Media: news, projects and successes of tgo AG
Restoring Peatlands, Reimagining Agriculture: Smart Carbon Farming Tour Highlights Cross-Border Innovation
26 May 2025
Interreg North-West Europe
At the end of March, the Smart Carbon Farming partners Bernhard Aumann of The Good Ones (TGO) and Doug McMillan of Green Restoration Ireland (GRI) undertook a week-long journey through Lower Saxony, Germany. With the aim of deepening cross-border cooperation on peatland soil restoration and carbon farming, they explored how sustainable land management can unlock carbon storage, biodiversity gains and new income models for landowners.
A historic moment in the Bundestag: study on negative emissions presented
15 May 2025
A historic milestone for climate protection took place on the premises of the German Bundestag: for the first time, the study “Negative Emissions in Agriculture and Forestry – A Win-Win-Win for Climate, Nature and the Economy” was presented – right at the political heart of Germany. The presentation of this study by Climate Focus and the German Association for Negative Emissions (DVNE) marks a turning point. It makes clear that carbon dioxide removal and climate-positive agriculture have now arrived at the highest political level. You could practically feel the sense of a new beginning: Now it starts! – the starting signal for a new era of climate-positive action.
Carbon farming and paludiculture as a new path: conference in Goldenstedt on crops for rewetted peatlands
29 March 2025
Soils are powerful climate protectors. This is especially true of peatland soils. Carbon farming, a sustainable form of agriculture, aims to build up carbon in agriculturally managed soils. tgo AG develops solutions for farmers and brings economic viability and climate protection together.
Welt Top 500 Award 2024
In an exclusive partnership with Sopra Steria, WELT is presenting the “Top 500 Award for Sustainable Growth” for the 15th time this year to the three German companies that, away from short-term trends, have sustainably increased their profit and turnover in a particularly impressive way through organic growth and strategic acquisitions. And TGO AG was among them!
10 December 2024
Photos: Pascal Rohé
Nordwest Zeitung
With carbon farming, farmers are to protect the climate and earn additional money at the same time – that is the idea of a start-up from Cloppenburg. How does it all work, and how meaningful are such credits?
Münsterländische Tageszeitung
The Oldenburger Münsterland moves into the sustainability spotlight! In the article in the MT newspaper, editor Roland Kühn highlights how we at The Good Ones AG support farmers not only in benefiting economically, but also in actively contributing to climate protection.
4 December 2024
Die Umweltheldin (“The Environmental Heroine”)
When they hear “humus”, most people probably think of the chickpea dip, but natural humus is an organic substance in the soil that plays a central role in soil fertility. When it comes to environmental & climate protection, a large share of the responsibility lies with agriculture. In episode #43, the “Humus Guru” explains how humus can help.
30 October 2024
Oldenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce
“The business idea arose from the urgent need to develop innovative solutions to combat climate change, combined with experience in sustainable agriculture and environmental technologies”
June 2024
Carbon farming and agroforestry
One of our first partners is Forsthof Artland with Ingo Zapp. Here he shows how fast poplars grow and how this relates to biodiversity.
12 June 2024
YouTube
MehrwegHeroes
Discover how Bernhard Aumann, founder of tgo AG and known as “Humusguru” on social media, is revolutionising agriculture. tgo AG, which stands for “the good ones”, has been on the market for 2.5 years and was founded out of the need to make agriculture more sustainable.
10 June 2024
YouTube
Sustainable Impact Award 2024
Since 2021, TGO AG (“The Good Ones”) has been developing innovative methods for removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it as carbon in the soil. With the aim of promoting sustainable agriculture and carbon sinks, TGO AG connects farms, companies and political stakeholders. Through accredited and certified carbon credits, TGO AG offers a way to reduce agricultural emissions and create economic benefits for companies. With projects such as the EU Interreg “Smart Carbon Farming” and “InnerSoils”, TGO AG shows that ecological sustainability and economic success can go hand in hand.
2024
