Kiss the Ground

[Netflix Only] Actor and environmentalist Woody Harrelson narrates this educational, eye-opening, candid, ire-inducing, 84-minute documentary dominated by awesome cinematography in which experts discuss the ways that overuse of fertilizer and pesticides (and changes in government farm policy and programs that support these industries) in the last 50 to 60 years has degraded soil fertility and severely threatens our capacity to meet our future needs, while explaining how "regenerative agriculture" can reduce desertification, curb global warming, restore and detoxify water supplies, reduce carbon emissions, and feed the world and consists of interview snippets with conservation agronomist Ray Archuleta, Marin Carbon Project cofounder John Wick, The Soil Will Save Us author Kristin Ohlson, scientists Kristine Nichols and Paul Hawkens, Cleveland Center for Functional Medicine Director Mark Hyman, regenerative ranchers Gabe Brown and Doniga Markega, environmental activists (such as Ian Somerhalder, Patricia Arquette, David Arquette, and Rosario Dawson,), Recology PR Manager Robert Reed, Nature Conservancy member Michael Doane, U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Gisele Bündchen, football player Tom Brady, Rodale Institute Chairman and CEO Maria Rodale, California Governor Gavin Newsome, Holistic Management founder Allan Savory, Rangeland Director Jeff Creque, Los Angeles Compost Michael Martinez, French Agricultural Minister Stéphane Le Foll, ecologist John D. Liu, Organics International President André Leu, Detroit Dirt Founder Pashon Murray, singer/songwriter Jason Mraz, and Kiss the Ground Executive Director Ryland Engelhart.
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