Regenerative Ag

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    Why Are We Treating Soil Like Dirt? – World Soil Day 2025 and the Future Beneath Our Feet

    ByElmer Hall

    We walk on it, pave over it, and only notice it when it clogs our tires or messes up our boots. We call it dirt, sweep it off our floors, and complain when it sticks to our shoes. But this same “dirt” quietly grows 95% of our food, filters our water, and stores more carbon than all the world’s forests combined. Maybe it’s time we stopped treating soil like… well, dirt. The 2025 theme for…

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    COP30 in the Amazon: A Pivotal Moment to Close the Climate Ambition Gap Amidst Global Uncertainty

    ByElmer Hall

    — Article 1 of 2: The COP30 Essentials & The Ambition Gap — The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), currently underway in the Brazilian Amazon, represents a critical juncture in the global climate fight. Hosted by a nation intrinsically linked to the planet’s most vital carbon sink, the summit has been framed as the “Nature COP” and carries an immense symbolic weight for the future of multilateral climate governance. As nations gather to finalize…

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    The Farmer’s Choice: Shell-Inspired Scenarios for a Carbon-Negative Future (1/2)

    BySustainMe

    The Farmer’s Dilemma Elias, a farmer in eastern Ohio, stands at the edge of his fields with competing futures before him. Is there a carbon-negative future ahead? His corn stretches toward the horizon, but beneath the soil lie the Utica and Marcellus Shale formations, some of the richest fossil reserves in North America. He could lease to an oil company tomorrow and receive an upfront check larger than any harvest he has ever sold. Yet…

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    Roundup Syndrome: Glyphosate, GMO, and the Vicious Degradation Spiral

    BySustainMe

    By Dr. Elmer HallAuthor of Perpetual Sustainability and Patent Primer 5 A Global Experiment Without Consent Roundup® has become one of the most controversial agrochemical products in modern history. Marketed as a simple weed killer based on glyphosate, it is in fact a potent chemical cocktail applied globally to genetically modified (GMO) crops. This system—glyphosate plus surfactants and sticking agents—has infiltrated our food supply, water systems, and soil health with little public awareness and even…