Soil, for the food you grow to eat, share, or sell. Much about a green, growing area is passive income for is.
Another option is lobbying your elected officials to regulate in the interest of healthier land, water, and air, which will help you and many others.
Making something useful and giving it away (or charging a nominal amount for hosting costs, or asking others to help with that to keep the use-barriers low) is an investment in other people that may continue paying dividends long after you’re dead.
No need for soil for some plants. Check-out Hydroponics[0] no need soil for farming. You could grow indoors or outdoors. That's free food for the future. There's a lot of ongoing hype in this right now. Youtube, facebook groups, reddit, blogs . . .
Yes, and soil can be such a rich place for life to exist and carry on. Hydroponics is cool and useful, and I’m going to keep converting my previously-grass yard into meadow, woodland, and no-till farm because I love the feeling of being surrounded by so much life, above and below.
Soil is also a carbon-sink. At the Bell Museum in the Twin Cities there are examples of prairie grasses whose roots went down about six feet (maybe more; trying to be conservative here).
I live in a graveyard of massive, long-dead tree-stumps, new trees around my age. What it used to be I like to imagine and to help bring about again, for its own sake.
Soil, for the food you grow to eat, share, or sell. Much about a green, growing area is passive income for is.
Another option is lobbying your elected officials to regulate in the interest of healthier land, water, and air, which will help you and many others.
Making something useful and giving it away (or charging a nominal amount for hosting costs, or asking others to help with that to keep the use-barriers low) is an investment in other people that may continue paying dividends long after you’re dead.