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- Things grow at exponential rates.

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They're not linear.

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And if they're going to fail,

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they fail exponentially
as well and collapse.

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Our top priority right
now is to repair the soil.

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Can't go on that way.

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We'll all just wind up dying.

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- [Man] If we stay on our course,

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you know, we could look at
a worldwide catastrophe.

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- [Woman] In the United States,

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we're losing soil at 10 times the rate

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it takes to regenerate it.

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- [Man] We have plenty of civilizations

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over the course of the course of time

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that didn't get that right.

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And so our challenge
is how do we make sure

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that we're not one of 'em?

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- [Michael] We're still in
kind of an extraction mentality

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where it's what it costs us
to bring it out of the earth.

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It's not what the earth
has paid to get it in.

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We need to start shifting

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from a death-based or a
harvest-based mentality

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into a life-based economy.

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- [Woman] Industrial agriculture says

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we have to go with
these machine-intensive,

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chemical-intensive means of producing food

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and that is a false dichotomy.

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- [Vandana] The more you
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the more you care for the soil,

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the more food you actually grow.

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- [Man] The issue we're facing right now

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is two different futures.

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- [Man] You cannot feed
the world from dead soil.

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- [Man] Then the ecosystem
begins to unravel.

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- Things are collapsing everywhere.

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Food essentially has no
nutrients in it these days.

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- [Man] People know that
it's hurting people.

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People know that it's
harming the environment

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and they do it anyway.

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- [Man] We gotta stop
focusing on the problem

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and start focusing on the solution.

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- [Man] Not one single solution

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that's gonna solve every problem,

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but many many small solutions

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that collectively will actually
lead to a societal shift.

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- [Man] But it takes
the will of the people

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and I think that time is coming.

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I think that time is coming.

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- It didn't take very long
for us to tear the soil apart,

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to tear it down.

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We need a equal solution,

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the inverse of that to
build it back up again.

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So what we've tried to do here is to take

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natural biological processes

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and accelerate the regeneration of soil.

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Something that would normally take decades

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or a few hundred years,

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we can do in a matter of hours or days.

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- [Rosario] Agriculture
is the most destructive

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human activity on the planet.

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Can we feed the world
without destroying it?

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The difference between death and life,

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between extinction and abundance

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is the difference between dirt and soil.

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Just a handful of healthy soil
contains more microorganisms

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than there are people on the planet.

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The entire food chain
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is made possible by
billions of tiny creatures

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coexisting right under our feet:

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complexities of galactic proportions.

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Since the dawn of agriculture
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the simple act of tilling our land

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has been disruptive to fragile soil life,

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it's ability to hold water

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and turning soil carbon into
atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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With the invention of machinery
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industrial agriculture has exponentially

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exacerbated the issue.

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Roughly 30 soccer fields worth of soil

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are lost every single minute.

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Today, 70% of our planets soils
have already been destroyed.

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At this rate, the earth
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in a mere 60 years.

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Without soil, all ecosystems

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outside of our oceans become impossible.

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We can either wake up before it's too late

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or guarantee a path to consistent drought,

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extreme food scarcity and
catastrophic climate change.

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Is our only option a system
with a built-in expiration date

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or will we acknowledge our
responsibility to this planet

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and uphold our debt to future generations?

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(birds chirping)

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- When I grow up, I wanna
try to get a big backyard.

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Then I can plant like almost
like every fruit and vegetable.

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Maybe I'll get a huge fig tree.

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I drew it in my journal.

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Then I can tell my sisters

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and then they'll be kinda like me.

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And then they'll start growing

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like a garden in their backyard. (giggles)

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- Okay, I need you to sit
nicely and finish your smoothie.

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I've got four kids.

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- No!

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- Make sure you make 'em
so we're not late, okay?

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Can he do anything else?

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After seeing all the sugar
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and that's kinda where my path started

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was the abundance of sugar.

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And once I learned about that,

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it ended up leading to all
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It was like a snowball effect.

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(audience applauding)

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- It's pretty cool to help people

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see what's happening to
the world and help them,

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help make a change in the world.

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You should really start
thinkin' 'bout what you eat.

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I'm gonna keep telling people to help

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and they'll tell other people.

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Hopefully soon the planet will change

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to gardens and healthy people

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and it will be a better place.

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(soft gentle music)

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(girl shouting)

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- [Monica] Wipe your place
and then we gotta go.

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(girl shrieking)
(door slamming)

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Who's taking the compost today?

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- Can we play with the wheels?
- Get in, buckle up. Okay.

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(children muttering)

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- She wants us to be healthy
so we can be more active,

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we can do sports better
and we can think better.

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(singer vocalizing)

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- [Monica] So I figured
the best place to start

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was where this comes from.

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- When I saw one, a seed
grows to a giant plant

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I thought it was pretty fascinating.

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Some people just don't
get how fun gardening is.

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They think TV is way more important

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than what we're doing now.

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People should really learn about

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how to help your community
and help yourself and live.

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(soft cheerful music)
(singer vocalizing)

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- It's important because
then everyone will know

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where their food comes
from and how things grow

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'cause normally you don't really see it.

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- These farms here are what
we're planning to build

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the next scalable step-on.

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The idea that you can grow

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100% organic nutrient dense
food at warp speed basically

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over cement or man-made
surfaces is what I feel

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is going to be a really amazing shift

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in the way we perform agriculture

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within a densely-packed urban environment.

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Waste is not an option

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and that's got to be a
mantra that we all adopt.

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- This is Alicia.
- Who's this?

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- Hi.

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- Wow, where'd you get such a nice smile?

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(Alicia giggling)

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- We wanted to take a look
and find out a little bit more

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about what you got going on here.

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- Well, fantastic.

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Come on, let's go over

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and we'll check out some vertical towers.

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You could put about 40
plants in two square feet.

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Extremely resource-efficient,
90% less water,

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50% less fertilizer.

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Now let's go over here and lemme show you

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one of my monster beets.

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This one's tryin' to escape.

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It's breaking itself outta the pot.

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Strawberries go really
good in these towers.

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- Yummy, I love strawberries.

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- And you're gonna taste
a piece of lettuce.

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I'll bet you never tasted
lettuce that tastes like this

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and I'm gonna show you
something special about it.

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Here's the secret:

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When I pull a piece of lettuce,

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see the white milk in there?

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- [Monica] Mm-hmm.

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- [Erik] I want you to just taste it.

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Okay, most people wouldn't
even eat lettuce like this

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and look at all the milk
that's drippin' off of that.

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So that milk generally
disappears in about 24 hours.

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- Really?
- Yeah.

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If you're not eating
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you're missing a huge part
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that this lettuce carries.

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Even though we came from a
powered up hydroponic background,

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we started looking at soils in
a completely different light.

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The more we study them, the more we know.

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Life as we know it actually comes from it.

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(soft intriguing music)
(birds chirping)

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- We are here today because
of very smart choices

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on the evolutionary path

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and we are born from the
soil that gives us life.

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All of our food comes from the soil.

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And so when we begin to destroy
the biology of the soil,

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we destroy the food
networks that give us life.

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And this is where we face an
unprecedented circumstance.

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- You go in and kill the soil,
you kill off the earthworms.

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You kill the biota of the soil, right?

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That soil's dead.

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All it's good for is whooshing
out to the Gulf of Mexico.

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That's all it's good for
unless you go back in,

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re-mulch the soil, reinvigorate
the soil with biota,

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with life, then you have a
soil that can produce food.

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- Building soil, building living soil

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is the highest actually to
human beings can be in nature.

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- We can actually take you know

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and store atmospheric carbon in the soil.

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We know that that can be done.

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It's physics.

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We just have to create the conditions

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for the soil to absorb it, right?

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And there's all kinds of ways to do that.

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- [Rosario] Over the last century,

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our farmers have been encouraged

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to rely on unsustainable synthetic inputs,

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gaining short-term boost in production

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at a major cost to soil longevity.

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When combined with mono-cropping
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biodiversity's all but eliminated,

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eventually leaving nothing but dead dirt.

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This degradation accelerates erosion

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as lifeless dust is blown
away and washed downstream.

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In the US, we're losing
soil 10 times faster

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than it could be naturally replenished.

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However in the longest study of its kind

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after more than 30 years,

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organic agriculture has proven to match

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or surpass conventional yields,

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emit 35% fewer greenhouse gases,

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use 45% less energy and build
soil rather than deplete it.

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Studies show that the more soil health

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is holistically managed, the
more food is actually grown.

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A strategy called no-till farming

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minimally disturbs fragile soil microbes,

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while cover crops are year-long plants

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which shield the ground

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rather than leaving it
exposed to the elements.

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No-till, cover crops and
composting all help retain water

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and generate more
carbon-rich soil every year.

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These methods increase humic substances,

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one of the most important
indicators of healthy soil.

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Humic substances are a critical component

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of decomposing organic matter,

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supporting the flow of
essential plant nutrients

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in soil structure.

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A healthy tablespoon of soil

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contains an astonishing
six billion microorganisms.

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Tens of thousands of different species

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each playing a vital role in
a cosmic microbial ecosystem.

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Fungal mycelium networks

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act like a vast underground internet,

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transporting nutrients, water, carbon

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and creating a stable structure
which prevents erosion.

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With only a 1% increase in organic matter,

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soils hold an additional 25,000
gallons of water per acre,

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reducing the risk of
both drought and flood.

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When plants absorb CO2,

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carbon is fed to microbes
through the roots

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as a storage container for what
was once atmospheric carbon.

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Enough healthy soil could offset

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virtually all greenhouse
gases on the planet.

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These principles working in harmony

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are known as regenerative agriculture.

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By creating a more resilient
and nutrient-dense food system,

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regenerative agriculture
can not only feed the world,

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but may be the planet's only hope

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to actively reverse climate change.

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Like nothing else, increasing
the health of our soils

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simultaneously addresses nearly all

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other environmental issues.

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- Just how

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beautiful that soil is.

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This stuff will grow anything.

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- [Monica] It all boils down to the soil.

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- [Erik] Yeah and what
microbes are working the soil.

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You have to start thinking
about feeding the soil.

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- Right.
- Not feeding the plant.

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- It's something that I
never really thought about.

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Had I gone out and planted something,

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I would've scooped up some dirt,

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reseeded and called it a day.

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So to see how complex the soil is

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and how important it is
to have a nutritious soil.

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(soft serene music)

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- You can see right over
there, you hear the tractors?

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- Yeah.

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- We're surrounded by development.

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And so what's happening
is our land is goin' away.

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Now Soxx system can be
deployed over the ground

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on manmade services and put
this beautiful soil in here

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and grow fully-organic,
super nutrient-rich food.

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70% less water, 2 1/2 times faster growth,

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50% less fertilizer and over
land that nobody's using.

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I mean, there's nothin' about
that that doesn't make sense.

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And that to me is the paradigm
shift in urban agriculture.

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(soft serene music)
(birds chirping)

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The question is when's
it gonna go mainstream?

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- Where does your passion
for this come from?

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- Well

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as an old organic biochemist,

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I've always been curious
as to how can we maximize

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the plant's genetic potential?

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So we've had a few anomalies
in this farm lately.

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We've been using all of our vermicompost

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and we've been experimenting
with our soils.

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This blue kale here used to be this size.

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It used to be one of these.

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They were all planted at the same time.

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This thing just found
nirvana down in the soil.

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I mean, it's just an
insanely healthy kale plant.

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Imagine if all of a sudden our soil blends

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could start producing crops
that were of this scale.

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This stuff is just spectacular

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in getting the nutrition it needs.

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And it's not happening everywhere,

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but it's happening
enough for us to realize

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that there is a secret here
that we've gotta unlock.

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- I been working with Erik
Cutter at Alegría Farms.

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He had brought me on board
as a soil consultant.

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I was bringin' him the
rarest resource materials

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that plants don't create by themselves.

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Some mycorrhizae, some biochar.

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Something that he's like, "Biochar?

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"Where'd you get the biochar in Montana?"

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And he said, "How is Montana?"

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And I said, "I went to this place

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"called the Green Power House

341
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"and I met this man Michael
Smith who's amazing.

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"He's brilliant."

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I knew it was just technology
that was cutting edge.

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It's like a liquid biochar
with some humic acid

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and that's what plants need.

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They need a transporter
and they needed the carbon,

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a little air and we have a healthy plant.

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So I gave Erik a sample.

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And within 24 hours he called me

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because a plant had
changed color in 45 minutes

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after he applied this byproduct
at this energy facility,

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the Green Power House.

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He said, "I have to go
to Montana immediately.

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"Book some airfare."

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(soft serene music)

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(birds chirping)

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- When I was four years old,

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I did have a severe car
accident in front of my house.

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My brothers were getting
onto the school bus.

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I was very excited about
them going to school.

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And I ran across the
street in front of a car

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that should've stopped for the bus,

363
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but it hit me about 40 miles an hour

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and just knocked me outta my shoes.

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The driver of the vehicle was uncertain

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that I was gonna live, but
fortunately he was a doctor.

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So I have this sort of good
news, bad news kind of a life.

368
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You know, what do you want?

369
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You want me dead or do you
want me alive, you know?

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He knew exactly what to do afterwards

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and I believe that saved my life.

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After that, I didn't
know who my parents were.

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It took me a long time to
relearn everything that I knew.

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Diane thinks I'm a walk-in
from another world. (chuckles)

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- Imagine how smart he would be

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had he not been hit by the car?

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- Yeah.

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- Or did that make him smarter? (chuckles)

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- I don't necessarily
see myself as that smart.

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That's the problem.

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(soft soothing music)

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I got a chance to work
with Walt Disney Studios.

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I worked with NASA.

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We worked with the FBI.

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We remastered Pink Floyd's
"The Dark Side of the Moon."

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We actually captured and digitized

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some of the Beatles stuff.

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I like to say that I was
one of the first pioneers

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in 3D printing long before 3D
printers were known as such.

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I was working with The Dire
Straits on a music video

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called "Money for Nothing."

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I worked with physics engines
that are used in video games.

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Games like FIFA and Madden,
Grand Theft Auto and Halo.

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We tried to introduce
more natural behaviors

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into character animations,

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which involved a lot of
artificial intelligence.

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And I was offered the job at Lucas Arts,

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but they required that I live
and stay in San Francisco.

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I thought well gee, I value my freedom.

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There's no job here

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for somebody doing artificial
intelligence research.

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I thought well, I can
apply technology to biology

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and we can have dynamic systems

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that are controlled completely natural.

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'Cause we're not doing
anything like GMOing

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or modifying the species.

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Rather than treating a character in a game

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as the main component,

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we thought well maybe we could
use algae as a character.

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Turned down George Lucas.

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I don't know if that
was the best decision,

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but it was a decision.

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(soft soothing music)

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- [Woman] All checked in carry-on luggage

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is subject to search.

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- You and I are gonna have some talks.

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Well I've done some
testing behind your back.

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Well I compared it

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to some of the best
root enhancement mediums

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and there's some compounds in
that that are quite different.

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We're an energy company too.

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Food is energy,

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so I had the same problem
you do with saying,

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"Can we scale and who's
gonna stop us from scaling?"

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Big-picture concerns that down the road

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big ag's gonna pound on me and say,

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00:22:28,467 --> 00:22:29,887
"Yeah, that's just gettin' a little bit

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"outta hand right there."

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00:22:32,245 --> 00:22:33,930
I mean, how do we hide out in Montana

430
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and all these niche areas
that'll defend our power plants

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and we can distribute the power

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without getting you know, squashed?

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'Cause we're all about takin' it back.

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(soft guitar music)

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(soft soothing music)

436
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This new compound that's comin'
off the Green Power House

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is a very powerful root stimulator,

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which means that it's a very
powerful, natural fertilizer,

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so this oughta be fun.

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Here we are.

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Look at this.

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00:24:00,921 --> 00:24:02,730
Look at that power plant.

443
00:24:02,730 --> 00:24:05,170
Wow, middle of Montana.

444
00:24:05,170 --> 00:24:06,543
Who would guess?

445
00:24:08,770 --> 00:24:10,913
The Biodome, wow.

446
00:24:17,460 --> 00:24:18,960
All right, I already want one.

447
00:24:21,140 --> 00:24:23,610
- I believe it's a game-changer.

448
00:24:23,610 --> 00:24:26,390
What the algae and the biochar together do

449
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is literally rejuvenate,
revitalize and remake soil

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and I cannot emphasize
enough how important that is.

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So Michael Smith, this is Erik Cutter.

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- Erik Cutter.
- Hi, pleased to meet you.

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- Pleased to meet you as well.

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00:24:42,410 --> 00:24:44,320
- I'm a biochemist and
oncologist by training.

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I grow food and I'm a chef.

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And so I started playin'
around with this stuff

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and I called Ken and said,

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"Ken, where'd you get this stuff?"

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00:24:50,650 --> 00:24:52,080
- Really?
- Oh my gosh.

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- [Robin] Michael is an
extraordinary visionary.

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He was the visionary behind the company,

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even though it had several founders.

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- We discovered that
the waste usually occurs

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when you short circuit natural processes.

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You take carbon where
it does the most good

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and you put it where it
does the most damage.

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You know, the rate that we're
pushing the carbon dioxide

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into the atmosphere just overwhelms

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the planet's ability to capture it.

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'Cause we're trying to emulate

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something that nature is doing

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and nature is inherently complex.

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You realize that there's
a billion microbes

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in this piece of soil the
size of your little finger.

475
00:25:24,030 --> 00:25:26,050
- Oh yeah.
- And we think we know it all.

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00:25:26,050 --> 00:25:27,010
I mean we can go to the moon,

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00:25:27,010 --> 00:25:28,530
but we have no idea what's goin' on

478
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with those billion microbes.
- And what we're doing now,

479
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of course they're killing
those microbes in the soil.

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- And we don't even
know what we're killing

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and what ratios we're offsetting.

482
00:25:36,460 --> 00:25:38,010
- It's one of the battles
that we're fighting

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against standard fertilizing concepts.

484
00:25:41,180 --> 00:25:42,013
- Right.

485
00:25:42,013 --> 00:25:43,770
- You know if I were to
start a fertilizer company

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and I wanted just to maximize my profits

487
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and didn't care about anything else,

488
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,430
what a great strategy, right?

489
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You put it on one year,
you get a good growth.

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The next year, the growth's not so good

491
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so you have to add a little more.

492
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And then you add a little more

493
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and pretty soon you've
completely destroyed your soil.

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So we discovered how can we integrate

495
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these components together

496
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to bring those cycles
back into balance again?

497
00:26:06,190 --> 00:26:09,390
Well the answer's been
with us forever, right?

498
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All we had to do was open
our eyes and look around.

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(reverent organ music)
- [Erik] Why don't we go in

500
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and see what you guys have created?

501
00:26:16,580 --> 00:26:18,280
- And we'll go talk to the dragon.

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- [Rosario] What Michael calls the dragon

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00:26:24,930 --> 00:26:27,750
is a state-of-the-art pyrolysis machine.

504
00:26:27,750 --> 00:26:30,640
When biomass like wood
waste enters the dragon,

505
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,100
it's heated close to
1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

506
00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:36,970
The absence of oxygen prevents combustion,

507
00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:39,350
leaving behind a stable carbon structure

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00:26:39,350 --> 00:26:40,623
similar to charcoal.

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00:26:41,530 --> 00:26:43,520
The extracted energy runs the entire

510
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,620
Green Power House off-grid

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while creating enough excess electricity

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to meet the needs of roughly 100 homes.

513
00:26:51,530 --> 00:26:53,950
It would take over three
acres of solar panels

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to accomplish this.

515
00:26:55,730 --> 00:26:58,730
- So the electricity is
not our main product.

516
00:26:58,730 --> 00:27:00,660
We call that our waste byproduct.

517
00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:01,950
- Utility companies are
gonna love that one.

518
00:27:01,950 --> 00:27:03,900
Our waste byproduct's electricity.

519
00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:08,350
- This 9,000 year old technology
is to make this biochar.

520
00:27:08,350 --> 00:27:11,280
Our ancestors knew how to do
this to fertilize the soil

521
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,670
and we just reformatted
it for the 21st century.

522
00:27:14,670 --> 00:27:17,130
It's pores within pores within pores.

523
00:27:17,130 --> 00:27:20,790
- [Rosario] Biochar is a form
of extremely stable carbon

524
00:27:20,790 --> 00:27:23,920
with exponential pores
creating massive surface area

525
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,880
in a tiny space.

526
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,460
Just a two inch piece
of biochar, if unfolded,

527
00:27:29,460 --> 00:27:33,140
would have the surface area
the size of a football field.

528
00:27:33,140 --> 00:27:35,430
This structure is an
optimal breeding ground

529
00:27:35,430 --> 00:27:38,010
for beneficial soil microbes,

530
00:27:38,010 --> 00:27:40,230
holding both water and nutrients

531
00:27:40,230 --> 00:27:42,560
where plant roots need them most.

532
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,383
- It also creates space for air to get in

533
00:27:45,383 --> 00:27:47,822
for microbes to get in.
- And the soil microbes.

534
00:27:47,822 --> 00:27:48,760
- Wow, amazing.
- So all that stuff to me

535
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,390
is an essential component to the web.

536
00:27:51,390 --> 00:27:52,570
Gets recreated.

537
00:27:52,570 --> 00:27:55,250
You're putting back into
the soil the infrastructure

538
00:27:55,250 --> 00:27:56,563
for soil regeneration.

539
00:27:57,610 --> 00:27:58,960
- [Rosario] Without the dragon,

540
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,360
this waste would end up in a landfill

541
00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:04,890
releasing greenhouse
gases as it decomposed.

542
00:28:04,890 --> 00:28:09,010
Instead, biochar locks the
stable carbon back underground

543
00:28:09,010 --> 00:28:11,623
for hundreds or even thousands of years.

544
00:28:12,682 --> 00:28:13,890
The biochar is emerging

545
00:28:13,890 --> 00:28:17,910
as one of the planet's best
solutions to climate change.

546
00:28:17,910 --> 00:28:20,740
One Green Power House or GPH

547
00:28:20,740 --> 00:28:24,750
stabilizes over one ton
of carbon every day.

548
00:28:24,750 --> 00:28:27,743
It takes roughly 50,000
trees to do the same.

549
00:28:28,690 --> 00:28:30,750
- You're fixing carbon.
- I'm fixing carbon.

550
00:28:30,750 --> 00:28:31,830
- Pullin' it outta the atmosphere

551
00:28:31,830 --> 00:28:33,400
and putting it back to where it belongs.

552
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,740
- Two billion years of
engineering experience. (chuckles)

553
00:28:37,740 --> 00:28:39,850
We include the algae into that.

554
00:28:39,850 --> 00:28:42,603
So I mentioned the liquid prairie.

555
00:28:42,603 --> 00:28:45,350
(soft soothing music)

556
00:28:45,350 --> 00:28:47,470
The heat necessary to operate this

557
00:28:47,470 --> 00:28:49,610
comes from the breakdown
of the wood waste.

558
00:28:49,610 --> 00:28:51,110
- That's amazing, I love that.

559
00:28:52,470 --> 00:28:54,480
I'm learning a lot here.

560
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:55,313
A lot.

561
00:28:55,313 --> 00:28:57,440
This is actually seriously exciting

562
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,090
how you're takin' all these
natural systems and linking 'em.

563
00:29:01,090 --> 00:29:02,333
Hoo, look at this place.

564
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,313
Don't fall in.

565
00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:09,540
- [Michael] Algae is one of the primary

566
00:29:09,540 --> 00:29:11,520
organic material generators

567
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,190
on the surface of the planet
and it operates very fast.

568
00:29:15,190 --> 00:29:17,500
So the fact that we can
take carbon dioxide,

569
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:20,330
we can take water and we can take sunlight

570
00:29:20,330 --> 00:29:22,070
and we can create biomass from it

571
00:29:22,070 --> 00:29:26,400
is a big boon to this
concept of generating soil

572
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,900
because that's the way it's
been done for millions of years.

573
00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:31,820
All we've figured out how to do

574
00:29:31,820 --> 00:29:33,613
is take that and accelerate it.

575
00:29:35,050 --> 00:29:38,260
- [Rosario] Continuously-fed
CO2 from the dragon,

576
00:29:38,260 --> 00:29:41,023
rapidly-growing algae
is harvested every day.

577
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,440
Through biodigestion, algae is converted

578
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,640
to a nutrient-rich organic fertilizer

579
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,880
to be combined with biochar,

580
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,283
creating a powerful soil rejuvenator.

581
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,260
Methane, a byproduct of algae digestion,

582
00:29:56,260 --> 00:30:00,040
is sent back to the dragon to
heat and process more waste,

583
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,683
completing the cycle.

584
00:30:02,750 --> 00:30:05,200
In each element of the Green Power House,

585
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,440
the output of one becomes
the input of another,

586
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,860
a true closed-loop system.

587
00:30:10,860 --> 00:30:11,693
- [Michael] Yeah

588
00:30:11,693 --> 00:30:13,460
and the algae tells us
what it needs, right?

589
00:30:13,460 --> 00:30:16,090
So we have this sorta
self-regulating system

590
00:30:16,090 --> 00:30:17,970
that algae's been sucking up nitrogen

591
00:30:17,970 --> 00:30:19,320
as well as carbon dioxide.

592
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,560
- So it's nutrient-rich big time.

593
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,720
- Yeah, I mean and it's high in energy.

594
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:24,720
Well few people know this,

595
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,410
but algae's higher in
energy than coal per pound.

596
00:30:28,410 --> 00:30:29,243
- Really?

597
00:30:30,330 --> 00:30:34,940
- So when we pull that energy
outta there, we digest this.

598
00:30:34,940 --> 00:30:39,600
We're left with a really
compact nutrient substrate

599
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,150
that we can then use as
part of our soil amendment.

600
00:30:43,090 --> 00:30:45,010
So in about four or five days,

601
00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:47,110
we can do what normally a normal digestor

602
00:30:47,110 --> 00:30:48,300
will do in about a month.

603
00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:50,190
- So you actually put an efficiency

604
00:30:50,190 --> 00:30:51,690
on a already-known efficiency.

605
00:30:52,835 --> 00:30:54,420
So you're gonna get humic substances

606
00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:55,550
outta this as a byproduct.

607
00:30:55,550 --> 00:30:57,820
What would it take in
nature for that to occur?

608
00:30:57,820 --> 00:31:01,770
- Well if you include the
carbon from the carbon engine,

609
00:31:01,770 --> 00:31:03,230
you know that's hundreds of years.

610
00:31:03,230 --> 00:31:05,280
- Okay, so you're doing
in four to five days

611
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:06,670
what nature would take--

612
00:31:06,670 --> 00:31:08,000
- In about 400 years.

613
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,530
- 400 years.
- Yeah.

614
00:31:09,530 --> 00:31:12,210
- Wow (chuckles), that's pretty amazing.

615
00:31:12,210 --> 00:31:14,929
- So you know, we don't
wanna it push too hard.

616
00:31:14,929 --> 00:31:15,997
But the idea is we create the environment

617
00:31:16,925 --> 00:31:18,534
and you monitor the environment

618
00:31:18,534 --> 00:31:19,901
and you accelerate the
processes naturally.

619
00:31:19,901 --> 00:31:21,224
- Don't wanna push it too hard.

620
00:31:21,224 --> 00:31:22,877
Four to five days versus 400.

621
00:31:22,877 --> 00:31:24,118
- (chuckles) Yes.

622
00:31:24,118 --> 00:31:27,118
(soft serene music)

623
00:31:29,150 --> 00:31:29,983
- Wow.

624
00:31:31,690 --> 00:31:33,940
I'm up here because I
have a similar conundrum

625
00:31:33,940 --> 00:31:34,830
that you guys have.

626
00:31:34,830 --> 00:31:39,070
I see this power plant as an
amazing opportunity to scale

627
00:31:39,070 --> 00:31:42,720
and to actually change the way we live

628
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,840
and go back to natural
processes that are zero waste.

629
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:47,890
That's why I worry about this.

630
00:31:47,890 --> 00:31:49,610
I think you got a game-changer here.

631
00:31:49,610 --> 00:31:51,310
You're gonna have a lotta pushback

632
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,690
and you're all of a sudden
takin' on everybody.

633
00:31:54,690 --> 00:31:57,330
The entire energy world
is now looking at you

634
00:31:57,330 --> 00:32:00,240
saying, "Okay, do we let this
technology exist or not?"

635
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,600
- Yeah.

636
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:02,750
- I think what you guys are doing

637
00:32:02,750 --> 00:32:04,670
probably could be one of the
greatest empowering tools

638
00:32:04,670 --> 00:32:07,500
that we've seen 'cause you
got all the different things

639
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:08,800
that you're able to create with this.

640
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,600
That's why I worry about
it gettin' you know,

641
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,037
squashed before it gets out.

642
00:32:15,412 --> 00:32:18,412
(soft guitar music)

643
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,170
- After World War II,

644
00:32:23,170 --> 00:32:26,740
there was an excess of
bomb-making material

645
00:32:26,740 --> 00:32:28,920
which was turned into fertilizer,

646
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,350
an excess of nerve gas which
was turned into pesticides.

647
00:32:33,350 --> 00:32:36,850
So the military industrial complex

648
00:32:36,850 --> 00:32:40,250
moved into the agricultural
industrial complex

649
00:32:40,250 --> 00:32:45,063
and forced a model of chemical dependency.

650
00:32:46,530 --> 00:32:48,770
- Industrial agriculture
in my point of view

651
00:32:48,770 --> 00:32:50,910
is first and foremost
a war against the earth

652
00:32:50,910 --> 00:32:52,940
because it is a war against all species

653
00:32:52,940 --> 00:32:56,390
since you're bringing more
chemicals into food production

654
00:32:56,390 --> 00:32:58,170
and all they're doing is killing.

655
00:32:58,170 --> 00:33:00,640
- Putting chemicals onto the soil:

656
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,550
nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium

657
00:33:02,550 --> 00:33:05,620
and trying to backfill with
some of the micronutrients,

658
00:33:05,620 --> 00:33:10,620
trying to do that, we in essence
kill the life in the soil.

659
00:33:12,022 --> 00:33:13,660
(soft intriguing music)

660
00:33:13,660 --> 00:33:18,550
- When we denature soils
by removing their biology,

661
00:33:19,770 --> 00:33:22,970
then we are really taking a step back

662
00:33:22,970 --> 00:33:25,473
hundreds of millions of years in time.

663
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,710
- It is a war against every citizen.

664
00:33:30,710 --> 00:33:34,980
Because food that comes
out of that kind of war,

665
00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:38,480
economy and war production
is loaded with poisons

666
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,300
which then give us the
epidemics of cancer,

667
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:45,530
of allergies, of everything
else that's going wrong

668
00:33:45,530 --> 00:33:48,473
because of a toxic, imbalanced diet.

669
00:33:49,750 --> 00:33:54,520
- Because we now have
a vast array of toxins

670
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,230
that we have in our body

671
00:33:56,230 --> 00:33:59,600
and we are a reflection of the
environment in which we live,

672
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:04,130
we're now trying to adapt to
suddenly influxes of toxins

673
00:34:04,130 --> 00:34:06,540
that have heretofore been unprecedented.

674
00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:08,280
- The United States
Department of Agriculture

675
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,270
practically a Washington
office for Monsanto,

676
00:34:12,270 --> 00:34:15,230
has in their research
over 14 years has shown

677
00:34:15,230 --> 00:34:18,130
there has been no significant increase

678
00:34:18,130 --> 00:34:19,970
in yield because of GMOs.

679
00:34:19,970 --> 00:34:24,970
The idea, the sheer audacity of the idea

680
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,710
that we can fight nature
is dead on arrival.

681
00:34:28,710 --> 00:34:30,070
We cannot fight nature.

682
00:34:30,070 --> 00:34:33,490
You cannot blow things up or poison things

683
00:34:33,490 --> 00:34:35,672
to the extent that where you "win."

684
00:34:35,672 --> 00:34:38,330
- I think people around
the country have realized

685
00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:40,567
that the FDA and the USDA

686
00:34:40,567 --> 00:34:42,300
are not gonna fix their food system;

687
00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:44,400
that they actually have
to do it themselves.

688
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:45,815
It's a challenge to live in a world

689
00:34:45,815 --> 00:34:49,840
where our government cannot
be counted on to defend us

690
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,720
from an industrial food system

691
00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:53,270
that's actually making us sick.

692
00:34:55,193 --> 00:34:57,430
(soft intriguing music)

693
00:34:57,430 --> 00:34:59,880
- [Rosario] 44 billion pounds
of chemical fertilizers

694
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:01,930
are used each year.

695
00:35:01,930 --> 00:35:04,570
Synthetic fertilizers
disrupt the soil's balance

696
00:35:04,570 --> 00:35:07,673
of microbes, beneficial
fungus and organic matter.

697
00:35:08,530 --> 00:35:10,540
As biodiversity decreases,

698
00:35:10,540 --> 00:35:13,763
more fertilizers are required
to achieve similar results.

699
00:35:14,710 --> 00:35:17,150
Now pesticides and herbicides must be used

700
00:35:17,150 --> 00:35:20,510
to fight off weeds and bugs
that would normally be handled

701
00:35:20,510 --> 00:35:21,913
by a healthy ecosystem.

702
00:35:22,970 --> 00:35:25,210
Up to 50% of nitrogen fertilizers

703
00:35:25,210 --> 00:35:27,713
are washed away with rain
and irrigation water,

704
00:35:28,830 --> 00:35:31,460
a drastic pollution leading
to an ocean dead zone

705
00:35:31,460 --> 00:35:32,723
the size of New Jersey.

706
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,251
Contributing to dead zones
are animal factory farms,

707
00:35:37,251 --> 00:35:38,084
(cow mooing)

708
00:35:38,084 --> 00:35:40,273
easily the most pollutive
activity on the planet.

709
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,340
In the US, more than
1/3 of our fossil fuels,

710
00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:49,100
1/2 of all water and 80% of our farmland

711
00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:51,060
is used in the raising of animals

712
00:35:51,060 --> 00:35:53,030
and the grain to feed them.

713
00:35:53,030 --> 00:35:56,390
Most of these grains are
genetically modified organisms.

714
00:35:56,390 --> 00:35:59,440
Over 80% of GMOs are
specifically engineered

715
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,810
to withstand higher doses

716
00:36:00,810 --> 00:36:03,260
of a powerful chemical called glyphosate,

717
00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:04,630
which the state of California

718
00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:06,913
has officially labeled as carcinogenic.

719
00:36:08,090 --> 00:36:12,353
The use of glyphosate has
risen 10,000% since 1974.

720
00:36:13,260 --> 00:36:15,490
Independent studies confirm contamination

721
00:36:15,490 --> 00:36:18,460
of our food, air and even our rainwater

722
00:36:18,460 --> 00:36:20,580
while extremely low doses have been shown

723
00:36:20,580 --> 00:36:22,670
to cause liver and kidney damage,

724
00:36:22,670 --> 00:36:26,480
with correlation to a host
of other side effects.

725
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,090
In spite of public outcry,

726
00:36:28,090 --> 00:36:32,290
the USDA, FDA and EPA require no testing

727
00:36:32,290 --> 00:36:34,990
for the pollution of this
chemical in our food supply.

728
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,210
The philosophy of using
GMOs and glyphosate

729
00:36:39,210 --> 00:36:40,683
is one of sterilization:

730
00:36:41,590 --> 00:36:44,370
Kill everything except the crop,

731
00:36:44,370 --> 00:36:46,370
the exact opposite of farming in ways

732
00:36:46,370 --> 00:36:49,193
which regenerate soil and biodiversity.

733
00:36:50,210 --> 00:36:51,130
- [Reporter] A worldwide rally

734
00:36:51,130 --> 00:36:53,990
against genetically
modified food giant Monsanto

735
00:36:53,990 --> 00:36:56,342
is being held across the globe.

736
00:36:56,342 --> 00:36:59,680
- [Woman] The first speaker
is the youngest activist

737
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,050
in Orange County right now.

738
00:37:02,050 --> 00:37:03,880
- [Reporter] Activists
are protesting the use

739
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,490
of potentially harmful
chemicals in food production,

740
00:37:07,490 --> 00:37:09,790
something Monsanto says is the only way

741
00:37:09,790 --> 00:37:12,490
to feed the globe's growing population.

742
00:37:12,490 --> 00:37:14,660
- [Woman] We'll petition the Girl Scouts

743
00:37:14,660 --> 00:37:16,588
for GMO-free cookies.

744
00:37:16,588 --> 00:37:18,051
(crowd cheering)
- Sign up the new

745
00:37:18,051 --> 00:37:19,772
Girl Scouts of America.

746
00:37:19,772 --> 00:37:23,717
Let's show the world what
these cookies can really do.

747
00:37:23,717 --> 00:37:26,730
- [Interviewer] I told
you I had a special guest,

748
00:37:26,730 --> 00:37:28,563
Alicia Serratos.

749
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,258
Alicia, how old are you?

750
00:37:31,258 --> 00:37:32,510
- Seven.

751
00:37:32,510 --> 00:37:34,380
- There was a newspaper article about it

752
00:37:34,380 --> 00:37:36,050
and that we weren't selling cookies.

753
00:37:36,050 --> 00:37:38,287
So then, that's when the
council contacted me and said,

754
00:37:38,287 --> 00:37:42,100
"Hey, let's discuss alternate
ideas for fundraising."

755
00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:44,320
Like this is awesome, we did it, you know?

756
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,040
It was like literally an ambush.

757
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,060
They had no intention of
hearing any of our ideas.

758
00:37:49,060 --> 00:37:52,160
It was support and promote or step down.

759
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,780
I felt betrayed.

760
00:37:53,780 --> 00:37:57,497
Here I had put so much time
into it and now they're saying,

761
00:37:57,497 --> 00:37:59,507
"Sell the cookies or you're done."

762
00:38:00,671 --> 00:38:05,588
- Dear Anna Marie Chavez, please
make cookies without GMOs.

763
00:38:06,660 --> 00:38:09,730
Whoever signed my petition, thank you.

764
00:38:09,730 --> 00:38:13,200
- So you're trying to remove
GMOs from Girl Scout cookies

765
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,631
and you've got a petition
of 10,000 signatures.

766
00:38:16,631 --> 00:38:18,298
- 15,000 signatures!

767
00:38:19,870 --> 00:38:21,600
21,000 signatures.

768
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,310
It's been a year and a
half and with your help,

769
00:38:24,310 --> 00:38:26,477
we have 30,000 signatures!

770
00:38:27,869 --> 00:38:29,880
♪ Bum bum bum ♪

771
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,810
- A box of Girl Scout cookies
is not a political statement.

772
00:38:33,810 --> 00:38:36,930
It is an investment in
a girl and her dreams

773
00:38:36,930 --> 00:38:38,590
and in your local communities

774
00:38:38,590 --> 00:38:40,621
and in the leadership of tomorrow.

775
00:38:40,621 --> 00:38:41,549
♪ Hey hey ♪

776
00:38:41,549 --> 00:38:43,263
♪ Ho ho ♪

777
00:38:43,263 --> 00:38:45,588
♪ GMOs have got to go ♪

778
00:38:45,588 --> 00:38:47,116
♪ Hey hey ♪

779
00:38:47,116 --> 00:38:50,449
(soft intriguing music)

780
00:38:55,690 --> 00:38:57,830
- Part of making this farm a success

781
00:38:57,830 --> 00:39:00,320
is to try to get enough revenue in here

782
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,500
to prove that a farm like this

783
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:04,340
can support two or three
young men workin' on it.

784
00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:07,843
And so we're struggling to
find a way to make that work.

785
00:39:10,180 --> 00:39:13,513
(soft intriguing music)

786
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,970
It's very easy to grow food.

787
00:39:18,970 --> 00:39:20,800
It's not easy to grow superior food

788
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:21,940
and very nutrient-dense food

789
00:39:21,940 --> 00:39:23,920
because you have to
treat the soil properly.

790
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,300
But it's very easy to grow food.

791
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:28,570
And of course, there's
always been an influx of food

792
00:39:28,570 --> 00:39:30,840
from all over the planet,
which we're competing with,

793
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,630
that was being flown in, you know,

794
00:39:32,630 --> 00:39:35,830
from 1,500 to 5,000 miles away every day.

795
00:39:35,830 --> 00:39:38,990
So for a small micro-farm
like ours to compete,

796
00:39:38,990 --> 00:39:40,842
we have to be very special.

797
00:39:40,842 --> 00:39:44,175
(soft intriguing music)

798
00:39:47,820 --> 00:39:50,093
Our total route right
now is centered around

799
00:39:50,093 --> 00:39:52,220
a radius of about 10 miles.

800
00:39:52,220 --> 00:39:54,230
From harvest to the time
everything's delivered

801
00:39:54,230 --> 00:39:56,133
took about one hour,

802
00:39:58,230 --> 00:40:00,033
truly farm-to-table in minutes.

803
00:40:04,156 --> 00:40:06,040
- You would think that
it's such an important part

804
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:10,130
of everyone's daily life
experience that you would think

805
00:40:10,130 --> 00:40:12,420
that people would actually
care about what they eat.

806
00:40:12,420 --> 00:40:14,320
Not only do they not know
where their food comes from,

807
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:15,430
but they don't really
care that much about it.

808
00:40:15,430 --> 00:40:17,100
They don't think about it.

809
00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:19,240
The trick is, the challenge is

810
00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:22,160
to not only find resilient ways of farming

811
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,440
that build soil as opposed
to depleting the soil,

812
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,090
that result in water stewardship
and land stewardship,

813
00:40:29,090 --> 00:40:31,110
but that also have an economic return.

814
00:40:31,110 --> 00:40:34,360
If consumers don't actually make purchases

815
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:35,940
based upon their values,

816
00:40:35,940 --> 00:40:37,990
then these sustainable farming practices

817
00:40:37,990 --> 00:40:39,130
are gonna disappear.

818
00:40:39,130 --> 00:40:42,400
If these farms can't survive,
then consumers will have

819
00:40:43,390 --> 00:40:45,720
no opportunity to buy anything
based upon their values.

820
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:46,553
They'll simply have to buy

821
00:40:46,553 --> 00:40:48,649
what the industrial
food system gives them.

822
00:40:48,649 --> 00:40:51,982
(soft intriguing music)

823
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,500
- [Rosario] Roughly 2,800 calories

824
00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:58,290
for every human being on the planet

825
00:40:58,290 --> 00:41:00,263
are produced every single day,

826
00:41:01,180 --> 00:41:04,030
more than enough to feed
the world right now.

827
00:41:04,030 --> 00:41:07,550
What we have is a distribution problem.

828
00:41:07,550 --> 00:41:10,830
The average bite of food
travels over 1,500 miles

829
00:41:10,830 --> 00:41:12,810
to make it to your grocery store.

830
00:41:12,810 --> 00:41:15,490
Yet history shows in times of need,

831
00:41:15,490 --> 00:41:17,523
we can effectively localize our food.

832
00:41:18,450 --> 00:41:21,190
During Word War II, 20
million home gardens

833
00:41:21,190 --> 00:41:23,586
produced 40% of the nation's food.

834
00:41:23,586 --> 00:41:25,090
(soft intriguing music)

835
00:41:25,090 --> 00:41:29,160
Today, demand for local
food is on the rise.

836
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,241
US Farmers Markets have
more than quadrupled

837
00:41:31,241 --> 00:41:33,500
in the last 20 years.

838
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:36,660
Every effort, big or
small, to localize food

839
00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:39,310
in regenerative urban farms, school

840
00:41:39,310 --> 00:41:42,270
and community gardens or your own backyard

841
00:41:42,270 --> 00:41:43,930
helps displace our reliance

842
00:41:43,930 --> 00:41:46,630
on destructive industrial agriculture.

843
00:41:46,630 --> 00:41:49,900
Even new technologies like
indoor vertical farming

844
00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:53,030
help reduce our soil-sabotaging footprint.

845
00:41:53,030 --> 00:41:55,410
Yet instead of supporting these efforts,

846
00:41:55,410 --> 00:41:59,050
30 billion tax dollars artificially
lower the price of food

847
00:41:59,050 --> 00:42:01,560
grown in centralized, monocropped,

848
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,540
synthetically-fertilized toxic soils,

849
00:42:04,540 --> 00:42:07,430
contributing to an estimated
three trillion dollars

850
00:42:07,430 --> 00:42:10,623
of environmental damage every single year.

851
00:42:11,470 --> 00:42:15,110
We pick food before it's ripe,
ship it all over the world,

852
00:42:15,110 --> 00:42:18,650
and eventually a nutrient-depleted,
contaminated product

853
00:42:18,650 --> 00:42:19,923
makes it to our plate.

854
00:42:21,010 --> 00:42:24,080
- When people ask me about
how to fix our food system,

855
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,537
they always say, "You
know, where is the center

856
00:42:25,537 --> 00:42:28,390
"for this whole new food
movement in the United States?"

857
00:42:28,390 --> 00:42:30,457
and I always say (chuckles),
"There isn't a center.

858
00:42:30,457 --> 00:42:32,600
"It's happening everywhere
at the same time."

859
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,310
And they said, "Well who is the
figurehead of the movement?"

860
00:42:35,310 --> 00:42:36,617
And I always say, "There is no figurehead.

861
00:42:36,617 --> 00:42:39,917
"Because if you're talking
about fixin' our food system

862
00:42:39,917 --> 00:42:43,727
"by makin' it more local, the figurehead,

863
00:42:43,727 --> 00:42:46,327
"the great leader is that
person in your community."

864
00:42:50,939 --> 00:42:55,939
(soft chime music)
(birds chirping)

865
00:42:57,510 --> 00:42:59,900
- All-in-all, we've now come to the point

866
00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:01,280
after a little over two years

867
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,545
that we have a farm
that's been proven out,

868
00:43:03,545 --> 00:43:06,590
that actually could support three jobs,

869
00:43:06,590 --> 00:43:08,630
that is now actually growing.

870
00:43:08,630 --> 00:43:10,830
I mean, our revenues are starting to grow.

871
00:43:10,830 --> 00:43:12,810
The restaurants around here
are startin' to take notice

872
00:43:12,810 --> 00:43:16,310
so I feel like we
finally hit critical mass

873
00:43:16,310 --> 00:43:18,840
and the critical mass was build it

874
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,322
and they will come for sure,
but you gotta build it.

875
00:43:21,322 --> 00:43:24,510
(soft serene music)

876
00:43:24,510 --> 00:43:26,660
We still don't have a guarantee
on how long we'll be here,

877
00:43:26,660 --> 00:43:30,750
but it's allowed us a
chance to light that fire.

878
00:43:30,750 --> 00:43:32,590
I believe that we needed
to light a small fire

879
00:43:32,590 --> 00:43:34,740
and I think this is a
very hot, small fire.

880
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:38,360
- [Reporter] One Orange County farmer

881
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,240
may have found the farm of the future.

882
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:43,010
Can you describe the
taste of that spinach?

883
00:43:43,010 --> 00:43:44,560
- So much flavor.

884
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:45,470
So much flavor.

885
00:43:45,470 --> 00:43:47,080
Night and day from the bad stuff.

886
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:47,913
- [Reporter] Really?

887
00:43:47,913 --> 00:43:48,860
- I've never tasted
anything like it before.

888
00:43:48,860 --> 00:43:49,850
I'm being perfectly honest

889
00:43:49,850 --> 00:43:51,640
and the best strawberry I've ever tasted.

890
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:52,473
- Wow.
- Okay.

891
00:43:56,656 --> 00:43:59,989
(soft futuristic music)

892
00:44:04,010 --> 00:44:07,110
- [Announcer] HyperSpace
is a data visualization

893
00:44:07,110 --> 00:44:09,660
that allows you to be
involved in the creation

894
00:44:09,660 --> 00:44:12,263
and translation of your design concepts.

895
00:44:13,270 --> 00:44:16,023
The HyperSpace model uses a style.

896
00:44:21,790 --> 00:44:26,073
- Actual units of HyperSpace Digitizing.

897
00:44:29,358 --> 00:44:30,564
(chuckles softly) The GPH
is an eight-sided thing.

898
00:44:30,564 --> 00:44:32,023
This is a six-sided thing,

899
00:44:32,899 --> 00:44:35,403
so we're very much into sacred geometry.

900
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,423
The application for the HyperSpace model,

901
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,390
they were really vast.

902
00:44:44,390 --> 00:44:47,550
It eventually evolved
into medical applications

903
00:44:47,550 --> 00:44:50,520
creating models that were
more organic-looking,

904
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,040
rather than things that were robotic.

905
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:53,220
Everybody was using computers

906
00:44:53,220 --> 00:44:55,293
at that time to build spaceships.

907
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,803
And hardly ever you would
see you know, a human heart.

908
00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:03,000
It was kind of an interesting time

909
00:45:04,144 --> 00:45:04,977
in the old days.

910
00:45:09,087 --> 00:45:12,254
(soft soothing music)

911
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,320
- He's figured out a way to write code

912
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,290
to talk to nature to have nature tell him

913
00:45:20,290 --> 00:45:23,020
as a system operator what it means

914
00:45:23,020 --> 00:45:25,763
to maximize its gift to us.

915
00:45:28,570 --> 00:45:29,770
I mean, it's brilliant.

916
00:45:29,770 --> 00:45:30,790
It's absolutely brilliant.

917
00:45:30,790 --> 00:45:33,480
And so he's harnessing what nature's doing

918
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:37,090
and you know, he laughs about
it because he's so brilliant.

919
00:45:37,090 --> 00:45:38,440
- Basically all we have to do

920
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,550
is emulate natural systems
here and we can accelerate 'em.

921
00:45:41,550 --> 00:45:44,120
So everything we're doing with
the sequester of the carbon,

922
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,780
with the digestion of the algae,

923
00:45:45,780 --> 00:45:48,570
those are all natural processes
that are in a closed loop

924
00:45:48,570 --> 00:45:51,340
and all we've done is figure
out a way to accelerate it.

925
00:45:51,340 --> 00:45:52,790
- I think it's the unique thing.

926
00:45:52,790 --> 00:45:54,710
What I don't see in all the projects

927
00:45:54,710 --> 00:45:56,500
is they don't close the loop.

928
00:45:56,500 --> 00:45:59,470
- [Michael] Nobody closes
the loop with the exhausts

929
00:45:59,470 --> 00:46:02,540
and everything recycling, going back in.

930
00:46:02,540 --> 00:46:03,680
- Carbon is our friend.

931
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,640
There's nothing wrong with carbon.

932
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:09,060
It's in what form it's in
is what causes the problems

933
00:46:09,060 --> 00:46:10,900
all the way across the spectrum.

934
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:13,790
You know, Michael's
brilliant on that stuff.

935
00:46:13,790 --> 00:46:16,170
- He just has an extraordinary ability

936
00:46:16,170 --> 00:46:17,680
to synthesize information

937
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,530
from a variety of industries if you will,

938
00:46:19,530 --> 00:46:21,580
agriculture and technology

939
00:46:21,580 --> 00:46:23,540
and bring 'em together in new ways.

940
00:46:23,540 --> 00:46:25,040
He's incredibly talented at that.

941
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,660
He's I think one of the best there is

942
00:46:26,660 --> 00:46:29,393
and the Power House is
a demonstration of that.

943
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,370
- We will either save ourselves

944
00:46:33,370 --> 00:46:35,960
with stuff like this or we won't.

945
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,401
And if we don't, we
don't deserve to be here.

946
00:46:38,401 --> 00:46:39,490
(soft intriguing music)

947
00:46:39,490 --> 00:46:40,850
- Half of this I believe

948
00:46:40,850 --> 00:46:44,140
has been just downloaded into Michael

949
00:46:44,140 --> 00:46:48,183
and it's bigger than any one of us.

950
00:46:50,700 --> 00:46:52,680
- Michael's a unique individual.

951
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,100
We even had people come here

952
00:46:54,100 --> 00:46:56,010
that wanted to look at the process.

953
00:46:56,010 --> 00:46:58,180
They'd call him the mad scientist.

954
00:46:58,180 --> 00:47:00,623
People ride by here and I'll bet his,

955
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,920
you couldn't even guess
what's goin' on in there.

956
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,660
He goes, "I was thinkin'
on the way here, Chuck."

957
00:47:07,660 --> 00:47:10,887
I go, "I can tell that." (chuckles)

958
00:47:13,410 --> 00:47:16,160
So you can tell when people's gears turn.

959
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,913
He's doin' multiple gears at a time.

960
00:47:19,970 --> 00:47:21,760
- When you take a walk in the woods,

961
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,150
we watch nature's processes
of what's going on

962
00:47:25,150 --> 00:47:27,363
and then you walk through
those doors, you know.

963
00:47:28,602 --> 00:47:31,637
- This is where I say,
"Welcome to Jurassic Park."

964
00:47:33,740 --> 00:47:35,828
- It's pretty amazing actually.

965
00:47:35,828 --> 00:47:37,200
It's pretty amazing.

966
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,543
It's basically what we're here
to do is to work with nature.

967
00:47:43,460 --> 00:47:45,880
I'm not quite sure nature
had a partner like that

968
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:46,930
of anybody listening.

969
00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:52,720
- [Rosario] The Green Power House requires

970
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:56,150
almost no additional input
outside of what is already

971
00:47:56,150 --> 00:47:59,800
being sent to landfills
in astronomical amounts.

972
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,980
The GPH maintains an
indoor tropical climate,

973
00:48:02,980 --> 00:48:05,270
even growing bananas and pineapples

974
00:48:05,270 --> 00:48:09,930
while Montana winters reach
as low as -20 degrees outside,

975
00:48:09,930 --> 00:48:12,890
providing a half acre
of vertical grow space.

976
00:48:12,890 --> 00:48:16,353
Plants can thrive in virtually
any region on the planet.

977
00:48:17,580 --> 00:48:21,920
Beyond powering 100 homes,
the GPH's excess energy

978
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,883
can support dozens of
additional greenhouses.

979
00:48:26,100 --> 00:48:29,070
Now imagine GPHs all over the world

980
00:48:29,070 --> 00:48:31,490
processing waste to power communities,

981
00:48:31,490 --> 00:48:35,438
providing fresh local food,
reversing climate change

982
00:48:35,438 --> 00:48:40,320
and regenerating soil in
virtually any environment.

983
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,090
- We're disrupting, which
is kind of a scary concept,

984
00:48:43,090 --> 00:48:45,210
but they're disrupting
food, fuel and fertilizer

985
00:48:45,210 --> 00:48:48,060
all in one little powerhouse, which to me,

986
00:48:48,060 --> 00:48:50,730
represents the ultimate
paradigm shift in agriculture.

987
00:48:50,730 --> 00:48:54,730
I mean imagine now if these
powerhouses could supply

988
00:48:54,730 --> 00:48:58,970
local communities with 50, 60
greenhouses worth of produce

989
00:48:58,970 --> 00:49:02,670
and they're all off-grid and
they're all carbon negative.

990
00:49:02,670 --> 00:49:06,350
I mean it just completely
changes the way everything works.

991
00:49:06,350 --> 00:49:08,760
It ultimately leads to
energy independence,

992
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,730
food security, food independence.

993
00:49:10,730 --> 00:49:14,630
I mean we the people
are now taking it back

994
00:49:14,630 --> 00:49:17,183
and I think that's an
exciting proposition.

995
00:49:19,970 --> 00:49:23,314
(soft serene music)

996
00:49:23,314 --> 00:49:26,064
(birds chirping)

997
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,010
We just heard a rumor that
there is a possibility

998
00:49:42,010 --> 00:49:44,320
that we might lose our farm.

999
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,840
There's some talk about
possibly putting in

1000
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,630
some ice skating rinks or
developing this area here

1001
00:49:50,630 --> 00:49:52,090
and that would be a real shame.

1002
00:49:52,090 --> 00:49:55,430
We just got it to the
point where it's working

1003
00:49:55,430 --> 00:49:59,180
and spent a lotta money in
quite a few years building it

1004
00:49:59,180 --> 00:50:00,213
and designing it.

1005
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:02,990
I hope it doesn't happen,

1006
00:50:02,990 --> 00:50:04,810
but it happens a lot around here.

1007
00:50:04,810 --> 00:50:06,850
So it's probably one of
the greatest problems

1008
00:50:06,850 --> 00:50:09,440
that farmers face is that
land is too expensive

1009
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,810
for them to buy and so you're
not sure whether or not

1010
00:50:11,810 --> 00:50:14,460
you're gonna be moved off next
year, next month or whatever.

1011
00:50:14,460 --> 00:50:17,480
So it's very hard where
farmers are trying to grow food

1012
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:18,880
on land that they don't own.

1013
00:50:20,290 --> 00:50:21,940
The city would make the call,

1014
00:50:21,940 --> 00:50:25,260
raise the priority to develop you know,

1015
00:50:25,260 --> 00:50:28,030
more access to local food or
is it to build more condos?

1016
00:50:28,030 --> 00:50:30,110
And 'course in Orange County,

1017
00:50:30,110 --> 00:50:32,160
we've seen the answer to
that story very clearly.

1018
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,020
It's build more condos.

1019
00:50:34,020 --> 00:50:36,660
So we're sitting on pins
and needles right now.

1020
00:50:36,660 --> 00:50:39,587
We're not sure what's
gonna happen to our farm.

1021
00:50:39,587 --> 00:50:42,587
(soft serene music)

1022
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,350
Well I've always grown my own food.

1023
00:50:50,350 --> 00:50:52,800
When I first started the Alegria Farm,

1024
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,940
I started it here actually at the house.

1025
00:50:54,940 --> 00:50:59,003
I had 22 vertical towers here
stacked all over the house.

1026
00:51:00,700 --> 00:51:02,950
We were raised on just
amazingly fresh food.

1027
00:51:02,950 --> 00:51:04,670
My mother was the one who always taught me

1028
00:51:04,670 --> 00:51:06,060
that food was medicine.

1029
00:51:06,060 --> 00:51:09,170
And back then, I mean you
know when you look back,

1030
00:51:09,170 --> 00:51:11,640
you realize that our food supply

1031
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,530
actually hadn't been quite
so tainted 40 years ago.

1032
00:51:14,530 --> 00:51:16,500
So that's part of what's goin' on now

1033
00:51:17,408 --> 00:51:20,570
is that we are dealing
with much poorer soils

1034
00:51:20,570 --> 00:51:21,920
than we had 40 years ago

1035
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:26,373
and hence the decrease
in quality of the food.

1036
00:51:30,750 --> 00:51:32,380
- A soil is not inert.

1037
00:51:32,380 --> 00:51:36,440
It is a living colony,
so complex organisms.

1038
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,130
And as we lose habitats,
biodiversity will go below

1039
00:51:40,130 --> 00:51:42,760
the threshold heretofore not yet known

1040
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,023
where then the ecosystem
begins to unravel.

1041
00:51:46,130 --> 00:51:47,430
- When you're deeply aware

1042
00:51:48,410 --> 00:51:50,100
of how the bees and the butterflies

1043
00:51:50,100 --> 00:51:51,780
are vital for your pollination,

1044
00:51:51,780 --> 00:51:53,090
when you're deeply aware

1045
00:51:53,090 --> 00:51:56,790
of how many soil organisms feed us,

1046
00:51:56,790 --> 00:51:59,500
you don't spray poisons that'll kill them.

1047
00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:01,710
- You can kick the can down the road

1048
00:52:01,710 --> 00:52:03,920
and you can put off those external costs,

1049
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,030
which is what they're called;

1050
00:52:05,030 --> 00:52:06,540
costs that aren't factored into

1051
00:52:06,540 --> 00:52:07,930
the price that you see in the shelf.

1052
00:52:07,930 --> 00:52:10,710
You can push those external
costs down the road.

1053
00:52:10,710 --> 00:52:13,160
But ultimately, that can comes to a stop.

1054
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,030
These are nontrivial impacts

1055
00:52:16,030 --> 00:52:18,683
of the real costs of cheap food.

1056
00:52:19,890 --> 00:52:21,520
- We produce all that
food, we get at the market.

1057
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:22,790
We go in, we buy it, we take it home,

1058
00:52:22,790 --> 00:52:25,173
we refrigerate it until we throw it away.

1059
00:52:26,707 --> 00:52:28,420
And we throw it away rather
than putting it in compost.

1060
00:52:28,420 --> 00:52:30,590
I mean at least we put it into compost,

1061
00:52:30,590 --> 00:52:32,740
you know, we could
ameliorate some of that.

1062
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:35,148
It's almost a sin.

1063
00:52:35,148 --> 00:52:37,720
(soft intriguing music)

1064
00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:41,370
- [Rosario] Over 97% of food
waste ends up in landfills,

1065
00:52:41,370 --> 00:52:44,533
disconnecting the soil's
natural nutrient cycle.

1066
00:52:45,470 --> 00:52:48,560
Millions of tons of
organic matter rotting away

1067
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,090
emitting greenhouse gases

1068
00:52:50,090 --> 00:52:53,143
like CO2, methane and nitrous oxide.

1069
00:52:54,947 --> 00:52:57,860
But what if something we
literally treat as trash

1070
00:52:57,860 --> 00:52:59,050
became one of the planet's

1071
00:52:59,050 --> 00:53:01,890
most applicable resource solutions?

1072
00:53:01,890 --> 00:53:05,570
Composting can turn that
food waste into new soil

1073
00:53:06,970 --> 00:53:11,350
but less than 3% of this
resource is currently being used.

1074
00:53:11,350 --> 00:53:13,440
With backyard compost piles

1075
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,232
or utilizing your city's
green waste collection,

1076
00:53:16,232 --> 00:53:18,950
anyone and everyone can participate

1077
00:53:18,950 --> 00:53:22,550
to help store huge
amounts of water, carbon

1078
00:53:22,550 --> 00:53:25,340
and returning vital nutrients to our soils

1079
00:53:25,340 --> 00:53:27,573
without the use of chemical fertilizers.

1080
00:53:31,270 --> 00:53:33,720
- Recycling's been taken
place for a lotta years.

1081
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:36,790
People know about
recycling an aluminum can.

1082
00:53:36,790 --> 00:53:39,350
But when I was just a little girl,

1083
00:53:39,350 --> 00:53:42,707
my father told me, "It oughta be a crime

1084
00:53:42,707 --> 00:53:45,430
"to landfill anything organic."

1085
00:53:45,430 --> 00:53:48,263
Our soil is starving for organic matter.

1086
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,780
What I love about what Erik
is doing at Alegria Farms

1087
00:53:52,780 --> 00:53:55,470
is it's demonstrating
what we know we can do

1088
00:53:55,470 --> 00:53:58,840
in a small space and
it's a huge concentration

1089
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,300
of organic material in the socks.

1090
00:54:01,300 --> 00:54:04,400
The fact that you can concentrate
this amount of activity,

1091
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,240
life in the soil around
the roots of the plant

1092
00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:11,230
and then the plants can grow huge.

1093
00:54:11,230 --> 00:54:14,010
I mean who can't love a
guy that makes a salad

1094
00:54:14,010 --> 00:54:16,130
right at the farm's table

1095
00:54:16,130 --> 00:54:18,820
that tastes better than
anything you've ever had?

1096
00:54:18,820 --> 00:54:22,480
And by dinner time you're not hungry, why?

1097
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,430
'Cause of the density of the nutrients.

1098
00:54:25,860 --> 00:54:28,690
- If we start refocusing
some of our energies

1099
00:54:28,690 --> 00:54:29,890
on the importance of soil

1100
00:54:29,890 --> 00:54:32,260
and how soil can mitigate
just about everything

1101
00:54:32,260 --> 00:54:34,820
including water quality
and climate change,

1102
00:54:34,820 --> 00:54:36,640
that to me should become a curriculum

1103
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,180
that should be as important
in any science class in school

1104
00:54:39,180 --> 00:54:40,641
as anything else we're teaching.

1105
00:54:40,641 --> 00:54:45,330
(chuckles) You guys, this
is fully-composted soil.

1106
00:54:45,330 --> 00:54:47,047
But look at that, anybody wanna smell this

1107
00:54:47,047 --> 00:54:48,102
and smell how good it smells?

1108
00:54:48,102 --> 00:54:49,577
- No.
- Eww.

1109
00:54:49,577 --> 00:54:50,410
- No.
- No, smell it.

1110
00:54:50,410 --> 00:54:51,420
- Eww.

1111
00:54:51,420 --> 00:54:52,253
- Smells good, doesn't it?
- Yeah.

1112
00:54:52,253 --> 00:54:53,523
- What does it smell like?

1113
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:56,230
- Just dirt.

1114
00:54:56,230 --> 00:54:57,063
- Like a forest?

1115
00:54:57,063 --> 00:54:58,190
- Yeah.
- Can I smell?

1116
00:54:59,331 --> 00:55:00,164
- Smell it.

1117
00:55:00,164 --> 00:55:01,330
It smells fresh, doesn't it?
- A roly-poly.

1118
00:55:01,330 --> 00:55:03,700
- There becomes a thing I
think when you teach children

1119
00:55:03,700 --> 00:55:05,870
when they're young that it
becomes a nurturing instinct

1120
00:55:05,870 --> 00:55:07,330
and everybody's got it.

1121
00:55:07,330 --> 00:55:08,670
If you don't learn it when you're young,

1122
00:55:08,670 --> 00:55:10,950
then it's kind of intimidating
when you get older.

1123
00:55:10,950 --> 00:55:14,310
To have access to great food requires us

1124
00:55:14,310 --> 00:55:17,220
to take care of the resources
that produce that food

1125
00:55:17,220 --> 00:55:22,220
and to teach kids how important
it is to rebuild and compost

1126
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,830
and understand the connection
to nature and how soil works

1127
00:55:26,830 --> 00:55:29,310
to create their food supply.

1128
00:55:29,310 --> 00:55:30,960
It all is connected together.

1129
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:32,137
Thank you, all right?

1130
00:55:32,137 --> 00:55:34,910
You keep teachin'
everybody 'bout food, okay?

1131
00:55:34,910 --> 00:55:37,307
You be the spokesman, all right.

1132
00:55:38,785 --> 00:55:41,785
(soft serene music)

1133
00:55:46,150 --> 00:55:49,150
(car horns honking)

1134
00:55:55,398 --> 00:55:58,231
(soft rock music)

1135
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,670
- [Alicia] We're tryin' to
change Girl Scout cookies,

1136
00:56:07,670 --> 00:56:09,480
so they're healthier.

1137
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:14,480
And right now, we have at
least 45,000 signatures.

1138
00:56:19,050 --> 00:56:21,120
- I tried to schedule a
meeting with Girl Scouts.

1139
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,140
They ended up saying,
"Yes, we'll meet you."

1140
00:56:24,140 --> 00:56:25,287
You know, she got excited when I said,

1141
00:56:25,287 --> 00:56:26,830
"Oh, they're gonna meet with us."

1142
00:56:26,830 --> 00:56:29,170
Maybe she doesn't know
the gravity of her actions

1143
00:56:29,170 --> 00:56:32,530
and maybe she doesn't really understand

1144
00:56:32,530 --> 00:56:34,550
how big a deal it is.

1145
00:56:34,550 --> 00:56:36,103
It was just inspiring to me.

1146
00:56:37,910 --> 00:56:39,437
- Juliette Low said, "Right is right,

1147
00:56:39,437 --> 00:56:40,750
"even if no one else does it."

1148
00:56:40,750 --> 00:56:44,894
So that's why I'm here today
delivering my petition.

1149
00:56:44,894 --> 00:56:48,292
GMOs are genetically modified organisms.

1150
00:56:48,292 --> 00:56:50,891
There has been no long-term testing done

1151
00:56:50,891 --> 00:56:52,007
and they could be harmful.

1152
00:56:52,007 --> 00:56:53,950
It's time to do the right thing

1153
00:56:53,950 --> 00:56:55,760
and get GMOs out of the cookies.

1154
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:56,593
Thank you.

1155
00:57:00,290 --> 00:57:01,160
- You did really good.

1156
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,140
I'm proud of you. (smooches)

1157
00:57:04,140 --> 00:57:06,110
And then last minute,

1158
00:57:06,110 --> 00:57:08,500
they decided that they
weren't gonna meet us.

1159
00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:10,270
They said that the representative

1160
00:57:10,270 --> 00:57:13,869
that was gonna be meeting us
was going to be in a meeting.

1161
00:57:13,869 --> 00:57:17,202
(soft intriguing music)

1162
00:57:20,890 --> 00:57:23,180
- At Girl Scouts, we
stand for giving girls

1163
00:57:23,180 --> 00:57:25,600
the opportunity to develop into strong,

1164
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:27,770
confident, courageous adults

1165
00:57:27,770 --> 00:57:31,140
who are committed to making
the world a better place.

1166
00:57:31,140 --> 00:57:33,330
- [Monica] Everything
kind of had to be focused

1167
00:57:33,330 --> 00:57:36,640
around this one meeting,
that now wasn't happening.

1168
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:37,657
She said, "Well, that's okay.

1169
00:57:37,657 --> 00:57:39,327
"We can go anyway."

1170
00:57:39,327 --> 00:57:42,660
(soft intriguing music)

1171
00:57:51,070 --> 00:57:53,240
Hi, we wanted to come up to the Shop.

1172
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:54,513
Monica Serratos.

1173
00:57:55,650 --> 00:57:58,120
I mean, they obviously
knew about the petition.

1174
00:57:58,120 --> 00:57:59,840
They know who Alicia is.

1175
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:01,460
We've sent a lotta letters.

1176
00:58:01,460 --> 00:58:02,748
- Excuse me.

1177
00:58:02,748 --> 00:58:03,581
You need the phone?

1178
00:58:03,581 --> 00:58:05,001
- I'm on hold for Girl Scouts.

1179
00:58:05,001 --> 00:58:08,210
- Well you'll just have
to (speaks faintly).

1180
00:58:08,210 --> 00:58:09,260
- They hung up on me.

1181
00:58:10,830 --> 00:58:11,663
They were expecting us,

1182
00:58:11,663 --> 00:58:15,320
so they know what our intentions were.

1183
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:16,820
Hi, I just called.

1184
00:58:16,820 --> 00:58:19,100
We're tryin' to go up to the Shop.

1185
00:58:19,100 --> 00:58:19,933
That's okay.

1186
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:21,873
Okay.

1187
00:58:22,970 --> 00:58:24,070
Oh perfect.

1188
00:58:24,070 --> 00:58:25,110
Okay, thanks.

1189
00:58:25,110 --> 00:58:26,360
You wanna hold onto that.

1190
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:28,453
It's heavy, I know.

1191
00:58:29,710 --> 00:58:33,029
And then that is your gift
for Anna Maria-Chavez.

1192
00:58:33,029 --> 00:58:34,785
- Mama, you know what?
- What?

1193
00:58:34,785 --> 00:58:36,110
- They coulda seen out the window.

1194
00:58:36,110 --> 00:58:36,943
- Oh, maybe.

1195
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:39,581
- They took your name?
- Yes.

1196
00:58:39,581 --> 00:58:41,311
- [Man] Okay, go over there
and give him your name

1197
00:58:41,311 --> 00:58:42,640
and he's going to give you a pass.

1198
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:44,647
- Okay.
- Then you'll go up.

1199
00:58:46,627 --> 00:58:48,627
- I know, it gets heavy.

1200
00:58:49,580 --> 00:58:50,666
Girl Scout Shop.

1201
00:58:50,666 --> 00:58:52,583
- Last name?
- Serottos.

1202
00:58:53,891 --> 00:58:55,918
- You just called, right?
- Yeah.

1203
00:58:55,918 --> 00:58:58,369
- [Man] You're not on their list.

1204
00:58:58,369 --> 00:58:59,960
- Okay.

1205
00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:00,793
So close.

1206
00:59:00,793 --> 00:59:01,626
I have to wait.

1207
00:59:01,626 --> 00:59:03,020
They didn't put my name on there.

1208
00:59:03,020 --> 00:59:06,060
It's a big part of my
daughter's childhood.

1209
00:59:06,060 --> 00:59:07,240
It would've been a cool experience

1210
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,690
to go up and see what
happens at headquarters.

1211
00:59:09,690 --> 00:59:13,230
But unfortunately, we were
denied that privilege.

1212
00:59:13,230 --> 00:59:14,960
Do you think they're
gonna send somebody down?

1213
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,060
- [Woman] No, she called it right.

1214
00:59:17,060 --> 00:59:20,360
They saw you out the window
and they've sized it up.

1215
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:22,190
They're just gonna freeze you out.

1216
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:28,610
- For them not to take the
time to listen to my daughter,

1217
00:59:28,610 --> 00:59:29,810
it's heartbreaking.

1218
00:59:29,810 --> 00:59:31,920
Here I am representing Girl Scouts

1219
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:36,480
and then to be denied, even
to get up into the Shop

1220
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:37,940
or to have someone sit down

1221
00:59:37,940 --> 00:59:42,440
and listen to one of
their own Girl Scouts.

1222
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,563
It is, it's heartbreaking
and it's frustrating.

1223
00:59:48,003 --> 00:59:48,836
I don't know,

1224
00:59:48,836 --> 00:59:50,958
it makes me question the
organization sometimes.

1225
00:59:50,958 --> 00:59:54,310
(somber cello music)

1226
00:59:54,310 --> 00:59:57,697
And you know, I have a lot
of friends that say you know,

1227
00:59:57,697 --> 01:00:01,807
"They're not doing what you
feel is right nutritionally

1228
01:00:01,807 --> 01:00:02,997
"with selling the cookies

1229
01:00:02,997 --> 01:00:04,967
"or not listening to your daughter."

1230
01:00:04,967 --> 01:00:07,680
"Why don't you find another
organization or start your own?"

1231
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,230
And for me, there's so many
things about Girl Scouts

1232
01:00:10,230 --> 01:00:15,230
that I do like that I think
are beneficial for all girls.

1233
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,120
And instead of walking away from it,

1234
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:22,050
I feel like I can set
an example for my kids

1235
01:00:22,050 --> 01:00:24,300
and my Girl Scouts by staying in it

1236
01:00:24,300 --> 01:00:28,223
and trying to make a change
just like Alicia's doing.

1237
01:00:39,405 --> 01:00:41,922
(sirens wailing)

1238
01:00:41,922 --> 01:00:45,900
- [Man] It's the 24th of January, 2015,

1239
01:00:45,900 --> 01:00:48,087
12:41 p.m..

1240
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,340
I'm out at the GPH, which
caught on fire this morning

1241
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,833
at proximate four a.m.

1242
01:00:57,770 --> 01:01:01,213
and the GPH was a total loss.

1243
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:11,920
- Adam de Yong, chief operating officer

1244
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,913
of Algae Aqua-Culture Technologies.

1245
01:01:20,682 --> 01:01:21,515
- [Man] Are we good to continue?

1246
01:01:24,827 --> 01:01:28,090
- The GPH has been completely lost.

1247
01:01:28,090 --> 01:01:30,590
Hopefully we'll be able
to salvage the foundation,

1248
01:01:33,670 --> 01:01:36,250
but the rest of the structure is gone

1249
01:01:36,250 --> 01:01:39,128
as you can see in the
background behind me.

1250
01:01:39,128 --> 01:01:41,270
You know, we were makin'
a really hard push.

1251
01:01:41,270 --> 01:01:45,220
We had a six-month goal to
support all of our own salaries

1252
01:01:45,220 --> 01:01:49,720
and operations here so
it'd be self-sustaining

1253
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:52,380
and then continue to try
and sell the technology.

1254
01:01:52,380 --> 01:01:54,110
But really prove the value of the products

1255
01:01:54,110 --> 01:01:54,943
that we're producing,

1256
01:01:54,943 --> 01:01:58,650
which have proven to be
very valuable in trials

1257
01:01:58,650 --> 01:02:01,090
where everybody's tried 'em.

1258
01:02:01,090 --> 01:02:03,713
But that's no longer feasible.

1259
01:02:05,136 --> 01:02:08,386
(poignant piano music)

1260
01:02:17,509 --> 01:02:20,259
(fire crackling)

1261
01:02:21,222 --> 01:02:23,722
(ax cracking)

1262
01:02:30,050 --> 01:02:32,323
- One night last Friday,

1263
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,240
fitful sleep; I couldn't sleep.

1264
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:37,073
I'm laying there.

1265
01:02:37,073 --> 01:02:40,480
I'm half going in and out.

1266
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:43,820
And around four, 4:30
a.m., the telephone rings

1267
01:02:46,417 --> 01:02:49,300
and I knew it could not be good news.

1268
01:02:49,300 --> 01:02:51,820
It happened to be the manager of the mill

1269
01:02:51,820 --> 01:02:52,780
and he was on the phone.

1270
01:02:52,780 --> 01:02:54,580
He goes, "Oh Michael, I'm so sorry."

1271
01:02:55,590 --> 01:02:59,007
You know, "But the Green
Power House has burned down.

1272
01:02:59,007 --> 01:03:00,520
"It's a total loss."

1273
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:04,110
And I was like you know,

1274
01:03:04,110 --> 01:03:04,943
shock.

1275
01:03:04,943 --> 01:03:06,360
You know, you feel the physical shock.

1276
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:09,750
You actually feel the
numbness in your hands

1277
01:03:09,750 --> 01:03:11,750
and you're going how
could that possibly be

1278
01:03:11,750 --> 01:03:14,000
that we could've lost this thing?

1279
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,033
Because it was such a you
know, vibrant dynamic thing.

1280
01:03:18,970 --> 01:03:20,560
For me, it was difficult thinking

1281
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:23,160
well, what in there is
combustible, you know?

1282
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:27,962
I'm going you know, what
could possibly burn in there?

1283
01:03:27,962 --> 01:03:31,212
(poignant piano music)

1284
01:03:35,310 --> 01:03:38,863
Still unclear on how the
fire got started, you know?

1285
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:41,960
I don't wanna say that we saw people

1286
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,605
running around in the
field with coveralls on.

1287
01:03:44,605 --> 01:03:46,229
(laughs) You know?

1288
01:03:46,229 --> 01:03:48,229
I'm sorry, cut that out.

1289
01:03:51,870 --> 01:03:53,780
You know, what actually
was burning in there?

1290
01:03:53,780 --> 01:03:55,523
That was the question I have.

1291
01:03:57,963 --> 01:04:01,213
(poignant piano music)

1292
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:08,290
There's a possibility, you know?

1293
01:04:08,290 --> 01:04:10,280
There are people that don't necessarily

1294
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,117
wanna see bioenergy be successful,

1295
01:04:13,117 --> 01:04:16,573
but I can't say you know,
there was anybody involved.

1296
01:04:19,805 --> 01:04:21,460
So

1297
01:04:21,460 --> 01:04:22,293
hopefully

1298
01:04:24,028 --> 01:04:26,203
(sighs) we'll recover from this.

1299
01:04:27,170 --> 01:04:30,420
(poignant piano music)

1300
01:04:34,660 --> 01:04:37,057
I'm not one for conspiracy
theories, you know?

1301
01:04:37,057 --> 01:04:38,440
And that's not where I like to go.

1302
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,220
I always like to think there's
a good scientific explanation

1303
01:04:41,220 --> 01:04:42,053
for everything.

1304
01:04:42,930 --> 01:04:45,800
But right now, I can't see
the scientific explanation

1305
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:47,377
behind what happened.

1306
01:04:47,377 --> 01:04:50,627
(poignant piano music)

1307
01:04:58,760 --> 01:04:59,903
Oh my god.

1308
01:05:02,930 --> 01:05:03,983
Look at that.

1309
01:05:05,790 --> 01:05:08,803
The remnants of the GBH.

1310
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:21,003
The dragon in the dragon's
lair, that's perfectly fine.

1311
01:05:22,170 --> 01:05:25,202
The one thing that you
would think would burn

1312
01:05:25,202 --> 01:05:27,083
(chuckles) because of the heat.

1313
01:05:29,873 --> 01:05:31,770
- [Man] Yeah, I'm gonna need your name.

1314
01:05:31,770 --> 01:05:33,593
- [Michael] My name is Michael Smith.

1315
01:05:35,450 --> 01:05:38,869
- [Man] Hey Brad, he says
his name is Michael Smith.

1316
01:05:38,869 --> 01:05:40,059
- [Brad] Nice.

1317
01:05:40,059 --> 01:05:41,270
I know the name.

1318
01:05:41,270 --> 01:05:42,993
- [Man] I was the one that
saw the fire, that noticed it.

1319
01:05:42,993 --> 01:05:45,110
- You turned it in?
- Yup, yeah.

1320
01:05:45,110 --> 01:05:48,780
I saw the flames comin'
up in a perfect square.

1321
01:05:48,780 --> 01:05:50,057
I say, "Call the fire department.

1322
01:05:50,057 --> 01:05:50,927
"It's a structure fire.

1323
01:05:50,927 --> 01:05:53,550
"It looks like the AACT
building is on fire."

1324
01:05:53,550 --> 01:05:56,560
They had a lotta water on
this fire really quick.

1325
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:57,663
They did a good job.

1326
01:05:59,690 --> 01:06:01,762
- But obviously they couldn't
save any of the structure.

1327
01:06:01,762 --> 01:06:02,595
- Right.

1328
01:06:04,060 --> 01:06:07,550
It had come through the
roof of the building

1329
01:06:07,550 --> 01:06:11,160
and when it vented air in,
it just took off after that.

1330
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:12,810
- Wow.
- Yup.

1331
01:06:12,810 --> 01:06:16,115
- Okay, well thank you for your time.

1332
01:06:16,115 --> 01:06:20,782
("Someone You'd Admire" by Fleet Foxes)

1333
01:06:22,404 --> 01:06:23,992
♪ After ♪

1334
01:06:23,992 --> 01:06:28,090
- It's like a person
who's died in your life.

1335
01:06:28,090 --> 01:06:28,923
You called her.

1336
01:06:28,923 --> 01:06:33,173
You talked to every day and
now that person is unavailable.

1337
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:37,520
It was more than just a building

1338
01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:40,337
that represented sort
of an ecological system.

1339
01:06:40,337 --> 01:06:42,850
And when it went away it was like,

1340
01:06:42,850 --> 01:06:44,413
well what am I gonna do today?

1341
01:06:46,460 --> 01:06:49,800
Oh man, I remember you know, every beam.

1342
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:54,800
Every piece of that unistrut
going up, all of that.

1343
01:06:59,420 --> 01:07:01,740
It is unbelievable.

1344
01:07:01,740 --> 01:07:05,463
There's nothing salvageable
here other than the concepts.

1345
01:07:09,260 --> 01:07:11,490
The official report is that

1346
01:07:12,700 --> 01:07:14,223
you know, it had to do with some biochar

1347
01:07:14,223 --> 01:07:16,410
that was not completely extinguished.

1348
01:07:16,410 --> 01:07:17,600
It was on the outside.

1349
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:18,433
But

1350
01:07:20,054 --> 01:07:21,670
you know looking at the BTU rating

1351
01:07:21,670 --> 01:07:24,677
of charcoal versus the
devastation we're looking here

1352
01:07:24,677 --> 01:07:27,540
and the amount of heat that
needed to be generated,

1353
01:07:27,540 --> 01:07:28,740
I'm a little suspicious.

1354
01:07:29,941 --> 01:07:31,947
♪ One of them ♪

1355
01:07:31,947 --> 01:07:36,436
♪ Wants only to be someone ♪

1356
01:07:36,436 --> 01:07:41,240
♪ You'd admire ♪

1357
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:46,240
♪ One would as soon ♪

1358
01:07:46,398 --> 01:07:50,148
♪ Just throw you on the fire ♪

1359
01:07:59,790 --> 01:08:01,463
- Wow, look at this.

1360
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:06,830
This is a device that's meant to withstand

1361
01:08:06,830 --> 01:08:08,350
the combustion of a car engine.

1362
01:08:08,350 --> 01:08:11,090
Look what's happened
to the metal in there.

1363
01:08:11,090 --> 01:08:12,363
It's completely melted,

1364
01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:17,593
so we know the heat in there
got to be pretty intense.

1365
01:08:28,340 --> 01:08:31,920
I kept feeling like there's
a block about going forward

1366
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:36,350
and now that roadblock is gone,
but the road is also gone.

1367
01:08:36,350 --> 01:08:41,307
So now we can go straight up if we want.

1368
01:08:41,307 --> 01:08:44,390
(singers vocalizing)

1369
01:08:46,734 --> 01:08:49,484
(snow crunching)

1370
01:09:00,927 --> 01:09:02,520
- "Whatever doesn't kill
you makes you stronger."

1371
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:06,472
That old saying (chuckles) is
comin' pretty true right now.

1372
01:09:06,472 --> 01:09:09,472
(soft guitar music)

1373
01:09:11,440 --> 01:09:14,790
We just got notice they are
going to replace our farm

1374
01:09:14,790 --> 01:09:16,660
with skating rinks.

1375
01:09:16,660 --> 01:09:20,160
Two professional NHL skating
rinks and two community rinks.

1376
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:22,130
So we're gonna freeze water

1377
01:09:22,130 --> 01:09:24,350
and provide more entertainment for people

1378
01:09:24,350 --> 01:09:26,513
and we're gonna get rid of the farm.

1379
01:09:26,513 --> 01:09:30,530
(soft guitar music)
(birds chirping)

1380
01:09:30,530 --> 01:09:34,463
And you know, we live in
such an entitled region.

1381
01:09:35,356 --> 01:09:36,360
And I think you know,

1382
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,140
most of the time when
it comes to technology,

1383
01:09:38,140 --> 01:09:39,180
California's way ahead.

1384
01:09:39,180 --> 01:09:42,040
But I think we're sorely
behind the country

1385
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:44,270
when it comes to this movement

1386
01:09:44,270 --> 01:09:47,660
and it's because people
think they're safe out here.

1387
01:09:47,660 --> 01:09:50,630
You look at the big
picture, nobody's safe.

1388
01:09:50,630 --> 01:09:53,260
A small earthquake that
splits the 5 freeway

1389
01:09:53,260 --> 01:09:55,360
here in Orange County one inch,

1390
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:57,230
the trucks don't roll for two months.

1391
01:09:57,230 --> 01:09:59,620
Every city has about
four days food supply.

1392
01:09:59,620 --> 01:10:02,050
Where's the food gonna come from?

1393
01:10:02,050 --> 01:10:04,370
And there's really not a lot of education

1394
01:10:04,370 --> 01:10:07,720
or people wanting to do the research.

1395
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:09,210
They really don't wanna know the answer.

1396
01:10:09,210 --> 01:10:11,183
It's kinda like ignorance is bliss.

1397
01:10:16,030 --> 01:10:18,200
Yeah, I am a little frustrated

1398
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,130
and that's part of what drives me.

1399
01:10:20,130 --> 01:10:23,890
But it's not a frustration, I'm not angry.

1400
01:10:23,890 --> 01:10:25,380
I'm very much a realist.

1401
01:10:25,380 --> 01:10:29,130
I knew goin' in that this
was fighting up a river.

1402
01:10:29,130 --> 01:10:31,730
I also knew that it was worth everything

1403
01:10:31,730 --> 01:10:33,363
I could do to throw it at it.

1404
01:10:37,210 --> 01:10:38,640
It's sad in a way,

1405
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,020
but it's good because
it's a reality check.

1406
01:10:41,020 --> 01:10:41,890
Where are we headed?

1407
01:10:41,890 --> 01:10:43,770
I mean, where are we really goin'?

1408
01:10:43,770 --> 01:10:48,410
And I think that's gonna be
defined by the political will

1409
01:10:48,410 --> 01:10:49,760
and it's gonna be defined even more

1410
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:51,603
by where we set our priorities.

1411
01:10:55,744 --> 01:10:59,090
'Bout 2010, my brother's young boy Aiden

1412
01:10:59,090 --> 01:11:01,270
had an autoimmune disease pop up

1413
01:11:01,270 --> 01:11:02,620
and this was a really tough one.

1414
01:11:02,620 --> 01:11:04,760
Both kidneys were about
on the verge of failure

1415
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,470
and they were dumping
proteins into the blood.

1416
01:11:06,470 --> 01:11:09,440
And there's no question that I believe

1417
01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:12,320
that is was a poor food, poor diet.

1418
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,220
Too much salt, oil and sugar in the diet.

1419
01:11:14,220 --> 01:11:16,430
They were just eating too much garbage.

1420
01:11:16,430 --> 01:11:19,140
And so this little boy's
immune system just collapsed

1421
01:11:19,140 --> 01:11:21,220
and next time I saw him,
he was in a hospital

1422
01:11:21,220 --> 01:11:23,240
all hooked up with pipes.

1423
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:24,670
I mean, I actually was pissed.

1424
01:11:24,670 --> 01:11:26,560
I mean, I have to admit
that was the feeling.

1425
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:27,393
I was mad.

1426
01:11:27,393 --> 01:11:29,380
And I thought, mad at my brother.

1427
01:11:29,380 --> 01:11:31,250
And of course my brother
and I didn't talk for a year

1428
01:11:31,250 --> 01:11:33,030
'cause he knew I blamed him for it.

1429
01:11:33,030 --> 01:11:35,570
But I was also mad at myself
because I said you know,

1430
01:11:35,570 --> 01:11:36,720
I gotta get out there now

1431
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:38,940
and start teaching people how to do this

1432
01:11:38,940 --> 01:11:41,860
'cause I know how to do
it and that was the moment

1433
01:11:41,860 --> 01:11:45,460
that triggered me to do it.

1434
01:11:45,460 --> 01:11:47,040
You know, a lotta people talk about it.

1435
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:49,000
But you gotta go out and do it

1436
01:11:50,410 --> 01:11:52,260
and that's really how it all started.

1437
01:11:58,196 --> 01:12:01,446
(poignant piano music)

1438
01:12:06,382 --> 01:12:08,510
- And being up here now and
being part of this company

1439
01:12:08,510 --> 01:12:11,030
and all the work that's gone into it is

1440
01:12:11,030 --> 01:12:13,520
it's doing something that I believe in

1441
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:15,553
and I know that everyone that
I'm working with believes in.

1442
01:12:15,553 --> 01:12:18,638
It's doing something that I
think can change the world.

1443
01:12:18,638 --> 01:12:19,823
(guests whistling and chattering)

1444
01:12:19,823 --> 01:12:20,656
(bottles clinking)

1445
01:12:20,656 --> 01:12:21,880
- [Robin] The vision for tonight

1446
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:24,870
was to just connect and share you know,

1447
01:12:24,870 --> 01:12:26,335
your memories and impressions about

1448
01:12:26,335 --> 01:12:27,728
what the GBH meant to you.

1449
01:12:27,728 --> 01:12:29,673
(guests applauding)

1450
01:12:29,673 --> 01:12:33,280
- I just wanted to say
that I remember very well

1451
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:36,800
all of those days lifting
panels, soldering,

1452
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:39,513
welding and I'm going hey,
I'm a computer scientist.

1453
01:12:41,130 --> 01:12:42,570
- Everybody, even today.

1454
01:12:42,570 --> 01:12:46,983
We gave so much conversation
here today about the future.

1455
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:50,800
- The phoenix is rising.

1456
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:52,323
We're on a big ride.

1457
01:12:53,521 --> 01:12:56,380
You know, we're still a small pore.

1458
01:12:56,380 --> 01:13:00,040
But you know, I think
we're just ready to expand

1459
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,542
and take things to the next level.

1460
01:13:02,542 --> 01:13:05,625
(somber piano music)

1461
01:13:12,510 --> 01:13:16,790
- And I personally invite you
to help us save the future

1462
01:13:16,790 --> 01:13:18,340
for the next one that we build.

1463
01:13:22,754 --> 01:13:24,200
- So that we're all able to realize that

1464
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:27,118
and see the next one, so thank you all.

1465
01:13:27,118 --> 01:13:30,118
(guests applauding)

1466
01:13:37,630 --> 01:13:38,530
- If you know the history,

1467
01:13:38,530 --> 01:13:41,600
we got grants from the
Department of Agriculture.

1468
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:43,620
I actually think that's what's held us up.

1469
01:13:43,620 --> 01:13:46,080
I mean, these are you know, feds

1470
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:48,720
that are supposed to be wantin' to do this

1471
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:52,130
and there was no followup
and kinda wondered

1472
01:13:52,130 --> 01:13:53,713
where'd they go and why?

1473
01:13:55,410 --> 01:13:57,270
Everybody's in the same game,

1474
01:13:57,270 --> 01:14:00,680
then you put this in and
it threatens the game.

1475
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:04,290
They were doing economic
development for the Pacific Rim.

1476
01:14:04,290 --> 01:14:08,270
So they threw an expo of technologies

1477
01:14:08,270 --> 01:14:09,640
that would affect that.

1478
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:12,090
'Course every technology applied.

1479
01:14:12,090 --> 01:14:14,250
All the new stuff was
out there and you know,

1480
01:14:14,250 --> 01:14:15,820
we just put an application in.

1481
01:14:15,820 --> 01:14:18,583
I mean, we were picked out
of you know, thousands.

1482
01:14:19,925 --> 01:14:22,940
That unto itself speaks volumes.

1483
01:14:22,940 --> 01:14:25,360
Okay so put everybody's cards on the table

1484
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:26,680
and then you pick the ones

1485
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:30,250
that you want to see change the
world and you're one of 'em.

1486
01:14:30,250 --> 01:14:32,163
You have to say somebody got it.

1487
01:14:33,150 --> 01:14:36,120
Everybody just was crazy about it

1488
01:14:38,084 --> 01:14:39,950
and that just never went anywhere.

1489
01:14:39,950 --> 01:14:42,152
And once again, the feds were involved.

1490
01:14:42,152 --> 01:14:43,330
(chuckles) You know what I mean?

1491
01:14:43,330 --> 01:14:48,330
So just sayin' when you
get the big boys involved,

1492
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:49,830
somewhere in a board meeting

1493
01:14:49,830 --> 01:14:52,624
somebody's goin', "Free energy?"

1494
01:14:52,624 --> 01:14:54,170
Yeah, maybe.

1495
01:14:54,170 --> 01:14:55,543
You know, free fuel.

1496
01:14:56,478 --> 01:14:58,363
(chuckles) You know what I mean?

1497
01:14:59,960 --> 01:15:01,540
This isn't gonna work.

1498
01:15:01,540 --> 01:15:05,410
This won't help us and
they think that's true.

1499
01:15:05,410 --> 01:15:07,330
- You know, thinking about the fire.

1500
01:15:07,330 --> 01:15:10,590
If it was arson and I'm
not saying that it is.

1501
01:15:10,590 --> 01:15:12,623
If it was, that sucks.

1502
01:15:13,990 --> 01:15:18,940
However, he's hit about every
challenge I can conceive

1503
01:15:18,940 --> 01:15:20,630
and I'm sure there's
tons that are out there

1504
01:15:20,630 --> 01:15:23,027
that I can't conceive,
but he just keeps goin'.

1505
01:15:23,027 --> 01:15:26,360
(soft intriguing music)

1506
01:15:35,150 --> 01:15:37,880
- Six years of my life has just been

1507
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:44,930
you know I can't say wasted, but

1508
01:15:46,110 --> 01:15:47,053
it's gone.

1509
01:15:48,902 --> 01:15:50,402
- You know, it was depressing.

1510
01:15:51,350 --> 01:15:52,183
But then

1511
01:15:53,900 --> 01:15:56,683
you know, what we have is each other.

1512
01:16:00,730 --> 01:16:02,860
- Michael and I have put
everything they make into it.

1513
01:16:02,860 --> 01:16:05,181
I mean she's recyclin' and
takin' the recycle money

1514
01:16:05,181 --> 01:16:07,350
and puttin' back into it,
so you know what I mean?

1515
01:16:07,350 --> 01:16:08,283
It's really that.

1516
01:16:09,940 --> 01:16:11,290
- It was hard to go out there.

1517
01:16:11,290 --> 01:16:13,883
I didn't go out there for three months.

1518
01:16:15,310 --> 01:16:17,823
There's no way I could
just go look at the rubble.

1519
01:16:20,513 --> 01:16:23,423
- Yeah, here's some old GPH scrap here.

1520
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:29,160
- When we saw that this project
was gonna consume our lives,

1521
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,653
it's like we nicknamed it our energy baby.

1522
01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:38,080
He's just got this spirit
that you see in his eyes.

1523
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:40,633
It was a love-at-first-sight kinda thing.

1524
01:16:41,690 --> 01:16:43,670
- It puts stress on a relationship.

1525
01:16:43,670 --> 01:16:45,450
Occasionally we lose our minds,

1526
01:16:45,450 --> 01:16:48,650
start screaming top of our lungs
running off into the woods.

1527
01:16:48,650 --> 01:16:51,450
Just you know, why are
we doing this, you know?

1528
01:16:51,450 --> 01:16:53,350
Anybody else would've given up by now.

1529
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:56,940
Suddenly our source of revenue,

1530
01:16:56,940 --> 01:16:58,990
our revenue stream just disappeared on us

1531
01:17:00,110 --> 01:17:03,560
and that put a lot of undue
pressure on the company.

1532
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,223
Until we get the system
up and running again,

1533
01:17:05,223 --> 01:17:08,870
it's gonna be quite a struggle
to make this all work.

1534
01:17:12,268 --> 01:17:15,295
♪ We all dream ♪

1535
01:17:15,295 --> 01:17:20,295
♪ The same dream ♪

1536
01:17:23,888 --> 01:17:25,290
♪ We all ♪

1537
01:17:25,290 --> 01:17:30,290
- Our society as a whole has
a need of a soul healing.

1538
01:17:31,340 --> 01:17:34,450
This is the reason I think
we have so many problems

1539
01:17:34,450 --> 01:17:38,203
in society today is that we
have these souls that yearn.

1540
01:17:40,370 --> 01:17:43,460
In 1985, I was completely bereft.

1541
01:17:43,460 --> 01:17:46,260
It was a February day and it was raining.

1542
01:17:46,260 --> 01:17:49,010
I had gone to a job interview
and been turned down again.

1543
01:17:49,010 --> 01:17:50,243
And I was in a suit.

1544
01:17:51,150 --> 01:17:52,810
I really felt as though society

1545
01:17:52,810 --> 01:17:55,710
had deemed me a marginal person

1546
01:17:56,670 --> 01:17:58,940
and wandered fruitlessly.

1547
01:17:58,940 --> 01:18:01,230
I knew I had to change, but I
didn't know what was changing.

1548
01:18:01,230 --> 01:18:02,770
I didn't know how it was gonna change.

1549
01:18:02,770 --> 01:18:06,097
And I had parked in a parking
lot for a community garden.

1550
01:18:06,097 --> 01:18:09,014
(soft piano music)

1551
01:18:12,530 --> 01:18:14,880
I got out of the car in the rain

1552
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:16,483
and walked through that garden.

1553
01:18:23,750 --> 01:18:27,343
There was a feeling of such
hopelessness and despair

1554
01:18:27,343 --> 01:18:30,490
that there was no reason to continue.

1555
01:18:30,490 --> 01:18:32,550
There was no reason to go on.

1556
01:18:32,550 --> 01:18:35,520
And yet walking through that garden

1557
01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:39,007
somehow reaffirmed my worth
because I knew these plants

1558
01:18:39,007 --> 01:18:41,559
and these plants were talking to me.

1559
01:18:41,559 --> 01:18:44,514
♪ We all dream ♪

1560
01:18:44,514 --> 01:18:47,823
♪ The same dream ♪

1561
01:18:47,823 --> 01:18:50,906
(singers vocalizing)

1562
01:18:52,605 --> 01:18:55,738
♪ We all dream ♪

1563
01:18:55,738 --> 01:18:58,488
♪ The same dream ♪

1564
01:19:01,860 --> 01:19:03,927
- I reached out to the Girl Scouts

1565
01:19:03,927 --> 01:19:06,730
and they still haven't gotten back to me.

1566
01:19:06,730 --> 01:19:08,980
You never know what
could be happening there.

1567
01:19:09,910 --> 01:19:11,510
What trouble could be happening.

1568
01:19:12,630 --> 01:19:15,130
They're either busy or
they're just not listening,

1569
01:19:16,637 --> 01:19:18,337
but we're still gonna keep trying.

1570
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:20,920
- Hi, Alicia.

1571
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:21,753
How you doin'?

1572
01:19:24,100 --> 01:19:27,680
Cannot have food security if
you cannot be seed-secure.

1573
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:30,370
- I met David King and
he talked to me about

1574
01:19:30,370 --> 01:19:32,200
how seeds are really important.

1575
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:33,330
- These people are telling us

1576
01:19:33,330 --> 01:19:36,040
that they're gonna feed the world, right?

1577
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:39,180
With less diversity
than what we had before.

1578
01:19:39,180 --> 01:19:40,880
And that's not the way towards abundance,

1579
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,490
that's the way towards starvation.

1580
01:19:43,490 --> 01:19:45,150
- Some seeds have already gone extinct

1581
01:19:45,150 --> 01:19:46,660
because people aren't saving 'em.

1582
01:19:46,660 --> 01:19:50,760
And if we don't save seeds
and all of 'em are gone,

1583
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:52,230
we won't have food.

1584
01:19:52,230 --> 01:19:54,980
- Anytime you engage nature
in a fight, you're losing.

1585
01:19:54,980 --> 01:19:56,680
You're going to lose sooner or later.

1586
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:58,450
And look it, we got super weeds now.

1587
01:19:58,450 --> 01:20:00,890
We've got super insects now.

1588
01:20:00,890 --> 01:20:04,630
These people inventing these
GMOs, were they creationists?

1589
01:20:04,630 --> 01:20:06,640
Did they think that the
bugs and the insects

1590
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:07,950
weren't going to change?

1591
01:20:07,950 --> 01:20:09,410
Good grief, no.

1592
01:20:09,410 --> 01:20:11,880
That's why I think having a seed library

1593
01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:13,000
where the seeds are growin' out

1594
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:15,200
year after year, they respond.

1595
01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:18,450
There's a dance in nature
where the plant gets better,

1596
01:20:18,450 --> 01:20:20,270
the weeds get better, insects get better.

1597
01:20:20,270 --> 01:20:21,586
The plant gets better,
the weeds get better,

1598
01:20:21,586 --> 01:20:24,840
the insects get better and
that evolution is important

1599
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:27,090
and it's important for our food.

1600
01:20:27,090 --> 01:20:31,550
It's important for the
entire balance of things.

1601
01:20:31,550 --> 01:20:33,370
- The amount of extension that's going on

1602
01:20:33,370 --> 01:20:35,410
in seed variety is unprecedented.

1603
01:20:35,410 --> 01:20:38,050
Now that's the source of
our agricultural diversity.

1604
01:20:38,050 --> 01:20:40,320
That's the source of our food security.

1605
01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:42,670
Especially the time of
global climate change.

1606
01:20:42,670 --> 01:20:44,810
If the biotech industry has their way,

1607
01:20:44,810 --> 01:20:46,360
they eliminate that diversity

1608
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:51,360
and put the entire food security
at risk for greater profit.

1609
01:20:51,590 --> 01:20:53,990
- So we are creating
a food scarcity system

1610
01:20:53,990 --> 01:20:56,060
in the name of providing food.

1611
01:20:56,060 --> 01:20:59,700
My own work is at the level
of ecological science.

1612
01:20:59,700 --> 01:21:01,890
I look at farming systems as a whole,

1613
01:21:01,890 --> 01:21:04,480
how biodiversity produces more nutrition

1614
01:21:04,480 --> 01:21:07,121
when you save the seeds
and grow the foods.

1615
01:21:07,121 --> 01:21:07,954
- What do you think?

1616
01:21:07,954 --> 01:21:09,890
You wanna start a seed
library at your school?

1617
01:21:09,890 --> 01:21:10,723
- Mm-hmm.
- Is that something

1618
01:21:10,723 --> 01:21:12,179
you think you could be in charge of?

1619
01:21:12,179 --> 01:21:13,823
- Yeah.
- Yeah?

1620
01:21:15,340 --> 01:21:17,510
- [Vandana] You can destroy everything.

1621
01:21:17,510 --> 01:21:20,640
You can take away our
books and our writings

1622
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:22,490
and destroy our cultures.

1623
01:21:22,490 --> 01:21:25,520
You can kill every tree 'til no bird,

1624
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:29,050
no insect can find a place to hide.

1625
01:21:29,050 --> 01:21:30,330
You can do that and more.

1626
01:21:30,330 --> 01:21:32,093
I do not fear your tyranny.

1627
01:21:33,450 --> 01:21:36,640
I do not despair ever
because I saved one seed

1628
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:38,663
which I will sow and plant again.

1629
01:21:42,780 --> 01:21:44,720
- Everybody thinks water's
the biggest problem we have

1630
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:46,800
and oil, right?

1631
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:47,660
That's what you always hear.

1632
01:21:47,660 --> 01:21:49,720
We got big energy problems.

1633
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:51,320
Well what's the most important energy

1634
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:53,170
that you guys are dealing with every day?

1635
01:21:53,170 --> 01:21:55,870
The most important, what is it called?

1636
01:21:55,870 --> 01:21:57,170
Food.

1637
01:21:57,170 --> 01:21:59,503
So what's the problem with our food today?

1638
01:22:01,100 --> 01:22:02,490
Anybody know?

1639
01:22:02,490 --> 01:22:03,620
Okay, it's not healthy.

1640
01:22:03,620 --> 01:22:04,820
That's a really great answer.

1641
01:22:04,820 --> 01:22:08,163
It travels so far most of
the time that it's dead.

1642
01:22:09,350 --> 01:22:11,630
You guys are all young and
you guys are being subjected

1643
01:22:11,630 --> 01:22:14,410
to a food supply that's in bags

1644
01:22:14,410 --> 01:22:15,860
and you know, it's not natural.

1645
01:22:15,860 --> 01:22:19,650
You're hardly ever eating
food that you just pick

1646
01:22:19,650 --> 01:22:21,800
you know, right out of a good clean soil

1647
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:23,490
that has high nutrition in it,

1648
01:22:23,490 --> 01:22:25,810
so this system actually
allows you to do that.

1649
01:22:25,810 --> 01:22:28,880
So we can lay these out
over the top of cement.

1650
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:30,480
We can put 'em on a parking lot.

1651
01:22:31,710 --> 01:22:34,810
There's about 40 square miles

1652
01:22:34,810 --> 01:22:37,380
of unused land in Orange County

1653
01:22:37,380 --> 01:22:39,030
and Los Angeles County right now.

1654
01:22:39,030 --> 01:22:40,580
Unused.

1655
01:22:40,580 --> 01:22:44,260
- The whole idea for the
garden I think came from

1656
01:22:44,260 --> 01:22:49,000
just wanting access to better nutrition.

1657
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:51,423
I just thought school
garden would be cool.

1658
01:22:52,700 --> 01:22:54,100
- Rather than selling Girl Scout cookies,

1659
01:22:54,100 --> 01:22:55,910
they had raised money already

1660
01:22:55,910 --> 01:22:57,323
for a future school garden.

1661
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:04,280
- I drew some examples of what
we should get with the money.

1662
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:06,440
So when it was grass,

1663
01:23:06,440 --> 01:23:09,180
we had to figure out where
the the bed would go.

1664
01:23:09,180 --> 01:23:10,770
- The suggestion of the
city of Mission Viejo

1665
01:23:10,770 --> 01:23:12,470
was let's just spray it with Roundup.

1666
01:23:12,470 --> 01:23:13,417
And so obviously we said,

1667
01:23:13,417 --> 01:23:17,110
"That's not gonna work
for our organic garden."

1668
01:23:17,110 --> 01:23:19,370
We're able to break ground
and got some beds in there

1669
01:23:19,370 --> 01:23:21,743
and little-by-little
it's just kinda grown.

1670
01:23:23,039 --> 01:23:25,317
- [Erik] What are the
things that plants need?

1671
01:23:25,317 --> 01:23:26,970
- Air.
- Air,

1672
01:23:26,970 --> 01:23:28,280
sun,

1673
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:29,950
water and what's the last one?

1674
01:23:29,950 --> 01:23:31,260
Nutrients, you just hit it.

1675
01:23:31,260 --> 01:23:35,690
And by the way, four things
that our own bodies need, right?

1676
01:23:35,690 --> 01:23:38,283
So look at this soil and
pretend it's your blood.

1677
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:40,450
Whatever's in that soil,

1678
01:23:40,450 --> 01:23:43,080
soon as you eat that
plant, it's in your blood.

1679
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:44,730
We're goin' to teach you to fish.

1680
01:23:44,730 --> 01:23:47,190
We're not gonna give you
a fish and guess what?

1681
01:23:47,190 --> 01:23:49,460
When you guys learn this,
you're gonna be independent.

1682
01:23:49,460 --> 01:23:50,930
You're gonna be safe, kay?

1683
01:23:50,930 --> 01:23:52,820
That's total security when you guys know

1684
01:23:52,820 --> 01:23:54,120
how to grow your own food.

1685
01:23:55,353 --> 01:23:58,120
- And then now, we have the garden.

1686
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:01,763
People are having a
good experience with it.

1687
01:24:03,195 --> 01:24:06,560
(soft vocal music)

1688
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:08,220
- When I see our garden space,

1689
01:24:08,220 --> 01:24:10,593
it makes me think like this
is just a mini little world

1690
01:24:10,593 --> 01:24:12,780
that we created here on campus

1691
01:24:12,780 --> 01:24:14,330
when I see the butterflies flying around

1692
01:24:14,330 --> 01:24:16,170
or when I see a hummingbird or the bee,

1693
01:24:16,170 --> 01:24:18,330
it's just a whole
completely different picture

1694
01:24:18,330 --> 01:24:19,630
than just growing food.

1695
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:23,210
There's nothing that's
ever gonna compare to like

1696
01:24:23,210 --> 01:24:26,990
saying your child or
you helped plant a seed

1697
01:24:26,990 --> 01:24:29,710
and you watched it grow and I ate it.

1698
01:24:29,710 --> 01:24:31,077
Nothing really compares to that.

1699
01:24:31,077 --> 01:24:32,830
That's something that money can't buy.

1700
01:24:32,830 --> 01:24:34,960
We give to the plants
and the plants give to us

1701
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:38,560
and I think it's remembering
that cycle and remembering that

1702
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,580
it's not the world and nature and then us.

1703
01:24:41,580 --> 01:24:43,480
We have to mutually live together.

1704
01:24:43,480 --> 01:24:46,200
Because the fact is if we forget that,

1705
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:47,500
there's gonna come a point in time

1706
01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:49,224
where we're gonna destroy that.

1707
01:24:49,224 --> 01:24:52,307
(singers vocalizing)

1708
01:24:55,389 --> 01:24:58,556
(soft soothing music)

1709
01:24:59,710 --> 01:25:00,543
- We have to keep goin'.

1710
01:25:00,543 --> 01:25:04,210
We have to keep pushing
forward on this, you know?

1711
01:25:04,210 --> 01:25:07,903
You can see right now, the
planetary systems are in trouble.

1712
01:25:09,830 --> 01:25:11,536
At this point in my
life, I kinda look at it

1713
01:25:11,536 --> 01:25:15,520
and I go, wow I can't
imagine doing anything else.

1714
01:25:15,520 --> 01:25:16,790
Tell you the truth.

1715
01:25:16,790 --> 01:25:19,640
So you're like what, I'm gonna
go back and make video games?

1716
01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:22,483
I mean, how meaningful is that?

1717
01:25:22,483 --> 01:25:23,333
(chuckles) Right?

1718
01:25:24,270 --> 01:25:26,680
Let's go make a whole bunch of money.

1719
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:29,210
How meaningful is that when you can't eat

1720
01:25:29,210 --> 01:25:31,903
or there's no water, you know?

1721
01:25:33,550 --> 01:25:34,383
It's crazy.

1722
01:25:35,594 --> 01:25:38,927
(soft intriguing music)

1723
01:25:44,930 --> 01:25:46,740
- There's hard work that needs to be done

1724
01:25:46,740 --> 01:25:51,330
and it's not pretty,
but it needs to be done.

1725
01:25:51,330 --> 01:25:55,883
Those alert enough among
us are obligated to help.

1726
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,100
You don't get points for
doin' the right thing

1727
01:25:59,100 --> 01:26:00,830
and that's the right thing.

1728
01:26:00,830 --> 01:26:01,883
Just have to do it.

1729
01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:05,980
- Many cases, it's just as simple as

1730
01:26:05,980 --> 01:26:08,250
becoming more connected to your community,

1731
01:26:08,250 --> 01:26:09,870
thinking more locally

1732
01:26:09,870 --> 01:26:12,560
and realizing that every
community has assets,

1733
01:26:12,560 --> 01:26:15,700
whether it's people or organizations

1734
01:26:15,700 --> 01:26:18,270
or even resources that they can draw on

1735
01:26:19,220 --> 01:26:20,590
to find solutions.

1736
01:26:20,590 --> 01:26:22,760
- So what's happening now with Internet

1737
01:26:22,760 --> 01:26:24,190
and with independent media

1738
01:26:24,190 --> 01:26:26,170
is people are realizing
that they're not alone

1739
01:26:26,170 --> 01:26:29,550
and that these fantastic
values community-based

1740
01:26:29,550 --> 01:26:31,250
and proper agriculture,
et cetera, et cetera.

1741
01:26:31,250 --> 01:26:33,700
They're all actually on the rise

1742
01:26:33,700 --> 01:26:35,333
enormously around the planet.

1743
01:26:36,620 --> 01:26:38,642
- The rule of evolution is those organisms

1744
01:26:38,642 --> 01:26:40,850
that are gonna adapt to change, triumph.

1745
01:26:40,850 --> 01:26:42,090
Listen, all hands on deck.

1746
01:26:42,090 --> 01:26:43,670
Not only just of humans,

1747
01:26:43,670 --> 01:26:46,330
but it's very important that
we preserve biodiversity

1748
01:26:46,330 --> 01:26:48,750
because biodiversity is biosecurity.

1749
01:26:48,750 --> 01:26:51,720
So keeping that all in
balance is the eloquent dance

1750
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:53,740
that we have to be involved in

1751
01:26:53,740 --> 01:26:56,543
as we dance across the
landscapes through our lives.

1752
01:26:58,110 --> 01:27:01,983
- [Rosario] The future of our
food system is in our hands.

1753
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:05,190
Agriculture can either erode our planet

1754
01:27:05,190 --> 01:27:06,790
to the point of no return

1755
01:27:07,700 --> 01:27:11,310
or it can become a regenerative
force to heal our soils,

1756
01:27:11,310 --> 01:27:15,970
restore ecosystems and
create true food security.

1757
01:27:15,970 --> 01:27:19,010
The actions taken within
the next few years

1758
01:27:19,010 --> 01:27:23,630
will have ramifications
lasting for generations.

1759
01:27:23,630 --> 01:27:28,630
- In life, the phrase "It's
too late," doesn't work.

1760
01:27:29,860 --> 01:27:31,830
Life is about renewal.

1761
01:27:31,830 --> 01:27:33,940
Life is about healing.

1762
01:27:33,940 --> 01:27:38,120
Life is about bursting forth
again and again and again.

1763
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:42,203
(inspirational orchestral music)

1764
01:27:45,397 --> 01:27:47,347
- [David] I look around I see children

1765
01:27:47,347 --> 01:27:50,990
and I think that we got to try for them.

1766
01:27:50,990 --> 01:27:51,823
- Take a couple.

1767
01:27:54,810 --> 01:27:55,800
- You know and the

1768
01:27:57,700 --> 01:28:01,880
honest truth is that as long as

1769
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:04,483
I can breathe, there's a reason to try.

1770
01:28:05,570 --> 01:28:10,570
If it can be averted or
even partially averted,

1771
01:28:10,870 --> 01:28:12,940
what comes after me?

1772
01:28:12,940 --> 01:28:14,113
I owe that to them.

1773
01:28:17,620 --> 01:28:19,140
- [Rosario] Solutions and opportunities

1774
01:28:19,140 --> 01:28:21,850
are happening everywhere.

1775
01:28:21,850 --> 01:28:25,400
People from all walks of
life are shopping organic,

1776
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:27,900
supporting local regenerative farmers

1777
01:28:27,900 --> 01:28:31,010
and even growing some of their own food.

1778
01:28:31,010 --> 01:28:32,850
Whether you have lots of land,

1779
01:28:32,850 --> 01:28:36,380
a small backyard or even just a balcony,

1780
01:28:36,380 --> 01:28:38,653
solutions like vertical farming,

1781
01:28:40,070 --> 01:28:40,903
composting,

1782
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:42,593
biochar,

1783
01:28:43,830 --> 01:28:44,840
seed saving

1784
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:48,540
and school gardens are all ways

1785
01:28:48,540 --> 01:28:51,763
to protect and support our planet's soils.

1786
01:28:55,690 --> 01:28:56,780
- [Erik] I'm lookin' at the connection

1787
01:28:56,780 --> 01:29:01,676
of soil health equals human
health equals planet health.

1788
01:29:01,676 --> 01:29:05,259
(soft inspirational music)

1789
01:29:07,940 --> 01:29:10,980
The solution is access
to nutrient-dense food.

1790
01:29:10,980 --> 01:29:12,310
But there are very few places

1791
01:29:12,310 --> 01:29:17,000
where people can actually
see, taste, feel, participate

1792
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:21,543
in interactive farm if you will,
that makes that connection.

1793
01:29:26,065 --> 01:29:27,900
- [Alicia] I just wanted the
world to be a better place

1794
01:29:27,900 --> 01:29:32,900
and it's kind of exciting to
see that stuff is changing.

1795
01:29:33,213 --> 01:29:36,796
(soft inspirational music)

1796
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:50,210
- [Michael] What else do we have to do

1797
01:29:50,210 --> 01:29:52,183
that's of any importance?

1798
01:29:53,040 --> 01:29:56,076
Now what kind of legacy
do we wanna leave behind

1799
01:29:56,076 --> 01:29:57,533
for the future generations?

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01:29:58,650 --> 01:30:01,870
- [Rosario] With only 60 years
of farmable soil remaining,

1801
01:30:01,870 --> 01:30:05,470
how to feed the world
without destroying the earth

1802
01:30:05,470 --> 01:30:07,683
is truly the issue of our time.

1803
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:11,970
To say that we care about
the future of this planet,

1804
01:30:11,970 --> 01:30:15,440
to say that we care about
the survival of our species

1805
01:30:15,440 --> 01:30:19,303
and to not take action is
simply no longer an option.

1806
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:24,620
As active participants in our
interconnected food ecosystem,

1807
01:30:24,620 --> 01:30:26,160
we each have the power

1808
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:28,543
to help heal this planet we call home.

1809
01:30:29,530 --> 01:30:34,333
Everybody eats and everybody
can be part of the solution.

1810
01:30:51,893 --> 01:30:55,027
- [Michael] It was never
about this one system.

1811
01:30:55,027 --> 01:30:56,550
It was about demonstrating an example

1812
01:30:56,550 --> 01:30:59,150
of how we can take care of
ourselves and the planet.

1813
01:31:00,116 --> 01:31:03,324
("Saeglopur" by Sigur Ros)

1814
01:31:03,324 --> 01:31:06,620
(singer singing foreign language)

1815
01:31:06,620 --> 01:31:10,380
It's really about
presenting a way of thinking

1816
01:31:10,380 --> 01:31:14,680
in terms of closed-loop renewable systems.

1817
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:16,980
We need energy, we need food

1818
01:31:16,980 --> 01:31:20,160
and we can live in
harmony with the planet.

1819
01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:21,477
I believe we can.

1820
01:31:27,540 --> 01:31:30,610
There is an urgency to the situation

1821
01:31:30,610 --> 01:31:32,353
we're facing on this planet.

1822
01:31:33,820 --> 01:31:35,960
A lot of us can see it.

1823
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:37,733
We know it, we feel it,

1824
01:31:37,733 --> 01:31:40,123
but it seems like it's overwhelming.

1825
01:31:42,010 --> 01:31:45,010
But we can solve these problems.

1826
01:31:45,010 --> 01:31:46,130
It's not too late.

1827
01:31:47,420 --> 01:31:49,650
We can do much better.

1828
01:31:49,650 --> 01:31:53,233
(soft inspirational music)

1829
01:32:09,325 --> 01:32:12,408
(singers vocalizing)

1830
01:33:59,105 --> 01:34:02,938
(intriguing orchestral music)

1831
01:34:20,028 --> 01:34:23,280
♪ We all dream ♪

1832
01:34:23,280 --> 01:34:28,280
♪ The same dream ♪

1833
01:34:31,633 --> 01:34:34,783
♪ We all dream ♪

1834
01:34:34,783 --> 01:34:37,533
♪ The same dream ♪

1835
01:34:47,043 --> 01:34:50,460
(intriguing piano music)