Dirt! The Movie Trailer

by Leslie Boden, Community Health & Sustainable Food Systems Planner

What lies at the very foundation of food production? Healthy soil. Dirt. Teeming with myriad forms of life, generative and renewable, essential for plant growth and sustainable ecosystems. And yet, all over the world, it is under attack by industrial agriculture’s methods, which deplete fertile topsoil and produce climate change-contributing greenhouse gases. Common Ground Media’s Dirt! The Movie describes the importance and vulnerability of dirt and the devastating global effects on agricultural production and our adaptability to climate change that will result from the continued assault on it.  It also highlights instances of hopeful actions large and small that are being taken to halt the destruction and replenish soil worldwide.  The movie features Vandana Shiva (physicist and environmental activist) and Wangari Maathai (Nobel Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement), both of whom addressed the recent NYC Food & Climate Summit.