{"id":148815,"date":"2022-10-24T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/carbon-dioxide-can-revolutionize-rooftop-farming-here-is-the-proof"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:27:48","slug":"carbon-dioxide-can-revolutionize-rooftop-farming-here-is-the-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/carbon-dioxide-can-revolutionize-rooftop-farming-here-is-the-proof","title":{"rendered":"Carbon dioxide can revolutionize rooftop farming, here is the proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fygXIUv3O_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new way to boost the growth of plants in rooftop farms.<\/p>\n<p>Humans constantly breathe out large amounts of CO2 and when we are inside a building for a period of time, it creates high concentrations of carbon dioxide inside the building. This CO2 is removed through a building\u2019s exhaust system.<\/p>\n<p>Plants take in CO2 as a source of food and when they are exposed to lots of CO2, they will grow bigger than they would have otherwise.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Sarabeth Buckley.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, a team of researchers from Boston University has proposed a system called BIG GRO in which excess CO<sub>2 <\/sub>from a building\u2019s exhaust system can be utilized as a fertilizer to grow thriving rooftop gardens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/carbon-dioxide-can-revolutionize-rooftop-farming-here-is-the-proof\">Continue reading \u201cCarbon dioxide can revolutionize rooftop farming, here is the proof\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way to boost the growth of plants in rooftop farms. Humans constantly breathe out large amounts of CO2 and when we are inside a building for a period of time, it creates high concentrations of carbon dioxide inside the building. This CO2 is removed through a building\u2019s exhaust system. Plants take in CO2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}