Growing with Soil Smart - Soil Wise
We are the Rethink Tank™
As the Rethinking Tank™ we offer courses, classes, and webinars specifically to help folks rethink areas where we are stuck or where new science has changed what we have believed for quite some time. Thinking about the environment as an integral part of our society, is fairly new, in modern society. There is learning we can gain from indigenous experience and from both new science and systems thinking, all of which have helped us see with new eyes solutions that will address the meta crisis we are facing. These new ways of seeing, bring us hope while developing agency. There IS a path forward, there ARE things WE can do right now, to help create a cooler and more stable climate right where we live, that are within normal people's grasp. Government can help, but WE have agency, WE can do this!
Regenerate Life - Magic Lantern Theater April 21 5:30 - 9:00 $25
The link to the general ticket page for the theater:
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Rehydrating the Land to Cool Our City
An Opportunity to Unite Spokane's Environmental Community
What if the answer to Spokane's heat and drought resilience has been under our feet all along?
Across our city, passionate people are doing extraordinary environmental work — and yet many of us feel that our efforts, though meaningful, aren't moving the needle fast enough on our biggest challenges. What if the missing piece isn't more effort, but a shared new focus?
Emerging science reveals that healthy, water-retaining soil is one of nature's most powerful cooling systems — and that rehydrating our land can meaningfully reduce heat, revitalize ecosystems, and build lasting resilience for our city and region. This is the news we need to hear.
The Event: An Evening That Will Change How You See the World
Earth Day Screening of Regenerating Life by John Feldman
📅 Date
Monday, April 21, 2025 — Earth Day Eve
🕔 Time
Doors open at 5:30 PM with light refreshments · Program ends at 9:00 PM
📍 Venue
The Magic Lantern Theater, Spokane
The link for the individual ticket:
https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/15650?siteToken=x51fwz0j7s8w8a0vr6arbzhg8m
🎬 Film
Award-winning documentary — 3 hours of science, story & inspiration
The film Regenerating Life presents the newest science on soil, water, and climate in a way that is both artful and deeply compelling. It reveals how rainfall is central to nature's cooling system — and how the health of our soil determines whether that system works. This is not abstract theory. It is actionable information, local, and urgently relevant to everything you are already doing.
An Opportunity to Unite Spokane's Environmental Community
What if the answer to Spokane's heat and drought resilience has been under our feet all along?
Across our city, passionate people are doing extraordinary environmental work — and yet many of us feel that our efforts, though meaningful, aren't moving the needle fast enough on our biggest challenges. What if the missing piece isn't more effort, but a shared new focus?
Emerging science reveals that healthy, water-retaining soil is one of nature's most powerful cooling systems — and that rehydrating our land can meaningfully reduce heat, revitalize ecosystems, and build lasting resilience for our city and region. This is the news we need to hear.
The Event: An Evening That Will Change How You See the World
Earth Day Screening of Regenerating Life by John Feldman
📅 Date
Monday, April 21, 2025 — Earth Day Eve
🕔 Time
Doors open at 5:30 PM with light refreshments · Program ends at 9:00 PM
📍 Venue
The Magic Lantern Theater, Spokane
The link for the individual ticket:
https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/15650?siteToken=x51fwz0j7s8w8a0vr6arbzhg8m
🎬 Film
Award-winning documentary — 3 hours of science, story & inspiration
The film Regenerating Life presents the newest science on soil, water, and climate in a way that is both artful and deeply compelling. It reveals how rainfall is central to nature's cooling system — and how the health of our soil determines whether that system works. This is not abstract theory. It is actionable information, local, and urgently relevant to everything you are already doing.
Meet the Expert: Didi Pershouse
You will have the rare opportunity to hear from Didi Pershouse — a world-renowned soil and health researcher and one of the film's featured speakers. Didi Pershouse is well known as an innovative international educator both in-person and online. She is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative. Her facilitator's guide Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function, is used in over 60 countries. Didi will join us live to share her insights, respond to audience questions, and help translate the science into practical steps you and our city can take together.
Why This Moment Matters for Spokane
This isn't just a film screening. It's the beginning of a city-wide conversation. Following the film and Q&A, attendees will gather in small groups to explore how to actively cool Spokane, rehydrate our land, and revitalize our soil — together. We believe this evening will spark new collaborations, new projects, and a shared commitment that will serve our community for generations.
Join Us April 21, at 5:30 for light refreshments at the Magic Lantern - Get Tickets - $25 Tickets
Three hours of film and community conversation dedicated to a resilient Spokane.
Your involvement brings Spokane's environmental leaders into the same room, aligned around a powerful and actionable vision. That is rare. That is powerful. And it starts here.
Let's grow something extraordinary together.
The link for the individual ticket:
https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/15650?siteToken=x51fwz0j7s8w8a0vr6arbzhg8m
You will have the rare opportunity to hear from Didi Pershouse — a world-renowned soil and health researcher and one of the film's featured speakers. Didi Pershouse is well known as an innovative international educator both in-person and online. She is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative. Her facilitator's guide Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function, is used in over 60 countries. Didi will join us live to share her insights, respond to audience questions, and help translate the science into practical steps you and our city can take together.
Why This Moment Matters for Spokane
This isn't just a film screening. It's the beginning of a city-wide conversation. Following the film and Q&A, attendees will gather in small groups to explore how to actively cool Spokane, rehydrate our land, and revitalize our soil — together. We believe this evening will spark new collaborations, new projects, and a shared commitment that will serve our community for generations.
Join Us April 21, at 5:30 for light refreshments at the Magic Lantern - Get Tickets - $25 Tickets
Three hours of film and community conversation dedicated to a resilient Spokane.
Your involvement brings Spokane's environmental leaders into the same room, aligned around a powerful and actionable vision. That is rare. That is powerful. And it starts here.
Let's grow something extraordinary together.
The link for the individual ticket:
https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/15650?siteToken=x51fwz0j7s8w8a0vr6arbzhg8m
Our Cool Sponsors
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Rooted and Cool;
A Guided Meditation - Free
Rooted and Cool: Join us for a weekly guided meditation on soil, water, land and plants as we explore our connection and impact and discover how we can cool the planet by working in our local areas. Each session will include time for reflection and sharing.
Rooted and cool is a weekly guided meditation that will explore our connection to the areas of soil, water, land, and plants as we discover how we can impact the cooling of the planet in our local areas. Each session will include time for reflection and sharing. Participants can register for coaching and support on their projects, if they desire.
You can join by clicking the link below. The Meditation is in the Taking Action space.
Soil Smart – Soil Wise WeatherMaker Community
Rooted and cool is a weekly guided meditation that will explore our connection to the areas of soil, water, land, and plants as we discover how we can impact the cooling of the planet in our local areas. Each session will include time for reflection and sharing. Participants can register for coaching and support on their projects, if they desire.
You can join by clicking the link below. The Meditation is in the Taking Action space.
Soil Smart – Soil Wise WeatherMaker Community
Values for the Current Crisis
With Kathryn Alexander MA
Description
This course is designed to give you an entirely new way of seeing the world. We know the major and foundational issue, one that underlies everything, is our separation from nature. What does that mean, and how can we become connected? This course will help you answer those questions.
We all want a different world. What does that mean in practice, and how can we get there? This course will help you answer those questions.
Making a difference and making things different both require action. By acting from a new foundation, we create a new world. It takes a community to provide the support and feedback necessary for lasting change, and the course and the network offer that, for the long-term.
Join us to discover issues hiding in plain sight. Work with us to create the world we want our kids and grandkids to inhabit.
Benefits
Discover the insights systems thinking offers to ethics and values.
Experience the difference being connected to nature makes to the values you hold.
Gain new insights into the world around you when using the three system lens.