Episode 5: Beyond Soil
In warehouses, bunkers, basements, and skyscrapers, urban hydroponic farms produce food without soil at all; meanwhile, exobiologists are inventing wa...
The Thin Layer
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A podcast about dirt. Soil is at the center of some of the biggest stories of our time. Presented by Dan Crane. A show from How We Get To Next. Made with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Episode 4: Regrowth
Throughout history, people and communities have built close connections with the land. When we talk about soil — and about trying to “fix” soil —takin...
Episode 3: Getting Dirty
Are our lives too clean? Exploring the life that lives in the ground, and two sides of a dirty coin: soil’s role in the biggest pandemic you’ve never ...
Episode 2: The New Dust Bowl?
What if you knew how the world was going to end? In this episode, we dive into the story of the Dust Bowl, which decimated 250,000 square miles of lan...
Episode 1: Look Down
Life depends on a thin layer of soil, wrapped around the planet like the skin of an apple. A quarter of all life itself actually lives in soil. We gro...