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Elke week weer een verrassing wie er aan tafel zitten. We beginnen bij onze buitenlandcorrespondent Atoesa, die virtueel Egypte bezoekt. Het land poogt van de Sinaï-woestijn vruchtbare landbouwgrond te maken. Vervolgens maakt Karsten een flinke detour, weg van de landbouw, naar de wereld van mind-altering parasieten. Het zijn net geen Last of Us praktijken, waar (de echte bestaande) schimmel Cordyceps mensen verandert in zombies, maar de door katten doorgegeven Toxoplasmose beïnvloedt wel degelijk ons gedrag. Joris eindigt met het lugubere feitje dat de vele lijken op een slagveld een uitstekende basis vormen voor een vruchtbare bodem. Shownotes Atoesa

①Picture book published to mark 20th anniversary of China's first manned spaceflight ②E-Invites to bike rides, weddings in China get a green makeover ③Young vacationers opt for fitness over feasting ④IOC approves double allocation of 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics ⑤Chinese e-commerce platforms expedite cross-border trade ⑥Crested ibises first to be released to the wild on Loess Plateau

Global Ecosystem Restoration John D. Liu is my guest on Episode 171 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. In the 1980s and 1990s, John worked as a television producer and cameraman with CBS News, RAI, and ZDF covering geo-political events including the rise of China from poverty and isolation and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s the World Bank asked John to document the rehabilitation of the Loess Plateau. Since learning that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems John has devoted his life to understanding and communicating about the potential and responsibility to restore degraded landscapes on a planetary scale. Since 2009 John has worked with Willem Ferwerda the Founder and CEO of the Commonland Foundation, which is catalyzing privately invested large-scale restoration in many parts of the world. John is also the founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement that began in 2016 and has grown to over 50 camps in 6 continents and continues to grow. Studying ecology led John to receive a number of academic appointments. In 2014 John was named a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIOO/KNAW) and continues to study. https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/

john Liu witnessed the transformation of t he Loess Plateau in China resulting from the work of the local people who made terraces, enriched the soil, and planted trees. Since then he has been engaged in promoting ecological camps in other parts of the world for people to volunteer their labor. Both Heather Schibli and Joyce Hostyn are Canadians who build Miyawaki forests, often in urban areas. The see their work as part of a larger project of changing culture so that people love each other and appreciate other living entities. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-528-

John D. Liu started his career as a journalist and cameraman, covering politics, economics, and culture. In 1995, he began documenting the Loess Plateau in China, a massive landscape that had been destroyed by poor agriculture practices over the course of centuries. He watched and filmed as the landscape––and the people––came back to vibrant life over decades, through an intensive process that involved soil science, engineering, hydrological restoration, and the participation of local communities. The result was a living, lush, and sustainable ecosystem that produced more food with less land in agricultural production.

John Liu was a television producer and cameraman in China when he was asked to make a documentary film about the Chinese government's project to revive the degraded loess plateau – a region that had been the center of a cradle of civilization. A thousand years ago it had become a desert because of the poor animal husbandry, the cutting of the forests, and the practice of farming on slopes without terraces. But in the new China, the local people were paid to hold off their harmful practices and paid to revive the land. Liu's beautiful film won many awards and fascinated him with learning more about ecology, so he has made that work his second career and deepest passion. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comment column; https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-491-ecology-and-chinas-loess-plateau.

Speaker: Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh This talk showcases Ruth Mostern's new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021). The Yellow River explains how environmentally transformative human activity has shaped the whole watershed and constituted the relationship between people and the river since Neolithic times. The book demonstrates that the history of the relationship between people and the river is a history of soil as much as it is a history of water, and that some of the most important episodes in Yellow River history transpired on the semi-arid lands of the Loess Plateau, far from the riverbed itself. Using GIS and data analysis as well as close readings of historical sources, the book reveals that although the Yellow River floodplain was sometimes a site of frequent and devastating disasters, this was only the case at times of certain decisions about public policy and infrastructure design. Ruth Mostern is Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE) (Harvard Asia Center, 2011) and the co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press, 2016). Her current book, Following the Tracks of Yu: The Imperial and Ecological Worlds of the Yellow River is in contract at Yale University Press. She is currently PI on two NEH grants: one to develop content and infrastructure for an ecosystem of digital historical gazetteers, and one to design and launch an interdisciplinary curriculum about water in Central Asia.

John D. Liu is a filmmaker, environmental educator, and Founder and Advisory Council Chair of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation. He also serves as Ecosystem Ambassador of the Commonland Foundation. As a filmmaker in 1995 (with a history at CBS), the World Bank asked John to document the ecological restoration of the Loess Plateau in China. Since learning that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, John has devoted his life to understanding and communicating about the potential and responsibility to restore degraded landscapes on a planetary scale. John was recently featured in the Netflix documentary, 'Kiss the Ground' and has worked on numerous (and award-winning) film projects including 'Hope in a Changing Climate', 'Green Gold', 'Jane Goodall - China Diary', 'Leading With Agriculture', etc. Kiss the Ground on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81321999 https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/ IG: @ecosystem.restoration.camps ____ YOU ARE LOVED. www.helendenham.com @helendenham_

Willem Ferwerda has an extraordinary background as an ecologist and international policy leader. But a little over a decade ago, after backing over 1,000 conservation projects, he decided to face down the fact that they weren't making a dent in our slide into mass extinction and ecosystem collapse. He turned towards business and economics, and has since dedicated himself to building practical bridges between ecology and economy. Since founding Commonland in 2013, his team has been applying its holistic ‘4 Returns' framework to restoring landscapes at scale globally, across a range of ecosystems, and with brilliant success (including in my home state of Western Australia). Yet, the overall picture continues to worsen. So with 8 years of learning in hand, they're gearing up a notch, and inviting us to join them, as a key element of the newly launched UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Willem and I first met on Ballardong country in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, at Oral McGuire's place. It was a special few days spent with the Indigenous-led WA collaboration they've engaged with, that has been pivotal to Commonland's evolution in recent years. We had a couple of open, warm and penetrating conversations about the state of things, and our respective observations about what is possible together. Willem says he's been watching ideas and talk of natural solutions move from marginal to mainstream over 30 years - that a transformation is afoot - across business, finance and economics, and above all in people's search for meaning, purpose and spirit. This conversation was recorded online on Tuesday 29 June 2021, with Willem speaking from home in the Netherlands. Title slide image: Willem Ferwerda in the Costa Rican forest in 1992 (supplied). You can see more photos from Willem on the episode web page. Music: Faraway Castle, by Rae Howell and Sunwrae. Get more: Commonland - https://www.commonland.com/ Willem's personal post that prompted this conversation, on our path towards restoring landscapes and a regenerative economy - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-wolf-willem-ferwerda/ The footage of the wolves returning to the Netherlands, featured in the post above - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMIzpnK_aNc The Commonland 4 Returns Framework report launched with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration last month - https://clicktime.symantec.com/35ZQWMDWqzsXWU8PsFLabKx6H2?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commonland.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F06%2F4-Returns-for-Landscape-Restoration-June-2021-UN-Decade-on-Ecosystem-Restoration.pdf The launch event in full, featuring Oral McGuire with the closing words, and a series of short clips of landscape restoration from around the world: ‘A common language to accelerate landscape restoration' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDp4SIkPbw Willem's personal video explanation of the 4 Returns Framework for that event - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huFDUT12jqM 4returns.earth, the 4 Returns online community platform - www.4Returns.Earth UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration - https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/ Willem also recommended the new film Breaking Boundaries, featuring David Attenborough and Johan Rockstrom. Here's the trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb6wQtNjblk Green Gold, a documentary by John D Liu on the extraordinary story of the Loess Plateau in China - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A Here's the 5 minute teaser, also featuring Willem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpe8RbO-q4 And Aluna, a movie on indigenous wisdom from the Kogi Indians in Colombia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftFbCwJfs1I Thanks very much to the generous supporters of this podcast, for making it possible. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them by heading to our website at https://www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for helping to keep the show going! And thanks for listening.

Guest John D. Liu, ecosystem ambassador for the Common Land Foundation, joins host Robert Strock in a discussion about restoring the planet's biodiversity and biomass through regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration. These two practices and concepts recognize and incorporate the symbiosis of all living things in order to restore and reclaim land. Restorative agriculture programs, including Liu's Ecosystem Restoration Camps, are now found on six continents, including a massively successful pilot program on China's Loess Plateau that covered 35,000 square kilometers. Regenerative agriculture organizations are now partnering with homelessness programs in LA to train the unsheltered in these techniques, developing skills and confidence in the unsheltered and providing a means to contribute to the health and well-being of society. Learn what you can do to learn more about and help support restorative agriculture organizations. Listen to the episode and find out more at: The Global Bridge Foundation

China's Loess Plateau was anciently a lush area. But as more people made it their home, the demand for resources grew. Over the course of thousands of years, aggressive farming and overgrazing stripped away the vegetation almost entirely. This lead to severe soil erosion and eventually turned the Loess plateau into basically a denuded desert. In the mid 1990s, Chinese and foreign scientists and civil engineers surveyed this area to see if anything could be done to restore the land. The project that followed has implications for much of the planet. Links Isaiah's End-Time Vision John Liu's documentary

Knowing Christ Intimately: The Peace Offering Bible Study with Jairus – Leviticus 3   Have you ever wished you could develop a more intimate relationship with God? Leviticus 3 gives us a tangible example of ever-increasing closeness to God. As worshipers offered their sacrifices--smaller lambs and goats and larger cattle--they depicted the experience of growing closer and closer in our relationship to God. Let's discover how a deeper understanding of the sacrificial animals can enrich our Christian lives today. The purpose of the peace offering is to allow Man and God to commune and enjoy peace with one another. God enjoys our prayers like a sweet perfume. We enjoy God's presence and gain strength from Him. The Bible tells us that “through Him (Christ) we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.” (Ephesians 2:18 ESV). We each attain access to God through Jesus, but each of us experiences a different depth of communion with God. For example, a person who prays briefly for ten minutes a day has a different level of closeness to God than a person who prays daily for two hours. This difference is represented by the different sacrifices brought by the worshipers. People who pray for two hours remind us of worshipers bringing an ox to God, while people who pray for 10 minutes are like worshipers who are only capable of offering a lamb to God. Not only do these different sacrifices (bulls, sheep and goats) represent different depths of communion with God, they also remind us of different levels of enjoyment we have in our relationship with God. The deeper our communion with God, the more joy we will bring to God's heart. The more we commune with God, the more we will gain strength from God. Just as the worshipers feasted on part of their sacrificial meat, we gain spiritual sustenance and strength from our communion with God. Of course, prayer is just one example of how we grow in our relationship with God.  The depth of our communion with God does not solely depend on how long we pray. Peace Offering is a Communion Between Man and God When Old Testament priests approached the tabernacle, they first had to enter from the outer court. First, they offered the sin offering and the guilt offering in the outer court. Metaphorically, these sacrifices remind us that we must first deal with our sins and the weaknesses in our temperament. Next, the Old Testament priests (including Moses and Aaron) experienced the actual presence of God, which reminds us of the peace offering. These holy men met with God in front of the Mercy Seat in the Most Holy Place. The high priest sprinkled blood on the Mercy Seat, which was the special golden lid of the Ark of the Covenant. It was the place where the Lord lived and where Moses spoke with God face to face. The Lord spoke to Moses under the gaze of the glorious cherubim. Because of the blood sprinkled on the mercy seat, God overlooked Moses' sin, allowing Moses to meet God in all his glory. This is a picture of the peace offering. Hebrews 4:16 tells us that through the precious blood of Jesus, we can draw near to the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Jesus Christ shed His precious blood for our sake. Because of Christ, we can draw near to God without fear. The blood of Jesus Christ has washed away our sins. Now, God only sees the blood of Jesus and not our sins. Since Jesus Christ has washed away our sins, we are able to meet God in His glory through Christ. The reality of the peace offering is that we have peace with God. Before Christ achieved salvation for mankind, there was no peace between God and man. Before we experience Christ's salvation, we do not have peace with God. However, when Christ becomes our Savior and when we receive his salvation, we experience peace with God. Furthermore, we can meet with God through Christ. God and Man Enjoy Peace Offerings Together. Parts of the peace offering were offered to God as sweet fragrance, and the rest of the meat was reserved for the priests as holy food. Leviticus 3:1-5 says, “If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord. And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar. And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the Lord, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails. And the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. Then Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.” As the sacrifices were burned, they became a pleasing aroma which was offered to God. Leviticus 7 says that part of the sacrificial animal offered as a peace offering was given to God for his joy and enjoyment, and the rest was reserved for the priests to eat. For example, the fat was reserved for God, while the animal's breast (7:31) and right leg (7:33) was reserved for the priest. The meat from these sacrifices could only be eaten by those who were holy (7:20).  Today, when we approach God with peace offerings, we are made holy through the blood of Christ. Our offering to God not only brings God joy, but it also gives us spiritual nourishment. When we partake of this spiritual food, we will become more powerful and holy, which in turn allows us to have deeper spiritual communion with God. Every believer experiences peace and communion with God at differing levels. The purpose of the peace offering is to have communion with God. Despite the name, “peace,” the offering represents a conflict in our hearts. If we want to have communion with God, we must get rid of the flesh, sin, and the things of the world that are not in line with God's disposition. That's what I meant by conflict. The more we have communion with God, the more naturally we want to get rid of these things. However, every Christian is at a different level of victory over sin, and each is at a different level of communion with God. Each Christian comes to God through Christ, but they offer sacrifices of different sizes and degrees. Some people offer a goat, while some offer a sheep or a cow. Those who sacrifice cattle may choose a smaller cow or a larger, stronger bull. To help us understand this spiritual truth, I will share some of my experiences when I first became a Christian. I lived in the church's dormitory for young men. This place was established in order to help young Christians learn to pursue the Lord. It was not a religious house, but there were rules in place that would help us learn spiritual disciplines. For example, girls were not allowed to come to our dormitories. We had to pray day and night and attend several gatherings every week. The building had two floors and our “Brother's House” was on the second floor. On the first floor wa a meeting place and a small bedroom. In this room lived an older sister in Christ who served younger sisters. At that time there was no "Sister's House" set up for young women, so this older sister lived in our downstairs. For several years, we had to learn to get along with this older sister in Christ. The older sister wasn't perfect. Sometimes she would criticize our brothers for not paying attention to neatness. She'd correct some of our shortcomings. If we didn't pay attention to our hygiene, or if we forgot to put back the chairs after eating, she would remind us. Some of the brothers didn't like her and even ignored her. Those of us who were not mature in Christ disliked her critical reminders, even going so far as thinking that she was legalistic. However, there was a very loving brother who often took care of this older sister as if he were taking care of his own mother. This brother took the time to purchase a papaya during his shopping trip. Then, during one of our group meals, he hid the papaya for the older sister to find. This shows that he had a loving heart. He had believed in the Lord for a long time. His spiritual life was more mature and hence had a deeper communion with God. He also gained strength from God to love others more. Even though these examples may seem trivial, they show that each of us believers is at a different level of spiritual growth. We have all been saved, so we have all experienced the sin offering and the guilt offering. We can each come before God without fear through the precious blood of Christ. We can commune with him and enjoy the reality of the peace offering. However, our differing levels of spiritual maturity are demonstrated in our daily lives and experiences. The more we grow spiritually, the more we experience the reality of the sacrifice of Christ, and the greater our experience of his love and presence in our lives. Just like the Israelite worshipers offered different sizes of animals (ewes, rams, male and female goats, cows, bulls), we each experience a different level or manifestation of Christ's love in our lives. Christ's salvation is the same for everyone. However, we each have a different level of knowledge. We each experience Christ's salvation differently and have different levels of maturity in our daily life in Christ. Transformed into His Image. The purpose of the peace offering was communion with God. As we spend time in God's presence, we are transformed into his image. We gain spiritual food and strength so we can be more like Jesus. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” When we commune with God, we seek His face. As we continue to pray, rest in his presence, and get to know him better through the Spirit, we will be transformed into his glorious image. Like every Old Testament sacrifice, the peace offering sacrifice points to Jesus Christ. Christ is the atoning sacrifice that pleases God. When we approach him and commune with God, Christ becomes our spiritual food. The Lord Jesus told the disciples, “For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.” (John 6:55). Jesus also said that He is the bread that came down from heaven (John 6:58). When we partake of this food from heaven, we can gain the strength to love God and love others like the Lord Jesus. Revival Starts in the Heart. The reason why I struggled to love that old sister like the other brother did was because I lacked communion with God and the experience of the peace offering.  My limited experience with God can be compared to a small offering, like a goat. My brother's deep communion with God, expressed in deeper love, can be compared to a larger sacrifice, such as a cow. In the communion with God that we experience through the peace offering, we become more holy. We gain strength to love God and others. Despite all the problems in our lives, when we get close to God and commune with him in prayer, we gradually enter the presence of God and are filled with joy and peace. After praying, we forget the problems we had earlier. The original intent of our prayer was to ask God to help us solve our problems. But after communing with Him in prayer, our problems seem less significant. The things or people that used to disturb us no longer disturb us. After communion with God, we find a way to overcome these disturbances. We discover that prayer brings peace. Many Christians today do not spend enough time with God in prayer. They lack a time of communion with God. As a result, they cannot get enough spiritual food from God. (Remember, the priests' food came from the sacrifices they offered.) Without personal time with God, believers cannot become spiritually strong enough to overcome the problems in life. They cannot overcome the interference of the enemy. If every Christian would spend half an hour in prayer and communion with the Lord every morning, they would become spiritually stronger. The church would also become spiritually stronger. Many social problems that are currently disturbing Christians would no longer disturb them. Many Christians try to solve their problems through other means. Instead of coming to God in prayer, we tackle our struggles on our own. In reality, our problems are an invitation to prayer and communion with God. God allows struggles so we feel the need to enter his presence and gain spiritual strength to overcome these problems. For example, the political problems faced by American society cannot be solved simply by changing the president. I'll admit that having a good president will make a big difference, and I will support a godly and loving president. However, the societal problems Americans face are just an outer manifestation of a deeper problem. The real reason society struggles is that the American church has left her first love for God and lacks the time to commune with God and to seek His glorious face. This problem lies not with the church as a whole, but with each Christian individually. If every individual Christian neglects prayer and communion with God, he or she will be spiritually weak and immature. If the church is composed of young and carnal Christians, the church will naturally become spiritually weak. Real revival does not happen solely in a large-scale revival gathering. We don't have to depend on a large revival event or movement brought about by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Real revival starts in the heart of every Christian. We can experience revival every day. A Christian can begin to experience revival by spending half an hour in prayer every morning. When everyone lives a truly revitalized life, the church can experience sustainable spiritual revival. Only with a personal, sustainable spiritual revival will the church be able to overcome the darkness of the world and bring positive changes to society. In China, the Yellow River flows through the Loess Plateau. Due to a lack of vegetation, heavy rain brings little lasting changes to the plateau. Instead, the rushing water causes continuous erosion of soil and water. The water doesn't soak into the soil. It all rushes downstream, overflowing the Yellow River and causing floods. Similarly, great acts of revival in Chinese history can bring very little lasting change to the people who experience it. Because believers lacked the spiritual perfection and edification, the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit brought little lasting change. Most of the effects of the great revival disappeared with the passage of time, leaving little spiritual heritage. In contrast, although Israel is located deep in the desert, the Israelis use drip irrigation technology to greatly develop their agriculture. In the same way, when every individual Christian experiences revival and undergoes daily transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit, they are experiencing the slow, steady benefits of “spiritual drip irrigation.” Although it looks like there is very little water that actually reaches the plants, the benefits can last for a long time. Eventually, the slow and steady drip of nourishment leads to growth and enrichment of life. However, these two aspects need to complement each other. We need the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to wash out all the accumulated blockages and obstructions in our life. We also need drip irrigation daily to help us continue to grow spiritually. The peace offering reminds us that Christ has achieved peace between us and God. We can come before God without fear. When we commune with God through Christ, we receive spiritual food and power from God to change into his glorious image. Conversely, if we are saved but lack a daily time of close communion with God, we miss out on the reality of spiritual peace and rest. Our lives will be full of worry, anxiety, and trouble. In reality, a sense of worry and frustration should serve as a reminder that we need to return to God and commune with Him. If we ignore these signals and refuse to turn back to God, our problems will multiply. The church needs to understand the importance of this principle: when we struggle with worries, frustration, and problems, we need to draw near to God. The real solution to every societal and cultural problem is to turn back to God. The church's problems cannot be addressed unless each individual believer learns how to commune with God through the peace offering. This truth has two aspects. On the one hand, we have peace with God through Christ. On the other hand, we must strive to enter that rest (Hebrews 4:11). Christ has achieved peace with God for us. However, we must also pray and commune with God every day to enter the rest that God has prepared for us. In this way, we will avoid the unbelief mentioned in Hebrews 4:11. Isaiah 30:15 reads, “Thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, ‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. But you were unwilling.'” We need to do our best to enter his rest. We need to be willing to return to our place of safety and solace within the heart of God. Only in God can we find the strength and peace that we need. Why not start today? Will you spend half an hour in prayer and communion with God each morning? If you persevere in this habit, you will experience God's peace and transformation.    

The Sinai desert in Egypt is a dry, barren place where not much grows. But Ties van der Hoeven has come up with a scheme to turn it into a green and fertile land. It’s a plan on a huge scale which involves dredging a lake, restoring ecosystems, and even bringing back rain to the desert. He’s been inspired by a successful project to restore the Loess Plateau in China. But could it work in the Middle East? Produced and presented by Richard Kenny.

The author Judith D. Schwartz joins us once again to discuss her new book, The Reindeer Chronicles, wherein she dives deep into regeneration at a large scale. -----------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ------------------------------------------------------ The landscapes around us are a reflection of our consciousness and wealth is found in our functional ecosystems. Is it true that many of us secretly don't believe or can't imagine that abundance is actually possible? We dive into all that in this exciting episode with Judith D Schwartz.More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/judith-d-schwartz-2/.Find our video course here:https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course/----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the show (https://www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag) Support the show (https://www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag)

How do you restore an entire ecosystem at scale? Eroded desertified landscapes: can they be healed? Journalist, filmmaker, and environmental educator John D. Liu is the Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation and Founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Movement. He is best-known for his documentaries on the restoration of the Loess Plateau, like Hope in a Changing Climate and Green Gold. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, John joins Ross to explain how human activity caused the degradation of the Loess Plateau, describing how it went from being one of the most beautiful places on Earth to a barren landscape where the poorest Chinese people lived. John discusses what made the Loess Plateau restoration so successful, offering insight around how the Chinese government engaged the people there and how the project design balances functional space for agriculture with land dedicated to natural regeneration. Listen in to understand how John thinks about restoring inherently complex ecosystems and learn how you can get involved in John’s work to transform our economy and facilitate ecosystem restoration all over the world. Connect with Nori: Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Nori Nori on Facebook Nori on Twitter Nori on Patreon Nori Newsletter Resources: The Weather Makers ‘The Holy Grail of Restoration: Mending the Sinai Peninsula’ in Kosmos Journal John’s Academia Page John on Twitter The Great Work of Our Time Documentary on Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration World Bank Story on the Loess Plateau Restoration Presencing Institute Theory U International Union for the Conservation of Nature Rothamsted Research Institute University of the West of England Netherlands Institute of Ecology Elinor Ostrom Kyoto Protocol Kate Raworth Paul Kingsnorth Wendell Berry Willem Ferwerda John F. Nash --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reversingclimatechange/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reversingclimatechange/support

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Ecosystem Restoration Camps are a potential methodology to regenerate degraded lands on a planetary scale. Carry Kim speaks with John D. Liu, Ecosystem Ambassador and Founder and Advisory Council Chair of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation. The camps movement serves as a model for restoring ecological function while addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time including: poverty, hunger, refugee crises, climate change and the need to create resilient communities. There are now 23 camps spanning 6 continents, and the movement continues to grow exponentially. John D. Liu is a filmmaker, environmental educator [https://knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu], and Founder and Advisory Council Chair of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation [https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/join-a-camp/]. He also serves as Ecosystem Ambassador of the Commonland Foundation [https://commonland.com/en]. As a filmmaker in 1995, the World Bank asked John to document the ecological restoration of the Loess Plateau in China. Since learning that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, John has devoted his life to understanding and communicating about the potential and responsibility to restore degraded landscapes on a planetary scale. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.d.liu https://www.facebook.com/groups/1206960359323785/ Interview by Carry Kim Hosted by Jessica Aldridge Engineer: Blake Lampkin Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Show Created by Mark and JP Morris Music: Javier Kadry Episode 65

How nature and successful civilizations build soil, and how Edenicity will use these models to create a permanently wealthy civilization. If Episode 14 was like Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, today's episode is like The Return of the Jedi.For this episode, it'll really help to have the Edenicity Reference Design.John D. Liu videos: Hope in a Changing Climate, Green is GoldEcosystem Restoration CampsAllan Savory TEDx TalkSupport the show (https://teespring.com/stores/edenicity)

A world tour of car-free cities, sustainable housing and gigantic ecological restoration projects that heal people and landscapes without austerity.ResourcesEdenicity Reference DesignJohn D. Liu, Lessons of the Loess Plateau (52:31)https://culdesac.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_placeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car-free_movementhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_citieshttp://www.villagehomesdavis.org/aboutSupport the show (https://teespring.com/stores/edenicity)

Selections from a summer spent crawling over rocks.

In this episode, we dive deep into the global water cycle, and how repairing degraded landscapes and increasing water retention can help to stabilize global temperatures. We talk about Zach's work, where he has worked on projects in over twenty countries, and about the practical nuts and bolts of assessing, planning, and installing large scale permaculture water management projects. Zach's Links: www.elementalecosystems.com We cover a lot of the science behind deforestation, precipitation, and atmospheric circulation. In order to back up many of the assertions in this episode, here is a list of links to scientific papers here: How Forests Attract Rain: An Examination of a New Hypothesis. (peer-reviewed) https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/59/4/341/346941 (abstract and access to full text) Makarieva A.M., Gorshkov V.G., Sheil D., Nobre A.D., Bunyard P., Li B.-L. (2014) Why does air passage over forest yield more rain? Examining the coupling between rainfall, pressure, and atmospheric moisture content. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, 411-426. (peer-reviewed) doi:10.1175/JHM-D-12-0190.1. (abstract and access to full text) http://www.bioticregulation.ru/common/pdf/spr.pdf (full text) Report: Forests may play bigger role in rainfall than estimated (non-academic) https://forestsnews.cifor.org/22060/report-forests-may-play-bigger-role-in-rainfall-than-estimated?fnl=en (full text) Does Anthropogenic Land Use Change Play a Role in Changes of Precipitation Frequency and Intensity over the Loess Plateau of China? (peer reviewed) https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/11/1818?fbclid=IwAR0MLGrCgdnixRvZadfvN_NobymkfOjBTpN84yKcFUU0hfGIeV-jEWHii1Q (full text) Estimation of Actual Evapotranspiration in a Semiarid Region Based on GRACE Gravity Satellite Data—A Case Study in Loess Plateau (Peer reviewed) https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/12/2032?fbclid=IwAR2ChJttDVobRfSsjK5R9ERNjKRs6JEX6cBw66Pvrq2JuXOfwi3WXcRcbf4 (full text) New meteorological theory argues that the world’s forests are rainmakers (non-academic) https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/new-meteorological-theory-argues-that-the-worlds-forests-are-rainmakers/ (full text) Other reading mentioned in episode: Charles Eisenstein - Climate: A New Story

SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM This episode explores the new movement to regenerate the planet with "Ecosystem Restoration Camps", where groups of people set up temporary camps on degraded lands for education and implementation of ecological rehabilitation and permaculture. The first camp is now up and running in Spain, with many more in the works. John D. Liu, one of the ideas inspirations, shares much about his vision of the camps and movement to restore the planet's degraded lands and stabilize climate change through a massive social and ecological movement. Show links: WWW.ECOSYSTEMRESTORATIONCAMPS.ORG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Liu John Dennis Liu full bio: John Dennis Liu (born 1953 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a Chinese American film-maker and ecologist. He is also a researcher at several institutions. In January 2015 John was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Early career Liu was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, as the son of a Chinese father and American mother. He spent most of his youth in Bloomington, Indiana.[1] Liu studied journalism.[2] In 1979 he went for the first time to China, after being pushed by his father to see his grandmother before her death. In China Liu helped set up the CBS News bureau in Beijing in 1981, at a time when tensions between the United States and China were lessening. He worked for CBS for more than ten years as a producer and cameraman. Liu has said that after the collapse of the Soviet Union he grew tired of journalism and wished to make films. He started working for European media as RAI, SRG SSR, ZDF[3] For RAI, ZDF, BBC World and National Geographic Channel he produced nature documentaries.[2] In 1995 he filmed the Loess Plateau in China, which was being transformed from a barren and eroded ground into an oasis by the government.[2][4] At this point Liu noticed the possibility of humans restoring ecosystems, rather than only destroying them. Ecological recovery and ideas Liu retired from journalism in 1997 and became the director of the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP). With the EEMP he uses television to provide information about ecology, sustainable development, public health in China and other countries.[3] Liu emphasizes that the harmful effect of humans on the world is not only caused by greenhouse gasses, but is to a great extent caused by the destruction of biomass, organic matter and biodiversity. Liu claims that the decline in these factors has led to higher temperatures and loss of arable soil, in the end leading to desertification.[3] Liu sees a solution for these problems in the way people look at money, as people currently value the products and services derived from ecosystems higher than the ecosystems themselves.[3] The episode, Regreening the desert / Green gold of the show Tegenlicht, was aired by Dutch public broadcaster VPRO and co-produced by Liu. The episodes sees Liu traveling the world to countries as Jordan, China and Ethiopia and shows the possibilities in re-greening areas turning into desert. At the 65th Prix Italia, in September 2013, the episode won the Special Prize Expo 2015.[5][6] Since 2009, Liu is working together with Willem Ferwerda, former director of the Dutch office of IUCN, executive fellow business and ecosystems at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and founder of the Commonland Foundation an organization that works on large scale landscape restoration projects with a business approach, based on the 4 returns from landscape restoration framework developed by Ferwerda.

Beijing-based filmmaker John Liu proposes that healthy ecosystem function is a superior measure of economic health, in contrast with the rate at which we produce and consume manufactured goods. Showing stunning footage, Liu chronicles the remarkable restoration of China's denuded Loess Plateau, once the "Garden of Eden" of China. He illustrates how the act of restoring soil fertility restores the hydrological cycle, a process that was radically disrupted by thousands of years of slash-and-burn agriculture and overgrazing. These communities' intervention not only revitalized the soil, water and air, but also spurred a thriving local economy and higher rates of education. This speech was presented at the 2011 Bioneers Annual Conference and is part of the Ecological Design, Vol. 1 and Protecting and Restoring Nature, Vol. 1 Collections. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year. For more information on Bioneers, please visit http://www.bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

Beijing-based filmmaker John Liu proposes that healthy ecosystem function is a superior measure of economic health, in contrast with the rate at which we produce and consume manufactured goods. Showing stunning footage, Liu chronicles the remarkable restoration of China's denuded Loess Plateau, once the "Garden of Eden" of China. He illustrates how the act of restoring soil fertility restores the hydrological cycle, a process that was radically disrupted by thousands of years of slash-and-burn agriculture and overgrazing. These communities' intervention not only revitalized the soil, water and air, but also spurred a thriving local economy and higher rates of education. This speech was presented at the 2011 Bioneers Annual Conference and is part of the Ecological Design, Vol. 1 and Protecting and Restoring Nature, Vol. 1 Collections. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year. For more information on Bioneers, please visit http://www.bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Liu Yan in Beijing. Here is the news.The Communist Party's graft watchdog says the cases of disgraced former senior officials demonstrate that some corrupt officials "are very well hidden within the Communist Party of China".According to a commentary quoted by the Party Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, these hidden tigers, or high-ranking officials, tend to form cliques and factions, seeking not only money but also political conspiracy, gravely threatening the Party leadership and solidarity.The commentary says that "the tigers nowadays are deceitful, and tend to lay low", warning that corrupt officials find their ways to survive this sweeping anti-graft campaign.It argued that the fight against corruption must be carried on, in light of the daunting challenges, refuting opinions that "the anti-graft campaign is just a gust of wind".The article says that some people call on an end to the combat against graft and work style revamp, fearing the campaign would go too far if it continues, adding "such arguments must be vehemently objected".This is NEWS Plus Special English.How are Chinese holidaymakers spending their Spring Festival holidays?A real-time interactive map has revealed that shopping and foot massages were the top two leisure activities over the Lunar New Year. The map was issued by Dianping.com, a popular Chinese rating website for leisure and dining services. The map showed that hotel stays, cafes and karaoke rounded out the top five forms of holiday activities, followed by spa and outdoor sports.The amount of money spent by holidaymakers varied by region. Dianping.com said that since February 16, three days prior to the Chinese New Year, consumers in Hong Kong were the biggest spenders, with an average of 1,500 yuan, almost 240 US dollars. The national average stood at 300 yuan.Shanghai came in second, with an average spending of 700 yuan on shopping, cafes and foot massages as their favorites activities.Beijing ranked fifth, with consumers spending 470 yuan on average.When it comes to dining out, dianping.com users in both Hong Kong and Macao seem to be the most expensive eaters, spending an average of almost 150 yuan, more than double the 72 yuan national average.Diners in Shanghai led the mainland as the most generous spenders on fine dining, spending 107 yuan dining out, followed by Beijing residents at 98 yuan.The most popular dishes across the country were sanbeiji, or stewed chicken with rice wine, roast duck, lamb and fish dishes, as well as desserts including crispy durian cake, Tiramisu and ice cream.Meanwhile, another report by the China Tourism Academy showed that around 60 percent of Chinese tourists traveled overseas for the Spring Festival holiday, the first time outbound holidaymakers outnumbered those traveling within the country.You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Liu Yan in Beijing.Liangjiahe, a village in Shaanxi Province in northwest China, where Chinese President Xi Jinping spent seven years as a rural laborer, became a popular Spring Festival tourist destination after Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan paid a visit ahead of this year's holiday.A small community hidden among the valleys of the Loess Plateau in Yanchuan County, Liangjiahe was put under the spotlight when Xi Jinping rose to China's leadership in 2012. Xi Jinping has talked on several occasions about how he benefited from his experiences working there.Forty-seven years ago, a teenager at the time, Xi Jinping went to the village in response to a campaign requiring urban youth to experience rural labor life.Because of the connection, more than 100,000 people from many parts of China have visited the village annually. Local people say that tourism boomed during the holiday, thanks to President Xi Jinping and his wife's visit last month.Meanwhile, traditional tourist attractions, such as the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, remain popular. More than 50,000 visitors thronged the Forbidden City on the morning of Feb 22, the fourth day of the lunar New Year holiday.

Forests are the cornerstone of the entire landscape, which includes wetlands, agriculture, mountains, drylands, rivers, biodiversity and people. Landscape restoration and sustainable forest management can only be achieved when all stakeholders, including governments, private institutions and local communities, work together using a cross-sectoral, cross-institutional strategy at a landscape level. The challenge is to explore institutional arrangements that are better suited to each country’s dynamic conditions, as there is no one-size-fits-all solution. At the global launch of the International Year of Forests in 2011, Rwanda announced its plan and commitment for achieving border-to-border landscape restoration over the next 25 years. This would be the first time that such a project encompasses an entire country - and the “landscape” includes not only forests, but trees as part of agriculture, subsistence agriculture planning, including terracing, protection of water resources, and the importance of wetlands and other ecosystem planning for all these purposes, including hydrology. This comprehensive landscape approach is the future. In China’s Loess Plateau, innovative action regenerated a barren landscape that had been degraded from centuries of unsustainable agriculture. Communities worked to replace overgrazing with terrace-building and tree planting practices. Within a decade, the dry, dusty plateau has become a mixed green landscape of forests and fields, an incredible feat of recovery for an area the size of Belgium, approximately 640,000 square kilometers. Moreover, this restoration contributed to lifting 2.5 million people out of poverty. “Forests for People” was the theme of the International Year of Forests 2011 (Forests 2011) and continues to be the focus of the UNFF secretariat’s outreach activities. This year has inspired afforestation and reforestation projects worldwide, including changes to agricultural practices in rural communities and forest management.

Loess is a thin soil. When it is dry it is whisked up into great sand storms, which blight Beijing and other cities. As part of the restoration project farmers were paid to keep their cattle off the hillsides. The results are astounding, the farmers now grow high value cash crops and the air is cleaner.

Transcript -- Loess is a thin soil. When it is dry it is whisked up into great sand storms, which blight Beijing and other cities. As part of the restoration project farmers were paid to keep their cattle off the hillsides. The results are astounding, the farmers now grow high value cash crops and the air is cleaner.

Loess is a thin soil. When it is dry it is whisked up into great sand storms, which blight Beijing and other cities. As part of the restoration project farmers were paid to keep their cattle off the hillsides. The results are astounding, the farmers now grow high value cash crops and the air is cleaner.

Three generations of the Wang family have harvested peanuts, which grown among their carrots. Their income has risen four fold. They grow nine different fruits, vegetables and cereals. It's no longer a matter of survival, as they now make money from their produce.

Transcript -- Three generations of the Wang family have harvested peanuts, which grown among their carrots. Their income has risen four fold. They grow nine different fruits, vegetables and cereals. It's no longer a matter of survival, as they now make money from their produce.

Three generations of the Wang family have harvested peanuts, which grown among their carrots. Their income has risen four fold. They grow nine different fruits, vegetables and cereals. It's no longer a matter of survival, as they now make money from their produce.

Transcript -- Three generations of the Wang family have harvested peanuts, which grown among their carrots. Their income has risen four fold. They grow nine different fruits, vegetables and cereals. It's no longer a matter of survival, as they now make money from their produce.

Transcript -- Loess is a thin soil. When it is dry it is whisked up into great sand storms, which blight Beijing and other cities. As part of the restoration project farmers were paid to keep their cattle off the hillsides. The results are astounding, the farmers now grow high value cash crops and the air is cleaner.