Earth911 Podcast: Biodel Ag CEO Ben Cloud on Accelerating Soil Restoration With Sequester

Earth911 Podcast: Biodel Ag CEO Ben Cloud on Accelerating Soil Restoration With Sequester

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Discover how our meals manufacturing and even our yards and gardens can play a task in decreasing CO2 levels. We’re joined by Ben Cloud, CEO of Biodel Ag Inc., a Maricopa, Arizona, firm that not too long ago launched Sequester, a soil therapy that restores the soil’s potential to capture and hold CO2 that additionally promotes improved plant development. Sequester is obtainable for farming purposes and for dwelling use. A $12.81 8-ounce bottle of Sequester can be utilized to enhance the carbon sequestration functionality of as much as 2,500 sq. ft of yards and gardens. It is produced utilizing a mix of cyanobacteria — the supply of a lot of the breathable oxygen on the planet. In addition to serving to seize carbon, Sequester apparently reduces water consumption, salinity, and nitrogen use by 30%.

Ben Cloud, CEO of Biodel Ag
Ben Cloud, CEO of Biodel Ag, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Carbon dioxide is humanity’s most urgent downside. Since the daybreak of the Industrial period about 250 years in the past, people have pumped greater than 1.5 trillion tonnes of CO2 into the ambiance, warming the planet by 1.8 levels Fahrenheit and bringing on the local weather disaster. In addition to decreasing emissions to zero, we have to take away this CO2 to begin to cool the planet again to the temperatures at which we and the remainder of the species on the planet advanced. Biodel is elevating $100,000 in new funding on WeFunder. You can find out about Biodel Ag and Sequester at sequester.ag.