{"id":48071,"date":"2019-08-28T08:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48071"},"modified":"2019-08-28T08:17:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:17:46","slug":"drawing-down-atmospheric-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48071","title":{"rendered":"Drawing down atmospheric carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animasoul.org\/2019\/07\/30\/drawing-down-atmospheric-carbon\/\">Drawing down atmospheric carbon<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two ways of addressing rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon; reduce the amount of carbon emissions or increase the amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere.&nbsp; Most of our efforts have been focused on reducing emissions.&nbsp; I\u2019d like to shift the conversation to drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/my-garden-soil.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2483\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The picture above was taken in the corn field near my home showing the hard and cracked soil in this field.&nbsp; The picture below was taken in my garden earlier this spring.&nbsp;&nbsp;I simply turned over a shovel of soil and you can see worms, roots, and soil structure all indicating a healthy soil.&nbsp; These pictures should make clear the differences between the degraded conventional farmland and healthy organic rich soil.&nbsp; My garden soil contains about 9% organic matter, which is refreshed each year with mulch used to suppress weeds and feed the soil.&nbsp; Most Midwestern farmland has been degraded and contains a small fraction of the organic matter it had when it was first farmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our county we often see a decrease in organic matter from 5% to less than 1%.&nbsp; The soil in the farm field is little but dust particles.&nbsp; The surface cracks are an indication of what happens when the soil loses organic matter.&nbsp; It dries out and the surface hardens. This farm soil has no soil structure because it has lost it\u2019s thriving microbial life, the bottom of the food chain.&nbsp; Without worms and fungi there is nothing working to form and hold opens pores, the soil surface becomes a hardened crusted surface soon after plowing and planting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing down atmospheric carbon There are two ways of addressing rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon; reduce the amount of carbon emissions or increase the amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere.&nbsp; Most of our efforts have been focused on reducing emissions.&nbsp; I\u2019d like to shift the conversation to drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide. The picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16692,4297,113,16693,1536,4061],"class_list":["post-48071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-animasoul","tag-atmospheric-carbon","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-jody-tishmack","tag-soil-fertility","tag-soil-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48072,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48071\/revisions\/48072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}