Designing Plant communities to be Carbon Capture Gardens

Scientists find that urban wastelands have huge, untapped potential to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and have great potential for carbon capture. Imagine the abandoned lots that look like eyesores as untapped resources that contribute significantly to carbon absorption.

Ecologist are learning that with strategic planning and care, urban brownfield soils could be transformed into plant gardens with unique carbination capacities to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbonation involves the combination of calcium, which is abundant in brownfield soils that contain demolition waste such as concrete dust and lime, with atmospheric CO2 to form calcium carbonate (calcite). The inorganic carbon in calcite can form very rapidly in brownfield soils, making them more efficient natural resources for cutting atmospheric CO2 than common, “non-toxic” soils.

Let's work together to transform urban wastelands into beautiful and useful Carbon Capture Gardens.

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