An innovative type of farming is being tested by scientists at the US Geological Survey and UC Davis. A type of farming that will produce soils that can store carbon dioxide.

There’s a project in the San Joaquin Valley River Delta that starting planting wetland plants in 1997. By 2005, 10 inches of peat soil was produced through the plants growing, dying, composting, and regrowing. The experiment has shown that up to 25 metric tons of CO2 annually can be stored in an acre of peat. It would take a whole lot of acreage, but for instance if California restored all the subsided lands in the Delta and made them carbon farms, the lands could store enough carbon to equate trading all the SUVs in the state for hybrids.