The Healthy Planet Radio Show.
The Healthy Planet Radio Show has been airing on WUSB, 90.1 FM, since January of 2007. It immediately follows Democracy Now! during “drive time,” from 6 to 7 PM. Now airing on the first and second Fridays of each month, HealthyPlanet’s Bob DiBenedetto now brings you twice as much empowering, life-and-world-changing information as before!
WUSB is Long Island’s largest non-commercial, free-form radio station. The signal can be heard at 90.1 FM on most of Long Island, and in Southern Connecticut, parts of NYC (Brooklyn and Queens), and Westchester County. It also simulcasts on 107.3 to reach Stony Brook University campus. It can be heard over the Internet 24/7, on WUSB.FM.
Topsoil: Threatened Resource and
Key To Life On Earth
Rob Herring
Producer, Director of the Award-Winning Film:
The Need To GROW
Ryan Herring, Producer/Director of the Award Winning Film: The Need To Grow
Show Description:
What happens in a world where the lack of soil makes it impossible to feed ever-increasing portions of our population? Could we end up like so many other ancient civilizations– with soil erosion playing a determining role in our decline and demise? With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, the multi-award-winning film, The Need To GROW, reveals a food system that through the use of unsustainable, chemical agriculture, is destroying the very soil that we’re dependent upon to feed the world.
Join HealthyPlanet’s Bob DiBenedetto for an eye-opening interview on our soil and food with Rob Herring, producer/director of the award-winning film The Need To GROW. In addition to the urgent discussion on the need to address soil degradation, they discuss the immense, unexplored diversity of life that exists in healthy soil, and powerful, new solutions that can reverse the enormous damage that’s already been done.
You can watch the award-winning film, The Need to GROW at this link: TheNeedToGrow.com.
This important discussion includes:
• Why “conventional” agriculture is anything but conventional, and is one of the most destructive human activities on the planet that has been called “a war against all species.”
• The profound difference between topsoil and dirt.
• How chemical agriculture leads to the rapid loss of topsoil.
• How genetic modification of our food supply is impacting soil and health.
• The one sector of the food industry responsible for the use of more than 1/3 of all fossil fuels, 1/2 of all water, and 80% of our farmland.
• How regenerating our topsoil will impact so many other pivotal environmental issues on our planet, from climate change to water pollution and more.
• How inventor Michael Smith developed a beyond-innovative new technology, the “Green Power House,” that has the power to regenerate healthy soil in just four to five days, that would otherwise take nature 400 years. Additionally, the GPH produces the electricity equivalent of three acres of solar panels and stabilizes 7 tons of carbon per day–the equivalent of 50,000 trees!
• How increased yield on growing lands can be achieved while restoring the integrity of our topsoil.
… and much more!
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About Rob Herring:
Rob Herring is an environmental filmmaker and musical activist. He directed/produced/wrote The Need To GROW, winner of multiple Best Documentary awards and seen in 175 countries around the world. Rob worked on the critically acclaimed GMO OMG. As a musician, Rob writes songs for health and eco activism, and headlined the Rock For Nature concert in Berlin for 25,000 people.
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Hear The Healthy Planet Radio Show twice monthly at 6PM, with Bob DiBenedetto on the first and second Friday of each month, on WUSB, 90.1FM, or Live Stream at: http://wusb.fm/
Free of charge, and rich with information and inspiration!
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The Healthy Planet Radio show focuses on topics that will help to educate you about the deep connection among all life on Earth, and the powerful effects your everyday choices can have on creating a clean, healthy and compassionate world.
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