Regenerative soil practices are a bright spot for climate change, food security, health, community building, and everything in between. With biomimicry as a backdrop to support nature’s technology, healthy soil practices repair broken water cycles, enhance nutrition sometimes 90 to 1, and at scale can pull as much carbon out of the air annually as we currently emit globally. Yet, it is accessible and supports community building and equity like no other single global solution. Through distributed networks of centers for training and innovation, communities, municipalities and industries have the opportunity to make a difference immediately. While forthcoming advancements in AI & ML have the opportunity to broaden and accelerate a myriad of these ecological and economic benefits.


Agriculture, Biodiversity, Biomimicry, Climate Change, Nutrition, Regenerative Soil Through the lenses of biomimicry and biodiversity, Jonathan DeLong is fairly obsessed with intersectionality and the connectedness of all things as a means to break through social and ecological challenges to enhance life on earth. As a co-founder and executive director of Alameda, California’s non-profit The REAP Center for regeneration, education, aquaculture, and permaculture, he primarily supports innovation and community building by integrating art, science, technology, and policy. Beyond the Center’s core climate mission of soil for social change, Jonathan works to further the awareness and growth of democratized climate solutions that are ready for immediate deployment. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx