LEAF Parent Survey

Dear Parents, We would like to thank you for choosing LEAF Academy as a part of your child’s Summer! Your feedback is very helpful and important to us. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey.   Error: Contact form not...

Waste Not, Want Not

UC Davis technology is helping transform organic waste into energy. https://www.caes.ucdavis.edu/news/articles/outlook/2015/07/waste-not-want-not

Ecuador's Rights of Nature

In Ecuador, they have a different perspective. In 2008, Ecuadoreans rewrote their constitution and became the first country to recognize the rights of nature to defend itself against humankind. The constitution recognized nature’s right to “exist, persist, maintain...

Highlighted Video Submissions

Highlighting 34 of the 657 video entries. Accepting video submissions until:  September 30, 2015 For more information visit: Film Contest Page It’s okay to boast when you compost! by Ruby Robertson Global Compost Project by Jerrod Cordell The Importance of...
California Ranchers Enticed Into Carbon Farming

California Ranchers Enticed Into Carbon Farming

…get tradable greenhouse gas emission reduction credits, bringing them another revenue stream for sustainable land management practices that also improves the soil and its ability to hold water. Ranchers can sell them on California’s Greenhouse Gas...

Carbon Cycle

There is a finite amount of carbon on Earth and it cycles. Plants produce leaves and food by pulling CO2 from the air through photosynthesis.  Living creatures eat the plants and other animals that have eaten the plants.  We all breath out and excrete CO2 back into...

The Global Carbon Budget

We can make smart decisions when we understand the basics. For example, carbon mixed with water is carbonic acid (carbonation), so it is important for our oceans that the carbon cycle is in balance.  We don’t want the Pacific to turn into a soft drink!  ...

Carbon Farming

Carbon farming techniques work with nature.  Nature provides a huge work force to help us thrive, when we work intelligently with our resources.  Her air force of bees alone should make humanity pause in wonder.  Not to mention all the other bugs, birds and then of...