Voices
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Climate Week NYC 2026: what we heard in New York.
Three days with carbon standards, certification bodies, raters and project developers. One message kept coming back: the data has to connect.
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Project Updates
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Bamboo Expo 2026: our stand in Meru, and what we brought home.
Robert Irungu and Charles Cardovillis took Consuming Carbon to the National Bamboo Expo and World Bamboo Day at Meru University, side by side with EcoGreen Kenya.
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Field Notes
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Inside Silverlink: turning plastic waste into climate solutions.
Charles Cardovillis visits Silverlink, where plastic waste
is becoming the durable poles that fence our farms. Every
four poles purchased saves one tree.
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Field Notes
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Ground-truthing in Wamunyu: three days with the UVA interns.
Samuel, Jake, and Camper spent three days walking the
cooperative's land with Charles Cardovillis,
ground-truthing the next phase of our work in Wamunyu.
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Field Notes
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Under the bamboo canopy: a visit to EcoGreen in Busia.
A field visit with Charles Cardovillis to the project
where 3,000 smallholder farmers have spent a decade
turning marginal land into a managed carbon sink.
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Field Notes
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Artisan biochar in Wamunyu: a July 2025 field pilot.
The team built a Kontiki-style kiln in Wamunyu, fired it
with locally sourced feedstock, and applied the first
biochar to the founder's own farmland.
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