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Join us for a conversation with Louisa Durkin, a biodiversity and agrifood systems analyst at Metabolic and member of the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre. Louisa will walk us through an important, but often overlooked, solution to the ecological and climate crisis. A solution that is literally right under our feet - soil.
Perhaps we take soil for granted. Yet our lives depend on the life within soil, that interconnected web of life beneath our feet. Soil provides our food with its nutrients and is a medium for growth. Invisible to us, soil has a complex and elegant structure, with fungi mycelium connecting plant roots, bacteria exchanging nutrients, and earthworms creating air pockets. Soil itself is alive: a single gram of soil can contain up to 50,000 different species. So much of life’s diversity exists within the soil. There are ways of farming that build soil (regenerate) and sequester carbon. Changing our relationship with soil is a win-win for humans and our environment. Watch this video about soil to learn a bit more.