In addition to increased yields of beef per acre, the Grasslands model also creates an opportunity to commoditize sequestered carbon for carbon credit trading.
"The last thing the big guys want is to rationalize the system and commoditize themselves out of business, " says Paul McBride, chief financial officer of InterNap, a builder of systems that bypass peering points.
Dr. Alexis Celeste Bunten, an anthropologist and co-chair of the tourism studies working group at the University of California at Berkeley, says that willing groups and communities need to find a way to commoditize their identity without selling out.