Blogs & Ecology

Before the rush of humanity came to California in search of gold, the San Joaquin Delta was rich in peat soil and much of what is now farmland consisted of wetland and swamps. Mother nature’s own carbon sponge.

A small startup based in Santa Barbara, California is testing an alternative to carbon sequestration that, in a sense (perhaps more poetic than scientific), turns the second law of thermodynamics – entropy – on its head by taking waste CO² and tailings from mining operations and turning the mix into materials of a “higher order” for use in a variety of industrial, agricultural, and environmental applications.  

Continuing where we left off from my post earlier this month with our exploration of Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn’s book Earth: the Sequel - The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.