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What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How we can help? I write, talk, and advise. We also host offsite/retreats here in France .

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23 Feb 2025960214210724207

Agriculture has been built and managed as a linear input-output system, a framework that fits neatly within industrial logic but bears no resemblance to how biological systems actually function.

When a farm is treated as a linear system, the response to glyphosate dependency is

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The phyllosphere - the leaf-surface microbiome - is an above ground microbial system that shapes crop vitality with "equal reach and sophistication to what occurs in the soil"

The phyllosphere - the leaf-surface microbiome - is an above ground microbial system that shapes crop vitality with "equal reach and sophistication to what occurs in the soil"
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The phyllosphere, the microbial community on leaf and stem surfaces, covers roughly one billion square kilometers globally. It is Earth’s largest terrestrial habitat for microbes, and it’s been overlooked by agriculture.

A single gram of leaf tissue carries ten million bacterial

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‘I won't work; I cannot work with anybody who justifies or supports the israeli genocide,’ says Spanish actor Javier Bardem | via @BladeoftheS

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We’ve spent decades degrading the invisible life that underpins ecosystems 🦠

Now comes the harder question: how do we #restore it?
Our new paper in Nature Reviews Microbiology explores how to rebuild #microbiomes in soils & sediments in the Anthropocene:

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Restoring soil and sediment microbiomes in the Anthropocene

Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Wood and colleagues discuss how anthropogenic pressures are degrading so...

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