THE WORKBENCH
Ask better questions. Keep better records.
Practical tools for the work before an environmental claim: describing a site, defining a baseline and making a study possible to evaluate.
AVAILABLE TOOL / STUDY DESIGN
Research plan builder
Draft the essentials of a transparent field study. This tool organizes your thinking; it does not validate a research method or generate scientific results.
This draft stays in this open page. Nothing is submitted or stored on a server. Download a copy before leaving.
OUR EVIDENCE STANDARD
What an honest claim needs.
A defined starting point
Record baseline conditions, the comparison and the period covered. Distinguish activity—such as planting—from measured outcomes such as survival or habitat recovery.
Methods others can inspect
Describe sampling, units, data sources, assumptions and uncertainty. Keep observations, model estimates and interpretations visibly separate.
The full set of tradeoffs
Report life-cycle impacts, displaced harms, maintenance, costs and community effects. A benefit in one category does not erase harm in another.
How we will publish our work
Use explicit stages: proposed, pilot underway, preliminary results, and independently reviewed. Link the evidence required for each stage. Disclose relevant funding and conflicts, publish failures alongside successes, and date substantive corrections. Protect private information and sensitive species locations.
We will not call a project carbon-neutral, nature-positive, zero-impact or successful without a defined scope and adequate supporting evidence. Carbon accounting will keep reductions, avoided emissions and removals separate.
Current state: this platform contains planning tools, a research agenda and introductory editorial notes. It does not yet contain original field datasets or independently verified project outcomes.