Everyone's motivation is easily determined, simply stated, and naturally understood, and the villains, victims, and heroes Saulnier creates all have a highly
organic air about them.
Not exact matches
But Dr. Clarence Goluke, an engineer who researched composting at the University of California at Berkeley, discovered that bacteria and fungal spores occur naturally in the
air and on just
about any
organic material, so adding soil to the pile to «innoculate» it is superfluous.
[1] The combined seeps in the field release
about 40 tons of methane per day and
about 19 tons of reactive
organic gas (ethane, propane, butane and higher hydrocarbons);
about twice the hydrocarbon
air pollution released by all the cars and trucks in Santa Barbara County in 1990.
Rodale Institute has proved (explanation by downloadable PDF file here) that
organic agricultural methods can remove
about 7,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the
air each year and store it in an acre of farmland.
The fact that
organic agriculture systems also absorb and retain significant amounts of carbon in the soil has implications for global warming, Pimentel said, pointing out that soil carbon in the
organic systems increased by 15 to 28 percent, the equivalent of taking
about 3,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per hectare out of the
air.
Note that the non-anthropic (or natural) delta13C becomes very slowly more negative (from -6.5 per mil preindustrial to
about -7 per mil now) with the replacement of CO2 molecules absorbed by the vegetation by molecules out - gassed from soils by the oxidation of the
organic material of plants grown years to centuries before: the delta13C of the
air was then slightly less negative.
But it's also — very clearly —
about the environmental causes of good health (clean
air & water,
organic food), and the impact we have on what kind of health the planet can offer us.
The homeowners felt passionately
about air quality, so they chose a paint that contained zero VOCs — volatile
organic compounds, chemicals that give paint an odor and can contribute to poor indoor
air quality.