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🌍 Soil is like a bank account - a precious asset we must nurture and grow for future generations. Harnessing its untapped potential is pivotal in our quest for resilience and a sustainable future. Dive into this insightful read to discover why soil health matters so much. 🌱💡 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/08/soil-health-climate-crisis-climate-targets/
This is why soil health is key to mitigating the climate crisis
More than 30% of the world's soil is already degraded. But simple techniques to improve soil quality could help us reach our climate targets, scientists say.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/08/soil-health-climate-crisis-climate-targets/
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🌱 Soil Health: A Vital Link to Healthy Oceans and Global Temperatures 🌊💧🌡️ Did you know that the health of oceans and water is directly connected to the well-being of soil? It's a critical link we often overlook! 🌎💙 Healthy oceans, marine life, and water rely on the health of our soil, as they are intricately connected through water systems. However, the excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture can lead to a major problem – leaching. Sandy and thirsty soils are particularly exposed as water quickly washes fertilizers and pesticides through the soil in deep drainage, a process called leaching. When these chemicals are washed away by irrigation water, they find their way into rivers, lakes, groundwater, and eventually, the ocean. Excessive nutrient runoff triggers harmful algal blooms, depleting oxygen levels and harming marine life. Additionally, certain pesticides contribute to water acidification, further harming aquatic ecosystems and coral reefs. This not only disrupts delicate ecosystems but also affects our planet's thermal buffering function. ☀️🌊🌿 These changes impact the plankton communities that rely on nutrient-rich waters. As a result, the ocean's upper layer becomes more stratified, making it harder for essential nutrients to reach the surface where light is available for marine life. The consequence of this phenomenon is a shift in the phytoplankton communities, which play a crucial role in regulating ocean temperatures. As the ocean's surface warms due to climate change, the presence of certain phytoplankton changes. This alters the ocean's light absorption and scattering properties, ultimately impacting the ocean's thermal buffering function for global temperatures. 🌡️🌊 The consequences of ocean warming are significant and far-reaching, affecting weather patterns, sea levels, and marine life. Our planet's health depends on a delicate balance between soil, oceans, and atmosphere. But there's hope! 🌟 Innovations like Liquid Natural Clay (LNC) offer solutions. By improving soil health and water conservation, we can significantly reduce fertilizer and pesticide leaching. Reducing the loss of expensive agricultural inputs by improving the utilization of nutrients is good news for farmers' bottom line, the health of soil, plant life, oceans, and our planet. 🌱💦 Join Desert Control's mission to make earth green again, which protects life below water and ensures a resilient and sustainable future. Together, we can take action to preserve our planet's delicate balance. 🌎💚 #SoilHealth #WaterConservation #MarineLife #SustainableAgriculture#FromSandToHope #LNC #Innovation #AgTech #HealthyOceans#Ecosystems #ClimateAction #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Resilience#ClimateSmart #Sustainability #ProtectOurPlanet #ActNow
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Knowledge is power
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Unleash Your Inner Superhero! Join Us to Revolutionize Climate-Smart Agriculture, Soil Health, and Water Conservation in the U.S. Southwest Desert Region! Are you ready to use your sales superpowers to drive positive impact in the world of agriculture, soil improvement, and water conservation? We seek an extraordinary individual passionate about helping farmers, growers, and landowners overcome the challenges of declining soil fertility, droughts, and growing water scarcity. You believe in the potential of soil as the foundation for resilient, sustainable, and profitable agriculture and thriving natural ecosystems. At Desert Control, we believe in the power of innovation to save the life in soil, conserve water, and boost the profitability of farmers and landowners. As one of our superhero salespeople, you'll be a driving force behind our mission to empower clients to overcome the challenges of droughts, water conservation, and soil fertility. 🌟 Your Superpowers: ✅ X-Ray Vision for Identifying Clients' Needs: You have the innate ability to see through the challenges farmers and landowners face. With your deep understanding, you'll tailor solutions that bring hope and transformation to their operations. ✅ Laser Focus on Improving Sandy & Thirsty Soils: Like a laser beam, you'll focus on creating climate-smart and resilient farming and land management practices where our Liquid Natural Clay (LNC) can enable soils to be more productive and withstand even the harshest desert conditions. ✅ Super Sales & Consultative Advisory Powers: Your superpower in sales will be your greatest asset. With determination and enthusiasm, you'll spread the word about LNC's benefits and turn skeptics into believers by bringing renewed life and vitality to their fields. ✅ Telepathic Customer Connections: You forge strong connections and lasting client relationships. By understanding their thoughts and needs, you'll establish powerful partnerships that lead to mutual success and growth. 🌱 Your Mission: 🌿 Save the Soil: Use your superhero powers to enrich the soil with LNC, improving established fields, and turning barren land into fertile ground where plants thrive while natural resources are preserved. 💧 Conserve Water: Help farmers and landowners achieve optimal water-use efficiency and sustainability, conserving this precious resource for future generations. 💰 Boost Profitability and Sustainable Prosperity: Empower clients to achieve greater profitability through increased yields and enhanced crop quality while using less water, energy, and other input resources. 🌍 Protect the Planet: Be a guardian of the environment, fighting desertification and advancing climate-smart practices for a green and resilient future. As part of the Desert Control superhero team, you'll collaborate with a diverse group of experts, working together to positively impact soil health, agriculture, and the environment. Together, we'll write a new chapter for soil superheroes! 💪🌱 If you have a superhero growing inside you, eager to unleash your powers and impact the lives of farmers, landowners, and our planet, join us at Desert Control! Together, we will create a legacy of resilience, sustainability, and continued prosperity of life on earth. 📧 To embark on this heroic journey, submit your application here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3645282509 https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3645282509
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Great oppertunity
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🔥 Feeling the Heat? Our Soil Is, Too! 🌱💧 As scorching heatwaves sweep across the globe, our soils are silently enduring extreme temperatures and drying out faster than ever. But did you know that these rising soil temperatures can have a massive impact on our environment and agriculture? 🌍🌾 Soil health is the backbone of life on earth, and while higher temperatures can be beneficial up to a certain point, excessive heat combined with droughts can disrupt the delicate balance beneath our feet. Just like us humans, soil organisms also have their limits – they thrive in warm temperatures but can struggle to survive when it gets too hot. 🌱🌡️ Extreme fluctuations in soil temperature are equally concerning. Imagine going from scorching heat to chilly weather in the blink of an eye – that's how our soil microorganisms feel during rapid temperature swings caused by every irrigation event on hot days. Just like us, they too need a stable environment to thrive. 🏠🌱 At Desert Control, we believe that innovative solutions can turn the tide and cool down our soil, leading to more resilient, sustainable, and profitable agriculture. Liquid Natural Clay (LNC) can be a game-changer for soil improvement and water conservation for the thirsty sandy soils that are the most exposed. 💧🌿 LNC's thermal buffering effect acts like a shield against extreme temperature changes. It transforms degraded land and sand into fertile soil while reducing water usage for agriculture, trees, and green ecosystems by up to 50 percent. 🏜️🌱 Just like us, plants and soil organisms enjoy a comfortable home with stable temperatures. LNC helps create an environment where soil temperature stays within an optimal range, promoting better growth and nutrient uptake for healthier plants. 🌿🌡️ Think of it like a stone house - as a solid stone house remains cooler during hot days and warmer during cold nights, LNC-treated soil's increased moisture levels become a buffer that helps regulate temperature fluctuations, creating a more stable environment for plant roots and microorganisms. 🏠🌱 Our soil deserves the best, and the impact of LNC's increased water retention ensures that plants stay better hydrated during scorching heat. This not only cools down the soil but also supports microbial activity that enhances nutrient availability and further enriches the soil ecosystem. 💦🌱 So, let's take a moment to care for the life beneath our feet – just like we seek ways to cool down during these hot summer days; our soil organisms also need relief from extreme temperatures. LNC can create a harmonious environment where plants, microorganisms, and soil thrive. 🌿💚 Join us on this mission to preserve our soil's vitality and ensure a greener, more sustainable future for agriculture and the environment. Together, we can significantly impact the world's soil health and combat the challenges posed by climate change. 💚🌱 #FromSandToHope #LNC #WaterConservation #SoilHealth #Agtech
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LNC is an excellent climate solution! A question for @desert_control: How can this solution be scaled even faster, since we are clearly running out of time?
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Let's all protect our land it's very essential thing we have and all our life depend on it since soil provide us with Agricultural products that both animals and human beings depend on
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It was inspiring to bring an underground matter to the surface in the "Soil Matters" issue briefing at World Economic Forum. Restoring soil, land, biodiversity, and natural ecosystems is vital for the prosperity of people and planet. Awareness is the first step, we must drive a shift in mindset and turn this into action. Soil is like a bank account; constant withdrawal without deposits is not sustainable - and we are in serious credit card debt to mother earth right now. But there is hope if we act now! https://www.youtube.com/live/Acb0lyoDPM0 We are grateful to World Economic Forum and UpLink for putting the global spotlight on this vital topic. Soil is the foundation for 95% of the food we eat and even the air we breathe. Its the foundation for life on earth! WEF also shared this update on social media: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-economic-forum_it-attaches-to-sand-particles-letting-them-activity-7085182327122743297-pa8L Facebook: https://fb.watch/lMGJSXPGPg/
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Well done
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Restoring productive ecosystems is essential to supporting food security.
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Great work team Dessert Controll!
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This image speaks volumes about the need for water conservation. On World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, we're reminded of the need to steward our resources wisely #CombatDesertification #united4land #desertificationanddroughtday 🌳💧
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The conversation on water conversation is indeed important
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There is need of water conservation for its many benefits
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Water conversation is paramount.
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Best wishes for a joyful holiday season to all of you from all of us at Desert Control!
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Thanks. Have the same
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https://youtu.be/Ft0enUyJf_k Desert Control was honored to receive the award as Sustainability Business of the Year. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
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Incredible work!
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Meet Robert Masson, Agriculture Extension Agent at the University of Arizona, who will talk about the history of water in Arizona, the current drought, and how the University is helping growers overcome the challenges of farming in the desert. Robert will also share observations of the first and second seasons of the 5-year sustainability study and LNC field trial on American soil. Online event 12 December 2022. Registration: https://go.desertcontrol.com/resilience #fromsandtohope #agriculture #farming #water #sustainability
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Meet Edgar Gutierrez, Vice President Farming Operations at Limoneira Company, who will talk about enabling resilient agriculture in a drying world. Edgar shares insights on how Limoneira drives initiatives that combine profitable agribusiness with stewardship for soil, land, natural resources, and our environment. Online event 12 December 2022. Registration: https://go.desertcontrol.com/resilience #fromsandtohope #savesoil #agriculture #farming #water #sustainability
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For #worldenvironmentday let's inspire hope! Nelson Mandela said, "It always seems impossible until it is done." As a Norwegian company, we at Desert Control have experienced this first-hand. We started our mission in the UAE to combat desertification, degradation of soil, and water scarcity by turning sand into soil. Too good to be true is what everyone thought, unbelievable and impossible. But we did it! The #UAE is a symbol of achieving the impossible. If you can dream it, you can do it, are words that took our innovation onwards to the United States, to again show that it can be done. On #WorldEnvironmentDay2022 we send thanks to everyone who takes action and inspires hope for the prosperity of life on earth! #fromsandtohope #SaveSoil #hope
Meet one of my heroes, Shaddy Alshraah, Ph.D., bearing fruits of hope from the desert at the #Yuma Mesa Research Station in our project with the University of Arizona for climate-smart adaptive agriculture!
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Such a great example!
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"Soil is like trust. It takes time to build, it's fragile, and beautiful things flourish when it's built." – Ole Kristian Sivertsen #fromsandtohope #savesoil #wedonthavetime
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Great quote!
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Today is International Day for Biological Diversity, and like every day, a time to send a global message to #savesoil #Soil = #Biodiveristy A tiny teaspoon of healthy soil contains more living organisms than people on earth. But our soil is dying. Every second, the world loses one acre of fertile land and soil. In weight of soil biodiversity, this equals more than 25 million African elephants, silently lost every year. Let's join forces in a movement to save soil! https://bit.ly/3lQi68d
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Save soil Save our planet earth!
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We should preserve our planet's biodiversity as it is the core foundation of our existence
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Twelve million hectares of fertile land is lost to droughts, desertification, and soil degradation annually. That equals 2000 football fields lost every hour. Desertification is happening "out of sight, out of mind" because our topsoil is getting thinner from underneath, and the twelve million hectares are distributed worldwide. Desert Control is on a mission to combat desertification, soil degradation, and water scarcity. Liquid Natural Clay (LNC) is a liquid compound nearly as thin as water that can restore degraded soil and reduce the water needed to maintain green landscapes and agriculture productivity by up to 50%. Last year (2021), Desert Control focused on the capabilities and capacity of LNC production. This year (2022), we are gearing up the ability to deploy and apply LNC at scale. Droughts and desertification are spreading like wildfire, and we are gearing up our fight to make earth green again. https://youtu.be/q3velIaEK5Y
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Very crucial and important project to stop desertification
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a very needed project!
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Inspiring to follow the progress on reclaiming land from desertification, saving water, capturing carbon, and enabling sustainable climate-smart agriculture. The first LNC treatment on American soil is live and we are grateful to the University of Arizona for taking on this initiative. https://youtu.be/PZ3heTEMtlE
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This LNC venture seems promising. It is high time more regions embrace it.
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Informative... Thanks for sharing
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What is the post about? Many of our users don't have facebook
The Climate Tracker recently reviewed the status of 36 countries committed to the Paris Agreement. Only two countries are taking enough action to restrain global warming to 1,5 degrees celsius, namely The Gambia and Morocco. Some countries are not far behind, like India and Kenya. Simultaneously, the countries with the most advanced economies and the most significant capacity to innovate and help others are shrinking or even abandoning their commitments? If countries with innovation power and financial strength to solve global problems wait to act until the problem knocks with full force on the front door of their own country, it will very likely be too late. Fortunately, very few follow the US's lead on this, and I am proud of the initiatives of the EU, Norway, and others where governments, businesses, and people are accelerating ambitions, commitments, and action for a sustainable future. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54797743
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We all need to work together to stop the Climate Crisis and hopefully the coming US administration will focus on that
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Even climate change can be changed if we learn to master gravity. By courage to make a jump, we can free ourselves of the inertia holding us back as shared in this story. The world we know is built on top of a world we know little about - namely the fascinating soil ecosystem; home to more than 95% of all species of biological life on earth. Soil makes up a thin layer around our planet also referred to as topsoil. This fragile and thin skin underneath our feet is vital for all life on earth, and even hold the power to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges such as food security, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, and climate change. 12 million hectares of fertile land perish to desertification annually. That's 2000 football fields worth of fertile topsoil turning to sand and dust every hour. This is also a massive loss of soil biodiversity; the 12 million hectares, is in weight of biological life equal to 25 million African elephants, silently lost every year: Biodiversity we can save by mastering gravity, an act that in return may save us all. The future is in our hands, and the solution can be right under our feet! https://youtu.be/RiV5wyEP8YY #biodiversity #countdown #desertification #soilhealth #climateaction #hope #action
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I love your personal story and I am glad you found the courage to change a habit that didn’t serve your relationship. Great steps and insight that you are bringing.by your willingness to make the shift in your personal life and then seeing the way to embrace ideas. I hope that the management of this idea can have good oversight and monitoring. Great idea if it can be done safely on the larger scale. How do you plan to watch over this?
Join the movement for a better future. Challenge how we do things, question why supply chains are as they are. Why are pizzas baked in the shape of a circle ⚫, packed in a square ◼, to finally be eaten in triangles ∆? Why is the food we buy produced in another part of the world, harvested before it is ripe to handle the long shipping and then turning bad shortly after coming home from the store so lots of it ends up in the garbage? Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, but also rethink and rebuild for shorter circular sustainable supply and value chains!
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Hi. My name is Antonio and I am the CEO of Byo.ai - Byo Is an mobile app that tracks your bank account and advises you on how to save money and reduce your eco footprint. Can I have your feedback?
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Well put!
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Thanks for sharing these insights
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Capitalism thrives on inequality, but can this path become the end of capitalism? Solving global problems such as; food security, climate change, water scarcity, and biodiversity loss come at a cost. Not taking action will, however, be much worse. Rehabilitating the earth's degraded soil ecosystems has a CO2 uptake potential of 50 gigatons. Capturing, storing, and repairing the damages caused by 50 gigatons of CO2 could be as high as $ 8 trillion or even higher if we factor in the knock-on effects of damages. Who causes most of this damage, and who are the ones left with the bill? No country is immune to the climate crisis. But in all countries, it is the poorest and most vulnerable who are hardest hit, despite having done the least to cause the problem. The wealthiest 10% of the world's population is responsible for more than half of all CO2 emissions. The poorest 50% are responsible for less than 7% of emissions. The countries contributing the least to the climate crisis suffer most from floods, droughts, desertification, and rising temperatures. The annual CO2 emissions per capita in Norway is 9.4 metric tons; in the USA it is 16.5, and in the United Arab Emirates, a staggering 22.4 metric tons per capita. The wealthiest countries in the world also have the most innovative power to solve global problems. By comparison, the annual emissions per capita in Burkina Faso, Eritrea, and Ethiopia is 0.2 metric tons. Despite having done little to cause the damage, they are served the destruction bill without having either the financial or innovation power to fix the problems. As Covid-19 has shown us, no country is immune to pandemics. The situation on climate change, desertification, and decay of vital topsoil work in the same. Everyone who has the power to do something must join the movement to act before it is too late. The Climate Tracker recently reviewed the status of 36 countries committed to the Paris Agreement. Only two countries are taking enough action to restrain global warming to 1,5 degrees celsius, namely The Gambia and Morocco. Some countries are not far behind, like India and Kenya. Simultaneously, the countries with the most advanced economies and the most significant capacity to innovate and help others are shrinking their commitments. The US is even withdrawing from the Paris Agreement altogether. If the ones with the ability to step up and solve the problems wait until disaster knocks on the doors at home in their own countries, it will very likely be too late. The good news is that governments are taking action. The European Green Deal and others are accelerating impact-driven initiatives to lead the needed change. Investors and corporations should follow and even step up to take the lead. As Rebecca Henderson, Professor and Economist at Harvard, says; "Business is screwed if we don't fix climate change!"
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Creating a truly sustainable world involves facing multiple interconnected challenges simultaneously. Luckily, we don't have to do everything by ourselves - we just have to do our part where we can make a difference. Just like you're doing to combat desertification - keep up the good work Ole! 🌍
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Thank you for an interesting reading. I hope Covid-19 makes politicians rethink their standpoint on climate change and realise how fragile our community is.
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Truly shocking to read that many poor countries with just a fraction of CO2 emissions compared to the rich and wealthy countries suffer the most from Climate Change. We don’t have time to wait!
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Soil should be our first priority
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Healthy soil is the foundation for profitable, productive, and environmentally sound agricultural systems.
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We have to take care of our soil