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Regenerating Life: A Film by John Feldman and Hummingbird Films

...With Soil And Water featuring Walter Jehne Soil and climate scientist Walter Jehne works to educate farmers, policymakers and others about “the soil carbon sponge” and its crucial role in...

A Review Of John Feldman’s “Regenerating Life”

...sustains itself, quoting Walter Jehne saying “the challenge of climate change is to rebuild the bioframe.” Lynn Margulis explains that life simply makes more of itself as its prime purpose....

Cooling The Climate Mess With Soil And Water featuring Walter Jehne

Soil and climate scientist Walter Jehne works to educate farmers, policymakers and others about “the soil carbon sponge” and its crucial role in reversing and mitigating flooding, drought, wildfires, and...

Our Underrated Climate Ally: The Small Water Cycle

...sponge – a term coined by Australian soil microbiologist Walter Jehne. Following nature’s strategy and applying the soil health principles, combined with slowing and capturing rainfall through earthworks (e.g. swales...

The Remarkable Success Of India’s Natural Farming Movement with Vijay Kumar & Didi Pershouse

...program, and the impact of Walter Jehne’s ideas for increasing drought resilience. Didi Pershouse, who accompanied Jehne on his trip to India, moderates the conversation. This talk is part of...

Nature’s Solutions as National Policy

...as National Policy In June of 2021, we kicked off the Nature’s Solutions as National Policy series. We were thrilled to welcome Walter Jehne, Vijay Kumar, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree...

Nature’s Solutions as National Policy: How Animals Shape Ecosystems

...the first installment of this conference series from June 2021, featuring speakers Walter Jehne, Vijay Kumar, and Rep. Chellie Pingree, and the most recent installment Code Red at Glasgow: What...

Nature’s Solutions as National Policy

...were integrated into government policy on agriculture, fishing, water, and forests? We were thrilled to welcome Walter Jehne, Vijay Kumar, and Rep. Chellie Pingree to present on and discuss how...

Speakers – Tufts 2015

...spaces. Walter Jehne is a leading Australian soil and climate scientist and Director of Healthy Soils Australia. He has extensive experience in industry and has worked overseas with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, focusing on...

Nature’s Solutions as National Policy with Walter Jehne, Vijay Kumar & Rep. Chellie Pingree

A panel discussion among Walter Jehne, Climate and Soil Scientist; Vijay Kumar, government advisor for the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Movement; and Chellie Pingree, Congresswoman from Maine and...

Nature’s Solutions as National Policy

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Walter Jehne, Vijay Kumar, and Rep. Chellie Pingree spoke at Bio4Climate’s first mini-conference of 2021 on implementing nature’s solutions in climate policy. Read more and watch the recording here! Share...

Walter Jehne

speaking at Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Tufts 2015

Walter Jehne is a leading Australian soil and climate scientist and Director of Healthy Soils Australia. He has extensive experience in industry and has worked overseas with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, focusing on the...

Nature’s Solutions as National Policy Registration

...thrilled to welcome Walter Jehne, Vijay Kumar, and Rep. Chellie Pingree to present on and discuss how citizens and governments can collaborate to realize the goals of ecosystem restoration and...

Walter Jehne: Climate Solutions for a Blue Planet

Walter Jehne, founder of Healthy Soil Australia and internationally acclaimed soil and climate scientist, describes solutions we can all partake in to restore Earth’s ecosystems and address climate change. Learn...

September 2019 Newsletter

Walter Jehne talk; Afforestt, Ungardening Movement in America, Small-scale Farmers in Brazil; Judy Schwartz, Compendium Notes: Restoration of living environment based on vegetation ecology: theory and practice, Miyawaki 2004 Share...

Cooling the Climate Mess with Walter Jehne

Soil and climate scientist Walter Jehne explains how healthy soils act as a sponge for carbon and water – the “soil carbon sponge.” When we manage soils to absorb water,...

2019 Walter Jehne

Video of Walter’s talk now available here! Walter Jehne is an internationally known Australian soil microbiologist and climate scientist. He is passionate about educating farmers, policymakers and others about...

Compendium Article

Compendium Vol. 2 No. 1: Appendix A: Scenario 300

...YouTube (see https://bio4climate.org/conferences). Many of these will be highlighted as resources below. Walter Jehne is an Australian microbiologist and climate scientist. He has outlined a global strategy for ecosystem restoration in response...

Compendium Article

New climate solutions, water cycles and the soil carbon sponge, Jehne 2018

...[Jehne 2018: 1:34:15]. However, due to land use change, there is 50% less transpiration on Earth than there was some 8,000 years ago. Jehne estimates that increasing transpiration by only...

Compendium Article

Compendium Vol. 2 No. 1: Water, Life and Climate

...evapotranspiration and condensation-induced water circulation – is essential to renew landscape sustainability [Eiseltova 2012: 325]. New climate solutions, water cycles and the soil carbon sponge, Jehne 2018 Regenerating the soil...

Compendium Article

Water Article Summaries

...W/m2 surplus solar energy [Jehne 2018: 1:34:50]. Increasing transpiration is achieved by increasing vegetation cover, which in turn is achieved by regenerating the soil sponge. Jehne explains that conventional agriculture has...

March-April 2018 Newsletter

Walter Jehne on the Soil Carbon Sponge, Soil 2017, Compendium Notes: Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity, Duffy 2017 Share this:...

The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles with Walter Jehne

Biodiversity for a Livable Climate presents a talk by Walter Jehne, Australian climate scientist and soil microbiologist who is the Director of Healthy Soils Australia. Introduction by Didi Pershouse, The...

Walter Jehne – Soil Carbon Sponge and the New Climate Solutions

...Healthy Water Cycles and the Soil Carbon Sponge: New Climate Solutions A talk by Australian climate scientist and soil microbiologist Walter Jehne Director of Healthy Soils Australia Introduction by Didi...

Walter Jehne – April 26, 2018

Walter Jehne: New Climate Solutions Water Cycles and the Soil Carbon Sponge Video here. Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Haller Lecture Hall (Harvard) 24 Oxford Street...

Compendium Article

Compendium Vol. 1 No. 1: COMPILATION OF STUDIES AND FINDINGS

Soils This compendium is, if nothing else, a testament to the key role soils must play if we are to preserve life on earth through the anthropocene. Soils, the engine...

Compendium Article

Water

...2015 Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming Conference at Tufts University – all speaker videos are available online. https://bio4climate.org/program-tufts-2015/. Overview Healthy Soils Australia, Walter Jehne 2015. Walter Jehne is...

Walter Jehne (soil and climate scientist) and Michal Kravcik (hydrologist) Q&A

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Michal Kravcik: Slovakian hydrologist Walter Jehne: Australian soil and climate scientist Presented a...

Walter Jehne, Thomas Goreau, Jan Lambert, Michal Kravcik: Water and Climate Policy Panel

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Policy panel: Building Water Cycles into the International Climate Debate Walter Jehne, Tom...

The Natural History of Water on Earth with Walter Jehne

Australian soil and climate scientist Walter Jehne discusses how the five kingdoms of life have created water cycles, moving water through sea, soil and air, navigating tumultuous changes through geological...

Program, Videos, Slides – Tufts 2015

...methods for hydrological cooling that directly relieve climate extremes? Walter Jehne describes his strategic vision for expanding the awareness of water cycles in global climate policy. Jehne was trained as...

Resources

... In this video he describes some of his many fascinating experiments and discoveries of how fungi are essential to and interconnected with other life forms on earth. Water Walter Jehne, Healthy...

Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Tufts 2015

...in Zimbabwe. Walter Jehne, leading Australian soil and climate scientist, Director of Healthy Soils Australia. Tom Goreau, biogeophysicist, climate scientist and leading coral reef restoration expert, president of the Global...

Cool It! Water and the Climate Crisis

...the carbon out of the atmosphere that we want and still have the problems we now associate with CO2-driven climate change. As Walter Jehne, a soil microbiologist and Director of...

Events

...attitudes toward food can be enriched by expanding our sources of wisdom. Read more on our WGBH page. Saturday, June 5, 2021 – Nature’s Solutions as National Policy Walter Jehne,...

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