Soil Scientist Dr. Richard Cruse Speaks to SaveSoil

Dr. Richard Cruse – Soil Scientist, Professor in the Agronomy Department at Iowa State University, Director, Iowa Water Center and former President of the National Institutes for Water Resources, USA – speaks to #SaveSoil about the importance of soil health, and the instrumental role the #SaveSoil movement can play to restore soil health across the world. Save Soil, a global movement envisioned by Sadhguru, seeks to bring about a concerted, conscious response to impending soil extinction

Sadhguru and the then Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, Shri Prakash Javadekar, speak about the importance of enriching the soil. They look at how the food we eat - and therefore our health itself - has declined drastically in three decades, as the soil in India has lost its strength.

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.

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.