Welcome to the Land & Leadership Initiative:
a deeply participatory, community-driven school
led by author and soil sponge strategist Didi Pershouse.
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Human and environmental health begins with the soil and grows upward from there.
The Land and Leadership Initiative (LALI) was founded with the goal of creating healthier, more resilient, and more empowered communities by focusing on the regeneration of healthy soil. The "soil carbon sponge" is the infrastructure that makes life on land possible. A healthy soil sponge soaks up rain, filters water, and maintains its structural integrity even when wet, thereby preventing flooding, drought, wildfires, erosion, mudslides, and algae blooms. |
Our courses are geared towards people who want to organize or lead soil health initiatives in their own regions.
We have a strong focus on methods for communicating more effectively about soil's central role in preventing extreme weather events, public health, and thriving economies. We welcome people from all backgrounds in these courses, and we usually have an international group of farmers, ranchers, policy makers, teachers, college students, scientists, engineers, and others who see the potential to make big changes by putting soil at the center. |
If you want to learn how to make your farm more resilient to droughts and floods, then here is your chance!
Didi is fantastic at explaining how to fix our broken water cycle.
— Gail Fuller, Farmer
Our courses are designed to give you the tools to facilitate, lead, and support soil health initiatives in your own region. We aim to empower you with an understanding of whole-systems view of landscape function, communication strategies, and a well-founded hope for the future.
NEXT COURSE STARTS February 26th, 2019
Regenerating the Soil Carbon Sponge for Flood, Drought, and Wildfire Resilience: Six-Week Intensive on Whole Systems Landscape Function
This course will introduce you to inexpensive principles for land management that will help turn your yard, farm, or ranch back into an effective soil sponge to build flood, drought and wildfire resilience in your neighborhood and region. These principles are already being used with success around the world.
This course is perfect for people interested in leading and supporting initiatives in their own regions--and who would like to have a community of people with whom they can discuss strategies. It serves as a grounding in land systems theory and as a prerequisite for joining our participant-driven strategy sessions with leading teachers in the soil health movement.
My teaching style is specifically geared towards creating “communities of practice,” working groups of closely-connected people with common goals. If you are committed to creating a world that works, and are ready to learn a new way of seeing landscapes, water, and people, then you are the right person to attend.
This course is perfect for people interested in leading and supporting initiatives in their own regions--and who would like to have a community of people with whom they can discuss strategies. It serves as a grounding in land systems theory and as a prerequisite for joining our participant-driven strategy sessions with leading teachers in the soil health movement.
My teaching style is specifically geared towards creating “communities of practice,” working groups of closely-connected people with common goals. If you are committed to creating a world that works, and are ready to learn a new way of seeing landscapes, water, and people, then you are the right person to attend.
I can’t speak highly enough of Didi’s work. If you’d like to understand soil health and regeneration: this is a must.
— Gregory Landua, CEO of Regen Network