Advancing Soil Carbon Measurement for Sustainable Food Systems with Chris Tolles of Yard Stick

Episode notes

Access to economically viable solutions to measure soil carbon at scale is a game changer in our ability to improve our food systems and also improve our land's ability to store carbon. Welcome to this special episode of Hardware to Save a Planet. Joining us today is Chris Tolles, Co-Founder and CEO of Yard Stick, a company on a mission to reduce soil carbon measurement costs by 90%. This will pave the way for improving our ecosystem health, restoring soil health, and combating climate change. Chris is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yard Stick, a company that provides easy, accurate, and affordable quantification of soil carbon stocks. The company aims to enable gigaton-scale agricultural carbon sequestration via scalable, trustworthy measurement solutions. The company is the measurement backbone of soil carbon. Episode Resource Chris Tolles on LinkedIn Yard Stick Website Yard Stick Project Images Dylan Garrett on LinkedIn Synapse Website Hardware to Save a Planet Apple Podcasts Hardware to Save a Planet Spotify Hardware to Save a Planet is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so If you are interested in sponsoring Hardware to Save a Planet, please see our sponsorship offer here .

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