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DESCRIPTION:To think through soil is to engage with some of the most critic
 al issues of our time. In addition to its agricultural role in feeding eigh
 t billion people\, soil has become the primary agent of carbon storage in g
 lobal climate models\, and it is crucial for biodiversity\, flood control\,
  and freshwater resources. Perhaps no other material is asked to do so much
  for the human environment\, and yet our basic conceptual model of what soi
 l is and how it works remains surprisingly vague.\n\nIn cities\, soil occup
 ies a blurry category whose boundaries are both empirically uncertain and p
 olitically contested. Soil functions as a nexus for environmental processes
  through which the planet’s most fundamental material transformations occur
 \, but conjuring what it actually is serves as a useful exercise in reframi
 ng environmental thought\, design thinking\, and city and regional planning
  toward a healthier\, more ethical\, and more sustainable future.\n\nThroug
 h a sustained analysis of the world’s largest wastewater agricultural syste
 m\, located in the Mexico City–Mezquital hydrological region\, Thinking Thr
 ough Soil imagines what a better environmental future might look like in ce
 ntral Mexico. More broadly\, this case study offers a new image of soil tha
 t captures its shifting identity\, explains its profound importance to rura
 l and urban life\, and argues for its capacity to save our planet.
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LOCATION:Lawrence Hall\, 123
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SUMMARY:McKeown Lecture - "Thinking Through Soil" with Professor Montserrat
  Bonvehi Rosich
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URL:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/mckeown-lecture
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