Tag: climate action
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Drawing Carbon Out of Air Into Soil, Part 2 – Raising Livestock
The carbon farming techniques of Part 1 touch on crops, but not on the role of livestock in carbon sequestration. Here we have dissonance. We’ve heard for decades about the massive GHG impacts of industrial livestock agriculture, and that from an environmental impact standpoint, you’re better off raising a variety of grains and beans and…
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Drawing Carbon Out of Air Into Soil, Part 1 – Carbon Farming
Many are talking about carbon farming: use of agriculture to build soil carbon and simultaneously draw carbon out of the air. Many are making hyperbolic-sounding claims about the potential of carbon farming. What really is the potential? How do we enable carbon farming to achieve a dramatic carbon redistribution from air to soil? InsideClimate News…