Today in episode 192 of The Green Insider, you will hear Jim Blackburn, CEO of BCarbon discuss a net zero future.
He touches on the circular economy, natures technology, both blue and green hydrogen, environmental law, nature-based carbon offsets, the voluntary market, and his relationship with Rice University, the Greater Houston Partnership, and Houston Energy Transition Initiative. We also touch on carbon protocols such as: soil carbon, forest carbon and living shoreline blue carbon protocols.
Today we also have another NAEMA News Minute from Tim Berrigan, CEO from the North American Energy Markets Association.
More about Jim
Jim Blackburn is the CEO of BCarbon, a non-profit ecosystem services registry that catalyzes widespread ecological regeneration by leveraging the power of soil, forests, and wetlands to fight climate change. He is a professor in the practice of environmental law in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice University as well as a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute. At Rice, he serves as the co-director of the Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disaster (SSPEED) Center and as director of the undergraduate minor in energy and water sustainability.
Blackburn has had two books published by Texas A&M Press – The Book of Texas Bays (2004) and A Texan Plan for the Texas Coast (2017). He also co-authored three books of art and poetry with artist Isabelle Scurry Chapman – Birds: A Book of Verse and Vision, (2009), Hill Country Birds and Waters: Art and Poems (2018), and Earth Church (2022).
He was recognized as a Distinguished Alumni Laureate of Rice University in 2018, and he has been voted by his peers as a Texas Monthly Texas Superlawyer for the last 16 years. Blackburn received the Armand Yramategui Conservation Award from the Armand Bayou Nature Center in 2018, the Good Egg Award from the International Crane Foundation in 2015 for litigation to protect the whooping crane, the Barbara Jordan Public Advocacy Award from Texas Southern University in 2007 and the Robert Eckhardt Lifetime Coastal Achievement Award from the Texas General Land Office in 1998.
Mr. Blackburn received a B.A. in history and a J.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, and an M.S. in environmental science from Rice University.
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