Free Workshop Today! Creating Cooling Oases through the Soil Sponge and Plant Diversity

Join me at 11 AM Eastern Time, on Zoom, or register to watch the recording.

Come learn how to quickly create a cool, natural oasis for yourself and your neighbors by managing the land surface and soil structure in your yard, farm, or neighborhood. We meet at 11 AM EDT Today, Friday 8/29. Click here to see in your time zone. You can register here (just your name and email) to join the discussion live, or get access to the recording.

Much of what we suffer during heat waves has to do with factors we can change, such as:

• the amount of transpiring vegetation

• the amount of shade

• the color of the surface

• the water-holding capacity of the soil

One example: which do you choose to step on when you are barefoot on a hot day? Pavement or wet grass?

Dark solid pavement will burn your feet–and it will continue to retain and emit heat long after the sun goes down. Whereas if you jump onto a moist grassy surface, it will cool your feet, and your body as well. Trees, grass, and other plants actually remove heat from the air, as long as the soil is managed to retain water at the root zone–like a sponge.

We can think of greenhouse gasses as the cover over a cooking pan that holds in heat, but our management of land surfaces (and the amount of heat they transform, vs. absorb and radiate) is how we turn down the flame under the pan, even when the sun is shining, and long into the evening hours.

This means we have far more influence over the temperature around us than we think.

But we also have to learn how create landscapes that bring that water back down to earth, so it doesn’t become just another addition to the greenhouse effect.

This class will lead you through science and strategies that will help you create cooling oases to get through heat waves, and potentially even help shift regional temperatures if enough of your neighbors get involved!

REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND (OR GET THE RECORDING OF) TODAY’S FREE WORKSHOP

This free workshop is a taste of what we will be working on in the upcoming five-week Soil Sponge and Living Climate Workshop: Growing Resilience to Flooding, Drought, Heatwaves, and Fire.