Agriculture is responsible for over 10% of global carbon emissions. However, startups are using rock dust to improve soil quality while permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere through enhanced rock weathering.
Agriculture is responsible for more than 10% of global carbon emissions, according to the U.S. Environment al Protection Agency.
Startups such as Lithos, UNDO Carbon and Eion are experimenting with several types of rocks that can improve soil used for farming while also permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere.Agriculture is responsible for more than 10% of global carbon emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But while agriculture is a massive carbon offender, it could now be part of a solution, as startups are trying new ways of using nature to save itself.
Olivine is similar to agricultural lime in terms of improving the soil, but when it rains, olivine goes through a chemical process that causes it to absorb carbon dioxide from the air permanently. Eion gets its olivine from Norway, which makes it slightly more expensive, but by using different types of tax credits and carbon removal purchases, it is able to subsidize the cost for farmers, like Dan Prevost, who operates Prevost Farms in Mississippi.
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