For this month’s Community Meeting we are excited to have journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson with us to discuss her book:

The Soil Will Save Us - How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

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Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world’s soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming.

Kristin Ohlson is the granddaughter of farmers and the daughter of avid gardeners, and has long had an appreciation for the soil. She is a freelance journalist, author, essayist and fiction writer.

Her articles have spanned many subjects, from zebrafish bioengineered to glow in the presence of pollutants to abandoned coal mines that catch fire and burn for decades to feminist philanthropy to the biology of moral decision-making to watching Indian soap operas with a roomful of men in Kabul.

Honors and Awards:

Best American Science Writing, 2011
Creative Workforce Fellow, 2010
Best American Travel Writing, 2008
New York Times bestseller, 2007

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