this short youtube is particularly well done! it
aligns with permaculture design strategies & core message for
sure. Did you know even the USDA currently has an amazingly
enlightened soil & water campaign currently? such good news,
who says the world can't shift...
Petitioning California Governor and 2 others
California Soils need your help. Seriously. $160M to
support Gov Brown rebuilding Healthy Soils.
Short
YouTube, does excellent job of explaining the carbon cycle, and how soils
and plants can sequester carbon.
https://www.change.org/p/california-soils-need-your-help-seriously-160m-to-support-gov-brown-rebuilding-healthy-soils?just_created=true
Soil needs our help. Seriously.
My name is Jason Mraz. I am a Grammy-winning recording artist, and a
lover of Soil. That’s right -- rich, dark, alive, soil. I’ve even written
songs about it. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we need soil for every
single thing we eat. We literally couldn’t exist without soil.
But right now, the way we farm strips our soil of all the carbon and
microorganisms it needs to stay healthy. That’s bad for farmers, bad
for climate change, and in my drought-stricken home state of California,
it lets our dwindling water go to waste.
We have a chance to change that. Soon, California is going to decide
how to spend $2 billion they’ve set aside to fight climate
change.
I need your help, the Governor needs your help. Sign this petition to
tell California elected officials to make sustainable soil programs a
part of their climate change initiatives.
I know, at first it sounds a little silly. Investing in soil? But
California is the leading agricultural economy of the world. The way we
treat our soil has a massive impact on our environment, our water supply,
and farmers throughout the state.
We have a major opportunity RIGHT NOW to support Governor Brown in
funding Healthy Soils -- $160M of the $2 billion that’s been set aside
could go to land management practices that would rebuild healthy soil so
we can grow more nutritious food, fight the drought, and take carbon out
of the air to help reverse climate change.
Our very future depends on the health of our soil. Help me and my
friends at Kiss The Ground tell the State of California to make
responsible investments in building back our soil.
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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