What we do. What we don’t.

What does Carbon Capture Shield do now?

We measure living systems and we document them. The farmer keeps the harvest. Films, field observations, the 2022 carbon-farm plan, a Deniliquin screening, a local interview. A documentary on Australian hemp is in production. Dated list: Work.

What does “the land is the ledger” mean?

The sun grows the crop. The crop feeds the soil. The soil holds the carbon. We measure that. A field record can show where, when and what was observed. A laboratory can report what it tested. A method and contract can define what may be paid for. Those are different records. CCS does not collapse them into one. Payment follows a method and a contract — not a photograph alone.

Do you issue carbon credits or certify products?

No. CCS does not certify goods. We do not issue carbon credits. We do not operate the farms in these pictures. A photograph, soil colour, root depth, crop choice or company name is not a certification or a credit.

What can a soil pit show?

Visible layers, colour, structure and roots. It can guide later sampling. It cannot, by itself, establish a carbon quantity, a change in carbon, its cause, its permanence or a carbon credit. Dark soil is what the eye sees — not a laboratory number. See the MacDonald soil-pit essay.

When can carbon or nature be paid for?

Only when an eligible method and contract define what is being measured, the baseline, verification, ownership and buyer. Measurement supports that process. It does not guarantee a credit or payment.

Why hemp?

Hemp is one plant that makes the story easy to see: soil, harvest, fibre, building materials, and processing near the field. It is one crop, not a universal answer. CCS does not claim that hemp suits every farm, restores every soil, or creates a carbon credit merely by being planted.

Where is CCS based?

Carbon Capture Shield Inc. is based in San Antonio, Texas. We work on-location around the planet. Dated field and film entries are on Work.

What was the XPRIZE project?

In 2022, CCS entered the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal with WQ and Jersey partners. The submission described a 100-hectare regenerative agri-solar carbon farm designed for Nyeri, Kenya. It was a plan, not a CCS-operated farm. CCS did not receive a Milestone Award. Companies named in the plan were examples of the assumed carbon market, not signed CCS customers. Read the 2022 plan.

What is Brother Nature?

A concept: the farmer’s phone as a record of the land, including where there is no signal. It is not released. Who holds the keys, what leaves the phone, and what CCS can read are not yet stated. Brother Nature.

What we no longer claim

The 2021 FAQ made claims we have since checked and cannot support.

“Up to 1,000% more yield” and “around 300% greater yield by the fifth year.” The first figure came from a rangeland stocking-rate comparison — acres required per head of cattle — which is not a yield measurement. Converting a stocking rate into a yield percentage is a category error. The second figure had no source on that page.

“Every gram of carbon lets soil hold 8 grams of water.” Stated as a constant. We do not treat that as a constant.

“The WTO only allows the sale of crops grown from Certified Seed.” False. The World Trade Organization does not operate a seed certification regime.

“Ammonium nitrate was sold to farmers after WW1, and the Dust Bowl happened a decade later.” Both halves can be true; the implied causation is not. The Dust Bowl followed sod-busting of native grassland, deep tillage, and severe drought.

“Living soil emits signals that attract rain when plants require it and repel it when they do not.” Overstated to the point of being unsupportable. We wrote the poetic version and it was wrong.

“1 billion acres regenerated globally by 2030.” A number with no plan attached to it. What replaces it is the dated record on Work.

The full 2021 text remains at FAQ (2021).

How do I contact CCS?

LinkedIn is the best place to start. Telegram works too. Email is on Connect.