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Challenging a prevailing story of how soils are built and, in the process, challenging the centuries-old, materialist story of how the world is built
 • Scott Dierks
Wrong fork in the road: the problem with human exceptionalism
Trying to reconcile Western Science with Aboriginal Cosmology
 • Scott Dierks
Moisture Recycling - Roots of the Sky, p2: The Amazon Rainforest
The namesake post for my Substack – the entry I’ve been planning and working towards for more than a year now – is finally here.
 • Scott Dierks
Moisture Recycling: Roots of the Sky, Pt.1 - The Piedmont and Coastal Loblolly Forests of North Carolina
Trees help make rain to re-water themselves and sometimes, it is a last ditch, hopeful attempt to stave off complete dehydration.
 • Scott Dierks
The Push-me, pull-you of plant water: circulation without a heart
Plant and ecosystem resilience is built from diversity – diversity within individuals, diversity between individuals and across species.
 • Scott Dierks
Pedogenesis: Making a Home
The world is so diverse because it is made up of individuals confronting and improving their unique circumstances through cooperation, evolution and…
 • Scott Dierks
Plant Brains and Root Architecture
What began as an engineering comparison of the soils under native plant communities and culivated land has turned into an investigation into what it…
 • Scott Dierks
Roots of the Sky
Roots of the Sky
Writing about how plant communities make the living world possible, managing energy, carbon and water in the thin space around the rock we call home.
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