People
Woody Harrelson
The process by which fertile land becomes desert
What is desertification?
A controlled, aerobic process to convert food waste into nutrient dense soil or mulch
What is composting?
Tilling the land releases this from the earth
What is CO2?
What is the Dust Bowl?
Conservation agronomist, soil conservationist, water quality specialist that has spent his career researching and teaching soil health
Ray Archuleta
These little guys bring plants nutrients through healthy soil
What are microorganisms?
A type of economy that relies of the restoration of a body
What is a regenerative economy?
According to the UN, the worlds remaining this will be gone in 60 years
What is top soil?
The year that the UN Climate Summit took place in Paris, France
What is 2015?
The German chemist who created synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. His discoveries led to the first pesticides as well as the first chemical war weapons in human history. He also developed the poison that was used in gas chambers during the Holocaust.
Who is Fritz Haber?
The name of a commonly used herbicide that can kill certain weeds and grasses.
What is glyphosate or Round Up?
1. No tilling
2. Cover crops
3. Perennials and trees
4. Compost and mob grazing
What are the 4 principles of regenerative farming?
When we damage soils, we give off carbon that ends up rising into this
What is the atmosphere?
Since the 1970s, we’ve lost this fraction of top soil
What is 1/3?
Author and founder of Project Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming
Who is Paul Hawken?
This organization provides programs to help people reduce soil erosion, improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat and reduce damages caused by natural disasters
What is the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)?
The process of mechanically preparing soil for agriculture by digging, stirring, or overturning it.
What is tilling?
What percent of carbon fuel is sent to the roots of a plant as well as to the soil microorganisms?
What is 40%?
This person created the Soil Conservation Service to save the nations soil, this group later became the NRCS
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt?
Creator of the international 4 per 1000 initiative at the 2015 UN Conference of the Parties (COP21)
Who is Stephan Le Foll?
Used to control the flow of air and water in the ground, this substance created by microorganisms is like a carbon glue
What is globalin?
Plants grown primarily to benefit the growth of other future crops
What is a cover crop?
Soil that is not tilled stores more of this
What is water?
In 1913, Franz Haber developed a method for producing nitrogen from ammonia, this was later used on farms as what
What is artificial fertilizer?