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121 | Michael Greene: Carbon Cowboy or Lone Ranger Part 2 – The $200 Million Land Heist in the Amazon
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120 | Indonesia is Still Moving its Capitol, and Nobody Cares?
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118 | Kenyan Herders Say Judgement Against Them Based on Forged Signatures / Continuation of Episode 117
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117 | Surviving Survival Internatinal, Part 1: Kenyan Elders Call Foul on International Media, NGOs
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116 | From Ticking Time Bomb to Demographic Dividend: James Mwangi and Kenya's Great Carbon Valley
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115 | Unpacking Donald Trump's Very Weird Environmental Orders
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114 | Michael Greene: Carbon Cowboy or Lone Ranger? Part 1
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113 | The Future of Environmental Finance: Strategies for Biodiversity and Climate Solutions, with David Hill and George Kelly
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112 | Fantasy Football and Dynamic Baselines: New Tools for Impact Assessment
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111 | The False Dichotomy Between Reductions and Removals (Rerun)
015: How Garlic Cloves and Orange Peels Cut Cow Burps and Slow Climate Change
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More than 1.5 billion cows are spread across the planet, each with four stomachs. That’s six billion stomachs emitting methane — a powerful greenhouse gas that captures about eighty times more heat — or contributes about eighty times as much to climate change — as carbon dioxide does, at least in the short term.
Now a new product called Mootral — like “Neutral” but with a Mooo instead of a Nooo — aims to slash those emissions by killing off the bad bacteria in the stomachs of cows and other “ruminants” — which is what we call four-stomached beasts like cows, goats, and sheep.By killing off the bad bacteria, Mootral makes the animals healthier and slashes the methane in their burps by about 30 percent. Can this new tool help to slow climate change?
Here is the Mootral web site: http://www.mootral.com
Topics: climate change, mootral, cows, methane, carbon offsetting
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