Dirt! the movie. The film explores the relationship between humans and soil, including its necessity for human life and the numerous threats brought caused by short-sighted activities such as monoculture, deforestation, pesticides, and mountaintop removal mining. The film also highlights many positive steps being taken to safeguard and restore this essential resource. Why Dirt? Dirt feeds us and gives us shelter. Dirt holds and cleans our water. Dirt heals us and makes us beautiful. Dirt regulates the earth's climate. Dirt is the ultimate natural resource for all life on earth. Yet most humans ignore, abuse, and destroy our most precious living natural resource. Consider the results of such behavior: mass starvation, drought, floods, global warming, and wars. If we continue on our current path, Dirt might find another use for humans, as compost for future life forms! It doesn't have to be that way. Another world, in which we treat dirt with the respect it deserves, is possible and this DVD will show you how. The film offers a vision of a sustainable relationship between Humans and Dirt through profiles of the global visionaries who are determined to repair the damage we've done before it's too late. There are many ways we can preserve the living skin of the earth for future generations. If you care about your food, water, the air you breathe, your health and happiness... it's time you see DIRT! the Movie, roll up your sleeves for action and Get Dirty. In this film you will witness: Children uncovering the secrets of soil fertility and eating from edible schoolyards Farmers and agronomists rediscovering sustainable food production Small villages standing up for the right to feed their families Scientists discovering connections with soil that can help reduce global warming Inmates finding inner peace and job skills in a prison horticulture program