

Advancing Soil Carbon Measurement for Sustainable Food Systems with Chris Tolles of Yard Stick
Aug 29, 2024
42:10
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
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