{"id":1845,"date":"2018-03-06T21:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2018-03-06T21:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:14:32","slug":"saving-the-world-group-7-comment-and-give-us-feedback-group1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/saving-the-world-group-7-comment-and-give-us-feedback-group1\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the World (Group 7) COMMENT AND GIVE US FEEDBACK @Group1 :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael, Sarah Kate, Kunho, Sahir<\/p>\n<p><b>Is Composting the Solution for Climate Change?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximizes ability for plants to covert carbon dioxide into usable carbon in the plant and soil\n<ul>\n<li>Helps climate that is being thrown off from burning fossil fuels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Composting improves soil quality\/structure<a href=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1826 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic03-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic03-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic03-91x108.jpg 91w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic03.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This helps the soil retain more water and avoid erosion and stormwater runoff<\/li>\n<li>Soil becomes a filter\/sponge that immobilizes and degrades<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Increases soil fertility\n<ul>\n<li>Increases microbial activity \u2013 better crops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reduces need for chemicals\n<ul>\n<li>Reduction of harmful pesticides, some of which impact the ozone<\/li>\n<li>Less pressure placed on improving fertilizers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Creates jobs and stimulates the economy\n<ul>\n<li>Manufacturing compost requires labor<\/li>\n<li>Can buy\/sell compost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Composting gives purpose to food waste\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of food scraps rotting in land fills and producing methane (which contributes to global warming), when composted, the nutrients in food scraps can be put back into the environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reduces amount of trash in land fills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1829 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic02-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic02-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic02-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic02-72x108.jpg 72w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2018\/03\/CompostInfographic02.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael, Sarah Kate, Kunho, Sahir Is Composting the Solution for Climate Change? Maximizes ability for plants to covert carbon dioxide into usable carbon in the plant and soil Helps climate that is being thrown off from burning fossil fuels Composting improves soil quality\/structure This helps the soil retain more water and avoid erosion and stormwater &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/saving-the-world-group-7-comment-and-give-us-feedback-group1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving the World (Group 7) COMMENT AND GIVE US FEEDBACK @Group1 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-feedback"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}