Soil Health and Public Health: A Whole Systems Approach to Improving Community and Climate Resilience
Around the world, people are using simple principles to regenerate healthy landscapes that prevent flooding and drought, by turning atmospheric carbon into a water-holding, climate-cooling “soil carbon sponge.” These same land-management principles can dramatically improve public health.
Didi Pershouse, author of The Ecology of Care, and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function, will lead participants through an investigation that demonstrates the biological processes involved in natural and human-managed landscapes that provide many interconnected ecological services, such as:
You’ll never look at soil the same way again!
A few of the questions we will answer are:
This workshop is great for educators, farmers, rural and urban planners, conservation groups, policy makers, and anyone interested in learning simple steps towards creating a better future.
Didi Pershouse, author of The Ecology of Care, and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function, will lead participants through an investigation that demonstrates the biological processes involved in natural and human-managed landscapes that provide many interconnected ecological services, such as:
- Abundant clean water and nutrient-dense food
- Cooling of the surrounding atmosphere
- Flood and drought resilience
- Preventing algae blooms
- Restoring local economies
- Reducing conflicts over resources
You’ll never look at soil the same way again!
A few of the questions we will answer are:
- How does soil biology influence water issues such as runoff, erosion, water storage, and filtration?
- How does soil carbon accumulate, and what is its relationship to atmospheric carbon, ocean acidification, and global warming?
- How do you change the productivity of soils, and profitability of farm and range land, without paying for chemical inputs?
- How does land management impact the nutritional integrity of food and human health?
- What are the principles nature uses to grow healthy productive landscapes that absorb and filter water, and how can we put those principles to work?
This workshop is great for educators, farmers, rural and urban planners, conservation groups, policy makers, and anyone interested in learning simple steps towards creating a better future.