Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Save Soil @ Sadhguru

https://consciousplanet.org/soil

Soil is the basis of our lives. But...Agriculture, deforestation, and other factors have degraded and eroded topsoil at alarming rates. Globally, 52% of agricultural land is already degraded. The planet is in crisis. If current rates of soil degradation continue, this would be the end of life as we know it.

Magic Of Soil

“The Only Magic Material that Turns Death into Life.”

– SADHGURU

The Save Soil movement is about bringing humanity together to keep the magic of soil alive.

THE SOIL SONG

Most of us are familiar with words and concepts such as Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Air Pollution and Water Scarcity, but very few have focused attention on Soil. For millennia, life on earth has been sustained by a thin layer of fertile soil on the earth's crust.

But...

What exactly is soil and what does it do?

LET US EXPLORE THROUGH A QUIZ BELOW.

QUESTION 1 / 6

Soil is ______

Tree sapling growing from the ground

Soil is the basis of our lives. But...

Agriculture, deforestation, and other factors have degraded and eroded topsoil at alarming rates. Globally, 52% of agricultural land is already degraded. The planet is in crisis. If current rates of soil degradation continue, this would be the end of life as we know it.

Soil desertification

VERY DEGRADED

DEGRADED

STABLE

NO VEGETATION

The Planet is in Crisis

FOOD CRISIS

WATER SCARCITY

LOSS OF BIO-DIVERSITY

CLIMATE CHANGE

LOSS OF LIVELIHOOD

CONFLICT AND MIGRATION

Soil: A holistic solution

Almost every major ecological crisis is, to some degree or form, a consequence or symptom of the degradation of soil. Similarly, almost every environmental or environment-related pain point can be addressed by creating healthy soil.

It is, in fact, a fallacy to think we can address any one aspect of our environment without addressing the whole, because no aspect of the ecosystem functions in isolation. No solution is complete until we become conscious that life is one single complex phenomenon, all of which is happening in unison. In many ways, Soil is the underlying platform upon which life springs forth. If we fix soil, we have the best chance of fixing the whole.

Oh Soil

The fragrance of the soil

Somehow is more tenderness to me

than the fancy fragrance of the flower

The strength and sensitivity of life

held in the soil

lets off waves of passion of a

different sort.

Passion not of a person

but of my species

that has gone insensitive

to all that nurtures it

and absorbs it at its end.

As I walk barefoot, I break down

with Passions so profound

that it defies all descriptions.

Oh' Soil, My life

POEM BY SADHGURU


2018 - Save River - Ride in India - Sadhguru launched Rally for Rivers on September 3, 2017 to revitalize India's rapidly depleting river, drove 9,300 kilometers in thirty days. During that time, spoke at 142 events along the way and gave over 180 interviews. 

While Rally for Rivers was an awareness project to change the law, Waghari was a hands-on project. Cauvery Calling was in between. In scope, Cauvery Calling was much larger than Waghari because in Cauvery Calling, it was an exercise between the government, the farmers and people.

2019 - Save Trees 

Sadhguru bats for one trillion trees campaign at WEF 2020 summit. Sadhguru has launched pathbreaking ecological initiatives in India including award-winning projects such as Project GreenHands (PGH) and Rally for Rivers (RfR) – both of which promote tree plantation. In a bid to revitalise the river, the Sadhguru's Cauvery Calling project aims to support farmers to plant 242 crore trees through agroforestry.

2020- Understanding Indigenous people - Ride in US covering 37 Days, 9477 Miles, 19 States

Sadhguru and his convoy of 16 fellow travellers travelled across the United States to discover spiritual America in order to get a better understanding of the history, culture and traditions of Indigenous Peoples.

https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/36-days-9477-miles-19-states-sadhguru-shares-experience-of-exploring-spiritual-america

2021 - Save Soil - Ride in Europe plan ; Which started on 21st March 2022 - 100 Days rids across Europe - from London to India covering 30,000 kms covering Middle East. 

On 21 March, Sadhguru embarked on an arduous 100-day, 30,000-km journey as a lone motorcyclist, to activate citizen support and global government policy action to revitalize soil.

Sadhguru’s journey through Europe and Middle East is being met with an overwhelmingly positive response from both the people and the governments.

And very soon, Sadhguru will reach India! As part of the India leg of his journey, Sadhguru will stop to address the public at various locations along the route.

3rd June in Jaipur, 5th June in Delhi, 7th June in Lucknow, 12th June in Mumbai, 15th June in Hyderabad,16th June in vijaywada, 19th June in Bangaluru, 20th June in Mysuru, 21st June at Adiyogi, Isha Yoga Centre.


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