BK 2 (Jul 10 & Aug 2nd 2018): Kiss the Ground

Hi Everyone...

Our Jul 10th & Aug 2nd meeting we will discuss Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World by Josh Tickle (Nov 14, 2017).

With 322 reading pages it will be approximately 11 pages a day.

Check out the Bio & Videos below...

"Discover the hidden power soil has to reverse climate change, and how a regenerative farming diet not only delivers us better health and wellness, but also rebuilds our most precious resource—the very ground that feeds us.

Josh Tickell, one of America’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers and director of Fuel, has dedicated most of his life to saving the environment. Now, in Kiss the Ground, he explains an incredible truth: by changing our diets to a soil-nourishing, regenerative agriculture diet, we can reverse global warming, harvest healthy, abundant food, and eliminate the poisonous substances that are harming our children, pets, bodies, and ultimately our planet.

Through fascinating and accessible interviews with celebrity chefs, ranchers, farmers, and top scientists, this remarkable book, soon to be a full-length documentary film narrated by Woody Harrelson, will teach you how to become an agent in humanity’s single most important and time sensitive mission. Reverse climate change and effectively save the world—all through the choices you make in how and what to eat."

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This is what we discussed at the meeting...

* "Scientist estimate that it takes nature about five hundred years to create one inch of topsoil. Today, farms are losing topsoil at an alarming rate - perhaps then times faster than nature is regenerating it. Soil just might save us, but we are going to have to save it first."

* Pesticides,Tilling, single crops (Monocultures)

* Herd grazing, compost, cover crop & no-tilling

* India's 455 new coal power plants.

* GMOs & feeding the people of the world

* Carbon Storage in American Agriculture vs Industry

* Paris Agreement

* Shrinking numbers of farms

* Fritz Haber's & Car Bosch's work with chemical weapons

* Muller developing DDT & its effects

* Image p 65 - 66

* Glyphosate & its effects (map p 69)

* Stats on Herbicides, insecticides and fungicides used annually, presence of them in our home & lack of testing in our foods for them

* Fracking & its effects on agriculture

* Water Cycles & Quantities of water needed

* Drought/Heat

* Increase Organic Sales

* Allan Savory TED Talk

* Permaculture Zones

* Rotational Grazing

* Rodale Farming System

* USDA Organic (diagram p 134)

* Mycorrhizal Fungi

* Acidity of Ocean

* Bison/Buffalo

* San Francisco's Composting & Recycling Program

* Cows, CAFOs, Hormones, Meat Related Pathogens (table p 187), water use, Methane, and Climate Change

* Project Topsoil Depletion (diagram p 207)

* Dust Storm 1930s

* Effects of Tilling (Image p 219 & table 260)

* Earthworms

*  Cover crops

* Federal Farm Program

*  2011 Department of Agriculture MyPlate diagram (diagram p 275)

* 80% of America's crops being field corn, soy, hay & wheat...63% American daily caloric intake.

* America's Farmlands % size (table p 288)

* Resources (p 299-322)