Meet our Regional Fiber Alliance Partners

A Fibershed Initiative

Climate Beneficial™ Verified was established in 2016 by Fibershed, a non-profit organization that develops regional fiber systems that build ecosystem and community health from soil to soil.

Our verification program is designed to support farmers through holistic farm planning, technical assistance, and peer-to-peer farmer networking. We use on-farm soil testing, data collection, and farm visits to verify farming practices and outcomes across carbon, soil, water and biodiversity.

The Climate Beneficial Fiber Alliance works across key agricultural regions in the West, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast. The Alliance has an established, well-coordinated, multiregional network of farmers, technical assistance providers, and supply-chain partners, demonstrating that this collaborative model works—and that it can scale.

The Alliance has collectively enrolled over 159,000 fiber-producing acres in the Climate Beneficial™ Verified program to-date, and drawn down 25,608 mg CO2e. This is the equivalent of 3,415 homes’ energy use for one year.

Market demand for sustainable fibers and responsibly produced materials has grown by 7 percent each year. We provide an unlock that matches material demand with verifiable supply.

Meet the Team

  • Rebecca Burgess founder and executive director of Fibershed standing outdoors in a field wearing a green shirt and a scarf, smiling at the camera.

    Rebecca Burgess

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FIBERSHED

  • Nica Rabinowitz Fiberhouse Collective and Fibershed smiling with long hair and glasses outdoors

    Nica Rabinowitz

    DIRECTOR OF MARKET & SUPPLY CHAIN DEVELOPMENT, FIBERSHED

  • Mary Kate Randolph of Fibershed with long hair and a gray sweater standing in front of greenery.

    Mary Kate Randolph

    SYSTEMS DIRECTOR, FIBERSHED

  • Noah Link, technical assistance provider cotton, from Carbon Cycle Institute smiling outdoors wearing a blue shirt and cap, sunglasses hanging on the shirt, trees blurred in background.

    Noah Link

    CALIFORNIA TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER, CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE

  • Lynette Niebrugge , Director of Education and Training Carbon Cycle Institute

    Lynette Niebrugge

    DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE

  • Tameka Peoples Seed2Shirt farm program southeast cotton technical assistant provider

    Tameka Peoples

    MERCHANT & SOUTHEAST IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER, SEED2SHIRT

  • LAura Sansone of New York Textile Lab. Woman with curly gray and brown hair, wearing a light-colored top, standing against a red brick wall.

    Laura Sansone

    NEW YORK IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER, NY TEXTILE LAB

  • "Climate Beneficial Verified" logo with stylized circular design featuring lines and an arrow.

    Bronte Edwards

    CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL MANAGER, FIBERSHED

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Carbon Farming Impact Report

Our Carbon Farm Impact Report aggregates and summarizes data on the carbon impacts of this work and the types of practices producers implemented in 2025 and throughout the Climate Beneficial Program, since it’s inception in 2016.

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Industry Alignments

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Implementation Partners
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Research Driven + Data Backed

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