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Podcast: Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini
Episode: Episode 252: Two Percent Solutions for the Planet
Description: Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The “two percent” refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation’s population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost (in terms of GDP) needed to get this work done.
As White explained in his previous work, Grass, Soil, Hope, a highly efficient carbon cycle captures, stores, releases, and re...