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Soil Health as Public Health (Re-cast)
Conversations with Didi Pershouse who describes the nested relationships between soil health, human health, water cycles and climate resiliency. In other words, she connects soil health to public health. She is an educator, and soil sponge strategist committed to building healthy communities both above and below ground.
Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling! Find @credko on Twitter. See alivepodcast.net
Thank you,
Cristina Redko, PhD
Key Sources:
Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative and the Center for Sustainable Medicine, and a co-founder of the “Can we Rehydrate California?” Initiative.
https://www.landandleadership.org
http://www.rehydratecalifornia.org
Didi Pershouse. The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities.Mycelium Books, 2015.
Didi Pershouse. Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function: A Teacher’s Manual. August 15, 2017 (published in more than 60 countries, free download)
https://www.didipershouse.com/understanding-soil-health-and-watershed-function.html
Didi Pershouse. Other Species are Essential Workers, Whose Economies Enfold Our Own. December 20, 2020. See https://medium.com
Most sound effects obtained from freesound.org :
Ancient Cavern III, CC by 3.0, Carlos Carty
Harp improvisation (RepDac2 & RepDac3), CC by 3.0, Monika Gatt
Munching, CC by 3.0, IneQuation
End of the world (voice) CC by 3.0, Speedenza
Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov