Our Mission
Climate Remediation Foundation is a public charity working to reduce and reverse the damage driving climate change.
We focus on the places where the impact is largest and the solutions are most within reach.
Our work today spans two connected activities:
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE Agriculture™
CRF is exploring the formation of a regional, climate-responsible, sustainable alternative to the field-growing system that feeds the Northeast, and turns urban food waste into energy that powers growth.
Carbon Offsets
Helping organizations measure, reduce, and offset their carbon footprint through credible, transparent programs.
What is socially responsible Agriculture™?
Climate-friendly agriculture and food resilience
How is CEA a Climate Solution?
The current model produces food that is less healthy, at a higher cost to our environment, and uses a water source that is already at critical, unsustainable levels.
The way fresh produce reaches the American Northeast is broken. Most of the leafy greens eaten in the region are grown in the fields of California and Arizona, then trucked more than 2,500 miles east, five to seven days in transit.
Many of these crops are fed by the Colorado River, which irrigates 5.5 million acres of farmland. Growing food for the Northeast in the west/southwest carries both environmental and social costs: unsustainable water extraction, fertilizer and pesticide runoff, long-haul transportation emissions, soil depletion, crop losses, food waste, and contamination risk. It leaves 100 million people dependent on a supply chain that is one drought, flood, or pathogen outbreak away from disruption.
WATER
& SOIL
Field-grown produce in arid regions depends on water systems already under severe stress and can contribute to soil nutrient depletion.
RESILIENCE & FOOD WASTE
Long growth cycles, weather exposure, transportation losses, and market timing can create large pre-consumer food waste.
EMISSIONS
& PUBLIC COST
Diesel cultivation, long-haul trucking, fertilizer production and use, and landfill food waste all contribute to climate impact.
CEA IS AN INTEGRATED SOLUTION
Proposed solution: grow the Northeast’s fresh produce in the Northeast: close to home, cleaner than the field, and powered by the region’s own food waste.
CRF is laying the groundwork for a better model: a large-scale hub of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) that can supply the Northeast with fresh, healthy produce grown close to where it’s eaten, reliably, year-round, and at a fraction of the environmental cost.
Introducing the Sustainable Ag Hub (SAH) CO-OP initiative
SAH is a proposed regional, controlled-environment agriculture cooperative platform.
SAH is intended to reduce the environmental harms of long-distance field-grown produce, improve food resilience in the Northeast, and prepare the groundwork for a future cooperative greenhouse and circular-resource infrastructure venture.
CRF has taken on SAH as a priority partner to address the following environmental concerns:.
- Save the Water Reserves in Colorado and California
- Significantly reduce environmental pollution
- Avoid dependence on pesticides in order to produce a healthier food product
- Reduce food waste
- Create a sustainable closed-loop cycle for food production
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