Alex Steffen

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

American Writer

Jared Diamond

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

American Author

Alice Oswald

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

British Poet

Vinod Khosla

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

American Businessman

Emphasizes the richness of topsoil due to decomposed plant and animal matter.

Organic Content

Indicates the importance of topsoil in sustaining ecosystems and preventing erosion.

Environmental Concern

Used to convey the essential base for growing plants in gardens and farms.

Gardening Foundation

References topsoil's importance in farming due to richness in nutrients.

Agricultural Value

Highlights the negative impact of erosion on the quality and presence of topsoil.

Erosion Effects

Refers to practices aimed at preventing the degradation or loss of topsoil.

Soil Conservation

 that the way that most crops are grown around the world today is stripping the earth of the fertile topsoil we need to feed future generations. He got together with a group of scientists, and they bred perennial grain crops which have deep roots that anchor the fertile topsoil of a farm,

The power to think ahead...

 That's why we need a price on carbon and a price on plastic pollution. It also leaves out positive externalities. So we’re chronically underinvesting in education and health care and environmental protection, pandemic preparedness. We're ignoring the depletion of resources like topsoil

Al Gore: How to make...

 at the end of a season, it doesn't pack them up, take them to the leaf reprocessing center and have them melted down to form new leaves. It just drops them, the shortest distance possible, to the forest floor, where they're actually upcycled into next year's topsoil.

Eben Bayer: Are...

 costs the costs of loss of topsoil the costs of loss of waterways the lost productivity the loss to local communities as a result of all these factors desertification and so on those costs are almost twice as much as the market price of timber so in fact the

Put a value on nature! -...

 talking to about hydrogels is because the world faces a food crisis look a growing population means more mouths to feed climate change is causing massive droughts and it's expected to get much worse topsoil erosion makes it harder to

Hydrogels as an...

 million living feral across the continent pig damage we see it all over the place they're trying to find some food but then doing so they disrupt all the topsoil so that if it rains heavily which it does all the time all the soil

Giant Cassowaries are...

 living feral across the continent damage we see it all over the place they're trying to find some food but then doing so they disrupt all the topsoil so that if it rains heavily which it does all

Nature's Oddest Looking...

 It ignores the depletion of resources like groundwater and topsoil and the web of living species. And it ignores the distribution of incomes and net worths, so when GDP goes up, people cheer,

The new urgency of...

 on a mountainside and the topsoil is washed away we call it desert if acacia know that is a Dust Bowl when we bottom trawl an ocean and make a devoid of all life that is not an ocean desert

A Story of Community and...

 The gardener must then make sure that a good disposition and the proper nutrients are correctly mixed in the soil. Then it's important to aerate the topsoil