Loam Bio
Ep. 24 Can soil save the planet?Loam Bio works at the intersection between agriculture, microbial science, and climate change to convert stable forms of carbon that can be captured instead of released into the atmosphere.
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Why We Made this Film
What if one solution to climate change has been under our feet the whole time? The Earth’s soils contain about 2,500 gigatons of carbon—more than 3x the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and 4x the amount stored in all living plants and animals.
Down in Australia, a few scientists use microbes to make soil better at capturing CO2. This draws down greenhouse gasses, but it also makes the soil healthier.
But the microbial world is relatively unexplored - in just a handful of soil, there are over a billion microbes. This is no easy task, but if Loam succeeds, it’s a gigaton solution that could be deployed quickly at scale.
