In the News . . .

• Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet -- The New York Times (14:27; 01 February 2022)
  
  
• BBC Future Follow the Food, Series One
  
  
  • Ep7 Soil: The new gold rush (22:55)
    
    
• Land subsidence 'will affect almost fifth of global population' -- The Guardian (31 December 2020)
  
  
• Living Soil film documents soil health movement -- OrbanicBIZ (20 October 2020)
  
  
  • Living Soil -- Top Documentary Films, Chelsea Wright, Director (60 min. 2018)
    
    
• America's soil is 48 times more toxic than a quarter century ago. Blame neonics -- The Guardian (07 August 2019)
  
  
• Climate change being fuelled by soil damage -- BBCNews (29 April 2019)
  
  
• India farmers think big but grow micro to enrich their soil -- Guardian (n.d.)
  
  
• Ancient African Dust Caused Red Soil in Southern Europe, New Research Reveals -- ScienceDaily (11 September 2010)
  

• Bacteria Museum
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Dig It! The Secrets of Soil -- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
  
  
• EarthSave International [ ". . . founded by . . . John Robbins, as a direct result of the overwhelming reader response to his book Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices oAffect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth" (Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope)]
  
  
• Environmental Ethics Case Studies -- American Physiological Society (APS)
  
  
• The Environmental Institute -- University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  
  
• Evironmental Protection Agency
  
  
  • Cleaning Up Our Land, Water and Air
    
  • Water Science
    
  
  
• European Environment Agency
  
  
• Food Forward: Urban Agriculture Across America -- PBSvideo (2014)
  
  
  • The Meat of the Matter [video 24:44] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (29 August 2014)
  • Go Fish! [video 24:45] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (29 August 2014)
  • SOS: Save Our Soil [video 24:46] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (05 September 2014)
  • Seeds of Change [video 24:40] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (05 September 2014)
  • Pilot Episode: Urban Farming [video 24:31] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (04 April 2012)
    
    
• Fraser, Evan D.G., and Andrew Rimas. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. NY: Free Press, 2010.
  
  
• GM - Genetic modification -- Soil Association
  
  
• Lester -- Minnesota State Soil -- Soil Science Society of America
  
  
• Mann, Charles. “Our Good Earth:The Future Rests on Soil.” National Geographic, September, 2008
  
  
• Montgomery, David R. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
  
  

• NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
  

• Ocean, Great Lakes and Coastal Research -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA)
  
  
• Online Maps for the Lake Superior Basin -- The Lake Superior Decision Support Project
  
  
  • Dominant Soil Drainage
    
    
• Salatin, Joel. Tilling the Soil: Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Vision in Your Family. Vision Forum 2010. [Audio CD]
  
  
• Shiva, Vandana. Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2008.
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
  
  
• U.S. Geological Survey
  
  
• World Food [and Water] Clock -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

Water woes
A map of the different degrees and kinds of water scarcity

(blue: little water scarcity, red: physical water scarcity, peach: approaching water scarcity, orange: economic water scarcity

Credit: IWMI