Honey Badgers don’t give a hoot. Come join us and give that tree the boot. Bond with the BADGER!

Enter the FOOD CHAIN.
Fruits and vegetables are consumed by animals. They live on the energy they get when they digest the sugars that are rich in carbon. Within the animal, carbon exists in many complex forms such as muscle, blood, bone, and brain matter. You can join hydrogen and oxygen to become fructose in apple, only to get eaten by a worm then picked out by a bird and chased down by a hungry hungry honey badger. Carbon goes through many forms in the food chain.

Living organisms ingest other organisms as sources of energy in the food chain.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Eating

Loosen up with us. It’s a brown, dirty and nutrient rich lifestyle. Go out on a limb and leave that tree to break it down in the SOIL.

Go through the process of DECOMPOSITION.
Plants eventually die and decay. Carbon stored in a leaf falls to the forest floor. As the structures and cells of the leaf get broken down bit by bit they take the carbon with them as they mix into the soil—fertile soil that is 57% carbon! Some of the carbon is also released through respiration by the insects and microorganism that help decompose the plant.

C₆H₁₂O₆ => 2C₂H₅OH + 2C0₂

Sugar => Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide

Complex organic molecules are reduced to simpler forms in the process of decomposition.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Decomposition#Plant_decomposition

start over

You are Carbon in a Plant

The view is fine from the top of the vine. Carbon in a tree? Nowhere I’d rather be.

The carbon essential for life enters the food chain through plants. Black carbon, or soot, is released into the atmosphere when trees burn. Land use changes have reduced the amount of carbon absorbed by plants.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Plant

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