Center for Food Safety | Videos | | Soil: Our Climate Ally Underfoot

One of our biggest potential climate allies is directly under our feet: soil. Healthy, living soil has an enormous capacity to store carbon. In fact, carbon stored in soil accounts for roughly three times the amount stored in the atmosphere! Improving the health of degraded soil holds tremendous potential to mitigate climate change.

There are a wide variety of ways for everyone to contribute to increasing soil organic matter (SOM). Composting food leftovers, kitchen scraps and garden waste are primary methods. Cost-effective local, municipal composting programs are on the rise. On farms, cover crops and agroforestry methods work to increase SOM, and the regeneration of natural grasslands and reforestation are other strategies for improving soil health.

Food & Climate

Climate Change is such an enormous and unprecedented problem that it may seem like our individual efforts can’t possibly make a difference…

Support Center for Food Safety by donating today!

Home

About Us

Campaigns

Take Action

Resources

Site By LK

Center for Food Safety is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization. All donations to CFS are tax-deductible, Federal Tax ID (EIN) #52-2165893.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This material is protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. No text may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without express written permission or proper citation. Please credit any and all use of our work product to: Center for Food Safety, www.centerforfoodsafety.org.

JOIN

Protecting Our Food, Farms & Environment

Soil: Our Climate Ally Underfoot

Food & Climate