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Carbon Emissions And Greenhouse Gases

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Air Quality Trends

Oct 20, 2015

Air Quality Trends EPA creates air quality trends using measurements from monitors located across the country. The table below show that air quality based on concentrations of the common pollutants has improved nationally since 1980. (See the trends graphs...

Overview of Greenhouse Gases

Sep 20, 2015

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2013, CO2 accounted for about 82% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. Carbon dioxide is naturally present in the atmosphere as part of the Earth's carbon...

Carbon Cycle

Jun 20, 2015

There is a finite amount of carbon on Earth and it cycles. Plants produce leaves and food by pulling CO2 from the air through photosynthesis. Living creatures eat the plants and other animals that have eaten the plants. We all breath out and excrete CO2 back into...

Carbon Farming

Jun 20, 2015

Carbon farming techniques work with nature. Nature provides a huge work force to help us thrive, when we work intelligently with our resources. Her air force of bees alone should make humanity pause in wonder. Not to mention all the other bugs, birds and then of...

Green House Gasses (GHG)

Jun 20, 2015

There's a reason we're so interested in carbon. It didn't take long after the industrial revolution for scientists to become concerned about pollution from carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide... We've created a human race against time. Too much pollution in our air...

Charts and Stats

Jun 20, 2015

Measurements are also the best way to know how your green bin contribution is saving the world! When it comes to numbers, Zero is a really great for waste! San Francisco, California is the World Leader in municipal composting. At over 600 tons per day of compost from...

The White House says "We Can Reverse Climate Change"

Jun 20, 2015

On July 31, 2014 the White House and USDA hosted a meeting with food, agriculture and data industry officials in an attempt to encourage innovation to stem the effects of climate change on agriculture and food production...find out how soil can help actually REVERSE...

Carbon Cycle Enviroliteracy- Learn Some Basic Terms

Jun 20, 2015

This link provides a great place to start learning about environmental basics https://enviroliteracy.org/article.php/478.html

California is providing incentives for ranchers

Jun 20, 2015

Recently we wrote that carbon emissions can be significantly reduced through the widespread application of compost, and now California is providing incentives for ranchers to do it. They can get tradable greenhouse gas emission reduction credits, bringing them another...