What is Planetary Health?

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The planet is alive. This ecstatic skin of the Earth that stretches but a few miles up and down is teeming with critters, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria. We don’t just live on the planet, we live because of it. We’re creatures, very smart apes, whose blood and breath and food exist as a result of the Earth’s vast, generative biogeochemical power. No wonder, then, that planetary health...

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Nordic Farm property co-owner Benjamin Dobson and officials from ¶¶Òõ̽̽ and the USDA's Agricultural Research Service sign a long-term lease agreement on the antique desk that belonged to Vermont Senator Justin Morrill—author of the Land-Grant College Act of 1862—with Anson Tebbetts, Vermont’s Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets. Photo credit: Joshua Defibaugh, ¶¶Òõ̽̽.

¶¶Òõ̽̽ Leases Nordic Farm for Agricultural Research and Teaching

On an antique desk that belonged to Vermont Senator Justin Morrill, the father of the land-grant university system, representatives from ¶¶Òõ̽̽ on Thursday signed a 30-year lease of approximately 400 acres of farmland for long-term agricultural research use in partnership with the U.S.

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Larner Scientist Maps Fruit Fly Brain

A team of scientists supported by the , including Davi Bock, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences at ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Robert Larner, M.D.

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