at the prospects for farmers in carbon markets - and the challenges of measuring and verifying them, in California and elsewhere.

This June 3 profile starts in Manitoba and proceeds to lay out a business case for regenerative agriculture.

This May 26 profile visits a couple who had demonstrated the case for "rewilding" and have now turned a meaningful chunk of their land into a regenerative farm.

This May 15 story sizes up fund managers' attitudes toward biodiversity - and spells out means to make the fad more than a fad.

This May 17 story visits two farmers investing in soil-health innovation before it gets to carbon-market scale.

Rachel Kyte, who helped hammer out the Paris agreement, talks through techniques to deliver robust carbon markets before (or instead of waiting until) governments make the rules. The interview requires a 7-day free trial.

This January, Environmental Defense Fund and Farmers Business Network launched the pilot Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund (RAFF). Enrolled farmers who meet soil health and nitrogen efficiency standards will access a 0.5% discount on a one-year credit line. This product, years in the making, aims to update farm financing.

This April 21 item looks over a project that sells farmed kelp...and an executive who wants to propagate ocean farming into a viable piece of the carbon-credit marketplace.

Conservation Finance Network

Driving the Delta

Paying to Put a Mountain Back

There's Carbon in Them Thar Plots!

The Weather's Crazy, the Farmer Isn't

Having Sown Their Wild Oughts

Biodiversity Investment Booms. Now to Make it Tick...

"They Need to Hear It From Another Farmer"

Worth Reading About Worth: Kyte Addresses Voluntary Markets

The Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund's Climate-Smart Rebate

Kelp-able of More