We are excited to share that our pollinator habitat enhancement project was selected for Regen Network's Community Funding Program. We will be working on new cooperative models to design, fund, and sustain pollinator habitat creation on working lands using innovative ecological modeling and governance tools. We look forward

I studied economics around the outset of what I call the Freakonomics era, named after Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner’s best-selling book published in 2005. This marked a time when mainstream coverage of economics turned to some relatively exotic topics, like collusion in the sumo wrestling world, or the

In July 2019, we were awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant by the National Science Foundation to develop remote sensing products to monitor insect populations in agriculture. Our focus will be on extending this work into additional crop health and management tools for growers of high-value crops who

Originally published June 7, 2019 on Medium Over the years I have kept a running tab of research questions related to environmental, agricultural, natural resource, and urban economics. These are often multi-disciplinary, dealing with questions around technology, equity, individual-versus-collective interests, and community well-being. I would like to share some of

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An ongoing series on the value of ecological data Originally published September 21, 2018 on Medium (See Part 1 here) This post addresses the value of ecological data used to support regenerative land management practices. We describe an approach to estimate current values of ecological data based on what we

A series on the intersection of ecology and emerging token economies Originally published July 18, 2019 on Medium Part 1: Metaphors and market design The advent of token economies has given us a profusion of metaphors to describe how these economies work. A non-exhaustive list of token economy metaphors would

Integrative Economics joined soil science experts, practitioners of regenerative land management, and blockchain technologists for the Reversapalooza gathering in Seattle in April 2018. Kyle Birchard appeared on a panel discussing open source technologies used in environmental and ecological applications. We have been working to quantify the market for carbon storage

Originally published September 22, 2017 Origins Around 2000 or 2001, I started working with Max/MSP and Pure Data for sound synthesis. For a technically-minded musician, the interface and underlying concepts are intuitive and allow for rapid development of sound-making objects without the need for writing tons of code. At