ENVIRONMENT: Organic Farming Combats Global Warming Big Time

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ENVIRONMENT: Organic Farming Combats Global Warming Big Time

 

Discussion about combating global warming is on the increase. Several

researches have confirmed that organic methods are an effective method of

removing the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, from the atmosphere and fixing it

as beneficial organic matter in the soil.

Fast Facts from the Rodale Institutes long-running comparison of organic and

conventional cropping systems:

If only 10,000 medium sized farms in the U.S. converted to organic production,

they would store so much carbon in the soil that it would be equivalent to

taking 1,174,400 cars off the road, or reducing car miles driven by 14.62

billion miles.

Converting the U.S.s 160 million corn and soybean acres to organic production

would sequester enough carbon to satisfy 73 percent of the Kyoto targets for CO2

reduction in the U.S.

U.S. agriculture as currently practiced emits a total of 1.5 trillion pounds of

CO2 annually into the atmosphere. Converting all U.S. cropland to organic would

not only wipe out agriculture's massive emission problem. By eliminating

energy-costly chemical fertilizers, it would actually give us a net increase in

soil carbon of 734 billion pounds.

 

http://www.newfarm.org/depts/NFfield_trials/1003/carbonsequest.shtml

 

 

Caroline Collard

 

World's first fully certified organic skin, body, oral and health care products

www.happyandhealthy.org.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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