Erik Solheim & Sadhguru Discuss Save Soil

President, Green Belt, and Road Institute, Advisor, World Resources Institute and former Executive Director, UN Environment Programme, Erik Solheim, and Sadhguru discuss the Save Soil movement, climate change, secularism in India, and India’s importance in the 21st century.

Sadhguru speaks to Dr. Vibha Dhawan, Director General of TERI, about why we are staring at an impending crisis of soil extinction, and the need for concerted action to Save Soil.

Conscious Planet is a Global Movement to initiate a conscious approach to soil and planet. The movement seeks to show governments of all nations that their citizens want a policy to revitalize soil and ecology. To activate and demonstrate the support of over 3 billion citizens, Sadhguru will be riding a motorcycle alone, 30,000 kilometers across 27 nations. The rally will start in London and end in southern India, where the Cauvery Calling project, initiated by Sadhguru, has enabled 125,000 farmers to grow 62 million living trees to revive soil and river Cauvery. Activating citizen participation will ensure that ecological issues become election issues, so that governments create policies and set budgets for ecological solutions, leading to sustained implementation.

Save Soil is a movement that has germinated from a seed that was planted 24 years ago by Sadhguru. In 1998, some environmental agencies predicted that by 2025, 60% of Tamil Nadu – India’s southernmost state – will become a desert. But what Sadhguru observed and experienced was worse than what the agencies had predicted. This led Sadhguru to launch a movement to revitalize the world’s severely depleting soil, water and agriculture.