Allying with Nature to Regenerate our Living Planet…
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Dear friends of the planet, On March 17th we showed the first two segments of John Feldman’s film Regenerating Life in our Climate Solutions Film Series held in Port Townsend, Washington.We did not have time to show the last segment which was on how to
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Here is just a beginning list of titles, there is a whole universe of films out there on the subject, many of them well worth watching. This one was put together on February 24, 2024 by Michael Pilarski, of the Global Earth Repair Foundation The
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Here we have gone through all 150+ listings of amazing individuals and projects in our “Hall of Fame”, where we honor Earth restorers the world over for their lifetime great works for our planet. There are countless videos in this collection, but since we were
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Michael Pilarski talks about his decades of experience with farming, earth repair, and the permaculture movement.
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Minni Jain, a renowned water conservation advocate, showcased her impactful work at the Global Earth Repair Summit 2022. Her presentation underscored the significant change community-led initiatives can bring about in environmental restoration. As a pivotal figure in the Flow Partnership UK, Minni devotes herself to
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The majesty of nature is often encapsulated not just in the vast expanses of forests and oceans, but also in the intricate details of its various species and their contributions to the ecosystem. One such often-overlooked species is the beaver. As Jakob Shockey’s enlightening presentation
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In a world grappling with environmental challenges and climate change, the voice of indigenous communities is vital for sustainable solutions and earth repair. The Global Earth Repair Foundation is privileged to host Datu Sangcoan, a tribal leader from the Philippines, and promote his exceptional work
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In a world grappling with the challenges of climate change, there is a growing recognition of the need to re-establish our connection with the land. In her captivating presentation, Jeannette Armstrong, an esteemed advocate for Indigenous wisdom and environmental stewardship, offers profound insights and guidance
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Otomi-Toltec leader Mindahi Bastida Muñoz, who founded the Original Caretakers Program at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, conveys a compelling call to action centering on the principles of reciprocity, dignity, and ancestral wisdom. We invite you to stand with him as
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Vandana Shiva, who has been working to protect the Earth and its biodiversity for 50 years, emphasizes grassroots movements led by Indigenous women to protect natural regions from deforestation, which can lead to disasters. Shiva believes Indigenous peoples and lands hold the key to healing
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This space was hosted by Ilarion Merculieff and Wisdom Weavers of the World as a sharing circle for indigenous elders and leaders around the world. In this session, many gathered and shared their experiences, traditions, wisdom and life-ways that we greatly need in the collaborative
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Here are the categories for the 66 recorded sessions from the North American and European Summit programs. Some sessions could have been put in several categories and some are hard to categorize. Nonetheless, it should help you decide which videos you might wish to watch
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Three years ago hundreds of us came together with a common goal in mind – repair the Earth. The ideas that came forward in that discussion have animated great works since then. We decided to go back and look at what we accomplished in 2019
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Datu Lanelio Sangcoan is a self-described eco warrior helping protect indigenous tribes living deep in the forests of the Philippines. He is the founder of Tribes and Natures Defenders Inc., the organization serving to conduct correspondence with the rest of the world in order to
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Recently we’ve been in contact with Marius Ziganira, who runs the regenerative agriculture program at the Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda, Africa. We’re very pleased to support them in their work, in addition we have made this video full of ecological restoration suggestions that will
Read moreCentre for International Governance Innovation & Inuit Circumpolar Council – Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a Canadian Inuit Activist and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. She is in the business of transforming public opinion into public policy. Experienced in working with global decision-makers for
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Here is an introduction to fog harvesting and a selection of Youtubes about projects in Peru, Morocco, Eritrea and Nepal. I first learned about fog harvesting from Bill Mollison in 1986 when I attended his first Drylands Permaculture Deign Course. In recent years it is
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“Robin Hood of Modern Times” – Orlando, Florida USA Rob Greenfield is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable, just and equal world. He has been nicknamed “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” for a reason; he embarks on
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Laikipia Permaculture Centre – Kenya Joseph’s is the story of an inspired and inspiring Maasai man who has brought positive change to his land and community through permaculture. Lentunyoi started a permaculture center in his dry, arid homeland of Laikipia in 2012 and is the
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Mariza Gardens – Bahian Sertao, Brazil Marsha is a Swiss-American with a postgraduate degree in Anthropology from the University of Florida. In 1991, she completed her first basic permaculture course certification in Hawaii, then in 1993 participated in the course of Bill Mollison and Scott
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Founder of Bionutrient Food Association – USA Internationally renowned as one of the leading proponents of “nutrient density,” Dan Kittredge has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years and is the founder and executive director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA), a non-profit
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Water Management Engineer – Slovakia Michal Kravčík is an internationally recognized Slovak water scientist, water management engineer, ASHOKA fellow, and co-author of A New Water Paradigm: Water for the Recovery of the Climate, which emphasizes hydrologic cycles in addressing climate change. He is also a
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“The Forest Man” of – Puyo, Ecuador Omar Tello is known locally as “The Forest Man,” who grew a piece of the Amazon rainforest. Ordained a ‘humble maverick’ at four-years-old, Tello grew up surrounded by nature. However, as adult life came upon him, the wild
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Manitou Foundation – Crestone, CO Since 1972, Hanne Marstrand Strong has traveled to over 100 countries and has coordinated numerous civil society events parallel to High Level United Nations conferences. She has been invited to numerous universities, seminars and conferences as a guest speaker to
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Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network – USA For over 40 years, Dennis Martinez has contributed extensively to the cause of ecological and cultural restoration at the local, national and international levels. A community organizer, educational speaker and author, Martinez is recognized as a leader in bridging
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Father of Analog Forestry – Sri Lanka Dr. Ranil Senanayake, popularly known as the “Snake Man,” is the nephew of the first ever Prime Minister in Sri Lanka, and the man who in 1981 revived “organic” farming in a small but powerful way. Already a
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Author of The Man who Planted Trees – France Jean Giono (1895-1970) was one of France’s greatest writers. His published works include over 30 novels, including our favorite, The Man Who Planted Trees: a timeless eco-fable about what one person can do to restore the
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The Organic Pharmacist – Sinai, Egypt Ahmed is known simply as “the Doctor” despite his lack of professional credentials or formal medical training. Amid the harshest and most unforgiving of Earth’s terrains, Ahmed tends to a medicinal garden of over 472 plants and herbs, 19
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Community Ecological Initiative – Southern India An inspiring ecological initiative of the Isha Foundation, Project GreenHands seeks to prevent and reverse environmental degradation, and enable sustainable living. The project aims to create 10% additional green cover in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
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Savory Institute of Holistic Management – Zimbabwe, Africa Allan Savory is a Zimbabwean scientist, livestock farmer, and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute. He originated Holistic management, a systems thinking approach to managing resources. Savory had studied the relationships between animals and the land
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Elemental Ecosystems – USA Protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer, Zach Weiss is the first-ever person to earn the coveted “Holzer Practitioner Certification” directly from Sepp – through a rigorous two-year apprenticeship working on projects in North America and Europe. Zach created Elemental Ecosystems
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Premier Ethnobotanist – British Columbia Nancy Turner is an author and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria and has been a Research Associate for the Royal BC Museum, both in British Columbia, Canada. Nancy Turner is plausibly the most notable North
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The Orangatans’ Best Friend – Borneo In 1989, while working as a forest researcher in Indonesia, microbiologist Willie Smits first encountered a baby orangutan being sold at market, and later found it abandoned on a rubbish heap. This was a turning-point in his career. Taking
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“Crime Pays, but Botany Doesn’t” – California, USA Perhaps our favorite botanist to watch and learn from, Joey Santore offers us a bit of a different spin on the world of botany with his informative and hilarious (often PG-13) YouTube channel. Joey travels around the
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Agroforestry Pioneer – Melbourne and Victoria, Australia Founder and owner of Bambra Agroforestry Farm, (essentially a 42-hectare outdoor classroom for scientists, students and farmers alike) in the Otway Ranges of Australia. Rowan refers to this project as having created his own “living laboratory for learning.”
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PIBS Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability – Palestine Mazin Qumsiyeh is a scientist, author and activist, and is the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University where he teaches. He
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Perma Atlas Foundation – Amsterdam, Netherlands and Morocco, Africa A notable permaculturalist and educator currently working on an Earth Repair project in Anguelz, Morocco, Latifa Oumlil is the founder of the Perma Atlas Foundation which has significantly aided in the “re-greening” of the Atlas Mountains.
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The Man Who Plants Baobabs – Burkina Faso El Hadji Salifou Ouédraogo has nurtured thousands of baobab trees from tiny seeds to expansive forests for the past 47 years. The trees in turn help his family, his village and the Earth. He has planted more
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Local Futures – Sweden Helena is a linguist, author, producer and filmmaker, and the founder and director of Local Futures. A pioneer of the “New Economy” movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day, this non-profit organization is determined to encourage us to recognize the
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Cold Desert Afforestation – India Anand Dhawaj Negi, 1947-2021, popularly known as AD, was a retired bureaucrat turned “Forest man of Kinnaur” who left an evergreen legacy and miraculous story in the cold desert of India by developing a lush forest spread over 100 hectares
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TreePeople – Los Angeles, CA, USA Andy Lipkis is a practical visionary who has dedicated his life to healing the environment while improving the lives of individuals and communities. He founded TreePeople in Los Angeles in 1973 at age 18 and continues to serve as
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Desert Harvesters – Tuscon, Arizona USA Brad Lancaster has taught, designed, and consulted on regenerative-design systems of permaculture and integrated water-harvesting systems in seven countries since 1993. He created and lives on a thriving solar-powered 1/8th-acre (0.05-ha) urban oasis in downtown Tucson, Arizona, which harvests
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The Natural Farmer – India John Kaisner is a much-loved international teacher, designer and practitioner of Permaculture. But it wasn’t always this way. He spent the first 20 years of his career in architecture, where he designed and completed projects in Paris, New York, Los
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Permaculture, RetroSuburbia – Australia David is the other original “co-founder of Permaculture” and also co-author (with Bill Mollison) of the book, “Permaculture One,” published in 1978, which inspired the entire movement. Bill and David lived together for a period of three years, collaborating on their
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Ralegan Village Re-Greening – India Kisan Baburao “Anna” Hazare is a social activist who has led movements to promote rural development, increase government transparency, and investigates and punish corruption in public life. He has been a main, major, active contributor and organizer in the development
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Syntropic Agriculture – Switzerland Ernst Gotsch is a Swiss farmer and researcher working mostly in Brazil. He has originated a system of climate and biodiversity friendly sustainable farming techniques known as syntropic agriculture or dynamic/successional agroforestry. The practice of Syntropic Agriculture focuses highly on regeneration
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Trees for Life – Scotland, UK Alan Watson Featherstone is an inspirational public speaker, ecologist, nature photographer and writer based in the Findhorn Community in the northeast of Scotland. Featherstone has given lectures and workshops all over the world and spoken at various international conferences
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Daniel Valdiviezo is an Ecosystem Restoration Developer and Biomimicry Designer. He combines design thinking, consciousness, and an inclusive viewpoint allows him to innovate and facilitate creative solutions. He is the Co-creator of Navi Village, the first regenerative community in Mexico. Daniel’s early connection with the
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Joost Wouters is an entrepreneur, speaker, author and the “SeaEO” of the Seaweed Company. Joost and his team aim to implement CO2-reducing seaweed-based business models at large scale. He is also co-instructor on the Ecosystem restoration design course through Gaia Education. It turns out that
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Dr. Simon Moolenaar is an expert in sustainable soil and land management and has been working on environmental and sustainability themes in various roles: as researcher, strategic consultant, project manager, process manager and program manager. As Head of Science & Education at Commonland he actively
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Gili Eco Trust – Indonesia Delphine Robbe is a marine and land Conservationist actively involved in the protection of reefs and environment of the Gili Islands of Indonesia. She is a French national who specializes in Coral propagation, coral nurseries, Biorock reef restorations and reef
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Dr. William Albert Albrecht (1888 – 1974) was not only a distinguished scientist and brilliant scholar; he was also a true visionary and committed humanitarian. He believed that animals, including humans, provide biochemical photographs of the soils in which their foods are grown. He was
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Robert Adrian de Jauralde Hart (1913-2000) was an English pioneer of forest gardening in temperate zones. He created a model forest garden from a 0.12 acre (500 m²) orchard on his farm. Hart began with a smallholding called Highwood Hill farm at Wenlock Edge. His
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Robert “Amigo Bob” Cantisano (1951-2020) is one of the most widely experienced and influential figures in California organic agriculture and is perhaps best known as the founding organizer of the annual Ecological Farming Conference, which is the largest sustainable- agriculture gathering in the Western United
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Permaculture Institute – Australia Bill Mollison (1928-2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. He was a co-founder of what we now commonly refer to as “Permaculture.” He also founded the original Permaculture Institute, established in 1979, to teach the practical design of
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Friends of the Trees Society, Global Earth Repair Foundation – Pacific Northwest, USA Our founder, Michael Pilarski, has been making waves in the international ecosystem restoration and regenerative agriculture for decades. Michael is a regenerative farmer by trade, teaching hundreds through his example garden at
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Polyface Farm – Virginia, USA Joel Salatin calls himself a “Christian Libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer.” Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the High Priest of the Pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson.
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Marin Carbon Project – California, USA John is co-owner of the Nicasio Native Grass Ranch. John is also co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project and serves as its tireless spokesperson and advisor, which aims to improve carbon sequestration in rangeland, agriculture, and forest soils through
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Advancing Eco Agriculture – Ohio, USA John Kempf is an entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host and teacher in the field of biological and regenerative farming. He is passionate about the potential of well managed agriculture ecosystems to reverse ecological degradation. He founded Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA
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Communal Village Regeneration Project – Zimbabwe, Africa For the last 20 years, villagers in this area have taken their lives and futures into their own hands with the permaculture-informed restoration of watersheds, farmland and culture. Where once the people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger,
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Natural Sequence Land Restoration – Australia Peter Andrews is the creator of “natural sequence land restoration,” a holistic land management process. He founded the Watershed Organization Trust, which focuses on the effect of dry land restoration and water cycle.He has applied these insights in restoring
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The Green Wall of Africa – Burkina Faso, Africa Yacouba Sawadago is famed for being “The Man who Stopped the Desert”, as for the relentless work he has done to coax a forest out of desert-like soil in the country. In Burkina Faso, he deployed
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Honey Bee magazine – India Anil K. Gupta is an Indian scholar and pioneer in the area of grassroots innovations. He is the founder of the Honey Bee Network, now in it’s 28th year. He is also a fellow of the World Academy of Art
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Biodynamic Agriculture – New Zealand, India Peter Proctor (1928-2018) was one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary Biodynamics. He was born in 1928 in New Zealand. His passions took him to India, where he found a much more receptive, fertile ground, as
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Tarun Bharat Sangh & The Flow Partnership – India/UK Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Known popularly as the “Water Gandhi,” or “Water Man of India”, Rajendra Singh has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy,
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Ecosystem Restoration Camps – America, China, International John D. Liu is is an American ecologist and filmmaker and one of the world’s most eloquent spokesperson for global earth repair. This Chinese-American filmmaker travels widely and works with people and institutions in several countries. John has
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John Jeavons is a leader in the field of Biointensive agriculture. He developed the small-scale, high-yielding, resource-conserving “GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming” method—an approach that allows small farmers to increase yields, build fertile soil up to 60x faster than nature, and use 66% less water per
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Sarvodaya Institute – Los Angeles, CA, USA Rishi Kumar is a small-scale farmer, land-artist, writer, and educator. Since 2010, he has been working in the field of urban gardening and farming in Los Angeles (Sarvodaya Farms), where he has helped create and establish hundreds of
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Regenerative Resources – USA Neal Spackman is a Terraformer, an internationally recognized pioneer of hyper-arid agro-forestries. Neal is the director of the Al Baydha Project in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, where he and local Bedouin tribesmen designed and built an agroforestry system to convert deserts into
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Manavendra Singh Shekhawat, changed the fortune of a 500 acre barren, degraded landscape (only 30 trees on it) using traditional water wisdom. He works in the fields of heritage conservation, design, agriculture, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. His projects are a representation of a unique way
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Formidable Vegetable Sound System – Australia, International Charlie McGee is the most famous permaculture singer in the world as a ukulele-strumming ecological troubadour. He independently founded the band, Formidable Vegetable Sound System, which is sowing the garden of our minds with the seeds of change
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Michael Evenari (1904-1989) was an Israeli botanist originally from Germany. Evanari figured out the secrets of the ancient Nabatean runoff agriculture systems in the Negev Desert. One of the best examples of ancient, sophisticated water harvesting systems and how he recreated aspects of it today.
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J. Russell Smith (1874-1996) was an American geographer and is considered the father of the field of agroforestry. In 1929, he released his book Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, one of the best reference books on agroforestry and forest farming, and noted as a key
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Ilarion (Larry “Kuuyux”) Merculieff is an Indigenous messenger and teacher. He is one of the last generation of Aleuts of the Alaskan Pribilof Islands to be fully raised in the traditional way. Kuuyux, a name given once a generation, means extension, like an arm extending
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Dr. Thomas J. Goreau is a marine biologist promoting coral reef protection by documenting stresses to reef ecosystems, identifying the causes of these stresses and proposing strategies to restore these species-rich and highly sensitive ecosystems. He has worked extensively on the coral reefs of Jamaica
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Goran N’Diaye of Senegal is a pioneer and master of permaculture demonstrated by growing a lush oasis in the desert. He is the Director of the Kaydara agro-ecological farm located in Sine Saloum of Senegal. His story begins with finding water 4 meters below the
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Choitresh Kumar Ganguly (“Bablu”) is an organic farmer in India who has been involved in the field of rural development in India since the late 1970s, helping empower small holder farmers, agricultural labourers, Dalits (low caste) and other disadvantaged and marginalised communities, artisans, women, children
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Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer are a “power couple” that decided to become low impact farmers in 2006 with their Bec Hellouin Permaculture Farm. The couple was untainted by knowledge of conventional western practices and took on the principles of permaculture as well as varied sources
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Zephaniah Phiri Maseko (1927-2015) was a Sustainable Farmer and Water Conservationist. For over 40 years Zephaniah Phiri Maseko lived, farmed, and raised a family in one of the most arid and resource-poor lands in southern Africa, Zimbabwe’s Zvishavane District. Through his own ingenuity and despite
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Glenn Albrecht is an environmental philosopher with both theoretical and applied interests in the relationship between ecosystem and human health. He was Professor of Sustainability at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He has pioneered the research domain of ‘psychoterratic’ or earth related mental health conditions
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The Eden Project is educational charity and social enterprise with the global mission to create a movement that builds relationships between people and the natural world and to demonstrate the power of working together for the benefit of all living things. This project showcases human’s
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Dr. Masaru Emoto (1943 – 2014) was a Japanese businessman, author and scientist who claimed that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water; that water can react to positive thoughts and words and that polluted water could be cleaned through prayer and positive
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Youngsang Cho was born in Korea and is bringing farming back to the farmers; to restore the farmers’ sovereignty in technology; spread an ultra-low cost method of farming; and ultimately open a new world where farmers, consumers and mother nature are in harmony. He studied
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Dr. (Master) Cho of South Korea is a farmer that founded Natural Farming in the 1960s. His systematic and scientific inquiry enabled him to identify the great potentials of the concept and strategy of Farming with Indigenous micro-organisms (IMO). Dr. Cho tried to show an
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Sir Albert Howard (1873-1947) was the founder of the organic farming movement. Starting as a Plant Scientist in England, he worked for 25 years as an agricultural investigator in India, first as Agricultural Adviser to States in Central India and Rajputana, then as Director of
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Wes Jackson is founder and president emeritus of The Land Institute. He established and served as chair of one of the country’s first environmental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento. Wes is widely recognized as a leader in the international movement for a more sustainable
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Masonobu Fukuoka (1913 – 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to
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Elaine Ingham is an American microbiologist with a “user-friendly” approach. Elaine has knowledge on how to ensure a healthy foodweb to promote plant growth and reduce reliance on inorganic chemicals. While truly an academic, Elaine is also passionate about sharing her knowledge and research findings
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Gabe Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement which focuses on the regeneration of our resources. Gabe, along with his wife Shelly, and son Paul, own and operate Brown’s Ranch, a diversified 5,000 acre farm and ranch. The ranch consists
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Didi Pershouse is Founder and Lead Educator for Land & Leadership Initiative; Coordinator, Researcher and Writer for Seed Media Project; and is an author and soil sponge strategist. She is also the founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine and developed a practice and theoretical
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Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises, founder of Restoration Agriculture Development (RAD), and award-winning author Mark has also been a farmer member of the Organic Valley cooperative, the worlds largest Organic Farmer’s marketing co-op, since 1995. RAD is a full-service environmental consulting,
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Sepp Holzer is a farmer, an author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture. After an upbringing in a traditional Catholic rural family in Austria, he took over his parents’ mountain farm business in 1962 and became well-known for his use of ecological farming, or
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Rosemary Morrow trained in agricultural science and rural sociology and after spending time in Africa, she realized there needed to be a better alternative to conventional agricultural practices. She found this in the ethics and integrated applied science of permaculture, and has been teaching permaculture
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Geoff Lawton is a world renowned Permaculture consultant, designer and teacher. Lawton was British born and now resides in Australia. He first took his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course in 1983 with Bill Mollison the founder of Permaculture. Geoff has undertaken thousands of jobs teaching,
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Paul Stamets is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company. He is an author and advocate of medicinal fungi and myco-remediation. He began his career in the forest as a logger. Stamets is largely self-taught in the field of
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Andre Leu is the International Director of Regeneration International, which promotes food, farming and land use systems that regenerate and stabilize climate systems, the health of the planet and people, communities, culture and local economies, democracy and peace. Regeneration International works with numerous agricultural systems
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Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author. She is often referred to as “Gandhi of grain” for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement. Shiva cites data allegedly demonstrating that today there are over 1400 pesticides that
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Gary Paul Nabhan (1952) is an agricultural ecologist, Ethnobotanist, and author whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement. Nabhan was raised in
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Gaviotas Community is located in the Llanos of the Colombian department of Vichada. It was founded in 1971 by Paolo Lugari who assembled a group of engineers and scientists in an attempt to create a mode of sustainable living in one of the least hospitable
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Kristin Ohlson is a freelance journalist, author, essayist and fiction writer, almost no topic escapes her curiosity. Her articles have spanned many subjects, from zebrafish bioengineered to glow in the presence of pollutants, to abandoned coal mines that catch fire and burn for decades, to
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Leah Penniman has over 20 years of experience as a soil steward and food sovereignty activist, and with farmers internationally in Ghana, Haiti, and Mexico. Li co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2010 with the mission to reclaim our inherent right to belong to the earth
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David Bainbridge is a Research Ecologist focusing on dryland degradation and desertification, which now affects almost a billion people around the world, as his passion remains in how to understand, repair, and restore damaged ecosystems. He is an expert in the ecology of desert plants,
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Lyla June Johnston is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Lyla studies the global cycles of violence that eventually gave rise to The Native American Holocaust and the destruction of many cyclic relationships between human
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Nemonte Nenquino is an indigenous Waorani woman who has committed herself to defending her ancestral territory, ecosystem, culture, economy, and way of life. She led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is one of the founders of the Association of Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad, a group fighting to defend the environment and the rights of indigenous people. The Mbororo, which means “cattle herder”, are an ethnic subgroup of 250,000 members of
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George Washington Carver (1864-1963) was an African American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton (like peanuts and sweet potato), methods to prevent soil depletion, and to improve the lives of impoverished farmers. He believed in the interconnectedness between the health of
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Isabella Tree (1964) is a conservation pioneer that has proved that if nature is allowed to take its own course, magic happens. She and her husband, Charlie Burrel brought the 3,500 acre Knepp Castle Estate back to life by letting it grow wild and abandoning
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Judith Schwartz is a journalist whose work explores nature-based solutions to global environmental, social, and economic challenges. She showcases the ways in which nature itself can heal the wounds we have inflicted on our planet by telling stories to explore and illuminate scientific concepts and
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Akira Miyawaki (1928) is a Japanese botanist and expert in plant ecology specializing in seeds and the study of natural forests. Since the 1970s he has been active worldwide as a specialist in the restoration of natural vegetation on degraded land. Referring to potential natural
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Dr. Jane Goodall (1934), an Ethologist and Conservationist, has shown the world the urgent need to protect chimpanzees from extinction by redefining species conservation to include the needs of local people and the environment. Her field research at Gombe transformed our understanding of chimpanzees and
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Chief Oren Lyons (1930) is a Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan living in Onondaga, NY. He was a founding member in 1977 of the Traditional Circle of Elders and Youth: this council of respected Indian leaders meets annually to provide an avenue for
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Chief Jake Teraronianeken Swamp (1946-2010) was a Native American Peace Advocate of the Wolf Clan and sub-chief of the Kahniakehaka, Mohawk Nation. Chief Jake Swamp traveled around the world meeting with world leaders and community groups to share the Tree of Peace ceremony and spread
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Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration – FMNR This is one of the most inspirational earth repair success stories of recent times. I recently read the book: TONY RINAUDO: THE FOREST MAKER. 2018. Johannes Dieterich, Editor. 151 pages. English edition.Rufer & Rub Sachbuchverlag, GmbH, Zurich. What a
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In 1978, David Holmgren collaborated with Bill Mollison on a vision of ethics and principles to guide how humans interact with the Earth and each other; these visions were written down in their now-famous book Permaculture One. David is still thankfully very much in the
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Author, educator and activist Mazin B. Qumsiyeh formerly worked at Duke University and Yale in the medical field. He returned to Palestine in 2008, where he established the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH). Today it has 8 employees and Mazin and his wife, Jessie,
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In October I was invited to give a zoom lecture on water harvesting techniques to the first permaculture design course held in Somalia. I agreed and learned a lot from the experience. I learned that the former Somalia has a number of autonomous zones in
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As an educator of Holistic Land Management, Precious Phiri specializes in reversing major environmental issues by teaching, training, establishing and mobilizing communities throughout the world. Especially in Zimbabwe, she is renowned for her work in building restorative farming programs, reversing desertification by restoring watersheds and
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The Global Drylands Library contains hundreds of books on ecological restoration and sustainable agriculture in the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. There is an on-line bibliography at https://globalearthrepairfoundation.o… The library has been collected by Michael Pilarski over the last 40 years and is being added
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Andrew Millison, of Oregon State University, has been providing permaculture knowledge to hundreds if not thousands of students over the years, through online classes and his YouTube channel. His work is inspiring in how he demonstrates the use of readily-available free-of-cost technology to map, plan
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As an “Ecosystem Ambassador,” John D. Liu has been dedicated to documenting and aiding the restoration of ecosystems, globally, for decades. He got his start in Ecology when he was documenting the monumental ecosystem improvements in the Loess Plateau in China in the mid-1990’s. What
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WOW!! Here are two great videos about repairing the earth. 10 inspiring, success stories of re-greening the planet and 9 ways to do it. I have known Zach for ten years or so and have watched him build a successful permaculture career and become an
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Founder and President of Elemental Ecosystems, Zachary Weiss, and his team focus on raising awareness of natural water systems where they intersect with individuals and greatly varied landscapes. They are active worldwide, in the States of Oregon, Montana, Vermont, and Tennessee, amongst others, and internationally
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Walter Jehne is a former CSIRO Climate Scientist and Microbiologist and the founder of Healthy Soils Australia. He specializes in the inter-relationships of soil microbiology and the process by which biomatter is converted to new healthy soil. Walter is internationally renowned for his work bringing
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This is a concept exploration remixing snippets from speakers at the Global Earth Repair Conference 2019. These are pieces from various presentations that specifically focused around the connection between climate and water. Some of the statements made here might seem controversial – to some extent,
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Michael Pilarski explains the process of ecosystem building in all its facets. Whether you are restoring a native ecosystem back to its original state, or creating hybrid ecosystems that humans can enjoy full-time, featuring productive plants and animals for economic value set in the context
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There are several more installments to this series yet to come, but here we have the announcement of our intention to create a full set of instructional material. Thanks to John D. Liu and Michael Pilarski for this awesome collaboration; it will form the basis
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In August, 2020 I participated in an Ecosystem Restoration Camps webinar which centered on Camp Habiba, in the town of Nuweiba, located on the coast of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Camp Habiba aims to introduce regenerative agricultural techniques into local communities, stop erosion and desertification, and
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Michael goes through tips and tricks out of his years of permaculture teaching experience – woody debris, hugulkultur, rain catchment, water harvesting, infiltration, etc. There are so many ways we can begin the restoration process beginning with our own spaces! This will create a better
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Skeeter traveled to the new seedling Ecosystem Restoration camp at Mount Shasta, CA, USA. Here they share stories, and talk about restoration efforts there and around the world. We together can restore the landscapes, make the land store the rain again, and stabilize the climate!
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Hosted by Finnriver InCider Space Zoom! Join us live on Zoom for the following webinars- “Medicinal Trees & Shrubs” April 29, Wednesday 3:00pm – 4:00pm PDT. “Pacific Northwest Native Medicinal Plants” May 6, Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm PDT. “Medicinal Plants in Permaculture Systems” May 13,
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Thomas Goreau was a warm and scientifically rich presence at the conference, he added much to discussion and his presentations were inspiring. The amount of work he and his team have put into studying coral is astounding. We’ve included an excerpt of his wikipedia page:
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By Michael Pilarski, Friends of the Trees Society, and Global Earth Repair Foundation. Febuary 6, 2020. [This paper originated as an outline for January 28, 2020 presentation by Michael Pilarski in Port Hadlock WA. We were honored to have the participation of Paul Gautschi, world-famous
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John Liu has lent his knowledge to countless ecological restoration efforts across the globe. In the numerous projects he’s been involved in, amazing and seemingly impossible things have happened. Through a combination of physics, chemistry and ecology we can see the pattern that has led
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CHARLES EISENSTEIN is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible. His background includes a degree in mathematics and philosophy
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Business-Organization: SouthWoods Ecosystems Website: http://Southwoodsecosystems.com https://www.facebook.com/southwoodsecosystems/ Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.halsey.5 Daniel Halsey 09/2018 Curriculum Vitae Daniel has a Bachelor of Science degree in Temperate Climate Polyculture Design and a Masters of Professional Studies in Horticulture from the University of Minnesota. He enjoys the rigors of developing
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Precious Phiri is a member of the Regeneration International (RI) steering committee and also serves as RI’s Africa coordinator. She is a training and development specialist in regenerative environmental issues and community organizing. She recently founded an organization called EarthWisdom a network, which she formed
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Auroville’s website has a large section of information on their green activities.
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Tim accomplished amazing things in particular on this Global Earth Repair Conference. His Muse Ecology Podcast covers a range of environmental topics and dives deep with a number of experts, musicians, and visionaries. Before and during the conference, Tim collaborated with us to produce a
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Working with tribes and management of natural resources for over 20 years, Marc’s hands-on experience in forest management, wildlife biology & conservation offer a unique perspective on real opportunities to protect the water. Spokane, WA USA Website: https://ucut.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/uppercolumbiaunitedtribes/ Workshop(s) Workshop 1: United by Water,
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Organizations: Abundant Earth Foundation, Weaver Network, Permaculture Magazine Hannah has studied permaculture and other regenerative practices for much of her life. Her passion to inspire others to do all they can on behalf of the planet has led to a career in environmental journalism and
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Business-Organization: Inside Passage Seeds FOREST SHOMER began saving seeds in 1969, and has been a full-time independent professional seedman since 1973. He founded and directed the nonprofit Abundant Life Seed Foundation in 1975, transplanted to the Olympic rainshadow in 1977, and settled in Port Townsend
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Business-Organization: Markegard Family Grass-Fed LLC Author of Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild and regenerative rancher Doniga brings a perspective rooted in nature. She has a background in wildlife tracking and permaculture. In her youth she was mentored by some of the leading
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Business-Organization: inspiration farm As a co-steward of Inspiration Farm for the past 25 + years, Brian has a wide breadth of practical knowledge on how to partner with natural systems to bring forth stability and abundance. Being interested in gardening and appropriate technology since I
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Business-Organization: Mangrove Action Project Alfredo Quarto, Program director and Co-founder of Mangrove Action Project, is a veteran campaigner with over 40 years of experience in organizing and writing on the environment and human rights issues. Formerly an aerospace engineer, his experiences range over many countries
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In 1986 he formed Trees for Life, with the aim of restoring the Caledonian Forest and its unique wildlife to the Scottish Highlands. The charity works in partnership with the Forestry Commission, the National Trust for Scotland and the Royal Society for the Protection of
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By Osprey Orielle Lake. –Published on Thursday, August 29, 2019 by Common Dreams Read the full article “The lives of every future generation and our species as humans depends on the collective effort to generate new development models. Humanity has no Plan B
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Uplifting tree planting news: I was just sent a news release about a tree planting law proposed in the Phllippines and here it is. If we could get every school kid to plant 10 trees, that would go a long way towards world reforestation. I
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Mazin Qumsiyeh is the founder of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability. He participated in the Global Earth Repair Conference on a zoom conference call on “Earth Repair in War Torn Areas”. Mazin is doing excellent work
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In this panel, two of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Agnes Pilgrim (Confederated Tribes of Siletz) and Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance (Lakota), Aleut messenger Ilarion Merculieff, and Keynote Ecosystem Restoration leader John D. Liu, all shared insights and discussed how global ecosystem restoration efforts can align
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Grandmother, Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance (aka Afraid-of-Bear) – Oglala Lakota attended our conference. Rita is one of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We had been planning for Grandmother Mona Polacca from Arizona to attend but she had to attend a memorial. Unci Rita
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The film ‘United By Water’ to be shown at Global Earth Repair Conference, about the Canoe culture of the Columbia River tribes. The 5 tribes of the Upper Columbia River unite on the water in traditional canoes for the first time since the Grand Coulee Dam flooded
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Honoring the Indigenous tribes of Amazonia. A short 15 minute video. The words are in Portuguese (translated below) but the meaning comes through loud and clear. Check out the song “Demarcação Já!”, a tribute of more than 25 artists for the indigenous peoples of Brazil. For the
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We are excited to find this Reforestation and Ecosystem Restoration YouTube playlist. Skeeter aka Michael Pilarski says… Wow! Felt like I discovered a gold mine. Even better! 63 video stories about restoring, regenerating and conserving natural areas around the world. A valuable source of inspiration
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I highly recommend this short film introducing Ernst Götsch and his Syntropic Farming he developed in Brazil over 40 years on 500 hectares (1250 acres). A great example of earth repair and a productive agroforestry system. There are also examples of newer plantings by some
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How many of you readers know where the country of Timor is? Timor is a country in the Indonesian Archipelago which won a war of independence from Indonesia in 2002. After the war the country was in ruins and much of its population killed. Shortly thereafter, a
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We just got a nice email from in Romania and they want to pass on their regards to the Global Earth Repair Conference even though they can’t make it. Here is their website. https://forestcreekmeadows.com And some excerpts Symbiotic Food Provision We call this model Symbiotic Food
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John Liu has been advising Rwanda’s current president H.E. Paul Kagame and other government officials and having an impact on the overall environmental situation in Rwanda as the country tries the path of environmental restoration as a path to a more abundant future. I would
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Alert: A plan to privatize a large chunk of the world’s territory, especially indigenous people’s common land. “A Darker Shade of Green,” A film to showcase Indigenous Peoples’ resistance to the World Bank scheme, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). The DVD is available in
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John D. Liu is one of the keynote speakers for the Global Earth Repair conference and a leading world voice for ecosystem restoration. John just announced that “Green Gold” and “Regreening the Desert” (the VPRO documentaries on John’s work from 2012) have now had combined
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We received a very nice communication from Latifa Oumlil, a permaculturist working on an Earth repair project in Morocco called the Perma Atlas Foundation. Perma Atlas is mobilizing for the re-greening of the Atlas Mountains and enabling the local population to cope with the large
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Himachal Pradesh, India Tamil Nadu, India Vilcabamba, Ecuador How one man created a forest in a cold desert AD Negi is a retired bureaucrat. He has voluntarily planted and nurtured a 65 ha of lush green forest in a cold dessert area of Kinnaur in
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A message for Earth-friendly folks, The Ecosystem Restoration Camps are having a membership drive and I (Michael Pilarski) would like to put in a good word for them. Ecosystem Restoration Camps are regenerative human settlements that exist to welcome and teach people about ecosystem restoration.
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Another great example of local earth repair through watershed rehabilitation. With only 15 inches of rain a year, this village now has water for the whole year. Today not a single villager goes to sleep on an empty stomach. No one buys grain from outside
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Peter has been practicing various bioaugmentative and remineralization practices for building healthy soil for the last ten years in Anacortes, primarily with regards to maintaining the vitality of fruit trees and cannabis. For the last five years the focus has been natural farming practices from
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Laurence Cole is a song elder and ritualist based in Port Townsend, Washington. An abiding thread throughout his life has been a longing to discover when, where, and how human beings have lived in respectful, sacred, equitable relationship with each other and the rest of
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Dahr Jamail is an award-winning journalist and mountaineer who reports on human-caused climate disruption and the environment for Truthout. Prior to joining the climate beat, he was one of the few un-embedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the occupation following the 2003 Invasion
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Paul Magid is co-founder of the Flying Karamazov Brothers and the New Old Time Chautauqua. He is a writer, juggler, musician, organizer, and historian. Through Chautauqua he has been working with Native Nations since 1982. He specializes in the study of the history of and
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This panel, at the Global Earth Repair Conference 2019, explains the crucial yet underdiscussed “other leg” of anthropogenic climate change: land use and it’s effects on climate. These 8 scientists and writers together discuss the relations between the biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, making it clear
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SUSAN B. EIRICH, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, biologist and “practical visionary.” She founded Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary & Retreat Center in 2000 to give a voice to wildlife and help people find their own natural voice. Earthfire’s mission is to help humans change how
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Dr. Don M. Huber, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology at Purdue University, holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Idaho (1957, 1959), a Ph-D from Michigan State University (1963), and is a graduate of the US Army Command & General Staff College, Industrial
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Extinction is forever. This film is shown as a part of our Dam Removal and River Restoration Track. This is one of the first public showings of a just-completed film, Dammed To Extinction, a film by Peterson Hawley Productions. Film Director, Steven Hawley, will be
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