What Does Your City Look Like?

Spending money on risk management, in this time of dramatic change, may be better diverted to:
  • working with nature to reduce costs,
  • becoming resistant to the looming challenges of drought,
  • reducing fire and flood risk...

Soil Smart Soil Wise Strategy

Revitalizing soil is the first step in keeping the water we get. By enhancing the symbiotic relationships in the Biotic Pump - soil, plants, clouds - cities can cool, and become drought, fire, and flood resistant all at the same time - what's not to love?

Each of us has something we can do to revitalize LIFE

Government, with the correct policies and ordinances, can become both a driver and support for residents and businesses to partner with nature to revitalize the places where we live and work. The health of the community is the work of governance. Only a healthy ecosystem will assure a healthy community. Everything we do either makes our ecosystem either thrive or degrades it. Our choices make the difference!

When taking a whole system approach, each part of the system is critical, and each area needs to be healthy and capable of playing its part effectively. There are no heroes, only partnership matters.
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Government

Policies, procedures, aligning departments, and reducing costs.

Residents

Managing land in concert with nature, neighbors and the city.

Developers

Developing residential areas that hold water and reduce energy use.

Regenerative Agriculture

One of the biggest levers we have to address the crises of weather and biodiversity loss. Agriculture's role, in helping wildlife and in replenishing the aquifer, can't be underestimated.

Every City Has a
​ Water Problem to Solve

The city of Spokane gets way more rainfall than they use. This is true of most cities. We need to keep the water we get. Soil is a huge sponge that holds water, let's use it!
Millions of gallons used
Residents
inches ave rainfall
Billions of gallons fall as rain

What Other Cities Are Doing

Los Angeles

"The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

About Us

Revealing to humans the agency we have to help LIFE thrive here on Earth by revitalizing the cities we already live in.

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Soil Smart - Soil Wise is a fiscally sponsored project of Inquiring Systems, Inc. EIN: 94-2524840