Washington Post: When Will Allen is asked to name the most beautiful part of his Vermont farm, he doesnt talk about the verdant, rolling hills or easy access to the Connecticut River. Though the space is a picturesque postcard of the agrarian idyll, Allen points down, to the dirt. This precious resource not only grows food, he says, but is one of the best methods we have for sequestering carbon.
We think of climate change as a consequence of burning fossil fuels. But a third of the carbon in the atmosphere...