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valentinziSomething truly <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/precious?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#precious</a> on our planet: fertile <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/soil?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soil</a> made from solid mature cow dung <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/manure?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#manure</a>, resting in the railings beneath willow trees and a towering cyclopean wall. Nettles, dandelions, sorrel, and Lincolnshire spinach thrive in this rich, nurturing earth.<br> Last year, we spread a few tractor loads of aged manure from the road above. The location seems perfect for composting situated in the semi-shade under the trees, which shed their leaves in autumn, providing natural protection to the compost throughout the winter and food for the earthworms in spring.<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Sustainability?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sustainability</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/HealthySoil?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HealthySoil</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/compost?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#compost</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blacksoil?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blacksoil</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/greenplanet?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#greenplanet</a>
Bytes Europe<p>Getting More From Manure: Denmark Trip Shows Pennsylvanians the Possibilities of Biogas | Agriculture Business &amp; Agritourism News <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1212062/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1212062/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AnaerobicDigestion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnaerobicDigestion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/biogas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biogas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Denmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Denmark</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/digestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digestate</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Fertilizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fertilizer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NaturalEnvironment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalEnvironment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalGas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NaturalResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalResources</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SustainableTechnologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SustainableTechnologies</span></a></p>
EURACTIV Agrifood<p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/TheNetherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheNetherlands</span></a>’ last bet to clean up its <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>manure</span></a> mountain <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/the-netherlands-last-bet-to-clean-up-its-manure-mountain/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euractiv.com/section/agricultu</span><span class="invisible">re-food/news/the-netherlands-last-bet-to-clean-up-its-manure-mountain/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it</span></a></p>
Broadfork<p>Digging out the black gold. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Compost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compost</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Composting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Composting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manure</span></a></p>
Broadfork<p>A modern day miracle. I found a supply of some really good, aged horse manure yesterday. They have a daily supply of the fresh stuff too and have never used herbicides or pesticides on their paddocks in the 20 years they’ve been there. </p><p>Win, win they also have two lovely Shetland ponies, hopefully I’ll be able to take photos next visit. Meantime, here’s a bucket of well aged horse poo. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/GrowYourOwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrowYourOwn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gardening</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/PesticideFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PesticideFree</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, my neighbor (who is on our town's select board) made the excellent suggestion that places that are more rural should invest in providing low-cost or free composters for folks to compost their own food waste (something that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecomaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecomaine</span></a> encourages)! Some more urban areas use <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GarbageToGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GarbageToGarden</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeCompostIt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeCompostIt</span></a> services [see next post] to deal with food waste, which is sometimes where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Agricycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Agricycle</span></a> gets involved! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EcoMaine</span></a> has been partnering with Agricycle since 2016!</p><p>Ecomaine Launches Food Waste Recovery Service</p><p>Maine Public | By Patty Wight<br>Published September 7, 2016</p><p>"Open up a refrigerator and the chances of finding limp lettuce or soggy squash are pretty high. Here in the U.S., it’s likely that this food will find its way into the garbage — according to the USDA, at least 30 percent of the nation’s food supply is wasted.</p><p>"A new program launched Wednesday by ecomaine aims to get that food out of the trash and give it a second life as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/compost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compost</span></a> or energy.</p><p>"When confronted with produce past its prime, says ecomaine’s CEO Kevin Roche, there’s really one major roadblock that steers people toward dropping it in the trash versus a compost bucket.</p><p>" 'The ‘ick’ factor is what I call it,' he says.</p><p>"Rotten food is messy, it smells and it attracts fruit flies. But Roche says ecomaine now has a unique way to manage the ick factor: by sealing that food waste in a clear plastic bag.</p><p>" 'You go to the grocery store, and when you buy your oranges or your head of broccoli, and the first thing you usually do is put it in a clear bag. And we feel that could be an avenue for us to contain the ick factor and get a second use out of that plastic bag,' he says.</p><p>"Starting Wednesday, ecomaine accepts food waste knotted up in plastic bags. Ecomaine doesn’t collect the bags itself. It consolidates waste picked up by commercial services, such as Garbage to Garden or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeCompostIt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeCompostIt</span></a>!, at a cost of about $55 a ton.</p><p>"On Wednesday morning, a collection truck from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AgriCycleEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgriCycleEnergy</span></a> unloads a giant salad of rotten corn, peppers, tomatoes and other produce at ecomaine’s facility in Portland.</p><p>" 'We’re collecting from restaurants, colleges, hospitals, and a variety of other generators of food waste,' says Dan Bell, manager at Agri-Cycle Energy in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExeterMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExeterMaine</span></a>, where all of this produce consolidated at ecomaine will eventually go.</p><p>" 'A special machine at Agri-Cycle Energy removes the plastic bags, which are returned to ecomaine to be burned for electricity. The food waste, meanwhile, is blended with an equal amount of cow <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> from a nearby dairy farm, then heated and churned for about 30 days using a process called anaerobic digestion.</p><p>" 'We have two large domes, and it’s essentially enclosed, so we’re capturing all of the gases in the process of breaking down food waste,' Bell says.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biogas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biogas</span></a> is used to produce heat and electricity. And the food waste, he says Bell, turns into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fertilizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fertilizer</span></a> and animal bedding.</p><p>" 'This is material that’s been in the waste stream forever. And it always will be. And it’ll always be something that has to be handled. But pulling it out and removing it and source separating it allows companies like ours and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/digesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digesters</span></a> across the country to put that material to work for us, versus just sitting in a landfill,' he says.</p><p>"Because food generally doesn’t break down in landfills. A couple years ago, Roche says ecomaine dug down into one of its landfills.</p><p>" 'We found chicken breasts that were 25 years old, tomatoes, Ruffles potato chips that were 25 years old,' he says.</p><p>"Roche says businesses and consumers can prevent food waste through correct planning. But when lost or forgotten food is discovered in the dark recesses of a fridge, that’s where ecomaine’s food waste recovery program comes in.</p><p>"Initially, he says, it won’t account for a huge chunk of what ecomaine processes, which amounts to 170,000 tons of trash and 45,000 tons of recycling per year.</p><p>" 'Even if we can get upwards of five tons a year, we feel that would be a good start to our program,' Roche says.</p><p>"It’s an important step, he says, toward reaching Maine’s statewide recycling goal of 50 percent by 2021." </p><p>[I'm wondering how close Maine is to that goal?]</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2016-09-07/ecomaine-launches-food-waste-recovery-service" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mainepublic.org/environment-an</span><span class="invisible">d-outdoors/2016-09-07/ecomaine-launches-food-waste-recovery-service</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarpunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarpunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Digesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Digesters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Composting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Composting</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReducingWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReducingWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Landfills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Landfills</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Recycling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WasteToEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WasteToEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Compost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compost</span></a></p>
Alexander J. Stein<p>(2/2) ... can lead to reductions of 3.4%, 10.7% &amp; 4.5% of the <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23nitrogen" target="_blank">#nitrogen</a> fertilizer, <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23manure" target="_blank">#manure</a> &amp; water footprint, and decrease the risk of groundwater <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23nitrate" target="_blank">#nitrate</a> exceedance by up to 20%. Dietary shifts can help achieve Sustainable Development Goals... (1/2) <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01188-x" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">doi.org/10.1038/s430...</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23fertilizer" target="_blank">#fertilizer</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23SDGs" target="_blank">#SDGs</a><br><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01188-x" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Changes in meat consumption ca...</a></p>
Greg Walker :manjaro:<p>Cynical and disrespectful, but this is modern <a href="https://floss.social/tags/football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>football</span></a> and Ange will get a huge payout and <a href="https://floss.social/tags/spurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spurs</span></a> will struggle again next season.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/06/tottenham-sack-ange-postecoglou-as-manager-despite-europa-league-glory" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/football/2025/</span><span class="invisible">jun/06/tottenham-sack-ange-postecoglou-as-manager-despite-europa-league-glory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Levy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Levy</span></a> is like <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Ratcliffe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ratcliffe</span></a> and hasn't got a clue how to manage a football business.. Ratcliffe has proven how inept he is as a <a href="https://floss.social/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CEO</span></a> with all the bad management decisions he's already made at <a href="https://floss.social/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a></p>
Euractiv<p>EU drags its feet on one-year-old <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> proposal: The Commission will try to break the deadlock at a meeting with member state representatives in June, but farmer and industry lobbies – as well as some MEPs – are losing patience. <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-drags-its-feet-on-one-year-old-manure-proposal/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euractiv.com/section/agricultu</span><span class="invisible">re-food/news/eu-drags-its-feet-on-one-year-old-manure-proposal/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it</span></a></p>
EURACTIV Agrifood<p>EU drags its feet on one-year-old <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>manure</span></a> proposal <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-drags-its-feet-on-one-year-old-manure-proposal/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euractiv.com/section/agricultu</span><span class="invisible">re-food/news/eu-drags-its-feet-on-one-year-old-manure-proposal/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it</span></a></p>
Kevin Russell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> </p><p>fuck the New York Times, stuff the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@nytimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nytimes</span></a></span> up the sewer rat. </p><p>Coup Paper, disemblers, liars, traitors, subverters, billionaire's sex doll.</p><p>The New York Times is the billionaire's sex doll. So real you could mistakebtje New York Times for a real sex worker, just no heart or brains. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cancel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cancelTheNYTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancelTheNYTimes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cancelCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancelCulture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trough</span></a></p>
Alexander J. Stein<p>(4/4) Ammonia <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a>, a key contributor to air <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a>, originate mostly from <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> management in animal husbandry; its energy-intensive nature (incl. machinery &amp; fertilizers) contributes substantially to the overall carbon <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/footprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>footprint</span></a> of animal-based food production: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.</span><span class="invisible">100281</span></a></p>
EURACTIV Agrifood<p>Court deals blow to Netherlands’ nitrogen reduction plans <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/court-deals-blow-to-netherlands-nitrogen-reduction-plans/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euractiv.com/section/agricultu</span><span class="invisible">re-food/news/court-deals-blow-to-netherlands-nitrogen-reduction-plans/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/derogation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>derogation</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dublin</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>manure</span></a></p>
Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 <p>🧵 Thread 3/X<br>🥥 Official flag of fascist regime being installed in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. 🥥<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GadsdenFlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GadsdenFlag</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manure</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuckersBalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuckersBalls</span></a></p>
Alexander J. Stein<p>(5/6) It's the way that <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dairy</span></a> operations store <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> that produces the potent greenhouse gas—despite other, low-methane storage methods. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Biodigesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodigesters</span></a> aren't removing greenhouse gas from the air, they generate <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methane</span></a> they didn't need to generate &amp; then trap it: <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/392881/dairy-biogas-manure-digester" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/future-perfect/392881/</span><span class="invisible">dairy-biogas-manure-digester</span></a></p>
Alexander J. Stein<p>(4/x) Expanding <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dairy</span></a> herd sizes is at odds with the consensus among <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> scientists who warn that rich countries must drastically reduce <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livestock</span></a> populations (particularly <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cattle</span></a>) to meet <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/globalwarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globalwarming</span></a> targets. And cow <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> on its own doesn't contain methane: <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/392881/dairy-biogas-manure-digester" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/future-perfect/392881/</span><span class="invisible">dairy-biogas-manure-digester</span></a></p>
Alexander J. Stein<p>(2/x) Large <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dairy</span></a> operations managed to turn costly <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> into money—with biodigesters: Bacteria break down manure &amp; generate <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methane</span></a>, biodigesters trap it to produce <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/biogas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biogas</span></a>. Public money &amp; assistance are used to support &amp; develop <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/biodigester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodigester</span></a> infrastructure: <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/392881/dairy-biogas-manure-digester" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/future-perfect/392881/</span><span class="invisible">dairy-biogas-manure-digester</span></a></p>
Alexander J. Stein<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waste</span></a> from dairy <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cows</span></a> is a pain for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farmers</span></a>. Manure is expensive to manage &amp; when stored in open-air lagoons—the cheapest method—the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a> decomposes &amp; produces <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methane</span></a> that accelerates <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> much faster than <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a> dioxide… (1/x) <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/392881/dairy-biogas-manure-digester" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/future-perfect/392881/</span><span class="invisible">dairy-biogas-manure-digester</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dairy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a></p>
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Alexander J. Stein<p>(6/x) <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Livestock</span></a> production is responsible for a big share of greenhouse gases (14-15% of global emissions), stemming from <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/landuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landuse</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methane</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/manure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manure</span></a>, growing of animal feed, and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> from processing, transporting, packaging &amp; refrigeration... <a href="https://drawdown.org/insights/greenwashing-and-denial-wont-solve-beefs-enormous-climate-problems" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drawdown.org/insights/greenwas</span><span class="invisible">hing-and-denial-wont-solve-beefs-enormous-climate-problems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meat</span></a></p>