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Carbon in the Soil
Composting Human Bodies
Jun 1st
“We’re making about a cubic yard of soil per person,” the founder of the company Recompose said.
Finished materials from the human-body composting process. (Washington State University)
By Ben Guarino
April 26, 2019
It may soon be legal for the dead to push daisies, or any other flower, in backyard gardens across Washington state. The state legislature recently passed a bill that, if signed by the governor, allows human bodies to be composted — and used for mulch.
A New Way to Slash CO2 Emissions
May 26th
A New Way to Slash CO2 Emissions
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-new-way-to-slash-co2-emissions/
“Carbon farming depends on the activity of microbes in the soil, says E2.” “The group, the US-based Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), describes itself as ‘a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals from every sector of the economy who advocate … smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment’”
“Depositing four tons of carbon per acre in just 10% of California’s agricultural land, it is estimated, would be the equivalent of taking 4.3 million cars off the road.”
Increased carbon in the soil around trees increases the amount of sugars available to feed the microbes who live in a symbiotic relationship with tree roots in that the roots provide sugars which enliven the microbes that in turn feed the tree.
“The microbes help the plants take up nutrients, retain water and tolerate stress, functioning as a key part of the process by which plants produce the roots and leaves that end up as carbon in the soil.”