“Prairie Dog” photo by Steve Rich
Win/Win CO2 Solutions Alliance was organized in 2020 by Sheldon Kinsel and Steve Rich as a non-tax deductible, non-profit organization.
Our mission is to inform and educate the public, policy makers and the media about the many superior benefits of dealing with atmospheric CO2 levels by sequestering it in soils and natural systems and to advocate for this approach as the primary strategy for dealing with climate change concerns. This clearly is better than most of the other strategies and policies currently being pursued.
Win/Win CO2 Solutions Alliance does not take a position in the debate over the degree to which fossil fuel combustion is contributing to climate change. We recognize that there are strong feelings on both sides of what is becoming an increasingly divisive debate. But we also recognize the reality that internationally, nationally and locally, governments and private entities are expending billions of dollars and adopting agreements, laws and policies to reduce CO2 levels.
When they understand the power of the strategies and the ecosolutions we advocate, both sides in the debate quickly see that they are win/win. Because they have the proven power to remove vast amounts of atmospheric CO2, and can do it much more cheaply and much more rapidly than any other strategies being considered, what we are advocating more than satisfies those concerned about potentially disastrous impacts of climate change from increasing greenhouse gas loadings. Indeed, they appear to be the only ways to achieve net negative CO2 emissions within the time frame that most climate scientists say is essential to avoiding climate disaster.
At the same time, however, these approaches generate an extensive range of very valuable environmental and economic co-benefits, more than enough to justify whatever small costs might be involved in implementing them. Just as importantly, to many on this side of the climate debate, they deal with the CO2 issue without imposing the economic and social disruption that many of them fear.
Sheldon and Steve have a long time interest and involvement in climate change and the processes which sequester carbon securely in soils and natural systems. In fact, a historian documenting the origins of the climate change movement found that in 1977 as a young environmental lobbyist in Washington, Sheldon was the first representative of a conservation group to ever warn Congress about the potential harm of climate change in his testimony before a Senate committee.
Steve is a rancher, writer, film maker, lecturer, range consultant and natural resources educator whose clients have included private individuals and corporations, state and federal resource management agency personnel, universities and Native American Nations. He has more than 40 years experience implementing and writing and teaching about the various land management strategies that sequester carbon in natural systems.
“Sego Lilies” photo by Steve Rich
Together they have been working for a number of years to alert policymakers and others to these potential win/win solutions. In 2014 they worked closely with Congressman Rob Bishop on hearings he held in his House Natural Resources Subcommittee on the potential for sequestering CO2 on the public lands and forests. Steve testified as an expert witness at those hearings and they remain the only hearings so far held in Congress specifically on these win/win ecosolutions.
In 2015, Sheldon and Steve wrote H.C.R.8 and lobbied for it in the Utah legislature. This joint resolution called upon the federal government to adopt these win/win strategies for sequestering CO2 in their management of the public lands and forests in Utah. It passed overwhelmingly and was signed by the governor and is still the most specific and detailed governmental endorsement of sequestration of atmospheric carbon in natural systems yet adopted by any unit of government in the U.S.
Although for a number of years they have been engaged in these activities of writing, lobbying and educating policymakers and others on this solution to the climate debate, it became increasingly clear that a single organization with the specific narrow mission of carrying on these activities was badly needed.
Win/Win CO2 Solutions Alliance was organized to do that.
Please help us spread the word about the many win/win/win benefits of this approach to dealing with excess CO2 making a generous contribution
There are no big, well funded and well-organized groups pushing for this approach because they do not stand to make the huge profits they will with the mechanical alternatives to dealing with CO2 that they are pushing. So, if this win/win approach is to become the first policy choice for dealing with excess CO2 it is up to people like you to help make it happen. You can easily and securely donate to support our efforts here.