Can Seaweed Farming Reverse Climate Change? | One Small Step
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- From food to cosmetics, seaweed has a lot of uses - but did you know seaweed farming could also help fight climate change? On this episode of One Small Step, we're traveling to Connecticut's coast to learn about how one woman has launch her seaweed farming business, the future of seaweed aquaculture, and whether it can help reverse climate change.
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Suzie Flores and her husband Jay grow food-grade sugar kelp at Stonington Kelp Co. off the coast of Connecticut. They sell this seaweed to local restaurants and shops using a system with ropes that requires zero inputs like fertilizer. As it grows, the kelp absorbs carbon and nitrogen from the water and turns it into a nutrient-dense food.
132 countries around the world have the conditions to start seaweed aquaculture off their coasts. But only 37 currently do so.
Not only can seaweed farming increase food security, but it can also sequester carbon.
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I just started researching about seaweed. What are the odds One Small Step posts a video about it?!
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She is so passionate about this. Suzie really is a sustainable exemplar here. Not only does she do the things she talks about, she gets excited about change and looks forward to how all of the good practices like these will help in bringing life back to communities decimated by cod.
Seaweed has huge potential, but we need to be smart and responsible about how we adopt this new market into the mainstream.
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Not so new to some cultures.
In some Asian cuisines, it's been a traditionally eaten food for generations.
Sushi, for example.
Also, nori sheets are a delicious savory snack, which are much better for you than chips, etc.
If you watch the Netflix documentary called Seaspiracy, it says that commercial fishing is the number one issue that affects climate change.
Fishing and farming fish is part of the reason eating animals and what comes out of them is so bad for our environment, including climate change, wasted resources, deforestation, water pollution, ocean dead zones, etc. Going vegan is the single most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint. "According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.”
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.
Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study.
Links at my channel under "About."
This is a really cool topic, and I really like how the seaweed farmer doesn't want to package their seaweed in plastic and hopes for a seaweed based alternative. Can you please get back to them to tell them about ZeroCircle, an Indian based start-up that won a prize at the Tom Ford award for creating dissolvable and edible packaging from seaweed? I'm sure they will be excited to know it is happeing!
Just don't harm ANY wildlife in the process and I'm happy
I agree. Done right, it could be a boon to wildlife.
The naturally growing kelp near Monterrey fosters a diverse population of sea life.
Eating seaweed instead of traditional seafood helps drive down the demand which drives the destructive fishing industry.
Boycott animal products, including fish!
Very cool.
I use seaweed for my plants
Whales are still being slaughtered in some countries
This looks promising, if we can get more people to see seaweed as a food source.
It depends on the culture.
In some Asian cuisines, it is a commonly eaten food.
Sushi, for example.
Also, nori sheets are a delicious savory snack, which are much better for you than chips, etc.
SO SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE
Most seeweeds are grown here in China, it contributes in purify the sea water by removing exssive nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. It is so eco-friendly. I think we should promote it worldwide.
Well said Randy Marsh
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What I've known by now is only we can save the planet if we are destroying it...
and we need bigger changes in lifestyle
we need to be self sufficient , and eliminate money from our lives as much as possible ☮
Big corps need to change mainly.
Eliminate money? Trading? I’m confused
I agree. What is the most effective measure each of us could take?
Switch to a plant based diet!
"According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.”
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.
Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study.
Links at my channel under "About."
Seaweed is a great part of a plant based diet. Great source of iodine, calcium, and iron! I take an algae based supplement to ensure I am getting enough DHA and EPA Omega 3. Some people don't convert the ALA type of Omega 3 found in ground flax, chia, and walnuts to sufficient levels.
I have a question about microplastics and seaweed....does seaweed absorb it?
Same question
Probably, but so do terrestrial food plants. There's no escaping microplastics
You always have the most interesting subjects! Thank you for another great video 😊
Here about this two years ago, from RUclips; thank you for the information and repost this. XD
Locally grown seaweed.... perhaps leading to cheaper sushi in restaurants overall?
Nori is already cheap. The fish is expensive
Hmm... What about "The Coral Reefs"? I'd wonder if the Seaweed could help with them, while stopping the water from being so acidic preventing them from growing?
This is so amazing 😍
Ooh, I hope so!
Awesome 👍😃👍😃
Also we have not heard of this in india I guess it's going to be a good and awesome future of India in developing our financial needs
I bet India could grow kelp that America or europe couldn’t, we could all trade seaweeds
Loved this video. CT is my home state and I’m so happy to see this happening there. Very proud :)) also she’s from the northern coast. People are much much nicer up there haha
CT?
@@trifilosgr Connecticut…..where they said they were lol
Except you need a faster way to harvest it from the ocean, without having to speedboat to it for 30 minutes twice...
Apart from that, way to go! Hope It'll get mainstream somehow
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Very good.
Anything is better than nothing!💚🌷
I don't think that they mentioned the fact that seaweed is an excellent source of iodine.
In fact, kelp is so high in iodine, that you need to watch that you don't overdose.
high-key, that meal looks so good! XD
Me with a giant automatic kelp farm
LAUGHS IN MINECRAFT
My eco crush, get it girl!
We dont have that kind of kelp in the Philippines. Please send and teach us how to grow them so we can help combat climate change and eat healthy at the same time too
The Philippines is already a top exporter of seaweeds, raw and processed. This kind of seaweed does not grow in the Philippines :)
Wow.
Hi am revanth from india I saw this video I think I am really interested in wat u are doing I hope I get a knowledge about how to grow so I have clsoe to 4 acer of water land and as I am on to my carrier I am planning to start a agriculture business
I always wondered where Sandra Bullock ended up...seaweed farmer..wouldn’t have guessed her for that role.😜
How could I get some micro spores in Texas ?
Maybe, but it clearly can’t be enough.
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So important! Thank you!
The next president that comes along should mandate kelp, hemp and worm farming.
I love this channel. You deserve way more subscribers and views.
Wow.. she's a very knowledgeable farmer!
We all need more seaweed in our lives :p
Seaweed solution!
The boat's engine is contradicting the expressed purpose. The farmers around Dawlish and other places used to take seaweed from the beaches after storms. That died out a long time ago. China's labour is so cheap they can do this. Western nations are trying to automate it.
Algaes are a good idea. Cyano bacteria too. I mean hmm anyway 😊 but yeah cultivating kelp forests is a really good idea.
Check out Green Wave and the work of Bren Smith
Can seaweed be used in areas of the ocean that are considered dead?
Good question. I think so. Destructive algal blooms are a result of too much fertilizer from agricultural run off. Seaweed would use some of that and reduce the chances of excess algae which cause dead zones. Animal agriculture is a major cause of the problem.
Switching to a plant based food system (including seaweed) is the solution.
Anything that could balance the sea's temperature will be good for tackling CC 👍
Math aint mathin ..most of the 37 countries producing kelp are the ones where kelp dosent grow
She looks like Sandra Bullock!
I don't know if I trust her delayed reaction to the taste test. Anyway, great segment
That's cool. I think seaspiracy and other shows are going to help people care more about the ocean.
For us landlubbers another, tho directly related, climate saviour is microalgae. Being the fastest growing plant known, rivaling phytoplankton, i believe, so makes oxygen & sequesters carbon faster than any plant known. Tho slowing down the process by lowering the temperature can tweak the algae to become lipid heavy, meaning its oil content is high. Depending on the strain grown can be good for human consumption that fuels the brain development of children & brain recovery for the elderly ( maintenance for adults. Then can also be used as machine fuel in diesel engines that end biproduct (exhaust) is biodegradable. Growing it in open-skied desertified regions (awaiting reforestation, ahem) will not displace the growing of food crops, which growing food should switch to near forests where fertility still is, anyway, by Regenerative Agriculture, to rebuild soil lost since 1945.
Amazing. Where can I read more about it?
@@oceansteaderkelp6756 Prolly just by googling, but then there are relevant vids on this also google's space.
I take an algae based Omega 3 (DHA and EPA) supplement for brain health. I don't eat fish, but I do eat ground flax and walnuts. I take an algae based supplement to ensure I am getting enough DHA and EPA Omega 3. Some people don't convert the ALA type of Omega 3 found in ground flax, chia, and walnuts to sufficient levels.
@@someguy2135 Is there a health marker indicating whether sufficient levels of Omega 3? I don't even think about it. Just trying to have a rounded diet. Uh-oh, now I'm finding the word "essential" stirring. I am, however rounding out my sources, but as you ask generally, am I specifically making good use of them at my age.....
@@reforest4fertility I don't know about markers. As you get older, everything you can do to support brain health is advisable. I am in my mid 60's. I suspect everyone could benefit from Omega 3. Fish flesh often includes pollutants like mercury, PCB's and micro plastics. Fish get Omega 3 from eating algae or eating smaller fish who do so. As you move up the food chain, bio-accumulation of pollutants become problematic.
It’s funny that my love for nori brought me here.
This gives me hope, but i think its to late 😞
Yup. I've been watching the slow decline for more than 20 years. It's glittered with hopeful stories just like this.
Great vid. Learnt a lot. Very suspect of all these carbon neutral claims going around.
One bit for Suzie... those food grade tubs... plastic.
On Plastic Buckets: the bucket is being re used, Susie is not throwing them in the water, and companies and garbage are throwing an alarming amount of garbage away that I think we should give Susie a Pass
Good point on plastic tho
Weed can save lives too
Instead of using our brains, yeah ok, seaweeds
Where the information that Brasil can't farm seaweed comes from? We are farming here
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Not enough. Needs government direct investment.
If only the oceans didn't contain contaminants😔
69 likes let me fix that
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This is literally so stupid along with the theory that meat is running out and we’ll have to eat bugs
We could also dump compressed co2 into the continental trenches where the pressure will compress it into a liquid and stop it from mixing with water
Acidification
If in this video show seaweed helps carbon sequesteration, seaweed for me helped me get my bachelor degree😁
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NOT ALONE AND TO STATE THAT IT IS IS A LIE !
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What climate crisis? Show me.