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The Green Deal

by Laura Ruiz (Soil Ambassador), Spain (Translated from Spanish) At the moment I have not started with the compost projects to be able to go to my town to do the trial, which I hoped I could. This year there have been more tasks to do here, in Madrid, on a day-to-day basis than I would have liked! But that doesn´t mean I am ceasing to be the best Soil Ambassador that I can be in every moment ... As you know, on the 11th (of December) they signed the Green Deal or Green Pact in Brussels. Well, in the afternoon I attended a Citizen Dialogue which I had been invited to participate in for a couple of weeks. The afternoon of the eleventh we spent creating proposals among almost two hundred young people, which were presented to the Executive Vice President of the Green Pact Frans Timmermans. Twenty-three proposals were created, and I promoted one on land management. There was a lot of interest and we made a great team. The proposals were both agricultural and urban. In the voting, we ca

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Click on the video to learn more about Raising Peace and the training that was the beginning of the Soil4Life Manifesto. The manifesto has been launched and we are asking for comments and feedback to collectively create a powerful document.  Click on the link below to participate. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oTtglm8sT9Qsrh2p2AFKD0QkNulPlBvAGm_8mwAzQwk/edit