The Senate Honors Soil
I just received this email from a staffer in the U.S. Senate:
"On Monday, the Senate passed a resolution honoring soil. That’s right. Soil. I mean, isn’t soil happy to let its accomplishments speak for themselves? Sustaining life, surviving for millions of years, etc. Does it really need a nonbinding resolution to make it feel important? Seems if we were going to do something for soil we ought to at least give it a Congressional Gold Medal or something. The first sentence says it recognizes soil as an essential natural resource. I have always wondered whether soil is an essential natural resource, and now I know. The Senate has spoken."
Here's the resolution. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sponsored it. Here are the six co-sponsors:
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Ken Salazar (D-CO)
George Voinovich (R-OH)
