The moment we’ve been waiting for is finally here. Kiss the Ground movie is available to stream on Netflix, September 22!
Right now, soil might be the last thing on your mind. But in a moment when the future of our Planet and humankind is at stake, nothing may be more important than regenerating the ground beneath us. Watch Kiss The Ground for a virtual rally around a new, old solution to climate change.
Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.
Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary that unearths the truth about our industrial agricultural systems and its devastating impacts on our environment. The film sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
The movie has been a decade long journey. Initial footage for the film was shot 9 years ago in Africa by Executive Producer Ian Somerhalder, who together with the film’s directors, Josh and Rebecca Tickell – along with Kiss The Ground a not for profit organisation – worked to make a movie that showed viewers how to turn deserts back into lush ecosystems while reversing climate change. Kiss the Ground is a premier online educational hub for regenerative agriculture, offering an online “pathway” for anyone to find resources and their unique way forward in contributing to this expanding global movement.
It’s time to Heal – From the Ground up
Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilise Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle.
This movie is positioned to catalyse a movement to accomplish the impossible – to solve humanity’s greatest challenge, to balance the climate, and to secure our species’ future. In the words of Ian Somerhalder, “We can get the Earth back to the Garden of Eden that it once was by regeneration.”
Kiss The Ground: The organisation
Seven years ago, a group of friends gathered in Ryland Engelhart’s living room in Venice, CA, inspired by one thing – healthy soil microbes, working with plants and animals, can sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Our inspirational weekly meetings became the nonprofit Kiss the Ground. The first attention was to soil carbon sequestration, but as they learned more they discovered that communities all over the world have been pushing forward “regeneration.”
Many indigenous communities have always practised a regenerative, stewardship relationship to the planet, although they never called it “regeneration”. In the decades before these friends sat in Ryland’s living room people such as The Regenesis Group, Carol Sanford, Bob Rodale, and Allan Savory were using the word, and bringing forward a “regenerative” vision for the future. It became Kiss The Ground’s guiding vision.
Great doco. Only a few things stand out as curious though:
Why are the farmers shown, so obese? Doesn’t it say that even with regenerative agriculture, they are still growing the wrong species and eating the wrong foods? Modern crops embrace rubbish produce to make food that is not worth eating.
And the woman who spoke on soil vs dirt had a clutch of children in her family that resounds of the lack of planetary responsibility. We do have a Family Sized Climate Crisis on our hands due to global over-population. Sustainability starts at home.