‘Soil Isn’t Forever’: Why Biodiversity Also Needs Protection Below the Ground
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
We need people to notice and appreciate the role healthy soil plays in our lives and why it’s so vital we protect it.
Tag: soil health
Dirt to Soil: Excerpt
By Gabe Brown, Resilience.org
In the everyday work of my farm, most of the decisions I make, in one way or another, are driven by the goal of continuing to grow and protect soil.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 82 Betsy Taylor
By Vicki Robin, Betsy Taylor, Resilience.org
Betsy Taylor is president of Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions LLC. For over thirty years, Betsy Taylor has built a solid reputation as a philanthropic advisor, social change leader, motivational speaker and problem solver. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Home Soil
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Soil is not dirt. It is not a pile of fine-ground rock and biological detritus. It is not even a home for mycelium and microorganisms, annelids and insects, roots and burrowing chordates. It is the sum of all those things living together.
Weeds: What can they tell us about our soils?
By Chris Maughan, Dominic Amos, Agroecology Now!
However we proceed, we very much consider the plant bioindicator method alongside a host of other tools for deepening our connection with land.
Farming Bounded By Our Biological Boundaries – Part 1
By Stuart Meikle, ARC2020
We must adopt an ecosystem approach to identify sustainable food systems that can exist within our planet’s boundaries, argues Stuart Meikle in the first of a four-part series.
Carbon Starvation – A Crisis Of Our Time?
By Stuart Meikle, ARC2020
Overall, it is only when we start with a soils-first-farming approach that we begin to understand what is needed to create genuinely sustainable agricultural systems.
The Myth of Climate Smart Agriculture – Why Less Bad Isn’t Good
By Andrea Beste, ARC2020
It would serve us well to consequently apply and further develop known, climate friendly farming techniques before we continue with “precision techniques” on a whim. Unfortunately, in both research and practice this approach is rarely taken.
Reclaiming the Desert
By Randi Kaeufer, Medium.com
Because there is no other option and no better deal for the natural capital, soil, biodiversity and climate. Our task is to accelerate this transition and to avoid doing even more damage.
Regenerative Agriculture part 2 | A Soils-First Farming & Food Policy
By Peter Dunne, ARC2020
Regenerative agriculture seeks to re-integrate knowledge of the soil food web and the biology of soils into agricultural thought processes and decision-making, and to apply this knowledge to both short- and long-term decisions.
Rescuing civilization dirt cheap
By Donovan C. Wilkin, Resilience.org
Society must be made aware of the fact that destruction of the world’s soil organic matter is an existential threat to civilization every bit as immediate and serious as climate change or oil depletion.
Kiss the Ground: What soil can do
By Richard Young, Sustainable Food Trust
‘Kiss the Ground’, currently streaming on Netflix, has huge relevance for the massive environmental and health problems we face today. Although mostly looking at American agriculture, it includes inspiring examples from Africa, China and Haiti.