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Their fine jewelry using recycled gold, including gold recovered from discarded technology through their partnership with Dell. Through this partnership, they took recycled gold found in used electronics, and create new jewelry. \u003Cem>\"We all should be thinking “circular” in our approach to design. One industry’s “trash” can be another’s treasure.\" \u003C/em>\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Taking gold from computers, recycle and create new jewelry. There are 800 times more gold in a tone of computer motherboard than in a tone of ore from the earth. 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As the radical expansion of the compost industry continues, ZFP expects many collaborations around regional carbon farming and compost.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The more living things in the soil, and the deeper the root systems, the more carbon gets sucked down from the sky. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Unfortunately, today’s industrial food system supports practices that degrade soil, release carbon, deplete nutrients, and mistreat animals and resources. Extractive farming followed by extracting as much profit as possible, enhancing practices which systematically plowing the soil and spraying it with fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides, results in major problems.  According to the UN, global soil has only 60 years left of productivity and continues to release shit-tons of carbon every year.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Zero Foodprint (ZFP) is a nonprofit organization mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz, award-winning restaurateurs, established Zero Foodprint with the aim of supporting a movement of farmers and ranchers who intend to switch to renewable and regenerative farming to enhance climate solutions but need funding to implement regenerative farming practices. ZFP defines the food system both as a major solution to global warming and a major cause. ZFP members crowd-fund grants for farmers to switch to renewable farming practices which is the most impactful initiative yet towards solving global warming.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>If farmers switch to renewable farming, reduce tilling, apply compost, plant cover crops, and incorporate animal grazing, we will have healthy soils which could sequester between half and all of the carbon humans emit every year. For this to happen, farmers need funding. Just a few cents from restaurant meals or other food purchases, can contribute to acres of healthy soil and shift us from the extractive “conventional” agricultural system to a regenerative food system. It is not enough to reduce emissions or limit pesticides, it is also necessary to remove carbon from the atmosphere. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>How it works:\u003C/p>\u003Cp>A few cents from dinners at restaurants, adds up to big investments and more acres of regenerative farming. We can restore underground ecosystems by re-storing carbon in the soil, which removes it from the atmosphere. This improves our food and restores the climate.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- Consumers send 1% of every purchase from a ZFP business.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- ZFP optimally and equitably distributes restore grants to farmers applications for healthy soil projects.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- Local trusted conservation experts estimate the climate benefit, and help implement and verify carbon farming projects. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>",[437,439],{"name":438,"type":237,"value":438},"https://www.zerofoodprint.org/about",{"name":440,"type":237,"value":440},"https://www.zerofoodprint.org/home-1",[]]