Can Chocolate Help Save The Planet?

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Here's yet another wonderful podcast from the fabulous NPR - How Chocolate Can Save the Planet! Check out this podcast and article by Joanne Silberner, full of fascinating details. Here's an excerpt from the written article:

"...How could chocolate help with global climate change?

The answer is found in a little piece of paradise, a patch of rainforest in eastern Brazil. Everywhere you look, something is growing. Orchids nestle in the crooks of trees. There are hundreds of shades of green, and the forest is loud with birds and insects.

Photo: Anna Vigran, NPR

Some areas have been thinned out and planted with cacao trees — the source of chocolate. The pods contain the magical beans that Aztecs counted like gold. The cultivated cacao trees grow just a bit higher than a man can reach, and rainforest trees tower over them like something out of Dr. Seuss — some round like lollipops, some flat like a plate.
And here's the climate connection. Rainforest trees and plants store massive amounts of carbon — keeping it from getting into the air as carbon dioxide."

You can read the rest of this wonderfully vivid article here as well as download the podcast.