Soil Smart – Soil Wise

Vision

We help cities achieve resilience by connecting their residents, city departments, land developers, and agricultural components to actively support the bionic pump, thus ensuring a cooler, wetter, more resilient local climate.

Mission

We achieve our vision by working to ensure soil health through composting, biochar, biologic applications, etc. Then we support regenerative landscaping, so that the land holds water, and we complete the biotic pump by the planting of Miyawaki mini forests.

Our Inspiration

Having been concerned about climate change for decades, I was overjoyed to discover that there IS something we—normal people, can do to address the major effect—heat! The focus on carbon and getting it out of the air and into the ground has not proved to be empowering, nor successful. The research by Anastasia Markova, in which she named the biotic pump as the system that naturally cooled the Earth, gave me inspiration.

Carbon is all about not getting hotter—a good idea. But the biotic pump is all about cooling, a much better idea, in my view. Not only that it is something that we all can contribute to. It is also something, as practiced in real life, that begins to change how we see and interact with the planet. We all lament that things need to change, that we need to be “different” but that difference is rarely mentioned or clarified. Working with the biotic pump, to strengthen it, shifts our understanding and our behavior in ways that actually work with natural processes, with the Earth herself, to make the change that nature is working to make, herself.

We offer education and consulting to help residents and cities discover ways they can begin to reignite the living systems around them so they thrive. As a Rethink Tank™ we offer the opportunity to rethink how we are living on this planet by considering options that are more closely aligned with nature. Understanding the natural system means we can work with it to help cool our tiny part of the Earth. Here is Soil Smart – Soil Wise’s strategy to do just that:

Each of these steps is something that any landowner can do and soil health is something that even renters can do. We are here to help. Please, join us!

Mailing address: 1275 4th St. #371 Santa Rosa, CA 95404