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Oil & Gas Pollution on Pennsylvania Public Lands

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All of Pennsylvania’s oil and gas facilities–whether unconventional (aka “fracked”) or conventional, and uncounted abandoned wells–have the potential to emit both methane that harms the climate and toxic air pollutants that impact air quality and harm health. Earthworks’ investigations of oil and gas development in Pennsylvania’s State and National Forests shows that the industry benefits from weak regulations and limited enforcement, allowing them to emit serious pollution and present other problems that degrade our public lands.

How Could Veganism Change the World? | The Economist

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Interest in vegan food and its associated health benefits has been booming across the rich world. A global retreat from meat could have a far-reaching environmental impact.

By 2050 the world’s population could approach 10 billion – and around 60% more food could be needed to feed everyone. The environmental impacts of the food system are daunting its responsible for about a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions and uses about 70% of all freshwater resources, and it occupies about 40% of the Earth’s land surface.

Food rated emissions could increase to 50 percent by 2050 and fill up the total emissions budget that we have in order to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.
Interest in vegan food has been booming across the rich world. A major study has put the diet to the test – analyzing an imagined scenario in which the world goes vegan by 2050. If everybody went vegan by 2050 we estimated that food-related greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by 3/4.

Cows are the biggest emission contributors. Bugs in their digestive system produce methane and deforestation for their pasture releases carbon dioxide – these gases warm the planet. If cows were a country, they’d be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter.

Carbonlites: Bottled BIO-CN (End-to-End Organic Waste Management)

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The bottled bio-CNG saves 10-15% as compared to conventional LPG and comes in unique cascades of 2-4 cylinders. Carbonlites organic manure helps farmers replace chemical fertilizers with an organic solution that is cost-effective and has minimal environmental footprint. The estimated GHG reduction by global adoption of this technology is likely to be 28.6 million tonnes by 2027.

With a global population of 7.6 billion, over 50% reside in urban areas, estimated to further rise over the coming decades. The rapid pace of urbanization has the potential to bring about great changes for the betterment of society but also presents many environmental challenges. 

Globally, 11.2 billion tonnes waste is generated every year and is amongst the biggest threats affecting our ecosystem. Solid waste dumped at landfill sites produce large amount of methane, which amounts to 12 percent of total global methane emissions. Methane which is the second most common greenhouse gas (GHG) after carbon dioxide, has 21 times the global warming potential (GWP) of carbon dioxide. In India, out of the 62 million tonnes of waste generated annually across 4000 cities and towns, 50 percent is organic and biodegradable, that can be disposed of in environment-friendly ways.

Carbon Masters India Private Limited has devised an innovative way to manage organic waste by collecting and converting the waste into useful fuel. Carbon Masters collects the waste generated in their bio-CNG trucks from various bulk waste generating establishments such as IT parks, residential complexes and restaurants and then treats the waste anaerobically to produce methane gas and organic slurry. The gas is purified, compressed and bottled to form Carbonlites which is used as a substitute to LPG for cooking and as fuel in vehicles, while the slurry is treated to produce organic manure used as a replacement to chemical fertilizers. Right from the collection of segregated waste till the production of Carbonlites and organic manure, Carbon Masters ensures that it collects the organic waste using bio-CNG trucks and manages it to produce clean fuel through a 360-degree waste management approach. By handling the operation, maintenance and sale of the products, Carbon Masters has created a sustainable revenue sharing model, thus creating a circular economy.