Some US waste management companies are doing a good job of publicizing how they are managing and harvesting methane into green industries in their areas. Don't see why it couldn't work with large farming operations. Yes, I know that cowflop lands where it lands and emits from there, upon landing as well as at the time of transmission. But a significant amount of cowflop is collected (in US dairy farming for example) in the barn and then spread on fields; it must sit somewhere until there is enough to haul out to spread it as free fertilizer and soil amendment (which in our area accounts for land being farmable at all). Now, it would be nice if a large organic-dairy concern could publicize how they harvest methane, spread antibiotic-free and pesticide-free cowflop on poor land to reclaim it, etc.

One of these waste management programs is in our area; the harvested methane runs power to operate a hydroponic lettuce operation, as I understand it. No, not lettuce grown in sewage-- a complicated series of steps results in good, clean lettuce coming from the garbage dump people.

Then on TV this weekend I saw a program describing a recylced-paper operation that involved greening a LOT of different processes around a local geographic area that reduced all KINDS of consumption and emissions.

So it's happening, slowly, but I wish we could hear more about it.

One of the reasons these environment improvements are finally happening is that fossil fuel is, nowadays, expensive enough to make expensive alternative energies look better than they did when first introduced.

~Susan