On July 6, 2009 at Mold the Lower Austrian soil plate was revealed offically.

„Active soil protection, this means to Lower Austria: Yes, we will develop settlements in an orderly fashion, yes, we stand for environment-friendly, production-oriented soil and agricultural cultivation,

In the first Lower Austrian member region of the European Land and Soil Alliance, in the area of the environmental association of Lilienfeld, and in the municipality of Lichtenegg (in the district of Wiener Neustadt) currently the first municipal “soil activity

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Landesrat of Environmental Affairs, Dr. Stephan Pernkopf: "Soil is the base of our lives. More than 90 % of the food stem from our soil. It is a matter of sensibly using and carefully protecting this soil."

Careful use of

The Soil Colour Creative Center, under the leadership of Irena Racek, the artistic supervisor of the Lower Austrian soil campaign, showed colourful and strong signs of life on the occasion of a family day-out on the ground of the Neolithic village on the

Soil protection means climate protection!

Soil protection in Europe has up to now largely been limited to the disposal of pollution legacy. Preventive soil and area protection, as well as the significance of soils for climate change are hardly perceived.

Climate change, however,