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Manure to Carbon Dioxide to Zero Emissions

Posted by Janelle Nanos on December 18, 2009
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The ever-so-eloquent Wade Davis, the anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence,

is in Copenhagen this week, roaming the streets, speaking with experts, and taking in the exhibits on display throughout the city while the United Nations COP15 meetings on climate change are underway. He’s been putting together a fabulous blog of video and interview clips called the Journey to Zero project, and we had to share his convincing argument for why we need to work toward a zero-emissions form of transportation.

What if, Davis reasons, instead of releasing over 17,000 pounds of C02 gas a year, cars spat out bricks of carbon instead? It’d be a tangible presence on our streets, not unlike manure was at the turn of the century, when horses dropped over 2.5 million pounds of manure in the streets of New York city each day.

Check out Davis’s blog for more of his insights from Copenhagen, and follow him on Twitter at @JourneyZero.

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  1. Somchai Jobs
    January 31, 2010, 11:37 am

    Video above is very useful and make me know Wade Davis’s project do the good thing for our world.
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  2. Baby
    February 14, 2010, 9:44 pm

    Thanks for video but i still don’t understand about the Journey to Zero project.งานพิเศษ

  3. Stella Thorpe
    March 16, 2010, 10:05 am

    “like manure was at the turn of the century, when horses dropped over 2.5 million pounds of manure in the streets of New York city each day” – but there was a small value in this and people used to run after the horses and collect the manure for free fertiliser.
    As CO2 continues with heating up the planet without a care, a better approach would be if cars could run around and absorb carbon dioxide cleaning up the planet at the same time.

  4. Michael O'Hare
    March 21, 2010, 7:52 pm

    Another option is electric cars run on low carbon energy. For example in The Western Harbour in Malmo they use 100% local renewable energy throughout the city district. They have a car share scheme too, and are now looking at a series of electric car recharge points.