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Cheterrapesti – The Earth Beneath Your Feet
This issue offers a timely reminder that soil is never only soil. It is measurement and policy, certainly, but also atmosphere, food, cities, memory, work, and education. From the push for harmonized monitoring across Europe to evidence that a global majority now places environmental protection ahead of economic growth, the message is clear: the knowledge base is strengthening even as the policy response remains uneven. That tension runs through stories on methane leaks, persistent fluorinated pollution, Saharan dust, land take, and the slow reshaping of Italian landscapes.
Yet the most compelling feature of this issue is its refusal to separate science from society. Participatory mapping at Tar Creek, CURIOSOIL’s soil-literacy work, climate-aware school meals, urban-farm partnerships, artistic documentation, and citizen sensing all show that environmental understanding becomes more powerful when it is shared. The research selections deepen that point: overplowing weakens soil structure, wildfire amplifies erosion, soil moisture sharpens flood warnings, and crop rotation and microbial dynamics matter for resilience. Together, these entries do more than inform. They invite careful reading, because they show that constructive action begins where rigorous evidence meets public imagination.
Francesco Malucelli
on behalf of Cheterrapesti Team
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CTR Educazione alla sostenibilità e Reporting ambientale- Arpae ER
(Sustainability Education and Environmental reporting Unit - Regional Agency for Prevention, Environment and Energy of Emilia-Romagna)
Largo Caduti del Lavoro, 6 – 40122 Bologna, Italy
educazione@arpae.it
www.arpae.it/it/temi-ambientali/educazione_alla_sostenibilita
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