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CLIMATE ONE: Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace

CLIMATE ONE: Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace

FromCommonwealth Club of California Podcast


CLIMATE ONE: Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace

FromCommonwealth Club of California Podcast

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Feb 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows. 17% of all US methane emissions come from food waste rotting in landfills. More than 100 countries, including the US, signed The Global Methane Pledge, promising to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030. 
In California, a new law went into effect directly addressing the state’s methane emissions from organic waste and dairy farms. The law targets a 40% reduction in the same time frame. That’s ambitious. What effect will this law have on industrial agriculture, and the general population?  
Guests:
Neil Edgar, Executive Director, California Compost Coalition
J Jordan, Policy Coordinator, Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability
Michael Boccadoro, Executive Director, Dairy Cares
Monique Figueiredo, Chief Executive Officer / Founder / Co-Owner, Compostable LA
Allen Williams, Understanding Ag
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Released:
Feb 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's largest public affairs forum. The nonpartisan and nonprofit Club produces and distributes programs featuring diverse viewpoints from thought leaders on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast — the oldest in the U.S., since 1924 — is carried on hundreds of stations. Our website features audio and video of our programs. This podcast feed is usually updated multiple times each week.