Communications Intern
Tierra Resources is seeking a Communications Intern. This intern position is responsible for helping implement Tierra’s marketing, education, and social media strategy. The responsibilities include new emerging social technologies designed to help our clients and future clients, such as blogging, managing social media, and keeping them informed about projects and market news in blue carbon and wetland project development. There will also be a blend of traditional online and offline marketing activities, including organizing advertising educational events and group presentations, organizing...
Read MoreIdea Village Water Challenge
Listen to our own Sara Mack PhD being interviewed on 89.9 WWNO A new tool to channel private investment into wetlands restoration is one example of how the Idea Village and its Water Challenge are helping turn vexing problems into promising opportunities.
Read MoreClean Energy & Carbon
“The Tierra resources work now demonstrates that wetland restoration can provide a sink to reduce greenhouse gases.” The methodology for the luling oxidation pond project was recently approved by the American carbon registry, a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, following stakeholder consultation and scientific peer review. sarah mack, chief executive of Tierra resources, said the goal of the pilot project is to issue carbon credits in approximately 2-3 years. The credits could be purchased by polluters such as power companies and manufacturers looking to offset their...
Read MoreCan wetland credits help restore La. coast?
The state’s coastal restoration and protection master plan lays out $50 billion in projects as a start for what coastal Louisiana needs. Finding that kind of money, though, is going to be the challenge. State officials have repeatedly said $50 billion is what they chose not because it meets the need of an eroding coastal Louisiana but because they think it’s realistic to achieve that kind of funding. READ...
Read MoreAmerican Carbon Registry Approves our Methodology
American Carbon Registry Approves our Methodology Article from the September 14 edition of Ecosystem Marketplace
Read MoreWWNO Radio Interview with Dr. Sarah Mack
Community Impact Series: Idea Village Water Challenge A new tool to channel private investment into wetlands restoration is one example of how the Idea Village and its Water Challenge are helping turn vexing problems into promising opportunities. Listen
Read MoreCarbon Trading Heating Up – from The Wall Street Journal
Carbon Trading Heating Up From the September 14 edition of The Wall Street Journal
Read MoreAmerican Carbon Registry Takes Action
The American Carbon Registry (ACR) is launching a new offset methodology to credit wetlands restoration projects. The new methodology is designed to restore coastal wetlands along the Gulf of Mexico, which have been significantly damaged by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Isaac. It will enable landowners to calculate the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be absorbed by the restoration of the Mississippi Delta wetlands. The landowners can sell the resulting carbon credits to companies that want to offset their GHG emissions, which would help...
Read MoreAmerican Carbon Registry Approves Landmark Methodology For Wetlands Restoration In The Mississippi Delta Region
Author: Kelli Barrett As the Gulf Coast States’ vulnerability to hurricanes and other powerful storms continues to increase, a new methodology, developed by New Orleans based Tierra Resources and approved by the ACR, for the restoration of the Mississippi River deltaic wetlands with a focus on mitigating hurricane harm, might prove to be the solution. 20 September 2012 | David Diaz and Sarah Mack were working in Mack’s New Orleans office when Diaz noticed a faded yellow newspaper clipping that told of a young scientist who’d come down from Maine in the 1940s to model the Mississippi...
Read MoreAmerican Carbon Registry Approves First Carbon Offset Methodology for Emission Reductions from Deltaic Wetland Restoration
Tierra Resources, with help from Entergy Corp., announces the first Louisiana wetlands restoration project using the new methodology. READ THE METHODOLOGY NOW LANDOWNERS who are interested in participating ARLINGTON, Va. and NEW ORLEANS, La. (Sept. 18, 2012) – A revolutionary new tool is now available to help restore the Gulf of Mexico’s disappearing coastal wetlands — Louisiana’s first line of defense against damaging hurricanes like Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Isaac. Funded by Entergy Corporation, developed by New Orleans-based Tierra Resources and approved for use by the American...
Read MoreRestoration of Degraded Deltaic Wetlands of the Mississippi Delta
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, welcomes feedback from its members, project proponents and other interested parties on a new modular methodology for Restoration of Degraded Deltaic Wetlands of the Mississippi Delta. The methodology was developed by Dr. Sarah K. Mack of Tierra Resources LLC, with contributions from Dr. Robert R. Lane, Dr. John W. Day, and Tiffany M. Potter, and with funding from Entergy Corporation. The methodology is applicable to wetland restoration activities implemented on degraded wetlands of the Mississippi Delta. The...
Read MoreWhy Saving Marshes Might Save Civilization
Tierra’s wetland restoration methodology gets a mention at thetyee.ca
Read MoreInterview with Sarah Mack on neworleans.indymedia.org
An interview with Sarah Mack of Tierra Resources, which just won the New Orleans Water Challenge with a proposal to do carbon trading with wetland restoration projects. Listen to the mp3
Read MoreAmerica’s WETLAND Foundation Calls Protocol For Beneficial Use Of Carbon Sponsored By Entergy And Partners A Major Step In Fight To Save Wetlands
By: America’s WETLAND Foundation | 1.18.2012 AWF CALLS PROTOCOL FOR BENEFICIAL USE OF CARBON SPONSORED BY ENTERGY AND PARTNERS A MAJOR STEP IN FIGHT TO SAVE WETLANDS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: John Hill talktojhill@aol.com 504-756-0101 NEW ORLEANS-The America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) applauds efforts of the American Carbon Registry and Entergy Corporation to develop a protocol for quantifying the carbon value of coastal restoration projects, a process that could lead to reducing carbon and serve as a means to finance the restoration of coastal wetlands in...
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