Featured Creature: Azolla

Featured Creature: Azolla

...a “superorganism”. Graphic from Srishti School of Design A global climate changer I became aware of azolla early in my Bio4Climate journey, as Jim Laurie introduced these amazing organisms to...

Regenerating Life: A Film by John Feldman and Hummingbird Films

...their talks and writings. Jim Laurie Judith Schwartz Walter Jehne Michal Kravčík Tom Goreau Adam Sacks Didi Pershouse Vijay Kumar Explore People and Themes from the Film Find videos and...

Ecological Economics 2023

...based on a more realistic concept of choice and knowledge. The course will involve a lot of interaction and discussion. Course Description Jim Laurie’s course on Biodiversity and Symbiosis addresses...

Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels March 25 2023

...Solutions for Toxic Land and Water (with John Wright, Coakí, and moderator Jess Alvarez-Parfrey) Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Jim Laurie is a restoration ecologist, educator,...

Announcement

Biodiversity 8: Deepdive Into Symbiosis

Starting March 1, 2023, join Jim Laurie for a 12-week deep dive into the science, history, and cultural implications of how we understand evolution and interspecies relationships. How has conventional...

Registration Biodiversity 8

To register for Biodiversity 8 Deepdive with Jim Laurie, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never...

Biodiversity 8 – Deepdive into Symbiosis

...to the Biodiversity Deepdive community through an exclusive Google Groups forum. Your instructor Jim Laurie discovered the magical power of nature in his work as a biologist in the chemical...

Event

Sweet in Tooth and Claw

Tuesday, December 13 at 6pm ET

In December, author Kristin Ohlson and restoration ecologist Jim Laurie shared their wisdom in Sweet In Tooth And Claw: Cooperation And Generosity In The Natural World. They discussed Ohlson’s latest...

Announcement

Sweet in Tooth and Claw

On Tuesday, December 13 at 6pm ET, join Kristin Ohlson and Jim Laurie for Sweet In Tooth And Claw: Cooperation And Generosity In The Natural World. They will discuss Ohlson’s...

Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels January 21 2023

...World Bank Environment Department; Research Assistant, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University. Philip and Jim Laurie constructed Washington, DC’s first “Living Machine” more than 15 years ago. Reduce Flooding...

Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels November 12

...Millennium Institute; Consultant, World Bank Environment Department; Research Assistant, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University. Philip and Jim Laurie constructed Washington, DC’s first “Living Machine” more than 15 years...

Biodiversity 7 Registration

To register for Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity 7: Rewilding Half the Earth to Create a Future We Want, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you...

Biodiversity 7: Rewilding Half the Earth to Create a Future We Want

...scientist, Jim Laurie. He will hold two sessions every Wednesday, from 12 – 2 pm ET and 7 – 9 pm ET to accommodate students’ different schedules. The Excitement and...

Announcement

Jim Laurie’s Class, Biodiversity 7: Rewilding Half the Earth to Create a Future We Want

...Laurie will lead students in examining restorative possibilities such as protecting half the earth, creating mini-forests using the Miyawaki method, and increasing wetlands. Beginning Wednesday, October 12, 2022, the course...

Announcement

Jim Laurie’s Class, Biodiversity 6: Systems Thinking & Scenarios – Tools for Creating Better Ecological Futures

...Jim Laurie will lead students in taking on the question, “could humans be a global force for the reemergence of healthy ecosystems on a much faster timeline?” To answer this...

Biodiversity 6 Registration

To register for Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity 6: Systems Thinking & Scenarios – Tools for Creating Better Ecological Futures, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you to...

Biodiversity 6: Systems Thinking

...staff scientist, Jim Laurie. He will hold two sessions every Wednesday, from 12 – 2 pm ET and 7 – 9 pm ET to accommodate students’ different schedules. The Excitement...

Course Offerings

...Jim Laurie In this fifth course in the Biodiversity and Symbiosis series, Jim Laurie and the team of budding planetary restorers took on the challenge of maximizing photosynthesis in forests, grasslands,...

Registration for Biodiversity 5 – 481448961

To register for Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity 5: Cooling the Climate by Mastering the Carbon Cycle, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you to join us...

Announcement

Jim Laurie’s Fall 2021 Class

Biodiversity V, which takes a deeper dive into forest ecosystems, is starting on October 6, 2021. The course will focus on maximizing photosynthesis and balancing the carbon cycle to cool...

May-July 2021 Newsletter

...Fungi, and Living Shorelines class with Jim Laurie, Featured Video: Indigenous Seed Keepers, Compendium Notes: Community owned solutions for fire management in tropical ecosystems: case studies from Indigenous communities of...

Registration for Jim Laurie’s Class – Summer 2021

Registration for Jim Laurie’s Class – Summer 2021 Biodiversity IV: Forests, Fungi, and Living Shorelines Classes will begin on June 16, 2021 and run for twelve consecutive Wednesdays through September...

Biodiversity 4: Forests, Fungi and Living Shorelines

Biodiversity 4: Forests, Fungi and Living Shorelines Summer 2021, Wednesdays, June 16th – September 1st 12 weekly classes with our staff scientist, Jim Laurie, held at 1pm and 7pm ET...

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A Montage of Words and Images

...be prepared for what is coming?” – Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Educator, and Author of Scenario 300 “Microbes occur nearly everywhere because they are so remarkably adaptable. They survive where nothing...

Speaker

Philip Bogdonoff

speaking at Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming, Washington D.C. 2015

...Environment Department; Research Assistant, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University. He and Jim Laurie constructed Washington, DC’s first “Living Machine” more than 15 years ago. Share this: Click to...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming, Washington D.C. 2015

Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, is a biologist from Rice University and is a pioneer in biological remediation of waste water. He was the technical...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Reversing Global Warming: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity, and Planet!

Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, is a biologist from Rice University and is a pioneer in biological remediation of waste water. He was the technical manager of the world’s largest “Living...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming

Speakers – Tufts 2015

Restoring Water Cycles – Speakers – Home Program Sponsors/Partners The Homeschool Advanced Placement Biology / Restoration Ecology Class is taught by Jim Laurie and Jane Hammer in Arlington Massachusetts. Students Annie...

Speakers – Harvard 2016 – Power and Promise of Biodiversity

...DER’s on-the-ground aquatic habitat work, encompassing dam removal, freshwater wetland restoration, and salt marsh restoration. Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, is a biologist from Rice University and is a pioneer in...

Speakers – Oceans 2016

...Woods Hole, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard in biogeochemistry. He is a trained nuisance crocodile remover who would rather not. Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, is a biologist from Rice University and a...

Climate Reckoning – Speakers

...of many of humanity’s global challenges, of which climate change and soil loss remain our most pressing. Jim Laurie is a restoration biologist and co-founder of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate....

Voices of Nature – Speakers

...societal issues. Watch one of Simon’s videos here. Jim Laurie is a restoration biologist and co-founder of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He was manager of the Vermont “Living Machine” which was...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity

Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, is a biologist from Rice University and a pioneer in biological remediation of waste water. He was the technical manager of the world’s largest “Living Machine”...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool!

Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, is a biologist from Rice University and is a pioneer in biological remediation of waste water. He was the technical manager...

Speaker

Philip Bogdonoff

speaking at Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool!

...global carbon cycle. He and Jim Laurie constructed DC’s first “Living Machine” more than 15 years ago. More recently, he facilitated the introduction of Maryland’s Healthy Soils bill (HB1063), which...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Climate Reckoning: Paths to an Earth Restored

Jim Laurie is a restoration biologist and co-founder of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has been learning how to restore lands and waters for 30 years and was the manager...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Climate, Biodiversity, and Survival: Listening to the Voices of Nature

Jim Laurie is a restoration biologist and co-founder of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He was manager of the Vermont “Living Machine” which was designed by ecological visionary John Todd. This biodiverse system...

Speaker

Homeschool Symbiosis Team

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

The Homeschool Advanced Placement Biology / Restoration Ecology Class is taught by Jim Laurie and Jane Hammer in Arlington Massachusetts. Students Annie Selle, Lynus Erickson, Jamila dePeiza-Kent, and Elizabeth Owens...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

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

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Floods & Droughts

Video

Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity Class Description

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Jim Laurie teaches biodiversity classes almost every semester session. To learn more about...

Core Team

...primary goal is regeneration of biodiversity and a livable planet. Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist Jim is a biologist from Rice University and is a pioneer in biological remediation of waste...

January-February 2021 Newsletter

Eighth Compendium Issue, Mike Hands and Rattan Lal on Agroforestry, Voices of Water for Climate, Ecosystem Restoration Camps Symposium, Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity and Symbiosis III Class, Hannah Lewis’ Call Story,...

Private: Home Archived 20230406

...and for our next event in Cleveland… Continue readingPrivate: Home Archived 20230406 Sweet in Tooth and Claw In December, author Kristin Ohlson and restoration ecologist Jim Laurie shared their wisdom...

Event

Counting Down to Restoring Earth: How Do We Get There?

Thursday, January 28, 2021

...The event featured speakers Daniel Wahl, John D. Liu, Precious Phiri, and Jim Laurie with opening remarks from Tim Christophersen from the UN Environment Program. Watch the Video. Share this:...

Speaker

Jim Laurie

speaking at Blessed Unrest: Growing a Future for Life on Earth

Announcement

Jim Laurie’s Spring 2021 Class

Biodiversity III: Mastering the Water Cycle begins on February 3, 2021 and runs for twelve consecutive Wednesdays through April 21st, with choice of afternoon (1-3 pm EST) or evening classes...

November-December 2020 Newsletter

Vijay Kumar on Community Managed Natural Farming, SUGi Spotlight, Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity and Symbiosis III: Mastering the Water Cycle, Adam Sacks’ Call Story, Ngā Uruora Book Review, The Hidden World...

September-October 2020 Newsletter

Didi Pershouse on The Ecology of Care, The Hidden Life of Trees Book Review, Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity and Symbiosis II Class, Nick Rabb’s Call Story, Agroecology and Brazil’s Landless Workers...

A Montage of Words and Images

...their successes and failures. How can our generation help them be prepared for what is coming?” – Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Educator, and Author of Scenario 300 “Microbes occur nearly...

July-August 2020 Newsletter

Saving Life on Earth is Our Highest Calling!, Tim LaSalle on Regenerative Agriculture, Entangled Life Book Review, Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity and Symbiosis II Class, Compendium Notes: Ecological restoration success is...

Jim Laurie’s Class – Fall 2020

Fall 2020, Wednesdays, September 16th – December 9th Biodiversity 2: Systems Thinking and Transformation – Building Teams for Planetary Restoration. 12 weekly classes with our staff scientist, Jim Laurie. The...

Video

Introduction for the Blessed Unrest with Robert Labaree

Robert Labaree introduces environmental advocates Florence Reed, Rev Dele, Lama Liz Monson, Jim Laurie and the Home Schoolers Symbiosis Team (Astrid Erickson, Asmond Erickson, Jonathan Linehan-Beeler, Sharada Sundarum-Senders & Thomas...

Jim Laurie’s Class – Summer 2020

Summer 2020, June 2 – August 18 Biodiversity, Symbiosis and Planetary Regeneration: Exploring Nature’s Possibilities for the Future! Weekly Classes with our staff scientist, Jim Laurie The Excitement and Inspiration...

Video

Environmental Leaders of the Future Q&A

Jim Laurie and Home Schoolers: Astrid Erickson, Asmond Erickson, Jonathan Linehan-Beeler, Sharada Sundarum-Senders and Thomas O’Connor Golden, who are exploring possibilities for their futures on a changing Earth. Updates on...

Video

Biology as told by Environmental Leaders of the Future

Jim Laurie and home schoolers: Astrid Erickson, Asmond Erickson, Jonathan Linehan-Beeler, Sharada Sundarum-Senders and Thomas O’Connor Golden, who are exploring possibilities for their futures on a changing Earth, discuss the...

Blessed Unrest Program

...Laurie and Home Schoolers Presentation Jim Laurie and Home Schoolers Workshop A report from young people who are exploring possibilities for their futures on a changing Earth. Updates on various...

Blessed Unrest Speakers

...has extensive hands-on experience with landscape restoration and wildlife monitoring in her region, as well as working with diverse groups including youth and the faith community. Jim Laurie is a...

March 2019 Newsletter

Newsletter Youth Climate Strike, coastal wetlands, Maine Dam Removal, Jim Laurie, Victor Wallis Meetup, Compendium Notes: Sponge Cities, China Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)...

Video

Jim Laurie: FUNGI- Intelligent Strands Beneath Our Feet (The Real Worldwide Web)

...been doing an internet for hundreds of millions of years! Jim Laurie is Bio4Climate’s staff scientist extraordinaire (and a co-founder) Presented at Climate, Biodiversity, and Survival: Listening to the Voices...

Compendium Article

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

Scenario 300: Reducing Atmospheric CO2 to 300 ppm by 2061 by Jim Laurie, Staff Scientist Biodiversity for a Livable Climate bio4climate.org jimlaurie7@gmailcom March 20, 2018 Danger in the...

Voices of Nature – Program

...for hundreds of millions of years! Jim Laurie is Bio4Climate’s staff scientist extraordinaire (and a co-founder), whose experience as a restoration ecologist has informed and brightened our work since the...

Video

Kannan Thiruvengadam: Building Soil and Growing Food and Community

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ The importance of community farms Kannan Thiruvengadam: Eastie Farm Presented at Revitalizing Ecosystems...

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Maggie Booz: Neighborhood Tree Stewardship

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Transforming public spaces Maggie Booz: Cambridge Committee on Public Planting Presented at Revitalizing...

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John Reinhardt: Reviving a River

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ John Reinhardt: President Mystic River Watershed Association Presented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater...

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Anamarija Frankic: Oyster Beds and Living Shorelines

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Anamarija Frankic: UMass Boston Green Harbors Project Presented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater...

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Tom Wessels: Self-organization, Co-evolution, Resiliency, and Stability

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Self-organization is a natural process—that, as a system grows it also becomes more...

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Zeyneb Magavi: Energy Execs, Ecosystems, and Alliances

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Ecosystems across our highly developed region are threatened by climate change. At the...

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John Pitkin: Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change Introduction

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ John Pitkin: Greater Boston Group of the Sierra Club Presented at Revitalizing Ecosystems...

Compendium Article

Compilation of agriculture articles

Natural climate solutions, Griscom 2017 This is one of the most comprehensive mainstream studies to date of a broad spectrum of natural climate solutions by thirty-two co-authors and supported by...

Compendium Article

Natural climate solutions, Griscom 2017

This is one of the most comprehensive mainstream studies to date of a broad spectrum of natural climate solutions by thirty-two co-authors and supported by The Nature Conservancy. The report...

Video

The Big Picture, Rapid Change, and Paths to Restoration with Jim Laurie

Jim Laurie: Staff scientist and biologist at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with us Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climate Twitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/...

Video

Creating the Future We Want with Symbiosis Team

Members of Jim Laurie’s Symbiosis Team are Hayden Latimer-Ireland, Lynus Erickson, Jamila dePeiza-Kern, Annie Selle – local home-schoolers facing tomorrow head-on Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/...

Video

Pathways to a Restored Planet: Scenario 300 with Jim Laurie

Jim Laurie: Staff scientist and Biologist at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with us Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climate Twitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/...

Program – Climate Reckoning

...rehydrating the continents and cooling the Earth. Jim Laurie is chief scientist and biologist at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. 8:35 – Q&A Saturday Morning 9:00 – Creating the Future...

Video

Jim Laurie: Back to 300 (Nature Wants to be Wet and Cool)

...the continents. Jim Laurie will review a broad vision of the potential for each ecosystem to be restored and to sequester carbon, building a graphic showing the global potential and...

Video

Jim Laurie (Biodiversity for a Livable Climate) & Kris Nichols (Rodale Institute) Q&A

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Kris Nichols, Chief Scientist,...

Conference

Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool!

...Cornell University, helping to model the global carbon cycle. He and Jim Laurie constructed DC’s first “Living Machine” more than 15 years ago. More recently, he facilitated the introduction of...

Conference

Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity

...Bruce Fulford, Bryan O’Hara, Hugh McLaughlin, PhD, and Jim Laurie. Visit Ecological Landscape Alliance for speaker bios and conference schedule. Speakers Eric T. Fleisher is the Director of Horticulture for the Battery...

Video

Panel with: Courtney White, Eric T. Fleisher, Bryan O’Hara & Jim Laurie

...O’Hara, Farmer Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist Presented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017 #regeneration #farming #ecologist Share this: Click...

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Jim Laurie: Building Biodiversity

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist Presented at Carbon Heroes Landscaping conference at University of...

Video

The History of the Earth’s Oceans

Homeschoolers share what they have learned in their biology class taught by Restoration Ecologist Jim Laurie. Presenters are part of Jim Laurie’s Homeschool Symbiosis Team: Jamila dePeiza-Kern, Annie Selle, Hayden...

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Let’s Make Surface Area to End the Drought and Cool the Climate with Jim Laurie

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Jim Laurie, Staff Scientist, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Presented at Restoring Oceans,...

Video

Cooperative Restoration to Prevent Disasters

During a Q&A with speakers, preventative vs. reactionary measures are compared and contrasted to show the danger of what happens when we don’t take urgent climate action. Jim Laurie: Staff...

Video

The Oceans and the Biosphere

Q&A session with presenters reveals more information about the connections between land and sea. Homeschool Symbiosis Team: students of Jim Laurie, Staff Scientist of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate George...

Oceans 2016 Program

...Can Do It Again: Let’s Make Surface Area to End the Drought and Cool the Climate Jim Laurie, Chief Scientist, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Video Have you ever thought...

Video

How Biodiversity Wriggled and Crawled Out of the Ocean and Conquered the Land with Jim Laurie

Jim Laurie, Staff Scientist at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with us Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climate Twitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/ Presented at...

Video

Restoring Bodies of Water with Peter Lawrence, Alyssa Novak, and Annie, Hayden and Lynus

Peter Lawrence: President and Co-founder of Biomimicry New England and a Biomimicry Specialist Alyssa Novak: Coastal ecologist Homeschoolers are students of Jim Laurie’s, Staff Scientist at Biodiversity for a Livable...

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Diversity of Life: The Oceans and the Gulf of Maine with Jim Laurie

Jim Laurie, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, introduces the home-school Symbiosis Team: Annie Selle, Hayden Latimer-Ireland, Jamila dePeiza-Kern, Lynus Erickson Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect...

Program – Harvard 2016 – Power and Promise of Biodiversity

...continued survival of many species, including homo sapiens. Part 1: The Waters 9:20 Diversity of Life: The Oceans and the Gulf of Maine Jim Laurie, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, introduces...

DC Chapter

...and to become involved, please write to philip.bogdonoff@bio4climate.org. Introduction to Biodiversity for a Livable Climate at Bannockburn Community Center in Bethesda, Maryland on March 7, 2015. Talks by Jim Laurie...

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Jim Laurie: How Eco-Restoration Can End Global Warming

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ An overview of eco-restoration to end global warming. Jim Laurie, Staff Scientist at...

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Adam Sacks: How Ecosystem Restoration Can End Global Warming

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Jim Laurie & His Homeschool AP Biology Students: Nature Wants to Be Wet

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Restoration ecologist Jim Laurie illuminates the vital connections between water cycles and biodiversity,...

Video

Jim Laurie: Closing the Nutrient Loop

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Jim Laurie has used natural biological processes to turn some of the most...

Program, Videos, Slides – Tufts 2015

...Seneca Meadows in New York state. Video [21:21] Slides Closing the Nutrient Loop: Creating Abundant Clean Water 8:10 Jim Laurie talks about using natural biological processes to turn some of...

June 2015 Newsletter

Urban Eco-Restoration Series Part 1, Jim Laurie’s Talk on Microbes Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)...

Video

Jim Laurie: Microbes ‘R’ Us

...ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Slides from Jim’s presentation are available here: http://www.slideshare.net/bio4climate/lynn-margulis-meetup-presentation-by-jim-laurie The full list of books that Jim brought for show and tell is available here: http://tinyurl.com/Jim-Laurie-Book-List You can read Lynn...

Resources

...and Town Resilience A list of favorite books recommended by our restoration ecologist, Jim Laurie: http://tinyurl.com/Jim-Laurie-Book-List Walter Jehne’s highly informative website, Regenerate Earth. Papers and Reports Paradigm Tectonics: Embracing the...

Conference

Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Tufts 2015

...on Emerald Planet TV . . . . . . and one with Jim Laurie too! Even with elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water can cool the biosphere and...

April 2015 Newsletter

Upcoming Conference: Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming, Speaker profile: Mel King, Catching Up with Jim Laurie Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...

Conference

Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming, Washington D.C. 2015

...our planet is warming. Slides Q&A [10 minutes] 11 – 11:30 am – Session 3: The Amazing Power of Nature: Sequestering Carbon through Ecosystem Restoration Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity...

Video

Gillian Davies & Jim Laurie Q&A

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Gillian Davies, Senior Wetlands Scientist, BSC Group Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity for...

Video

Jim Laurie: Local Keystone Species and Carbon Farming

...to create the conditions for biodiverse landscapes which restore water cycles, purify the air, grow nutritious foods and build soil carbon from the carbon dioxide in the air. Jim Laurie...

Speakers & Books – Bristol 2015

...as aquaponics and mushroom cultivation. Emily is the Co-Director at the New Urban Farmers and a high school teacher in Providence. Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, is a biologist from Rice...

Conference

Reversing Global Warming: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity, and Planet!

...control. 11:40 Biodiversity, Local Keystone Species and Carbon Farming – Video Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Biodiversity is the foundation of healthy, resilient ecosystems. We humans...

Video

Soil Ecosystem Health: From Fungi & Nematodes to Beetles & Earthworms with Jim Laurie

...pumps in the soil, while dung beetles and earthworms can lock up tons of soil carbon, year after year. Jim Laurie illustrates and explains. Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable...

Video

Jim Laurie: Nature Does 90% of the Work

...approaches, restoration ecologist Jim Laurie has seen rapid and dramatic restoration unfold more times than he can count – and he’s amazed every single time. He’s happy to share his...

Program, Videos, Slides – Tufts 2014 Restore Eco, Reverse GW

...possible by this remarkable plant. 12:15 Nature Does 90% of the Work Video Slides Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Special Advisor to Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Bringing degraded lands back...

Speakers – Tufts 2014

...and Grammy awards. He is Co-Founder and President of The Carbon Underground. Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, is a biologist from Rice University and is a pioneer in biological remediation of waste water....

Events

...ecologist Jim Laurie shared their wisdom in Sweet In Tooth And Claw: Cooperation And Generosity In The Natural World. They discussed Ohlson’s latest book, in which she explores the way...