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# Biodiversity for a Livable Climate

Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming

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- [Bio4Climate Blog](https://bio4climate.org/bio4climate-blog/) - Life Saves the Planet The Bio4Climate Blog “Life Saves the Planet” is more than just a blog—it’s our philosophy and a partnership with GBH public television’s Lowell Lecture Series. In the search for answers to climate change, we look to the interconnected living systems that sustain our planet. These biodiverse systems shape our atmosphere, regulate temperature,
- [Soil to Sky Program Brings Biodiversity-Based Climate Learning to Cambridge Students](https://bio4climate.org/2026/06/25/soil-to-sky-program-brings-biodiversity-based-climate-learning-to-cambridge-students/) - This spring, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's Soil to Sky Biodiversity Education Program completed a successful six-week pilot at East End House, a community center in East Cambridge that provides after-school programming for Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) students. From April through May 2026, 20 students in Grades 2–5 participated in weekly hands-on biodiversity classes led This spring, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's Soil to Sky Biodiversity Education Program completed a successful six-week pilot at East End House, a community center in East Cambridge that provides after-school programming for Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) students. From April through May 2026, 20 students in Grades 2–5 participated in weekly hands-on biodiversity classes led #This spring, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate piloted its Soil to Sky Biodiversity Curriculum with Cambridge Public School students at East End House, led by Paul Barringer. Over six weeks, students brought climate education to life through hands-on explorations of trees, living soil, and pollinators—building curiosity, ecological understanding, and systems thinking through collaborative projects and scientific investigation.
- [A Living Legacy: The Lyons Family, Restoration, and the Work Ahead](https://bio4climate.org/2026/06/25/a-living-legacy-the-lyons-family-restoration-and-the-work-ahead/) - The Lyons family story penned by Bill Myatt reminds us that ecological restoration is also a legacy of care, connection, and responsibility across generations. This post honors Tom Wallace Lyons’ generous support of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and reflects on how his family’s values continue to inspire the work of restoring ecosystems, strengthening communities, and building a livable future.
- [Thinking Like Water Episode 1: “Willing to Try Things”](https://bio4climate.org/2026/06/12/thinking-like-water-episode-1-willing-to-try-things/) - What does it mean to “think like water”? In this blog post, Dr. Katie Ross, Facilitator of Bio4Climate’s Thinking Like Water Film Club and conversation series, reflects on Episode 1: “Willing to Try Things.” The piece explores Bill Zeedyk’s pioneering work in induced meandering and nature-based restoration, showing how simple, place-based techniques can slow water, reconnect floodplains, restore habitat, and help landscapes come back to life.
- [The Paradox of a Wetter but Drier World](https://bio4climate.org/2026/05/19/the-paradox-of-a-wetter-but-drier-world/) - This perspective piece reflects on a major new Nature study examining how climate change is destabilizing the global water cycle. Drawing on satellite-derived terrestrial water storage (TWS) data, hydrological analysis, and recent extreme weather events across India, the United States, and other regions, the article explores the emerging paradox of wetter atmospheres alongside progressively drier landscapes. It further discusses how changing rainfall intensity, shortwave radiation, soil moisture decline, and hydroclimate intensification are reshaping ecosystems and amplifying both heat waves and flooding worldwide.
- [Earth Month 2026](https://bio4climate.org/2026/04/30/earth-month-2026/) - Bio4Climate launched its Soil to Sky education program in Hyderabad, India for the first time during Earth Month 2026 Event. Over three days, starting Earth Day April 22nd to April 24th, students explored living soil, local biodiversity, and urban climate challenges through hands-on activities and design thinking. From magnifying hidden life in soil to reimagining cooler, greener cities, the program transformed climate learning into a local, experiential, and action-driven journey.
- [Day 1 Summary & Reflection—2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit](https://bio4climate.org/2026/03/09/day-1-of-2025-northeast-miniforest-summit/) - Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method In 2025, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate organized and hosted the inaugural Northeast Miniforest Summit, bringing together more than a dozen speakers across two virtual half-days and an in-person bus tour. Practitioners, researchers, and leaders from diverse fields gathered to explore the Miyawaki method of afforestation from root
- [Day 2 Summary & Reflection — 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit](https://bio4climate.org/2026/03/09/day-2-of-2025-northeast-miniforest-summit/) - Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method In 2025, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate organized and hosted the inaugural Northeast Miniforest Summit, bringing together more than a dozen speakers across two virtual half-days and an in-person bus tour. Practitioners, researchers, and leaders from diverse fields gathered to explore the Miyawaki method of afforestation from root
- [Beyond Carbon: Proforestation and the Undoing of Human Mastery](https://bio4climate.org/2026/02/23/beyond-carbon-proforestation-and-the-undoing-of-human-mastery/) - Beyond Carbon: Proforestation and the Undoing of Human Mastery In a powerful new essay, Pavan Muntha invites us to rethink proforestation beyond its technical framing. Rather than seeing forests as instruments in a planetary climate portfolio, the article asks us to consider them as living, more-than-human communities — with their own histories, relationships, and claims
- [An Intergenerational Miniforest Now Grows in Belmont, MA](https://bio4climate.org/2026/01/22/an-intergenerational-miniforest-now-grows-in-belmont-ma/) - On October 4, Bio4Climate and the Miyawaki Forest Action Belmont (MFAB) community came together to plant a 3,000-square-foot Miyawaki Forest — 1,140 native trees and shrubs across 32 species — in front of Belmont High School. Around 275 local Belmont residents of all ages joined at some point throughout the day! Our eighth miniforest is especially meaningful—a true intergenerational effort shaped by persevering collective action from early planning to planting day and beyond.
- [Beyond Gates: What COP 30 needs to address now.](https://bio4climate.org/2025/11/07/beyond-gates-what-cop-30-needs-to-address-now/) - Bill Gates recently made headlines with his advice for world leaders ahead of this week’s COP30 Climate meeting. The post was widely denounced for suggesting that climate change is a future problem while today’s priority should be immediate human suffering. Gates implies we must choose between addressing climate change and easing human suffering, which misses
- [Inaugural Sustainability Day at Massachusetts State House](https://bio4climate.org/2025/09/11/inaugural-sustainability-day-at-massachusetts-state-house/) - On September 9, 2025, Bio4Climate participated in the first-ever Massachusetts Sustainability Day at the State House in Boston, which drew over 350 participants including legislators, organizations, and members of the public. With nearly 40 exhibitors, a municipal climate leadership panel, and a keynote by Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer, the event showcased practical solutions and bold leadership for a sustainable future. Bio4Climate highlighted its mission of placing biodiversity and ecosystem restoration at the heart of climate action, reminding participants that healthy ecosystems are essential climate infrastructure.
- [Reflecting on Water is Love: A Community Movie Night at Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/2025/09/04/water-is-love/) - In September, Poulomi Chakravarty reflected on Water Is Love during Bio4Climate’s community screening in Cambridge. More than just a film showing, the event became a space for connection, learning, and inspiration—where neighbors shared food, ideas, and stories about restoring water cycles. The screening highlighted how decentralized, community-led action can turn water into a source of resilience and hope, underscoring the role of gatherings like these in building a livable climate.
- [Biodiversity as Climate Infrastructure: Micrometeorology, Fluxes, and the Living Earth](https://bio4climate.org/2025/09/05/biodiversity-as-climate-infrastructure-micrometeorology-fluxes-and-the-living-earth/) - In Biodiversity as Climate Infrastructure, Poulomi Chakravarty explores micrometeorology—the science of small-scale exchanges of heat, water, and gases between land, plants, and air. It shows how forests, wetlands, and even animals influence evaporation, rainfall, and temperature through hidden processes that quietly stabilize our climate. The article opens a window into this overlooked science, inviting us to see biodiversity not just as life on Earth, but as the machinery that regulates the atmosphere itself.
- [Perspective: Heat Policy Briefing](https://bio4climate.org/2025/06/27/perspective-heat-policy-briefing/) - In June, Bio4Climate Science Communications Intern Adrianna Drindak attended a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., by The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and the Federation of American Scientists about how federal policies can bolster resilience to extreme heat at the state and community level, centered on the Federation of American Scientists’ 2025 Heat Policy Agenda.
- [The Critical Connection](https://bio4climate.org/2025/04/03/the-critical-connection/) - This spring, Bio4Climate is sharing select excerpts from the late Jan Lambert’s book, Water, Land and Climate, The Critical Connection: How We Can Rehydrate Landscapes Locally To Renew Climates Globally. First published by The Valley Green Journal in 2015, Water, Land, and Climate introduces the transformative ideas of the New Water Paradigm—showing how retaining, rather than draining, rainwater can restore local water cycles, renew ecosystems, and even help stabilize the global climate.
- [Water for the Recovery of the Climate: A New Water Paradigm](https://bio4climate.org/2017/05/13/water-for-the-recovery-of-the-climate-a-new-water-paradigm/) - Ing. Michal Kravčík,CSc. / RNDr. Jan Pokorný, CSc. / Ing. Juraj Kohutiar/ Ing. Martin Kovác / RNDr. Eugen Tóth Download the english version of this book from our website Visit the authors website for all versions of the book and related documents Jan Lambert’s Quick-Take: The New Water Paradigm presents a very useful way to
- [A National Park in Your Own Backyard?](https://bio4climate.org/2025/03/20/a-national-park-in-your-own-backyard/) - Bio4Climate partnered with a coalition of climate and native plant organizations to bring Doug Tallamy to Northern Virginia for an in-person talk and book signing.
- [Cambridge Moth Ball 2024](https://bio4climate.org/2024/08/08/cambridge-moth-ball-2024/) - On July 24, Bio4Climate and other host organizations participated in the Cambridge Moth Ball at Kingsley Park, Fresh Pond Reservation, for National Moth Week. Around 200 attendees of all ages engaged in community science, moth collecting, data collection, photography, and children’s activities. Bio4Climate partnered with Julie Croston from Cambridge Wildlife Arts to run the art
- [From Parking Lot & Lawn to Miyawaki Forests: Transforming Worcester, MA](https://bio4climate.org/2024/06/21/from-parking-lot-amp-lawn-to-forests-in-worcester-ma/) - A transformation is underway in Worcester, MA. In this mid-sized city in Central Massachusetts long known for its industrial activity, city leadership has undertaken ambitious initiatives to address some of their climate resilience goals using the Miyawaki method. Together, Bio4Climate, BSC Group, and the City of Worcester planned and created two Miyawaki Forests in the
- [Cows, Salmon, and Mottainai](https://bio4climate.org/2024/11/05/cows-salmon-and-mottainai/) - About 15 years ago my friend Dr. Kyoko Nakayama taught me the Japanese word “mottainai.” Since then, I’ve been trying to wrap my small brain around what mottainai truly means. Every time I think I understand mottainai, the concept grows, and my brain stretches.
- [AN ECONOMICS OF LOVE](https://bio4climate.org/2024/12/13/an-economics-of-love/) - In early 2024, I offered an online 12-week course called “An Economics of Love” under the auspices of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. Initially, I feared that people would encounter “An Economics of Love” as some sort of ‘hipster-flipster’ indulgence of flaky ideas, although those who enrolled showed no signs of any such dismissal, which was a relief for me.
- [Reflections on Activism](https://bio4climate.org/2021/04/09/reflections-on-activism/) - At Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, we believe that everyone has a place in the fight for a livable climate and flourishing future. We were called to this work from different places and for different reasons, but we’re united in our commitment to be stewards of nature, and to work with nature and each other
- [Climate Is About Far More Than Carbon Dioxide](https://bio4climate.org/2021/05/21/climate-is-about-far-more-than-carbon-dioxide/) - "We have to do everything we know how to do to address climate change." - Sir Nicholas Stern But what is "everything we know how to do"? What does "everything" mean? Who are "we"? Until very recently "everything" meant reducing emissions and pulling excess carbon out of the atmosphere. That has slowly begun to change, but our cherished , tenacious, fallacious assumption has been that global warming revolves around one isolated variable: carbon.
- [Regenerating Life: Support the Film, Support the Movement!](https://bio4climate.org/2023/06/09/welcome-to-regenerating-lifes-launch/) - John Feldman brings the voices of Bio4Climate together in his new film - Regenerating Life. When you donate to this campaign, part of your donation goes to support our work (as long as you fill in the box on the donation page with our name). And you get to see this groundbreaking film before the
- [A Review Of John Feldman’s “Regenerating Life”](https://bio4climate.org/2023/03/28/a-review-of-john-feldmans-regenerating-life/) - by Fred Jennings, Ecological Economist for Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Part One: “Water Cools The Planet” Runtime 41:43 John Feldman introduces himself and expresses surprise that this work got him thinking a lot about water. The film proceeds to talk about water in its many diverse aspects: as a powerful greenhouse gas; in its
- [Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild our Communities](https://bio4climate.org/2022/05/31/using-the-miyawaki-method-to-rapidly-rewild-our-communities/) - Bulu mini-forest in Cameroon after 19 months; Photo: Agborkang Godfred Hannah Lewis, Compendium Editor for Biodiversity for a Liveable Climate and freelance writer The Miyawaki Method The Miyawaki Method is a way to grow natural, mature forests in a couple of decades rather than a couple of centuries. You do this by observing what happens
- [Intact ecosystems stabilize climate.](https://bio4climate.org/2023/12/11/intact-ecosystems-stabilize-climate/) - The more we disturb intact ecosystems, the less stable the climate that we have. Do we have systematic evidence-based resources to prove how natural ecosystems stabilize climate? Yes, we do! It would be helpful for science communicators and policymakers to have a resource with systematized evidence. For example:Primary forests have higher resilience against droughts than
- [The NS wildfires are not ‘natural’ disasters: climate change, forest management, and human folly are all to blame](https://bio4climate.org/2023/07/14/the-ns-wildfires-are-not-natural-disasters-climate-change-forest-management-and-human-folly-are-all-to-blame/) - Four forestry specialists offer their views on how to reduce the wildfire risks. The Wildfire story that no one is talking about. The media is full of stories about the causes and cures for the massive forest fires raging around the world. Those fires have finally hit close to the Bio4Climate home in New England
- [Slow Water Romance](https://bio4climate.org/2024/02/10/slow-water-romance/) - As Valentine's Day approaches, we invite you to experience a romantic journey in a winter wonderland. As the temperatures rise in February or earlier in our warming world, the snow melts, and we realize that the water cycle is a precious gift from the sun to all living creatures on Earth. Without the sun's energy,
- [Rewilding the Windy City](https://bio4climate.org/2024/03/14/rewilding-the-windy-city/) - I’ve loved Chicago from the first day I set foot there, and I’ve missed the Windy City since I left after college in 2018. When I had a chance to visit two weeks ago, I made it a point to try to understand Chicago’s ecosystems better, and check in on the many ways communities across
- [Just released: "Cooling Climate Chaos: A Proposal to Cool the Planet within Twenty Years."](https://bio4climate.org/2024/07/31/just-released-cooling-climate-chaos-a-proposal-to-cool-the-planet-within-twenty-years/) - This newly published book by Peter Bunyard and Rob de Laet approaches the climate crisis and its solutions from a completely different angle. "To address the climate crisis, now demonstrably causing havoc with life-killing extreme events," the authors write, "we must not only transform our economic and societal models towards sustainability and resilience, we must
- [Journey of an Apprentice](https://bio4climate.org/2024/06/10/journey-of-an-apprentice/) - Introduction by Jim Laurie Erling Jorgensen was a student in my “Systems Thinking and Scenario Building” course (Biodiversity 6) in the summer of 2022. He is determined to learn how life processes work and develop a scenario of restoring these processes. His goal is also to create a story that young people and adults with
- [Biodiversity Day: A Community Celebration](https://bio4climate.org/2024/05/25/biodiversity-day-a-community-celebration/) - By Paul Barringer and Jean Devine of Native Plant Community Gardeners Our first Biodiversity Day festival was a success! On Saturday, May 4th, over 120 visitors came to Danehy Park, Cambridge, to join birding tours, Miyawaki Forest tours, learn about pollinator gardens, native plants, and ecosystem restoration from ten local environmental organizations who joined us
- [Report from the Conference of the Parties](https://bio4climate.org/2023/03/25/report-from-the-conference-of-the-parties/) - United Nations, New York CityMarch 23-24, 2023 Biodiversity for a Livable Climate was in New York meeting with attendees of the Conference of Parties (COP) on Water. Board member Sue Butler and Assistant Director of Regenerative Projects Maya Dutta, working with Jon Schull from EcoRestoration Alliance, had meetings with several exciting global Water Advocates. Meeting
- [Kick off your Summer 2024 Reading List](https://bio4climate.org/2024/07/11/kick-off-your-summer-2024-reading-list/) - How can we find cool insights as we dive into a summer of heatwaves and weather extremes? It hasn't always been this way. Many of us remember carefree summers with morning dew on the grass or a breeze by the beach or river. Everyone knows it's cooler by the water! Nations and communities have favorite
- [Regenerative Grazing: A Compelling Climate Strategy](https://bio4climate.org/2023/12/04/regenerative-grazing-a-compelling-climate-strategy/) - Most of what you hear climate activists talk about when it comes to beef or cows is methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas and cows emit methane as part of their digestion process. What you don't hear is that this is primarily a problem of the commercial cattle industry and that nature has an ingenious way of balancing this methane production. Learn about this natural system and how cattle can be managed as part of eco-restoration and climate mitigation.
- [2023 in the Forest](https://bio4climate.org/2023/12/26/miyawaki-2023/) - As the year rounds out, it is time to reflect on the changes and growth we've seen in 2023. Nothing gives me quite as much pride, amazement, and faith in the power of change than our young Miyawaki forests. I was honored to share our work with the public in this short feature from the
- [Signing on to Protect Forests](https://bio4climate.org/2024/06/03/signing-on-to-protect-forests/) - We, the undersigned organizations, are writing with the hopes of establishing a dialogue regarding the October 17, 2023 joint comment letter sent to Congress by the Outdoor Industry Association, Outdoor Alliance, and The Conservation Alliance concerning the Farm Bill.
- [Cool Forests for a Hot World](https://bio4climate.org/2024/05/22/cool-forests-for-a-hot-world/) - We affirm the need to restore the five billion hectares of degraded land worldwide but we have also found a way to bring the power of eco restoration home. Home to our own communities; Home to those most in need of a healing shot of nature; By planting tiny forests in urban areas, using the Miyawaki method.
- [Halley's Comet and Scenario 300](https://bio4climate.org/2023/12/12/halleys-comet-and-scenario-300/) - Halley’s Comet last hurtled around the Sun in 1986 and is expected to return in July of 2061. What will the Earth be like when the Comet returns? What kind of world do we want to greet it?
- [Primates and Peatlands: Restoring Indonesian Ecosystems in the Face of Flooding](https://bio4climate.org/2022/11/07/primates-and-peatlands-restoring-indonesian-ecosystems-in-the-face-of-flooding/) - Meet Eka Cahyaningrum, restorer of peatlands and advocate for primates. Her work in Indonesia restores wild animal populations and their habitats while uplifting local communities. Her youth-led efforts demonstrate the power of coming together under one goal: to create better living conditions for all living beings, so that we can all thrive. By Tania Roa
- [A Global Action Plan for the Restoration of Natural Water Cycles and Climate](https://bio4climate.org/2017/05/13/a-global-action-plan-for-the-restoration-of-natural-water-cycles-and-climate/) - Ing. Michal Kravčík,CSc. / Jan Lambert https://bio4climate.org/downloads/Kravcik_Global_Action_Plan.pdf Jan’s Quick-Take: This is a document intended to guide people from individuals to the national level, on addressing climate change through the restoration of short, or small water cycles, thus increasing the production potential and biodiversity of all continents through the introduction of various measures of rainwater retention.
- [Water, Land, and Climate  --The Critical Connection](https://bio4climate.org/2019/05/24/water-land-and-climate-the-critical-connection-how-we-can-rehydrate-landscapes-locally-to-renew-climates-globally-edited-by-jan-lambert-with-contributors-from-around-the-world/) - Water plays a critical role in restoring a livable climate. A New Water Paradigm is emerging to help us restore landscapes naturally, so we no longer wastefully "drain the rain" but instead "retain the rain" with water catchments, soil, plants and animals. The result? We can renew our climates through local action, by allowing rainwater to soak into the soil to restore local land-based water cycles. We can also expect reduced flooding and pollution, renewed springs and streams, more drinking water, more food, less poverty and conflict, and improved wildlife habitat. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain!
- [Miyawaki Forests and the Meaning of Regeneration](https://bio4climate.org/2021/10/07/miyawaki-forests-and-the-meaning-of-regeneration/) - As many people know through firsthand experience, we planted the Northeast’s first Miyawaki Forest last weekend. After several months of planning, discussion, and organization, we gathered in Danehy Park in North Cambridge to create the forest. This was the part I participated in, but like so much of our work at Biodiversity for a Livable
- [Our First Miyawaki Forest Turns Two](https://bio4climate.org/2023/08/25/our-first-miyawaki-forest-turns-two/) - Our community grows alongside our first Miyawaki forest! In September of 2021, we planted our first Miyawaki forest - the first in the Northeastern U.S. - in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the forest turns two, and demonstrates signs of resilient, abundant growth, the Bio4Climate team gathered with local forest enthusiasts to reflect and celebrate the ecosystem
- [What are these tiny forests’ big benefits anyway?](https://bio4climate.org/2023/09/01/what-are-these-tiny-forests-big-benefits-anyway/) - What a thrilling week it has been! Since last Thursday’s New York Times article Tiny Forests with Big Benefits, my teammates and I at Bio4Climate have been buzzing with excitement at the recognition our forests and this type of restoration is getting. We are so thrilled by the enthusiasm of people’s responses, from interest in
- [Water Holistic @ COP28 in Dubai](https://bio4climate.org/2023/12/01/water-holistic-cop28-in-dubai/) - While most people are focused on the irony of COP28 being hosted by the fossil fuel industry, we will be focusing on the work being done on biodiversity, eco-restoration and water cycles.
- [Aligning natural and human laws for global wellbeing: Legislative Action](https://bio4climate.org/2023/10/30/aligning-natural-and-human-laws-for-global-wellbeing-legislative-action/) - Dr. Makarieva explains why protecting existing forests is one of the most important things we can do to stabilize the climate. Pending legislation in MA (USA) serves as a model for policy protections needed around the world. Learn more about taking action here, and find out more at Save Mass Forests. Our climate system is incredibly
- [Regenerating Life Film Premiere - Panel Discussion](https://bio4climate.org/2023/11/15/regenerating-life-film-premiere-panel-discussion/) - We are excited to share with you the panel discussion from the Boston Premiere of the film Regenerating Life! It was such a full day with three parts to the film, interesting exhibitors, and reconnecting with friends, that it was difficult to take it all in at once. You can share some of that excitement from
- [What a Great Day at Tufts: Regenerating Life Together](https://bio4climate.org/2023/10/26/what-a-great-day-at-tufts-regenerating-life-together/) - Our Boston Premiere of Regenerating Life at Tufts University was a tremendous success! It was exciting to see about 100 people come together to experience how John Feldman wove the many threads of the importance of nature to climate stability together in film. Conversation was lively during the lunch break, as people talked with exhibitors
- [Biodiversity Field Day at Gladney Farm](https://bio4climate.org/2023/09/13/biodiversity-field-day-at-gladney-farm/) - Bio4Climate friends Tim Jones and Chie Morizuka manage a regenerative farm called Gladney Farm in Hokkaido, Japan. As the name suggests, there's a lot to be glad about on the newly restored land! Tim and Chie share the love by hosting groups eager to learn from the farm animals and plants. Students of all ages
- [Gaia Songs: Seeking Equilibrium](https://bio4climate.org/2023/08/07/gaia-songs-seeking-equilibrium/) - Here are the writings and paintings that made up my exhibit, "Gaia Songs: Seeking Equilibrium." The exhibit included my essay, "Earth is a Person" and my article "Building Climate Stability" and six paintings with Artist's Statements. The Artist Statements include two paragraphs for each painting about how they relate to the conference "The Uses and
- [A Film that Affirms the Power of Life to Heal Our Planet](https://bio4climate.org/2023/10/05/a-film-that-affirms-the-power-of-life-to-heal-our-planet/) - To a climate conversation long dominated by computer models and technological jargon, Regenerating Life: How to Cool the Planet, Feed the World and Live Happily Ever After brings some badly needed rain, along with dung beetles, sweating trees, fungal mycelia, cloud-making forests, beavers, worms, soil microbes, cow patties and whales. As more and more people
- [Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms](https://bio4climate.org/2023/07/28/millan-millan-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-mediterranean-storms/) - I’d like to introduce this piece with a scenario. Suppose someone pointed out that you’d been looking at the climate through a pair of glasses with only one lens? Lifting them off your nose, they then provide you a new pair of glasses with two lenses. Suddenly, parts of the climate you couldn’t see before
- [Art for Nature](https://bio4climate.org/2023/09/20/art-for-nature/) - The first memories of my childhood that I can recall is that of me sitting on my bed with a blank sheet of paper and a box of crayons, making lines and circles and shapes of all kinds as the warm sunlight flooded in through the windows of the apartment. Painting was something I was
- [Environmental Activism and the Search for Purpose](https://bio4climate.org/2022/09/13/environmental-activism-and-the-search-for-purpose/) - By Carlos Mdemu Social Media, Writing, and Online Outreach Intern Since 2011, I have been working in the field of environmental and solid waste management. At the beginning of my journey, I remember visiting one of the famous local markets in Dar es Salaam for a community cleanup. The local market, in terms of waste management
- [What Drives the Greenhouse Effect](https://bio4climate.org/2023/06/13/what-drives-the-greenhouse-effect/) - One of the profound ways Australian Climatologist Walter Jehne influenced my thinking was in helping me see the other side of the greenhouse effect. We always think about the “insulating” gases, and not about the source of the heat. And that’s bare land… This introduces the first of my RegenLife Minutes: From the new documentary Regenerating Life, this
- [Without vast tracts of grasslands, what can we do in New England?](https://bio4climate.org/2013/06/12/without-vast-tracts-of-grasslands-what-can-we-do-in-new-england/) - To pull carbon out of the atmosphere and sequester it in soils, we need to restore biodiversity: that's the foundation of the whole show. One of the most important visible elements from the perspective of ecosystems is to cover bare ground. Bare ground doesn't absorb water, it breaks the water cycle, it interferes with the
- [Carbon Farming: Paying for Results, Not for Data (Soils Are Far Too Important for a Commodities Market!)](https://bio4climate.org/2014/02/05/carbon-farming-uncommodified/) - At Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, removing carbon from the atmosphere by regenerating ecosystems and restoring biodiversity is our non-profit mission. Supporting farmers, herders and ranchers around the world to work in ways that both sequester carbon in soils and provide major benefits in productivity is a key means to that end. Unfortunately, the resources
- [Why everyone - vegetarians and vegans included - should be passionate about Holistic Planned Grazing](https://bio4climate.org/2014/01/13/why-everyone-vegetarians-and-vegans-included-should-be-passionate-about-holistic-planned-grazing/) - Happy New Year! Over the holiday season, I had the luxury of sharing many meals with family and friends, including latkes and apple sauce; Tofurkey and yams; and locally caught shrimp and farm-raised oysters. In discussing my work, I was asked several times, “But how can you not eat meat and be so passionate about Holistic
- [Cool It! Water and the Climate Crisis](https://bio4climate.org/2014/02/15/cool-it-water-and-the-climate-crisis/) - With a record drought in California, floods in the UK and snow paralyzing areas of the South that have hardly met a plow, people are starting to make the connection between climate change and water. But generally the cause-and-effect link only goes one way, noting how climate change will affect water by putting stress on
- [Changing the Climate Conversation](https://bio4climate.org/2014/03/19/changing-the-climate-conversation/) - “Everything is connected to everything else.” - Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle Like most climate activists, for a long time I thought that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were THE driving force behind climate change. It followed that reducing emissions was our overriding goal. A steady stream of messages from both the climate movement and the mainstream
- [Good news!](https://bio4climate.org/2014/04/13/good-news/) - This enlightening (and humorous) front page is destined to be a collector’s treasure!
- [A Call for Sanity](https://bio4climate.org/2014/04/17/a-call-for-sanity/) - In September, members of the United Nations will convene a round of climate change negotiations. It’s not hard to guess what is on the table: greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Yet after almost three decades of effort, during which atmospheric carbon concentrations have only gone up, another meeting focused primarily if not exclusively on emissions reductions appears to
- [Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Won’t End Global Warming](https://bio4climate.org/2014/05/24/reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-wont-end-global-warming/) - Solar panels on rooftops. Hybrid and electric vehicles. Meatless Mondays. What do all of these indicators of societal progress have in common? They are just some examples among the many widely attainable, lifestyle modifiers for reducing energy consumption in our fossil fuel-addicted world. But while replacing SUVs with hybrid cars and changing lifestyle habits to
- [Geo-Engineering - An Idea Whose Time Ought Never Come](https://bio4climate.org/2016/08/09/geo-engineering-an-idea-whose-time-ought-never-come/) - Human technology is, along with the population growth made possible by technology, the foundation of the anthropocene era. Technology's ultimate end is to expand carrying capacity so that we can accommodate a growing population, and bears many unintended consequences of which global warming is one of the most serious. The technologies in question over the past few hundred thousand years include the intentional use of fire, development of hand tools, agriculture, wheels, shipbuilding, architecture, culminating in the industrial era and widespread use of fossil fuels. There is a long list of unintended technological consequences and progress traps that have effectively put an end to every large-scale complex society in human history.
- [Real Climate Reality](https://bio4climate.org/2016/12/14/real-climate-reality/) - Based on widely accepted scientific measurements, global emissions reduction efforts, while essential, have not succeeded in reducing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases. The annual rate of carbon released into the atmosphere is accelerating (for many reasons which need not be discussed here). Reducing emissions and building out alternative energy are necessary but insufficient to address
- [Beavers As Partners - Focus of the Valley Green Journal](https://bio4climate.org/2019/02/20/beavers-as-partners-new-focus-of-the-valley-green-journal/) - FIX LINK AT BOTTOM Jan Lambert's Quick Take: ‘Beavers As Partners’ is a community service focus of The Valley Green Journal in helping communities find non-lethal solutions to human-beaver conflicts, especially with the use of beaver deceiver flow devices to prevent flooding. Abstract: Beavers As Partners is a campaign to raise awareness of the critical
- [Help Save Beavers!](https://bio4climate.org/2019/02/20/help-save-beavers/) - Jan Lambert's Quick Take: If you love beavers you need to meet Sharon Brown, a beaver advocate who raises orphaned beaver kits as their “mother” and even takes her babies for swimming lessons! Abstract: Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife (BWW) is an educational nonprofit that has been helping people enjoy the great benefits of coexistence with
- [State-of-the-Art Beaver Deceiver™ in Marlboro VT](https://bio4climate.org/2019/02/20/new-state-of-the-art-beaver-deceiver-in-marlboro-vt/) - FIX LINK Jan Lambert's Quick Take: Beavers are nature’s water engineers; they create and preserve wetlands vital to ecosystems. When beavers and human activities conflict with each other, there can be a win-win solution for both the beavers and the humans! Be sure to check out Skip’s website! Abstract: A win-win solution to human-beaver conflict
- [After Us, the Desert and the Deluge?](https://bio4climate.org/2017/05/13/after-us-the-desert-and-the-deluge/) - Jan’s Quick Take: This is a large and lavishly illustrated volume detailing the Slovakian “Landscape Revitalisation and Integrated River Basin Management Programme.” The book is presented in Slovakian and English languages (in side-by-side panels). This work is a unique reflection and photo-documentary, of sorts, of the insights and results from the Slovakian Program, while simultaneously
- [The New Water Paradigm: Global Climate and Ecosystem Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/2019/04/29/the-new-water-paradigm-global-climate-and-ecosystem-restoration/) - Bernd Walter Müller edited by: Helena Laughton Jan Lambert's Quick Take: Very understandable reading about the importance of the New Water Paradigm. Abstract: Most global water-related crises, such as water scarcity, drought, desertification, flooding, rising sea levels and climate change, are symptoms of long-term mismanagement of rainwater and vegetation. This results in global disruptions to
- [Barn Swallows and the Tyranny of Small Decisions](https://bio4climate.org/2019/11/24/barn-swallows/) - Barn Swallows, birds who eat insects as they scurry across the sky, are disappearing. This isn’t surprising, I suppose, given that they are among the 2.9 billion birds lost across species in the United States – representing one third of the bird numbers we had 50 years ago. What did surprise me is how we got here, according to an intriguing explanation from a leading economist, Alfred E. Kahn.
- [The New Water Paradigm Is Important For the Future of Humanity and the Earth](https://bio4climate.org/2019/04/30/the-new-water-paradigm-is-important-for-the-future-of-humanity-and-the-earth/) - Jan Lambert's Quick-Take: A brief letter written for the Valley Green Journal by Michal Kravčík . For much more information, see Water for the Recovery of the Climate-A New Water Paradigm. [FIX LINK] Abstract: In the Valley Green Journal November 2014 issue I introduced readers to Michal Kravčík, a scientist who is an expert in
- [Evapotranspiration – A Driving Force in Landscape Sustainability](https://bio4climate.org/2019/04/30/evapotranspiration-a-driving-force-in-landscape-sustainability/) - Jan Lambert's Quick-Take: This is must reading if you really want to understand the dynamics of climate. No, this is not another piece on fossil fuel emissions! Jan Pokorny and his colleagues are leaders in presenting to all of us the vital interactions of water vapor, plants, and solar energy in creating and maintaining a
- [Working with Nature to Cool Climates through Plants, Soil, and Water](https://bio4climate.org/2019/04/30/working-with-nature-to-cool-climates-through-plants-soil-and-water/) - Jan’s Quick-Take: Didi is a world class educator and a real Vermonter who knows her stuff, and how to teach it to anyone who cares about soil and water. She is the great source for all aspects of the famed “soil carbon sponge.” We at Voices of Water for Climate consider her to be a
- [Congregational Watershed Manual](https://bio4climate.org/2019/08/15/manual-order-form-congregational-watershed-manuals/) - From Jan Lambert, Voices of Water for Climate Program Director: I have come to know authors Nancy Wright and Richard Butz from Ascension Lutheran Church in Burlington, Vermont as two delightful and well-informed people with a wonderful message to share of how people of faith can act for good for clean water, and for a
- [Urban Soil Restoration to Help Communities Manage Stormwater](https://bio4climate.org/2019/11/18/let-the-green-save-green-urban-soil-restoration-helping-communities-meet-stormwater-management-requirements/) - Jan Lambert's take: This article by Charles Hegberg, talks about the importance of soil restoration in urban settings for optimal stormwater infiltration. He writes: "We have hundreds of years of experience in making 'Dirt' – It’s time we start re-making 'Soils' on a landscape level, quickly." "It’s no secret: Americans take their lawns seriously -
- [Climate Emotions: The Turbulent Turf of 21st Century Feelings](https://bio4climate.org/2021/12/12/climate-emotions-the-turbulent-turf-of-21st-century-feelings/) - “Climate Anxiety” has become a widespread theme lately. As Bio4Climate began planning an event along those lines, I thought of my own anxieties about biodiversity loss and global warming, and wondered how to transform climate distress into a rich, meaningful and adaptive state of mind. I’m finding that it helps when I embrace rather than avoid the emotions that flow through me in this time of growing personal, social and ecological turbulence...
- [Our Underrated Climate Ally: The Small Water Cycle](https://bio4climate.org/2022/03/15/our-underrated-climate-ally-the-small-water-cycle/) - Cabezon Peak after rain, Photo by John Fowler (CC BY 2.0) Although climate change is a global issue, it can and must be addressed locally. Our overall climate is shifting drastically, but local climates are also changing, and they don’t always get the same amount of attention. Local climates change when the environment is drastically
- [Kachana Station: A Home for Donkey-Led Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/2021/10/23/kachana-station-a-home-for-donkey-led-restoration/) - In northwestern Australia, far from roads or major cities, a herd of wild donkeys carries a valuable promise. This remote region is the Kimberley, home to Kachana Station, a family-owned holistically managed landscape. The Henggelers have overseen Kachana Station for decades, and their management techniques have brought benefits for the soil, wildlife, and local climate.
- [Climate Justice: For People and Planet](https://bio4climate.org/2021/07/21/climate-justice-for-people-and-planet/) - Climate change is already here. Severe weather-related events such as more frequent hurricanes, intense droughts, longer wildfire seasons, and devastating floods are evidence of this statement. However, not all people are experiencing the consequences of the climate crisis equally. All too often, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) are on the frontlines. Due to systemic
- [Lessons from a Monarch Butterfly](https://bio4climate.org/2021/07/21/lessons-from-a-monarch-butterfly/) - What can we learn from the monarch butterfly? A few months ago, as the new year rolled in, I reflected on the way we humans use holidays and calendars to mark time’s passage, and how this might look to other creatures whose life span and sense of time is very different. For example, most monarch
- [A Montage of Words and Images](https://bio4climate.org/2021/07/08/a-montage-of-words-and-images/) - “Ecological processes are not only more complex than we think. They are more complex than we can ever think.” – Michael Crowfoot, Soil Scientist “On one of my early projects…a scientist friend asked me, how did I know what I was doing, and where did I get the knowledge to understand the system with which
- [Imagine Earth Day in Ten Years](https://bio4climate.org/2021/04/30/imagine-earth-day-in-ten-years/) - How do you experience your connection to the planet? For me, my sense of intimacy with other life comes from my senses - feeling the sun on my skin, smelling the magnolias blooming in the air, watching day by day and week by week as buds sprout, unfurl, and flower to invite bees and ants inside.
- [In Memoriam: Ronnie Cummins](https://bio4climate.org/2023/05/08/in-memoriam-ronnie-cummins/) - Dearest Friends, I was surprised and saddened to learn of the passing of Ronnie Cummins on April 26, 2023. As Executive Director of Bio4Climate and as a friend, I wanted to add a few of my experiences with Ronnie. I met Ronnie at our first conference in 2014, where he gave a rousing talk entitled "Climate
- [Earth is a Person](https://bio4climate.org/2023/08/01/earth-is-a-person/) - Nathan Phillips remarked to me that trees were like lungs. I thought, it’s far more than that... In the Surgical Oncology Unit, the cancer ward, you can’t always save people. Sometimes all you can do is keep them comfortable, be there with them, then care for their families as they go. You see the many

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- [Wildfires Fact & Fiction](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/wildfires-fact-and-fiction/) - Wildfires Fact & Fiction:How to Prevent Wildfires by Rehydrating Our Land;How to Protect Homes and People Without Harming Our Forests May 1, 8, 15 & 22 Thursdays — 12:00 noon & 7:00 pm ET Featuring 2 Expert Guest Speakers: George Wuerthner — May 8 - 7:00 pm ET Chad Hanson, PhD — May 15 - 7:00
- [Biodiversity 13: Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-13-rivers-forests-and-the-rights-of-nature/) - Biodiversity 13: Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature A 10-week course with Jim Laurie September 24 - December 3, 2025 Registration is now closed.Sign up here to receive invitations toour upcoming courses. In this 10-week journey, we will explore the profound question raised by Robert Macfarlane in his new book Is a River Alive? (2025)—can rivers, forests,
- [Balancing Our Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/balancing-our-climate/) - What if we can balance our climate quickly, naturally, safely? November 10, 17, December 1, 8 Mondays — 7:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM CST Restoring climate, water, and life through living systems Registration is now closed.Sign up here to receive invitations toour upcoming courses. Over the course of four gatherings, we’ll discuss how the living skin of
- [How Trees & Forests Shape Our Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/how-trees-forests-shape-our-climate/) - How Trees & Forests Shape Our Climate How trees and forests interact with wind, water, wildlife and carbon to cool our climate and bring rain February 5 - March 26, 2026 Thursdays — 12:00 Noon ET Featured Guest Speakers Anastassia Makarieva, PhD - February 5 Judith D. Schwartz - February 12 John Feldman - February
- [Biodiversity 14: Emergent Intelligence of Trees](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-14-emergent-intelligence-of-trees/) - Biodiversity 14: Emergent Intelligence of Trees: How Symbiosis Shapes Living Systems A 10-week course with Jim Laurie March 18 - May 20, 2026 Registration is now closed.Sign up here to receive invitations toour upcoming courses. Trees are not passive features of the landscape. They are active agents in shaping Earth’s habitability. This course explores how trees create and
- [Thinking Like Water - Summer 2026](https://bio4climate.org/events/film-screenings/thinking-like-water-summer-2026/) - What You'll Learn in This Series: Simple, effective land and water restoration methods you can apply locally What “working with water” looks like in real-world restoration How healthy watersheds help prevent flooding, drought, wildfires and extreme heat Useful insights from the facilitator, filmmaker, permaculture mentor and restoration leaders How local watersheds connect to larger water
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- [Thinking Like Water](https://bio4climate.org/events/film-screenings/thinking-like-water/) - Registration is now closed. See our homepage for upcoming programs What You'll Learn in This Series: Simple, effective land and water restoration methods you can apply locally What “working with water” looks like in real-world restoration How healthy watersheds help prevent flooding, drought, wildfires and extreme heat Insights from the filmmaker and restoration leaders How local watersheds connect to larger water systems Practical next
- [Core Team](https://bio4climate.org/about-us/core-team/) - Our Team Executive Beck Mordini Executive Director Beck brings 20 years of nonprofit experience including protecting the biodiversity of native plants at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and protecting undocumented workers from exploitation in Washington state. Her studies of International Environmental Law in Nairobi, Kenya were her first exposure to the issues of desertification and
- [About Us](https://bio4climate.org/about-us/) - About Us Biodiversity for a Livable Climate was founded in 2013 by four activists deeply concerned with ecological degradation and climate disruption. We saw an urgent need to expand the climate conversation to include the seriously underestimated positive impacts of the biosphere on the climate and physical world. We saw how appropriate human approaches
- [The Cool Earth Club](https://bio4climate.org/the-cool-earth-club/) - The Cool Earth Club Play. Learn. Restore. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane GoodallPrimatologist: Someone who loves chimps and studies them Start Here Become a Climate Apprentice Bee in A Bonnet Ready to start the buzz-tastic adventure? Fly as a busy
- [Our Board](https://bio4climate.org/about-us/our-board/) - Our Board Board Members Philip Bogdonoff Board President Philip is a co-founder of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's Washington DC Chapter. He is a past trustee and board chair, Friends Community School; Co-founder, Sustainable Washington Alliance; Vice President, Millennium Institute; Consultant, World Bank Environment Department; Research Assistant, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University. Philip
- [Sign Up to Access Mini Conference Session 1 Recording](https://bio4climate.org/conferences/protect-and-restore-ecosystems-to-cool-the-planet/sign-up-to-access-mini-conference-session-1-recording/) - Sign Up to Access Mini Conference Session 1 Recording Welcome! Mini-Conference Series: Restoring Ecosystems to Cool the Planet We’re glad you enjoyed the clip from our Mini Conference Series, Restoring Ecosystems to Cool the Planet. This session is part of a larger series featuring leading scientists and restoration practitioners exploring how ecosystems regulate climate and
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- [Thinking Like Water - Summer 2026](https://bio4climate.org/events/film-screenings/thinking-like-water-summer-2026-2/) - Reserve your spot Water is the missing climate conversation Drought. Flooding. Wildfire. Extreme heat. Degraded streams. Dry soils. These crises are often treated as separate problems. Thinking Like Water shows how they are deeply connected, and how restoring the way water moves through land can help heal entire landscapes. You’ll follow Bill Zeedyk and collaborators as they
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- [Solutions](https://bio4climate.org/solutions/) - Solutions - What You Can Do In your Home or Business: Restoring ecosystems stores carbon and reverses climate change. There are a number of approaches applicable to different ecosystems, and all of these methods can show remarkable results. Each of us has only limited time and resources to play our part, but we can also
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- [More Than Compost: Why You Need a Bioreactor](https://bio4climate.org/johnson-su-bioreactor-with-char-obrien-3/) - Have you ever walked in a forest and wondered: how can all these trees be growing here? Anyone who gardens understands that getting plants to thrive — whether you're growing vegetables or ornamentals — takes effort. Usually that means water, compost, or fertilizer. So how is it that in nature, it just works? It turns
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- [Celebration of Life](https://bio4climate.org/honoring-the-legacy-of-our-founding-executive-director/celebration-of-life/) - Welcome Christina Dominique-Pierre What My Dad Taught Me Ceilidh Yurenka My dad taught me a great many things. When I was little—maybe four or five—my dad gave me a dime so I could ride my tricycle a few hundred feet down the sidewalk to the corner store to buy a pretzel stick. He watched the
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- [Regenerating Life: Film & Guide](https://bio4climate.org/regenerating-life-film-guide/) - Regenerating Life: Film & Guide Explore how biodiversity and ecosystems regulate climate Regenerating Life Regenerating Life explores how living systems regulate the climate through interconnected cycles: photosynthesis and the carbon cycle, the water cycle, the dung cycle, and the vast underground networks of soil organisms, fungi, and plant roots. The Guide An Earthling’s Guide to Planetary
- [Regenerating Life: A Film by John Feldman and Hummingbird Films](https://bio4climate.org/regenerating-life/) - A documentary highlighting the importance of biodiversity and natural ecosystems in regulating the climate. See the climate crisis in a whole new light.
- [An Earthling’s Guide to Planetary Health](https://bio4climate.org/an-earthlings-guide-to-planetary-health/) - An Earthling’s Guide to Planetary Health (aka: The Regenerating Life Study Guide) John Feldman with Fred Jennings and the resources madeavailable by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Includes references to content markers in theRegenerating Life Community and Educational versionand the Regenerating Life DVD. Introduction This Guide gives readers an outline of the causes and solutions to the climate
- [Work with Us](https://bio4climate.org/work-with-us/) - Work with Us There are exciting and rewarding job, internship and volunteer opportunities at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate), a nonprofit based in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Our mission is to promote the restoration of ecosystems to address global warming. Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our
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- [Comment to NEPA Project Number DOI-BLM-ORWA-0000-2026-0001-RMP-EIS](https://bio4climate.org/comment-to-nepa-project-number-doi-blm-orwa-0000-2026-0001-rmp-eis/) - Comment to NEPA Project Number DOI-BLM-ORWA-0000-2026-0001-RMP-EIS Fellow Citizens: I write as someone whose career, like yours, was in public service as a government employee (administrative law judge). I know you know that you are required to read every comment you receive and give it due consideration before taking further action on this matter. In retirement,
- [The Role of Biodiversity in Preventing Wildfires](https://bio4climate.org/the-role-of-biodiversity-in-preventing-wildfires/) - Areas where beavers have been reintroduced have seen the creation of extensive wetland networks. These wetlands have proven effective in halting the spread of wildfires, providing a buffer zone, and protecting communities and ecosystems. Monoculture Forests and Fire Risk Timber industry practices often lead to the establishment of monoculture forests, which are more susceptible to
- [U.S. Forest Policy Shifts (2025–2026)](https://bio4climate.org/u-s-forest-policy-shifts-2025-2026/) - U.S. Forest Policy Shifts (2025–2026) Current federal policy is undergoing a significant transition toward deregulation and increased commercial timber harvest, primarily aimed at wildfire prevention and economic growth. Major Federal Actions Expansion of Timber Production: In March 2025, the administration issued an Executive Order to streamline federal policies and accelerate Endangered Species Act approvals to boost domestic timber output. Rescission of
- [Fire Explorer (FIRMS)](https://bio4climate.org/fire-explorer-firms/) - Use the slider to view fires detected for different years. Obviously entire continents are not on fire, but the red areas are where large fires were detected that year. As the years progress, so does the expansion of wildfires. Enhancing biodiversity can reduce the likelihood and severity of wildfires. Slide the dot to change years.
- [Registration for Biodiversity 14 Emergent Intelligence of Trees](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-14-emergent-intelligence-of-trees/registration-for-biodiversity-14-emergent-intelligence-of-trees/) - Course Registration Please fill out the form below to register for the course Biodiversity 14: Emergent Intelligence of Trees - How Symbiosis Shapes Living Systems. If you would prefer to send us a check, make it payable to “Biodiversity for a Livable Climate” and send it to us at 56 Broad Street, #89587, Boston, MA
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- [Advisory Board](https://bio4climate.org/about-us/advisory-board/) - Advisory Board David Ellison, Ph.D. Dr. David Ellison is a leading climate and forest science researcher whose work focuses on the interactions between forests, water cycles, energy fluxes, and the global climate system. He is a Senior Researcher affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU - Umeå) and an independent expert on forest-dynamics,
- [Proforestation Beyond the Human: Forests, Climate Emergency, and the Undoing of Mastery](https://bio4climate.org/proforestation-beyond-the-human-forests-climate-emergency-and-the-undoing-of-mastery/) - Proforestation Beyond the Human:Forests, Climate Emergency, and the Undoing of Mastery Author: Pavan Muntha Abstract This article develops a philosophical and ecological argument for proforestation, understood as allowing existing forests to grow into their full ecological complexity, as a response to the climate emergency. It critiques the dominant human-centred framing in proforestation and forest–climate debates, in
- [Adam Sacks Obituary](https://bio4climate.org/adam-sacks-obituary/) - Adam Sacks Obituary Adam David Sacks, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (bio4climate.org) until his retirement in 2023, passed away on February 1st, 2026, at the age of 80. Adam spent over twenty years working tirelessly as a climate activist - studying, writing, speaking, making films and leading the development and organization of
- [Statement on the Passing of Bio4Climate Founder Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/statement-on-the-passing-of-bio4climate-founder-adam-sacks/) - Statement on the Passing of Bio4Climate Founder Adam Sacks February 11, 2026 — Adam David Sacks, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate) until his 2023 retirement, passed away on February 1, 2026. In the latter part of his career, he was dedicated to the regeneration of biodiversity and the restoration
- [Course Offerings](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/) - After hosting a successful series of courses on Biodiversity and Symbiosis with staff scientist and restoration ecologist Jim Laurie, we at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate have recognized the need for a larger curriculum on ecosystem restoration, nature-based solutions to climate change, and the transformations required for our civilization to navigate the challenges ahead of
- [Free Webinar Registration for Biodiversity 14: Emergent Intelligence of Trees](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-14-emergent-intelligence-of-trees/free-webinar-registration-for-biodiversity-14-emergent-intelligence-of-trees/) - Registration for Free Introductory Webinar on the Emergent Intelligence of Trees Please fill out the form below to register for the standalone, free introductory webinar on March 11, which offers a preview of our upcoming course, Biodiversity 14: Emergent Intelligence of Trees - How Symbiosis Shapes Living Systems. We are looking forward to seeing you
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- [Scholarship for How Trees & Forests Shape Our Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/how-trees-forests-shape-our-climate/scholarship-for-how-trees-forests-shape-our-climate/) - Scholarship Registration Please fill out the form below to register for the course How Trees & Forests Shape Our Climate, free of charge. Looking forward to seeing you in class! Please note that by registering, you will be added to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe or manage your email preferences at any time.
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- [Thinking Like Water Film and Live Conversation Series Registration Form](https://bio4climate.org/events/film-screenings/thinking-like-water/registration-for-thinking-like-water/) - Registration Form To register for the Thinking Like Water Film and Live Conversation Series, please fill out the form below. Thank you for joining us for this important series that brings water back to the center of climate action—showing how simple, practical restoration strategies can transform degraded landscapes, revive watersheds, and build real resilience to
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- [Peabody Elementary School Miniforest](https://bio4climate.org/miyawaki-forest-program/peabody-elementary-school-miniforest/) - Peabody Elementary School Miniforest On Saturday, May 3, 2025, the City of Cambridge and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate planted our third Miyawaki miniforest, just outside Peabody Elementary School on Rindge Avenue. The 2,000-square-foot forest includes more than 40 native species chosen to cultivate biodiversity, improve soil health, and build long-term climate resilience. We’re thrilled
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- [Registration for Special Lecture by Gillian Davies - Biodiversity 13](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-13-rivers-forests-and-the-rights-of-nature/registration-for-special-lecture-by-gillian-davies-biodiversity-13/) - Registration - Special Lecture on the Rights of Wetlands Please fill out the form below to register for this special lecture on the rights of wetlands with Special Guest Gillian Davies, Wetlands and Soil Scientist with the Rights of Wetlands Initiative. Gillian is a global leader in developing the Universal Declaration of the Rights of
- [Bring a Friend Registration for Balancing Our Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/balancing-our-climate/bring-a-friend-registration-for-balancing-our-climate-2/) - "Bring a Friend" Registration Form - Balancing Our Climate Learn more about this special mini-course: What if we can balance our climate quickly, naturally, safely?. To register for the "Bring A Friend" Discount, please fill out the form below. If you would prefer to send us a check, make it payable to "Biodiversity for a Livable Climate"
- [Wildlife and Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/wildlife-and-climate/) - Wildlife & Climate Is wildlife simply at the mercy of climate chaos, or couldits survival hold the key to restoring balance? October 9, 16, 23 & 30 Thursdays — 12:00 Noon & 7:00 PM ET Registration is now closed. Sign up here to receive invitations toour upcoming courses. According to this report from the World Wildlife
- [Scholarship for Balancing Our Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/balancing-our-climate/scholarship-for-balancing-our-climate/) - Scholarship Registration Please fill out the form below to register free of charge for our upcoming course entitled What if we can balance our climate quickly, naturally, safely? Looking forward to seeing you in class! Please note that by registering, you will be added to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe or manage your email
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- [Registration for Wildlife and Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/wildlife-and-climate/registration-for-wildlife-and-climate/) - Course Registration Form - Wildlife & Climate Please fill out the form below to register for this special mini-course Wildlife & Climate. If you would prefer to send us a check, make it payable to "Biodiversity for a Livable Climate" and send it to us at P.O. Box 390469, Cambridge, MA 02139. Please include a
- [Registration for Biodiversity 13: Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-13-rivers-forests-and-the-rights-of-nature/registration-for-biodiversity-13-rivers-forests-and-the-rights-of-nature/) - Course Registration Please fill out the form below to register for the course Biodiversity 13: Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. If needed, we offer a few low-budget registration options below,
- [Free Webinar -  Rivers, Forests, and Rights of Nature](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/free-webinar-rivers-forests-and-rights-of-nature/) - Free Webinar - Rivers, Forests, and Rights of Nature Register In this 10-week journey, we will explore the profound question raised by Robert Macfarlane in his new book Is a River Alive? (2025) describes how rivers, forests, and other ecosystems be recognized as living beings with rights? Macfarlane’s travels take us across three continents—Ecuador, India,
- [Scholarship for Wildlife & Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/wildlife-and-climate/scholarship-for-wildlife-climate/) - Scholarship Registration - Wildlife & Climate Please fill out the form below to register free of charge for our special mini-course Wildlife & Climate . Weekly on Thursdays -- October 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2025 12:00 noon ET -&- 7:00 pm ET -- to accommodate participant's schedules Attend either class or both each week
- [Registration for the FREE WEBINAR: Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-13-rivers-forests-and-the-rights-of-nature/registration-for-the-free-webinar-rivers-forests-and-the-rights-of-nature/) - Registration for the Free Webinar on Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature Please fill out the form below to register for the free introductory webinar on on Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature. Wednesday, September 1012:00 noon ET and 7:00 pm ET (attend either one or both) We are looking forward to seeing
- [Scholarship Registration for Biodiversity 13](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-13-rivers-forests-and-the-rights-of-nature/registration-for-biodiversity-13-rivers-forests-and-the-rights-of-nature/scholarship-registration-for-biodiversity-13/) - Scholarship Registration for Biodiversity 13 Please fill out the form below to register for the course Biodiversity 13: Rivers, Forests, and the Rights of Nature, free of charge. Looking forward to seeing you in class! Please note that by registering, you will be added to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe or manage your email
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- [BHS Mini-Forest at Belmont High School ](https://bio4climate.org/miyawaki-forest-program/belmont-high-school-microforest/) - BHS Mini-Forest at Belmont High School Sign up to join the community planting the BHS Mini-Forest on October 4, 2025! Join Us As a Volunteer Donate to Support Our Forest If it rains, planting day will move to October 5. Sign up for updates on any changes. In Fall 2025, the Miyawaki Forest Action Belmont
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- [Home 20250801](https://bio4climate.org/home-20250801/) - beavers took matters into their own paws ... Mitigating Wildfires Through Biodiversity That's a wrap: check out our 2024 highlight reel! We Need a New Climate Story Nature is Climate Biodiversity loss is not just the result of climate change, it is a primary driver of climate change. Only solutions that prioritize this web of life
- [Biodiversity 5: Mastering the Carbon Cycle](https://bio4climate.org/biodiversity-5-mastering-the-carbon-cycle/) - Fall 2021, Wednesdays, October 6th - December 22nd Biodiversity 5: Cooling the Climate by Mastering the Carbon Cycle 12 weekly classes with our 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 and Inspiration
- [Free Introductory Session Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/food-and-farming/free-introductory-session-registration/) - Free Introductory Class Register below to attend our Free Introductory Class. This class will give you game-changing strategies on how you can help transform our food system and farming practices, plus you'll get an insider's look at our upcoming course on Food & Farming: How Farming Impacts Our Water, Wildlife, Climate, Health & Economy -
- [Katie Ross' Video Recording](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/water-and-climate/katie-rosss-video-recording/) - Katie Ross' Video Recording Thank you for your interest in the significant work of Dr. Katie Ross and her research on the role of soil, ecosystems, and communities in governing Earth’s water systems and climate. Her insightful studies show how regenerative landscapes, healthy soils, and biodiverse ecosystems can restore water cycles, promote rainfall, and stabilize
- [Walter Jehne's Video Recording](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/water-and-climate/walter-jehnes-video-recording/) - Walter Jehne's Video Recording Thank you for your interest in the transformative work of Walter Jehne, whose research shows how soil biology and water cycles regulate Earth’s climate. Walter’s work highlights the soil‑carbon sponge, vegetation cover, and restored hydrological systems as powerful tools for cooling the Earth within years, not decades. To watch the video
- [Didi Pershouse's Video Recording](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/water-and-climate/didi-pershouses-video-recording/) - Didi Pershouse's Video Recording Thank you for your interest in the essential work of Didi Pershouse that draws powerful connections between soil health, public health, and climate resilience, showing how diverse microbial communities create the living soil-carbon sponge that regulates water and climate. She highlights the often-overlooked role of biodiverse soils in regenerating water cycles,
- [Anastassia Makarieva's Video Recording](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/water-and-climate/anastassia-makarievas-video-recording/) - Anastassia Makarieva's Video Recording Thank you for your interest in the vital work of Dr. Anastassia Makarieva on the biotic pump theory that shows how intact forests actively generate and transport atmospheric moisture, playing a crucial role in stabilizing rainfall patterns and regulating Earth’s climate. To watch the video recording of Anastassia Makarieva’s presentation during
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- [Brock Dolman's Video Recording](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/water-and-climate/brock-dolmans-video-recording/) - Brock Dolman's Video Recording Thank you for your interest in the vital work of Brock Dolman to restore the ecology of our watersheds. Brock’s innovative strategies for capturing rainwater to “slow it, spread it, sink it” serve to rehydrate the land, replenish our waterways and aquifers, rebuild our ecosystems and restore a livable climate.To watch
- [Water & Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/water-and-climate/) - Water & Climate The Untold Story of How Water GovernsOur ClimateWhat Climate Models Miss Aboutthe Power of Water July 10, 17, 24 & 31 Thursdays — 12:00 noon & 7:00 pm ET Featuring 5 Expert Guest Speakers Brock Dolman — July 10 - 12:00 noon ET Anastassia Makarieva, PhD — July 17 - 12:00 noon ET
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- [Coupon Registration for Water & Climate](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/water-and-climate/coupon-registration-for-water-climate/) - Course Registration Form Please fill out the form below to register for this special mini-course Water & Climate. What's included in the course Live Classes every week! A 12:00 Noon and 7:00 PM live class each week for a total of 8 live sessions, recorded for your convenience Guest Speakers will share their research and
- [Defending Cows](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/defending-cows/) - Defending Cows The Untold Story of How Water GovernsOur ClimateWhat Climate Models Miss Aboutthe Power of Water September 4, 11, 18 & 25 Thursdays — 12:00 noon & 7:00 pm ET Featuring 4 Expert Guest Speakers Brock Dolman — July 10 - 12:00 noon ET Anastassia Makarieva, PhD — July 17 - 12:00 noon ET Katie
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- [Voices of Water](https://bio4climate.org/voices-of-water/) - Vision Rehydrating the continents to restore natural water cycles and climate. Mission Educating globally to empower people to act locally to renew natural small water cycles to aid climate recovery History Jan Lambert and Dr. Michal Kravčík founded VOW in 2017 after working together for several years to bring his research to a broader audience.
- [Resources](https://bio4climate.org/resources/) - Resources Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and the EcoRestoration Alliance bring forth a dual-document appeal and action blueprint that unveils a groundbreaking perspective and tangible actions for ecosystem restoration as a viable solution to stabilize our climate. A United Call to Cool the Planet! Dive into scientific insights, explore a hopeful pathway, and join a
- [](https://bio4climate.org/biodiversity-for-a-livable-climate-legacy-society/) - The Legacy Society The BLC Legacy Society is our way of honoring those who have included Biodiversity for a Livable Climate in their estate plans. Many donors find that they can make a substantial impact by facilitating an estate gift. Our kickoff event is scheduled for Sunday, October 27, at 3pm EST. It will be
- [EcoRestoration Alliance](https://bio4climate.org/era/) - The EcoRestoration Alliance was co-founded in 2021 by Jon Schull as a project of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC). The initial goal was to challenge "carbon tunnel vision" by competing in the Carbon Removal XPRIZE, so we assembled individuals and organizations who had already regenerated over a million acres, and successfully qualified for the 2024 competition.
- [ERA Home](https://bio4climate.org/era-home/) - The EcoRestoration Alliance website has moved click here to go to the new site EcoRestoration Alliance: Scientists, Storytellers, and Practitioners working together to restore the climate by restoring the biosphere. Apart from nature lies ruin.As part of nature, we can thrive. Healthy ecosystems stabilize the climate, cool the planet, and sustain its inhabitants.
- [Science](https://bio4climate.org/era-home/science/) - From ERA member GreenWaterCools.org Learn more about ERA scientists below.
- [Storytelling](https://bio4climate.org/era-home/storytelling/) - Learn more about ERA storytellers below.
- [Living Earth Paradigm](https://bio4climate.org/231356-2/) - The Living Earth Paradigm: A better view for a better planet.The prevailing perspective on climate change is leading us astray.
- [Explore](https://bio4climate.org/era-home/explore/) - There is no Planet B. And there's a lot to do. ERA members have already restored over a million acres of degraded land. It's a drop in the bucket, but it's a start. Use the map below to explore ERA member projects. Your piece of land -- your yard, your acreage, a plot of land
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- [Practice](https://bio4climate.org/era-home/practice/) - By restoring nature, we can restore the climate, control fires, floods, and drought, feed billions, and cool the earth.Learn more by following these links: Bold claims, documented extensively at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. Learn more about ERA practitioners below.
- [About](https://bio4climate.org/era-home/about/) - The EcoRestoration Alliance (ERA) is a global network of scientists, storytellers, and practitioners working to restore the planet's climate by restoring the biosphere. History Summer 2021: EcoRestoration Alliance was started by Jon Schull as a project of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, based on the ERA Whitepaper. Frustrated by the "carbon tunnel vision" that is
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- [Biodiversity 11: Warming Oceans, Moving Shorelines & Sea Level Rise](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-11-warming-oceans-moving-shorelines-sea-level-rise/) - Biodiversity 11: Warming Oceans, Moving Shorelines & Sea Level Rise A 12-week course with Jim Laurie Fall Course 2024, Wednesdays, starts September 18 Are Antarctica's glaciers stable? Humanity may be facing the most challenging time in its history. The oceans are warming rapidly and causing larger storms and hurricanes. The polar regions are warming three times faster than
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- [Cool](https://bio4climate.org/cool/) - Cool A Quick Summary Nature plays a pivotal role in cooling the Earth, with plants being central to this process. Through transpiration, they release water vapor, which cools the air and aids in cloud formation. This mechanism is crucial in countering the urban heat island effect, where non-vegetated areas like cities absorb more heat. Water
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- [Danehy Park Forest](https://bio4climate.org/miyawaki-forest-program/danehy-park-forest/) - Danehy Park Miyawaki Forest Our Miyawaki Forest at Danehy Park in North Cambridge was planted successfully on September 25, 2021 with the help of many fantastic volunteers. The forest is the first example of a Miyawaki Forest in Cambridge, MA and in the Northeast US as a whole. It is wonderful to see the community
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- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/healing-our-land-and-our-climate/registration/) - Course Registration Please fill out the form below to register for the course Healing Our Land & Our Climate! Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. We offer a few low-budget registration options below, or for volunteer or scholarship
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- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/youth-power-april-25-2024/success/) - Thanks for registering! You have successfully registered for Youth-Powered Climate Justice with Our Children’s Trust on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 12:00 noon ET. Click this Zoom Link to enter the event, or you can find more Zoom information below. You will also receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link and other details. Thanks for joining us! Return to
- [Youth-Powered Climate Justice - April 25 2024](https://bio4climate.org/youth-power-april-25-2024/) - Youth-Powered Climate Justice with Our Children’s Trust Thursday, April 25 12:00 noon ETA Virtual Meeting Register Here Join Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and the Ocean River Institute for a lively discussion of the practice and power of youth activism on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 12:00 noon ET on Zoom. Mat dos Santos and
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels](https://bio4climate.org/roc/) - A series of virtual events in 5 locations in the U.S.with connections to local, in-person community events About this Series In 2022 and 2023, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate partnered with the Post Carbon Institute and many local community groups to bring you a series of events on transitioning our communities to manage our ecological
- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/youth-power-april-25-2024/registration/) - Fill out the form below to register for Youth-Powered Climate Justice with Our Children's Trust - Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 12:00 noon ET. Please note that by registering, you will be added to Bio4Climate's and Ocean River Institute's mailing lists. You can unsubscribe or manage your email preferences at any time.
- [An Economics of Love - Scholarship Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/ecological-economics-2024/scholarship-registration/) - An Economics of Love - Scholarship Registration To register for An Economics of Love with Fred Jennings, please fill out the form below. Looking forward to seeing you in class! Please note that by registering, you will be added to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe or manage your email preferences at any time.
- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/ecological-economics-2024/registration/) - To register for An Economics of Love with Fred Jennings, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. In addition to our low-budget option for students, listed below, we have volunteer and scholarship opportunities, so please contact staff@bio4climate.org for
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/ecological-economics-2024/registration/success/) - Thanks for signing up! You will receive an e-mail receipt with a Zoom link for the class. Class runs from April 15 to July 8, 2024 at 12pm ET. Return to the course page here.
- [Info Session](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/ecological-economics-2024/info-session/) - On Monday, April 8th at 12pm ET, Fred Jennings will offer prospective students a sneak-peak of his course An Economics of Love. Students will meet Fred, review a roadmap of the course, and have the opportunity to ask questions. To join that event, fill out the form below! Please note that by registering, you will
- [Nov 12 Registration](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-november-12/registration/) - Register below to receive your ticket for Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels – Saturday November 12, 2022 from 1 pm – 5 pm CST. And stay tuned for information on our in-person and virtual community events following this session. We want you to join us more than anything, so we have several registration options. To register without a fee,
- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-march-25-2023/registration/) - Register below to receive your ticket for Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels – Saturday, March 25, 2023 from 1 pm – 4:30 pm EST. And stay tuned for information on our in-person and virtual community events following this session. We want you to join us more than anything, so we have several registration options. To register without a
- [Success - you've signed up for Fred Course Preview](https://bio4climate.org/success-youve-signed-up-for-fred-course-preview/) - Thanks for signing up! You will receive an e-mail confirmation with a Zoom link for the info session on Monday, April 8 at 12pm ET. Return to course page here. Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/3977711814?pwd=c3E5RExRRWFsTlVRYmdHdVpRcGg2UT09 Meeting ID: 397 771 1814Passcode: bio4climat [ this is not a typo … there is no “e”
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-september-10/) - Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels A series of virtual and in-person community events in 6 locations in the U.S. and Canada Inaugural Event: Saturday, September 10, 2022 1:00 - 4:30 pm ET • on Zoom Plus, in-person and virtualCommunity Engagement Eventshosted in or near Montgomery County, Maryland! Biodiversity for a Livable Climate is
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels November 12](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-november-12/) - Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels A series of virtual and in-person community events in 6 locations in the U.S. and Canada Second Event: KANSAS CITY • on Zoom Saturday, November 12 1:00 - 5:00 pm CST • on Zoom Biodiversity for a Livable Climate is partnering with the Post Carbon Institute and many
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels January 21 2023](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-january-21-2023/) - Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels A series of virtual and in-person community events in 6 locations in the U.S. and Canada Third Event: LOS ANGELES • on Zoom Saturday, January 21, 2023 1:00 - 4:30 pm PST • on Zoom Biodiversity for a Livable Climate is partnering with the Post Carbon Institute and
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels November 18 2023](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-november-18-2023/) - Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels A series of virtual and in-person community events in 6 locations in the U.S. and Canada Fifth Event: OREGON • on Zoom Saturday, November 18, 2023 1:00 - 4:30 pm Pacific Time • on Zoom Biodiversity for a Livable Climate is partnering with the Post Carbon Institute and
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels March 25 2023](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-march-25-2023/) - Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels A series of virtual and in-person community events in 6 locations in the U.S. and Canada Fourth Event: CLEVELAND • on Zoom Saturday, March 25, 2023 1:00 - 4:30 pm EST • on Zoom Agenda Biodiversity for a Livable Climate is partnering with the Post Carbon Institute and
- [A Rallying Cry for Ecosystem Restoration and Climate Stabilization](https://bio4climate.org/a-rallying-cry-for-ecosystem-restoration-and-climate-stabilization/) - A Rallying Cry for Ecosystem Restoration and Climate Stabilization Appeal and Action Blueprint from Environmental Stewards Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and the EcoRestoration Alliance present two profoundly critical documents that shed light on an innovative, scientifically plausible approach to address our escalating climate crisis through ecosystem restoration. An Appeal to Humanity and World Leaders
- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/heat-planet-course-page/registration/) - Fill out the form below to register for Heat Planet: Restore Ecosystems - Restore Climate. Classes will begin on May 4, 2022 and run for six consecutive Wednesdays through June 8. Course fee is $200, but please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on
- [Free Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/heat-planet-course-page/free-registration/) - Fill out the form below to register for Heat Planet: Restore Ecosystems - Restore Climate. Classes will begin on May 4, 2022 and run for six consecutive Wednesdays through June 8.
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-10-deep-dive-beavers-wetlands-shorelines/registration-biodiversity-10/success/) - Thanks for signing up! You will receive an e-mail receipt with a Zoom link for the class. Class runs from February 21 to May 8, 2024, with sessions at 12pm ET and 7pm ET. Class login info: Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/6407474514 Meeting ID: 640 747 4514One tap mobile+13017158592,,6407474514# US (Germantown)+13126266799,,6407474514# US (Chicago) Dial by your location
- [Registration Biodiversity 10](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-10-deep-dive-beavers-wetlands-shorelines/registration-biodiversity-10/) - To register for Biodiversity 10 Deep Dive with Jim Laurie, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. In addition to our low-budget option for students, listed below, we have volunteer and scholarship opportunities, so please contact staff@bio4climate.org for
- [Global Youth Ambassadors](https://bio4climate.org/global-youth-ambassadors/) - Global Youth Ambassadors Introduction The Global Youth Ambassador program connects young people around the world to regeneration resources and powerful networks. We create a platform for more robust projects that benefit people and the Earth, fostering a generation of dynamic leaders ready to make a significant difference. Who is this program for? If you’re passionate
- [Giving Tuesday Thank You](https://bio4climate.org/giving-tuesday-thank-you/)
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels - Agenda](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-november-18-2023/november-18-2023-agenda/) - Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels - Agenda Date: Saturday, November 18, 2023Time: 1:00 - 4:30 pm PSTLocation: Oregon Event Schedule Breakout Sessions
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-november-18-2023/registration/success/) - Thanks for registering! We look forward to seeing you at Redesigning our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 1:00 pm PST (4:00 pm EST). You will also receive an e-mail confirmation including the Zoom link for the event. And stay tuned for information on the follow-up community events that
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/a-new-climate-story-course/registration/success/) - Thanks for signing up! You can join the course with this Zoom link (full info below). You will also receive an email receipt with the link for the class. Class runs from November 13 to December 18, 2023 1pm or 7pm ET. Return to the course page here. Join Zoom Meeting Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/3977711814?pwd=c3E5RExRRWFsTlVRYmdHdVpRcGg2UT09
- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/a-new-climate-story-course/registration/) - Register below to join Christopher Haines' course, A New Climate Story, from Monday Nov 13 to Dec 18, 2023. We want you to join us more than anything, so we have several registration options, as well as volunteer and scholarship opportunities (please email us at staff@bio4climate.org). Please note that by registering, you will be added
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-november-18-2023/november-18-2023-sponsor-registration/success/) - Thanks for registering! We look forward to seeing you at Redesigning our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 1:00 pm PST. You will also receive an e-mail confirmation including the Zoom link for the event. And stay tuned for information on the follow-up community events that will take place
- [November 18 2023 Registration](https://bio4climate.org/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-november-18-2023/registration/) - Register below to receive your ticket for Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels with Oregon community leaders – Saturday, November 18, 2023 from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Pacific Time. And stay tuned for information on our in-person and virtual community events following this session. We want you to join us more than anything, so we have several registration
- [Somerville High School Forest](https://bio4climate.org/miyawaki-forest-program/somerville-high-school-forest/) - Somerville High School Forest Photos by Maya Dutta On Sunday October 22, 2023 we are planting Somerville's first Miyawaki Forest at Somerville High School! Sign up to volunteer here. We are so excited to bring another pocket forest to life with the help of the community, high school, and municipality. We will share information, updates,
- [Natick High School Forest](https://bio4climate.org/miyawaki-forest-program/natick-high-school-forest/) - Natick High School Forest Photos by Maya Dutta On Saturday September 30, 2023 we planted Natick's first Miyawaki Forest at Natick High School! Sign up to volunteer here. We are so excited to bring another pocket forest to life with the help of the community, high school, and municipality. We will share information, updates, and
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/adams-retirement-registration/success/) - You have been registered and will receive an email confirmation as well. Please go ahead and leave a note for Adam in the virtual guest book ahead of time. Thank you for your RSVP for the retirement party to celebrate Adam Sacks, founding Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Any questions, please email
- [Biodiversity Deep Dive Course:  Transformation to a Holistic Perspective – September 20, 2023](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-9-deep-dive-transformation-to-a-holistic-perspective/biodiversity-deep-dive-course-transformation-to-a-holistic-perspective-september-20-2023-2/) - Biodiversity Deep Dive Course: Transformation to a Holistic Perspective – September 20, 2023 Are you ready to transform your understanding of how life on the planet works and how we can play a role? Join us as we follow the transformation of two leading writers and thinkers to a deeper understanding of natural systems, our
- [More about Jan Lambert](https://bio4climate.org/more-about-jan-lambert/)
- [Biodiversity Deep Dive - Transformation to a Holistic Perspective: Class 1](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-9-deep-dive-transformation-to-a-holistic-perspective/biodiversity-deep-dive-course-transformation-to-a-holistic-perspective-september-20-2023-2/biodiversity-deep-dive-transformation-to-a-holistic-perspective-class-1/) - Biodiversity Deep Dive - Transformation to a Holistic Perspective: Class 1 Our first class last Wednesday had a good turn out. There were 26 people in the 12pm class and 22 at 7pm for a total of 45. (3 people came to parts of both classes.) We have 12 new people in their 1st course.
- [Greene-Rose Park Forest](https://bio4climate.org/miyawaki-forest-program/greene-rose-park-forest/) - Greene-Rose Park Forest Photos by Maya Dutta On Saturday November 5, 2022 we planted our second Miyawaki Forest in collaboration with the City of Cambridge in The Port at Greene-Rose Heritage Park. We are thrilled to bring another pocket forest to life with the help of the community. We will share information, updates, and photos
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/adams-retirement-registration-and-donation/success/) - Thank you for your donation! You have been registered and will receive an email confirmation as well. Please go ahead and leave a note for Adam in the virtual guest book ahead of time. Thank you for your RSVP for the retirement party to celebrate Adam Sacks, founding Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable
- [Adam's Retirement Registration and Donation](https://bio4climate.org/adams-retirement-registration-and-donation/) - Thank you for your RSVP. Please give us your name and email and fill in the Additional Information to let us know whether or not you are attending.
- [Adam's Retirement Registration](https://bio4climate.org/adams-retirement-registration/) - Thank you for your RSVP. Please give us your name and email and fill in the Additional Information to let us know whether or not you are attending.
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/bring-nature-to-the-global-fight-to-end-fossil-fuels-september-2023/registration/success/) - You have registered for: Bring Nature to theGlobal Fight to End Fossil Fuels We look forward to your participation in bringing nature to the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels from September 10-24, 2023. You will receive an e-mail which includes instructions on how to participate and you will be added to our mailing list.
- [Instructions](https://bio4climate.org/bring-nature-to-the-global-fight-to-end-fossil-fuels-september-2023/instructions/) - Thank you for taking action to bring the message that #NatureCools to the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels. Your actions help us show that restoring and protecting nature cools the climate, hydrates the land to prevent wildfires, drought and flooding, and reduces extreme weather. Here are the next steps you can take on the actions you
- [Bring Nature to the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels September 2023](https://bio4climate.org/bring-nature-to-the-global-fight-to-end-fossil-fuels-september-2023/) - Bring Nature to the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels#NatureCoolsSeptember 10-24, 2023 From now until September 24, especially the weekend of September 15-17, we each have a critical opportunity to spread the message that #NatureCools in cities throughout the world, on social media, and in the mainstream media. Join us in showing people that restoring
- [Registration: Bring Nature to the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels](https://bio4climate.org/bring-nature-to-the-global-fight-to-end-fossil-fuels-september-2023/registration/) - Let us know what you plan to do by filling out this google form first. Then come back here to register on our mailing list and receive instructions on ways to Bring Nature to the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels. Please note that by registering, you will be added to our mailing list. You
- [Registration Biodiversity 9](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-9-deep-dive-transformation-to-a-holistic-perspective/registration-biodiversity-9/) - To register for Biodiversity 9 Deep Dive with Jim Laurie, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. In addition to our low-budget option for students, listed below, we have volunteer and scholarship opportunities, so please contact staff@bio4climate.org for
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-9-deep-dive-transformation-to-a-holistic-perspective/registration-biodiversity-9/success/) - Thanks for signing up! You will receive an e-mail receipt with a Zoom link for the class. Class runs from September 20 to December 13, 2023, with sessions at 12pm ET and 7pm ET. Return to the course page here.
- [Life Rules the Earth Registration Success](https://bio4climate.org/life-rules-the-earth-registration/life-rules-the-earth-registration-success/) - Life Rules the Earth Registration Success Thank you for registering for Life Rules the Earth, an overview of the process of civilizations, nature’s rules, and how the natural world works as an ultimate complex system. We will meet Fridays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m EDT. See your email for the zoom link. Please see the Curriculum and Reference document (still under
- [Life Rules the Earth Registration](https://bio4climate.org/life-rules-the-earth-registration/) - Life Rules the Earth Registration A discussion Group Register below for Life Rules the Earth: an overview of the process of civilizations, nature’s rules, and how the natural world works as an ultimate complex system. We will meet Fridays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m EDT. We will meet on Zoom. Sign up to receive the link. Please see the Curriculum
- [The Repair DEI Discussion Success](https://bio4climate.org/the-repair-dei-discussion-success/) - Success! You have registered for our discussion group, meeting Fridays at 2pm ET on Zoom. You will receive an email with meeting details. Please send any questions to staff@bio4climate.org.
- [Life Saves the Planet](https://bio4climate.org/life-saves-the-planet-blog/) - Life Saves the Planet The Bio4Climate Blog "Life Saves the Planet" is more than just a blog—it's our philosophy and a partnership with GBH public television's Lowell Lecture Series. In the search for answers to climate change, we look to the interconnected living systems that sustain our planet. These biodiverse systems shape our atmosphere, regulate temperature,
- [Plants Cool the Planet](https://bio4climate.org/plants-cool-the-planet/) - Plants Cool the Planet Key Concepts Plants mitigate climate change through transpiration, carbon sequestration, cloud formation, and cooling effects. Transpiration Plants release water to the air which has a cooling effect on the plant, and the environment. Plants regulate temperature, contributing to ecosystem health. Condensation The transformation of water vapor into liquid droplets aids in
- [Guest Book for Adam](https://bio4climate.org/guest-book-for-adam/) - Guest Book for Adam Whether you can make the party or not, please leave a note for Adam. There will also be a card at the party.
- [Biodiversity8: Symbiosis in Evolution Class #10: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/biodiversity-8-deepdive-into-symbiosis/class-10/) - Homework for Class #10 on May 3rd Focus on number 1 Read Chapter V (pp. 80-93) in LaMarck's Revenge. "The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - In Deep Time" If you have this book, go back to Chapter 5 and spend some time with it. It's only 14 pages, but summarizes much of Earth's
- [Miyawaki Forests](https://bio4climate.org/miyawaki-forests/) - Miyawaki Forests Everyone needs a forest, because not only are they one of the most efficient means for sequestering carbon, but the most effective system for cooling the planet, especially on the local level. With the loss of green spaces, more and more people are feeling the effects of heat islands, localized hotspots that can
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/sustainability-and-humankinds-dilemma-2023/registration/success/) - Thanks for signing up! You can join the course with this Zoom link (full info below). You will also receive an e-mail receipt with the link for the class. Class runs from April 21 to May 26, 2023 12pm ET. Return to the course page here. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7379619555?pwd=YldmMExPamorTnptR25aamlmSkFodz09Meeting ID: 737 961 9555Passcode: 271612One
- [Earth Day](https://bio4climate.org/earth-day/) - Earth Day 2023 On Saturday, April 22 2023, celebrate Earth Day with Bio4Climate! We're hosting a community gathering at our Danehy Park Miyawaki Forest in Cambridge, MA from 1 - 3pm. Bring your lunch and your friends to celebrate our beautiful planet and learn about the movement to regenerate it. Fill out the form below
- [Donate Monthly - 1294336](https://bio4climate.org/donate-monthly-1294336/) - Please join our Restorer Circle of monthly givers, and help us build a solid financial foundation for restoring ecosystems to cool the planet and heal the Earth! Your contribution will be processed automatically. Many thanks!
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/earth-day/success/) - Success Thank you for registering! We'll see you on Saturday, April 22 2023 from 1 - 3pm. You will receive an email with confirmation and details, including a site map. Please consider making an Earth Day Gift along with your registration. Your partnership is greatly appreciated.
- [Compendium](https://bio4climate.org/compendium/) - The Compendium This Compendium of Scientific and Practical Findings Supporting Eco-Restoration to Address Global Warming ("The Compendium”) is a fully referenced compilation of the evidence outlining the power, benefits and necessity of eco-restoration to address global warming and biodiversity loss. Bringing together findings from the scientific literature, government and industry reports, and journalistic investigations, it
- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/sustainability-and-humankinds-dilemma-2023/registration/) - To register for Sustainability and Humankind's Dilemma with Nancy Wood, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. In addition to our low-budget option for students, listed below, we have volunteer and scholarship opportunities, so please contact staff@bio4climate.org for
- [Nature’s Solutions as National Policy](https://bio4climate.org/natures-solutions-as-national-policy-event/) - Nature’s Solutions as National Policy June 5, 2021 9:00 – 11:00 am ET This June, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate hosted a mini-conference exploring how we can leverage nature’s solutions to shape policy on climate action and resilience. This was the first in a series of mini-conferences on nature’s solutions as national policy, bringing together global
- [Jim Laurie's Class - Summer 2020](https://bio4climate.org/jim-laurie-class/) - 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 of Sciencefor the Curious to the Serious and everyone in-between A fully interactive online adventure with discussions, experiments and explorations for independent thinkers of any age,
- [Registration for Jim Laurie's Class](https://bio4climate.org/jim-laurie-class-register/) - Here's where you sign up for Biodiversity, Symbiosis and Planetary Regeneration: Exploring Nature's Possibilities for the Future! Classes will begin on June 2, 2020 and run for twelve consecutive Tuesdays through August 18th, with choice of afternoon (1-3 pm) or evening classes (7-9 pm). Jim will send you class notes and home study opportunities every
- [Registration for Jim Laurie's Class - Fall 2020](https://bio4climate.org/registration-for-jim-lauries-class-fall-2020/) - Here's where you sign up for Biodiversity 2: Systems Thinking &TransformationBuilding Teams for Planetary Restoration Classes will begin on September 16, 2020 and run for twelve consecutive Wednesdays through December 9th, with choice of afternoon (1-3 pm) or evening classes (7-9 pm). Jim will send you class notes and home study opportunities every week. A
- [Jim Laurie's Class - Fall 2020](https://bio4climate.org/jim-lauries-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 Excitement and Inspiration of Science for the Curious to the Serious and everyone in-between. A fully interactive online adventure with discussions, experiments and explorations for
- [Intro to Ecological Economics - Fall 2021](https://bio4climate.org/intro-to-ecological-economics-fall-2021/) - Fall 2021, Thursdays, October 14th - December 9th An Introduction to Ecological Economics 8 weekly classes with our Ecological Economist, Fred Jennings. Classes will be held on Thursdays from 12 - 2 pm and 7 - 9 pm ET to accommodate students' schedules. Come explore the ecological foundations for economics and economic mechanisms to support
- [Registration for Intro to Ecological Economics - 498454528](https://bio4climate.org/intro-to-ecological-economics-fall-2021/registration-for-intro-to-ecological-economics/) - To register for Fred Jennings' Introduction to Ecological Economics, please fill out the form below. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. In addition to our low-budget options, we have volunteer and scholarship opportunities, so please contact staff@bio4climate.org for further information. Looking forward to seeing
- [Ecological Economics Preview](https://bio4climate.org/intro-to-ecological-economics-fall-2021/ecological-economics-preview/) - On Thursday, October 7th Fred Jennings will offer prospective students a sneak-peak of his Introduction to Ecological Economics course in two one-hour sessions. At 12 - 1 pm ET and 7 - 8 pm ET, Fred will walk people through the roadmap of his course and field questions on its content. To join that event,
- [Ecological Economics Preview Success](https://bio4climate.org/intro-to-ecological-economics-fall-2021/ecological-economics-preview/ecological-economics-preview-success/) - Success - you have registered for the preview session for Introduction to Ecological Economics on Thursday, October 7th! Check your email for confirmation and Zoom info.
- [Success](https://bio4climate.org/ego-vs-eco-course/success/) - Thanks for signing up! You will receive an e-mail receipt, and Tania will send you a Zoom link for the class. Return to the course page here.
- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/ego-vs-eco-course/registration/) - Fill out the form below to register for Ego VS Eco: How Human, Animal, and Planet Health Interconnect. Classes will begin on March 2, 2022 and run for eight consecutive Wednesdays through April 27th with a one-week break built in. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never
- [Ego VS Eco Course - Free Registration](https://bio4climate.org/ego-vs-eco-course/free-registration/) - Fill out the form below to register for Ego VS Eco: How Human, Animal, and Planet Health Interconnect. Classes will begin on March 2, 2022 and run for eight consecutive Wednesdays through April 27th with a one-week break built in.
- [Registration](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/social-solutions-making-systems-more-resilient/registration/) - To register for Fred Jennings' Social Solutions: Making Systems More Resilient, please fill out the form below. Classes will begin on April 4, 2022 and run on Mondays and Thursdays at 12pm ET through June 30th with a Memorial Day break built in. Please note that we want you to join us more than anything,
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- [Ecological Economics Spring 2022 Course Preview](https://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/ecological-economics-spring-2022-course-preview/) - Preview Session - Spring 2022 Ecological Economics Courses On Monday, March 28 at 12pm ET Fred Jennings will offer prospective students a sneak-peak of his spring courses, Social Solutions: Making Systems More Resilient and Horizonal Thinking: Toward a New Economics, which both start the following Monday, April 4. Fred will walk people through the roadmaps
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- [Nature’s Solutions as National Policy: How Animals Shape Ecosystems](https://bio4climate.org/natures-solutions-as-national-policy-animals-shaping-ecosystems/) - You can also check out 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 did they miss? from November 2021. Thousands of projects on six continents are endeavoring to cool our overheated planet and
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- [Sponsorship and Partnership Guidelines](https://bio4climate.org/sponsorship-and-partnership-guidelines/) - Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming First Conference and International Action Week November 2014 Conference: Friday-Sunday, November 21-23, 2014 Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA (near Boston) Co-sponsored by The Institute of the Environment (TIE) and The Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) at the Fletcher School of Tufts University International
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- [Annotated Bibliography Purchase](https://bio4climate.org/annotated-bibliography-purchase/) - Thank you for purchasing your copy of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's Annotated Bibliography on Climate Change for Young People! If you have colleagues or friends who are interested in obtaining a copy, we would appreciate your sending them to buy it on our website, here. We are a small non-profit doing big things on a
- [Blessed Unrest Registration](https://bio4climate.org/blessed-unrest-registration/) - Here's where you buy your tickets! Please note that we want you to join us more than anything, so we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. We have volunteer opportunities too, so please contact staff@bio4climate.org for further information. Having said that, we also need to pay our very hard-working and dedicated staff. So
- [BCC Conference Flyers](https://bio4climate.org/bcc-conference-flyers/) - Home Speakers Partners and Sponsors Flyers Below is the flyer for the Bristol Community College conference on February 20, 2015. The version visible below is a small file for online viewing - use your browser's image copying capability to paste the flyer in an e-mail or on a web page.
- [Healing the World in 18 Months](https://bio4climate.org/healing-the-world-in-18-months/) - Working on our selves, our communities, and our places for massive change A workshop on Saturday, March 28, 2020 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT Good News - we will hold this workshop online! It will be fully interactive with discussions, conversations, breakout rooms, Q&A and presentations by Bill and Jim. In Western culture, we
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- [Healthy Soils Legislation](https://bio4climate.org/healthy-soils-legislation/) - MARYLAND Philip Bogdonoff (second from right in red shirt), Director of Bio4Climate’s DC Chapter and member of our Executive Board, played a key role in its passage.UPDATE: By Philip Bogdonoff, March 30, 2021Philip continues to be involved with several groups who are focused on Montgomery County's Climate Action Plan, and has contributed to the language
- [Success - you've signed up for May's Monthly Conversation](https://bio4climate.org/monthly-conversation-success/) - Thanks for signing up! We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, May 20th at 7pm ET. You will receive an e-mail confirmation with the Zoom information included. Many thanks!
- [Success - you've purchased your ticket(s) to Healing the World in 18 Months . . .](https://bio4climate.org/healing-the-world-ticket-success/) - Thanks for signing up! The link to attend the Healing the World in 18 Months workshop is here. It will take you to a Zoom registration page (yes, you've already registered with Bio4Climate, this is just a formality, like taking attendance). It should only take a moment and then you're in! Remember, we start tomorrow, Saturday,
- [Sponsors and Partners - Harvard 2016](https://bio4climate.org/sponsors-and-partners-harvard-2016/) - The Power and Promise of Biodiversity Home Speakers Program Sponsors/Partners Flyers Registration As of March 1, 2016, the Sponsors and Partners page is under construction. Please check back soon! Home Speakers Program Sponsors/Partners Flyers Registration
- [Spirit of Resilience and Bio4Climate thank you!](https://bio4climate.org/2020-summer-crowdfunder/) - Thanks so much for donating to our 2020 crowdfunder!
- [Soils Legislation](https://bio4climate.org/soils-legislation/) - Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, the Northeast Organic Farming Association, legislative expert Steven Keleti and Soil4Climate collaborate to file the Massachusetts Healthy Soils bill! Massachusetts Residents: Contact your state rep! Co-Sponsors needed by May 18th . . . Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), Steven Keleti and Soil4Climate have ushered the
- [2019 Walter Jehne](https://bio4climate.org/walter-jehne-2019/) - 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 “the soil carbon sponge” and its crucial role in reversing and mitigating flooding, drought, wildfires, and searing global temperatures. He shows us how we can

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## Press Releases

- [From Local Roots to Growing Movement: Bio4Climate Announces 2nd Annual Northeast Miniforest Summit](https://bio4climate.org/press-releases/from-local-roots-to-growing-movement-bio4climate-announces-2nd-annual-northeast-miniforest-summit/) - Online gathering July 15–23 brings together enthusiasts and leading researchers to explore the science and practice of creating tiny urban forests.
- [Miyawaki Forest Plantings Come to Worcester, MA](https://bio4climate.org/press-releases/miyawaki-forest-plantings-worcester-ma-2024/) - Biodiversity for a Livable Climate organized multi-day Miyawaki forest planting events in Worcester, MA, creating dense, biodiverse native pocket forests at two community locations — continuing our mission to bring the Miyawaki method to New England neighborhoods.
- [Small Forests, Big Benefits: A Forum on Miyawaki Miniforests](https://bio4climate.org/press-releases/small-forests-big-benefits-forum-2024/) - Biodiversity for a Livable Climate co-hosted a forum on Miyawaki miniforest adoption featuring keynote speaker Douglas Tallamy, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and community leaders to explore how dense, biodiverse pocket forests address biodiversity loss and help regulate our climate.
- [Biodiversity Day in Danehy Park](https://bio4climate.org/press-releases/biodiversity-day-danehy-park-2025/) - Join Biodiversity for a Livable Climate at Cambridge's Danehy Park for bird-watching tours, a guided Miyawaki forest tour, native plant walks, and community games celebrating local biodiversity — all at the site of the Northeast's first Miyawaki miniforest.
- ['Roadless Rule' A Reckless Attack on Climate Regulators](https://bio4climate.org/press-releases/roadless-rule-reckless-attack-climate-regulators/) - Executive Director Beck Mordini issued a statement responding to the White House decision to rescind protections for 58 million acres of native forests: "Just as tens of millions of Americans are experiencing a lethal, record-breaking heat wave, the federal government has launched a reckless attack on one of our most vital natural climate regulators."
- [An Intergenerational Miniforest Now Grows in Belmont, MA](https://bio4climate.org/press-releases/intergenerational-miniforest-belmont-ma/) - On October 4, 2025, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and the Miyawaki Forest Action Belmont community planted a 3,000-square-foot Miyawaki Forest at Belmont High School. Around 275 local residents of all ages joined throughout the day, planting 1,144 native trees and shrubs across 32 species — our eighth miniforest project and a genuine multigenerational effort from initial conception through planting and ongoing stewardship.
- [Northeast Miniforest Summit 2026](https://bio4climate.org/press-releases/northeast-miniforest-summit-2026/) - Biodiversity for a Livable Climate presents the second annual Northeast Miniforest Summit — bringing together more than 20 speakers, practitioners, researchers, landscape architects, and community organizers for virtual sessions on July 15 and 18 and an in-person bus tour of Massachusetts miniforests on July 22–23, 2026.

## Media Coverage

- [The Miniforest Movement Gains Ground In The U.S.](https://bio4climate.org/media-coverage/the-miniforest-movement-gains-ground-in-the-u-s/) - A 50-year-old planting method from Japan is jump-starting native forest ecosystems in small plots, from schoolyards to parking lots.
- [Northeast's First Miyawaki Forest Takes Root at Danehy Park](https://bio4climate.org/media-coverage/boston-com-danehy-park-miyawaki-2021/) - Boston.com reported on the planting of the Northeast's first Miyawaki forest at Cambridge's Danehy Park — a collaboration between Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, the SUGi Project, and Cambridge city officials, marking a milestone for the miniforest movement in New England.
- [Amid Mounting Climate Threats, a Forest Grows in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/media-coverage/harvard-crimson-danehy-park-one-year-2022/) - The Harvard Crimson profiled the Danehy Park Miyawaki forest at its one-year anniversary, documenting its ecological development and the partnership between Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, the SUGi Project, and the City of Cambridge that brought the Northeast's first miniforest to life.
- [Tiny Forests with Big Benefits](https://bio4climate.org/media-coverage/nyt-tiny-forests-big-benefits-2023/) - The New York Times profiled the Danehy Park miniforest two years after planting, noting doubled growth rates, effective stormwater management, and thriving biodiversity. The forest — planted by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate — grows "ten times the speed of conventional tree plantations."
- [The Miyawaki Movement: Tiny Forests Sow Possibility and Cultivate Resilient Communities](https://bio4climate.org/media-coverage/uu-world-miyawaki-movement-2024/) - "There is something so empowering to see a space go from pavement to a forest paradise," says Beck Mordini, executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. UU World Magazine profiles how community-led Miyawaki forests — including the Northeast's first at Danehy Park — are combating both climate change and climate anxiety.
- [City to Plant Third Miyawaki Miniforest at Peabody Elementary School](https://bio4climate.org/media-coverage/cambridge-ma-peabody-elementary-miyawaki-2025/) - The City of Cambridge announced plans for its third Miyawaki miniforest at Peabody Elementary School — a collaboration with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate — bringing dense, biodiverse native plantings to another Cambridge neighborhood on May 3, 2025.
- [Miyawaki Forest Intervention Draws Concerns](https://bio4climate.org/media-coverage/cambridge-day-miyawaki-intervention-2025/) - Cambridge Day covered maintenance work at the Danehy Park Miyawaki forest — where workers removed a dozen trees and planted 20, cut back sod and weeds, and installed a mulch ring to protect the forest — and reported on community questions raised about the intervention.

## Videos

- [Water Follows Carbon Follows Water with Judith Schwartz & Thomas Goreau](https://bio4climate.org/video/judith-schwartz-thomas-goreau-water-follows-carbon-follows-water/) - Judith Schwartz will tell stories from around the world about the transformations resulting from different approaches to water management, and the effects on local climate. With the ongoing drought in California, people are waking up to concerns about water sources - but while there’s discussion over the effects that climate change can have on water,
- [Climate and Regenerative Organic Agriculture with Ronnie Cummins](https://bio4climate.org/video/ronnie-cummins-building-the-movement-we-need/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Ronnie Cummins, co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association, leads a network of 850,000 consumers dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and sustainable system of agriculture and commerce. He has been active as
- [Walter Jehne (soil and climate scientist) and Michal Kravcik (hydrologist) Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/qa-session-walter-jehne-michal-kravcik-october-17th/) - 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 hydrologistWalter Jehne: Australian soil and climate scientistPresented a Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming" conference October 16th-18th, 2015 at Tufts University.#climatechange #watercycle #waterconservation
- [Global Warming - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (ca. 2001)](https://bio4climate.org/video/global-warming-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet-ca-2001/) - I (Adam Sacks) made this video in 2001, and sadly it could have been made yesterday with only minor changes. The situation has only deteriorated with respect to atmospheric carbon levels - 371 ppm in 2001, ~420 in 2022. On the bright side, we've learned a great deal about the power of biological systems to
- [Large-Scale Marine Ecosystem Restoration with Thomas Goreau](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-3-tom-goreau/) - Thomas Goreau, Global Coral Reef Alliance, demonstrates the powerful potential of ocean restoration through coral reef restoration using biorocks and other techniques that mimic nature.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference
- [Our Oceans, Our Selves with Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-1-adam-sacks/) - Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate emphasizes the connections between human well-being and the state of the Earth's oceans.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard University
- [Jim Laurie: Back to 300 (Nature Wants to be Wet and Cool)](https://bio4climate.org/video/02-back-to-300-or-nature-wants-to-be-wet-and-cool/) - Many strategies exist for taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and rehydrating 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 timescale.Jim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimatePresented at Biodiversity for
- [Cooling The Climate Mess With Soil And Water featuring Walter Jehne](https://bio4climate.org/video/cooling-the-climate-mess-with-soil-and-water-featuring-walter-jehne/) - This talk is part of our Life Saves the Planet Speaker Series in partnership with GBH Forum Network. Learn more about this series here: https://forum-network.org/partner/biodiversity-livable-climate/ 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
- [Untapped Wisdom for Mitigating Natural Disasters & Rapidly Increasing Local Food Production](https://bio4climate.org/video/untapped-wisdom-for-mitigating-natural-disasters-rapidly-increasing-local-food-production/) - This panel was one of several presentations hosted during Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels on Saturday, January 21, 2023 with Los Angeles community leaders. This event is the third in a series of six events hosted virtually and in-person in communities throughout the U.S. and Canada - https://bio4climate.org/rocStay tuned to register for
- [What we do on the land impacts what happens in the ocean. #climatechange #biodiversity](https://bio4climate.org/video/what-we-do-on-the-land-impacts-what-happens-in-the-ocean-climatechange-biodiversity/)
- [How forests fight fire.    #biodiversity #deforestation #climatechange](https://bio4climate.org/video/how-forests-fight-fire-biodiversity-deforestation-climatechange/)
- [What happened when Madrid buried its busiest road? #rewilding #biodiversity #madrid #biodiversidad](https://bio4climate.org/video/what-happened-when-madrid-buried-its-busiest-road-rewilding-biodiversity-madrid-biodiversidad/)
- [Beavers complete delayed Czech infrastructure project in days.](https://bio4climate.org/video/beavers-complete-delayed-czech-infrastructure-project-in-days/)
- [A better way to farm?](https://bio4climate.org/video/a-better-way-to-farm/)
- [Growing a seed bank, with Mother Trees.](https://bio4climate.org/video/growing-a-seed-bank-with-mother-trees/) - The Mother Tree Project (MTP) stands at the forefront of regenerative forestry research, addressing the urgent need to safeguard and steward British Columbia’s forests amidst escalating threats from global climate change.
- [Climate change and biodiversity loss drive frequency and intensity of fires around the world.](https://bio4climate.org/video/climate-change-and-biodiversity-loss-drive-frequency-and-intensity-of-fires-around-the-world/)
- [Bio4Climate 2024](https://bio4climate.org/video/bio4climate-2024/) - Principal videography by Alexandra Ionescu, with additional content from Jesse Epstein and Louise Mitchell.
- [Does tilling destroy the soil food web? #climatechange #soil #natureshorts](https://bio4climate.org/video/does-tilling-destroy-the-soil-food-web-climatechange-soil-natureshorts/) - Tilling is the practice of turning over and breaking up soil before planting, usually with a machine or hand tool. Using 3D scans, a research team in the UK led by D. Luke R. Wardak demonstrated how no-till farming allows larger, well-connected pores to form in soil and facilitate water and nutrient flow, while tilling
- [What is #cop16?](https://bio4climate.org/video/what-is-cop16/) - #COP16 starts today, but what is it?The 1992 UN Convention on Biodiversity formalized international cooperation on biodiversity and has helped give nature a seat at the climate action conversation, but missed targets, sidelined Indigenous voices, and non-binding commitments have impeded the agreement's full potential. Over the next two weeks, delegates and advocates to the 16th
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels - with Oregon community leaders](https://bio4climate.org/video/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-with-oregon-community-leaders/) - Biodiversity for a Livable Climate partnered with the Post Carbon Institute and local community organizations in Oregon to host this virtual event on Saturday, November 18, 2023. This event was the fifth installation in our series of events on Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels, hosted with local community leaders in regions throughout
- [Regenerating Soil And Water Landscapes with Judith Schwartz](https://bio4climate.org/video/regenerating-soil-and-water-landscapes-with-judith-schwartz/) - Throughout the year 2020, the public has grown increasingly aware of the ways we have inadvertently harmed the biodiversity and ecosystems upon which life depends. The United Nations having declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration presents the opportunity for a global focus on regenerating natural systems.Journalist and author Judith D. Schwartz has travelled widely
- [Regenerating Life Film Premiere Boston Panel](https://bio4climate.org/video/regenerating-life-film-premiere-boston-panel/) - Experience the enlightening panel discussion that followed the Boston Film Premiere of "Regenerating Life," a groundbreaking three-part documentary that delves into the vital role of biodiversity and natural ecosystems in climate regulation. This panel discussion, recorded on October 14th, 2023, at Tufts University, brings together key figures from the film and experts in the field.Moderator:Didi
- [Life After Fossil Fuels - with Richard Heinberg - Cleveland - March 25, 2023](https://bio4climate.org/video/life-after-fossil-fuels-with-richard-heinberg-cleveland-march-25-2023/) - This Keynote presentation was one of several discussions hosted during an event on Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels on Saturday, March 25, 2023 with Cleveland community leaders. This was the fourth in a series of six events hosted virtually and in-person in communities throughout the U.S. and Canada - www.bio4climate.org/roc. The purpose
- [Facing climate reality by restoring nature's abundance](https://bio4climate.org/video/facing-climate-reality-by-restoring-natures-abundance/) - Climate catastrophe is a wakeup call on the limits to growth - to human systems defined by extraction, exploitation, and consumption. But while this type of growth cannot sustain us, ecological connection and regeneration can ground us in resilience and steer us toward abundance.As we participate in ecological restoration, we can lead lives of purpose,
- [Reforestation Solution: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration](https://bio4climate.org/video/reforestation-solution-farmer-managed-natural-regeneration/) - Tony Rinaudo is an Australian agronomist, who is widely known as the “forest maker.” Having lived and worked in African countries for many decades, he has discovered and put in practice a solution to the extreme deforestation and desertification of the Sahel region.Using an elegantly simple set of management practices, farmers can grow new trees
- [The Ecology of Care by Didi Pershouse](https://bio4climate.org/video/didi-pershouse-the-ecology-of-care/) - Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine and has developed a practice and theoretical framework for systems-based ecological medicine—restoring health to people as well as the social and ecological systems around them. In her work she connects the dots between soil health and public health, and the role of beneficial microorganisms
- [Drying Rivers and Drought: What We Can Do in Massachusetts](https://bio4climate.org/video/drying-rivers-and-drought-what-we-can-do-in-massachusetts/) - Drought warnings in Massachusetts are a stark reminder that we are part of a global climate system where warming trends are accelerating. Is there something we can learn from adding a global lens to our local and regional mitigation efforts?Danielle Dolan, Deputy Director of the Mass Rivers Alliance, and Beth Lambert, Director of the Massachusetts
- [Reindeer, Beaver, And Healing Nature With Nature with Judith Schwartz & Ben Goldfarb](https://bio4climate.org/video/judith-schwartz-ben-goldfarb-reindeer-beaver-and-healing-nature-with-nature/) - Our natural systems are under great stress. However, nature’s inclination is toward healing, and we can work with the logic of ecology to restore landscapes and waterways.Biodiversity for a Livable Climate hosts authors Judith D. Schwartz and Ben Goldfarb as they talk about regenerating landscapes—and the pivotal role of animals in earth healing.Judith’s book: “The
- [The Power of Ecosystem Restoration & Why Growing Food Must Be Our Top Priority](https://bio4climate.org/video/the-power-of-ecosystem-restoration-why-growing-food-must-be-our-top-priority/) - These presentations were two of several discussions hosted during an event on Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels on Saturday, March 25, 2023 with Cleveland community leaders. This was the fourth in a series of six events hosted virtually and in-person in communities throughout the U.S. and Canada - www.bio4climate.org/roc.The purpose of the
- [The Remarkable Success Of India's Natural Farming Movement with Vijay Kumar & Didi Pershouse](https://bio4climate.org/video/vijay-kumar-didi-pershouse-the-remarkable-success-of-indias-natural-farming-movement/) - Learn about a movement that grew from over 40,000 farmers in 2016 to almost 800,000 farmers in 2020 in one of the driest states in India. This work has been successful in part because of a community supported approach where women-run self help groups are in charge of operations.Vijay Kumar, advisor to the government of
- [Transforming Cleveland’s Food Infrastructure to Rapidly & Equitably Increase Local Food Production](https://bio4climate.org/video/transforming-clevelands-food-infrastructure-to-rapidly-equitably-increase-local-food-production/) - This panel was one of several discussions and presentations hosted during Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels on Saturday, March 25, 2023 with Cleveland community leaders. This event was the fourth in a series of six events hosted virtually and in-person in communities throughout the U.S. and Canada - www.bio4climate.org/roc.The purpose of the
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels: Cleveland](https://bio4climate.org/video/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-cleveland/) - National and local thought leaders from Cleveland are blazing trails in making Cleveland's communities resilient and equitable. The combination of inspiration and practical skills will give you hope and direction, no matter where you live.Our way of life is not resilient. Every day climate disasters, infrastructure breakdown, and random events have caused suffering. Our food
- [Tom Newmark: Field Trials in Costa Rica and Pennsylvania](https://bio4climate.org/video/tom-newmark-field-trials-in-costa-rica-and-pennsylvania/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Tom Newmark is the founder of Sacred Seeds and Co-Owner of Finca Luna Nueva, an organic farming operation in Costa Rica. He collaborates with the Rodale Institute on carbon sequestration studies, and he will report on the results of
- [Thomas Goreau: The Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming- How Soil Carbon Sequestration Works](https://bio4climate.org/video/thomas-goreau-the-down-to-earth-solution-to-global-warming-how-soil-carbon-sequestration-works/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Biogeochemist, restoration ecologist, climate scientist, and reef restoration expert Tom Goreau is passionate about soils as the primary way to address global warming at this late date, given that reducing emissions alone cannot prevent dangerous climate change unless natural
- [Mark Leighton: Forests- A Pivotal Player](https://bio4climate.org/video/mark-leighton-forests-a-pivotal-player/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/The earth’s forests have been decimated by human overuse and development, leading to cascading effects of biodiversity loss, soil erosion and massive emissions of carbon into the atmosphere. Mark Leighton joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 and has studied
- [Music from Jerry Gregoire](https://bio4climate.org/video/music-from-jerry-gregoire/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Guitarist-songwriter Jerry Gregoire offers a couple of songs.From Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming"Friday November 21st, 2014#music #guitar #singing
- [Thomas Goreau, Seth Itzkan, & Judith Schwartz: Eco-restoration success stories](https://bio4climate.org/video/thomas-goreau-seth-itzkan-judith-schwartz-eco-restoration-success-stories/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/There are eco-restoration successes all over the world, in many different ecosystems. Here are some examples from three of our speakers who have seen it first-hand.From Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming"Friday November
- [Ridge Shinn: A New Program to Restore Northeast Grasslands- 100% Grass-Fed Beef](https://bio4climate.org/video/ridge-shinn-a-new-program-to-restore-northeast-grasslands-100-grass-fed-beef/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Widespread restoration of grasslands depends on economics. Historically beef production has been focused in the Corn Belt and western states. Now Ridge Shinn, a practitioner with experience in all aspects of holistic grazing and marketing, is building the supply
- [Veronika Miranda Chase: Rock Powders- Nourishing Soils, Biodiversity and People](https://bio4climate.org/video/veronika-miranda-chase-rock-powders-nourishing-soils-biodiversity-and-people/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Soil remineralization is playing a crucial and vital role in improving soil fertility. Remineralize the Earth is a nonprofit that promotes the regeneration of soils and forests with finely ground gravel dust, an economically and ecologically sustainable alternative to
- [Seth Itzkan: Soil Carbon and Climate](https://bio4climate.org/video/seth-itzkan-introduction-soil-carbon-and-climate/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Seth Itzkan is a futurist and advocate for climate action and eco-restoration through the holistic management of grasslands restoration. He has spent months in Africa observing Holistic Management and its extraordinary positive effects on desertified semi-arid grasslands. He is
- [Larry Kopald: Bringing the Power of Biology into the Climate Conversation](https://bio4climate.org/video/larry-kopald-bringing-the-power-of-biology-into-the-climate-conversation/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Advertising professional and environmentalist Larry Kopald views the nature of the paradigm shift that global warming forces us to face. He will review the issues that give us the best leverage moving forward, and will address the human social
- [Susan Harden: Biodiversity IS Eco-Restoration IS a Livable Climate](https://bio4climate.org/video/susan-harden-introduction-biodiversity-is-eco-restoration-is-a-livable-climate/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Sue Harden comes to the climate/soils paradigm from a lifelong fascination with biodiversity. As an environmental educator, she spread what Rachel Carson has called “the sense of awe.” As an activist, she works toward solutions to the climate crisis.From
- [Charlotte O'Brien: Biochar- A Powerful Tool for Carbon Farming](https://bio4climate.org/video/charlotte-obrien-biochar-a-powerful-tool-for-carbon-farming/) - Charlotte O’Brien’s company, Carbon DrawDown Solutions, is developing turn-key systems for small- to large-scale biochar production from local materials. CDS plans to kickstart a broad-scale effort for the exponential drawdown of carbon using biochar and sustainable farming techniques. She discusses the many applications of biochar for environmental improvement and its role in reversing global warming.From
- [Dorn Cox: Soil + Silicon- Open Source Tools for Cover Cropping, Grazing and Organic No-Till](https://bio4climate.org/video/dorn-cox-soil-silicon-open-source-tools-for-cover-cropping-grazing-and-organic-no-till/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Dorn Cox is a founding member and board president of Farm Hack, an open source community for resilient agriculture. He is also the executive director of GreenStart and manages his family’s 250-acre organic farm in Lee, NH where he
- [Carbon Farming with Ethan Roland](https://bio4climate.org/video/ethan-roland-carbon-farming/) - Ethan Roland is an international expert on regenerative agriculture and permaculture design. He will introduce us to how carbon farming enhances productivity, increases profitability and combats climate change. Drawing from the best practices from holistic management, keyline design, agroforestry, living soils, biochar, permaculture design and restoration agriculture, carbon farming offers a whole toolkit for agricultural
- [Diana Donlon, John Carroll, Ridge Shinn, & Tom Newmark Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/qa-diana-donlon-john-carroll-ridge-shinn-tom-newmark/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Diana Donlon, Director of the Cool Foods Campaign at the Center for Food SafetyJohn Carroll, Professor of Environmental Conservation, University of New HampshireRidge Shinn, Rancher, Market Innovator and Health AdvocateTom Newmark, Co-Founder and Chair, The Carbon UndergroundFrom Biodiversity for
- [Greg Retallack: The Once and Future Global Cooling- Lessons from Prehistory](https://bio4climate.org/video/greg-retallack-the-once-and-future-global-cooling-lessons-from-prehistory/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Greg Retallack is an award-winning paleobotanist whose research group is dedicated to soils in the fossil record. His studies have considered the role of soils in ape and human evolution in Kenya, grassland evolution in North America, and several
- [Antje Danielson, William Moomaw, & Adam Sacks: Opening A World of Possibilities](https://bio4climate.org/video/antje-danielson-william-moomaw-adam-sacks-opening-a-world-of-possibilities/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Meet the organizers and co-sponsors of the conference, with an overview of what we hope will happen next in the soil carbon and climate saga. Opening speech of the Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse
- [Ethan Roland and Dan Kittredge Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/qa-ethan-roland-and-dan-kittredge/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Ethan Roland, The Carbon Farming CourseDan Kittredge, Bionutrient Food AssociationPresented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming" conference at Tufts University on November 21-23, 2014#carbon #food #farming
- [Gabrielle Bastien: We Are the Future- The Change Climate Change Generation](https://bio4climate.org/video/gabrielle-bastien-we-are-the-future-the-change-climate-change-generation/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Gabrielle Bastien, a master’s student in sustainability and environmental management, has some words for the young people of today, what their challenges are, the new/old promises of genuine stewardship of Planet Earth – and how to fulfill them.From Biodiversity
- [Thomas Goreau, Greg Retallack & Richard Teague Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/qa-thomas-goreau-greg-retallack-richard-teague/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Thomas Goreau, Global Coral Reef AllianceGreg Retallack, University of OregonRichard Teague, Professor of Sustainable Rangeland Management at Texas A&MFrom Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming"Saturday November 22nd, 2014#climate #climatechange #climatesolutions
- [Grazing Down the Carbon: The Scientific Case for Grassland Restoration with Richard Teague](https://bio4climate.org/video/richard-teague-grazing-down-the-carbon-the-scientific-case-for-grassland-restoration/) - Richard Teague addresses how land managers can base decisions for sustainable land use on the principles of ecosystem function. He will describe his studies of adaptive rangeland management, land restoration and carbon storage.Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming" conference at Tufts University on November 21-23, 2014Learn more about
- [Dan Kittredge: Nutrition and Health from the Ground Up](https://bio4climate.org/video/dan-kittredge-nutrition-and-health-from-the-ground-up/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Dan Kittredge, Bionutrient Food AssociationEverything we eat depends on the health of the soil. When essential minerals are missing from the soil, they’re missing from the plants and animals that feed us. Our health suffers and disease can run
- [Steven Apfelbaum: Wetlands- Sinking Carbon and Keeping It Out of the Atmosphere](https://bio4climate.org/video/steven-apfelbaum-wetlands-sinking-carbon-and-keeping-it-out-of-the-atmosphere/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Wetlands are powerful carbon sinks because organic matter under water, with minimal exposure to oxygen, doesn’t release most of its stored carbon to the atmosphere. But wetlands have been broadly eliminated as a result of global development. Steve Apfelbaum
- [Charlotte O'Brien: BioBamboo- An Example of Eco-Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/video/charlotte-obrien-biobamboo-an-example-of-eco-restoration/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Bamboo is a key species that serves ecosystems and humans in many different ways. Charlotte O’Brien is an environmentalist and entrepreneur who has extensive experience with bamboo in Asia. She makes a case for eco-restoration using triple-bottom-line accounting, encompassing
- [Jim Laurie: Nature Does 90% of the Work](https://bio4climate.org/video/jim-laurie-nature-does-90-of-the-work/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Bringing degraded lands back to life may be easier and faster than we generally think. Mostly it has to do with us humans helping by restoring keystone species that we previously destroyed. We already know how to do this:
- [John Carroll: Local Food Revolution](https://bio4climate.org/video/john-carroll-local-food-revolution/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/There are many possibilities for food production and agriculture in New England, leading toward the promise of regional food self-sufficiency. What might we do to get there? John Carroll: Author and Professor in environmental conservationFrom Biodiversity for a Livable
- [Soil Ecosystem Health: From Fungi & Nematodes to Beetles & Earthworms with Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/video/jim-laurie-soil-ecosystem-health-from-fungi-nematodes-to-beetles-earthworms/) - Mycorrhizal fungi are critical conduits moving photosynthetic energy to underground microbial communities. In return these microbes find minerals and water for their plant benefactors. In addtion, nematodes are essential nitrogen 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
- [Biochar: A Powerful Tool for Carbon Farming with Hugh McLaughlin](https://bio4climate.org/video/hugh-mclaughlin-biochar-a-powerful-tool-for-carbon-farming/) - Hugh McLaughlin, an engineer and expert in biochar and activated carbon, discusses the many applications of biochar for environmental improvement and its role in reversing global warming.From Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming"Sunday November 23rd, 2014Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram:
- [William Moomaw: Climate Advocacy- From Grassroots Activism to International Policy](https://bio4climate.org/video/william-moomaw-climate-advocacy-from-grassroots-activism-to-international-policy/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/A physical chemist with a PhD from MIT, William Moomaw works to translate science and technology into policy terms. He was a lead author of four IPCC reports, and an author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He will give
- [Karl Thidemann: Making It Happen – Activism, Practice and Policy](https://bio4climate.org/video/karl-thidemann-introduction-making-it-happen-activism-practice-and-policy/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Trained as a chemist, for ten years Karl Thidemann was the Marketing Director for Solectria, an MIT spinoff that became one of the leading early developers of electric cars in the 1990s. He is closely aligned with the climate
- [Community Development in Zimbabwe via Eco-restoration ft. Precious Phiri](https://bio4climate.org/video/precious-phiri-community-development-in-zimbabwe-via-eco-restoration/) - Precious Phiri directs engagement and training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. This cost-effective, nature-based and highly scalable solution helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, restore food and water security, and reduce drought and flood risks. Precious
- [Protecting and Restoring Water Resources on Tribal Lands in South Dakota](https://bio4climate.org/video/candace-ducheneaux-protecting-and-restoring-water-resources-on-tribal-lands-in-south-dakota/) - Grandmother and long-time activist Candace Duchenaux is dedicated to preserving the Lakota way of life and the environmental integrity of our sacred mother earth. She has been at the frontlines in many battles for justice for the Lakota Oyate and against the destructive human forces threatening humanity and nature. She will tell us of the
- [Larry Kopald, Vanessa Rule, Antje Danielson, Eli Gerzon, Gary Rucinski: Messages from the 2nd Front](https://bio4climate.org/video/l-kopald-v-rule-a-danielson-e-gerzon-g-rucinski-messages-from-the-second-front/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Messages from the Second Front: Bringing the Power of Biology into the Climate ConversationLarry Kopald, ModeratorVanessa Rule, Co-Director and Lead Organizer for Mothers Out Front, as well as with other local and state climate action groupsAntje Danielson, Director, Tufts
- [Adam Sacks & Seth Itzkan: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming" Conference Closing](https://bio4climate.org/video/adam-sacks-seth-itzkan-conference-closing/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateSeth Itzkan: Futurist and founder of Planet-TECH AssociatesFrom Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference: "Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming"Sunday November 23rd, 2014#climate #globalwarming #ecosystemrestoration
- [Diana Donlon: Food and Farming](https://bio4climate.org/video/diana-donlon-introduction-food-and-farming/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/There are critical connections between everyday food choices and climate change. Cool Foods emphasizes the key steps of retiring industrial agriculture and turning to practices which pull carbon and water back into the soils, thereby bringing economic vitality and
- [Adam Sacks: Global Warming- The Good, the Bad, and the Very, Very Scary](https://bio4climate.org/video/adam-sacks-global-warming-the-good-the-bad-and-the-very-very-scary/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/The climate news gets worse every year. Adam suggests how we may broaden the familiar narrative and transform it into one of biodiversity, planetary regeneration and abundance.Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateFrom Biodiversity for a Livable
- [Jono Neiger: The Carbon Farming Panorama](https://bio4climate.org/video/jono-neiger-the-carbon-farming-panorama/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/There are many flavors of land management to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in soils where it belongs, often for centuries or millennia. Jono Neiger offers us an overview of several approaches that may be applied
- [Bruce Fulford: Building Soil for a New World](https://bio4climate.org/video/bruce-fulford-building-soil-for-a-new-world/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Returning carbon to the soil is the foundation of restoring ecosystems. For thirty years Bruce Fulford has been building soils. He will tell us how he does it, and the remarkable results that he’s seen from reclamation and remediation
- [Adam Sacks, Jono Neiger, Bruce Fulford: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity and Planet Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/qa-panel-1-reversing-global-warming-carbon-farming-for-food-health-prosperity-and-planet/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateJono Neiger, Ecological Designer, Regenerative Design GroupBruce Fulford, Principal, City SoilFrom Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference "Reversing Global Warming: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity and Planet" at Bristol Community
- [Gillian Davies: An Ecosystems Approach to Wetlands and Climate](https://bio4climate.org/video/gillian-davies-an-ecosystems-approach-to-wetlands-and-climate/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Wetlands have the capacity to store enormous amounts of carbon because soils under water have minimal exposure to air. Gillian Davies will discuss how to integrate climate change thinking into managing wetlands, with multiple benefits for local resiliency such
- [Jim Laurie: Local Keystone Species and Carbon Farming](https://bio4climate.org/video/jim-laurie-local-keystone-species-and-carbon-farming/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Biodiversity is the foundation of healthy, resilient ecosystems. We humans have the ability 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
- [Gillian Davies & Jim Laurie Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/qa-panel-2-reversing-global-warming-carbon-farming-for-food-health-prosperity-and-planet/) - 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 GroupJim Laurie, Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateFrom Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference "Reversing Global Warming: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity and Planet" at Bristol Community College in Massachusetts.Friday February
- [Sam Sutter: New Paths in Climate Activism at the Local Level](https://bio4climate.org/video/sam-sutter-new-paths-in-climate-activism-at-the-local-level/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/As Bristol County District Attorney, Sam Sutter took a courageous step in his public acknowledgement of the dangers of global warming in the Lobster Boat Blockade case last fall. How did he make the transition to an icon of
- [Engin Atasay, Jim Corven, Rachael Furlong, Zoe Hansen-DiBello: Educating the New Climate Paradigm](https://bio4climate.org/video/panel-educating-for-the-new-climate-paradigm/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/In this era of global warming and extreme weather events we face the uncommonly difficult task of preparing our children for the future. How do we explain to them what is happening, and how we got here? How do
- [Paul Schmid, Maggie Payne, William McCaffrey: Local Carbon Farming](https://bio4climate.org/video/panel-local-carbon-farming/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/How do we continue to farm productively and profitably without having to change everything we do? This panel will focus on several key practical elements that significantly increase the restorative powers of farming for biodiversity and carbon sequestration, along
- [Bruce Fulford, Mark Smith, Liz Wiley, Emily Jodka: Urban Agriculture in a Thriving Bioregion](https://bio4climate.org/video/panel-urban-agriculture-in-a-thriving-bioregion/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Some of the benefits of urban agriculture are well known: increased access to healthy fresh food, reduced “food miles,” and building robust local communities. Looking through the carbon farming lens we also see more benefits: biodiverse landscapes, building carbon-rich
- [David Lefcourt: City Trees](https://bio4climate.org/video/david-lefcourt-city-trees-urban-and-suburban-carbon-farming-to-reverse-global-warming/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring David Lefcourt, Arborist, City of Cambridge.David will discuss how a municipality, with active citizens and volunteers, can get the greatest benefit from its trees for climate and biodiversity.Presented at the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global
- [David Morimoto: A Walk in the Urban Woods](https://bio4climate.org/video/david-morimoto-a-walk-in-the-urban-woods/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring David Morimoto, Biologist, Lesley University. The extraordinary wild spaces that still remain in our cities benefit our spiritual and mental health, not to mention the quality of the air and water. David Morimoto shares slides of the nature
- [Eric Olson: Biodiversity in the City](https://bio4climate.org/video/eric-olson-biodiversity-in-the-city/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Eric Olson, Brandeis University. Biodiversity contributes significantly to our resilience and quality of life. Eric Olson addresses the presence of countless non-native species of plants and animals in our cities, how we can take steps to re-establish healthy
- [Nathan Phillips: The Ecology of the City](https://bio4climate.org/video/nathan-phillips-the-ecology-of-the-city/) - 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 our modern urban ecology, shaped and profoundly altered by human actions. Our relationship with our urban ecosystem can be improved if we recognize the threats that we bring through development and technology and the ways to
- [Nathan Philips, Eric Olson, David Morimoto, David Lefcourt Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/morning-qa-session-part-1/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Nathan Phillips, Earth and Environment Department, Boston UniversityEric Olson, Brandeis UniversityDavid Morimoto, Biologist, Lesley UniversityDavid Lefcourt, Arborist, City of CambridgePresented at the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming Conference, organized by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate,
- [Thomas Akin - Cover Crops](https://bio4climate.org/video/thomas-akin-cover-crops/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Thomas Akin, State Resource Conservationist, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Cover cropping is a soil health-building practice gaining currency in cropland agriculture but also well suited to improving urban soils. Soil-incorporated cover crops provide large volumes of soluble
- [Eric 'T' Fleischer - Compost Tea Time](https://bio4climate.org/video/eric-t-fleischer-compost-tea-time/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Eric ‘T’ Fleischer, Consultant, Harvard Landscape Services. There are many challenges in improving urban soils. Eric Fleischer reviews these challenges and focuses on Harvard’s successful soil-enhancement project using compost tea applications.Presented at the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming
- [Charlotte O' Brien - Biochar Basics](https://bio4climate.org/video/charlotte-o-brien-biochar-basics/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Charlotte O’Brien, Biochar EntrepreneurBiochar is soil amendment made from biomass that leads to fertility and improved plant health and growth. It was developed by indigenous people in the Amazon hundreds of years ago and has excited broad interest worldwide
- [Allison Houghton - Permaculture Gardens](https://bio4climate.org/video/allison-houghton-permaculture-gardens/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Allison Houghton, Permaculture and Gardening Teacher. Permaculture methods for ecological design are especially useful for bringing productivity and biodiversity to urban settings. Allison Houghton shares some methods for planning and growing successful garden spaces.Presented at the Urban and
- [Thomas Akin, Eric T. Fleisher, Charlotte O'Brien, Allison Houghton Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/morning-qa-session-part-2/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Thomas Akin, State Resource Conservationist, USDA Natural Resources Conservation ServiceEric ‘T’ Fleischer, Consultant, Harvard Landscape ServicesCharlotte O’Brien, Biochar EntrepreneurAllison Houghton, Permaculture and Gardening TeacherPart of the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming Conference, organized by Biodiversity
- [Phil Colarusso - Blue Carbon: The Shore Less Traveled](https://bio4climate.org/video/phil-colarusso-blue-carbon-the-shore-less-traveled/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Phil Colarusso, Boston Office of the EPA. Wetlands and coastal waters are exceptionally effective at storing carbon as well as performing many other ecosystem functions. Phil Colarusso tells us how cities and the global climate benefit from offshore
- [Luisa Oliveira - Enabling and Protecting Urban Agriculture](https://bio4climate.org/video/luisa-oliveira-enabling-and-protecting-urban-agriculture/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Luisa Oliveira, Landscape architect, City of Somerville. Luisa Oliveira led the team that developed an urban agriculture ordinance for Somerville, the first in New England. She speaks on the traditions, benefits and value of growing urban food, and
- [Jonathan Bates - From Bare Ground to Urban Paradise on One-Tenth of an Acre](https://bio4climate.org/video/jonathan-bates-from-bare-ground-to-urban-paradise-on-one-tenth-of-an-acre/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Jonathan Bates, Permaculturist, Co-Author of Paradise Lot. A neglected Holyoke house lot is re-born as a thriving edible forest garden with a wide variety of edible plants and trees. Jonathan Bates offers an overview of how he and
- [Bruce Fulford - Compost for a City](https://bio4climate.org/video/bruce-fulford-compost-for-a-city/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Bruce Fulford, Owner, City Soil. The linkages between urban farms, conservation foundations, and municipalities can all reinforce the power of urban agriculture. Bruce Fulford describes creating agricultural land in an urban setting.Presented at the Urban and Suburban Carbon
- [Joy Gary - Urban Farming for a Shelter and a CSA](https://bio4climate.org/video/joy-gary-urban-farming-for-a-shelter-and-a-csa/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Revision Urban Farm is an innovative community-based urban agriculture project that grows produce in its own fields and provides access to affordable, nutritious and culturally appropriate food to residents of the ReVision Family Home and its extended community.Presented at
- [Phil Colarusso, Jonathan Bates, Luisa Oliveira, Joy Gary, Bruce Fulford Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/afternoon-qa-session/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Phil Colarusso, Boston Office of the EPAJonathan Bates, Permaculturist, Co-Author of Paradise LotLuisa Oliveira, Landscape architect, City of SomervilleJoy Gary, Urban Farm Grower, Revision Urban Farm, Dorchester, MassachusettsBruce Fulford, Owner, City SoilPart of the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming
- [Jennifer Lawrence, Duke Bitsko, Lenni Armstrong, Ellen Mass: Eco-Restoration as Climate Activism](https://bio4climate.org/video/panel-local-eco-restoration-as-climate-activism/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Jennifer Lawrence, Sustainability Planner for the City of Cambridge, speaks on the City’s ongoing Vulnerability Assessment on climate change, and some possible measures the City can take to improve its climate resilience.Duke Bitsko, landscape architect with Chester Engineers, describes
- [Mel King - From the Past, Into the Future](https://bio4climate.org/video/mel-king-from-the-past-into-the-future/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Featuring Mel King, Community Activist, State Legislator, Affordable Housing Advocate, MIT FacultyAs a State Legislator, Mel King was a leader in the effort to preserve agricultural land in Massachusetts. He founded the South End Technology Center and led the
- [Quinton Zondervan & Lucy Alexander: Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming](https://bio4climate.org/video/opening-remarks-urban-and-suburban-carbon-farming-to-reverse-global-warming-conference/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/A welcome from Quinton Zondervan, President of Green Cambridge, and Lucy Alexander, Policy Coordinator for the Climate Action Business Association (CABA), on behalf of their organizations which sponsored our conference.Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Urban and Suburban
- [Jim Laurie: Microbes 'R' Us](https://bio4climate.org/video/microbes-r-us-meet-up-june-14-2015/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Our restoration ecologist Jim Laurie shares some of the revolutionary ideas developed by Lynn Margulis on the deep relationship among microbes, and all life including humans. Join us as we explore the importance of microbial activity to restoring ecosystems
- [John D. Liu "Green Gold" Clip: Ethiopia Tree Planting](https://bio4climate.org/video/john-liu-green-gold-clip-1-ethiopia-tree-planting/) - An example of ecological restoration in Ethiopia, excerpted from John D. Liu's documentary "Green Gold".Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/#regeneration #naturalresources #naturedocumentary
- [Adam Sacks: Welcome to a Water Story Untold](https://bio4climate.org/video/adam-sacks-welcome-to-a-water-story-untold-october-16th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Executive Director Adam Sacks welcomes conference attendees and speaks about the importance of water.Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming" conference October 16th-18th, 2015 at Tufts University.#waterconservation #watersecurity #cleanwater
- [Michal Kravcik: The New Water Reality (with captions)](https://bio4climate.org/video/michal-kravcik-the-new-water-reality-october-16th-with-captions/) - Innovative Slovakian hydrologist Michal Kravčík gives an introduction to his New Water Paradigm and the critical importance of regional or “small” rainwater cycles. The result is a set of empowering ecological concepts that enable people everywhere to secure clean and adequate water, prevent floods and drought and moderate local climate, simply by harvesting rainfall. Since
- [Michal Kravick: The New Water Paradigm (with captions)](https://bio4climate.org/video/michal-kravick-the-new-water-paradigm-october-17th-with-captions/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/To activate closed captioning, click the "CC" icon at the bottom right of the video screen. Michal Kravčík guides us through the concepts of the New Water Paradigm in greater detail, showing how water cycles can be supported to
- [Judith Schwartz: Water and Climate- An Overview](https://bio4climate.org/video/judy-schwartz-water-and-climate-an-overview-october-16th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Journalist Judith Schwartz, author of the groundbreaking book, Cows Save the Planet, gives the perspective of a concerned citizen seeking to understand how water fits into the complex workings of climate change.Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Restoring
- [The Natural History of Water on Earth with Walter Jehne](https://bio4climate.org/video/walter-jehne-the-natural-history-of-water-on-earth-october-17th/) - 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 ages to the present, and how the human presence has brought earth’s systems into a crisis in which water is also the potential vehicle for
- [Steve Apfelbaum: Emulating Nature](https://bio4climate.org/video/steve-apfelbaum-emulating-nature-october-16th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Steve Apfelbaum explains how restoring biodiverse landscapes can be the most effective way to manage stormwater, as demonstrated in projects such as Seneca Meadows in New York state.Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse
- [Maude Barlow: Civilization & Water- Scarcity, Abundance, and the Road Less Traveled](https://bio4climate.org/video/maude-barlow-civilization-water-scarcity-abundance-the-road-less-traveled-october-16th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Maude Barlow, longtime Canadian global activist for water rights, will describe the current crisis of global communities whose access to clean water is threatened by ecological damage and corporate exploitation.Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Restoring Water Cycles
- [Foster Brown: Maintaining Forest Cover and Biodiversity in Amazonia](https://bio4climate.org/video/foster-brown-maintaining-forest-cover-and-biodiversity-in-amazonia-october-18th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Foster Brown is a senior scientist for Woods Hole Research Institute, based in the State of Acre in the western Amazon. He explains the challenges of protecting Amazonia especially from fire, and of mobilizing local populations for ecological awareness.Presented
- [Scott Horsley: From Gray to Green Infrastructure](https://bio4climate.org/video/scott-horsley-from-gray-to-green-infrastructure-october-16th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Hydrologist Scott Horsley discusses green infrastructure as the new tool of water harvesting in urban areas and other settled landscapes.Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming" conference at Tufts University, October 16th-18th,
- [Jim Laurie: Closing the Nutrient Loop](https://bio4climate.org/video/jim-laurie-closing-the-nutrient-loop-october-16th/) - 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 toxic and polluted effluent around – both sewage and industrial waste – into clean, clear water.Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Restoring Water Cycles to
- [Emaline Conkey & Brianna Klauer: New Climate Leaders](https://bio4climate.org/video/emaline-conkey-brianna-klauer-new-climate-leaders-october-17th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Emaline Conkey, Senior, Mascoma Valley Regional High School in New Hampshire, and Brianna Klauer, Sophomore, Hartford High School in Vermont, are two student leaders in the “Climate, Water, Soil and Hope” program developed by Didi Pershouse of the Soil
- [Precious Phiri: Community Grazing for Community Abundance](https://bio4climate.org/video/precious-phiri-community-grazing-for-community-abundance-october-17th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Precious Phiri of Zimbabwe discusses the managed grazing of ruminants from the perspective of how it opens soils for water – and raises water tables and brings back surface water for crops, domestic animals and wildlife, along with a
- [Jan Lambert: Retain the Rain, No More Down the Drain!](https://bio4climate.org/video/jan-lambert-retain-the-rain-no-more-down-the-drain-october-17th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Jan Lambert introduces, by way of photos and illustrations, the richly varied ways in which rainwater is now being successfully restored into landscapes. From holistic green pastures in America to green roofs in Scotland, from using beaver dams as
- [Jim Laurie & His Homeschool AP Biology Students: Nature Wants to Be Wet](https://bio4climate.org/video/jim-laurie-his-homeschool-ap-biology-students-nature-wants-to-be-wet-october-17th/) - 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, describing numerous keystone species - from microbes and worms to beavers, burrowing animals and ruminants – which increase water infiltration and retention in landscapes. By partnering
- [Walter Jehne, Thomas Goreau, Jan Lambert, Michal Kravcik: Water and Climate Policy Panel](https://bio4climate.org/video/policy-panel-building-water-cycles-into-the-international-climate-debate-october-18th/) - 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 DebateWalter Jehne, Tom Goreau and Jan Lambert with Michal Kravčík each speak on the opportunities for broadening the debate over climate as we approach COP21 in Paris. How do we
- [Maude Barlow, Rajendra Singh, Precious Phiri: Activist Panel- Empowering Water Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/video/activist-panel-empowering-water-restoration-october-18th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Moderated by Adam Sacks, our three panelists speak of success in mobilizing people to work for water restoration in widely varied settings.Maude Barlow speaks on how water supply and water rights are at the heart of many conflict and
- [River Regeneration in Rajasthan with Rajendra Singh](https://bio4climate.org/video/rajendra-singh-river-regeneration-in-rajasthan-october-17th/) - Rajendra Singh, the “Waterman of India”, winner of the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize, has led a decades-long successful campaign to reclaim degraded and mine-scarred landscapes using the traditional water harvesting methods such as the johad earthen dam. Local people have mobilized around these methods to restore water abundance in the driest state of India.To activate
- [The Tijuca Story: Reforestation and the Biotic Pump with Thomas Goreau](https://bio4climate.org/video/tom-goreau-the-tijuca-story-reforestation-and-the-biotic-pump-october-17th/) - Thomas Goreau tells of the successful reforestation centuries ago of the mountains surrounding Rio de Janeiro, and will describe the workings of the “biotic pump” by which forest transpiration supports healthy precipitation across wide areas.Presented at the Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming conference October 16th-18th, 2015 at Tufts University.Learn more about Biodiversity for
- [Glenn Gall and Allison Houghton: Permaculture, Perma-Water](https://bio4climate.org/video/glenn-gall-allison-houghton-permaculture-perma-water-october-17th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Glenn Gall takes us through the groundbreaking work done by many permaculture practitioners, and the central part which water plays in permaculture design. Discussion includes methods such as keyline, subsoiling and grazing, where water has become the focus of
- [Foster Brown: Telling the Water Story to the People](https://bio4climate.org/video/foster-brown-telling-the-water-story-to-the-people-october-17th/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Foster Brown, Amazonian ecologist, gives an introduction to the interactive methods he uses to teach forest ecology in the Peruvian communities he works with. Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's "Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming" conference
- [Miracle in the Nevada Desert with Carol Evans & Jon Griggs](https://bio4climate.org/video/carol-evans-jon-griggs-miracle-in-the-nevada-desert/) - Carol Evans, Nevada Bureau of Land Management fisheries biologist whose work has been featured in the film The Beaver Whisperers, highlighting her deep involvement in monitoring the impact that planned grazing and returning beaver have had on restoring watersheds.Jon Griggs, ranch manager for Maggie Creek Ranch, a beef-cattle operation running on both public and private
- [Adam Sacks: How Ecosystem Restoration Can End Global Warming](https://bio4climate.org/video/dc-chapter-initial-public-presentation-part-i/) - 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. Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, presents to the Washington, DC Chapter of Bio4Climate on March 7, 2015.#naturebasedsolutions #ecology #mitigateclimatechange
- [Jim Laurie: How Eco-Restoration Can End Global Warming](https://bio4climate.org/video/dc-chapter-initial-public-presentation-part-2/) - 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 Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, presents to the Washington, DC Chapter of Bio4Climate on March 7, 2015.#regeneration #biology #ecologist
- [What Is Biodiversity Worth in our High-Tech World? with Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/video/1-introduction-adam-sacks-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, an environmental nonprofit spreading awareness for the powerful potential of ecosystem restoration.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Introduction to The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on
- [Diversity of Life: The Oceans and the Gulf of Maine with Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/video/2-restoring-the-gulf-of-maine-by-the-home-school-symbiosis-team/) - Jim Laurie, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, introduces the home-school Symbiosis Team:Annie Selle, Hayden Latimer-Ireland, Jamila dePeiza-Kern, Lynus EricksonLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#oceans
- [Seagrass Ecology and Conservation with Alyssa Novak](https://bio4climate.org/video/3-alyssa-novak-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - An introduction to seagrasses, their role in coastal environments, threats to their survival, and efforts to monitor and restore these vital ecosystems.Alyssa Novak, Boston UniversityLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at
- [Biomimicry, Biodiversity and Restoring Urban Coastal Habitat with Peter Lawrence](https://bio4climate.org/video/4-peter-lawrence-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Biomimicry is sustainable innovation inspired by nature. Restoration of habitats and ecosystems can not only mitigate the effects of climate change, but also preserve the largely untapped library of solutions and opportunities to change the harmful way we make and do things. The Green Harbors Project and Biomimicry Living Labs are working with local communities
- [Restoring Bodies of Water with Peter Lawrence, Alyssa Novak, and Annie, Hayden and Lynus](https://bio4climate.org/video/5-qa-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Peter Lawrence: President and Co-founder of Biomimicry New England and a Biomimicry SpecialistAlyssa Novak: Coastal ecologist Homeschoolers are students of Jim Laurie's, Staff Scientist at Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land,
- [Atlantic Salmon, An Umbrella Species with Dwayne Shaw](https://bio4climate.org/video/6-dwayne-shaw-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Dwayne Shaw, Downeast Salmon FederationLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#salmon #keystonespecies #fish
- [Remarkable History of a Watershed and Green Infrastructure to Restore It with Elisabeth Cianciola](https://bio4climate.org/video/7-elisabeth-cianciola-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Elisabeth Cianciola, Charles River Watershed AssociationLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#history #greendevelopment #greeninfrastructure
- [Bringing Biodiverse Habitats Back to Life- State Government as Partner with Beth Lambert](https://bio4climate.org/video/8-beth-lambert-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Beth Lambert, Division of Ecological Restoration (DER), Mass. Dept. of Fish and GameLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#biodiverse #habitats #government
- [Eco Restoration: Humans as Partners with Dwayne Shaw, Elisabeth Cianciola & Beth Lambert](https://bio4climate.org/video/9-qa-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Dwayne Shaw is Executive Director of the Downeast Salmon FederationElisabeth Cianciola: Aquatic Scientist at the Charles River Watershed AssociationBeth Lambert is the Aquatic Habitat Restoration Program Manager at Division of Ecological Restoration (DER), MA Dept. of Fish and GameLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The
- [How Biodiversity Wriggled and Crawled Out of the Ocean and Conquered the Land with Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/video/10-jim-laurie-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Jim Laurie, Staff Scientist at Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#biodiversity #evolution #science
- [The Tradition and Potential of New England Grassland Agriculture with John Carroll](https://bio4climate.org/video/12-john-carroll-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - John Carroll, University of New HampshireLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#grasslands #agriculture #newengland
- [The Manahatta Project with Eric Sanderson](https://bio4climate.org/video/17-eric-sanderson-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Eric Sanderson, The Wildlife Conservation SocietyLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#wildlife #conservation #biodiversity
- [Bringing Biodiversity to Our Own Backyards with Sharon McGregor](https://bio4climate.org/video/16-sharon-mcgregor-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Sharon McGregor, Restoration Ecologist and environmental advocateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#biodiversity #backyards #restoration
- [Keeping Alive the Magic of a Guatemalan Cloud Forest with Philip Tanimoto](https://bio4climate.org/video/11-philip-tanimoto-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Philip Tanimoto, The Cloud Forest Conservation InitiativeLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#guatemala #centralamerica #forest
- [The Importance of Healthy Soil wth Ridge Shinn, Didi Pershouse, John Carroll & Philip Tanimoto](https://bio4climate.org/video/15-qa-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Ridge Shinn: Founder and CEO of Big Picture BeefDidi Pershouse: Helps connect the dots between soil health and human health & authorJohn E. Carroll is professor of environmental conservation in the Department of Natural ResourcesPhilip Tanimoto is the Executive Director of the The Cloud Forest Conservation InitiativeLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/
- [Water, Soil, Health and Climate- Connecting the Dots with Didi Pershouse](https://bio4climate.org/video/13-didi-pershouse-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Didi Pershouse, The Center for Sustainable MedicineLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30, 2016#water #soil #health
- [Regenerative Grazing: Soil, Health, Climate and the Rural Economy with Ridge Shinn](https://bio4climate.org/video/14-ridge-shinn-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Ridge Shinn founded Big Picture Beef, an organization that demonstrates the benefits of grass-fed beef for people and the planet.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate conference at Harvard University on April 30,
- [Biodiversity is Us with Sharon McGregor and Eric Sanderson](https://bio4climate.org/video/18-qa-1-power-and-promise-of-biodiversity-harvard-2016/) - Sharon McGregor is a biologist, environmental policy administrator, educator, and consultant, most recently serving as Assistant Secretary for the Environment (Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Protection) for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (MA EOEEA)Eric W. Sanderson is a landscape ecologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, director of the Manahatta Project
- [Declaring Democracy in Barnstead, NH - Community Vote on Water Sovereignty](https://bio4climate.org/video/declaring-democracy-in-barnstead-nh-community-vote-on-water-sovereignty-march-18-2006/) - A documentary of the town meeting vote in Barnstead, NH on a local ordinance to prevent corporate takeover of the community's groundwater taken on March 18, 2006.Dedicated to the memory of Gail Darrell.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/#groundwater #democratic #takeaction
- [From Sea to Land to Sea - What It Means to Live and Evolve in One, the Other or Both](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-mark-mcmenamin/) - Mark McMenamin is a pioneering professor of geology and paleontology at Mt. Holyoke CollegeLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard University on November 18-20, 2016#sea #evolution #geology
- [The Oceans, Global Warming, and the Carbon Cycle with Thomas Goreau](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-tom-goreau/) - Thomas Goreau, Global Coral Reef Alliance, discusses the detrimental impacts of global warming on the oceans and how these can be minimized through restoration of the carbon cycle.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood
- [Invertebrates of the Sea with George Buckley](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-george-buckley/) - George Buckley is Assistant Director of Sustainability at Harvard Extension School, with decades of experience swimming with many creatures of the oceans discusses the complexity of different species and their ecological importance.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice,
- [The Ocean Restorer- From Dead Zones to Zones Alive! with John Todd](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-john-todd/) - John Todd, Pioneer in Biological Water Purification and author of Healing Earth, discusses how we could restore oceanic dead zones to bring back biodiversity and, ultimately, revive bodies of water.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food &
- [Deep Ocean Life with Peter Girguis](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-peter-girguis/) - Peter Girguis, Harvard University explores the unique and fascinating traits of species who live in teh deep ocean.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard University on November 18-20, 2016#ocean
- [River Herring Restoration: A Keystone in Ecological Recovery with Dwayne Shaw](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-dwayne-shaw/) - Dwayne Shaw, Downeast Salmon Federation, describes the domino effect of restoring one species of fish and his work with reviving rivers.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard University on
- [Acid Waters with Mick Devin](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-3-mick-devin/) - Mick Devin, Marine Researcher and Maine State Legislator, demonstrates research regarding polluted bodies of water and how treatments involving marine life can restore the ocean's health.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought
- [Joe Roman: Save Tomorrow](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-joe-roman-2/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Joe Roman, Gund Institute, University of VermontPresented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard University on November 18-20, 2016#ecosystemrestoration #nature #climate
- [Forage Fish and Trophic Cascades with Katharine Deuel](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-katharine-deuel/) - Katharine Deuel, Pew Charitable Trust, discusses fisheries management and how it can be beneficial for conserving and protecting fish in New England and beyond.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at
- [The Oceans and the Biosphere](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-qa-hst-george-buckle-mark-mcmenamin/) - 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 ClimateGeorge Buckley: Assistant Director of Sustainability at Harvard Extension SchoolMark McMenamin: Professor of Geology at Mt. Holyoke College in South HadleyLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate:
- [Ocean Permaculture with Brian von Herzen](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-3-brian-von-herzen/) - Brian von Herzen, The Climate Foundation, restores oceans by restoring the bottom of the food chain: plankton. Kelp farms promotes the production of plankton and, therefore, the basis of marine ecosystems. Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice,
- [Land Use and its Effects on the Ocean](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-qa-john-todd-peter-girguis-tom-goreau/) - During a Q&A with speakers, discussion focuses on the connections between what climate science accounts for and how that relates to the way we manage land, especially lawns that require fertilizers and pesticides.Peter Girguis, Harvard UniversityJohn Todd, Todd EcologicsTom Goreau, Global Coral Reef AllianceLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook:
- [Amazing Mangroves and the Global Climate with Alfredo Quarto](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-3-alfredo-quarto/) - Mangroves used to be thought of as “useless, mosquito infested swamps” without value. Now mangroves are seen as essential in combating climate change and consequent sea level rise. Mangroves are being lauded as vital nurseries for marine life, important habitat for millions of migratory birds, and essential buffers against erosion, storm waves and hurricanes.Alfredo Quarto
- [Let’s Make Surface Area to End the Drought and Cool the Climate with Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-3-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 ClimatePresented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard University on November 18-20, 2016#drought #cooltheplanet #climatesolutions
- [Rivers and Eco Machines with John Todd](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-john-todd-afternoon/) - John Todd, Todd Ecologics and author of Healing Earth, mimics nature to purify water and improve the health of both people and the planet. Through nature-based designs, John Todd demonstrates the powerful potential of nature to recuperate and restore.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring
- [Ocean Genome Legacy with Dan Distel](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-3-dan-distel/) - Dan Distel, Director, Ocean Genome Legacy, Northeastern University, explains how genetics are important for ocean health and how restoring the genome helps restore the resilience of marine life.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood
- [Microbes of the Depths with Peter Girguis](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-peter-girguis-afternoon/) - Peter Girguis, Harvard University, describes the microscopic world inhabiting the ocean's depths.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard University on November 18-20, 2016#microbes #deepocean #creatures
- [Cooperative Restoration to Prevent Disasters](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-3-qa/) - 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 Scientist at Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateThomas Goreau: Award-winning marine, soils and climate scientist & President of the Global Coral Reef AllianceMick Devin: Two-term state representative
- [Heat and its Role in the Oceans](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-qa-john-todd-peter-girguis/) - John Todd: Founder and president of John Todd Ecological DesignPeter Girguis: Leader in the research of deep oceans, with several scientific dives on the iconic deep-sea submersible, AlvinLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood
- [Young Climate Heroes Get to Work with Mari McBride and Alice Vandebrook](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2/) - Mari McBride and Alice Vandebrook co-created Save Tomorrow to help save the planet when they were in third grade. They lobbied their city council to pass a legislation to allow solar panels and protect the local forest.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring
- [Biomimicry, Biodiversity and Restoring Urban Coastal Habitat with Anamarija Frankic](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-anamarija-frankic-1/) - Anamarija Frankic: Green Harbors Project, U Mass Boston, University of Zadar (Croatia), Biomimicry New England explains how we can help nature heal coastlines and, as a result, improve the well-being of human and non-human species.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing
- [The History of the Earth's Oceans](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-homeschool-symbiosis-team/) - 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 Latimer-Ireland, and Lynus Erickson.Where did the oceans come from, and what can their future be? Learning the history of the oceans gives us a deeper
- [The Glory of Cashes Ledge and the First New England Marine Monument](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-1-sarah-and-sarah/) - Healthy ecosystems need biodiversity. Sarah Valencik and Sarah Zeiberg, environmental studies and theatre double major, discuss the importance of New England's marine monument.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard
- [Secret Seas – A Story of Ocean Wonder Hidden beneath the Surface with Randi Rotjan](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-1-randi-rotjan/) - Randi Rotjan, Boston University, New England Aquarium discusses the importance of the ocean and the lives of various species inhabiting it. Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Flood & Drought conference at Harvard University
- [Protecting the Oceans to Protect Ourselves](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-1-qa/) - Presenters answer questions regarding the oceans and our connection to them. Randi Rotjan: Researcher at the New England Aquarium and professor in Boston University’s Marine ProgramJudith Schwartz: Freelance writer and authorSarah Zeiberg: Environmental Studies and Theatre double majorLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans,
- [An End to Floods, Droughts and Other Aqueous Misdirections with Judith Schwartz](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-1-judy-schwartz/) - Judith D. Schwartz, Author of Water in Plain Sight, Cows Save the Planet, and The Reindeer Chronicles, discusses solutions to today's increasingly severe disasters. She emphasizes the connections between land management and its effects on bodies of water, including oceans.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at
- [Whales as Keystone Species – Cycling Nutrients, Carbon and Heat with Joe Roman](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-2-joe-roman/) - Joe Roman, Gund Institute, University of Vermont, explains how whales contribute to the planet's natural cycles and how the role they play as keystone species makes them important in the Earth's ecosystem balance.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire &
- [Courtney White: Two Percent Solutions for the Planet](https://bio4climate.org/video/01-courtney-white-2-percent-solutions/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Courtney White, Author, Regenerative Land Management ActivistPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#planet #climatesolutions #regeneration
- [Eric T Fleisher: Understanding Compaction](https://bio4climate.org/video/02-eric-t-fleisher/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Eric T. Fleisher, Landscape DesignerPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#landscapedesign #landscapes #designer
- [Bryan O'Hara: Digging Deep into Soil Practices](https://bio4climate.org/video/03-bryan-ohara/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Bryan O’Hara, FarmerPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#soils #farming #farmer
- [Jim Laurie: Building Biodiversity](https://bio4climate.org/video/04-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, Restoration EcologistPresented at Carbon Heroes Landscaping conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#biodiversity #restoration #ecologist
- [Panel with: Courtney White, Eric T. Fleisher, Bryan O’Hara & Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/video/05-morning-panel/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Courtney White, Author, Regenerative Land Management ActivistEric T. Fleisher, Landscape DesignerBryan O’Hara, FarmerJim Laurie, Restoration EcologistPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#regeneration #farming #ecologist
- [Paul Wagner: Understanding Soil Biology- The Trophic Levels](https://bio4climate.org/video/06-paul-wagner/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Paul Wagner, Certified ArboristPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversityconference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#biology #soils #trophic
- [Bruce Fulford: The Importance of Compost](https://bio4climate.org/video/07-bruce-fulford/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Bruce Fulford, Owner, City Soil and Greenhouse, BostonPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversityconference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#compost #composting #soil
- [Hugh McLaughlin: Biochar’s Role in the Landscape](https://bio4climate.org/video/08-hugh-mclaughlin/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Hugh McLaughlin, Ph.D., Biochar Engineer, CTO NextChar, Inc.Presented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversityconference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#biochar #landscapes #engineering
- [Chip Osborne: Turf – Ecological Options](https://bio4climate.org/video/09-chip-osborne/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Chip Osborne, HorticulturalistPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#ecological #horticulture #ecology
- [Chip Osborne, Paul Wagner, Hugh McLaughlin, Bruce Fulford Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/10-afternoon-panel/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Chip Osborne, HorticulturalistPaul Wagner, Certified ArboristHugh McLaughlin, Ph.D., Biochar Engineer, CTO NextChar, Inc.Bruce Fulford, Owner, City Soil and Greenhouse, BostonPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#greenhouse #arborist #horticulture
- [Courtney White: Wrap Up of Landscape Heroes conference](https://bio4climate.org/video/11-courtney-white-wrap-up/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Courtney White, Author, Regenerative Land Management ActivistPresented at Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity conference at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on January 31, 2017#regenerataive #landmanagement #landscapes
- [Using the Power of Nature](https://bio4climate.org/video/razoo-crowdfunding-video-fall-2014/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/This video was taken for a crowdfunding initiative with Bio4Climate and Razoo in 2014.#naturebasedsolutions #biology #climate
- [Community Conversation and Concluding Remarks](https://bio4climate.org/video/13-community-conversation-and-concluding-remarks/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Closing for Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool conferencePresented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate “Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool” conference at Washington D.C. on April 30, 2017#climateconversations #cooltheplanet #climateleaders
- [Paul Tukey, Alexis Baden-Mayer, Ling Tan, Betsy Nicholas: Legislation and Advocacy Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/12-community-and-movement-leaders-panel/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Community and Movement Leaders PanelThere are many ways to participate in this transformative movement to build sustainable, healthy, resilient communities and to restore ecosystem function. From engaging elected officials, to using your wallet to support regenerative/restorative activities, to transforming
- [Paul Tukey, Alexis Baden-Mayer, Ling Tan, Betsy Nicholas: Community and Movement Leaders](https://bio4climate.org/video/11-community-and-movement-leaders-legislation-advocacy-and-what-can-i-do/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/There are many ways to participate in this transformative movement to build sustainable, healthy, resilient communities and to restore ecosystem function. From engaging elected officials, to using your wallet to support regenerative/restorative activities, to transforming your own front or
- [Lincoln Smith & Ben Friton: Food Forests and Permaculture](https://bio4climate.org/video/10-food-forests-and-permaculture/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Perennial food systems can play a vital role in developing sustainable food supplies while restoring ecosystems. Food forests work WITH nature to restore carbon, water, and nutrient cycles, optimizing food production while minimizing requirements for external inputs. New food
- [Dan Medina, Emily Landis, Claudio Ternieden: The Small Water Cycle as a Climate Tool Panel Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/09-qa-with-the-small-water-cycle-as-a-climate-tool-panel/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Healthy soils and water cycles are closely intertwined. Opportunities abound to restore fresh and saltwater wetlands, and to manage urban, suburban and rural water flows in ways that help cool the planet. Nature has fascinating and powerful systems for
- [Dan Medina, Emily Landis & Claudio Ternieden: The Small Water Cycle as a Climate Tool](https://bio4climate.org/video/08-the-small-water-cycle-as-a-climate-tool/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Healthy soils and water cycles are closely intertwined. Opportunities abound to restore fresh and saltwater wetlands, and to manage urban, suburban and rural water flows in ways that help cool the planet. Nature has fascinating and powerful systems for
- [Adam Sacks: The New Water Paradigm](https://bio4climate.org/video/07-the-new-water-paradigm/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Our conventional view of water for decades has been to send it out to the oceans as quickly as possible. A new water paradigm developed by Michal Kravcik and colleagues explains why it’s so important to keep water where
- [Margaret Morgan-Hubbard, Ed Huling, Cleo Braver, Nick Maravell: Agricultural and Land Management Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/06-qa-with-agricultural-and-land-management-panelists/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Restorative land management includes regenerative grazing and agricultural practices that build healthy soils and support a diversity of life above and below ground. It applies to a range of settings, from urban to rural, and from small to large-acreage
- [Margaret Morgan-Hubbard, Ed Huling, Cleo Braver, Nick Maravell: Agricultural and Land Management](https://bio4climate.org/video/05-agricultural-and-land-management-restore-soil-fertility-produce-nutritious-food-and-increase/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Restorative land management includes regenerative grazing and agricultural practices that build healthy soils and support a diversity of life above and below ground. It applies to a range of settings, from urban to rural, and from small to large-acreage
- [Jim Laurie (Biodiversity for a Livable Climate) & Kris Nichols (Rodale Institute) Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/04-qa-with-jim-and-kris/) - 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 ClimateKris Nichols, Chief Scientist, Rodale InstitutePresented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate “Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool” conference at Washington D.C. on April 30, 2017#ecology #regenerative #climatesolutions
- [Kris Nichols: Regenerative Farming- Front Line Action to Reverse Global Warming](https://bio4climate.org/video/03-regenerative-farming-front-line-action-to-reverse-global-warming/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Farmers have the potential to be the front-line heroes in the quest to reverse global warming. They manage a “technology” for massive planetary geotherapy that is tried and tested and available for widespread dissemination right now. It costs little
- [Philip Bogdonoff & Adam Sacks: Welcome to Scenario 300- Making Climate Cool conference](https://bio4climate.org/video/01-welcome-and-overview/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Philip Bogdonoff, Director, Washington DC Chapter, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateAdam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimatePresented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate “Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool” conference at Washington D.C. on April 30, 2017#climatesolutions #cooltheplanet
- [Eliza Brady: Female, Millennial, Advocate for the Environment](https://bio4climate.org/video/eliza-speaks-female-millennial-advocate-for-the-environment/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Eliza Brady is a 19-year-old student at Tulane University. She is a passionate supporter of the environment, a struggling vegetarian, and a member of the millennial generation. She is a Massachusetts native, and feels at home among the giant
- [Creating the Future We Want with Symbiosis Team](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-1-symbiosisteam/) - Members of Jim Laurie's Symbiosis Team are Hayden Latimer-Ireland, Lynus Erickson, Jamila dePeiza-Kern, Annie Selle – local home-schoolers facing tomorrow head-onLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#symbiosis #biodiversity #futurism
- [Buy a Fish, Save a Tree! with Scott Dowd](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day1-5-scottdowd/) - Scott Dowd: Conservation biologist at New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts and Executive Director of Project PiabaLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#fish #trees #ecosystems
- [3 Billion Years of Organic Agriculture with Tim LaSalle, Ph.D.](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day3-2-timlasalle/) - Tim LaSalle, Ph.D.: Co-founder and Co-director of the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative at California State University Chico, and champion of a science-based a regenerative food system addressing climate change.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#agriculture #organic #farming
- [Urban Design, Living Design with Herbert Dreiseitl](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-11-herbertdreiseitl/) - Herbert Dreiseitl: Urban designer, landscape architect, water artist, interdisciplinary planner and professor in praxis.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#urban #design #architecture
- [The Cognitive Challenges of Reasoning About Climate Change with Tina Grotzer](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-5-tinagrotzer/) - Tina Grotzer: Faculty of Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Principal Research Scientist at Project Zero, and faculty member at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public HealthLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November
- [Pathways to a Restored Planet: Scenario 300 with Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day3-1-jimlaurie/) - Jim Laurie: Staff scientist and Biologist at Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#restoration #planet #climate
- [Close Encounters with a Disturbing Future with Paula Phipps](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day3-5-paulaphipps/) - Paula Phipps is a lifelong educator and Associate Director at Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#futurism #climate #planet
- [Healing the Earth in 18 months: The Wholing of Ecosystems and Human Will with Bill Reed](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day3-6-billreed/) - Bill Reed is an internationally recognized practitioner, lecturer, and leading authority in sustainability and regenerative planning, design and implementation.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#ecosystems #holistic #earth
- [Sacred Soil with Frederique Apffel-Marglin](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-6-frederiqueapffelmarglin/) - Frederique Apffel-Marglin: Founder of the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in the Peruvian Amazon.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#soil #southamerica #amazon
- [Regenerating the Diversity of Life in our Soils: Hope for Farming and Climate with David Johnson](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-8-davidjohnson/) - David Johnson: Director of the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural Research at New Mexico State UniversityLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#soils #farming #regeneration
- [Climate Reckoning with Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day1-1-welcome/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateIntroduction to Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard UniversityConnect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/#climate #climatechange #climatesolutions
- [Migrations of People, Migrations of Place with Ana Sofia Gonzalez](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day1-4-anasofiagonzalez/) - It is estimated that there will be up to 1 billion climate migrants by 2050. There are multiple reasons why everyone should care about the global migration crisis, one being that human resettlement may be an opportunity for humanity to restore our positive relationship with nature.Ana Sofia Gonzalez is a Mexican environmentalist with a chemical
- [The Big Picture, Rapid Change, and Paths to Restoration with Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day1-6-jimlaurie/) - 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 usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#restoration #change #climatechange
- [Love As an Ecosystem Property with Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day1-3-adamsacks/) - Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/​Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#ecosystem #property #love
- [I Need You To Survive with Reverend Mariama White-Hammond](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day1-2-mariamawhitehammond/) - Reverend Mariama White-Hammond is the Minister for Ecological Justice at Bethel AME Church in Boston, MassachusettsLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#ecological #justice #minister
- [Biodiversity as an Urban Ethic: Thinking Like a Forest with Christopher Haines](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-2-christopherhaines/) - Christopher Haines, AIA, LFA, CPHC: Architect licensed in both MA and NY who applies expertise in regenerative architectural design, healthy materials, preservation, renovation and specification writing to small commercial and urban projects.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at
- [Climate Change and Coasts- Are We Designing to Create Disasters? with Anamarija Frankić](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-10-anamarijafranckic/) - Anamarija Frankić: Founding director of the Green Harbors Project®, and the Biomimicry Living Labs®, and research faculty at UMass Boston and University of Zadar, CroatiaLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#coasts #naturaldisasters #climatechange
- [Old-Growth Forests: A Green Sponge on the Blue Planet with Joan Maloof](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day3-3-joanmaloof/) - Joan Maloof: Founder and Executive Director of the Old-Growth Forest Network and formerly on the faculty of Salisbury UniversityLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#blueplanet #forests #trees
- [The Ecology of Care- Shifting from a Sterile to a Fertile Paradigm with Didi Pershouse](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-12-didipershouse/) - Didi Pershouse: Founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine, an educator on soil health, public health, and climate resiliency, and the author of The Ecology of CareLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#ecology #resilience #soilhealth
- [Conservation, Restoration and Regeneration Economics with Daniel Robin](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-4-danielrobin/) - Daniel Robin: Entrepreneur and sustainable business consultantLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#conservation #regeneration #economics
- [Creating a Scalable Business Model for Flourishing Farms with Sally Dodge and Dale Guldbrandsen](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-9-sallydodge/) - Sally Dodge and Dale Guldbrandsen are the Northeast Community Development Managers for Iroquois Valley FarmsLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#business #farms #businessmodel
- [The Role of Economics in Ecosystemic Conservation with Fred Jennings](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day2-3-fredjennings/) - Fred Jennings: Economist, angler, and president/founder of the Center for Ecological Economic and Ethical EducationLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#economics #ecosystem #conservation
- [Greening Gateway Cities with Bob O'Connor](https://bio4climate.org/video/climatereckoning-day3-4-boboconnor/) - Bob O'Connor: Forest & Land Policy Director for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy & Environmental AffairsLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at the Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University#greencities #greenspaces #urban
- [John Pitkin: Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change Introduction](https://bio4climate.org/video/revitalizing-ecosystems-in-greater-boston-to-survive-climate-change-welcome-and-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 ClubPresented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change conference at Harvard University on March 31, 2018 #ecosystems #boston #climatechange
- [Zeyneb Magavi: Energy Execs, Ecosystems, and Alliances](https://bio4climate.org/video/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 same time, local ecosystems can help us to weather the coming climate shocks. Ecosystems are our allies, and there is much that we can do to
- [Tom Wessels: Self-organization, Co-evolution, Resiliency, and Stability](https://bio4climate.org/video/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 complex. This talk focuses on how this process works in ecosystems via co-evolution to generate the incredible biodiversity we see in nature. Many examples of regional
- [Anamarija Frankic: Oyster Beds and Living Shorelines](https://bio4climate.org/video/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 ProjectPresented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change conference at Harvard University on March 31, 2018 #oysters #oysterbeds #livingshorelines
- [John Reinhardt: Reviving a River](https://bio4climate.org/video/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 AssociationPresented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change conference at Harvard University on March 31, 2018#river #restoration #reviving
- [Maggie Booz: Neighborhood Tree Stewardship](https://bio4climate.org/video/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 spacesMaggie Booz: Cambridge Committee on Public PlantingPresented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change conference at Harvard University on March 31, 2018#tree #community #greenspaces
- [Kannan Thiruvengadam: Building Soil and Growing Food and Community](https://bio4climate.org/video/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 farmsKannan Thiruvengadam: Eastie FarmPresented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change conference at Harvard University on March 31, 2018#farm #soil #food
- [Walter Jehne - Soil Carbon Sponge and the New Climate Solutions](https://bio4climate.org/video/walter-jehne-soil-carbon-sponge-and-the-new-climate-solutions/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Please watch version with introduction here: https://youtu.be/123y7jDdbfYBiodiversity for a Livable Climate presentsHealthy Water Cyclesand the Soil Carbon Sponge:New Climate SolutionsA talk by Australian climate scientist and soil microbiologist Walter JehneDirector of Healthy Soils AustraliaIntroduction by Didi PershouseHarvard University, Haller
- [I'm an energy saver bulb!](https://bio4climate.org/video/im-an-energy-saver-bulb/) - A brief animated community ad from Adam Sacks' alternative energy days (ca. 2006). Nowadays, Adam Sacks (Executive Director for Biodiversity for a Livable Climate) focuses on nature-based solutions and the positive impact ecological restoration has on our planet.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/#globalwarming #energy
- [The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles with Walter Jehne](https://bio4climate.org/video/walter-jehne-the-soil-carbon-sponge-climate-solutions-and-healthy-water-cycles/) - 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 Center for Sustainable MedicinePresented on April 26, 2018 at Harvard UniversityLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/#soil
- [Charles Chester: A Panorama of Bats](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-3-charles-chester-a-panorama-of-bats/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Almost a quarter of all mammal species are bats. Some consume insects, others pollinate a wide range of plants, and some are highly effective seed dispersers in tropical rainforests. In sum, they provide people and the planet with key
- [Two Minutes to Midnight by Arielle Martinez Cohen](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-7-arielle-martinez-cohen-young-peoples-challenge-part-ii/) - Arielle Martinez Cohen is a singer, songwriter, producer, and activist from Los Angeles, CA. She has been working in the music business since she was nine years old, and is a leading activist with Zero Hour.Her song "Two Minutes to Midnight," was adopted by Zero Hour as its official anthem. It was inspired by the
- [Youth Leaders for Climate with Nadia Nazar](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-2-nadia-nazar-young-peoples-challenge-part-i/) - There has never before been a more challenging future faced by young people, who are increasingly concerned and anxious about what they see coming. Some of today’s teens are fiercely determined to face the challenges head on, not only to avert climate disaster but to preserve biodiversity and the natural world, respect cultures, and help
- [Adam Sacks: Connecting All (!!!) the Dots](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-1-adam-sacks-connecting-all-the-dots/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Life is a grand panorama, and we modern humans play a somewhat panoramic role although we’re dwarfed by the rest of the natural world. These days we’re daring nature to drive us over the extinction cliff and we’re currently
- [Douglas Zook: Let Microbes Speak- Symbiosis & Long History of the Biosphere](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-4-douglas-zook-let-microbes-speak-symbiosis-long-history-of-the-biosphere/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Microbes – nearly always in communities and symbiotic partnerships — are responsible for all the necessary systems that sustain life – atmospheric oxygen, photosynthesis, respiration, motility, mutlicellularity and the very ecosystems upon which we depend for survival!Douglas Zook founded
- [Gay Bradshaw: The Shared Passions of Wildlife, People and Others](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-5-gay-bradshaw-the-shared-passions-of-elephants-people-and-others/) - Elephants and people share experiences of family, community, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, responses to medications and trans-species therapy. Amor vincit omnia – does love conquer all? Well, sometimes perhaps it does.Gay Bradshaw holds doctorates in psychology and ecology, from which she has a unique perspective to engage in comparative studies. In this talk, she discusses
- [Betsey Dexter Dyer: Our Second Brain- The Human Microbiome](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-6-betsey-dexter-dyer-our-second-brain-the-human-microbiome/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/The many species of bacteria, optimally established during our trip down the birth canal, affect everything from our immune systems to our moods to our digestive health. We might say that it’s quite an accomplishment for the trillions of
- [Reverend Dele: The Spirit of Life](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-8-rev-dele-the-spirit-of-life/) - How do we bring resilience of the heart, love of the living world, and determination to save it into our daily lives? What journeys can guide us, from permaculture to prayer and everything along the way?Reverend Dele is a grandmother, author, pastor, permaculturist, radio host, eco-theologist and convenor of many amazing groups of dedicated people
- [David Morimoto: The Incredible Brightness of Birds](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-9-david-morimoto-the-incredible-brightness-of-birds/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Birds can migrate thousands of miles, some of them even do it solo. Some use tools, others recognize members of other species and even pass information on to future generations. Way before security cameras, you were being watched by
- [Fred Magdoff: The Heart of Life- Soils, Microbes, Plants and Insects](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-10-fred-magdoff-the-heart-of-life-soils-microbes-plants-and-insects/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/The diversity of soil organisms is stunning. Their interactions among themselves and with plants are at the center of healthy soils. Plants (as with humans and other animals) have associated microbiomes that can stimulate defenses against disease and help
- [Simon Garnier: Who’s in Charge of Living Swarms?](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-11-simon-garnier-whos-in-charge-of-living-swarms/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Ants do it. Slime molds do it. Bees do it. Fish do it. Birds do it. Humans do it. We swarm. At some point many individuals act as a single organism. But how? Who’s in charge? Wouldn’t you like
- [Jim Laurie: FUNGI- Intelligent Strands Beneath Our Feet (The Real Worldwide Web)](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-12-jim-laurie-fungi-intelligent-strands-beneath-our-feet-the-real-www/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Mycorrhizal fungi connect billions of lives in the soil, bring communications and biochemical transformations to those that need it, and keep green plants healthy and abundant. More abundant than we may have seen for centuries. What’s the big deal
- [Back to Our Roots by Arielle Martinez Cohen](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-13-arielle-martinez-cohen-young-peoples-challenge-part-iii/) - Arielle Martinez Cohen sings a song she wrote for this conference, one of hope and regeneration. It is titled: "Back to our Roots" and gives a clear call to action: it's up to us to help nature heal, and we have the ability to do so. Arielle Martinez Cohen is a singer, songwriter, producer, and
- [Jon Way: The Many Lives of The Changing Coyote](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-14-jon-way-the-many-lives-of-the-changing-coyote/) - Relatively little is known about the fascinating coyotes in the east It is a remarkable animal, being one of the only carnivores to actually increase its range and distribution in the past one hundred years. Coyotes have taken over as top predator in all environments in New England, from wilderness parks to city greenbelts. Along
- [David Rothenberg: The Rhythms and Songs of Bugs](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-15-david-rothenberg-the-rhythms-and-songs-of-bugs/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/David Rothenberg, author of Bug Music, is distinguished professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a musician and writer known for his many works finding music and beauty in birds, whales, and
- ["The Fire" by Arielle Martinez Cohen performed with David Rothenberg](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-17-arielle-martinez-cohen-and-david-rothenberg-the-fire/) - 'The Fire" by Arielle Martinez CohenRed, everything was red,The light in our eyes,The life that we led.Smoke filling my head,I couldn’t even think,I couldn’t comprehend.And the flames they happily danced,Our things turned to ash.But I think I’ve always known,It was too good to last,The shadows they cast,The embers they laughed.And we watched as the fire,Burned
- [B. Lorraine Smith: Listening to Trees Here and Gone](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-16-b-lorraine-smith-listening-to-trees-here-and-gone/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Trees share a wealth of information to the willing listener, well beyond aesthetics, recreation or “natural resource.” They offer details about the connections above and below ground – from birds and insects, to parasites and fungi, to humans who
- [Heather Barnett: Superorganisms- Those Wily and Wondrous Slime Molds](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-18-heather-barnett-superorganisms-those-wily-and-wondrous-slime-molds/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Slime molds aren’t really molds, some of them are multiple amoebas that cohabit within a single cell membrane. They have no brain or nervous system, yet they can perform remarkable feats of decision-making and memory. Enter the life of
- [Elizabeth Thomas: A Merry and Marvelous Ramble Through Mammalian Lives](https://bio4climate.org/video/voices-of-nature-19-liz-thomas-a-merry-and-marvelous-ramble-through-mammalian-lives/) - Man-eating by lions is common throughout Africa, famously so in some places, but in the 1950s the lions in the interior did not hunt the San people. At the time the San were pre-contact, and for several reasons Elizabeth Thomas is the only person who seems to have noticed the San/lion relationship. No wildlife biologist
- [Tar Sands Songbook: Tanya Kalmanovitch (Violin) & Ted Reichmann (Piano)](https://bio4climate.org/video/tarsands-songbook/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Tar Sands Songbook weaves together a chorus of voices with an original, improvised score. The words of indigenous activists, engineers, equipment operators, elders, oil patch workers, scientists, and family, fuel discussions of our past and the powerful forces that
- [Cooling the Climate Mess with Walter Jehne](https://bio4climate.org/video/walter-jehne-cooling-the-climate-mess/) - 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, biodiverse living systems thrive, photosynthesis pulls carbon out of the atmosphere, the biosphere cools, and regenerates a viable life-support system for millions of species including
- [Judith Schwartz & Nicola Williams: The Curious Person's Guide to Earth Repair](https://bio4climate.org/video/judy-schwartz-the-curious-persons-guide-to-earth-repair-regenerating-soil-and-water-landscapes/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Regenerating Soil and Water LandscapesJudy Schwartz, author of Cows Save the Planet, Water in Plain Sight, and a new book due out in July 2020, discusses what people around the world are doing to address our many ecological crises,
- [Adam Sacks: Healing Lands Across the World](https://bio4climate.org/video/adam-sacks-describes-healing-lands-across-the-world-at-the-2017-ecoamerica-conference/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/A brief talk by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's Executive Director, Adam Sacks, with beautiful illustrations of the power of Nature to heal landscapes. Humans can help restore the planet by using regenerative land management.Presented at ecoAmerica Conference 2017#landrestoration
- [The Necessity of the Divine Feminine in the Climate Crisis: Reverend Dele and Lama Elizabeth Monson](https://bio4climate.org/video/the-necessity-of-the-divine-feminine-in-the-climate-crisis/) - Spiritual leaders discuss the connections between feminism and environmentalism.Reverend Dele: Climate Reality Leader and spiritual directorLama Elizabeth Monson: Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Managing Teacher at Wonderwell Mountain RefugeLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends
- [Blessed Unrest: People for the Planet with Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/video/welcome-and-introduction/) - Adam Sacks will briefly set the stage for the conference, with the why and how of Blessed Unrest. What does it mean for global ecological health, climate disruption, and thriving in the biosphere? Dare we say, everything!Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Adam Sacks, Executive
- [Via Organica and Ecosystem Restoration Camps with Ronnie Cummins](https://bio4climate.org/video/via-organica-and-ecological-restoration-campsordinary-people-extraordinary-accomplishments/) - Ronnie Cummins focuses on what individuals and small groups have done and continue to do, things about which we each might be inspired to say , “I could do something like that too!” He will tell us some of his own stories, like starting Via Organica or the Mexico Ecosystem Restoration camps, and will discuss
- [Agraria – Agriculture as More than Farming with Susan Jennings](https://bio4climate.org/video/agraria-agriculture-as-more-than-farming/) - In this generational dark night of the soul, what are our opportunities for personal and national redemption? Drawing on her inspiring organizational experiences, as well as recent trips to regeneration projects in England and India, Susan will discuss how re-localization, especially of food systems, can, like Gandhi’s March to the Sea, radically transform our personal,
- [Rising Out of Despair- Haiti’s “Green Pearl” Initiative with Janot Mendler de Suarez](https://bio4climate.org/video/rising-out-of-despair-haitis-green-pearl-initiative/) - Janot is passionate about her work with Haiti Red Cross. Not just to survive in a changing climate, to thrive! The community-driven “Green Pearl” initiative aspires to transform Haiti from one of the poorest, most insecure and degraded countries in the world to a flourishing mosaic of Green Pearls. At the same time charting a
- [The Community-led Movement for Forests, Climate and Justice in the Southern US with Holly Paar](https://bio4climate.org/video/the-community-led-movement-for-forests-climate-and-justice-in-the-southern-us/) - Across the South in the United States, frontline communities facing the devastation wrought by industrial logging are leading a movement calling for the protection of forests. Hit hardest by the effects of increasingly intense storms and flooding as well as facing threats of pollution, communities along the coastal plains of the Carolinas, as well as
- [How Faith Brings Blessed Unrest with Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, Hayat Imam, and Reverend Dele](https://bio4climate.org/video/how-faith-brings-blessed-unrest-part-1/) - Our communities of faith inspire followers to stewardship and good works. Our panelists will offer a personal perspective, one Jewish, one Muslim, of how they were inspired, and how their faiths bring inspiration and courage to make a difference in the world.Rabbi Ellen Bernstein: Founder of Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth, the first U.S.
- [The Fire by Arielle Martinez Cohen](https://bio4climate.org/video/musical-interlude-and-a-word-from-zero-hour/) - Arielle Martinez Cohen, climate activist and singer songwriter from Los Angeles, sings a cover song and an original, "The Fire," about the Californian wildfires. Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020#artivism #zerohour
- [Improving Food Security of Smallholder Farmers with Roland Bunch](https://bio4climate.org/video/improving-food-security-of-smallholder-farmers/) - Increasingly frequent droughts are destroying food production levels in the more drought-prone half of sub-Saharan Africa. Although most people have attributed this gathering crisis to climate change, about 80% of the cause of the droughts is that fallowing–allowing the forest to grow for fifteen years or more to replace the soil’s organic matter–is on its
- [Building Community During Confusion and Uncertainty with Precious Phiri](https://bio4climate.org/video/building-community-during-confusion-and-uncertainty/) - Precious grew up in Zimbabwe and will tell us about her evolution as a trainer in Holistic Management and community facilitation. Her work currently focuses on working with rural communities and collaborating with networks in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food and water security for people, livestock and wildlife – and most
- [Edible Landscaping with Sven Phil](https://bio4climate.org/video/edible-landscaping/) - Edible landscaping is the use of food-producing plants in the residential and public landscape. It combines fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, along with functional ornamental plants into aesthetically pleasing designs. Edible landscaping offers an alternative to conventional residential landscapes; edible plants can be just as attractive while producing fruits and
- [Biology as told by Environmental Leaders of the Future](https://bio4climate.org/video/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 ways the planet has changed over time and how they are finding their role in the climate movement.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate:
- [Environmental Leaders of the Future Q&A](https://bio4climate.org/video/environmental-leaders-of-the-future-qa/) - 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 various ecosystems and how they see their part as the new world unfolds.This is the Q&A session that followed the presentation, https://youtu.be/-8IdTAcwN5s.Learn more about Biodiversity
- [Agraria – Agriculture as More than Farming Workshop with Susan Jennings](https://bio4climate.org/video/agraria-agriculture-as-more-than-farming-workshop/) - This is the workshop that followed Susan's talk: Agraria – Agriculture as More than FarmingSusan Jennings: Executive Director of The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions (AMICS)Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of
- [Improving Food Security of Smallholder Farmers Q&A with Roland Bunch](https://bio4climate.org/video/improving-food-security-of-smallholder-farmers-qa/) - Increasingly frequent droughts are destroying food production levels in the more drought-prone half of sub-Saharan Africa. Although most people have attributed this gathering crisis to climate change, about 80% of the cause of the droughts is that fallowing–allowing the forest to grow for fifteen years or more to replace the soil’s organic matter–is on its
- [Ordinary People, Extraordinary Accomplishments with Ronnie Cummins](https://bio4climate.org/video/via-organica-and-ecological-restoration-camps-workshop/) - This is the workshop that followed Ronnie's talk: Via Organica and Ecological Restoration CampsRonnie Cummins: Co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and its international affiliates Via Organica (Mexico) and Regeneration InternationalLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online,
- [Harnessing Humor for Climate and Ecosystems with Janot Mendler de Suarez and Pablo Suarez](https://bio4climate.org/video/harnessing-humor-for-climate-and-ecosystems-paulo-suarez-and-janot-mendler-de-suarez-workshop/) - This is the workshop that followed Janot's talk: Rising Out of Despair: Haiti’s “Green Pearl” InitiativeJanot Mendler de Suarez: Technical Advisor & Caribbean focal point for the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Consultant to the World Bank for the Caribbean CREWS (Climate Risk Early Warning Services), and a Visiting Research Fellow at Boston University
- [Introducing the Blessed Unrest with Paula Phipps](https://bio4climate.org/video/conference-day-2-introduction/) - Paula Phipps comments on the conference so far and introduces the speakers of the day: Holly M. Paar, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, Hayat Imam, Arielle Martinez Cohen, and Roland Bunch.Paula Phipps: Associate Director of Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest
- [The Making of Lifelong Blessed Unrest Activists with Rachel Burger and Iona Conner](https://bio4climate.org/video/the-making-of-lifelong-blessed-unrest-activists/) - Two women elders whose lives were changed by neglected work that needed to be done will tell stories of Eureka! moments, the persistent struggles that ensued, and hard-won victories as well as losses on the paths to restoring the Earth.Rachel Burger: Protect South PortlandIona Conner: environmental activistLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/
- [The Making of Lifelong Blessed Unrest Activists Workshop with Rachel Burger and Iona Conner](https://bio4climate.org/video/the-making-of-lifelong-blessed-unrest-activists-workshop/) - This workshop follows Rachel Burger and Iona Conner's presentations "The Making of Lifelong Blessed Unrest Activists"Two women elders whose lives were changed by neglected work that needed to be done will tell stories of Eureka! moments, the persistent struggles that ensued, and hard-won victories as well as losses on the paths to restoring the Earth.Rachel
- [Building Community During Confusion and Uncertainty Workshop with Precious Phiri](https://bio4climate.org/video/building-community-during-confusion-and-uncertainty-workshop/) - This workshop follows Precious' talk "Building Community During Confusion and Uncertainty" Precious Phiri: Field Professional in Holistic Management education with the Savory Institute, she works with rural communities through her organization EarthWisdom Consulting, and is the African Coordinator for Regeneration InternationalLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented
- [Sustainable Agriculture Workshop with Roland Bunch and Florence Reed](https://bio4climate.org/video/roland-bunch-with-florence-reed-workshop/) - Climate change and loss of biodiversity threaten humanity’s very existence. Pandemics like the Coronavirus add another layer of crises to populations throughtout the world. Some of the hardest hit are the millions of rural poor who live day to day, often dependent on external inputs to grow crops, access to markets for selling crops and
- [Introduction for Blessed Unrest with Fred Jennings](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-3-opening-remarks-by-fred-jennings/) - Fred Jennings introduces the upcoming speakers: Precious Phiri, Sven Pihl, Rachel Burger and Iona Conner.Fred Jennings, Ecological Economist, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020#climate #biodiversity #climatetalks
- [Love (of nature) in the Time of Covid-19 with Florence Reed](https://bio4climate.org/video/love-of-nature-in-the-time-of-covid-19/) - Climate change and loss of biodiversity threaten humanity’s very existence. Pandemics like the Coronavirus add another layer of crises to populations throughout the world. Some of the hardest hit are the millions of rural poor who live day to day, often dependent on external inputs to grow crops, access to markets for selling crops and
- [Workshop on the Divine Feminine and Environmentalism with Rev Dele and Lama Elizabeth Monson](https://bio4climate.org/video/workshop-with-rev-dele-and-lama-elizabeth-monson/) - This workshop follows Reverend Dele and Lama Elizabeth Monson's talk "The Necessity of the Divine Feminine in the Climate Crisis"This panel discusses: What is the Divine Feminine? Why should we care? How can the Divine Feminine significantly impact the climate movement?Reverend Dele: Climate Reality leader and spiritual directorElizabeth Monson: Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship
- [Edible Landscaping Workshop with Sven Phil](https://bio4climate.org/video/edible-landscaping-workshop/) - This workshop follows Sven's talk "Edible Landscaping"Edible landscaping is the use of food-producing plants in the residential and public landscape. It combines fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, along with functional ornamental plants into aesthetically pleasing designs. Sven Pihl: Founder of CT Edible Ecosystems, LLC, Regenerative Land Planner/Designer and Permaculture educatorLearn
- [Introduction for the Blessed Unrest with Robert Labaree](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-4-opening-remarks/) - 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 O'Connor Golden)Robert Labaree: Journal Liaison, Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at
- [Soak Up the Rain! What We Can Do to Reduce Drought, Floods, Heat Waves & Severe Storms: Jan Lambert](https://bio4climate.org/video/soak-up-the-rain-what-we-can-all-do-to-reduce-drought-floods-heat-waves-and-severe-storms/) - Did you ever stop to think about what happens with all the water that goes down the storm drains in your town or city every time it rains? Jan Lambert, even though a lifelong nature advocate, never gave that question much thought until 2014, when as an environmental journalist she learned about the profound and
- [Soak Up the Rain with Jan Lambert](https://bio4climate.org/video/soak-up-the-rain-workshop/) - This workshop follows Jan's talk: Soak Up the Rain! What We Can All Do to Reduce Drought, Floods, Heat Waves and Severe StormsJan Lambert: environmental writer and editor of The Valley Green JournalLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across
- [Charles Shore Introduction for Biodiversity for a Livable Climate](https://bio4climate.org/video/charles-shore-day-5-opening-remarks/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Charles Shore introduces speakers Jan Lambert, Anna Gilbert-Muhammed, and Alfred Brownell.Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020#biodiversity #climate #climatesolutions
- [Youth, Gardening and Food Security with Anna Gilbert-Muhammad](https://bio4climate.org/video/youth-gardening-and-food-security/) - There is an intersection between, nutrition, gardening and being a good steward to the environment. Join Anna Gilbert-Muhammad – Equity Director and Food Access Coordinator for the Northeast Organic Farmers Association (NOFA MA) as we talk about how a low income housing development and youth/families are growing food and learning about methods that protect the
- [Youth, Gardening and Food Security Workshop with Anna Gilbert- Muhammad](https://bio4climate.org/video/youth-gardening-and-food-security-workshop/) - This workshop follows Anna's talk "Youth, Gardening and Food Security"Anna Gilbert-Muhammed: Food Access Coordinator of NOFA/MassLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020#foodsecurity #gardening #nutrition
- [Tribute to Elizabeth Adams, founder of the Massachusetts Forest Rescue Campaign](https://bio4climate.org/video/tribute-to-beth-adams-founder-of-the-massachusetts-forest-rescue-campaign/) - Brief tribute to Elizabeth (Beth) L. Adams (1946-2019) of Leverett, MA. Beth was co-founder of the Massachusetts Forest Rescue Campaign and a life-long activist for peace, social justice and environmental conservation. She truly exemplifies the "Blessed Unrest" that is being celebrated as the theme of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate’s 2020 online conference.Learn more about
- [How Liberians Fought Big Palm Oil to Protect Their Forests with Alfred Brownell](https://bio4climate.org/video/how-liberians-fought-big-palm-oil-to-protect-their-forests/) - How Indigenous Peoples, local communities and environmental rights activists stopped the world’s largest oil palm companies from causing deforestation and accelerating climate change in West Africa.Alfred Brownell: environmental and human rights lawyer and Executive Director of Green Advocates (GA).Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed
- [How Liberians Fought Big Palm Oil to Protect Their Forests Workshop with Alfred Brownell](https://bio4climate.org/video/how-liberians-fought-big-palm-oil-to-protect-their-forests-workshop/) - This workshop follows Alfred's talk "How Liberians Fought Big Palm Oil to Protect their Forests"Alfred Brownell: environmental and human rights lawyer and Executive Director of Green Advocates (GA).Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May
- [Eco-Municipalities with Steve Weinberg and Cynthia Contie](https://bio4climate.org/video/eco-municipalities/) - Eco-Municipalities – a walk through a world-wide movement of communities undergoing systemic sustainable transformation. We will share the story of how these Eco-Municipalities evolved starting in the country of Sweden and how Eco-Municipalities use a powerful shared framework to guide them.Steve Weinberg: organizerCynthia Contie: authorLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with
- [Eco-Municipalities Workshop with Steve Weinberg and Cynthia Contie](https://bio4climate.org/video/eco-municipalities-workshop/) - This workshop follows Steve and Cynthia's talk "Eco-Municipalities"Eco-Municipalities – a walk through a world-wide movement of communities undergoing systemic sustainable transformation. Steve Weinberg: organizerCynthia Contie: authorLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020#eco
- [Heat Planet- Another View of Climate with Christopher Haines](https://bio4climate.org/video/heat-planet-another-view-of-climate/) - Architect Christopher Haines will give an overview of our built environments and degraded rural habitats, and how they make significant contributions to global warming. He illustrates how a change in perspective may lead to a cooler planet much faster than we thought, inexpensively, while restoring a greener, biodiverse Earth.Christopher Haines: Living Building Challenge and Passive
- [Introduction to the Blessed Unrest with Professor George Scarlett](https://bio4climate.org/video/day-6-opening-remarks/) - Professor George Scarlett introduces speakers Steve Weinberg, Cynthia Contie , Christopher Haines, Claire Hedberg (Zero Hour), Nick Rabb (Sunrise Movement), John Burkhardt (Extinction Rebellion).Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020#climate #biodiversity #climatetalks
- [Grandpa Climate Rap](https://bio4climate.org/video/grandpa-rap-raps-the-climate-trap/) - A senior citizen, Adam Sacks, takes up rap to help you find your way out of climate chaos!Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April &
- [Sunrise Movement, Zero Hour & Extinction Rebellion](https://bio4climate.org/video/new-movements/) - Nick Rabb (Sunrise Movement), Claire Hedberg (Zero Hour), and John Burkhardt (Extinction Rebellion) discuss their work with their relative climate justice organizations. Sunrise Movement and Zero Hour are two powerful youth-led organizations, and Extinction Rebellion is a cross-generational organization spreading awareness on climate-related issues and solutions. They all bring organizing, educational and political influence to
- [New Movements with Claire Hedberg, Nick Rabb, and John Burkhardt](https://bio4climate.org/video/new-movements-workshop/) - Workshop with Claire Hedberg (Zero Hour), Nick Rabb (Sunrise Movement), and John Burkhardt (Extinction Rebellion)This workshop follow's the panel's presentation "New Movements" 4Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020#youthleaders #climateorganizations #environmentalorganizations
- [Stolen Election 2000 - A warning for Election 2020](https://bio4climate.org/video/stolen-election-2000-a-warning-for-election-2020/) - Filmed in 2001, it's a discussion of the 2000 election. You'll hear a critique by renowned prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi of the outrageous Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, and a walkthrough of the blatant and widespread official electoral fraud in Florida by ace investigative report Greg Palast.
- [The Urgent Call to Restore the Earth](https://bio4climate.org/video/call-stories-rev-dele-adam-paula-terican-laure/) - Climate advocates in order:Reverend Dele: Climate Reality Leader and spiritual directorAdam Sacks: Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable ClimatePaula Phipps: Associate Director of Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateTerrican Gross: Spirit of ResilienceLaure: Intern of Biodiversity for a Livable ClimateThose of us on this campaign have different stories to tell about how our lives led
- [The Importance of Biodiversity with Hannah Lewis](https://bio4climate.org/video/call-story-hannah-lewis/) - Hannah Lewis is Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's Compendium editor (https://bio4climate.org/resources/compendium). She explains why this work is important to her and why she feels called to do it.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/#climate #climatesolutions #biodiversity
- [From Emissions to EcoRestoration with Manjulika Das](https://bio4climate.org/video/call-story-manjulika-das/) - Manjulika Das describes her explorations with Bio4Climate on the path to eco-restoration for a healthy climate. Before joining us, Manjulika (like others) thought the only climate solutions involved energy and emissions. Through her work at Bio4Climate, Manjulika realized the incredible healing power of nature and how we can support ecosystem restoration. Learn more about Biodiversity
- [Finding My Climate Role with Nick Rabb](https://bio4climate.org/video/call-story-nick-rabb/) - Nick Rabb from the youth-led climate organization Sunrise Movement and Massachusetts Peace Action explains what introduced him to climate change and how he was inspired to take action. By listening to philosophers, and searching for his life's purpose, Nick has become a prominent youth leader in the movement. As Nick says, "No one has to
- [A Message from our Executive Director](https://bio4climate.org/video/call-story-adam-sacks/) - Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, shares his call to action to work with life for a thriving Earth.Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/#climatestories #climatesolutions #earth
- [Walter Jehne: Climate Solutions for a Blue Planet](https://bio4climate.org/video/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 more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/#regeneration #aridlandscapes #planetrestoration
- [Christopher Haines: Heat Planet](https://bio4climate.org/video/christopher-haines-heat-planet/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Not just fossil fuels, but also the human-generated heat that creates global warming.Christopher Haines: architect, consultant for living design#globalwarming #climatechange #planet
- [Thank you to Our Donors!](https://bio4climate.org/video/thank-you-to-our-donors/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/A quick thank-you to our donors and supporters!#cat #grateful #nonprofit
- [Chico Thanks Our Donors!](https://bio4climate.org/video/chico-thanks-our-donors/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Chico, our Social Media Coordinator Tania Roa's dog (Maltese Poodle) thanks our supporters for their generous donations. We at Bio4Climate appreciate all of you!#maltese #poodle #dog
- [Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's 2020 Highlights](https://bio4climate.org/video/biodiversity-for-a-livable-climates-2020-highlights/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Snippets from Biodiversity for a Livable Climate's 2020 conferences with music and presentations on climate change and natural solutions to the climate crisis.#climatechange #climatesolutions #climateorganization
- [Jim Laurie's Biodiversity Class Description](https://bio4climate.org/video/jim-lauries-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 Jim's classes, email info@bio4climate.org or staff@bio4climate.orgJim Laurie: Staff Scientist and Restoration Ecologist, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate#ecology #restoration #environmentaleducation
- [Nature's Solutions as National Policy with Walter Jehne, Vijay Kumar & Rep. Chellie Pingree](https://bio4climate.org/video/walter-jehne-vijay-kumar-rep-chellie-pingree-natures-solutions-as-national-policy/) - 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 organic farmer. A remarkable look at the potential future of farming.This discussion took place June 5, 2021 and is the first installment in a conference
- [Climate Change Demonstration](https://bio4climate.org/video/climate-change-demonstration/) - Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/A demonstration organized by Extinction Rebellion outside of the Boston Globe to urge the news company to improve its coverage of the climate crisis.Learn more about Extinction Rebellion here: https://rebellion.global/Read the Boston Globe here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/April 17, 2019#activism #protest #democracy
- [Changing the Field of Wildlife Conservation with Dr. Arian Wallach](https://bio4climate.org/video/dr-arian-wallach-on-changing-the-field-of-wildlife-conservation/) - In this interview hosted by Tania Roa, Dr. Arian Wallach discusses the importance of the wild donkey herd living in Kachana Station, a holistically managed landscape in northwestern Australia in a region called the Kimberley. Dr. Wallach discusses the importance of treating all living beings as sentient beings, and uses the wild donkeys as an
- [How Animals Shape Ecosystems with Carl Safina, Fred Provenza & Tania Roa](https://bio4climate.org/video/carl-safina-fred-provenza-tania-roa-how-animals-shape-ecosystems/) - A panel discussion among author and ecologist Carl Safina, professor and author Fred Provenza, and wildlife advocate and writer Tania Roa. An insightful conversation on the interconnections between wild and domestic animal welfare, and a criticism of perspectives and policies related to other species.Carl Safina earned a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University by studying
- [Kachana Station: A Home for Donkey-led Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/video/kachana-station-a-home-for-donkey-led-restoration/) - In this interview hosted by Tania Roa, Chris Henggeler explains the holistic management practices occurring in Kachana Station, a landscape in northwestern Australia. Chris emphasizes the interconnectedness of humans across the globe, and our interconnectedness with other species. His call to action: help nature heal herself.Learn more about Kachana Station: https://www.kachana-station.com/Learn more about Biodiversity for
- [What Did COP26 Miss? with Joseph Hunt, Dee Woods & Andrew Revkin](https://bio4climate.org/video/joseph-hunt-dee-woods-andrew-revkin-what-did-cop26-miss/) - We turn our attention to the Glasgow COP26 summit, debriefing the action (or inaction) that took place. How much are leaders paying attention to, investing in, and supporting the many community led solutions of fighting climate change by protecting and restoring ecosystems? This panel discussion featured professor Joseph Michael Hunt, community food advocate Dee Woods,
- [Miyawaki Forest: Maya Dutta & Paula Phipps](https://bio4climate.org/video/maya-dutta-paula-phipps-miyawaki-forest/) - Learn about the Miyawaki forest we planted in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Miyawaki method was invented by Dr. Akira Miyawaki, a Japanese botanist, and it involves planting native species in urban areas.View the slideshow, created in collaboration with SUGi, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OfVy4DJfG9P_vMnxCzAL5F_Ndu807JcX/viewLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work:
- [Climate Emotions: Facing the Storm Together](https://bio4climate.org/video/climate-emotions-facing-the-storm-together/) - A panel discussion hosted by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (@bio4climate) on the vast scope of climate-related emotions from anxiety and fear to hopefulness. Panelists include:1. Abby Abrahamson, College Outreach Coordinator for Bio4Climate2. Yvonne Cuaresma, Founder of https://www.theclimatejournalproject.com/3. Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Bio4ClimateWith moderator Maya Dutta, Outreach and Operations Manager for Bio4ClimateAnd commentator psychiatrist
- [Youth in Environmental Conservation: Greenagers](https://bio4climate.org/video/greenagers-youth-in-environmental-conservation/) - We interviewed Will Conklin, Director of Greenagers, to learn more about his organization. Greenagers aims to engage youth "in meaningful work in environmental conservation, sustainable farming and natural resource management." Learn more at greenagers.orgLearn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/Connect with usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climateTwitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/This
- [Indigenous Wisdom and the Power of Place with Dawn Knickerbocker & Juan D. Martinez](https://bio4climate.org/video/dawn-knickerbocker-juan-d-martinez-indigenous-wisdom-and-the-power-of-place/) - Native American and Indigenous people model economic and social exchanges on reciprocity and relationships in all systems. Centering this and other Indigenous wisdom has led to significant and meaningful contributions to the advancement of conservation, protection, and environmental justice, especially in the lives of youth.Dawn Knickerbocker belongs to the Anishinaabe people, is a citizen of
- [Decolonizing Environmental Thought with Fred Tutman](https://bio4climate.org/video/fred-tutman-decolonizing-environmental-thought/) - Committed environmentalist Fred Tutman brings his front line experience on conservation issues to this discussion of the existential threats to our planet from multiple sources. As more people join movements aimed at greening the planet, what notions must they learn to discard about the environment that are founded upon capitalism, racism and classism? By first
- [Sample "Wows" From Biosphere History with Doug Zook & David Morimoto](https://bio4climate.org/video/doug-zook-david-morimoto-sample-wows-from-biosphere-history/) - We are last minute arrivals to the region of the Earth where life can be found and thrives: the biosphere. The 3.8 billion year history of the Earth shows to this day that life — particularly microbial — has been the consistent major contributor to building features of the biosphere, giving us rocky landscapes, myriad
- [An Amazing Agroforestry Story with Mike Hands & Rattan Lal](https://bio4climate.org/video/mike-hands-rattan-lal-an-amazing-agroforestry-story/) - The Inga Foundation’s founder and director Mike Hands has been working to halt the destruction of rainforests from slash and burn agriculture for over 20 years. An experienced tropical ecologist and scientific researcher, Mike divides his time between his farm in Cornwall, UK, and the Inga Foundation’s Land for Life program in Honduras. Now in
- [Healthy Oysters for Healthy Oceans and Climate with Dr. Anamarija Frankic](https://bio4climate.org/video/dr-anamarija-frankic-healthy-oysters-for-healthy-oceans-and-climate/) - Globally, oyster habitats are the most degraded habitats among coastal systems, with the loss of 99% in the last 150 years. These 350 million years old keystone species and their habitats are at the brink of total collapse from industrial harvesting and pollution of coastal areas.Today scientists understand the ecological value of oyster habitats and
- [Cure For An Ailing World with Tim LaSalle](https://bio4climate.org/video/tim-lasalle-cure-for-an-ailing-world/) - Tim LaSalle, a depth psychologist and former CEO of the Rodale Institute, has long followed the innovative work in the regenerative agriculture movement, a farming practice based on greatly improving the soil’s biome to achieve a healthy biodiversity and greater food nutrient density while eliminating the need for soil augmentation, artificial or otherwise.As writer and
- [Arctic Meltdown: Why It Matters To Us](https://bio4climate.org/video/arctic-meltdown-why-it-matters-to-us/) - Dr. Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist studying Arctic weather and climate, explains how increasing extreme weather events are connected with the rapidly warming and melting Arctic during recent decades.Dr. Francis is joined in conversation by Dr. Heather Goldstone, journalist and scientist overseeing Woodwell Climate Research Center’s communications. The two discuss the evidence that suggests how
- [How Liberians Fought Big Palm Oil To Protect Their Lands with Alfred Brownell](https://bio4climate.org/video/alfred-brownell-how-liberians-fought-big-palm-oil-to-protect-their-lands/) - Liberian environmental activist Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr. tells the story of how indigenous peoples, local communities and environmental rights activists came together to halt the work of the world’s largest oil palm companies, who were responsible for causing deforestation and accelerating climate change in West Africa.This talk is part of our Life Saves the
- [Edible Landscaping with Sven Pihl](https://bio4climate.org/video/sven-pihl-edible-landscaping/) - Edible landscaping is the use of food-producing plants in the residential and public landscape. It combines fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, along with functional ornamental plants into aesthetically pleasing designs. Edible landscaping offers an alternative to conventional residential landscapes; edible plants can be just as attractive while producing fruits and
- [The Environmental Benefits Of Grass Fed Beef with Ridge Shinn](https://bio4climate.org/video/ridge-shinn-the-environmental-benefits-of-grass-fed-beef/) - Grass-fed beef producers in the U.S. have begun a movement to restore soils and stabilize the climate with a fundamentally different approach called regenerative grazing. This method builds on nature’s own system of pulling carbon from the air and storing it in the soil.Sixty million buffalo lived on the Great Plains at one time. The
- [Building Community During Confusion and Uncertainty with Precious Phiri](https://bio4climate.org/video/precious-phiri-building-community-during-confusion-and-uncertainty/) - Precious Phiri grew up in Zimbabwe and discusses her evolution as a trainer in Holistic Management and community facilitation. Her work focuses on working with rural communities and collaborating with networks in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food and water security for people, livestock and wildlife – and most recently, to address
- [Soil vs Dirt with Fred Magdoff](https://bio4climate.org/video/soil-vs-dirt-with-fred-magdoff/) - In this talk, Fred Magdoff, Professor Emeritus of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont, describes the difference between nutrient- and life-depleted soil and nutrient dense, carbon-capturing, and water-storing soil. Fred Magdoff's research was on ecologically sound ways to improve soil fertility, especially focusing on the critical role of soil organic matter. He
- [Biology's Role in Sustaining the Planet with Ridge Shinn](https://bio4climate.org/video/biologys-role-in-sustaining-the-planet-with-ridge-shinn/) - This talk, given by Ridge Shinn of Big Picture Beef, introduces the essential functions that livestock provide to maintain healthy ecosystems and contribute to maintaining a stable climate.Ridge Shinn founded Big Picture Beef in 2016. His work with cattle stretches back to his twenties when he was herdsman for a dairy farm, but for the
- [The Roots of Regenerative Solutions with Karen Washington](https://bio4climate.org/video/the-roots-of-regenerative-solutions-with-karen-washington/) - This talk is a Q&A with activist Karen Washington. She touches upon the history of regenerative/nature-based climate solutions that are more widely adopted today by a variety of communities, but have historically been developed by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities and cultures. This talk also addresses actions the BIPOC community is taking
- [Bioregional Food Systems with Hannah McDonald](https://bio4climate.org/video/bioregional-food-systems-with-hannah-mcdonald/) - This presentation, given by Hannah McDonald from NOFA/Mass and the Western MA Regenerative Food System, touches upon the state of our materials economy, how investing in food systems sets the stage for systems change, and why it's important to have a bioregional focus. Recorded at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the event concluded with
- [Improving Food Security for Smallholder Farmers with Roland Bunch](https://bio4climate.org/video/roland-bunch-improving-food-security-of-smallholder-farmers/) - Increasingly frequent droughts are destroying food production levels in the more drought-prone half of sub-Saharan Africa. Although most people have attributed this gathering crisis to climate change, about 80 percent of the cause of the droughts is that fallowing – a process of allowing the forest to grow for fifteen years or more to replace
- [Regenerative Agriculture with Ed Huling](https://bio4climate.org/video/regenerative-agriculture-with-ed-huling/) - This talk with Ed Huling, a U.S.-based organic farmer, introduces the concept of nutrient density and the impact of soil health on nutrient-dense food. Ed also describes the farming and forestry systems that he developed using restoration practices. Lastly, this talk also touches upon the benefits of regenerative agriculture and gardening when it comes to
- [Bluebird Conservation with Charlotte Xu](https://bio4climate.org/video/bluebird-monitoring-with-charlotte-xu/) - In this interview hosted by Abby Abrahamson, Charlotte Xu, a senior from New Jersey, discusses her involvement with the Roots & Shoots National Youth Leadership Council - a program of the Jane Goodall Institute. Last summer, Charlotte started a group called “Light as a Feather” where she has led various bird-related projects with her brother.
- [People in Sustainable Agriculture with Ronnie Cummins](https://bio4climate.org/video/ronnie-cummins-ordinary-people-extraordinary-accomplishments/) - Over the past two decades, environmental activist Ronnie Cummins has served as director of US and international campaigns dealing with sustainable agriculture issues including food safety, genetic engineering, factory farming, and global warming. In this talk Cummins focuses on what individuals and small groups have done and continue to accomplish in these realms. Cummins also
- [Global Cooling from Plant Transpiration: Mechanisms and Uncertainties](https://bio4climate.org/video/global-cooling-from-plant-transpiration-mechanisms-and-uncertainties/) - In a time of accelerating global warming, nature's ability to cool the Earth is one of the most exciting and important prospects we can explore. We've been proud to host scientific experts at the forefront of this research like Dr. Anastassia Makarieva, Andrei Nefiodov, and Jan Pokorny. They joined us a couple of months ago
- [Restoring Peatland Ecosystems in the Face of Flooding](https://bio4climate.org/video/restoring-peatland-ecosystems-in-the-face-of-flooding/) - Tropical peat swamp forest is a unique ecosystem that is under enormous threat by human activities, such as logging, conversion for agriculture, drainage, fire, and wildlife hunting. Peat-swamp forests in the tropics represent a high biodiversity ecosystem with thousands of species and are rich in endemic and endangered flora and fauna. To address the threats
- [Youth Eco Restorers for Climate](https://bio4climate.org/video/youth-eco-restorers-for-climate/) - Around the world, young people are organizing in a variety of ways to restore our ecosystems and heal planet Earth. Hear from three remarkable youth leaders who are doing incredible work to help protect and restore the Earth through ecosystem restoration, art, and regenerative agricultural advocacy.Sergio Esteban Lozano-Báez is from Colombia. In 2011, he worked
- [Using The Miyawaki Method To Rapidly Rewild The World](https://bio4climate.org/video/using-the-miyawaki-method-to-rapidly-rewild-the-world/) - What can hold more than 500 species, sequester more than 500 lbs. CO2/year, be 10F cooler than its surroundings, soak up lots of rainwater,and be made by and for children in a space no bigger than a tennis court? A “mini-forest” planted using the Miyawaki Method, of course!Hannah Lewis (Bio4Climate Compendium editor) and Daan Bleichrodt
- [Amazon Deforestation: Why It Matters To Us](https://bio4climate.org/video/amazon-deforestation-why-it-matters-to-us/) - To support efforts to stop deforestation, sign the Amazonia for Life pledge: https://amazonia80x2025.earth/declaration#déclarationThe Amazon Rainforest is known as the “lungs of the earth” because it draws in carbon dioxide and breathes out oxygen. But it is also the biological heart of the planet’s hydroclimate system, the planet’s rain making machine. We have lost almost 20
- [Youth-led Climate Initiatives with Chloe Ng](https://bio4climate.org/video/youth-led-climate-initiatives-with-chloe-ng/) - In this interview hosted by Abby Abrahamson, Chloe Ng discusses her involvement with the Roots & Shoots National Youth Leadership Council - a program of the Jane Goodall Institute. Chloe Ng is a freshmen at University of Pennsylvania. This is her third year on the National Youth Leadership Council. As leader of the Blind Brook
- [Rewilding Our Planet Using the Miyawaki Method: Hannah Lewis & Maya Dutta](https://bio4climate.org/video/rewilding-our-planet-using-the-miyawaki-method-hannah-lewis-maya-dutta/) - The Cambridge Public Library and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate present author Hannah Lewis in a reading and discussion of her latest book, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World. The Miyawaki Method is a unique approach to reforestation devised by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. In the book, Lewis explains how
- [Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Live Stream](https://bio4climate.org/video/biodiversity-for-a-livable-climate-live-stream/)
- [Ego vs Eco: How Human, Animal, and Planet Health Interconnect](https://bio4climate.org/video/ego-vs-eco-how-human-animal-and-planet-health-interconnect/) - Wildlife and social justice advocate Tania Roa, who is also our Digital Communications Manager, gives a presentation on four topics to illustrate the need to move away from the Western mainstream 'Ego' mentality and to collectively move towards the holistic 'Eco' mindset. The four topics include a comparison between One Health and One Welfare, zoonotic
- [Introducing the EcoRestoration Alliance](https://bio4climate.org/video/introducing-the-ecorestoration-alliance/) - The EcoRestoration Alliance grew out of the work of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate). The Alliance is a rapidly growing global collaboration of scientists, thought leaders, conservationists, on-the-ground restoration practitioners and storytellers whose work challenges the prevailing view that reducing fossil fuel use at this late date can still result in the global cooling
- [Mini-Forest Revolution with author Hannah Lewis](https://bio4climate.org/video/mini-forest-revolution-with-author-hannah-lewis/) - In this interview hosted by Tania Roa, author Hannah Lewis discusses her new book "Mini - Forest Revolution." In this book, Lewis presents the Miyawaki Method, a unique approach to reforestation devised by Japanese botanist Dr. Akira Miyawaki. She explains how tiny forests as small as six parking spaces grow quickly and are much more
- [Worldwide Teach In on Climate & Justice](https://bio4climate.org/video/worldwide-teach-in-on-climate-justice/) - On May 30, 2022, Bio4Climate and the Campus Sustainability Committee at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) hosted an event as a part of the Worldwide Teach-In on Climate & Justice organized by Bard College. MCLA faculty, staff, and community members presented 5-minute talks on climate issues, followed by a dialogue with students. The
- [Art for the Environment with Ayushi Gaur](https://bio4climate.org/video/art-for-the-environment-with-ayushi-gaur/) - In this interview hosted by Abby Abrahamson, Ayushi Gaur, a senior from Memphis, Tennessee discusses her involvement with Roots & Shoots National Youth Leadership Council - a program of the Jane Goodall Institute. Ayushi’s favorite Roots & Shoots project is ConservACTION, a virtual space dedicated to highlighting the intersections of the creative arts and the
- [Mushrooms Change the World with Daniel Randall](https://bio4climate.org/video/mushrooms-change-the-world-with-daniel-randall/) - In this interview hosted by Abby Abrahamson, Daniel Randall discusses his involvement with the Roots & Shoots National Youth Leadership Council - a program of the Jane Goodall Institute. Daniel is a passionate advocate for nature and aims to improve environmental conditions through nature’s own intelligence. Through Roots & Shoots, Daniel has planted over a
- [Haiti’s “Green Pearl” Initiative with Janot Mendler De Suarez](https://bio4climate.org/video/haitis-green-pearl-initiative-with-janot-mendler-de-suarez/) - Janot Mendler De Suarez describes the community-driven “Green Pearl” initiative that aspires to transform Haiti from one of the poorest, most insecure and degraded countries in the world to a flourishing mosaic of Green Pearls. At the same time charting a new path for the humanitarian sector, rooted in the power of humanity to turn
- [Life After Fossil Fuels with author Alice Friedemann](https://bio4climate.org/video/life-after-fossil-fuels-with-author-alice-friedemann/) - Today our economy is utterly dependent on fossil fuels. They are essential to transportation, manufacturing, farming, electricity, and to make fertilizers, cement, steel, roads, cars, and half a million other products. This discussion with Alice Friedemann is a reality check on where energy will come from in the future.Alice Friedemann’s book, “Life After Fossil Fuels:
- [Code Red Water: Two Global Perspectives with Atossa Soltani & Michal Kravčík](https://bio4climate.org/video/code-red-water-two-global-perspectives-with-atossa-soltani-michal-kravcik/) - Thousands of projects on six continents are endeavoring to cool our overheated planet and restore biodiversity loss by harnessing the power of photosynthesis, carbon sequestration and regeneration of degraded landscapes. Most of these efforts are not by governments or corporations, but by coalitions of researchers, farmers, fishermen, forest-dwellers, and village cooperatives. What would happen if
- [Soil Biodiversity in Agriculture: Chloride Free Foundation](https://bio4climate.org/video/soil-biodiversity-in-agriculture-chloride-free-foundation/) - In this interview hosted by Abby Abrahamson, Carol Viana of The Chloride Free Foundation describes the importance of agricultural practices that prioritize soil health.Chloride Free Foundation is an international non-profit organization incorporated in the Netherlands. Our purpose is to protect soil biodiversity by making agricultural practices around the world chloride-free. We work to promote sustainable

## Announcements

- [‘ROADLESS RULE’ A RECKLESS ATTACK ON CLIMATE REGULATORS](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/roadless-rule-a-reckless-attack-on-climate-regulators/) - CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Beck Mordini, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate issued the following statement on the White House’s decision to declare “open-season” on 58 million acres of native forests, paving the way for road and development construction. “Just as tens of millions of Americans are experiencing a lethal, record-breaking heat wave, the
- [Northeast Miniforest Summit 2026](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/northeast-miniforest-summit-2026/) - Registration is now open for the 2026 Northeast Miniforest Summit: Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method Across the Northeast and beyond, communities are planting and stewarding miniforests in schoolyards, parks, campuses, farms, urban spaces, and other underused landscapes. This year’s Summit brings together practitioners, researchers, educators, community leaders, and forest stewards to share lessons,
- [Thinking Like Water](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/thinking-like-water-2/) - A five-part documentary and live conversation series.June 9 – July 14, 2026 · Weekly on Tuesdays What if restoring water where you live could transform your entire landscape? Many of the challenges we see in our backyards, gardens, forests, and communities—drought, flooding, erosion, declining biodiversity—are not isolated problems. They’re connected across the whole watershed. And
- [Regenerating Life: A New Look at the Climate Crisis - September 27 at 6 pm](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/regenerating-life-a-new-look-at-the-climate-crisis-september-27-at-6-pm/) - On Wednesday, September 27 at 6pm ET, John Feldman will share his perspective on Regenerating Life - an ecosystems perspective on the climate crisis. He will be joined in conversation by environmental journalist and author Judith D. Schwartz to explore regenerative solutions to climate disruption, global warming, and food insecurity. Watch the recording As many interconnected
- [Emergent Intelligence of Trees: How Symbiosis Shapes Living Systems](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/emergent-intelligence-of-trees-how-symbiosis-shapes-living-systems/) - March 18 - May 20Wednesdays at 12:00 pm ET and 7:00 pm ET Trees are architects of Earth’s climate and habitability. Through transpiration, carbon chemistry, soil formation, and symbiotic partnerships with fungi and microbes, forests regulate rainfall, stabilize atmospheric systems, and cool entire regions. Jim Laurie's Spring 2026 Course - Emergent Intelligence of Trees explores how ecological intelligence emerges
- [How Trees & Forests Shape Our Climate](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/how-trees-forests-shape-our-climate/) - February 5 - March 26, 2026Thursdays — 12:00 Noon ET Recently, Brazilian forest advocate Antonio Nobre wrote: “Deforestation is climate action's blind spot.” In this course, you will examine the ways in which trees and forests benefit our climate, while preventing flooding and drought and also providing habitat for a myriad of wildlife species. Hart
- [Videos to learn from](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/videos-to-check-out/) - Take a look at our Introductory Video Playlist. Great collections of videos are available on our Conference Pages. And don't miss our Life Saves the Planet lecture series on the GBH Forum Network.
- [Jim Laurie's Spring 2021 Class](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/jim-lauries-spring-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 (7-9 pm EST). Jim will send you class notes and home study opportunities every week. A certificate of completion will be available for those who
- [Miyawaki Forests at Bio4Climate](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/miyawaki-forest-gets-going-in-cambridge-massachusetts/) - Learn more and get involved
- [Jim Laurie's Summer 2021 Class](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/jim-lauries-summer-2021-class/) - Biodiversity IV: Fungi & Forests begins on June 16, 2021 and runs for twelve consecutive Wednesdays through September 1st, with choice of afternoon (12-2 pm EST) or evening classes (7-9 pm EST). You are welcome to join at any time during the course. Jim will send you class notes and home study opportunities every week.
- [Check out the July 2021 Issue of the Compendium](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/its-here-the-august-2021-issue-of-the-compendium/) - This July, we released the ninth edition of our Compendium of Scientific and Practical Findings Supporting Eco-Restoration to Address Global Warming. In this issue we focused on the ecological roles of native plants, and as well as including discussions of symbiosis, biophilia, and an Okanagan worldview of society.
- [Jim Laurie's Fall 2021 Class](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/jim-lauries-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 the climate. It will run for twelve consecutive Wednesdays, with choice of afternoon (1-3 pm EST) or evening classes (7-9 pm EST). It builds his on
- [One Week Left on our Cool the Earth: Green the Planet Campaign - with Matching Grant!](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/cool-the-earth-green-the-planet-campaign/) - This Fall, we are running our Cool the Earth: Green the Planet campaign to sponsor our upcoming courses, conferences, speaker series, and other education, advocacy, and rewilding work. Thanks to a generous matching grant for this time, all one-time donations will be doubled, and monthly donations will be tripled! There's just one week left, so join in
- [Fred Jennings' Fall 2021 Course](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/fred-jennings-fall-2021-course/) - This Fall, we are answering new questions about our transition to a more secure and abundant future with an Introduction to Ecological Economics course. Fred Jennings, our Ecological Economist at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, is offering this 8-week course on Thursdays, starting on Thursday October 14th. There will be two sessions each week, from
- [Youth EcoRestorers for Climate](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/youth-ecorestorers-for-climate/) - Youth leaders across the globe are advocating for people and the planet in various ways including on-the-ground ecosystem restoration, artivism, and promotion of regenerative agriculture. On September 17, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate hosted three youth leaders from Colombia, the United States, and Brazil to amplify their stories of regeneration and environmental advocacy. Stay tuned
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels/) - A series of virtual and in-person community eventsin 6 locations in the U.S. and CanadaSecond Event: KANSAS CITY November 12, 20221:00 - 5:00 pm CST on Zoom Register for November 12 It’s time to scale way back, redesign how we’re living and roll up our sleeves to restore our ecosystems, soil, biodiversity and connections with
- [Compendium Vol. 11, Grasslands](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/check-out-the-july-2022-issue-of-the-compendium/) - How do grassland ecosystems affect climate and biodiversity? In this issue we examine the science, the restoration and the culture around grasslands. Dive into the eleventh edition of our Compendium of Scientific and Practical Findings Supporting Eco-Restoration to Address Global Warming. We welcome your interest and comments - please contact us at staff@bio4climate.org.
- [Reforestation Solution: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/reforestation-solution-farmer-managed-natural-regeneration/) - On Wednesday, August 17 at 6pm ET, agronomist Tony Rinaudo joined environmental journalist Judy Schwartz in conversation to share about a reforestation method called Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). More than an effective, low cost, rapid and scalable method of land and environmental restoration, FMNR is restoring livelihoods and food security across tens of thousands of communities and in the process, restoring hope.
- [Amazon Deforestation: Why it matters to us](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/amazon-deforestation-why-it-matters-to-us/) - On Thursday, April 28 at 6pm ET, join Atossa Soltani, Rob de Laet, and moderator Jon Schull for Amazon Deforestation: Why it matters to us. The Amazon Rainforest is known as the “lungs of the earth” because it draws in carbon dioxide and breathes out oxygen. But it is also the biological heart of the
- [Miyawaki Forest planted successfully in Danehy Park](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/miyawaki-forest-to-be-planted-in-danehy-park/) - Planting day for our first Miyawaki Forest in Cambridge (and the Northeast) on Saturday, September 25 went beautifully. On a day predicted to hold thunderstorms, the sun shone down as volunteers gathered to put this historic forest in the ground. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to this project! Read more about the
- [Ego vs Eco: How Human, Animal, and Planet Health Interconnect](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/ego-vs-eco-course/) - Join us for this online course on the connections between human, animal, and planet health. The course will consist of 8 classes and be held live on Zoom, beginning March 2, 2022 and ending on April 27, 2022 (with no class on March 30th). Read more and register here.
- [Check out the January 2022 Issue of the Compendium](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/check-out-the-january-2022-issue-of-the-compendium/) - This March (apologies for being behind schedule), we released the tenth edition of our Compendium of Scientific and Practical Findings Supporting Eco-Restoration to Address Global Warming. In this issue we focus on the relationship between vegetation and temperature, and the ecological role of animals. We welcome your interest and comments - please contact us at staff@bio4climate.org.
- [Nature's Solutions as National Policy - Code Red Water](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/national-solutions-as-national-policy-code-red-water/) - On Saturday March 19 at 10 am ET we held the latest installment in our Nature's Solutions as National Policy conference series, Code Red Water: Two Global Perspectives. Atossa Soltani and Michal Kravcik discussed how improved water management can support functioning water cycles to meet the needs of living systems and cool the planet. Watch
- [Social Solutions: Making Systems More Resilient](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/social-solutions-making-systems-more-resilient/) - In Social Solutions: Making Systems More Resilient, Fred Jennings will focus on developing a working group of people who are ready to engage in ecological economics and to address social problems creatively and intelligently. Students will develop their practical analytical skills by examining our failing democratic processes and our fisheries management systems. Beginning Monday, April
- [Horizonal Thinking: Toward a New Economics](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/horizonal-thinking-toward-a-new-economics/) - In Horizonal Thinking: Toward a New Economics, Fred Jennings will focus on planning horizons and explain his approach to an ecological economics based on favoring collaboration over competition. Students will examine why and how our society has evolved toward the destruction of our ecological life-support systems, and how we might change our economic culture to
- [Jim Laurie's Class, Biodiversity 6: Systems Thinking & Scenarios – Tools for Creating Better Ecological Futures](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/biodiversity-6-announcement/) - Course fee: $240; if you're on a tight budget, a sliding scale is available at checkout. In 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
- [Heat Planet: Restore Ecosystems – Restore Climate](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/heat-planet-restore-ecosystems-restore-climate/) - Course fee: $200; if you're on a tight budget, a sliding scale is available at checkout. In Heat Planet: Restore Ecosystems - Restore Climate, Christopher Haines will lead students on an exploration of the sources of heat and climate disruption, and the ways that local action can significantly improve local climates. The course will empower
- [Introducing the EcoRestoration Alliance](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/introducing-the-ecorestoration-alliance/) - On Monday, March 28 at 6pm ET, our Life Saves the Planet speaker series continues with a panel on Introducing the EcoRestoration Alliance. Jon Schull, John D. Liu, Ilse Koehler-Rollefson and Valer Clark will describe the groundbreaking new alliance that aims to advance the global case for regeneration through cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary partnership. Stay tuned
- [Ecological Economics Course Preview](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/ecological-economics-course-preview/) - This April, Fred Jennings will begin two new courses in ecological economics - Social Solutions: Making Systems More Resilient and Horizonal Thinking: Toward a New Economics. Students will explore the economic paradigms that make social and ecological problems so intractable and the alternatives that could sustain a future of ecological integrity and abundance. On Monday,
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-kansas-city/) - A series of virtual and in-person community eventsin 6 locations in the U.S. and Canada Our next installment of Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels is on Saturday, November 12 with national and local speakers from Kansas City. It’s time to scale way back, redesign how we’re living and roll up our sleeves
- [Jim Laurie's Class, Biodiversity 7: Rewilding Half the Earth to Create a Future We Want](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/jim-lauries-class-biodiversity-7-rewilding-half-the-earth-to-create-a-future-we-want/) - Course fee: $240; if you're on a tight budget, a sliding scale is available at checkout. In Biodiversity 7: Rewilding Half the Earth to Create a Future We Want, Jim 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,
- [Wholehearted Regeneration at the Cambridge Science Festival](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/wholehearted-regeneration-at-the-cambridge-science-festival/) - On Thursday, October 6 at 3pm ET, we joined the Cambridge Science Festival’s climate hub to share insights on ecosystem restoration, urban rewilding, and Miyawaki Forests. Come by for Wholehearted Regeneration: Boosting Communal and Climate Resilience One Pocket Forest at a Time with Maya Dutta, Bio4Climate's Assistant Director of Regenerative Projects. She discussed the Miyawaki
- [An Inspiring Grassroots Approach to Ecorestoration: Sahel Ecovillage Communities](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/an-inspiring-grassroots-approach-to-ecorestoration-sahel-ecovillage-communities/) - On Thursday July 27 at 1 pm ET, we welcomed Dr. Ousmane Pame, Katrina Jeffries, and Dr. Marie Nazon to our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss the Ecovillage movement and their work with REDES, a Network for Ecovillage Emergence and Development in the Sahel region of Africa. They shared their experience and
- [DEI Discussion: The Repair Registration](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/the-repair-dei-discussion-registration/) - The Repair: DEI Discussion Description: We will explore the cultural roots of our current ecological emergency, and the deep changes Western society will need to make to save the Earth and our species. Using SceneOn Radio's production The Repair as a foundation, we will discuss issues of racial and environmental justice, and how we build
- [Saving Coral Reefs From Extinction](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/saving-coral-reefs-from-extinction/) - June 4, 2023 2pm EDT Coral reefs are vulnerable to rising global temperatures more than any other ecosystem. Marine and climate scientists are researching ways to protect coral reefs and the many ocean species that rely on them for food and shelter. Without coral reefs, ocean biodiversity remains at risk of decline and eventual extinction.
- [Remembering Our Relationships With Forests - Thursday May 25](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/remembering-our-relationships-with-forests-thursday-may-25/) - On Thursday May 25 at 6 pm ET, we welcome Coakí to our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to share his wisdom on Remembering Our Relationships With Forests – Modern And Ancient Agroforestry. Coakí will discuss how he practices syntropic agroforestry to restore ecosystems and local economies, create food security and a diversity of
- [A Forest Journey - Wednesday April 26](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/a-forest-journey-wednesday-april-26-2023/) - On Wednesday April 26 at 6 pm ET, we are honored to present John Perlin and his book A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization. The first edition was recognized as a Harvard Classic in Science and World History and listed as one of the university’s One Hundred Great Books, and the
- [Sustainability and Humankind's Dilemma](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/sustainability-and-humankinds-dilemma/) - Starting April 21, this 6-week course provides a broad overview of the multiple crises confronting humankind: climate change, peak oil, resource depletions, ecological deterioration, and societal collapse. It focuses on the current dilemmas in which humankind finds itself; how we have arrived at this moment; the resulting psycho-social-economic impacts; and several socio-economic-ecological regenerative strategies for mitigation. Read
- [No Trees, No Rain: How Plants Move Water, Weather – And Cool the World](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/no-trees-no-rain/) - Droughts and flash floods are becoming a new normal in our warming world. What changed? Our landscapes are losing water as people alter the environment, cut trees, drain wetlands, and use chemicals that destroy the soil. And we’re feeling the heat. On Friday, October 21 at 12:15pm ET, join Anastassia Makarieva, Jan Pokorny, Andrei Nefiodov,
- [Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/reclaiming-ancestral-wisdom/) - Join Jess Alvarez-Parfrey, Nathan Lou, and William Wildcat (Coakí) for an exploration of ancestral connections, and transformative opportunities to nurture a truly regenerative, just, joyful, and climate resilient future. On Thursday, November 17 at 6pm ET, join us for A New Generation of Change-makers - Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom. Bringing together diverse cultural backgrounds, skills, and
- [Sweet in Tooth and Claw](https://bio4climate.org/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 latest book, in which she explores the way symbiotic relationships between individuals and species fundamentally shapes the planet we call home. In contrast to narratives
- [Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-los-angeles/) - A series of virtual and in-person community eventsin 6 locations in the U.S. and Canada Our next installment of Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels is on Saturday, January 21 with national and local speakers from Los Angeles. It’s time to scale way back, redesign how we’re living and roll up our sleeves
- [Developing Food Resilience for Hard Times Ahead](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/developing-food-resilience-for-hard-times-ahead/) - On Thursday, January 26 at 6pm ET, Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger will join us to discuss their new book, Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World. While the last few tumultuous years have heightened uncertainties about our food supplies, there’s some good news coming out of the regenerative agriculture movement. Regenerative practices restore degraded land,
- [Biodiversity 8: Deepdive Into Symbiosis](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/biodiversity-deepdive-symbiosis-is-challenging-survival-of-the-fittest/) - 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 interpretation of Darwin’s survival of the fittest shaped not only our understanding of science and extinction, but also economics and cultural values? Are we genetically
- [Earth Day Picnic - Saturday April 22](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/earth-day-picnic-saturday-april-22/) - This Earth Day, Boston-area folks are invited to gather at Bio4Climate's Danehy Park Miyawaki Forest for a community picnic (99 Sherman Street, Cambridge MA). We will get together on Saturday, April 22 from 1 - 3pm to celebrate our beautiful home planet and the work to restore it. Please bring your lunch, your friends, and your
- [Dammed in a Hot Chaotic World](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/dammed-in-a-hot-chaotic-world/) - On Thursday, March 30 at 6pm ET, author Steve Hawley joins our Life Saves the Planet series to explore the ramifications of the extraordinary dam building boom of the last century that culminated in 800,000 dams worldwide today. In his book CRACKED: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World, Hawley examines the effect
- [Ecological Economics 2 - Course with Fred Jennings](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/ecological-economics-2-course-with-fred-jennings/) - Starting Monday, April 3, 2023 (with an open preview session on Monday March 27), join us for an insightful excursion into our economic culture and why it is doing us so much harm. Understanding ecological economics will give you a different perspective on on our planetary crises and how alternative social organization can better promote
- [Redesigning Our Communities - Cleveland](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/redesigning-our-communities-cleveland/) - On Saturday, March 25 at 1pm ET, catch our latest installment of Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels with national and local speakers from the Greater Cleveland area. It’s time to scale way back, redesign how we’re living and roll up our sleeves to restore our ecosystems, biodiversity and connections with our neighbors. Join in on
- [Voices of Water at the UN Water Conference - March 22-24, 2023](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/voices-of-water-at-the-un-water-conference-march-22-24-2023/) - We are happy to announce that our friends and colleagues are taking an active part in the first global conference on water. The United Nations Water Conference 2023 begins on March 22 in celebration of World Water Day. Stay tuned to our Instagram and Twitter for live coverage, and read more about the UN Water
- [Biodiversity Deep Dive Course:  Transformation to a Holistic Perspective – September 20, 2023](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/biodiversity-deep-dive-course-transformation-to-a-holistic-perspective-september-20-2023/) - Join Jim Laurie's next Biodiversity Deep Dive course, Transformation to a Holistic Perspective – Nature Can Cool the Planet. Are you ready to transform your understanding of how life on the planet works and how we can play a role? Join us as we follow the transformation of two leading writers and thinkers to a
- ["An Economics of Love" - starts April 15](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/an-economics-of-love-course-with-fred-jennings/) - Our economic system's focus on competition has led to significant destruction. We have an opportunity to create economic systems built on collaboration and love. We can embed incentives of support, health and abundance in our communities and restore ecosystems of natural resources that we need to survive and thrive. Join us for An Economics of
- [Living Fences & Living Soil for Environmental Justice](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/how-eco-restoration-improves-environmental-justice-thursday-march-28/) - On Thursday, March 28 at 6pm ET, we dived into how agroforestry and eco-restoration initiatives advance environmental justice in frontline communities around the world. Our latest Life Saves the Planet lecture featured John Leary and Pam Agullo of Mother Trees, an organization working on agri-business in Senegal, and Mariama Fatajo of Teja Development, supporting eco-restoration
- [Biodiversity Deep Dive: Beavers, Wetlands, and Living Shorelines](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/biodiversity-deep-dive-beavers-wetlands-and-living-shorelines/) - Starting Wednesday, February 21, Jim Laurie begins his 12 week Biodiversity Deep Dive course. Join us for an exploration of wetlands, shorelines, the water cycle, and the solutions powered by a systems approach to climate. This course meets every Wednesday, starting February 21 and running through May 8, 2024. Sessions will be held from 12
- [Redesigning Our Communities - Oregon](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/redesigning-our-communities-for-life-after-fossil-fuels-oregon/) - On Saturday, November 18 we were joined by Author Richard Heinberg, Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison, and other national and Oregon leaders for Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels. They explored our predicament of declining energy resources, the urgent need to grow our food locally, the power that restoring ecosystems has to reduce wildfires and
- [Bring Nature to the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels - September 10 - 24](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/bring-nature-to-the-global-fight-to-end-fossil-fuels-september-10-24/) - From now until September 24, we each have a critical opportunity to spread the message that #NatureCools in cities throughout the world, on social media, and in the mainstream media. Join us in showing people that restoring and protecting nature cools the climate, hydrates the land to prevent wildfires, drought and flooding, and reduces extreme weather.
- [Lark Ascending - September 15 at 3pm](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/lark-ascending-gathering/) - On Friday, September 15, join us at the Cambridge Public Library for an afternoon of art, music, and the transformative power of community. This book reading, performance, and fundraiser is open to all. Come for songs and refreshments, and stay for lively discussion with open-hearted people. Lark Ascending by Meleth Delia (Lark) Batteau is a
- [Miyawaki Forest Field Trip](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/miyawaki-forest-field-trip/) - Jim Laurie, our staff scientist, restoration ecologist, and teacher of several Biodiversity Deepdive courses, will hold a field trip for students and community members at our Danehy Park Miyawaki Forest. Join us on Sunday, September 3 to gather with fellow budding eco-restorers and enjoy the mini-forest's growth. Learn more about our Miyawaki Forests. The Danehy
- [Dr. Makarieva and Dr. Nefiodov are going on a Voices of Water USA Tour - September 21 - October 14](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/voices-of-water-usa-tour/) - Dr. Makarieva and Dr. Nefiodov will be presenting their scientific findings at universities throughout the United States from September 21 - October 14 on the importance of water and healthy forests. This important research is fundamental to the role of ecosystems in climate stability. Check here below for locations near you. This U.S. tour includes
- [Save Mass Forests - Forest Protection Bills in MA under review in Nov. 2023](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/save-mass-forests-forest-protection-bills-in-ma/) - As renewable energy projects are implemented to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels, regulations suspended to help fast-track beneficial projects and combat climate change have allowed the deforestation of intact woodlands. This decreases our resilience, and makes very little sense in the long term. Simply put, we don't need to cut down trees to put
- [Toward a Regenerative Future - Monday, January 29 at 6pm ET](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/toward-a-regenerative-future/) - On Monday, January 29, Vincent Stanley of Patagonia joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss the role of business in pivoting to regenerative systems. It is easy to vilify globalization and corporate America, but what would happen if the vast resources of the world economy turned towards eco-restoration, fair trade and uplifting
- [Are We Doing Solar Right?](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/are-we-doing-solar-right/) - On Thursday, November 9 at 6 pm ET, we welcomed Michelle Manion of Mass Audubon to our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss the negative impacts of solar installations on forest land and the viability of alternatives. Check out the recording now.
- [A New Climate Story - Begins Monday, Nov 13](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/a-new-climate-story-begins-monday-nov-13/) - On Monday, November 13 Christopher Haines will begin his course A New Climate Story. Imagine a world where innovative thinking and peer-reviewed science offers hope and empowerment, with a path to reverse climate change in months, years or decades, not centuries. Imagine principles you could apply to improve your own circumstances, even if the rest
- [Biodiversity Day in Danehy Park - Saturday, May 4 2024](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/biodiversity-day-in-danehy-park-2024/) - On Saturday, May 4th from 11 am to 3 pm ET, join us for Biodiversity Day as we honor the importance and power of biodiversity through birding tours, pollinator searches, interactive games and art-making for kids, and native plant workshops. Experience sounds of nature and sensory spaces, live music performances, and free resources on native plants
- [Youth-Powered Climate Justice with Our Children's Trust - Thursday, April 25 - 12 noon](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/youth-powered-climate-justice-with-our-childrens-trust-april-25-1200-noon/) - On Thursday, April 25 at 12:00 noon ET on Zoom, Mat dos Santos and Laura Gehrke of Our Children’s Trust will explain how 16 youth plaintiffs successfully sued the State of Montana to protect their right to a clean and healthful environment, and how youth in six other cases in the U.S. and Canada are
- [Grow Food, Play Music, Mālama Pono (Take Good Care) - Thursday, April 25, 6pm ET](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/grow-food-play-music-malama-pono-take-good-care-thursday-april-25/) - On Thursday, April 25 at 6pm ET, Beck Mordini and Jenny Pell held a lively conversation about facing our pretty scary future with integrity, hope, plenty of know-how, and a great sense of humor. We dove into climate reality, appropriate technologies, skill-building, local food, and neighborhood solutions that will inspire you to jump into your own
- [Building Climate Resilient Communities Through Ecosystem Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/building-climate-resilient-communities-through-ecosystem-restoration/) - Please Join us for an insightful panel discussion and networking session on September 27th, from 4:00-8:00 PM at Nigeria House, NYC, where we will explore the critical role of nature-based solutions and ecological restoration in enhancing climate resilience and restoring livable climates. Experts from Africa and Latin America will present innovative projects that harness natural ecosystems to combat climate change, restore degraded landscapes, increase water
- [2024 Midwest Beaver Summit](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/2024-midwest-beaver-summit-virtual-august-28-12-4-pm-et/) - Bio4Climate is excited to co-host the 2024 Midwest Beaver Summit alongside many outstanding environmental nonprofits, land trusts, restoration practitioners, and other organizations dedicated to conservation, implementing coexistence strategies, and cultivating awareness of the importance of beavers as keystone species in our ecosystems. WATCH THE RECORDING Full Agenda: 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM: Introduction11:10 AM -
- [Earth Day Picnic - Saturday, April 20](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/earth-day-picnic-saturday-april-20/) - On Saturday, April 20th from 11 am to 3 pm ET, join us for an Earth Day celebration at our Danehy Park Miyawaki Forest. We will gather at the picnic area of the park right next to the Miyawaki Forest, where we will share information and give tours of the site at 11am and 1pm. Come
- [Miyawaki Forest Planting - Extra Installation Date June 12](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/miyawaki-forest-plantings-saturday-april-27/) - This Spring, we are planting the first two Miyawaki Forests in Worcester, MA. These dense, biodiverse, native pocket forests will bring cooling, beauty, and resilience to the urban landscape. Join us for one additional planting day at Plumley Village Apartments on Wednesday, June 12 at 3pm. Come ready to get your hands in the soil
- [Small Forests, Big Benefits - Tuesday June 18](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/small-forests-big-benefits-tuesday-june-18/) - On Tuesday, June 18 at 7pm ET, we participated in a comprehensive forum on Miyawaki Forest adoption across the US. Watch the recording here! In this online event, Bio4Climate's Director of Regenerative Projects, Maya Dutta, joined keynote speaker Douglas Tallamy and three other national leaders to explore how mini-forests of native trees and shrubs can
- [Beavers as Wetland Protectors and Climate Heroes - Thursday June 20](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/beavers-as-wetland-protectors-and-climate-heroes-june-20/) - How can one furry critter can help us restore wetlands, protect biodiversity and mitigate both floods and fires. Brock Dolman and Kate Lundquist will shared their insights on beavers' beneficial role as ecosystem engineers, and lessons from their successful support of a recent state-led Beaver Restoration Program in California. Watch the recorded event. As WATER
- [[MA Local] Emerald Tutu Floating Wetlands Tour](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/ma-local-emerald-tutu-floating-wetlands-tour/) - July 23, 2024, 10am to noon. Join local students of Jim Laurie's Symbiosis Team to get an up front and personal view of the floating wetlands designed for Boston Harbor. This is the innovative project of modular floatingwetlands in East Boston that was shown in the documentary, Inundation District, on sea level rise in Boston.
- [Biodiversity 11: Warming Oceans, Moving Shorelines & Sea Level Rise - with Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/biodiversity-11-warming-oceans-moving-shorelines-sea-level-rise/) - What can be done to break the ocean’s fever and cool the planet? With the oceans warming rapidly causing larger storms and hurricanes, forecasts for sea level rise ranging from 2 feet to 20 feet by 2100, and polar regions warming three times faster than the rest of the world, humanity may be facing the
- [Journey of an Apprentice, graphic story with Erling Jorgensen - Thursday, February 20th](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/fireside-chat-with-erling-jorgensen-on-thursday-february-20th/) - Take a fun journey through the systems that create life and climate with engineer and graduate of Bio4Climate's “Systems Thinking and Scenario Building” course in 2022, Erling Jorgensen. Erling was inspired to share his learnings in a fun way that people with little training in biology and science could connect with. The result is "Journey of
- [Food & Farming -- How Farming Impacts Our Water, Wildlife, Climate, Health & Economy -- starts February 6](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/food-and-farming-how-farming-impacts-our-water-wildlife-climate-health-amp-economy-starts-february-6/) - Are you ready to make a difference in the future of food, our ecosystems and our health? Most farming practices today are driving up carbon emissions, worsening flooding and droughts, and harming water, wildlife, and our economy. These challenges affect you, your family and community—but your actions can spark change. What if you could help
- [10 Powerful Ways You Can Change Our Food System - Tuesday, Feb 4 - 12:00 & 7:00 ET](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/10-powerful-ways-you-can-change-our-food-system-tuesday-feb-4-1200-700-et/) - How your food is grown and raised can determine the quality of your water, the health of your forests, the stability of your climate, and the nutrients you rely on for optimal health. Farming impacts everything—and you have the power to change it. Join us for this Free Introductory Class to uncover 10 Powerful Ways You Can Change Our
- [New Course: Earth Alive – Exploring Our Home](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/new-course-earth-alive-exploring-our-home/) - How does life shape our planet? Join Jim Laurie, Restoration Biologist & Futurist, for Biodiversity 12: Earth Alive – Exploring Our Home, a 12-week course running from February 26 – May 14, 2025. Explore how ecosystems—from wetlands to grasslands—create the conditions for life, and learn how biodiversity plays a crucial role in regulating climate, soil,
- [Eastie Farm Benefit - Valentine’s Concert](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/eastie-farm-benefit-valentines-concert/) - Presented by the University of Toronto’s Hart House OrchestraSaturday, February 15, 2025First Church of Cambridge Support environmental action, youth empowerment, and sustainable local food systems by purchasing a ticket or making a donation. Eastie Farm plays a crucial role in strengthening food security and advancing climate solutions in Boston. This benefit concert will help fund
- [Wildfires Fact & Fiction — May 1, 8, 15 & 22](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/wildfires-fact-fiction-may-1-8-15-22/) - Wildfires are a very real threat, and we should be prepared. Unfortunately, we have been sold a range of false solutions (e.g., fuel reduction, forest thinning and prescribed burns), all at taxpayer expense.Wildfires Fact & Fiction will equip you with the most essential knowledge to protect homes and communities, while giving our forests what they really
- [Biodiversity Day in Danehy Park — Saturday, May 3](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/biodiversity-day-in-danehy-park/) - On Saturday, May 3rd from 3 pm to 5 pm ET Join Native Plant Community Gardeners, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate), and Boston Birding for an afternoon of nature, learning, and community fun. Featuring: 🎶 Live music🦉 Bird-watching tour with Mari Badger (Boston Birding)🌳 Miyawaki forest tour (Bio4Climate)🌼 Native plant walk🎲 Nature-inspired games for all
- [Global Eco-Restoration and Power Dynamics—Critical Ecosystems in Brazil, Senegal and the U.S. - JUNE 10 - 12:00 noon ET](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/ecorestoration-and-social-justice-around-the-world-webinar/) - Climate disruption is increasing and with it so is polarization, both within the US as well as among nation states. Now more than ever it is incumbent upon us to highlight successful efforts to create a more sustainable, just, and peaceful world. Important initiatives in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, soil restoration, and related practices are making
- [Water—The Missing Climate Solution—July 10-31](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/water-climate-july-10-17-24-31/) - What if there's a powerful solution we’ve been overlooking—one that could actually help cool the planet, starting right where you live? The untold story begins with water. Water is the most overlooked climate regulator. Through the cycling of water—plants, clouds, grasslands, wetlands and forests help stabilize Earth’s temperatures. When these systems are healthy, they cool
- [Trees & Forests -- Wildlife, Wildfires, Water Cycles & Climate Change -- starts December 5](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/treesandforests/) - Forests are more important than most of us realize. Forests make rain, cool the temperature, and send moisture to regions around the world. In many cases, forests have become monoculture "tree plantations" for the timber industry, lacking biodiversity and moisture. In a biodiverse forest, the soil soaks up water like a sponge, preventing wildfires, drought,
- [Thaw and Freeze: The ecological, geological, and human stakes of a warming Arctic](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/thaw-and-freeze-the-ecological-geological-and-human-stakes-of-a-warming-arctic-monday-nov-25/) - WATCH THE RECORDING A rapidly changing Arctic is reshaping everything. Polar bears navigate shrinking expanses of sea ice, thawing permafrost threatens coastal villages, destabilizes infrastructure, and exhales methane, and warming temperatures push more species northward into a greener arctic. These transformations are profound, and their impacts can extend far beyond the region’s ecologies that depend
- [Regenerating Life: Upcoming Screenings](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/regenerating-life-fall-screenings/) - Regenerating Life is a groundbreaking film that reframes the climate crisis by focusing on nature's power to heal our planet. It reveals how the biosphere egulates Earth's climate and how its destruction has driven global warming. The film highlights regenerating ecosystems like forests, fields, and wetlands, restoring the water cycle, and embracing sustainable practices like
- [Stopping Ecocide: Can International Law Prevent Mass Environmental Destruction?](https://bio4climate.org/announcement/stopping-ecocide-can-international-law-prevent-mass-environmental-destruction-monday-oct-7/) - WATCH THE RECORDING Diverse ecosystems represent the greatest climate action technology at our disposal. But what recourse do we have when nature itself is under attack from the world's biggest political and economic powers? The movement to codify ecocide, that is, the intentional (or negligent) mass destruction of an ecosystem, as an international crime is

## Conferences

- [Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming, Washington D.C. 2015](https://bio4climate.org/conference/washington-dc/) - Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming, Washington, DC Promoting the power of nature to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere where it does untold damage, and restore it to the soils where it supports abundant life and helps reverse global warming. Source: http://bostongreenschools.org/ Saturday, September 26, 2015, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Moot Court RoomDavid A.
- [Climate Reckoning: Paths to an Earth Restored](https://bio4climate.org/conference/climate-reckoning/) - Conference Home Speakers Program Sponsors and Partners Our most exciting, ground-breaking conference yet was a great success! Videos now online on the program page. Harvard University,* Museum of Natural History Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Friday, November 17 – Sunday, November 19, 2017 Friday, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- [Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity](https://bio4climate.org/conference/landscape-heroes-carbon-water-and-biodiversity/) - Landscape Heroes: Carbon, Water and Biodiversity See program below, with links to videos! A collaboration with the Ecological Landscape Alliance, NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association), NOFA Organic Land Care, and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate UMass Amherst, Tuesday, January 31st: An in-depth, inspiring conversation on Carbon Sequestration and learn what practical steps you can take
- [The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate](https://bio4climate.org/conference/harvard-conference-april-30-2016/) - Home Speakers Program The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate Click here to view videos! Saturday, April 30, 2016 A conference at Harvard University Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Tickets: Regular, $50; Early-Bird (by April 11th), $35; Students/Low-Income, $15 Biodiversity is the foundation of a healthy ecosystem. Biodiversity
- [Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming](https://bio4climate.org/conference/conference-2014/) - Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming - Conference Home - The conference is over, it was a stunning success - and our work has just begun. Stay tuned! November 21-23, 2014 Promoting the power of nature to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere where it does untold damage, and restore it to the soils where
- [Reversing Global Warming: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity, and Planet!](https://bio4climate.org/conference/bcc/) - Home Speakers Partners and Sponsors Reversing Global Warming: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity and Planet! Program and Home page A conference for farmers, gardeners, government officials, city-town councils, civic leaders, school board members, educators at all levels, park/forest and environmental managers and stewards, nursery and landscape business owners, and all other folks
- [Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Tufts 2015](https://bio4climate.org/conference/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/) - Restoring Water Cycles toReverse Global Warming Conference Home Program Speakers Sponsors/Partners Click here for videos and slideshows! Watch interviews with Michal Kravcik, Jon Griggs,Precious Phiri and Adam Sacks on Emerald Planet TV . . . . . . and one with Jim Laurie too! Even with elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,water can cool the biosphere and
- [Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool!](https://bio4climate.org/conference/scenario-300/) - Let's pull carbon out of the atmosphere and bring down the higher temperatures brought about by global warming - safely, inexpensively, low-tech, with a broad range of benefits. It was a great conference! Video links are directly beneath the title of each presentation, below.Downloads: Conference Program, Book List, Take Action!, Carbon Unit Conversions Scenario 300: Making
- [Climate, Biodiversity, and Survival: Listening to the Voices of Nature](https://bio4climate.org/conference/species-intelligence/) - Listening to the Voices of Nature- Conference Home -November 17-18, 2018 Conference Home Speakers Program Sponsors and Partners "The event was splendid. I learned more in two days than I’ve learned in the last 20 years, and I was thrilled to be included." Elizabeth Marshall Thomas "I loved the eclectic nature of the overall program,
- [Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change](https://bio4climate.org/conference/revitalizing-ecosystems-in-greater-boston/) - Co-Sponsored by the Greater Boston Group of the Sierra Club and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Video links below! Saturday, March 31, 9 am – 4 pm Harvard University,* Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Local ecosystems can help us to weather the coming climate shocks. Learn about current efforts and new possibilities
- [Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming](https://bio4climate.org/conference/cambridge/) - Program Nature Walk Sponsors/Partners Speakers Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming Conference Home Sunday, May 3, 2015, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Science Center, Hall C, Harvard University 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts A conference for climate activists, gardeners, scientists, educators, homeowners, public officials, the business community and others concerned about our
- [Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Floods & Droughts](https://bio4climate.org/conference/oceans-2016/) - Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Floods & Droughts Conference Home Speakers Program View the the conference videos, links on our program page. And here are some rave reviews: "This was a really FABULOUS conference. I learned an amazing amount that I didn't know! I've been to many conferences during
- [Blessed Unrest: Growing a Future for Life on Earth](https://bio4climate.org/conference/blessed-unrest/) - Conference Home Speakers Program Sponsors and Partners

## Speakers

- [Didi Pershouse](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/didi-pershouse/) - Didi Pershouse is a cross-pollinator, helping to connect the dots between soil health and human health. She is the author of The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities and the founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine. After 22 years of clinical work with patients, she is now working with
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks/) - Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist since 1999, since 2007 he has been studying and writing about the power of biology to reverse global warming and restore the earth. In 2009-10 he published articles in the online
- [Tom Goreau](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/tom-goreau-3/) - Tom Goreau is an award-winning marine, soils and climate scientist. He is President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, a coral reef protection non-profit, and has been involved in issues affecting the United Nations, climate change, coral reef, and small island developing states all over the world in many different capacities. He has dived longer and in
- [Judith Schwartz](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/judith-schwartz/) - Judith Schwartz is a longtime freelance writer and author of several books. Over the last several years she has written about the juncture of economics and the environment for such publications as Time, Time.com, the Christian Science Monitor, Conservation, and the UKGuardian. She is the author of the ground-breaking book, Cows Save the Planet and Other Improbable Ways of
- [Walter Jehne](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/walter-jehne/) - 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 microbial ecology of soil regeneration, the availability and cycling of nutrients, and how these govern the health, productivity, and resilience of biosystems. Walter is very interested
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-2/) - 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” project to clean raw municipal sewage with no toxic chemicals. The facility, through a grant from the EPA, processed 80,000 gallons/day using the “living machine” methodology invented by ecological
- [Michal Kravčík](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/michal-kravcik/) - Michal Kravčík is an internationally recognized Slovak water scientist, ASHOKA fellow, and co-author of A New Water Paradigm: Water for the Recovery of the Climate, which emphasizes hydrologic cycles in addressing climate change. He is also a founding member and chairman of Slovakia’s NGO People and Water. In 1999, Kravčík was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his contributions to
- [Ayushi Gaur](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/youth-ecorestorers-for-climate/) - My name is Ayushi Gaur and I am a high school senior living in Memphis, Tennessee. When I am not in school, I am dancing with Youth Ballet Memphis, playing the piano or saxophone, and working on my Roots and Shoots projects. I am very passionate about environmental conservation as well as the creative arts, and I
- [Sergio E. L. Baez](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/youth-ecorestorers-for-climate-3/)
- [Carol Viana](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/youth-ecorestorers-for-climate-2/)
- [Lenni Armstrong](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/lenni-armstrong-2/) - Lenni Armstrong is a leader of DePave Somerville, a community initiative developed with Somerville Climate Action. The city’s higher than average proportion of paved areas means greater flooding. By digging up asphalt driveways and putting in permeable pavers and green space, DePave is reducing the city’s potential for floods—and beautifying the city.
- [Philip Bogdonoff](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/philip-bogdonoff-2/) - Philip Bogdonoff, Director, Washington DC Chapter, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. Past trustee and board chair, Friends Community School; Co-founder, Sustainable Washington Alliance; Vice President, Millennium Institute; Consultant, World Bank 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
- [Precious Phiri](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/precious-phiri-3/) - Precious Phiri is a Senior Facilitator at the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe. Precious directs training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. This helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food and water security. This nature-based
- [William Moomaw](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/william-moomaw/) - William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, the Tufts Climate Initiative and co-founder of the Global Development and Environment Institute. A physical chemist with a PhD from MIT, he works to translate science and technology into policy
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-2/) - Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past 16 years, since 2007 he has been studying and writing about the power of biology to reverse global warming and restore the earth. In 2009-10 he published articles
- [Dan Kittredge](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dan-kittredge/) - Dan Kittredge is a life-long farmer and founder of the Bionutrient Food Association. He launched The Real Food Campaign (RFC) in 2008, to empower and educate farmers towards the production of quality food for the improvement of human health. In 2008 and 2009 RFC made major strides in developing a cohesive local, national and global vision, and networked nationally
- [Judith Schwartz](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/judith-schwartz-3/) - Judith Schwartz is a longtime freelance writer and author of several books. Over the last several years she has written about the juncture of economics and the environment for such publications as Time,Time.com, the Christian Science Monitor, Conservation, and the UKGuardian. Most recently she is the author of Cows Save the Planet and Other Improbable Ways of Restoring
- [Larry Kopald](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/larry-kopald/) - Larry Kopald has been a communications and branding professional for over twenty-five years, working at some of the world’s top advertising agencies. He has overseen the advertising for brands ranging from McDonalds to American Express to Honda, and has helped launch multibillion-dollar brands like Acura, Oracle, and Huggies. Larry has also been a lifelong environmentalist
- [Dale Guldbrandsen](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dale-guldbrandsen/) - Sally Dodge and Dale Guldbrandsen have served as Northeast Community Development Managers for Iroquois Valley Farms since 2013. Dale worked on his grandfather’s farms near Peoria, Illinois, during his youth, and also on farms near Plymouth, Michigan. He worked in Fortune 500 companies for 30 years, and later provided performance improvement services in many economic sectors, including manufacturing, health care
- [Philip Bogdonoff](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/philip-bogdonoff/) - Philip Bogdonoff is an engineer by training and an ecologist by heart. He serves as a Board Member of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and Director of the Washington DC Chapter. He is a past trustee and board chair of Friends Community School; a co-founder of the Sustainable Washington Alliance; a past vice president of
- [Betsy Nicholas](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/betsy-nicholas/) - Betsy Nicholas, Executive Director, WATERKEEPERS® Chesapeake and Fair Farms, has more than 16 years of experience in environmental law and policy. Upon joining WATERKEEPERS® Chesapeake in December 2012, she saw an opportunity to help farmers develop management practices that benefited the farmers and improved water quality. With much outreach and collaboration, Fair Farms Maryland was
- [Ling Tan](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ling-tan/) - Ling Tan is a founding member of Safe Grow Montgomery, an all-volunteer coalition that advocates for safer communities through healthy, pesticide-free lawns and outdoor spaces. Safe Grow Montgomery's efforts has made Montgomery County, Maryland, the first county in the country to enact legislation that would restrict the use of harmful lawn pesticides on public and
- [Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq.](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/alexis-baden-mayer/) - Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq. Political Director, Regeneration International and Organic Consumers Association Regeneration International, a project of the Organic Consumers Association, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to building a global network of farmers, scientists, businesses, activists, educators, journalists, governments and consumers who will promote and put into practice regenerative agriculture and land-use practices that: provide abundant,
- [Paul Tukey](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/paul-tukey/) - Paul Tukey, Author, The Organic Lawn Care Manual, and Chief Sustainability Officer, Glenstone Museum, is credited with spearheading the movement against utilization of synthetic chemical pesticides on lawns. Paul Tukey is an internationally recognized and honored sustainability consultant, entrepreneur, author, publisher, lecturer, filmmaker, television host and producer. A dynamic leader of several high-profile organizations in
- [Tod Wickersham](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/tod-wickersham/) - Theodore “Tod” S. Wickersham, Jr., President of Beneficial Results LLC, focuses on assisting businesses and nonprofits improve their operations / profitability, build alliances, enhance collaboration, lead stakeholder groups, open markets, influence public policy, and achieve program objectives that also result in improved water and air quality, and reduced carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and diesel/toxics
- [Ben Friton](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ben-friton/) - Ben Friton is a soil ecologist, consultant and educator from the Washington DC area. For more than a decade he was a speech professional working with politicians, heads of state, CEOs, and philanthropic icons from around the world. In 2010, with the goal of helping to increase educational awareness and hyper-local food resiliency, he co-founded
- [Lincoln Smith](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/lincoln-smith/) - Lincoln Smith runs Forested, a 10-acre forest garden in Bowie, MD. He tests forest farming methods, educates aspiring forest farmers, consults on new forest farms and brings forest products to market. He produces a forest garden farm share, has designed food forest parks planted in the DC region, and holds forest-to-table events. Check out the
- [Claudio Ternieden](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/claudio-ternieden/) - Claudio H. Ternieden is the Senior Director of Government Affairs and Strategic Partnerships at Water Environment Federation in Alexandria, VA. Claudio directs WEF’s legislative and regulatory efforts in Washington, DC with both Congress and federal agencies and works to represent water professionals in our nation’s capital. Before coming to WEF, Claudio worked with several other
- [Emily Landis](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/emily-landis/) - Emily Landis is the Global Coastal Wetlands Strategy Lead at The Nature Conservancy. Her primary focus is on the role coastal wetlands play in sequestering carbon and climate adaptation. Emily comes with a marine background working for the Global Ocean Commission, Pew Charitable Trusts, and Rare. She holds a Master’s Degree in biology from University
- [Dan Medina](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dan-medina/) - Daniel Medina, PhD, PE, D.WRE, is a Senior Engineer based in LimnoTech’s Washington DC office, who specializes in water resource systems planning and climate change and resilience. His experience encompasses a wide array of water resources areas, especially in urban water issues including flood risk management, water supply, watershed restoration, climate change impacts, and the
- [Charlene Johnston](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/charlene-johnston/) - Charlene Johnston, PE, is a professionally licensed Civil Engineer and Program Manager at AECOM. She has more than 20 years of engineering experience. Over the past 15 years, Charlene’s professional focus includes climate resiliency and control of stormwater projects and flood studies. Her passion is green infrastructure (GI) / low impact development (LID) and building
- [Nick Maravell](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/nick-maravell/) - Nick Maravell Farmer, Buckeystown, MD, has been farming organically for more than 40 years, using a diversified grass-based farming system, with an 8- 12 year rotation. Committed to developing local and regional food systems, Nick has helped establish and operate several farmer cooperatives, has conducted on- farm organic research in cooperation with USDA and Land
- [Cleo Braver](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/cleo-braver/) - Cleo Braver has the pleasure of living on Cottingham Farm with her husband Allie Tyler, where she and her two full-time employees produce certified organic vegetables and pastured meat and eggs in order to contribute to a year-round natural resource-based economy. She sells to grocers, restaurants and any member of the public who wishes to
- [Ed Huling](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ed-huling/) - Ed Huling is a nutritionist, researcher, environmentalist and farmer. He led a research project at the USDA about fourteen years ago, and learned about the decline of nutrients in our soil and our food. He founded New Day Farms to practice regenerative agriculture to address this serious issue and provide genuinely nutrient-dense greens to the
- [Margaret Morgan-Hubbard](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/margaret-morgan-hubbard/) - Margaret Morgan-Hubbard, Founder and CEO of ECO City Farms, is an organizer, educator, activist and life-long environmentalist. Morgan-Hubbard’s prior professional experience includes: directing the Engaged University at the University of Maryland; leading the Office of Communications at the US Environmental Protection Agency; heading a national environmental organization and managing DC’s Low Income Weatherization and related
- [Gina Angiola](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/gina-angiola/) - Gina Angiola, MD is a retired physician who has served as an educator and organizer on a wide array of issues ranging from election integrity to environmental sustainability. Most recently, she helped lead the successful campaign for a legislative ban on fracking in Maryland. As a lifelong advocate for healthy environments and a climate activist
- [Kris Nichols](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/kris-nichols/) - Kris Nichols, Chief Scientist, Rodale Institute, examines the impacts of management such as crop rotation, tillage practices, organic production, cover crops, and livestock grazing on soil aggregation, water relationships, and glomalin at the Institute. She received a Bachelor of Science in Plant Biology and in Genetics and Cell Biology from the University of Minnesota, a
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-7/) - 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 of the world’s largest “Living Machine” project to clean raw municipal sewage with no toxic chemicals. The facility, through a grant from the EPA, processed
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-7/) - Adam Sacks has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy. For five years he directed a non-profit that worked with communities invoking basic democratic and constitutional principles to oppose detrimental local corporate activity. He has been a climate activist for the past sixteen years and has been studying and writing about
- [Kannan Thiruvengadam](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/kannan-thiruvengadam/) - Kannan Thiruvengadam is the president of Eastie Farm in East Boston, MA. He is an urban farmer and environmentalist who is passionate about regenerative design.
- [Maggie Booz](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/maggie-booz/) - Maggie Booz is the co-chair of the Cambridge Committee on Public Planting. She is also an architect and the owner of SmartArchitecture in Cambridge, MA.
- [John Reinhardt](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/john-reinhardt/) - John Reinhardt is the president of the Mystic River Watershed Association. He was an environmental policy analyst for the USEPA and MassDEP for over 35 years, and served as a conservation commissioner for the City of Somerville for 19 years.
- [Zeyneb Magavi](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/zeyneb-magavi/) - Zeyneb Magavi, Research Director for HEET and serves on the National Health Impacts Team and the Gas Leaks Task Force for Mothers Out Front.
- [John Pitkin](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/john-pitkin/) - John Pitkin, Greater Boston Group of the Sierra Club
- [Tom Wessels](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/tom-wessels/) - Tom Wessels is a terrestrial ecologist and professor emeritus at Antioch University New England. He is the author of The Myth of Progress, Towards a Sustainable Future, Granite, Fire, and Fog: The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia, Reading the Forested Landscape, and other books.
- [Jono Neiger](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jono-neiger/) - Jono Neiger is a founding partner of Regenerative Design Group with 24 years of professional experience in permaculture, ecological land design, site planning, community development, agroforestry, land management and conservation, and restoration. Mr. Neiger teaches widely around the northeast and southeast at colleges, workshops, and conferences on the topics of permaculture, ecological design, sustainable water use, and productive
- [Jim Corven](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-corven/) - Jim Corven is a professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Plant Science, and Biology at Bristol Community College. He is the faculty advisor for the student club Seeds of Sustainability (SOS), faculty member of the BCC Sustainability Committee, and serves on the Staff & Faculty Senate. Jim’s current research involves a study of sustainable agriculture educational programs at community colleges
- [Mchezaji “Che” Axum](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/mchezaji-che-axum/) - Mchezaji “Che” Axum is the Director of the CAUSES Center for Urban Agriculture. He is a trained environmental agronomist with over 25 years of experience in agriculture. He leads a team of Researchers at the Muirkirk Research Farm in Beltsville, Maryland, and oversees the University’s DC Master Gardener, Specialty/Ethnic Crops and Urban Agriculture certificate programs. Read
- [Bruce Fulford](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/bruce-fulford-3/) - Bruce Fulford is president of City Soil & Greenhouse LLC. For more than 30 years, he has pioneered composting, biothermal energy, four-season crop production and stormwater management practices and projects. He works closely with national and community-based organizations in land remediation, agricultural business development, fund raising, and job training.
- [Thomas Akin](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/thomas-akin/) - Thomas Akin is State Resource Conservationist at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the US Department of Agriculture. NRCS provides technical and financial assistance to farmers to improve the health of their soils by implementing conservation practices such as cover crops, crop rotation, and reduced tillage. Healthy soils hold more water, better resist erosion and
- [Will Mitchell](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/will-mitchell/) - Will Mitchell, Founder of Tenleytown Meat Company. Tenleytown Meat Company was founded to effectively connect responsible local farms with DC area residents seeking a change to our modern food system. Tenleytown Meat Company is a small distribution service helping to build a sustainable market of holistically managed, pasture-raised meat for DC area farmers, processors, and eaters.
- [Sudheer Shukla](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/sudheer-shukla/) - Sudheer Shukla, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate outreach coordinator and DC Area Maryland Coordinator at Climate Change is Elementary, which leads climate awareness activities for elementary school students and their families. Sudheer is also involved with Citizens Climate Lobby.
- [Precious Phiri](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/precious-phiri-4/) - Precious Phiri is the Founding Director of EarthWisdom Consulting Company. She was formerly a Senior Facilitator at the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe where she directed training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. She helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and
- [Nick Maravell](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/nick-maravell-2/) - Nick Maravell, Owner of Nick’s Organic Farm. Nick has been farming organically for more than 40 years. After experimenting for several years, he started farming on a commercial basis in Purceville, Virginia in 1979. Concerned about the soil, environment, energy conservation, and fresh, local, healthy food, he began by selling vegetables to restaurants and local
- [Lincoln Smith](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/lincoln-smith-2/) - Lincoln Smith runs Forested.us, a 10-acre forest garden research site in Bowie, MD. He teaches or co-teaches all courses at Forested, and designs forest gardens. He is passionate about production ecosystems, and brings a background in agronomic science and sustainable landscape design. Lincoln started Forested, LLC to develop and share research in forest gardening. He is
- [Leah Rampy](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/leah-rampy/) - Leah Rampy, Ph.D. is a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, a group of activists trained by Al Gore and committed to telling the story of climate change to inspire action. Frequently joined by her daughter Ana, Leah has presented to numerous religious groups, students, and non-profits. Leah’s career spans executive leadership positions in
- [Larry Kopald](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/larry-kopald-2/) - Larry Kopald has been a communications and branding professional for over twenty-five years, working at some of the world’s top advertising agencies. He has overseen the advertising for brands ranging from McDonalds to American Express to Honda, and has helped launch multibillion-dollar brands like Acura, Oracle, and Huggies. Larry has also been a lifelong environmentalist serving
- [Joe Libertelli](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/joe-libertelli/) - Joe Libertelli directs Alumni Affairs, and helps coordinate public relations for the School of Law. He earned his B.A. from Princeton University and J.D. from Antioch School of Law. He has been Executive Director of Metro D.C. Environmental Network, and is a co-founder of the Gibson Hollow Limited Liability Company, which runs a cooperative ecological mountain
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-11/) - 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 manager of the world’s largest “Living Machine” project to clean raw municipal sewage with no toxic chemicals. The facility, through a grant from the EPA, processed
- [Greg Glenn](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/greg-glenn/) - Greg Glenn, Farm Manager, Rockland Farms (Poolesville, MD). During his time at Virginia Tech, Greg developed a passion for farming and local food systems. He studied small business agriculture and regional food systems, was actively involved in the local food system in Blacksburg, VA, and spent time in Kenya and South Africa where he became
- [Gina Angiola, MD](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/gina-angiola-md/) - Gina Angiola, MD – Retired physician, Board member of Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, Member, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, lifelong advocate for healthy environments. As a climate activist for over 12 years and a member of many large environmental organizations, most of her advocacy and action has focused on reducing emissions from the energy sector
- [Fritz Gottschalk](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/fritz-gottschalk/) - Fritz Gottschalk is a recently retired Army Veteran who served for 25 years in a variety of military operations, focusing mostly on working with foreign militaries. He served in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Panama, Haiti and throughout Western Africa. After leaving the military, he became a Maryland State Certified Compost Facility Operator and has
- [Dan Kittredge](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dan-kittredge-2/) - Dan Kittredge is a life-long farmer and founder of the Bionutrient Food Association. He launched The Real Food Campaign (RFC) in 2008, to empower and educate farmers towards the production of quality food for the improvement of human health. In 2008 and 2009 RFC made major strides in developing a cohesive local, national and global vision, and networked nationally
- [Anthony Torres](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/anthony-torres/) - Anthony Torres, is a member of the Class of 2015, Leadership Program, School of Public Affairs, American University. He is pursuing a dual degree in political science and environmental studies with a focus on the intersections of social inequality and climate change. At AU, he has served as an organizer for his campus divestment campaign
- [Annita Seckinger](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/annita-seckinger/) - Annita Seckinger is a soils and water scientist who works as a consultant for a range of organizations. She is also the founder and president of the Watts Branch Watershed Alliance, an organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the Watts Branch Watershed in Montgomery Country, Maryland. Annita and Dr. Ray Weil are currently collaborating
- [Alexis Baden-Mayer](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/alexis-baden-mayer-2/) - Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq., Political Director, Organic Consumers Association. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. www.organicconsumers.org/
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-10/) - Adam Sacks is executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past 15 years, he has been studying and writing about Holistic Management since 2007. His primary goal is regeneration of biodiversity and a livable planet.
- [Quinton Zondervan](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/quinton-zondervan/) - Quinton Zondervan is executive director of the Climate Action Business Association and president of Green Cambridge, the conference’s two co-sponsors. He is an environmental and political activist working towards a more sustainable and peaceful future.
- [Mark Smith](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/mark-smith-2/) - Mark Smith is co-founder and president of Brookwood Community Farm in Milton, Massachusetts, a non-profit organic farm bordering Boston in the Blue Hills. He is committed to growing good food with sustainable practices to improve food security for nearby residents. Previously, Mark served as communications director for Farm Aid, the national family farm organization.
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-9/) - Adam Sacks is executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past 15 years, he has been studying and writing about Holistic Management since 2007. His primary goal is regeneration of biodiversity and a livable planet.
- [Nathan Phillips](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/nathan-phillips/) - Nathan Phillips is professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University.He studies the physiological mechanisms and processes by which plants and ecosystems regulate water loss and carbon gain, and how these processes may be altered under global environmental change. He is now applying this research to studies of urban ecology in a program called Urban Metabolism.
- [Eric Olson](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/eric-olson/) - Eric Olson is a senior lecturer in the graduate program on Sustainable International Development at the Heller School at Brandeis. He has a background in evolutionary biology, ecology, and forest science. Among his interests are global atmospheric circulation, climate change, the sources and maintenance of soil fertility, and the pathways of nitrogen through atmosphere, soils, and
- [Luisa Oliveira](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/luisa-oliveira/) - Luisa Oliveira led the municipal team that developed Somerville’s urban agriculture ordinance, the first in New England . She will tell the story of the development of the ordinance in Somerville and the successes and challenges of urban agriculture in a densely populated city.
- [Charlotte O’Brien](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/charlotte-obrien-2/) - Charlotte O’Brien is an entrepreneur and expert on pyrolysis (, biomass and bamboo. She is president and CEO of Carbon Drawdown Solutions, which supplies equipment for local biochar processing for long-term soil carbon storage, that also greatly improves soil health and productivity. She has worked with both biochar and bamboo in many situations, at many scales, around
- [David Morimoto](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/david-morimoto-2/) - David Morimoto is associate professor of Biology at Lesley University, where he teaches ecology, ornithology, conservation biology, and animal behavior. He has studied the effects of forest fragmentation on birds in Massachusetts and is currently involved in research on urban birds.
- [Ellen Mass](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ellen-mass/) - Ellen Mass is president of the Friends of Alewife Reservation Inc. (FAR), a ten-year stewardship and conservation group at Alewife. FAR performs community action and citizen science, teaching forums on the effects of climate change on the floodplain. FAR also offers clean-ups, tours, summer Ecology Camps, and advocates on behalf of the Alewife wetlands and the wild space of the
- [Jennifer Lawrence](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jennifer-lawrence/) - Jennifer Lawrence is the sustainability planner for the City of Cambridge; her responsibilities include climate communications, and collaborating on the Climate Change Adaptation and Preparedness Planning Process. She was executive director of Groundwork Somerville, has worked with Apex Green Roofs, and was a senior fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program in Greenbelt, MD.
- [Mel King](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/mel-king/) - Mel King has been active across the landscape of neighborhoods and politics of Boston for over 55 years as an educator, youth worker, social activist, community organizer, elected official, and author. As an adjunct professor at MIT and a pioneer in Boston’s community gardening effort, he was responsible for creating many community programs and institutions for
- [Allison Houghton](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/allison-houghton-2/) - Allison Houghton is a teacher of permaculture and gardening techniques. She manages the Greater Boston CSA for the Food Project, where she has also been the orchard manager and assistant grower for the Lincoln Farm. Before that, she was horticultural director for Green City Growers, helping Greater Boston residents, schools, and businesses grow food intensively in small
- [Joy Gary](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/joy-gary/) - Joy Gary is a grower at ReVision Urban Farm in Dorchester. She grew up on a farm, and worked on a farm in Michigan, so working with the earth and growing her own food has always been important to her. She has strong interests in urban agriculture, new foods and culinary skills. One of her passions
- [Eric ‘T’ Fleischer](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/eric-t-fleischer/) - Eric ‘T’ Fleischer is the director of Horticulture at Battery Park City Parks Conservancy in Manhattan, where he focuses on managing public space through completely organic means. In 2007, based on a program at Battery Park, he developed the Harvard Yard Soils Restoration Project; it avoids the use of toxic pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, and builds
- [Phil Colarusso](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/phil-colarusso/) - Phil Colarusso, of the Ocean and Coastal Protection unit of the Boston EPA office, is a marine biologist and avid, highly experienced diver. He studies how Boston Harbor has recovered since the Deer Island wastewater treatment facility was installed. He is an expert on how offshore eelgrass metabolizes carbon, and how we can protect and restore
- [Duke Bitsko](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/duke-bitsko/) - Duke Bitsko is the director of Interdisciplinary Design at Bioengineering Group in Salem, MA. On its green infrastructure and restoration projects, he works with ecologists, earth scientists and engineers to develop regenerative site-based solutions that are cost and management effective. He led a large-scale project in the Alewife area, turning a former parking lot into a
- [Jonathan Bates](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jonathan-bates/) - Jonathan Bates is an ecologist and permaculture consultant. He worked with his friend Eric Tonsmeier to turn a neglected tenth of an acre in Holyoke into an urban oasis, an edible forest garden with 160 carefully chosen varieties of plants and trees. They tell the story in Paradise Lot (Chelsea Green Books). At Food Forest Farm they
- [Nancy Lee Wood](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/nancy-lee-wood/) - Nancy Lee Wood, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at Bristol Community College (BCC) in Fall River, MA and Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Post-carbon Education (ISPE), which she established in 2008. She is a life-long activist, participating in the anti-Vietnam War/Peace Movement, the anti-Nuclear Movement, the anti-Apartheid Movement, the International Women’s Movement and most recently,
- [Liz Wiley](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/liz-wiley/) - Liz Wiley is the Program Manager for Round the Bend Farm, a program of the Marion Institute, where she is developing infrastructure for a Learning Center that will accommodate workshops in food and farming, sustainability, health and wellness. Trained as a biologist, she helped pioneer methods to rescue mass stranded whales and dolphins, investigated the impact of noise on
- [Mark Smith](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/mark-smith/) - Mark Smith is co-founder and President of Brookwood Community Farm, a non-profit organic farm bordering Boston in the Blue Hills. The farm is committed to growing good food with sustainable practices to improve food security for nearby residents. Formerly, Mark was the communications director for the national family farm organization Farm Aid.
- [Ridge Shinn](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ridge-shinn-3/) - Ridge Shinn advocates raising beef on a 100% grass diet to change the present model of beef production and distribution in North America, resulting in an ecologically based and economically sustainable system. Large-scale implementation would lead to improved human health, energy savings, and an increase in carbon sequestration, soil fertility, and biodiversity. He has developed markets and distribution
- [Greg Sethares](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/greg-sethares/) - Greg Sethares is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bristol Community College (BCC). Prior to this appointment he served over eighteen years as a BCC mathematics faculty member, as well as in a variety of leadership roles at the College, including Department Chair; founding Director of BCC’s Commonwealth Honors Program; President of the Faculty and Professional Staff
- [Seeds of Sustainability](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/seeds-of-sustainability/) - Seeds of Sustainability is student club based in Fall River, Massachusetts at Bristol Community College whose goals are to encourage and promote education, leadership and the practice of sustainable living. SOS aims to provide the availability of fresh, local and organic food on campus, to support local organic agriculture and to foster sustainable practices throughout the surrounding community.
- [Paul Schmid](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/paul-schmid/) - Paul Schmid is the Massachusetts State Representative for the 8th Bristol district and Vice Chair of the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture. He is also the proprietor of River Rock Farm in Westport where he raises 100% grass-fed beef.
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-8/) - Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy. For five years he directed a non-profit that worked with communities invoking basic democratic and constitutional principles to oppose detrimental local corporate activity. He has been a climate activist for the past thirteen
- [Paula Phipps](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/paula-phipps-2/) - Paula Phipps is a multi-culturalist with special interests in supporting culturally and linguistically competent programs and advocating for at-risk children and families. Her passion is developing curriculum that credits children with curiosity, creativity, openness, and a high interest in learning – and provides the knowledge and skill base needed at this time. That knowledge and skill base must
- [William McCaffrey](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/william-mccaffrey/) - William McCaffrey is a small farmer from East Taunton, MA, where his family grows cranberries, strawberries, and hay. After eight years of studying agriculture in upstate New York and abroad, William has joined his parents to expand the range of production on Spring Rain Farm. His primary interests are tree fruit and meat livestock, focusing on
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-10/) - 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 Machine” project to clean raw municipal sewage with no toxic chemicals. The facility, through a grant from the EPA, processed 80,000 gallons/day using the “living machine” methodology invented by
- [Emily Jodka](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/emily-jodka/) - Emily Jodka is a life long gardener and New Englander who currently lives in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Emily Co-founded the New Urban Farmers in 2008 with Bleu Grijalva, which started as a grassroots movement in a community garden that grew into a non-profit that provides education and an opportunity to grow and eat fresh food grown without chemicals.
- [Sarah Howard](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/sarah-howard/) - Sarah Howard is the Executive Director of Earthos Institute in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work has focused on building community and regional resiliency and vitality as well as ecological and justice issues. She has taught experiential environmental education and founded community learning centers in urban areas, worked for cultural institutions to develop community partnerships/education, served as an elected Housing Commissioner in Westport
- [Zoe Hansen-DiBello](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/zoe-hansen-dibello/) - Zoe Hansen-DiBello is a Providence, RI native who now resides in the South Coast of Massachusetts. Zoe graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2008 and is currently working towards a PhD in Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Zoe has worked for the Marion Institute since 2009 and co-founded the Grow Education Program
- [Rachael Furlong](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/rachael-furlong/) - Rachael Furlong is a full-time student at Bristol Community College. She is a very active member of Seeds of Sustainability; a student club on the Fall River campus. Rachael will be graduating with an Associate’s degree in General Studies with a concentration in Sustainable Agriculture this Spring. In the Fall, she will continue her education at UMass
- [Bruce Fulford](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/bruce-fulford-2/) - Bruce Fulford is President of City Soil & Greenhouse LLC. He has pioneered composting, biothermal energy, four-season crop production and stormwater management practices and projects for more than 30 years. His integrated projects are models of efficient and equitable resource management that reduce greenhouse gas sources and mitigate the effects of climate change. His company operates the City of
- [Gillian Davies](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/gillian-davies/) - Gillian Davies is a senior wetlands and soil scientist who provides scientific and regulatory consulting to public and private sector clients, as well as expert witness testimony. Her consulting expertise encompasses state and federal permitting, wetland delineation, impact analysis, mitigation planning and design, difficult wetland soils evaluations, vernal pool evaluations, construction monitoring, and peer reviews for Conservation
- [Engin Atasay](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/engin-atasay/) - Engin Atasay is an Assistant Professor of Education at Bristol Community College. In 2014, he received his PhD is Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education from the Department of Education, Culture and Society at the University of Utah. His research addresses dialogues for democratic learning and social equity and he uses eco-literacy as a framework for educators to question and challenge mainstream and
- [Richard Teague](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/richard-teague/) - Richard Teague is Associate Resident Director and Professor of Sustainable Rangeland Management at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center. His philosophy is that research and service must provide the linkage that enables managers to base decisions for sustainable land use on the principles of ecosystem function. He uses four key elements to enhance this linkage:
- [Ridge Shinn](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ridge-shinn-2/) - Ridge Shinn advocates raising beef on a 100% grass diet to change the present model of beef production and distribution in North America, resulting in an ecologically based and economically sustainable system. Large-scale implementation would lead to improved human health, energy savings, and an increase in carbon sequestration, soil fertility, and biodiversity. He has developed markets
- [Vanessa Rule](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/vanessa-rule/) - Vanessa Rule is co-director and lead organizer for Mothers Out Front. She has been working to address the climate crisis since the fall of 2006, as lead organizer for Somerville Climate Action, as a board member of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network, and as co-founder of Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts. Her love of people, nature,
- [Gary Rucinski](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/gary-rucinski/) - Gary Rucinski is co-founder and chairman of the Committee for a Green Economy, and is Northeast Regional Coordinator of the Citizens Climate Lobby, a grassroots nonpartisan nonprofit building the political will for a sustainable climate. Since founding CCL’s Boston chapter in 2010, Gary has become the local organization’s primary spokesperson advocating for a national tax on carbon that would
- [Ethan Roland](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ethan-roland/) - Ethan Roland is an international expert on regenerative agriculture and permaculture design. He is the lead organizer of the 2015 Carbon Farming Course, and is launching Regenerative Real Estate LLC to transform large areas of degraded land into economically & ecologically profitable farms. Ethan is the President of the Apios Institute for Regenerative Perennial Agriculture, the founder
- [Greg Retallack](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/greg-retallack/) - Greg Retallack is an award-winning paleobotanist at the University of Oregon, where he has been on the faculty since 1981. His research group is dedicated to the proposition that soils have a fossil record, like other living things. Past studies have considered the role of soils in ape and human evolution in Kenya, grassland evolution in North America, dinosaur
- [Charlotte O’Brien](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/charlotte-obrien/) - Charlotte O’Brien, President and CEO, Carbon Drawdown Solutions, is an entrepreneur, pyrolysis and biomass expert who has worked for years with many varieties of bamboo, a plant that improves soils and water cycles, expands habitats for many other species, and may be harvested sustainably for uses ranging from construction to food to biochar, a soil supplement.
- [Tom Newmark](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/tom-newmark/) - Tom Newmark has spent fourteen years in the natural vitamin and supplement industry, building New Chapter into the number one company in the industry. Tom is also the founder of Sacred Seeds and co-owner of Finca Luna Nueva, an organic farming operation in Costa Rica that administers tropical farming systems trials, collaborating with the Rodale Institute
- [Hugh McLaughlin](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/hugh-mclaughlin/) - Hugh McLaughlin has a BS in Chemistry (Harvey Mudd College, 1976) in addition to an MS (USC, 1978) and PhD in Chemical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988). He is an expert in biochar and activated carbon and is a leader in the rapidly developing field of biochar, the precursor to all activated carbon products. He has developed proprietary
- [Mark Leighton](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/mark-leighton/) - Mark Leighton is senior advisor in the Sustainability and Environmental Management Program at Harvard Extension School. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 in the department of biological anthropology, having received his PhD from the University of California, Davis focusing on rainforest ecology. Since then he has studied topics in rainforest community ecology, vertebrate behavioral ecology,
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-9/) - 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 Machine” project to clean raw municipal sewage with no toxic chemicals. The facility, through a grant from the EPA, processed 80,000 gallons/day using the “living machine”
- [Seth Itzkan](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/seth-itzkan/) - Seth Itzkan is a futurist and founder of Planet-TECH Associates in Somerville, Massachusetts. Planet-TECH has twenty years of experience consulting for clients in energy, urban development, youth empowerment, and futures preparedness. His other company, Charles River Web, develops Open Source web applications. His personal advocacy is climate mitigation through HM grasslands restoration. He has spent months
- [Eli Gerzon](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/eli-gerzon/) - Eli Gerzon is State Divestment Organizer at Better Future Project/350 Massachusetts. His work focuses on divesting the state pension fund from fossil fuels through grassroots organizing. Before this, he ran an ultra-low-carbon landscaping business on his bicycle for 11 years. Much of his life has focused on world travel and he founded Worldschool Travel Tours for teens
- [Candace Ducheneaux](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/candace-ducheneaux/) - Candace Ducheneaux, Hohwoju Lakota elder and long-time activist from the Cheyenne River homelands, is dedicated to preserving the Lakota way of life and the environmental integrity of our sacred mother earth. She has been at the frontlines in many grassroots battles for justice for the Lakota Oyate and against the destructive human forces threatening the existence of
- [Diana Donlon](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/diana-donlon/) - Diana Donlon is the Director of the Center for Food Safety’s Cool Foods Campaign. which offers hope on climate by empowering the public to make the critical connection between everyday food choices and climate change. Before coming to work for CFS, Diana worked for a variety of family foundations supporting youth and sustainable agriculture programs. She is the Board Secretary of
- [Antje Danielson](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/antje-danielson/) - Antje Danielson is the Administrative Director at the Tufts Institute of the Environment and the graduate interdisciplinary “Water: Systems, Science and Society” (WSSS) program. She came to Tufts from Durham University (UK), where she served as the Deputy Director for Sustainability, in May 2008. Previously, she worked with the Harvard Green Campus Initiative. A long-time resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Antje also co-founded the innovative car-sharing company Zipcar. She holds a Ph.D. in Geology from Free University,
- [Ronnie Cummins](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ronnie-cummins-2/) - Ronnie Cummins is founder and Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit, U.S.-based network of 850,000 consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and sustainable system of agriculture and commerce. He has been active as a writer and activist since the 1960s, with extensive experience in human rights, anti-war, anti-nuclear, labor,
- [Dorn Cox](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dorn-cox/) - Dorn Cox is the director for GreenStart, and a farmer working the 250-acre family farm in Lee, New Hampshire. He has designed and constructed systems for small-scale grain and oil seeds processing and biofuel production, worked to select effective cover crops, grains and oilseed for food and energy production, and has developed no-till and low-till equipment to reduce
- [Veronika Miranda Chase](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/veronika-miranda-chase/) - Veronika Miranda Chase is an Environmental Policy Researcher, particularly interested in issues of sustainable development, climate change and the Water-Food-Energy Nexus. She has participated in projects related to climate mitigation and adaptation in developed countries, and has also worked in developing countries with poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods initiatives. She holds a Bachelors in International Relations
- [John E. Carroll](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/john-e-carroll-2/) - John E. Carroll is professor of environmental conservation in the Department of Natural Resources. In three decades at UNH, he has taught and done research on national and international environmental policy, diplomacy, ethics, and values as they pertain to sustainable agriculture and food systems. His recent books include Sustainability and Spirituality, and The Wisdom of Small Farms
- [Steven I. Apfelbaum](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/steven-i-apfelbaum-2/) - Steven I. Apfelbaum is principal ecologist and chairman at Applied Ecological Services of Brodhead, Wisconsin. He has conducted ecological research, designed award-winning projects, successfully navigated regulatory programs, and contributed his unique creative scientific expertise and enthusiasm to over 1,500 projects throughout North America and beyond. He is one of the leading ecological consultants in the U.S., providing technical restoration
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-6/) - 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 of the Vermont “Living Machine” which treated 80,000 gallons of sewage per day and was designed by ecological visionary John Todd. For 20 years he
- [Anamarija Frankic](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/anamarija-frankic/) - Dr. Anamarija Frankić is a founding director of the Green Harbors Project®, and the Biomimicry LivingLabs®, a research faculty at UMass Boston and University of Zadar, Croatia. She is a Biomimicry, Fulbright and Sea Grant Knauss Fellow. In 2014 she founded Biomimicry New England. Her educational background in biology, ecology, limnology and marine science, guided
- [Lenni Armstrong](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/lenni-armstrong/) - Lenni Armstrong is a leader of DePave Somerville, a community initiative developed with Somerville Climate Action. The city’s higher than average proportion of paved areas means greater flooding. By digging up asphalt driveways and putting in permeable pavers and green space, DePave is reducing the city’s potential for floods—and beautifying the city.
- [The Homeschool Symbiosis Team](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/the-homeschool-symbiosis-team/) - The Homeschool Symbiosis Team:Hayden Latimer-Ireland is a dancer, singer and actor who somehow got interested in all this cool stuff and is now exploring marine biology and medicine. Lynus Erickson is excited about creating mechanisms to make the world a wetter (and better!) place. Jamila dePeiza-Kern thinks a lot about how we can improve the world is an overall enthusiastic
- [The Homeschool Symbiosis Team](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/the-homeschool-symbiosis-team-2/) - The Homeschool Symbiosis Team Annie Selle studies the beautiful intricacies of nature through both art and biology, and is an advocate for animal rights and the environment. She believes that humans have the power to change our society, and is optimistic about the future of the Earth. Jamila dePeiza-Kern has studied environmental science, chemistry, geography, and geology,
- [Herbert Dreiseitl](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/herbert-dreiseitl/) - Herbert Dreiseitl is an internationally highly respected expert in creating Liveable Cities around the world with a special hallmark on the inspiring and innovative use of water to solve urban environmental challenges, connecting technology with aesthetics, encouraging people to take care and ownership of places. He has realized groundbreaking contemporary projects in the fields of
- [Simon Garnier](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/simon-garnier/) - Simon Garnier is an Assistant Professor in the Federated Department of Biological Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. There he is the head of the Swarm Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab that studies the mechanisms underlying Collective Behaviors and Swarm Intelligence in natural and artificial systems. His lab works toward ‘reverse engineering’ these mechanisms in
- [Betsey Dexter Dyer](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/betsey-dexter-dyer/) - Betsey Dexter Dyer is a professor of biology at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts. She earned her PhD at Boston University in the lab of Lynn Margulis, and is the author of A Field Guide to Bacteria (Cornell Press) and a lecturer for the audiobook Unseen Diversity: The World of Bacteria (Modern Scholar). Her research area is microbial evolution, which
- [Charles Chester](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/charles-chester/) - Charles C. Chester loves bats! He teaches global environmental politics at Brandeis University and at the Fletcher School of Tufts University. He serves on the board of Bat Conservation International and is Chair of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Council. He is currently building the website, GEP-guide.net, an online guide to global environmental politics. He co-edited the volume Conservation &
- [Chip Osborne](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/chip-osborne/) - Charles “Chip” Osborne, Jr. is the President of Osborne Organics, LLC, and Founder of the Organic Landscape Association. He has over 10 years experience in developing sustainable landscapes through natural turf management, and has 35 years experience as a professional horticulturist. Chip has become a regular lecturer for the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), is a board
- [Hugh McLaughlin, Ph.D](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/hugh-mclaughlin-ph-d/) - Hugh McLaughlin, PhD, PE has a professional consulting practice in Chemical Engineering. He is a biochar engineer and the inventor of the NextChar Machine. Hugh has numerous publications on biochar and biomass derived heat production. He co-authored “All Biochars are not Created Equal and How to Tell them Apart” (2009) and “U.S. Focused Biochar Report:
- [Bruce Fulford](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/bruce-fulford/) - Bruce Fulford is the owner of City Soil and Greenhouse, a company based in Boston that works on agricultural projects ranging from community gardens to commercial farms. Bruce's publications, educational outreach, and presentations have contributed to the development of more efficient and equitable resource management. Bruce works closely with organizations focused on land remediation and
- [Paul Wagner](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/paul-wagner/) - Paul Wagner is the president of Greener Pastures Organics, a property care company located in Southampton, N.Y. He has over 15 years of experience in science-based organic tree, shrub and lawn care. Paul is a Board Certified Master Arborist, as well as a NYS Certified Nursery Professional with a degree in Ornamental Horticulture.
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-8/) - 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” project to clean raw municipal sewage with no toxic chemicals. The facility, through a grant from the EPA, processed 80,000 gallons/day using the “living machine” methodology invented by ecological
- [Bryan O’Hara](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/bryan-ohara/) - Bryan O’Hara intensively farms three acres of market vegetables in Lebanon, Connecticut, at Tobacco Road Farm. He began his career in 1990, and over the years, through trial and error, has developed an extremely successful no-till, pesticide-free system. He was named the Northeast Organic Farming Association’s (NOFA) Farmer of the Year in 2016. O’Hara is
- [Eric T. Fleisher](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/eric-t-fleisher/) - Eric T. Fleisher is the Director of Horticulture for the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. Battery Park City is an urban area located in south Manhattan in New York City. This park is a 92-acre planned community created through regenerating healthy soil and reusing local materials. As the Director of Horticulture for over 25 years,
- [Courtney White](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/courtney-white/) - Courtney White is an author and regenerative land management activist. In 1997, he cofounded the Quivira Coalition, a nonprofit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that works with progressive ranchers and farmers on regenerative agriculture, ecological restoration, and collaborative conservation. As Executive Director, he helped implement these practices as well as explain their hopefulness in numerous
- [Rev. Mariama White-Hammond](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/rev-mariama-white-hammond/) - Rev. Mariama White-Hammond serves as the Minister for Ecological Justice at Bethel AME Church in Boston and as a fellow with the Green Justice Coalition, a partnership of environmental justice groups. From 2001-2014 she was the Executive Director of Project HIP-HOP where she used the arts to help young people to find their voice and create
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-6/) - Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist since 2000, since 2007 he has been studying and writing about the power of biology to reverse global warming and restore the earth. In 2009-10 he published articles in the online
- [Daniel N. Robin](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/daniel-n-robin/) - Daniel N. Robin, founder & managing partner of In3 Capital Partners, ABetterWorkplace and former adjunct professor at Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS, now Middlebury Institute), and has taught entrepreneurship, business planning, impact investing, and innovation for sustainability as faculty for the Sustainability Academy, as an independent consultant, and within a top-10 ranked international MBA
- [Bill Reed](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/bill-reed/) - Bill Reed is an internationally recognized practitioner, lecturer, and leading authority in sustainability and regenerative planning, design and implementation. Bill is a principal in Integrative Design, Inc. and Regenesis Group – organizations working to lift green building and community planning into full integration and evolution with living systems. His work centers on creating and implementing a whole and
- [Paula Phipps](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/paula-phipps/) - Paula Phipps, Associate Director at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, holds a Masters Degree from Tuft’s Eliot-Pearson School as a teacher/therapist for preschool disturbed children and their families. For 20 years she was a preschool director and Childrens’ Services Director for a Head Start program in Somerville, Massachusetts. For the past five years she has focused on raising awareness of the enormity and immediacy of
- [Didi Pershouse](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/didi-pershouse-2/) - Didi Pershouse is a cross-pollinator, helping to connect the dots between soil health and human health. She is the author of The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities and the founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine. After 22 years of clinical work with patients, she is now working with the
- [Bob O'Connor](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/bob-oconnor/) - Bob O’Connor is Forest & Land Policy Director for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs (EEA). Bob’s responsibilities for the Commonwealth encompass an extraordinary array of all things land conservation and forestry, plus all EEA grant programs, plus a variety of other important conservation-related initiatives, like the relatively new Land Conservation Tax Credit
- [Joan Maloof](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/joan-maloof/) - Joan Maloof is the founder and Executive Director of the Old-Growth Forest Network. Formerly on the faculty of Salisbury University, She spends her time lecturing, writing, visiting forests, assisting private landowners, and supporting local groups trying to protect community forests from development. She began her journey into the American forest as a scientist, studying the natural workings of
- [Tim LaSalle](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/tim-lasalle/) - Since 2007 Tim LaSalle has championed his science-based hope for a regenerative food system that will mitigate climate change by carbon sequestration in place of soil carbon loss. He has served as the first CEO of Rodale Institute; Executive Director of the Northwest Earth Institute, an organization dedicated to grass roots movements; Executive Director of the Allan
- [David C. Johnson](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/david-c-johnson/) - Dr. David C. Johnson is Director of the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural Research at NMSU currently working with local growers and collaborating with: Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories; Texas A&M; Arizona State University; California State University, Chico; University of California, Davis; USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service; and the Thornburg Foundation, exploring paths to: improve food security in New
- [Fred Jennings](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/fred-jennings/) - Fred Jennings holds degrees in economics from Harvard (B.A.) and Stanford (Ph.D.), and taught in the economics departments at Tufts University and Bentley College before becoming a specialist in economic litigation (calculating damages, analyzing markets, and expert testimony) He is president and founder of the Center for Ecological Economic and Ethical Education (CEEEE), an organization devoted to the promulgation
- [Christopher Haines](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/christopher-haines-2/) - Christopher Haines is a seasoned architect licensed in both MA and NY who applies expertise in regenerative architectural design, healthy materials, preservation, renovation and specification writing to small commercial and urban projects. He has spoken for years at US and international forums as well as formally teaching sustainability and environmental management to undergraduate and graduate students.
- [Tina Grotzer](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/tina-grotzer/) - Tina Grotzer is a member of the faculty of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Principal Research Scientist at Project Zero, and a faculty member at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research identifies ways in which understandings about the nature of causality
- [Ana Sofia Gonzalez](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ana-sofia-gonzalez/) - Ana Sofia Gonzalez is an environmentalist with chemical engineering background focused on restorative agroforestry in dry lands to increase resilience of food production systems. She is currently developing strategies that propose restorative food systems as a mitigation strategy to reduce forced migration caused by climate change. Sofia is Founder of Plantum.mx, a consultancy firm focused in
- [Anamarija Frankić](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/anamarija-frankic-2/) - Dr. Anamarija Frankić is a founding director of the Green Harbors Project®, and the Biomimicry LivingLabs®, a research faculty at UMass Boston and University of Zadar, Croatia. She is a Biomimicry, Fulbright and Sea Grant Knauss Fellow. In 2014 she founded Biomimicry New England. Her educational background in biology, ecology, limnology and marine science, guided her interdisciplinary restoration research
- [Scott Dowd](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/scott-dowd/) - Scott Dowd is a conservation biologist at New England Aquarium in Boston, MA, USA and Executive Director of Project Piaba. He received his M.Sc. from the University of Stirling in 2003; his thesis was entitled “Observations on the cardinal tetra fishery with an emphasis on the measurement of stress.” For more than 20 years, Scott has been
- [Sally Dodge](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/sally-dodge/) - Sally Dodge and Dale Guldbrandsen have served as Northeast Community Development Managers for Iroquois Valley Farms since 2013. Sally was a pioneer in the locally grown foods movement beginning in the 1970s and 80s, when she managed a large beefalo operation in Vermont, and later created the Taste of Vermont, an annual event that linked farmers and chefs, and
- [Doug Zook](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/doug-zook/) - Doug Zook founded and directs the Global Ecology Education Initiative (GEEI). He is biologist, naturalist, science educator, and photographic artist. He has given over 200 invited presentations and conducted scores of workshops, courses, and exhibitions around the world. He has led several trips to the remote Amazon in eastern Ecuador as well as month-long global ecology
- [Jon Way](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jon-way/) - Jon Way has a B.S. (UMass Amherst), M.S. (UConn Storrs), and doctorate (Boston College) related to the study of eastern coyotes/coywolves. He is the author of 2 books: Suburban Howls, an account of his experiences studying eastern coyotes in Massachusetts, and My Yellowstone Experience, which details – in full color – the spectacular wildlife, scenery, and hydrothermal features that
- [Elizabeth Thomas](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/elizabeth-thomas/) - Elizabeth Thomas was born in 1931, attended Smith College and Harvard University, and spent three years in the 1950s among pre-contact San who occupied a large area in what is now Namibia and Botswana, an area that was still “unexplored.” This word is in quotation marks because archaeological studies done later found a San encampment which
- [B. Lorraine Smith](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/b-lorraine-smith/) - B. Lorraine Smith is a writer and an independent consultant. She imagines a future where business, people and markets serve a thriving society in a healthy biosphere. In other words, she invests her time in the evolution of a regenerative economy. As a writer, Lorraine shares her ideas through her blog, which introduces different people, places and possibilities connected to the future
- [Nadia Nazar](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/nadia-nazar/) - Nadia Nazar is a 16-year-old environmentalist. She has been an activist, a Girl Scout Senior and a vegetarian since age 12. She uses art as a tool for awareness. Nadia helped found the youth-led Climate Organization, Zero Hour. She is the Associate Director and Art Director of Zero Hour. Nadia has taken her environmental efforts to school and
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-5/) - 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 treated 80,000 gallons of sewage per day. For 20 years he was a biologist and technical trainer in the chemical industry in Houston, Texas, where his
- [Fred Magdoff](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/fred-magdoff/) - Fred Magdoff is Emeritus Professor of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont. His interests range from soil science to agriculture and food to the environment to the US economy. His research at UVM was on ecologically sound ways to improve soil fertility, especially focusing on the critical role of soil organic matter. He is the co-author of the third edition of Building Crops
- [David Rothenberg](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/david-rothenberg/) - Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg wrote Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful and many other books,published in at least eleven languages. He has more than twenty CDs out, including One Dark Night I Left My Silent House which came out on ECM, and most recently Berlin Bülbul and Cool Spring. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne
- [David Morimoto](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/david-morimoto/) - David Morimoto is an ecologist, conservation biologist, and animal behaviorist by training. He has studied the effects of forest fragmentation on Ovenbirds in Massachusetts and performed basic bird inventories in the tropics, most recently on the Rupununi River in Guyana, South America. He is currently involved in urban bird research studying Cambridge birds and is working on the
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-5/) - Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist since 1999, since 2007 he has been studying and writing about the power of biology to reverse global warming and restore the earth. In 2009-10 he published articles in the online
- [Heather Barnett](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/heather-barnett/) - Heather Barnett is an artist, researcher and educator working with natural phenomena, complex systems and biological design, often in collaboration with scientists, artists, participants and organisms. Using diverse media including printmaking, photography, animation, video, installation and participatory experimentation, and working with living materials and imaging technologies, her work explores how we observe, represent and understand the world around
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-4/) - Adam Sacks is executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past 15 years, he has been studying and writing about Holistic Management since 2007. His primary goal is regeneration of biodiversity and a livable planet.
- [Allison Houghton](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/allison-houghton/) - Allison Houghton is a teacher of permaculture and gardening techniques. She manages the Greater Boston CSA for The Food Project, where she has also been the orchard manager and assistant grower for Lincoln Farm. Before that, she was horticultural director for Green City Growers, helping Greater Boston residents, schools, and businesses grow food intensively in small urban spaces.
- [Glenn Gall](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/glenn-gall/) - Glenn Gall has been involved over the last decade with numerous natural solutions to restore a livable planet and reverse global warming. This began with permaculture training from Peter Bane, Darren Doherty, Dave Jacke, and Mark Shepard, and developed into small scale farming and keyline design in Northern Ohio and Michigan. He also teaches innovative agricultural
- [Jan Lambert](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jan-lambert-2/) - Jan Lambert of Charlestown NH is an environmental journalist and editor of the Valley Green Journal who has been working closely with Michal Kravčík in promoting the New Water Paradigm via her journal and a resource book, Water, Land and Climate – The Critical Connection: How We Can Rehydrate Landscapes Locally To Renew Climates Globally, to be published
- [Judith Schwartz](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/judith-schwartz-2/) - Judith Schwartz is a longtime freelance writer and author of several books. Over the last several years she has written about the juncture of economics and the environment for such publications as Time, Time.com, the Christian Science Monitor, Conservation, and the UKGuardian. Most recently she is the author of Cows Save the Planet and Other Improbable Ways of Restoring
- [Shaun Paul](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/shaun-paul/) - Shaun Paul is a pioneer in international social finance with expertise in regenerative finance, sustainable rural development, and indigenous peoples. His 25 years of professional experience include leading and supporting the creation and growth of dozens of innovative for-profit and non-profit companies catalyzing well-being for people and planet. He has worked on every continent, and provided consulting services to donors, investors
- [Steven I. Apfelbaum](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/steven-i-apfelbaum/) - Steven I. Apfelbaum is principal ecologist and chairman at Applied Ecological Services of Brodhead, Wisconsin. He has conducted ecological research, designed award-winning projects, successfully navigated regulatory programs, and contributed his unique creative scientific expertise and enthusiasm to over 1,500 projects throughout North America and beyond. He is one of the leading ecological consultants in the U.S., providing technical restoration
- [Scott Horsley](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/scott-horsley/) - Scott Horsley has 30 years of professional experience in the fields of watershed planning and water resources management and holds degrees in biology and marine policy. He has worked as a consultant to federal, state, and local jurisdictions, and private industry throughout the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and China. Scott has
- [Homeschool Symbiosis Team](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/homeschool-symbiosis-team/) - 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 will perform a short play, “Symbiosis”, as part of Jim Laurie’s Saturday morning talk, “Nature Wants to be Wet”.
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-4/) - 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 Machine” project to clean raw municipal sewage with no toxic chemicals. The facility, through a grant from the EPA, processed 80,000 gallons/day using the “living machine”
- [Jon Griggs](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jon-griggs/) - Jon Griggs is the ranch manager for Maggie Creek Ranch in Elko, Nevada. Maggie Creek is a beef-cattle operation running on both public and private lands in the high desert of Northeastern Nevada. Public lands in the west and the endangered species that inhabit them are hot button topics, but Jon and the folks at Maggie Creek
- [Carol Evans](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/carol-evans/) - Carol Evans, Nevada BLM fisheries biologist for the Elko District of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, joined the U.S. Forest Service in the late 1980’s and helped survey over 1,000 miles of streams in NE Nevada. She began her career with BLM in Elko in 1988 and since that time BLM and local ranchers
- [Tom Goreau](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/tom-goreau-2/) - Tom Goreau is an award-winning marine, soils and climate scientist. He is President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, a coral reef protection non-profit, and has been involved in issues affecting the United Nations, climate change, coral reef, and small island developing states all over the world in many different capacities. He has dived longer and in
- [Precious Phiri](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/precious-phiri-2/) - Precious Phiri is the Founding Director of EarthWisdom Consulting Company. She was formerly a Senior Facilitator at the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe where she directed training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. She helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils,
- [Foster Brown](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/foster-brown/) - Foster Brown, senior scientist at Woods Hole Research Center and recipient of the Chico Mendes Forest Citizenry prize, is an environmental geochemist whose research interests focus on global environmental change and sustainable development in the southwestern Amazon Basin. He coordinates the Center’s program dealing with climate change and land use in the trinational southwestern Amazonia. Dr. Brown spent over
- [Maude Barlow](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/maude-barlow/) - Maude Barlow, best-selling Canadian author and human rights activist, is the chair of the board of Food & Water Watch. She is also an executive member of the San Francisco–based International Forum on Globalization, founder of the Blue Planet Project, and a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. Maude is the recipient of ten honorary doctorates as
- [Philip Tanimoto](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/philip-tanimoto/) - Philip Tanimoto is the Executive Director of the The Cloud Forest Conservation Initiative. Tanimoto ‘discovered’ the little-known Cerro El Amay Cloud Forest Ecosystem during his doctoral research on cloud forest birds in 2006. He founded the Cloud Forest Conservation Initiative in 2009, and since then, he has guided its projects and expanded its conservation approach. CFCI builds lasting relationships with local
- [Ridge Shinn](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ridge-shinn/) - Ridge Shinn is the founder and CEO of Big Picture Beef and a leader in the shift away from feedlot beef to raising cattle on 100% grass and forages – no corn ever – using regenerative pasture and grazing management that sequesters carbon deep underground. Currently he is developing a large-scale supply of 100% grass-fed
- [Dwayne Shaw](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dwayne-shaw/) - Dwayne Shaw is the Executive Director of the Downeast Salmon Federation, where he has led the development of the Federation’s fisheries and land conservation programs since 1989, beginning with the removal of the Pleasant R. Dam and the renovation of the facility as a hatchery and fisheries research center in Columbia Falls. He holds a B.S. in Environmental
- [Eric W. Sanderson](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/eric-w-sanderson/) - Eric W. Sanderson is a landscape ecologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, director of the Mannahatta Project (themannahattaproject.org) and the author of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. In 2013 his new book Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs was published. Sanderson earned his B.A.S. and Ph.D. in ecology
- [Adam Sacks](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/adam-sacks-3/) - Adam Sacks is the Executive Director and co-founder of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy. For five years he directed a non-profit that worked with communities invoking basic democratic and constitutional principles to oppose detrimental local corporate activity. He has been a climate activist
- [Alyssa Novak](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/alyssa-novak/) - Alyssa Novak isa coastal ecologist who uses a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches to understand the characteristics of marine ecosystems that enhance their resilience to stressors. She has worked extensively in seagrass systems and their restoration. Recently she expanded her work to salt marsh systems and is investigating marsh-edge subsidence and its relationship to the invasive European green crab.
- [Sharon McGregor](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/sharon-mcgregor/) - Sharon McGregor is a biologist, environmental policy administrator, educator, and consultant, most recently serving as Assistant Secretary for the Environment (Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Protection) for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (MA EOEEA). As Assistant Secretary and chief policy advisor for natural resources protection, she administered a pioneering biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection program.
- [Peter Lawrence](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/peter-lawrence/) - Peter Lawrence is President and Co-founder of Biomimicry New England and a Biomimicry Specialist. BNE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing nature and natural systems as an important resource for education and innovation in New England. From 1985 to 2014 Peter was Chairman & Founder of the Corporate Design Foundation, whose mission was to improve
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie-3/) - 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 Machine” project to clean raw municipal sewage with no toxic chemicals. The facility, through a grant from the EPA, processed 80,000 gallons/day using the “living machine”
- [Beth Lambert](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/beth-lambert/) - Beth Lambert is the Aquatic Habitat Restoration Program Manager at Division of Ecological Restoration (DER), MA Dept. of Fish and Game. She has been working in ecological restoration since 2000, and has been River Restoration Program Manager in Massachusetts, Coastal Restoration Coordinator with the New Hampshire Coastal Program, and a member of the Watershed Extension Faculty, North Coast Oregon
- [Elisabeth Cianciola](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/elisabeth-cianciola/) - Elisabeth Cianciola has a B.S. in Environmental Science from Trinity College, where she conducted research in areas as diverse as water quality sampling in urban rivers, rain garden design, and the taxonomy of algae. She recently completed an M.S. in Natural Resources at the University of New Hampshire, where she taught courses focused on wetland and
- [John E. Carroll](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/john-e-carroll/) - John E. Carroll is professor of environmental conservation in the Department of Natural Resources. In three decades at UNH, he has taught and done research on national and international environmental policy, diplomacy, ethics, and values as they pertain to sustainable agriculture and food systems. His recent books include Sustainability and Spirituality, and The Wisdom of Small Farms
- [Sarah Zeiberg](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/sarah-zeiberg/) - Sarah Zeiberg is a junior at Hamilton College where she is an Environmental Studies and Theatre double major. When not on stage, she enjoys learning about the interaction between governments, people, and environmental issues. Zeiberg has had a lifelong appreciation for the Atlantic, and has recently interned at the New England Aquarium and the Conservation Law
- [Brian von Herzen](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/brian-von-herzen/) - Brian von Herzen is the Executive Director of The Climate Foundation, addressing gigaton-scale carbon balance on land and in the sea. With a Ph.D. in computer science from CalTech he spent several years working for leading high-tech companies. Brian and his partner Becky Truman flew a twin Cessna 337 across the Atlantic several times and observed melt ponds across the Greenland
- [John Todd](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/john-todd/) - John Todd has been a pioneer in the field of ecological design and engineering for nearly five decades. He is the founder and president of John Todd Ecological Design, and holds degrees covering the fields of agriculture, parasitology, tropical medicine, fisheries and ethology. In addition to new paradigms in an academic setting, he is the founder and president of Ocean Arks International, a
- [Randi Rotjan](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/randi-rotjan/) - Randi Rotjan is a researcher at the New England Aquarium and professor in Boston University’s Marine Program. She studies coral reefs and climate change in the remote Phoenix Islands, the largest marine protected area in the Pacific Ocean, where she coordinates their science-related mission in her role as Chief Scientist. At Boston University she teaches Coral
- [Joe Roman](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/joe-roman/) - Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, author, and Fellow in the Gund Institute. His broad research interests span endangered species policy, marine mammals, and biodiversity and human health. Joe teaches marine ecology and graduate workshops (ateliers) on emerging problems of conservation interest, such as marine spatial planning and the disease ecology of bats. Joe came to
- [Alfredo Quarto](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/alfredo-quarto/) - Alfredo Quarto is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Mangrove Action Project. He is a veteran campaigner with over 35 years experience working on international environmental and social justice issues. His experiences range over many different countries and several environmental organizations, with a long-term focus on marine ecology, wildlife, forestry and human rights. Alfredo has spoken
- [Mark McMenamin](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/mark-mcmenamin/) - Mark McMenamin is a Professor of Geology at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Whether he’s teaching an introductory course on the History of Life or embarking on an archeological expedition, geologist and paleontologist Mark McMenamin maintains a spirit of discovery. In 1994, he introduced the theory that life forms that moved from the sea to the
- [Tom Goreau](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/tom-goreau/) - Tom Goreau is an award-winning marine, soils and climate scientist. He is President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, a coral reef protection non-profit, and has been involved in issues affecting the United Nations, climate change, coral reef, and small island developing states all over the world in many different capacities. He has dived longer and in
- [Peter Girguis](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/peter-girguis/) - Peter Girguis is a leader in the research of deep oceans, with several scientific dives on the iconic deep-sea submersible, Alvin. His laboratory at Harvard studies the physiology and biochemistry of deep sea microorganisms, with an emphasis on carbon and nitrogen metabolism, to better understand their role in mediating local and global biogeochemical cycles. They also study the physiological relationships (such
- [Dr. Anamarija Frankić](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dr-anamarija-frankic/) - Dr. Anamarija Frankić is a founding director of the Green Harbors Project®, and the Biomimicry LivingLabs®, a research faculty at UMass Boston and University of Zadar, Croatia. She is a Biomimicry, Fulbright and Sea Grant Knauss Fellow. In 2014 she founded Biomimicry New England. Her educational background in biology, ecology, limnology and marine science, guided her interdisciplinary restoration research
- [Dan Distel](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dan-distel/) - Dan Distel received his B.S. in Biology from Cook College, Rutgers, University and Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. He held postdoctoral appointments at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, and at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He held joint appointments, first as Assistant then as Associate Professor,
- [Mick Devin](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/mick-devin/) - Mick Devin is a two-term state representative in the Maine Legislature. He is also the shellfish hatchery manager at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole, where he focuses on aquaculture research. He is a Knauss Marine Policy and Henry Toll Fellow. In the legislature he sits on the Marine Resources Committee, where he
- [Katharine Deuel](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/katharine-deuel/) - Katharine Deuel coordinates public outreach and grassroots organizing for The Pew Charitable Trusts’ ocean campaigns across New England. She educates about the science and policy of ocean conservation, engaging stakeholders in managing the nation’s marine resources. Recently she helped to ensure the designation of the first marine national monument in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean, protecting 4,913 square miles
- [George Buckley](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/george-buckley/) - George Buckley is the Assistant Director of Sustainability at Harvard Extension School, with decades of broad experience with oceans and ocean life. He began his career by winning the state science fair in high school with a study of snail teeth. He earned a degree in biology at Suffolk University with further study at Tufts and
- [Florence Reed](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/florence-reed/) - Florence Reed is a prize-winning thought leader, innovative practitioner, and deeply engaging speaker who believes that when people work together, things can change for the better. This belief led her to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras in the early nineties. In 1997, Reed founded Sustainable Harvest International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to working
- [Rajendra Singh](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/rajendra-singh/) - Rajendra Singh has been listed among The Guardian‘s “50 People Who Could Save the Planet“. Better known as the Water Man of India, Singh was recently named the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for his innovative water restoration efforts, improving water security in rural India, and for showing extraordinary courage and determination in his quest to improve the living
- [Frédérique Apffel-Marglin](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/frederique-apffel-marglin/) - Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is founder of the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration, and is the author of five books, the editor or co-editor of an additional eight books and the author of more than fifty five articles and book chapters. Her interests cover ritual, gender, political ecology, critiques of development, science studies and Andean-Amazonian shamanism. Her areas of
- [Rev. Dele](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/rev-dele-2/) - Rev. Dele is a grandmother, author and pastor, who uses her skills as a permaculturist and contemplative to train the next generation of mission leaders in faith, ecology and economic empowerment. She serves on the UN Decade of African Diaspora-Earthcare Coalition; UCC Council for Climate Justice, as regional liaison for Green the Church; council member for
- [Arielle Martinez Cohen](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/arielle-martinez-cohen-2/) - Arielle Martinez Cohen is a 17-year-old singer, songwriter, producer, and activist from Los Angeles, CA. She has been working in the music business since she was nine years old, singing back-up vocals for artists such as Macklemore, Imagine Dragons, Frank Ocean, and Foster The People, and appearing on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and Conan O’Brien Show,
- [Gay Bradshaw](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/gay-bradshaw/) - Gay A. Bradshaw is the Executive Director of The Kerulos Center in Jacksonville, Oregon. She holds doctorate degrees in ecology and psychology, and has published, taught, and lectured widely in these fields both in the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of Pulitzer Prize-nominated Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity, published by Yale University
- [Roland Bunch](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/roland-bunch/) - Roland Bunch is one of the most well-respected leaders in regenerative land management, both in terms of food security and for addressing ecological degradation and climate change. He has worked as a consultant in sustainable agricultural development for over 45 NGOs and governments in 50 nations, including Cornell University, the Ford Foundation, Oxfam, Save the Children,
- [Rachel Burger](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/rachel-burger/) - When Rachel Burger, a South Portland, Maine resident and new grandmother, heard about Exxon Mobil's plans - to use a World-War-II-era pipeline to pump millions of gallons of dirty tar sands oil through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, crossing over rivers, the Sebago Lake watershed and right out into Casco Bay, risking nearly all of
- [Ronnie Cummins](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/ronnie-cummins/) - Ronnie Cummins is co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and its international affiliates Via Organica (Mexico) and Regeneration International. OCA is a non-profit, U.S. based network of two million consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and land use. OCA’s primary strategy is to work on national
- [Rev. Dele](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/rev-dele/) - Rev. Dele is a grandmother,author and pastor who opens the environmental narrative to include the voice of Mother Nature so we create JOY with our Impact. Trained as a Climate Reality Leader and spiritual director, she supports spiritual leaders and Earthkeepers who are struggling with burnout and rage. As grandmother, theologian and permaculture professor Dele teaches
- [Susan Jennings](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/susan-jennings/) - Susan Jennings became Executive Director of The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions (AMICS) in 2014. Since that time, she has partnered with the AMICS board to implement a new strategic plan oriented toward the support of resilient communities. She also led AMICS in the 2017 purchase of Agraria, a 128-acre farm on the outskirts of Yellow Springs
- [Sven Pihl](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/sven-pihl/) - Sven Pihl, founder of CT Edible Ecosystems, LLC is a Regenerative Land Planner/Designer and Permaculture educator based in Connecticut. Sven designs multifunctional Edible Landscapes and Forest Gardens for homes, commercial properties, campuses and public spaces. He’s passionate about regenerative landscape design to create productive agro-ecosystems. Sven’s beginnings were with the financial crash of 2008 where he
- [Steve Weinberg](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/steve-weinberg/) - Steve Weinberg champions win-win solutions with a focus on initiatives that cultivate vibrant and sustainable communities and businesses. In the late 1990s Steve learned about Paul Hawken’s work with a sustainability framework, The Natural Step, which informed Steve about systems thinking and a change process adopted by small and large business and communities alike. Steve’s successive visits
- [Rabbi Ellen Bernstein](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/rabbi-ellen-bernstein/) - Rabbi Ellen Bernstein founded Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth, the first U.S. Jewish environmental organization in 1988. She graduated one of the first environmental studies programs at U.C. Berkeley; co-directed Turtle River, a wilderness river company; helped develop the field of religion and ecology; and authored numerous articles and books on Judaism, Bible and
- [Iona Conner](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/iona-conner/) - Iona Conner has been an environmental activist for more than five decades. The birth of her first child 53 years ago catapulted her into the realization that her daily choices had a direct bearing on the health of her son and the well-being of the Earth. She has been an active participant in the movement
- [Christopher Haines](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/christopher-haines/) - Christopher Haines is a seasoned architect licensed in both MA and NY who applies expertise in regenerative architectural design, healthy materials, preservation, renovation and specification writing to small commercial and urban projects. He has spoken for years at US and international forums as well as formally teaching sustainability and environmental management to undergraduate and graduate students.
- [Cynthia Contie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/cynthia-contie/) - Cynthia Contie (BA, Psychology, MEd - Environment) started her Blessed Unrest journey while working in a high pressure corporate management position of 12 years in Minneapolis Minnesota. Although her life was materially comfortable, she found herself deeply disturbed by our society's fractured relationship with Nature, and particularly with the beings of the animal kingdom. Seeking out
- [Claire Hedberg](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/claire-hedberg/) - Claire Hedberg is a 15-year-old climate justice activist with Zero Hour and Polluters Out. She was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, but resides in Richmond, Virginia. Through her work, she hopes to spread awareness about the current crisis and empower communities of color and indigenous peoples.
- [Hayat Imam](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/hayat-imam/) - Hayat Imam is an American-Muslim of Bangladeshi origin. She is a feminist-activist committed to building global social justice movements. Her efforts have been directed towards nuclear disarmament, renewable energy, and economic opportunities for women. Former Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Fund, she has written and organized extensively on violence against women, and is co-author of Watermelons Not
- [Jan Lambert](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jan-lambert/) - Jan Lambert is an environmental writer and editor of The Valley Green Journal www.valleygreenjournal.com , which addresses connections of agriculture, nature and communities. She has been a working partner with internationally recognized hydrological scientist Michal Kravčík, in promoting awareness of the central role of water cycles for environmental sustainability, via her journal and her book, Water, Land and Climate–The Critical Connection, published in October
- [Jim Laurie](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/jim-laurie/) - 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 treated 80,000 gallons of sewage per day. For 20 years he was a biologist and technical trainer in the chemical industry in Houston, Texas, where his
- [Janot Mendler de Suarez](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/janot-mendler-de-suarez/) - Janot Mendler de Suarez is aTechnical Advisor & Caribbean focal point for the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, a consultant to the World Bank for the Caribbean CREWS (Climate Risk Early Warning Services), and a Visiting Research Fellow at Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. She is an innovator in the
- [Dr. Pablo Suarez](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/dr-pablo-suarez/) - Dr. Pablo Suarez’s research focuses on the use of information for reducing vulnerability. He is associate director of programs for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, and an advisor for Oxfam America’s Private Sector Team. He has consulted for the United Nations Environment Programe, the World Bank, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Institute
- [Elizabeth Monson](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/elizabeth-monson/) - Elizabeth Monson, PhD, is the Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Managing Teacher at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, a Buddhist meditation retreat center in Springfield, NH. Elizabeth holds a Doctorate in Religious Studies with a focus in Tibetan Buddhism and Ethics from Harvard University. She has been studying, practicing, and teaching Buddhism for over thirty years and has been
- [Holly M. Paar](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/holly-m-paar/) - Holly M. Paar is the Advancement Director for Dogwood Alliance, a Southern US based nonprofit mobilizing diverse voices to protect southern forests and communities from destructive industrial logging. Her work involves coordinating with frontline communities and partners at the intersection of climate, forests and justice, including Dogwood’s participation in the Justice First Tour, launched by Reverend Leo
- [Precious Phiri](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/precious-phiri/) - Precious Phiri is a smallholder farmer, regenerative agriculture practitioner and trainer based in Zimbabwe. She is also an accredited Field Professional in Holistic Management education for communities with the Savory Institute. She works with rural communities through her organization EarthWisdom Consulting and other partners both in southern and east Africa to regenerate degraded communal lands. Precious
- [Nick Rabb](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/nick-rabb/) - Nick Rabb is a PhD student at Tufts University jointly studying computer science and cognitive science. His research areas have included explanatory and scientific reasoning, and computational social simulations including ideology-driven population-level behavior and its interaction with “fake news.” He organizes with the Sunrise Movement’s Boston hub as well as with Massachusetts Peace Action, and frequently
- [Alfred Brownell](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/alfred-brownell/) - Alfred Brownell is an environmental and human rights lawyer and executive director of Green Advocates (GA), a Liberian NGO that he founded in order to represent communities seeking to protect their environmental and human rights. Brownell also established a network to connect community-based organizations throughout Liberia—the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD)—to collaborate on environmental justice
- [Arielle Martinez Cohen](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/arielle-martinez-cohen/) - Arielle Martinez Cohen is a singer, songwriter, producer, and activist from Los Angeles, CA. She has been working in the music business since she was nine years old, singing back-up vocals for artists such as Macklemore, Imagine Dragons, Frank Ocean, and Foster The People, and appearing on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and Conan O’Brien Show, among
- [Anna Gilbert-Muhammad](https://bio4climate.org/speaker/anna-gilbert-muhammad/) - Anna Gilbert-Muhammad is the Food Access Coordinator of NOFA/Mass and lives in Springfield. She was born in New York City but, being the child of a Marine Corps father, lived in various places in California as well as Baltimore. While in California, although she was raised as a Roman Catholic, Anna became interested in the Nation

## Events

- [Protect and Restore Ecosystems to Cool the Planet](https://bio4climate.org/event/protect-and-restore-ecosystems-to-cool-the-planet/) - Saturdays: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ETSeries Starts April 18 Earth’s most powerful climate solutions already exist. By protecting our existing, biodiverse ecosystems, we preserve and promote climate stability and cool temperatures. Through ecosystem restoration, water cycles are revived, soils rebuilt, and temperatures cooled at scale. Bio4Climate’s 2026 Mini-Conference Series brings together leading scientists, practitioners,
- [Thinking Like Water](https://bio4climate.org/event/thinking-like-water-2/) - What if restoring water where you live could transform your entire landscape? Many of the challenges we see in our backyards, gardens, forests, and communities—drought, flooding, erosion, declining biodiversity—are not isolated problems. They’re connected across the whole watershed. And they can be addressed—step by step—by working with natural processes. Learn more and sign up
- [Youth EcoRestorers for Climate](https://bio4climate.org/event/youth-ecorestorers-for-climate/) - Youth leaders across the globe are advocating for people and the planet in various ways including on-the-ground ecosystem restoration, artivism, and promotion of regenerative agriculture. On September 17, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate hosted three youth leaders from Colombia, the United States, and Brazil to amplify their stories of regeneration and environmental advocacy. Check out
- [Drying Rivers & Drought: What We Can Do In Massachusetts](https://bio4climate.org/event/drying-rivers-drought-what-we-can-do-in-massachusetts/) - This July as Massachusetts, like many other parts of the world, reckoned with serious drought, we held a lecture to explore how we can address drought conditions on a local, regional, and global scale. Check out the recording and related resources here! Drought warnings in Massachusetts are a stark reminder that we are part of
- [No Trees, No Rain: How Plants Move Water, Weather – And Cool the World](https://bio4climate.org/event/no-trees-no-rain-how-plants-move-water-weather-and-cool-the-world/) - Droughts and flash floods are becoming a new normal in our warming world. What changed? Our landscapes are losing water as people alter the environment, cut trees, drain wetlands, and use chemicals that destroy the soil. And we’re feeling the heat. On October 21, we hosted Anastassia Makarieva, Jan Pokorny, Andrei Nefiodov, and Jon Schull
- [A New Generation of Change-Makers Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom](https://bio4climate.org/event/a-new-generation-of-change-makers-reclaiming-ancestral-wisdom/) - We were honored to host Jess Alvarez-Parfrey, Nathan Lou, and William Wildcat (Coakí) for an exploration of ancestral connections, and transformative opportunities to nurture a truly regenerative, just, joyful, and climate resilient future. Bringing together diverse cultural backgrounds, skills, and experiences, our panel of practitioners shared their stories, and perspectives the theme of “regeneration” as
- [Sweet in Tooth and Claw](https://bio4climate.org/event/sweet-in-tooth-and-claw/) - 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 book, in which she explores the way symbiotic relationships between individuals and species fundamentally shapes our planet. In contrast to narratives of competition and dominance,
- [Redesigning Our Communities - Los Angeles](https://bio4climate.org/event/redesigning-our-communities-los-angeles/) - A series of virtual and in-person community eventsin 6 locations in the U.S. and Canada Our latest installment of Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels took place on Saturday, January 21 with national and local speakers from Los Angeles. Check out the conference program and stay tuned for the recording and for our next event in Cleveland
- [Water is Love Film Screening](https://bio4climate.org/event/water-is-love-film-screening/) - Celebrate World Water Week with Bio4Climate in Cambridge, MA. Join us in person on Wednesday, August 27 from 6:45 to 8:30pm for a screening of the inspiring film, Water is Love, with brief discussion and snacks at the Cambridge Library Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138. Water is Love follows a group of youth facing climate change challenges leading to a journey around the world with
- [Developing Food Resilience for Hard Times Ahead](https://bio4climate.org/event/developing-food-resilience-for-hard-times-ahead/) - In January, Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger joined us to discuss their new book, Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World. While the last few tumultuous years have heightened uncertainties about our food supplies, there’s some good news coming out of the regenerative agriculture movement. Regenerative practices restore degraded land, increase soil productivity, sequester carbon and
- [Thinking Like Water](https://bio4climate.org/event/thinking-like-water/) - This event is a five-part documentary and live conversation series. Thinking Like Water reframes the climate conversation by putting water back at the center of climate action, ecological repair and community life. Follow ecological restoration pioneer Bill Zeedyk and collaborators as they assess landscapes, observe how water flows on the land, and then implement simple
- [Blackwaters Film Screening and Discussion - Friday, March 15](https://bio4climate.org/event/blackwaters-film-screening-and-discussion-friday-march-15/) - Join Bio4Climate community members for the Cambridge screening of a groundbreaking new film, BLACKWATERS - Brotherhood In The Wild. We are proud to co-sponsor this free screening along with other organizations and the hosts at the Greater Boston Chapter of Trout Unlimited. To join our meetup, RSVP here and make sure you register with Trout
- [Regenerating Life Film Premiere](https://bio4climate.org/event/regenerating-life-premiere-and-symposium/) - On Saturday, October 14 from 12:30 to 4:30pm we hosted the Boston premiere of John Feldman's remarkable documentary, Regenerating Life. Held at Tufts University, this symposium featured a screening of the film, a panel discussion involving the director and experts from the film, and local organizations sharing ways for people to get involved in their
- [Regenerating Life Screening and Discussion Series](https://bio4climate.org/event/regenerating-life-screening-and-discussion-series/) - Join soil scientist Didi Pershouse and Bio4Climate members Jim Laurie and Maya Dutta this February for a learning and discussion series on John Feldman's Regenerating Life. The Center for an Ecology Based Economy (CEBE) is hosting a hybrid series to screen the documentary in three parts and discuss the science and solutions within. Register now
- [Film Showing of Symbiotic Earth with Panel Discussion](https://bio4climate.org/event/film-showing-of-symbiotic-earth-with-panel-discussion/) - Saturday, September 22, 2018, 1-5 p.m.Cambridge, Massachusetts Film showing of Symbiotic Earth with panel discussion Symbiotic Earth is a documentary of the life and work of revolutionary evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, a scientific detective story of scope and beauty that will leave you breathless! More information and registration here!
- [An Amazing Agroforestry Story: The Inga Model in Central America](https://bio4climate.org/event/an-amazing-agroforestry-story-the-inga-model-in-central-america/) - Tropical ecologist Mike Hands and soil scientist Rattan Lal joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss the Inga Alley Cropping technique and the promise of agroforestry for promoting biodiversity, sequestering carbon, and providing food security for farmers. Mike Hands is a lifelong naturalist and tropical ecologist specializing in the ecology of Tropical Rain Forest,
- [Using The Miyawaki Method To Rapidly Rewild The World](https://bio4climate.org/event/using-the-miyawaki-method-to-rapidly-rewild-the-world/) - On Monday, May 30 at 12pm ET, we welcomed Miyawaki method advocates Hannah Lewis and Daan Bleichrodt to talk about Miyawaki forests and their role in climate resilience, urban beautification, and connecting all of us to nature. Stay tuned for the forthcoming talk recording! Hannah Lewis is the author of the upcoming book Mini Forest
- [Rewilding Our Planet: Miyawaki Forest Talk at the Cambridge Public Library](https://bio4climate.org/event/rewilding-our-planet/) - This June, Hannah Lewis visited the Cambridge Public Library to discuss her recent book, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World. Hannah was joined in conversation with Maya Dutta, project manager for the Danehy Park Miyawaki Forest planted in North Cambridge in September 2021. Together, they discussed the Miyawaki Method and
- [Life After Fossil Fuels](https://bio4climate.org/event/life-after-fossil-fuels/) - On August 16, Alice Friedemann and Adam Sacks joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss moving beyond fossil fuels and how our civilization can rise to meet this inevitable transition we face. Check out the recording of their challenging and timely conversation.
- [Arctic Meltdown: Why It Matters To Us](https://bio4climate.org/event/arctic-meltdown-why-it-matters-to-us/) - Does it seem as though the weather gods have gone crazy lately? It is not your imagination. The question on everyone's minds is why? And is it related to climate change? In Arctic Meltdown: Why It Matters To Us, Dr. Jennifer Francis explains how increasing extreme weather events are connected with the rapidly warming and
- [Introducing the EcoRestoration Alliance](https://bio4climate.org/event/introducing-the-ecorestoration-alliance/) - On Monday March 28, our Life Saves the Planet speaker series continued with a panel on Introducing the EcoRestoration Alliance. Members Jon Schull, John D. Liu, Ilse Koehler-Rollefson and Valer Clark introduced the groundbreaking new alliance that aims to advance the global case for regeneration through cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary partnership. Check out the recording and
- [Amazon Deforestation: Why it matters to us](https://bio4climate.org/event/amazon-deforestation-why-it-matters-to-us/) - This April, we hosted EcoRestoration Alliance members Atossa Soltani, Rob de Laet, and moderator Jon Schull for Amazon Deforestation: Why it matters to us. This is an essential discussion on the restoration that can repair this critical system of planetary regulation. If you didn't catch it live, watch the recording here! The Amazon Rainforest is known
- [Code Red Water: Two Global Perspectives](https://bio4climate.org/event/code-red-water-two-global-perspectives/) - This March, we held the latest installment in our Nature’s Solutions as National Policy conference series, Code Red Water: Two Global Perspectives. Atossa Soltani and Michal Kravcik discussed how improved water management can support functioning water cycles to meet the needs of living systems and cool the planet. Watch the recording here!
- [Decolonizing Environmental Thought - with Fred Tutman](https://bio4climate.org/event/decolonizing-environmental-thought-with-fred-tutman/) - Fred Tutman joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series on Monday, November 15 to discuss environmental movements and the importance of decolonizing our attitudes, actions, and leadership. Check out related resources and the talk recording on our GBH page. As the planet faces existential threats from multiple sources, the people raising movements aimed at
- [Climate Emotions: Facing the Storm Together](https://bio4climate.org/event/climate-emotions-facing-the-storm-together/) - On Tuesday, December 14 at 7pm ET, we hosted an interactive workshop, Climate Emotions: Facing the Storm Together to share and process our complicated climate emotions. Read more and check out the recording here!
- [How Culture Links Animals and Landscapes](https://bio4climate.org/event/how-culture-links-animals-and-landscapes/) - Fred Provenza and Ninna Piiksii joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss animals, their intelligence and culture, and the way human attitudes toward food can be enriched by expanding our sources of wisdom. Read more on our WGBH page.
- [The Remarkable Success of Community Managed Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh](https://bio4climate.org/event/the-remarkable-success-of-community-managed-natural-farming-in-andhra-pradesh/) - Vijay Kumar and Didi Pershouse joined our Life Saves the Planet series to speak on community managed natural farming in Andhra Pradesh, India and the hopeful prospects of regenerative farming for the future of our planet. Watch the video.
- [Biomimicry Restoration: Healthy Oysters for Healthy Coasts, Oceans and Climate](https://bio4climate.org/event/biomimicry-restoration-healthy-oysters-for-healthy-coasts-oceans-and-climate/) - Dr. Anamarija Frankić, Marine Biologist and founder of multiple restoration organizations and initiatives, shared her expertise on oyster habitat restoration, discussing why this keystone species plays such a critically important role in climate resiliency and exploring the lessons of biomimicry in this installment of our Life Saves the Planet lecture series. Watch the video.
- [Hope for a Livable Climate](https://bio4climate.org/event/hope-for-a-livable-climate/) - 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Hope for a Livable Climate: The Promise of Restorative Grazing & Other Ecological Innovations to Regenerate Soil, Secure Food & Water, Revive Rural Economies and Reverse Global Warming View event details.
- [Holiday Potluck + Meetup: Reviewing 2015, the International Year of Soils](https://bio4climate.org/event/holiday-potluck-meetup-reviewing-2015-the-international-year-of-soils/) - Join us from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at 1 Fayette Park in Cambridge for a Holiday Potluck + Meetup: Reviewing 2015, the International Year of Soils. View event details.
- [Agroecology: The Low-Hanging  Fruit for Climate Stability and Biodiversity](https://bio4climate.org/event/agroecology-the-low-hanging-fruit-for-climate-stability-and-biodiversity/) - January 27, 2019, 6:00 p.m., Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: "Agroecology: The Low-Hanging Fruit for Climate Stability and Biodiversity." View event details.
- [Our Crowdfunder, Saving Life on Earth Is Our Highest Calling!, in Collaboration with Spirit of Resilience](https://bio4climate.org/event/our-crowdfunder-saving-life-on-earth-is-our-highest-calling-in-collaboration-with-spirit-of-resilience/) - A collaborative crowdfunder highlighting the relationship between spirit and science, with Spirit of Resilience, an organization of women of color. View details.
- [The Heat Planet: A New Approach to Climate with Christopher Haines](https://bio4climate.org/event/the-heat-planet-a-new-approach-to-climate-with-christopher-haines/) - June 13, 2019, 6:00 p.m., Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “The Heat Planet: A New Approach to Climate with Christopher Haines.” View event details.
- [Reindeer, Beaver, and Healing Nature With Nature](https://bio4climate.org/event/reindeer-beaver-and-healing-nature-with-nature/) - First talk in our GBH Forum Network series, Life Saves the Planet, with author Judy Schwartz discussing her new book, Reindeer Chronicles. Watch the video.
- [Counting Down to Restoring Earth: How Do We Get There?](https://bio4climate.org/event/225172/) - Ecosystem Restoration Camps, in partnership with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, hosted a symposium on the steps we need to take to restore the earth over the next several years. 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.
- [The Environmental Benefits of Grass Fed Beef](https://bio4climate.org/event/the-environmental-benefits-of-grass-fed-beef/) - Ridge Shinn, cattle farmer and founder of Big Picture Beef, joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series on GBH Forum Network. He discussed how grazing can help build healthy soil, sequester carbon, and lead to agricultural systems that improve environmental health and farmers’ livelihoods over time. Read more and view the recording here!
- [Some Sample "Wows" From Biosphere History](https://bio4climate.org/event/some-sample-wows-from-biosphere-history/) - Douglas Zook, in conversation with David Morimoto, joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series hosted by GBH Forum Network. Dr. Zook is an ecologist with a long career making the connections between activity at the microbiome scale and global ecology. He led us through some major moments in biosphere history and described what we can learn
- [Nature's Solutions as National Policy: How Animals Shape Ecosystems](https://bio4climate.org/event/natures-solutions-as-national-policy-animals-shaping-ecosystems/) - Carl Safina, Fred Provenza, and Tania Roa joined us for Bio4Climate’s second mini-conference of 2021 on implementing nature’s solutions in climate policy. The video recording is available here.
- [How Biodiversity Loss Fuels Pandemics - with Felicia Keesing](https://bio4climate.org/event/how-biodiversity-loss-fuels-pandemics-with-felicia-keesing/) - Dr. Felicia Keesing joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss biodiversity loss and its impacts on health. As a biologist at Bard College, Keesing studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. She described what we know about the sources of new human diseases, and the potentially surprising role
- [Code Red at Glasgow: What Did They Miss?](https://bio4climate.org/event/code-red-at-glasgow-what-did-they-miss/) - This November, our mini-conference series on Nature's Solutions as National Policy continued with a discussion on the Glasgow COP26 summit. We welcomed Andrew Revkin, Joseph Michael Hunt, and Dee Woods onto a panel to address where grassroots movements to protect and restore ecosystems factor into global plans for climate action. Read more and view the
- [Nature's Solutions as National Policy](https://bio4climate.org/event/natures-solutions-as-national-policy/) - 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!
- [Indigenous Wisdom And The Power Of Place](https://bio4climate.org/event/indigenous-wisdom-and-the-power-of-place/) - Dawn Knickerbocker and Juan Martinez joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series for Racial Equity & Environmental Justice:Centering Indigenous Wisdom and the Power of Place. They discussed centering Indigenous wisdom in environmental stewardship and the opportunities to empower new generations of leaders to tackle the intersecting challenges we face in creating a flourishing world.
- [Rally to Defend New England’s Future: Jobs, Justice and Climate!](https://bio4climate.org/event/rally-to-defend-new-englands-future-jobs-justice-and-climate/) - 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the Rally to Defend New England’s Future: Jobs, Justice and Climate! at the Parkman Bandstand in Boston Common.
- [January 2014 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/january-2014-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 5:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Biodiversity: Implications for a Livable Climate.”
- [March 2014 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/march-2014-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 5:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Challenges in Restoring the Earth: The Story of a Chilean Village.“ View event details.
- [May 2014 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/may-2014-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 5:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Carbon Up, Carbon Down: How Nature Manages the Carbon Cycle." View event details.
- [June 2014 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/june-2014-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 5:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Water Follows Carbon (No More Drought) potluck and discussion.“ View event details.
- [July 2014 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/july-2014-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 5:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Carbon Rich: How Soil Biology Catalyzes Human Security.“ View event details.
- [September 2014 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/september-2014-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 5:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Vanished Memories: The Earth We Long For.“ View event details.
- [February 2015 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/february-2015-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 5:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Soil Carbon Cowboys: Grazing for Biodiversity.“ View event details.
- [March 2015 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/march-2015-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 7:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “How We Can Reverse Global Warming: The Good News.“ View event details.
- [Cambridge Science Festival Panel](https://bio4climate.org/event/cambridge-science-festival-panel/) - 6:30 p.m. Cambridge Science Festival Panel: “Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming.“ View event details.
- [May 2015 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/may-2015-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 5:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Discuss Questions Raised at the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming Conference.“ View event details.
- [June 2015 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/june-2015-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 6:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Microbes ‘R Us.“ View event details.
- [July 2015 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/july-2015-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 6:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective Documentary Screening + Discussion.“ View event details.
- [September 2015 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/september-2015-potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 6:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “A New Water Paradigm: Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming (Preview).“ View event details.
- [November 2015 Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge](https://bio4climate.org/event/potluck-presentation-and-discussion-in-cambridge/) - 6:00 p.m. Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Ruminating on the New Water Paradigm.“ View event details.
- [Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Eco-socialism](https://bio4climate.org/event/red-green-revolution-the-politics-and-technology-of-eco-socialism/) - March 24, 2019, 6:00 p.m., Potluck, Presentation and Discussion in Cambridge: “Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Eco-socialism.” View event details.
- [Tar Sands Songbook: Memory, Music, and Oil](https://bio4climate.org/event/tar-sands-songbook-memory-music-and-oil/) - Tar Sands Songbook, a documentary performance about music, memory and oil, will be performed by Tanya Kalmanovitch, viola, with Ted Reichman, accordion, on April 13, 2019 at 7:00 pm at the Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. All proceeds will benefit the Better Future Project and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. View event details.
- [Healing the World in 18 Months](https://bio4climate.org/event/healing-the-world-in-18-months/) - A workshop with Bill Reed and Jim Newman, March 28, 2020, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. View event details.
- [Regenerative Agriculture: Cure for an Ailing World](https://bio4climate.org/event/regenerative-agriculture-cure-for-an-ailing-world/) - Regenerative agriculture expert Tim LaSalle joins our Life Saves the Planetlecture series with the GBH Forum Network. Watch the video.
- [The Ecology of Care](https://bio4climate.org/event/the-ecology-of-care/) - Author Didi Pershouse discusses the relationships between human and planetary health and her new book The Ecology of Care as part of our Life Saves the Planet lecture series. Watch the video.
- [Pathways to Regeneration: Restoration, Resiliency & Reciprocity, hosted by the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions](https://bio4climate.org/event/pathways-to-regeneration-restoration-resiliency-reciprocity-hosted-by-the-arthur-morgan-institute-for-community-solutions/) - A virtual conference exploring the routes to a regenerative future for life on the planet, featuring Executive Director Adam Sacks giving a talk on November 6 at 10:15am ET, titled “Still So Human An Animal.” View event details.
- [Regenerative Development and Design, hosted by Seacoast New Hampshire Permaculture](https://bio4climate.org/event/regenerative-development-and-design-hosted-by-seacoast-new-hampshire-permaculture/) - Bill Reed, a planner, facilitator, and teacher of sustainability and regeneration, hosts an online workshop on regenerative design. View event details.
- [Where Do We Go From Here: Preparing our Movements for the Next Four Years, hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA)](https://bio4climate.org/event/where-do-we-go-from-here-preparing-our-movements-for-the-next-four-years-hosted-by-massachusetts-peace-action-mapa/) - MAPA hosted a virtual gathering of leaders from the Massachusetts peace, climate, and racial and economic justice movements to discuss what comes next in our fight for a better future. We are participants in a global struggle where our voice is needed to grow understanding that peace and justice are not possible without abundance, that
- [Real Organic Symposium, Real Organic Project](https://bio4climate.org/event/real-organic-symposium-real-organic-project/) - The Real Organic Project presented a virtual series of talks and panels with more than 50 prominent organic farmers, scientists, and climate activists each Sunday in January. View event details.
- [Food Security for our Common Wealth, NOFA/Mass Winter Conference, Northeast Organic Farming Association](https://bio4climate.org/event/food-security-for-our-common-wealth-nofa-mass-winter-conference-northeast-organic-farming-association-2/) - Massachusetts farmers and NOFA community members came together for the NOFA/Mass Winter Conference. Workshops included popular and timely topics like composting, soil testing, beekeeping, food preservation and more. View event details.

## Articles

- [Water Isn’t What You Think It Is: The Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald Pollack](https://bio4climate.org/article/water-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-the-fourth-phase-of-water-by-gerald-pollack/) - Guest author Gerald Pollack introduces a fundamental shift in how we view water. It has the potential to significantly alter our understandings of any processes that involve water, including aspects of climate, biology, and how we approach eco-restoration. The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor Gerald H. Pollack, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering,
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 2: Heat Planet: Biodiversity, the Solar Interface and Climate Disruption](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-2-heat-planet-biodiversity-the-solar-interface-and-climate-disruption/) - By Christopher A. Haines, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Christopher Haines is a seasoned architect licensed in both MA and NY who applies expertise in regenerative architectural design, healthy materials, preservation, renovation and specification writing to small commercial and urban projects. He has spoken for years at US and international forums as well as formally
- [Compendium 5.2: Ecological roles of animals](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-5-2-ecological-roles-of-animals/) - Animals contribute vitally to Earth’s water, carbon, and nutrient cycles. Every ecosystem is supported by uncountable animal species, ranging from birds to insects and mammals to fish, as well as microscopic organisms. The devastating news is that the Earth is losing about 150 animal, plant and microbial species every day, mostly due to human activities.[8] Understanding
- [Compilation of agriculture articles](https://bio4climate.org/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 The Nature Conservancy. The report examines “20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 2: Geotherapy](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-2-geotherapy/) - Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase. Edited by Thomas J. Goreau, Ronal W. Larsen and Joanna Campe [Goreau 2015] The term "geotherapy" was coined by Richard Grantham, an evolutionary biologist and geneticist who, in his later years, turned his attention to the deteriorating state of Earth in the current
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 1: Appendix A: Scenario 300](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-1-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 Arctic: The Urgency of the Climate Situation Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased from 315 ppm in 1958 to 410 ppm in 2018. This is the
- [Compendium 5.2: Relationships between vegetation and temperature](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-5-2-relationships-between-vegetation-and-temperature/) - Earth is heating up: “Global surface temperature was 1.09°C higher in 2011– 2020 than 1850–1900,” according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 6th Assessment Report.[3] Yet the mercury is not rising uniformly around the world – the Arctic is warming faster than are the lower latitudes, and temperatures over land are higher than over the
- [Water](https://bio4climate.org/article/water/) - With the rise of civilizations, humans began having significant impacts on bodies of water and the water cycle. The early “hydraulic civilizations” appeared along major rivers (Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, Yellow River and others), changed watercourses and built canals for agriculture and transportation. As populations and cities expanded, demand for food led to soil depletion while
- [Earthworms](https://bio4climate.org/article/earthworms/) - Although often overlooked, ignored or taken for granted, earthworms are nevertheless keystone soil species, mediators and moderators for rebuilding healthy, biodiverse, high carbon and moisture rich topsoil [Darwin 1881; Blakemore 2016c]. We depend on soils for more than 99% of our food and 100% of our timber and natural fibres [Blakemore 2012, Pimentel 2013]. As
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 2: Appendix B: A systems approach to climate change](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-2-appendix-b-a-systems-approach-to-climate-change/) - "The world is divided politically, but ecologically it is tightly interwoven." - Carl Sagan, 1980, Cosmos The magnitude of troubles ailing humanity is dizzying, if not terrifying - any 10 minutes of exposure to the daily news can attest to this. It’s hard to untangle the problems from each other, or to connect causes to
- [Legume-based cropping systems have reduced carbon and nitrogen losses, Drinkwater 1998](https://bio4climate.org/article/legume-based-cropping-systems-have-reduced-carbon-and-nitrogen-losses-drinkwater-1998/) - This study compared three corn-soybean cropping systems: (1) conventional 2-yr rotation with chemical inputs, and residues returned to soil; (2) a longer (than 2 years), organic rotation with grass/legume hayed and returned to soil in manure; and (3) a longer (than 2 years) organic rotation with grass/legume turned back into the soil directly. Even though
- [Compost, manure and synthetic fertilizer influences crop yields, soil properties, nitrate leaching and crop nutrient content, Hepperly 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/compost-manure-and-synthetic-fertilizer-influences-crop-yields-soil-properties-nitrate-leaching-and-crop-nutrient-content-hepperly-2009/) - A sequestration rate of 2.363t C/ha/yr was demonstrated where compost made of dairy manure and leaves was applied to fields in a three year rotation of corn-vegetable-small grain, with leguminous cover crops. The same rotation treated with chemical fertilizer instead of compost resulted in a net loss of -0.317t C/ha/yr.
- [Agroforestry strategies to sequester carbon in temperate North America, Udawatta & Jose 2012](https://bio4climate.org/article/agroforestry-strategies-to-sequester-carbon-in-temperate-north-america-udawatta-jose-2012/) - This meta-analysis estimates total carbon sequestration potential in the US from various agroforestry practices to be 530 TgC/year (530 million metric tons), equivalent to about 1/3 of annual US carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion. Based on their literature review, the authors estimate per-hectare sequestration rates (based on aboveground and belowground carbon accumulation) for each practice
- [National comparison of the total and sequestered organic matter contents of conventional and organic farm soils, Ghabbour 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/national-comparison-of-the-total-and-sequestered-organic-matter-contents-of-conventional-and-organic-farm-soils-ghabbour-2017/) - An analysis of hundreds of soil samples collected from organic and conventional farms around the US shows higher average percentages both of total SOM and of humic substances - a measure of carbon sequestration - for organic farm soils compared to conventional farm soils. The mean percent humification (humic substances divided by total SOM) for
- [The ecology of soil carbon: pools, vulnerabilities, and biotic and abiotic controls, Jackson 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-ecology-of-soil-carbon-pools-vulnerabilities-and-biotic-and-abiotic-controls-jackson-2017/) - This review examines “the state of knowledge for the stocks of, inputs to, and outputs from SOM around the world” [Jackson 2017: 422], with a view toward developing better understanding of processes that stabilize SOM. It explains the biological processes involved in carbon cycling and storage, finding that “root inputs are approximately five times more
- [Natural climate solutions, Griscom 2017](https://bio4climate.org/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 examines “20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural
- [The Advancement of Science: From Paradigms to Peer Review](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-advancement-of-science-from-paradigms-to-peer-review/) - Paradigms and How They Shift Understanding the role of paradigms in scientific investigation is one of the keys to approaching the revolutionary view of climate as a problem of ecosystem dynamics as opposed to one simply of excessive greenhouse gases. The new paradigm doesn’t render the old paradigm irrelevant, but it reframes its significance and role
- [Forests](https://bio4climate.org/article/forests/) - Note: As mentioned in the Release notes, we have a small staff, and therefore have had to postpone some important material for the next release, scheduled for January 2018. This is particularly true of forests and we will include a more thorough examination of their importance in addressing climate moving forward. Nonetheless, we felt that the
- [Croplands](https://bio4climate.org/article/croplands/) - Cultivated land covers 1.6 billion hectares globally [FAO 2011]. About 62% of cropland produces food directly for human consumption, while 35% is dedicated to producing animal feed, and 3% to biofuel feedstock, seed and other industrial products [Foley 2011: 338]. Agriculture is a major source of emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous
- [Grasslands](https://bio4climate.org/article/grasslands/) - Grasslands have been estimated to cover approximately 40% of global land surface area, approximately 5.25 bn ha (~13 bn ac ), except for Greenland and Antarctica [Suttie 2005; White 2000:12]. Their deep soils are rich repositories of nutrients, especially carbon and water. Many grasslands are anthropogenic, i.e., resulting from various land management techniques to maintain
- [Native plants, native ecosystems, and native landscapes: an ecological definition of "native" will promote effective conservation and restoration, Wilson, Hibbs & Alverson 1991](https://bio4climate.org/article/native-plants-native-ecosystems-and-native-landscapes-an-ecological-definition-of-native-will-promote-effective-conservation-and-restoration-wilson-hibbs-alverson-1991/) - Produced by the Native Plant Society of Oregon, this article argues that, while the use of native species is an accepted tenet of conservation, the term “native” is not necessarily well understood; they attempt to clarify the term. “Any definition of a native species, native ecosystem, or native landscape requires an historical benchmark” [Wilson 1991:
- [Impact of Native Plants on Bird and Butterfly Biodiversity in Suburban Landscapes, Burghardt, Tallamy & Shriver 2008](https://bio4climate.org/article/impact-of-native-plants-on-bird-and-butterfly-biodiversity-in-suburban-landscapes-burghardt-tallamy-shriver-2008/) - In this study, the insect and bird populations of six pairs of suburban yards were measured. Each pair contained one conventionally landscaped yard containing native canopy trees and a mixture of native and non-native shrubs, grasses and understory trees; and one yard with native species only (canopy, understory, shrub and grasses). The level of plant
- [Native plants improve breeding and foraging habitat for an insectivorous bird, Narango, Tallamy & Marra 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/native-plants-improve-breeding-and-foraging-habitat-for-an-insectivorous-bird-narango-tallamy-marra-2017/) - This study examined whether non-native plants in residential Washington DC limited the presence of the Carolina chickadee, a local breeding insectivore. We predicted that areas with more native plants would support more chickadees, and chickadees would forage more often in the most insect-producing native plants [Narango 2017: 43]. The authors had also considered the possibility
- [Vegetation types and their broad-scale distribution, Box & Fujiwara 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/vegetation-types-and-their-broad-scale-distribution-box-fujiwara-2013/) - A vegetation type, or plant community, is identifiable by its distinct appearance compared to other landscape types within a landscape. For example, a grassland and a wetland differ in appearance from each other and from a forest, while a wetland-forest is yet another visibly different vegetation type. Plant species are recognizable by their form, which
- [Do non-native plants contribute to insect declines? Tallamy, Narango & Mitchell 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/do-non-native-plants-contribute-to-insect-declines-tallamy-narango-mitchell-2020/) - The widespread distribution of plants outside of their native range due to human activity is a significant yet underrecognized cause of global insect decline, according to this article. To illuminate the issue, the authors: “examine the evidence for and against the hypothesis that long term changes in the species composition of plant assemblages have contributed
- [Vegetation Ecology: Historical Notes and Outline, van der Maarel & Franklin 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/vegetation-ecology-historical-notes-and-outline-van-der-maarel-franklin-2013/) - These authors define the concept of a plant community through discussion of its evolution. They start by defining the term ‘vegetation’ in a way that may surprise some readers because it excludes plants growing in certain situations. To be considered vegetation, plants need to emerge spontaneously. Vegetation, the central object of study in vegetation ecology,
- [Near-Natural Silviculture: Sustainable Approach for Urban Re-naturalization Assessment Based on 10 Years Recovering Dynamics and Eco-Benefits in Shanghai, Guo et. al 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/near-natural-silviculture-sustainable-approach-for-urban-re-naturalization-assessment-based-on-10-years-recovering-dynamics-and-eco-benefits-in-shanghai-guo-et-al-2015/) - As one of China’s major cities, Shanghai’s natural sub-ecosystem[5] has suffered drastic damage due to human activities and urbanization. Although urban re-naturalization has gained attention from city leaders, urban tree planting has largely consisted of two methods with limited ecological potential. One favors fast-growing monocultures to produce timber products and other benefits, while the other approach
- [Non-native plants reduce abundance, richness, and host specialization in lepidopteran communities, Burghardt et al. 2010](https://bio4climate.org/article/non-native-plants-reduce-abundance-richness-and-host-specialization-in-lepidopteran-communities-burghardt-et-al-2010/) - This research evaluates the impact of the invasion of non-native plants in the distribution of lepidopteran (butterfly, skipper, and moth) communities. The authors assert that although the introduction of non-native plants has not resulted in a “global extinction”, they have had a considerable impact on how ecosystems function—they often result in significant bottom-up reductions of
- [Predictive modeling of the potential natural vegetation pattern in northeastern China, Liu et al. 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/predictive-modeling-of-the-potential-natural-vegetation-pattern-in-northeastern-china-liu-et-al-2009/) - This study uses the concept of Potential Natural Vegetation (PNV), developed in the mid-1900s by German botanist Reinhold Tüxen. Described by the authors as “one of the most successful novelties in vegetation science over the last decades” [Liu 2009: 1313], PNV can be defined as a projection of the natural vegetation that would exist in a
- [Native plants article summaries](https://bio4climate.org/article/native-plants-article-summaries/) - The following articles lay out a few key ecological concepts and terms that may be helpful to become familiar with for the growing number of biodiversity-conscious people and organizations that are beginning to plant more native plants on their land. Native plants, native ecosystems, and native landscapes: an ecological definition of "native" will promote effective
- [Tree planting is not a simple science, Holl & Brancalion 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/tree-planting-is-not-a-simple-science-holl-brancalion-2020/) - Well-planned tree-planting projects are an important component of global efforts to improve ecological and human well-being. But tree planting becomes problematic when it is promoted as a simple, silver bullet solution and overshadows other actions that have greater potential for addressing the drivers of specific environmental problems, such as taking bold and rapid steps to
- [Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession, Walker, Walker & Hobbs (eds) 2007](https://bio4climate.org/article/linking-restoration-and-ecological-succession-walker-walker-hobbs-eds-2007/) - This book draws lessons from ecological succession theory to inform ecological restoration, stating that: “restoration is fundamentally the management of succession” [Walker 2007: vi]. The latter is the natural process by which plants first colonize “new” land (post landslide, glacial retreat or volcanic eruption, for example) or degraded land, and over time develop into mature
- [Interactions among plants and evolution, Thorpe et al. 2011](https://bio4climate.org/article/interactions-among-plants-and-evolution-thorpe-et-al-2011/) - This review explores the question of whether plant-plant interactions drive evolutionary changes. “If such evolution is common, plant communities are not random assemblages of species.” The topic is under-studied compared to plant interactions with other groups. Research on plant-consumer, plant-pollinator and plant-disperser interactions has been central to understanding the complex mutualistic and co-dependent interactions among
- [The community as an ecological unit, Barbour, Burk & Pitts 1987](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-community-as-an-ecological-unit-barbour-burk-pitts-1987/) - This article provides an overview of types of plant communities and the process of succession in those communities. In each type of habitat, certain species group together as a community. Fossil records indicate that some of these groups (or very closely related precursors) have lived together for thousands or even millions of years. During that
- [Global exchange and accumulation of non-native species, van Kleunen et al. 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/global-exchange-and-accumulation-of-non-native-species-van-kleunen-et-al-2015/) - The ecological, economic, and social damage of human-mediated dispersal of species into new regions, where they possess the ability to naturalize (become self-sustaining their new homeland), is one of the defining features of the Anthropocene Epoch. Globally, human activity has led to the naturalization of nearly 13,168 plant species (equal in size to the native European
- [Conceptualizing communities as natural entities: a philosophical argument with basic and applied implications, Steen et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/conceptualizing-communities-as-natural-entities-a-philosophical-argument-with-basic-and-applied-implications-steen-et-al-2017/) - Ecological restoration aims to recreate lost or degraded ecological communities. However, “community” has been a difficult concept to define – should the definition stress dominant species, species interactions, or a subset of strongly interacting species? These authors propose defining community on the basis of co-evolutionary relationships among species. We propose that an Evolutionary Community is
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 2: Restoration in action](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-2-restoration-in-action/) - We know how to enhance resilience to extreme weather where we live and work. Communities throughout the world are utilizing these approaches, and here we highlight several initiatives in a variety of habitats to illustrate potential paths forward. More information is included just below each project description. Following this section is a collection of summaries
- [Loess Plateau Rehabilitation Project, China](https://bio4climate.org/article/loess-plateau-rehabilitation-project-china/) - China’s Loess Plateau, roughly the size of France, lies between Tibet and Beijing just south of Mongolia, and is traversed by the Yellow River. Once covered in forest and grassland and the center of Chinese power and wealth, this area eventually became severely degraded by agriculture and unmanaged grazing. The fragile loess soils, composed of
- [Close up on California in the era of climate change: a verdant vision for fire-prone land](https://bio4climate.org/article/close-up-on-california-in-the-era-of-climate-change-a-verdant-vision-for-fire-prone-land/) - Picture California in the 1700s, around the time the first Spanish missions appeared. It must have looked like heaven on earth for the 100,000s of native people living there [Ecological Society of America 2014], cradled between forested mountains and sparkling ocean. Meandering streams and rivers teeming with salmon criss-cross the valley and are knit together
- [Low-tech stream repair for drought resilience: western USA](https://bio4climate.org/article/low-tech-stream-repair-for-drought-resilience-western-usa/) - As the hydrological benefits that beaver dams bring to streams and surrounding landscapes becomes better known, ranchers, wildlife managers and researchers are increasingly working together to repair streams by building Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs). This method is attractive to ranchers searching for ways to manage drought and to irrigate their pastures reliably. In the spring,
- [Characterizing multispecies connectivity across a transfrontier conservation landscape, Brennan et al. 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/characterizing-multispecies-connectivity-across-a-transfrontier-conservation-landscape-brennan-et-al-2020/) - Connectivity conservation pays attention to landscape connectivity to support animal species’ movements, keep ecological processes intact, and promote biodiversity. While the strategy of conserving connected, non-fragmented areas and respecting animals’ movement patterns is sound, in practice these plans are usually designed around a single species and its needs. Brennan et al. looked at the limitations
- [Landscape rehydration 'better than dams' in improving farm production, reducing fire risk, Major 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/landscape-rehydration-better-than-dams-in-improving-farm-production-reducing-fire-risk-major-2020/) - A project in Queensland, Australia has met with success in its efforts to rehydrate the landscape on the farmland property of Worona Station, improving biodiversity, water retention, and resistance to erosion and fire. Worona Station had been degraded and faced serious erosion issues, so Chris Le Feuvre, the owner, partnered with consultancy groups of NQ
- [Summaries of articles showing the cooling effect of vegetation](https://bio4climate.org/article/summaries-of-articles-showing-the-cooling-effect-of-vegetation/) - Cloud cooling effects of afforestation and reforestation at midlatitudes, Cerasoli, Jin & Porporato 2021 Reforestation and afforestation (R&A) are well-established climate mitigation strategies in the wet tropics due to high carbon sequestration rates of forests/trees. However, at high latitudes (boreal regions), the low albedo of trees–compared to snow and other lighter land surfaces–leads to the
- [Cloud cooling effects of afforestation and reforestation at midlatitudes, Cerasoli, Jin & Porporato 2021](https://bio4climate.org/article/cloud-cooling-effects-of-afforestation-and-reforestation-at-midlatitudes-cerasoli-jin-porporato-2021/) - Reforestation and afforestation (R&A) are well-established climate mitigation strategies in the wet tropics due to high carbon sequestration rates of forests/trees. However, at high latitudes (boreal regions), the low albedo of trees–compared to snow and other lighter land surfaces–leads to the absorption of energy, thus creating a warming effect that has a greater impact on
- [The duality of reforestation impacts on surface and air temperature, Novick & Katul 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-duality-of-reforestation-impacts-on-surface-and-air-temperature-novick-katul-2020/) - While reforestation has been widely heralded as a means of sequestering carbon into the soil, there is growing evidence that it also serves to directly cool the land surface. But forests’ impacts on air temperature (measured over forests rather than within them) have been difficult to assess because of the confounding impacts of forest canopies on
- [Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening, Piao et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/characteristics-drivers-and-feedbacks-of-global-greening-piao-et-al-2019/) - The amount of Earth’s green cover (measured as Leaf Area Index[6]) has increased globally since 1980, especially in northern latitudes, where growing seasons have lengthened. This is due mainly to increasing CO2 concentration, but also to warmer temperatures and changing precipitation patterns, nitrogen deposition, and land-use change (such as afforestation in China). Higher ambient CO2 can stimulate
- [Historical deforestation locally increased the intensity of hot days in northern mid-latitudes, Lejeune 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/historical-deforestation-locally-increased-the-intensity-of-hot-days-in-northern-mid-latitudes-lejeune-2018-2/) - Deforestation has contributed to warming in the northern mid-latitudes of North America and Eurasia not only through a large contribution to global CO2 emissions, but also through biogeophysical effects. The latter refers to land-surface effects such as albedo and evapotranspiration, which vary according to the type of land cover. This study uses models to demonstrate that
- [Expansion of oil palm and other cash crops causes an increase of the land surface temperature in the Jambi province in Indonesia, Sabajo 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/expansion-of-oil-palm-and-other-cash-crops-causes-an-increase-of-the-land-surface-temperature-in-the-jambi-province-in-indonesia-sabajo-2017/) - Turning lemons into lemonade, Sabajo et al. have used the great expansion of oil palm plantations and other crops in Indonesia to examine how such land-use change affects land surface temperature (LST). The authors observed a warming trend in the Jambi province of Sumatra of 1.05℃ and 1.56℃ in the morning and afternoon, respectively, between 2000 and 2015. The
- [The impact of anthropogenic land use and land cover change on regional climate extremes, Findell et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-impact-of-anthropogenic-land-use-and-land-cover-change-on-regional-climate-extremes-findell-et-al-2017/) - This paper analyzes how land use and land cover change (LULCC) affects temperature and humidity. The authors examined the differential effects of forest versus deforested land on temperature and humidity by comparing different land-cover models. One model simulated the total potential vegetation (“PotVeg”) that would cover Earth in the absence of human interference, while the
- [Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes, Bright et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/local-temperature-response-to-land-cover-and-management-change-driven-by-non-radiative-processes-bright-et-al-2017/) - Local temperatures are affected not only by global climatic factors, but also by radiative (albedo) and non-radiative (evapotranspiration and convection) mechanisms related to local vegetation cover. Through evapotranspiration, solar energy is converted to latent heat and released from the planet’s surface, while convection refers to the turbulent mixing of air that dissipates sensible heat. The
- [Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world, Ellison et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/trees-forests-and-water-cool-insights-for-a-hot-world-ellison-et-al-2017/) - This article (also highlighted in Compendium v2n1) reviews research on the benefits of tree cover in relation to water and energy cycles. Forests help produce rain. Vegetation releases water vapor through transpiration, increasing atmospheric moisture that is then transported by wind. In fact, “over most of the tropics, air that passes over forests for ten
- [Summaries of articles on the ecological roles of animals](https://bio4climate.org/article/summaries-of-articles-on-the-ecological-roles-of-animals/) - Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence? Kristensen et al. 2021 This article considers the overlooked role of grasslands and large herbivores in carbon storage. The principal question the authors pose is: what is the impact of large wild and domestic herbivores on the ability of ecosystems to absorb and store carbon over the long
- [Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence? Kristensen et al. 2021](https://bio4climate.org/article/can-large-herbivores-enhance-ecosystem-carbon-persistence-kristensen-et-al-2021/) - This article considers the overlooked role of grasslands and large herbivores in carbon storage. The principal question the authors pose is: what is the impact of large wild and domestic herbivores on the ability of ecosystems to absorb and store carbon over the long term? Their answer is that the activity of species like cattle,
- [25 years after returning to Yellowstone, wolves have helped stabilize the ecosystem, Peterson 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/25-years-after-returning-to-yellowstone-wolves-have-helped-stabilize-the-ecosystem-peterson-2020/) - Before the 1900s, wolves and other predators, such as bears and mountain lions, helped control the populations of herbivores in Yellowstone. However, the federal government exterminated these predators in a coordinated campaign. After the last wolf pack was killed, the elk numbers started increasing uncountably. The US Park Service subsequently attempted to control the elk
- [Can large carnivores change streams via a trophic cascade? Beschta & Ripple 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/can-large-carnivores-change-streams-via-a-trophic-cascade-beschta-ripple-2020/) - After having been wiped out by the 1920s, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995-1996. This study assessed the importance of large carnivores to wild ungulates’ behavior and density, with secondary effects on plant communities, rivers and channels, and beaver communities. Focusing on the West and East Forks of Blacktail Deer Creek, the
- [Pollination by bats enhances both quality and yield of a major cash crop in Mexico, Tremlett et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/pollination-by-bats-enhances-both-quality-and-yield-of-a-major-cash-crop-in-mexico-tremlett-et-al-2019/) - “The majority of the world's 350,000 species of flowering plants rely on animal pollinators for reproduction” [Tremlett 2019: 2]. Of the many vertebrates performing this function, including birds, rodents, and reptiles, bats are thought to be the primary pollinators for about 1,000 species of plants across the tropics. The authors of this study conducted this
- [Equids engineer desert water availability, Lundgren et al. 2014](https://bio4climate.org/article/equids-engineer-desert-water-availability-lundgren-et-al-2014/) - Many large herbivores may have important roles in dryland ecosystems. Equids such as donkeys and horses, as well as elephants, have been reported to dig wells of a maximum depth of two meters, enhancing water availability for a variety of animals and plants. Noting that this subject has received limited research attention, the authors carried
- [Microclimates mitigate against hot temperatures in dryland ecosystems: termite mounds as an example, Joseph et al. 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/microclimates-mitigate-against-hot-temperatures-in-dryland-ecosystems-termite-mounds-as-an-example-joseph-et-al-2016/) - This paper presents an analysis of microclimatic temperature effects of termite mounds in Zimbabwe and South Africa that provide important climatic “refuges” for other local organisms. The research compared the vegetation growing on the mounds with that on control plots in the surrounding savannah with respect to temperature differences. They found that more tall woody
- [Migratory animals couple biodiversity and ecosystem functioning worldwide, Bauer & Hoye 2014](https://bio4climate.org/article/migratory-animals-couple-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-functioning-worldwide-bauer-hoye-2014/) - Billions of animals, including insects, mammals, fish, and birds, migrate through the planet every year, which uniquely influences the environment and the ecological communities along migration routes. “The frequency of migrations and the immense number of individuals involved often mean that migrant inputs constitute “resource pulses,” defined as occasional, intense, brief episodes of increased resource
- [Let more big fish sink: Fisheries prevent blue carbon sequestration—half in unprofitable areas, Mariani et. al 2010](https://bio4climate.org/article/let-more-big-fish-sink-fisheries-prevent-blue-carbon-sequestration-half-in-unprofitable-areas-mariani-et-al-2010/) - The ocean sequesters about 22% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Marine vertebrates contribute to the ocean’s carbon sink capacity in various ways, such as by fertilizing coastal vegetated habitats, and (through the work of marine predators) protecting this vegetation from overgrazing. Additionally, fish sequester carbon in the deep sea when they sink to the bottom after
- [Iron defecation by sperm whales stimulates carbon export in the Southern Ocean, Lavery et. al 2010](https://bio4climate.org/article/iron-defecation-by-sperm-whales-stimulates-carbon-export-in-the-southern-ocean-lavery-et-al-2010/) - Whales have been viewed as a source of CO2 because they respire tons of CO2 annually. However, their feces could possibly offset this impact, as they may be a great contributor to carbon export (removal from the atmosphere) to the depths of the ocean. Iron-rich whale feces stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, which leads to more
- [Continental-scale consequences of tree die-offs in North America: identifying where forest loss matters most, Swann 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/continental-scale-consequences-of-tree-die-offs-in-north-america-identifying-where-forest-loss-matters-most-swann-2018/) - Vegetation cover affects the amount of solar energy a land area absorbs and/or releases, thus altering local temperatures and precipitation. Plants regulate local temperatures through shading, albedo and evapotranspiration, which releases latent[9] heat. The ability of a surface to shed energy through latent or sensible heat is key to determining that surface’s temperature - shifts in the
- [Trees, forests and water: cool insights for a hot world, Ellison 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/trees-forests-and-water-cool-insights-for-a-hot-world-ellison-2017/) - ​This paper takes the innovative and paradigm-shifting position that carbon is not the primary consideration in climate; rather, water should be the central focus, integrated with carbon and energy cycles: Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use and water management. This
- [Compendium 5.1: Worthy miscellany](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-5-1-worthy-miscellany/) - Symbiosis: Structure and Functions, Ecological and Evolutionary Role, Sélosse 2000 (La Symbiose : Structures et Fonctions, Rôle Écologique et Évolutif) Book review by Ehsan Kayal What is symbiosis? How is it defined? What does it involve? And how did it come to be? These are some of the questions French Biologist Marc-André Sélosse explores in
- [Compendium Vol. 5 No. 1: The ecological role of native plants](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-5-1-the-ecological-role-of-native-plants/) - Bio4Climate has been studying the Miyawaki Method of reforestation over the past several months. This 50-year-old technique involves densely planting native forest species from shrub to canopy layer to create tiny, fast-growing urban ecosystems[3]. Members of our staff have joined local efforts to establish Miyawaki “mini-forests” in Cambridge, MA, in Los Angeles, CA, and one
- [Bridging ecology and conservation: from ecological networks to ecosystem function, Harvey et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/bridging-ecology-and-conservation-from-ecological-networks-to-ecosystem-function-harvey-et-al-2017/) - This article emphasizes the importance of species interactions as drivers of ecosystem function. The classic conservation approach is to set aside national parks or to target specific species for protection, based on their rarity or endangered status. However, these approaches can have trade-offs for non-target species, while also potentially failing to protect ecosystem function. The
- [Ecological and evolutionary consequences of biotic homogenization, Olden et al. 2004](https://bio4climate.org/article/ecological-and-evolutionary-consequences-of-biotic-homogenization-olden-et-al-2004/) - Anthropogenic environmental change and global dispersal of a wide variety of species outside their native ranges has expanded the range of “cosmopolitan,” non-native species and shrunk the range of regional and endemic species. “This replacement of specific native forms by generalist non-natives in space and time has mixed the taxonomic composition of once disparate biotas,
- [Symbiosis: Structure and Functions, Ecological and Evolutionary Role, Sélosse 2000](https://bio4climate.org/article/symbiosis-structure-and-functions-ecological-and-evolutionary-role-selosse-2000/) - (La Symbiose : Structures et Fonctions, Rôle Écologique et Évolutif) Book review by Ehsan Kayal What is symbiosis? How is it defined? What does it involve? And how did it come to be? These are some of the questions French Biologist Marc-André Sélosse explores in this book. It is not simple to define “symbiosis,” which
- [Biophilia: the human bond with other species, Wilson 1984](https://bio4climate.org/article/biophilia-the-human-bond-with-other-species-wilson-1984/) - A book review by Rachel West As I read the first chapter, Wilson brought me far into the forests of the Amazon Basin to encounter canopy-dwelling birds and frogs found nowhere else on Earth; he showed me the life cycle of a tiny moth so specialized that the adult lives only in the fur of
- [An Okanagan Worldview of Society, Armstrong 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/an-okanagan-worldview-of-society-armstrong-2020/) - Jeannette Christine Armstrong is a Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist, who wrote this article about the traditional decision-making process in Okanagan, called “enowkinwixw,” which demonstrates a great practice of biophilia. Okanagan, the Penticton Indian reservation in Canada where the author was born and raised, has a very fragile ecosystem. However, the author discovered that
- [How to make a city climate-proof, Kleerekoper, van Esch & Salcedo 2012](https://bio4climate.org/article/how-to-make-a-city-climate-proof-kleerekoper-van-esch-salcedo-2012/) - “The geometry, spacing and orientation of buildings and outdoor spaces” [Kleerekoper 2012: 30], as well as the prevalence of hard surfaces and reduced amount of vegetation, strongly modify the micro-climate of urban areas compared to rural surroundings. Characterized by an increase in temperature, a phenomenon referred to as urban heat island [UHI] effect has multiple
- [Our burning planet: why we must learn to live with fire, Pyne 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/our-burning-planet-why-we-must-learn-to-live-with-fire-pyne-2020/) - Steven J. Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University and the author of several books on fire history and policy. He wrote this opinion piece as a protest against the prevention and suppression of wildfires in our land management process. He argues that revising our perception of fire and accepting its presence in
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 1: COMPILATION OF STUDIES AND FINDINGS](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-1-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 of every terrestrial ecosystem, are themselves wildly diverse subterranean ecosystems providing habitat to countless trillions of micro- and macro-organisms. These organisms themselves create the soil
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 1: Water, Life and Climate](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-1-water-life-and-climate/) - Water and vegetation are climate heroes, co-starring in a story about as old as terrestrial life on Earth yet under-recognized in mainstream climate politics. Not only does the vegetation embedded in ecosystems act as a giant CO2-absorption machine, constantly removing the greenhouse gas from the air and storing much of it in soil and biomass,
- [Water Article Summaries](https://bio4climate.org/article/water-article-summaries/) - Evapotranspiration – A Driving Force in Landscape Sustainability, Eiseltová 2012 Vegetation cover cools Earth when it intercepts the sun’s energy. This is not just by providing shade, but also through evapotranspiration, which is how plants regulate their own internal temperatures. For a plant … transpiration[5] is a necessity by which a plant maintains its inner environment
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 1: Worthy miscellany](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-1-worthy-miscellany/) - Indigenous hunters have positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia, Penn State 2019 When Australian authorities removed indigenous Martu people from their traditional lands in the desertic center of the continent in the mid-1900s, endemic species there declined or went extinct. Researchers observed that the Martu’s hunting regime of small burning patches of land
- [Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests, Crouzeilles et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/ecological-restoration-success-is-higher-for-natural-regeneration-than-for-active-restoration-in-tropical-forests-crouzeilles-et-al-2017/) - This meta-analysis comparing active restoration to natural ecosystem regeneration found the latter to be more effective. The authors conclude that “lower-cost natural regeneration surpasses active restoration in achieving tropical forest restoration success for biodiversity and vegetation structure[7]” [Crouzeilles 2017: 4]. This conclusion runs counter to conventional wisdom that active restoration is preferable despite being more
- [Soils](https://bio4climate.org/article/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 of every terrestrial ecosystem, are themselves wildly diverse subterranean ecosystems providing habitat to countless trillions of micro- and macro-organisms. These organisms themselves create the soil and
- [Compendium Vol. 4 No. 2: Responding to Wildfire](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-4-2-responding-to-wildfire/) - All over the world, from Australia to Europe to North and South America, wildfires have waged destruction on natural landscapes and human settlements alike. The devastation of these disasters is heartbreaking, and the images of catastrophe – walls of flame, scorched wildlife, a world gone red – are unforgettable. There is no more potent image
- [Wildfire article summaries](https://bio4climate.org/article/wildfire-article-summaries/) - Our burning planet: why we must learn to live with fire, Pyne 2020 Steven J. Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University and the author of several books on fire history and policy. He wrote this opinion piece as a protest against the prevention and suppression of wildfires in our land management process.
- [Fire Myths, Hanson 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/fire-myths-hanson-2018/) - In this podcast interview, Dr. Chad Hanson, an ecologist and fire researcher, shares his perspective on the 2018 wildfires in the American West and some myths that have circulated about fire management in their wake. First, there is a perception that wildfires in forested regions are so devastating that they reverse the ‘carbon sink’ effect
- [Land use planning and wildfire: development policies influence future probability of housing loss, Syphard et al. 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/land-use-planning-and-wildfire-development-policies-influence-future-probability-of-housing-loss-syphard-et-al-2013/) - Wildfire is a challenge that threatens human settlement at an increasing scale, but planning and development does not always address this threat. In fact, policy around land use is in large part responsible for the destruction of homes and property and the threat to human life that occurs in wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs). While there is
- [Community owned solutions for fire management in tropical ecosystems: case studies from Indigenous communities of South America, Mistry et al. 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/community-owned-solutions-for-fire-management-in-tropical-ecosystems-case-studies-from-indigenous-communities-of-south-america-mistry-et-al-2016/) - Indigenous groups across the world have developed ecological knowledge linked to the places they inhabit, including prescribed fire practices used to maintain healthy ecosystems. Mistry et al. examine the challenges Indigenous communities in South America face in managing the landscape through fire and preserving such knowledge across generations in sometimes hostile political climates. However, there
- [Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions, Fusco et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/invasive-grasses-increase-fire-occurrence-and-frequency-across-us-ecoregions-fusco-et-al-2019/) - It has long been suspected that the increasing abundance of invasive grass species may contribute to wildfires in the United States by adding abundant new fuels to ecosystems, increasing the range of conditions that lead to fire ignition, and enabling the development of larger, hotter fires. The new fire regimes (patterns of fire duration, intensity,
- [Smokey the Beaver: beaver‐dammed riparian corridors stay green during wildfire throughout the western USA, Fairfax and Whittle 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/smokey-the-beaver-beaver‐dammed-riparian-corridors-stay-green-during-wildfire-throughout-the-western-usa-fairfax-and-whittle-2020/) - This study examines the positive effects of beaver damming on the resistance of landscapes to wildfire damage. The authors find that in riparian corridors (areas along rivers), the presence of beavers and their dams can create refuges that withstand blazes that consume surrounding vegetation. Beavers play an important role in wetland habitats and are known
- [Planned Herbivory in the Management of Wildfire Fuels, Nader et al. 2007](https://bio4climate.org/article/planned-herbivory-in-the-management-of-wildfire-fuels-nader-et-al-2007/) - Nader et al. survey herbicides, prescribed fire, mechanized treatments, hand cutting, and grazing animals as fire management techniques. Managing vegetation involves “changing the plant community to decrease the flame height when fire occurs,” favoring native species that may be more resilient to fire, and altering the landscape to create fuel breaks, which are patches across which
- [Well-watered mulberry tree credited with saving home on NSW South Coast from summer bushfires, Aubrey 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/well-watered-mulberry-tree-credited-with-saving-home-on-nsw-south-coast-from-summer-bushfires-aubrey-2020/) - A well-watered mulberry tree has been credited with averting the danger of destructive wildfires from destroying Brett Hawkins’ home during 2020’s unprecedented fire season in Australia. When massive fires raged through the bush through the summer, many homes were completely engulfed. However, Hawkins attested that when he returned to his home after evacuating, ‘I could
- [Compendium Vol. 4 No. 2: Ecological corridors and connectivity](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-4-2-ecological-corridors-and-connectivity/) - Establishing ecological corridors is a way to mitigate the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation. Ecological corridors are linear landscape elements connecting otherwise isolated habitat patches within a larger matrix of environmentally degraded lands (urban or agricultural, for example). The corridors facilitate gene dispersal and migration, while also expanding habitat range for species constrained by
- [Ecological corridor article summaries](https://bio4climate.org/article/ecological-corridor-article-summaries/) - A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate, Dinerstein et al. 2020 Currently, 15.1% of land on Earth is conservation protected. This article maps out an additional 35.3% of land needing near-term protection, along with ecological corridor routes connecting these areas. Half of the planet’s land is needed to serve as
- [A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate, Dinerstein et al. 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-global-safety-net-to-reverse-biodiversity-loss-and-stabilize-earths-climate-dinerstein-et-al-2020/) - Currently, 15.1% of land on Earth is conservation protected. This article maps out an additional 35.3% of land needing near-term protection, along with ecological corridor routes connecting these areas. Half of the planet’s land is needed to serve as a Global Safety Net to biodiversity loss and stabilize the global climate. While the parallel crises
- [Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors, Hilty et al. 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/guidelines-for-conserving-connectivity-through-ecological-networks-and-corridors-hilty-et-al-2020/) - The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which created these guidelines, is an international environmental network founded in 1948 that provides conservation data, assessment and analysis to governments, NGOs and private entities. IUCN also manages the Red List of Threatened Species. This connectivity guideline is part of a series of best practices for protected
- [Constructing ecological networks based on habitat quality assessment: a case study of Changzhou, China, Gao et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/constructing-ecological-networks-based-on-habitat-quality-assessment-a-case-study-of-changzhou-china-gao-et-al-2017/) - Changzhou is a city near the Yangtze River delta on the east coast of China that has undergone extensive urban development. “From 2006 to 2014, the built-up area in the city increased by 25.68%” [Gao 2017: 2]. This study is part of an effort to boost biodiversity and ecosystem services in the city, which, at
- [Integrating priority areas and ecological corridors into national network for conservation planning in China, Liang et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/integrating-priority-areas-and-ecological-corridors-into-national-network-for-conservation-planning-in-china-liang-et-al-2018/) - In contrast to the Gao et al. [2017] article (above), this study maps out an ecological network spanning the entire nation of China. Most such ecological corridor analysis has previously focused at the local and regional levels, according to the authors. They note that in addition to protecting biodiversity, ecological corridors (ECs) purify air, regulate
- [A meta-analytic review of corridor effectiveness, Gilbert-Norton et al. 2010](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-meta-analytic-review-of-corridor-effectiveness-gilbert-norton-et-al-2010/) - Habitat fragmentation, a frequent consequence of habitat loss, is a primary threat to populations and species because isolated subpopulations are expected to experience reduced population viability and ultimately greater risk of extinction. Colonization and gene flow between habitat patches, however, can mitigate these effects [Gilbert-Norton 2010: 661]. This meta-analysis, consisting of 78 experiments from 35
- [Ecosystem service provision by road verges, Phillips et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/ecosystem-service-provision-by-road-verges-phillips-et-al-2019/) - ‘Road verges’ are strips of land on either side of roads and highways that are on average 3-4m wide, but can be as narrow as a few centimeters or many meters wide. “Road verges are commonly grassland habitats, but can be shrubland, forest or artificial arrangements of trees and horticultural plants, and we use the
- [Fence ecology: frameworks for understanding the ecological effects of fences, McInturff et al. 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/fence-ecology-frameworks-for-understanding-the-ecological-effects-of-fences-mcinturff-et-al-2020/) - Conceptually the inverse of wildlife corridors, fences aim to disconnect. They are built to separate people across national borders, livestock from predators, to delineate property lines, and even to protect wildlife conservation reserves. Globally, fences are ubiquitous, more prevalent even than roads, and proliferating. Yet their ecological impact is relatively unstudied. Fences are often framed
- [Status of the Natura 2000 network (from State of Nature in the EU report), EEA (European Environmental Agency) 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/status-of-the-natura-2000-network-from-state-of-nature-in-the-eu-report-eea-european-environmental-agency-2020/) - While not an ecological corridor per se, the Natura 2000 network is the largest coordinated network of conservation areas in the world. Covering 17.9% of Europe’s land area and nearly 10% of the continent’s marine areas, the network includes 27,852 sites with an area of 1,358,125 km2. The terrestrial portion of the Natura 2000 network
- [Blue and green corridors [Les trames vertes et bleues] in France, Ministry of Ecological Transition 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/blue-and-green-corridors-les-trames-vertes-et-bleues-in-france-ministry-of-ecological-transition-2017/) - Spurred to action by the European Union and a vision for a pan-European ecological network, France encoded the idea of the “trames vertes et bleues” into law in 2009. The national government worked with all the regional governments to develop maps showing areas with the highest levels of biodiversity. This includes protected areas, stretches of
- [Articulating the politics of green and blue infrastructure and the mitigation hierarchy for effective biodiversity preservation in France [Articuler la politique Trame verte et bleue et la séquence Éviter-réduire-compenser: complémentarités et limites pour une préservation efficace de la biodiversité en France], Chaurand & Bigard 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/articulating-the-politics-of-green-and-blue-infrastructure-and-the-mitigation-hierarchy-for-effective-biodiversity-preservation-in-france-articuler-la-politique-trame-verte-et-bleue-et-la-sequence-ev/) - This article reviews the historical development of two pieces of environmental legislation in France - the use of the “mitigation hierarchy” to assess and limit environmental impact in project development and the promotion of ecological corridors. Theoretically, these two laws overlap when urban development projects in proximity to areas of ecological significance use the mitigation
- [Woods and hedgerows of Brittany countryside [Le bocage Bretagne], OEB (L’Observatoire de l’Environnement en Bretagne) 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/woods-and-hedgerows-of-brittany-countryside-le-bocage-bretagne-oeb-lobservatoire-de-lenvironnement-en-bretagne-2018/) - Produced by a regional consortium on the environment in Brittany, France, this report describes the ecological value of woody strips encircling agricultural fields and enmeshing the countryside, their decline, and ways to incentivize their protection. Brittany is a heavily agricultural region that also features a long stretch of coastline where urban development and expansion is
- [Shaping land use change (LUC) and ecosystem restoration in a water-stressed agricultural landscape to achieve multiple benefits, Bryant et al. 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/shaping-land-use-change-luc-and-ecosystem-restoration-in-a-water-stressed-agricultural-landscape-to-achieve-multiple-benefits-bryant-et-al-2020/) - In spite of its obvious benefits, agriculture, which covers one third of the Earth’s land surface, damages biodiversity and ecosystem services. In some regions, land degradation and depletion of water resources from irrigation have been so great that historical levels of food production in these regions risk decline. Some areas of previously productive farmland will
- [Integrating Agricultural Landscapes with Biodiversity Conservation in the Mesoamerican Hotspot, Harvey et al. 2007](https://bio4climate.org/article/integrating-agricultural-landscapes-with-biodiversity-conservation-in-the-mesoamerican-hotspot-harvey-et-al-2007/) - The fate of biodiversity within protected areas is therefore inextricably linked to the broader landscape context, including how the surrounding agricultural matrix is designed and managed [Harvey 2007: 8]. Rather than discussing ecological corridors per se, this article emphasizes the importance of a whole-landscape approach to biodiversity conservation. Pointing out that protected nature reserves are
- [The concept of green corridor and sustainable development in Costa Rica, Beauvais & Matagne 1999](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-concept-of-green-corridor-and-sustainable-development-in-costa-rica-beauvais-matagne-1999/) - The concept of sustainable development presumes that human economic systems and overall wellbeing depend on functioning ecosystems. Therefore, ecological rhythms should not be transgressed to the point that they fail to provide the vital services needed today and in future generations. According to this model, economic development becomes a necessary but insufficient condition for society
- [The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in Panama and Costa Rica, Dettman 2006](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-mesoamerican-biological-corridor-in-panama-and-costa-rica-dettman-2006/) - At the end of the 1980s, as a period of severe conflict in Central America was winding down, most countries in the isthmus signed the Charter Agreement for the Protection of the Environment, which established a sustainable development commission. At the same time, the “Central American Protected Areas System (SICAP) created approximately 11.5 million hectares
- [Between Bolivar and Bureaucracy: The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, Liza Grandia 2007](https://bio4climate.org/article/between-bolivar-and-bureaucracy-the-mesoamerican-biological-corridor-liza-grandia-2007/) - Written by an anthropologist working in Central American conservation efforts for more than 10 years, this article describes the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC) project as having succumbed to a neoliberal agenda. Although originally spearheaded by Central American environmentalists, the notion of cross-border environmental collaboration was adopted by the World Bank and large international conservation organizations
- [Effectiveness of Panama as an intercontinental land bridge for large mammals, Meyer et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/effectiveness-of-panama-as-an-intercontinental-land-bridge-for-large-mammals-meyer-et-al-2019/) - One of the world’s largest corridor projects is the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC). Initiated in the 1990s, the MBC aims to connect protected areas between southeastern Mexico and Panama [Meyer 2019: 2]. The ecological functionality of the MBC has not been much assessed, in part because direct approaches to measuring connectivity are costly and challenging.
- [Belize creates one of Central America’s largest biological corridors, Dasgupta 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/belize-creates-one-of-central-americas-largest-biological-corridors-dasgupta-2018/) - The Belize government approved a plan in February 2018 to create a 110-square-kilometer biological corridor connecting two nature reserves in the northeast of the country. This outcome resulted from collaboration among NGOs, the government and private property owners. The latter agreed to conserve (to not deforest or otherwise degrade) the parts of their land that would
- [The woman building the forest corridors saving Brazil’s black lion tamarin, Zanon 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-woman-building-the-forest-corridors-saving-brazils-black-lion-tamarin-zanon-2020/) - “The tamarin is unable to do anything to save its own species. And we, human beings, are the ones who are destroying their environment,” says conservationist Gabriela Rezende. “So, when I got the opportunity to see this animal in the wild, I felt partly responsible for its future.” Rezende works with the Institute for Ecological
- [Compendium Vol. 4 No. 1: Introduction](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-4-1-introduction/) - In a fitting juxtaposition, 2020 has brought us both the Covid-19 pandemic and the eve of the United Nations (UN) Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). As we have learned from infectious disease research, ecosystem degradation drives the emergence of novel human diseases that become pandemic. In this issue of the compendium we delve into research
- [Compendium Vol. 4 No. 1: Biodiversity loss and pandemics](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-4-1-biodiversity-loss-and-pandemics/) - The subject of infectious disease became both fascinating and uncomfortably relevant with the global breakout of Covid-19 in early 2020. Are bats to blame, hunting and selling of wild game or seafood markets? It turns out that the destruction of nature is the root problem, according to the UN environment chief and lead scientists for
- [Biodiversity loss and pandemics article summaries](https://bio4climate.org/article/biodiversity-loss-and-pandemics-article-summaries/) - Anthropogenic environmental change and the emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife, Daszak, Cunningham & Hyatt 2001 Humans are not the only species to suffer global pandemics. Planetwide, fungal disease ravages amphibians, just as honeybees are ravaged by varroasis. A herpes virus caused mass mortality of pilchard fish off the coast of Australia and New Zealand
- [Anthropogenic environmental change and the emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife, Daszak, Cunningham & Hyatt 2001](https://bio4climate.org/article/anthropogenic-environmental-change-and-the-emergence-of-infectious-diseases-in-wildlife-daszak-cunningham-hyatt-2001/) - Humans are not the only species to suffer global pandemics. Planetwide, fungal disease ravages amphibians, just as honeybees are ravaged by varroasis. A herpes virus caused mass mortality of pilchard fish off the coast of Australia and New Zealand in 1995, and seals from Antarctica to the Caspian Sea have contracted canine distemper viruses, for
- [Effects of species diversity on disease risk, Keesing, Holt & Ostfeld 2006](https://bio4climate.org/article/effects-of-species-diversity-on-disease-risk-keesing-holt-ostfeld-2006/) - This review article describes the potential mechanisms by which biodiversity affects disease risk. The authors explore the mechanisms at play in simple systems with only host and pathogen, as well as in more complex systems that include a vector species and/or multiple hosts. The reduction of disease risk by increased diversity is called the “dilution
- [Biodiversity loss and the rise of zoonotic pathogens, Ostfeld 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/biodiversity-loss-and-the-rise-of-zoonotic-pathogens-ostfeld-2009/) - West Nile Virus is an infectious disease that arrived in New York City in 1999, and subsequently spread across the country to the west coast. It is transmitted to humans from passerine (perching) birds via mosquito vectors. This study tested the dilution effect hypothesis, which posits that greater diversity (of birds in this case) reduces
- [Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases, Keesing et al. 2010](https://bio4climate.org/article/impacts-of-biodiversity-on-the-emergence-and-transmission-of-infectious-diseases-keesing-et-al-2010/) - This paper contextualizes reduced transmission of infectious disease as one of the many ecosystem services provided by biodiversity. Changes in biodiversity affect infectious disease transmission by changing the abundance of the host and/or vector; the loss of non-host species may increase the density of host species, increasing the encounter rates between pathogen and host. Often,
- [Biodiversity inhibits parasites: Broad evidence for the dilution effect, Civitello et al. 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/biodiversity-inhibits-parasites-broad-evidence-for-the-dilution-effect-civitello-et-al-2015/) - Human activities are dramatically reducing biodiversity, and the frequency and severity of infectious disease outbreaks in human, wildlife, and domesticated species are increasing. These concurrent patterns have prompted suggestions that biodiversity and the spread of diseases may be causally linked. For example, the dilution effect hypothesis proposes that diverse host communities inhibit the abundance of
- [Where the Wild Things Aren’t: Loss of Biodiversity, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Implications for Diagnosticians, Granter 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/where-the-wild-things-arent-loss-of-biodiversity-emerging-infectious-diseases-and-implications-for-diagnosticians-granter-2016/) - This status-quo-challenging editorial is written for the American Society of Clinical Pathology, a group seemingly unrelated to the Bio4Climate community. The authors suggest that medical training in pathology over-emphasizes oncology at the expense of an adequate coverage of infectious disease, even though “between 1940 and 2004, a total of 335 human infectious diseases ‘emerged,’ and
- [Conservation of biodiversity as a strategy for improving human health and wellbeing, Kilpatrick et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/conservation-of-biodiversity-as-a-strategy-for-improving-human-health-and-wellbeing-kilpatrick-et-al-2017/) - This article very pragmatically addresses the question of whether biodiversity conservation could be an effective public health tool against infectious disease emergence and transmission. Determining whether biodiversity conservation is an effective public health strategy requires answering four questions: (1) Is there a general, causal relationship between host biodiversity and disease risk? (2) If the link
- [The nexus between forest fragmentation in Africa and Ebola virus disease outbreaks, Rulli et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-nexus-between-forest-fragmentation-in-africa-and-ebola-virus-disease-outbreaks-rulli-et-al-2017/) - Ebola virus disease outbreaks in West and Central Africa have been linked to spillover from potential disease reservoirs such as bats, apes, and duikers (an antelope-like animal). Spillover has been thought to be related to population density, vegetation cover, and human activities such as hunting, poaching, and bushmeat consumption. In this study, forest data from
- [Habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss and the risk of novel infectious disease emergence, Wilkinson 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/habitat-fragmentation-biodiversity-loss-and-the-risk-of-novel-infectious-disease-emergence-wilkinson-2018/) - Habitat loss reduces biodiversity, which leads to infectious disease emergence. The way a habitat is fragmented (how many patches it is divided into, how those patches are shaped, and what the distance is between them) further affects the extent of disease emergence. Both the number of divisions of habitat into smaller patches and the irregularity
- [Integration of wildlife and environmental health into a One Health approach, Sleeman et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/integration-of-wildlife-and-environmental-health-into-a-one-health-approach-sleeman-et-al-2019/) - This article introduces the concept of One Health, a public health framework adopted by the Centers for Disease Control in 2009, which recognizes the interdependence of humans, animals and our shared environment. The concept has gained traction as a way to address health problems arising from global environmental change. Climate change, loss of biodiversity, habitat
- [Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production, Rohr et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/emerging-human-infectious-diseases-and-the-links-to-global-food-production-rohr-et-al-2019/) - Increasing agricultural production to feed >11 billion people by 2100 raises several challenges for effectively managing infectious disease. Of many factors examined in this article linking agricultural expansion to infectious disease, one is conversion of natural habitat to cropland or rangeland. Land conversion increases contact between wild animals, livestock and humans. As natural ecosystems are
- [Compendium Vol. 4 No. 1: Approaches to ecosystem restoration](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-4-1-approaches-to-ecosystem-restoration/) - The UN’s Decade of Ecosystem Restoration declaration aims to “prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide,” stating that “there has never been a more urgent need to restore damaged ecosystems than now” [UNEP/FAO Factsheet 2020]. Estimates of global land degradation range from 25% to 75% of Earth’s land surface. The uncertainty is due
- [Approaches to ecosystem restoration article summaries](https://bio4climate.org/article/approaches-to-ecosystem-restoration-article-summaries/) - Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests, Crouzeilles et al. 2017 This meta-analysis comparing active restoration to natural ecosystem regeneration found the latter to be more effective. The authors conclude that “lower-cost natural regeneration surpasses active restoration in achieving tropical forest restoration success for biodiversity and vegetation
- [Restoration and repair of Earth’s damaged ecosystems, Jones et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/restoration-and-repair-of-earths-damaged-ecosystems-jones-et-al-2018/) - This meta-analysis of 400 studies compared passive and active ecosystem repair outcomes in terms of the speed and completeness of recovery, and found little difference between the two approaches. Active restoration did not result in faster or more complete recovery than simply ending the disturbances ecosystems face [Jones 2018: 1]. Passive recovery simply means ending
- [Rewilding complex ecosystems, Perino et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/rewilding-complex-ecosystems-perino-et-al-2019/) - A growing body of literature emphasizes the need for novel, process-oriented approaches to restoring ecosystems in our rapidly changing world. Dynamic and process-oriented approaches focus on the adaptive capacity of ecosystems and the restoration of ecosystem processes promoting biodiversity, rather than aiming to maintain or restore particular ecosystem states characterized by predefined species compositions or
- [Rewilding: a call for boosting ecological complexity in conservation, Fernández et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/rewilding-a-call-for-boosting-ecological-complexity-in-conservation-fernandez-et-al-2017/) - Rewilding is gaining traction as an approach to conservation. However, many different perspectives about which species and ecological processes to focus rewilding efforts on and how deeply to intervene in systems has created some confusion and contention within the field. Furthermore, the most ambitious and extreme rewilding proposals (for example, recreating communities that went extinct
- [The differences between rewilding and restoring an ecologically degraded landscape, du Toit & Pettorelli 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-differences-between-rewilding-and-restoring-an-ecologically-degraded-landscape-du-toit-pettorelli-2019/) - This commentary distinguishes between restoration and rewilding of ecosystems, explaining that the latter aims at ecological adaptation to novel local environmental conditions wrought by global climate change. By contrast, restoration, as defined here, aims to recreate and maintain an historical state or condition of an ecosystem, regardless of current environmental conditions. Although the two words
- [Reintroducing rewilding to restoration – rejecting the search for novelty, Hayward et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/reintroducing-rewilding-to-restoration-rejecting-the-search-for-novelty-hayward-et-al-2019/) - This perspective piece argues against scientific or public adoption of the term “rewilding,” which the authors view as being generally synonymous with the classical and better-understood concept of ecological restoration. Definitions of restoration are sufficient to encompass practices espoused in rewilding. Early definitions of restoration describe the practice as “the process of repairing damage caused
- [Intact forests in the United States: proforestation mitigates climate change and serves the greatest good, Moomaw 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/intact-forests-in-the-united-states-proforestation-mitigates-climate-change-and-serves-the-greatest-good-moomaw-2019/) - The concept of “proforestation” presented here means letting existing forests continue to grow and reach their full ecological potential. Due to intensive management practices, most existing forests sequester carbon at only half (or less) of their potential rate. In addition to storing (embodying) more carbon than their smaller counterparts, large trees also sequester carbon at
- [Plant diversity enhances the reclamation of degraded lands by stimulating plant-soil feedbacks, Jia et al. 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/plant-diversity-enhances-the-reclamation-of-degraded-lands-by-stimulating-plant-soil-feedbacks-jia-et-al-2020/) - This study tested biodiversity effects on ecosystem function in the process of reviving severely degraded and contaminated land, and found that “increasing plant diversity greatly enhanced the reclamation of these lands” [Jia 2020: 1]. Prior to implementing the reclamation experiment, the degraded mine wasteland investigated in this study was heavily impacted by past mining
- [High ecosystem service delivery potential of small woodlands in agricultural landscapes, Valdes 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/high-ecosystem-service-delivery-potential-of-small-woodlands-in-agricultural-landscapes-valdes-2020/) - This article assesses the ecological value of small woodlands relative to larger ones. The authors conclude that: …smaller woodlands potentially deliver multiple services at higher performance levels on a per area basis than larger woodlands of a similar age, even if the larger woodlands harbor a higher biodiversity [Valdes 2020: 12]. Because of their high
- [Effectiveness of the Miyawaki method in Mediterranean forest restoration programs, Shirone, Salis & Vessela 2011](https://bio4climate.org/article/effectiveness-of-the-miyawaki-method-in-mediterranean-forest-restoration-programs-shirone-salis-vessela-2011/) - This study tested the Miyawaki method of rapid natural forest regeneration (which has been shown to work in Japan and elsewhere) in the arid Mediterranean. In this area, millennia of human civilization have resulted in degraded soils and reduced and changed forest cover, traditional reforestation efforts have often failed, and desertification is a looming threat. The
- [When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration, Chazdon et al. 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/when-is-a-forest-a-forest-forest-concepts-and-definitions-in-the-era-of-forest-and-landscape-restoration-chazdon-et-al-2016/) - This article analyzes the policy context for forest ecosystem restoration, arguing that it is heavily shaped by the way we define a forest. The use of a forest definition lacking ecological considerations severely undermines conservation and restoration initiatives. We live in an era of unprecedented environmental change, motivating equally unprecedented global actions to protect
- [Compendium Vol. 4 No. 1: Worthy miscellany article summary](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-4-1-worthy-miscellany-article-summary/) - Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands, Buzhdygan 2020 While several studies have shown that biodiversity within a trophic level (among plants, for example) increases ecosystem function (such as productivity), this study examines the effects of increased plant diversity on multi-trophic networks (encompassing plants, soil microorganisms, and above- and belowground invertebrates).
- [Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands, Buzhdygan 2020](https://bio4climate.org/article/biodiversity-increases-multitrophic-energy-use-efficiency-flow-and-storage-in-grasslands-buzhdygan-2020/) - While several studies have shown that biodiversity within a trophic level (among plants, for example) increases ecosystem function (such as productivity), this study examines the effects of increased plant diversity on multi-trophic networks (encompassing plants, soil microorganisms, and above- and belowground invertebrates). The authors compared monoculture plots (with one plant species) to plots containing 60
- [Compendium Vol. 4 No. 1: Blessed Unrest](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-4-1-blessed-unrest/) - In continuation of the “blessed unrest” section of previous issues of the Compendium, the following sketches illustrate how people everywhere are seeing that humanity depends on nature for both our physical and spiritual wellbeing and our survival. As this awareness takes hold, people act to protect and restore not only the land, but also our
- [The hopeful work of turning Appalachia’s mountaintop coal mines into farms](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-hopeful-work-of-turning-appalachias-mountaintop-coal-mines-into-farms/) - https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/just-transition/2017/10/12/the-hopeful-work-of-turning-appalachias-mountaintop-coal-mines-into-farms/ In Mingo County, West Virginia, the soil on a flat expanse of what had been a mountaintop is compacted, composed mainly of blasted rocks, and lacks organic matter, due to several years of coal mining. The ground is harder than anticipated; even the soil scientists say they are not sure how long it will
- [In South Korea, centuries of farming point to the future for sustainable agriculture](https://bio4climate.org/article/in-south-korea-centuries-of-farming-point-to-the-future-for-sustainable-agriculture/) - https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/in-south-korea-centuries-of-farming-point-to-the-future-for-sustainable-agriculture/?utm_source=Mongabay+Newsletter&utm_campaign=624a4d7680-Newsletter_2020_04_30_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_940652e1f4-624a4d7680-77145713 In South Korea, knowledge of ancient farming techniques adapted to various harsh conditions, along with a sense of urgency about the need to adapt to even harsher conditions as the global climate system deteriorates, is bringing about the blossoming of an environmentally friendly agriculture movement. Farmers draw on traditional knowledge of “nitrogen-fixing plants, soil
- [Gardening advice from indigenous food growers](https://bio4climate.org/article/gardening-advice-from-indigenous-food-growers/) - https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/05/20/garden-advice-indigenous-food-growers/ Covid19 has been an additional stressor on many Native American communities already burdened by deprivations from centuries of ongoing injustice. According to Julie Garreau, project coordinator of Cheyenne River Youth Project, which operates a 2.5-acre youth garden in South Dakota, gardens are a source of both food and healing. “Gardens represent so much more,”
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 2: Introduction](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-2-introduction/) - We begin this issue of the Compendium by exploring the role of cities in the era of climate breakdown. This section features “Heat Planet,” an essay by architect Christopher Haines, member of Bio4Climate's Leadership Team, exploring the global implications of the pervasive phenomenon of the “Urban Heat Island” and other heat-producing paved and de-vegetated surfaces around
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 2: Adaptation and Urban Resilience](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-2-adaptation-and-urban-resilience/) - The industrialization that has built today’s splendid high-tech cities isolated us from the land and water sources of the materials fueling this progress. Our cities scarcely reveal that the oxygen we breathe, the food we eat, the purification of waters, and to some extent the bucolic weather patterns we have long relished have been gifts
- [Compilation of article summaries on adaptation and urban resilience](https://bio4climate.org/article/compilation-of-article-summaries-on-adaptation-and-urban-resilience/) - Global change and the ecology of cities, Grimm et al. 2008 Whereas just 10 percent of people lived in cities in 1900, now more than half the global population is urban and that proportion continues to grow. Cities occupy less than 3% of the Earth’s land surface, but generate 78% of global CO2 emissions and
- [Global change and the ecology of cities, Grimm et al. 2008](https://bio4climate.org/article/global-change-and-the-ecology-of-cities-grimm-et-al-2008/) - Whereas just 10 percent of people lived in cities in 1900, now more than half the global population is urban and that proportion continues to grow. Cities occupy less than 3% of the Earth’s land surface, but generate 78% of global CO2 emissions and consume 76% of wood used for industrial purposes. Urban dwellers depend
- [Advancing urban ecology toward a science of cities, McPhearson et al. 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/advancing-urban-ecology-toward-a-science-of-cities-mcphearson-et-al-2016/) - The study of urban ecology has grown rapidly over the past couple of decades as the planet becomes increasingly more urbanized. The field started as the study of ecology within the green spaces of cities, and has since evolved into a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the city itself as an ecosystem with interacting social, ecological
- [Mitigating New York City’s heat island with urban forestry, living roofs and light surfaces, Rosenzwieg et al. 2006](https://bio4climate.org/article/mitigating-new-york-citys-heat-island-with-urban-forestry-living-roofs-and-light-surfaces-rosenzwieg-et-al-2006/) - Urban heat islands are created when solar energy is absorbed by non-reflective, impervious, and often rather dark surfaces, such as asphalt, stone, metal, and concrete, which are ubiquitous in cities. Exacerbating this solar energy absorption effect are abundant amounts of heat released from vehicles, factories and air conditioners, for example, as well as pollutants trapped
- [The interaction of rivers and urban form in mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect: a UK case study, Hathaway & Sharples 2012](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-interaction-of-rivers-and-urban-form-in-mitigating-the-urban-heat-island-effect-a-uk-case-study-hathaway-sharples-2012/) - Like vegetative and light or reflective surfaces, water bodies have a cooling effect on cities, reducing the Urban Heat Island effect. The average temperature at the river in this study was 1C less than at a reference point elsewhere in the city. Furthermore, the form of the landscape on the banks of an urban river
- [Urban development, land sharing and land sparing: the importance of considering restoration, Collas et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/urban-development-land-sharing-and-land-sparing-the-importance-of-considering-restoration-collas-et-al-2017/) - With 66% of the world’s population predicted to live in cities by 2050, the challenge of reconciling urban growth with biodiversity conservation demands attention. Although the environment is altered by urbanization, there is potential for cities to support a great deal of biodiversity [Collas 2017: 1866]. This study shows that urban growth and biodiversity enhancement
- [Promoting and preserving biodiversity in the urban forest, Alvey 2006](https://bio4climate.org/article/promoting-and-preserving-biodiversity-in-the-urban-forest-alvey-2006/) - Given the dangerous, precipitous global decline in biodiversity, coupled with rapid urbanization, cities have a key role to play in protecting biodiversity. In fact, cities already do harbor a large share of biodiversity. This may be due to the fact that cities are often situated in places of large inherent biodiversity (along rivers, for example),
- [A new vision for New Orleans and the Mississippi delta: applying ecological economics and ecological engineering, Costanza, Mitsch & Day 2006](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-new-vision-for-new-orleans-and-the-mississippi-delta-applying-ecological-economics-and-ecological-engineering-costanza-mitsch-day-2006/) - What happened in New Orleans [during Hurricane Katrina], while a terrible “natural” disaster, was also the cumulative result of excessive and inappropriate management of the Mississippi River and delta, inadequate emergency preparation, a failure to act in time on plans to restore the wetlands and storm protection levees, and the expansion of the city into
- [Eco-engineering urban infrastructure for marine and coastal biodiversity: which interventions have the greatest ecological benefit? Strain et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/eco-engineering-urban-infrastructure-for-marine-and-coastal-biodiversity-which-interventions-have-the-greatest-ecological-benefit-strain-et-al-2017/) - While the majority of people on Earth live in cities, the majority (60%) of the world’s largest cities are located within 100 kilometers of a coast. The pollution and urban infrastructure (such as marinas, sea walls, or oil/gas platforms) emanating from cities greatly stresses coastal marine habitats. Coastal infrastructure tends to be vertical and smooth,
- [Coastal adaptation with ecological engineering, Cheong et al. 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/coastal-adaptation-with-ecological-engineering-cheong-et-al-2013/) - Because of the multiple threats and uncertainties of a changing climate, protecting coastal areas simply by building new seawalls (or some other such inflexible, single-tactic approach) is unlikely to be the most effective option. Instead, combined coastal adaptation strategies to allow for a dynamic response to multiple stressors are increasingly preferred. Climate scientists and coastal managers
- [Where we stand: climate action, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2019b](https://bio4climate.org/article/where-we-stand-climate-action-the-american-institute-of-architects-aia-2019b/) - Noting that 40% of carbon emissions in the US come from the construction (including sourcing of materials) and operation (heating, cooling, lighting) of buildings and houses, the AIA pledges to achieve zero-carbon construction and operation of all new buildings, and retrofitting of existing buildings to reduce their energy use and increase their resilience to severe
- [Living Building Challenge Standard, June 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/living-building-challenge-standard-june-2019/) - The construction and operation of buildings and houses is a major source of pollution and ecosystem destruction around the world. In light of this, the Living Building Challenge invites people to reimagine the built environment as a source of social and ecological regeneration. Nothing less than a sea change in building, infrastructure and community design
- [Adapt now: a global call for leadership on climate resilience, Global Commission on Adaptation, September 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/adapt-now-a-global-call-for-leadership-on-climate-resilience-global-commission-on-adaptation-september-2019/) - This report, led by Ban Ki Moon (UN), Bill Gates (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and Kristalina Georgieva (World Bank), calls on decision makers worldwide to facilitate coordinated action to help communities adapt to climate change. Importantly, the report makes the case for nature-based adaptation approaches, which inherently help mitigation efforts as well. Adaptation measures
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 2: Land Management and Conservation](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-2-land-management-and-conservation/) - A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation, Garnett et al. 2018 Indigenous people make up less than 5% of the global population, but their lands encompass 37% of the planet’s remaining natural lands and (partially overlapping with natural lands) 40% of Earth’s protected area, much of this in sparsely inhabited
- [A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation, Garnett et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-spatial-overview-of-the-global-importance-of-indigenous-lands-for-conservation-garnett-et-al-2018/) - Indigenous people make up less than 5% of the global population, but their lands encompass 37% of the planet’s remaining natural lands and (partially overlapping with natural lands) 40% of Earth’s protected area, much of this in sparsely inhabited places. Like everyone, indigenous people have multiple interests (economic, political, cultural), which don’t necessarily always support
- [Wilderness areas halve the extinction risk of terrestrial biodiversity, DiMarco et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/wilderness-areas-halve-the-extinction-risk-of-terrestrial-biodiversity-dimarco-et-al-2019/) - We found that wilderness areas act as a buffer against extinction risk. The global probability of species extinction in non-wilderness communities is over twice as high as that of species in wilderness communities. The buffering effect that wilderness has on extinction risk was found in every biogeographical realm, but was higher for realms with larger
- [Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment, Damschen et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/ongoing-accumulation-of-plant-diversity-through-habitat-connectivity-in-an-18-year-experiment-damschen-et-al-2019/) - This long-term experiment measured the difference in colonization and extinction rates of connected habitat fragments versus isolated fragments. The connected fragments were linked by a narrow (150m by 25m) strip of habitat. These habitat corridors increased the biodiversity of connected fragments by 14% after 18 years compared to their isolated counterparts. In a large and
- [Plant phylogenetic diversity stabilizes large‐scale ecosystem productivity, Mazzochini et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/plant-phylogenetic-diversity-stabilizes-large‐scale-ecosystem-productivity-mazzochini-et-al-2019/) - Phylogenetic[10] measures of diversity contain information on evolutionary divergences amongst species, thus representing the diversity of phylogenetically conserved traits related to resource use, acquisition and storage. Thereby, distantly related species are expected to respond differently to changing environmental conditions. These functional traits can be general traits related to the fast–slow growth rate spectrum, such as specific
- [Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size, Stephenson et al. 2014](https://bio4climate.org/article/rate-of-tree-carbon-accumulation-increases-continuously-with-tree-size-stephenson-et-al-2014/) - The growth rate of trees – and thus their accumulation of carbon – increases continuously with tree size. Even though the leaves of smaller, younger trees are more efficient (more productive per unit area of leaf surface), larger trees have more total leaf surface area and thereby grow at a faster rate than their smaller
- [Europe’s forest management did not mitigate climate warming, Naudts et al. 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/europes-forest-management-did-not-mitigate-climate-warming-naudts-et-al-2016/) - Despite their total area having increased by 10% since 1750, European forests have failed to achieve a net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere because of how they’ve been managed over that time. Eighty-five percent of Europe’s once largely unmanaged forest has been subjected to tree species conversion, wood extraction via thinning and harvesting, and
- [The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems, Watson et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-exceptional-value-of-intact-forest-ecosystems-watson-et-al-2018/) - Forests currently cover a quarter of Earth’s terrestrial surface, although at least 82% of that remaining forest is degraded by human activity. While a handful of international accords rightly encourage forest conservation and reforestation to limit global warming, these agreements fail to prioritize protection specifically of intact forests, or forests that are free from human
- [Addressing change mitigation and adaptation together: a global assessment of agriculture and forestry projects, Kongsager, Locatelli & Chazarin 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/addressing-change-mitigation-and-adaptation-together-a-global-assessment-of-agriculture-and-forestry-projects-kongsager-locatelli-chazarin-2019/) - In climate policy and financing, the goals of adaptation (helping communities and ecosystems adapt to the effects of climate change) and mitigation (reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sinks) are often separate. This is because “adaptation and mitigation are driven by different interests and political economies, with distinct international donors and national institutions. These differences
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 2: Blessed Unrest](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-2-blessed-unrest/) - In continuation of the “blessed unrest” section of Compendium V3N1, the following sketches illustrate how people throughout the world are coming to recognise the enormous value of intact ecosystems, and are doing their part to protect and restore. Adopting Paul Hawken’s terminology and characterization of “blessed unrest” as a spontaneous, decentralized global social movement, we
- [Sri Lanka wields mangroves, its tsunami shield, against climate change, summarized from Mongabay News, September 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/sri-lanka-wields-mangroves-its-tsunami-shield-against-climate-change-summarized-from-mongabay-news-september-2019/) - https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/sri-lanka-wields-mangroves-its-tsunami-shield-against-climate-change/?n3wsletter&utm_source=Mongabay+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a1cff7d467-Newsletter_2019_09_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_940652e1f4-a1cff7d467-77145713 Sri Lanka is home to 82 lagoons and estuaries and is among the top five countries that will be impacted by climate risk. Thilakaratne De Silva, a 63-year old local fisherman, saw the Tsunami of December 2004 sweep off half his home village. He was among the first to join hands with other community
- [For one Indonesian village, mangrove restoration has been all upside, summarized from Mongabay News, September 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/for-one-indonesian-village-mangrove-restoration-has-been-all-upside-summarized-from-mongabay-news-september-2019/) - https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/for-one-indonesian-village-mangrove-restoration-has-been-all-upside/?n3wsletter&utm_source=Mongabay+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a1cff7d467-Newsletter_2019_09_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_940652e1f4-a1cff7d467-77145713 Demand for firewood in recent years led to the depletion of the mangrove forest in the Indonesia village of Paremas. For years the people’s occupations were agriculture and fishing. Depleted fish stock, poor irrigation and challenges associated with land ownership drove most of the men to work overseas in order to raise money to
- [Coastal recovery: bringing a damaged wetland back to life, summarized from Yale Environment 360, May 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/coastal-recovery-bringing-a-damaged-wetland-back-to-life-summarized-from-yale-environment-360-may-2019/) - https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-science-and-art-of-restoring-a-damaged-wetland “It was a stink hole,” says Al Rizzo, the refuge manager of Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware Bay. Humans had messed with hydrology in an ill-conceived project aimed to convert salt marsh into a large open freshwater impoundment system to attract migrating waterfowl among others. Lines of dunes and tidal gates were
- [Indian temple restores sacred forest stream flow](https://bio4climate.org/article/indian-temple-restores-sacred-forest-stream-flow/) - Sacred forests/groves are not uncommon in India, especially in the biodiverse Western Ghats mountain range. These groves are community-protected patches of forest ranging in size from less than a hectare to several hundred hectares, and they are often believed to house gods [Ormsby & Bhagwat 2010]. A particular temple in the Western Ghats just outside
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 1: Introduction](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-1-introduction/) - As in every edition of this compendium, here we assemble and summarize research offering evidence of the power of ecosystems to address climate breakdown. The themes presented: forest dynamicsecological intensification and transformative change were chosen based on recurrent themes of mostly recent reports and studies. Not surprisingly given its centrality to ecosystem function, the idea of
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 1: Biodiversity in forest dynamics](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-1-biodiversity-in-forest-dynamics/) - Understanding what makes forests thrive is important in light of mounting calls for reforestation and forest conservation as antidotes both to species loss and climate breakdown. Moreover, distinguishing between natural forest regeneration and timber plantations is critical to achieving intended goals. Intact forests, and especially tropical forests, sequester twice as much carbon as planted monocultures.
- [Compilation of article summaries on forest dynamics](https://bio4climate.org/article/compilation-of-article-summaries-on-forest-dynamics/) - Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon, Lewis et al. 2019 In order to keep global warming under the 1.5C threshold, the IPCC warns that not only must we cut carbon emissions nearly in half by 2030, we must also draw massive amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental
- [Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon, Lewis et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/restoring-natural-forests-is-the-best-way-to-remove-atmospheric-carbon-lewis-et-al-2019/) - In order to keep global warming under the 1.5C threshold, the IPCC warns that not only must we cut carbon emissions nearly in half by 2030, we must also draw massive amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests that around 730 billion tons of CO2 (730 petagrams
- [The global tree restoration potential, Bastin et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-global-tree-restoration-potential-bastin-et-al-2019/) - This study models the total amount of land globally that is suitable for reforestation, finding that there is sufficient space to meet the IPCC’s recommendation of reforestation on 1 billion hectares to limit global warming to 1.5C by 2050. The potential forest land identified in this study excludes urban and agricultural land; rather, it “exists
- [The significance of retention trees for survival of ectomycorrhizal fungi in clear-cut Scots pine forests, Sterkenburg et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-significance-of-retention-trees-for-survival-of-ectomycorrhizal-fungi-in-clear-cut-scots-pine-forests-sterkenburg-et-al-2019/) - Industrialized forestry simplifies forest structure and harms biodiversity. To mitigate this harm, retention forestry has been adopted in places such as Sweden, where this study was conducted. “Retention forestry” avoids clearcutting and instead preserves some 5-30 percent of trees to benefit populations of birds, lichens, fungi and other types of organisms. The authors focused on
- [Plant-soil feedbacks and mycorrhizal type influence temperate forest population dynamics, Bennett et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/plant-soil-feedbacks-and-mycorrhizal-type-influence-temperate-forest-population-dynamics-bennett-et-al-2017/) - This study illustrates the important role of soil fungi in tree population dynamics of temperate forests. In general, when a particular plant species dominates an area of land, it attracts species that feed on it. In an experiment conducted in this study, the roots of surviving seedlings had 60% fewer lesions when they were planted
- [Nitrogen-fixing red alder trees tap rock-derived nutrients, Perakisa & Pett-Ridge 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/nitrogen-fixing-red-alder-trees-tap-rock-derived-nutrients-perakisa-pett-ridge-2019/) - Red alder fix atmospheric nitrogen through a symbiosis with bacteria that colonize their roots. This study showed that when more nitrogen is produced than is needed by the plant, the resulting excess of nitric acid acts to dissolve bedrock minerals in the soil, making them available to plants. The substantial increase in mineral weathering by
- [Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses, Steidinger et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/climatic-controls-of-decomposition-drive-the-global-biogeography-of-forest-tree-symbioses-steidinger-et-al-2019/) - This article describes three major types of microbial tree symbionts, why they matter, and maps their global distribution. Microbial symbionts strongly influence the functioning of forest ecosystems. Root-associated microorganisms exploit inorganic, organic and/or atmospheric forms of nutrients that enable plant growth, determine how trees respond to increased concentrations of CO2, regulate the respiratory activity of
- [Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought, Anderegg et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/hydraulic-diversity-of-forests-regulates-ecosystem-resilience-during-drought-anderegg-et-al-2018/) - Higher forest biodiversity (specifically plant functional diversity related to water, or hydraulic, transport) engenders greater ecosystem resilience to drought. This is because different species respond differently to water stress - some species slow down their release of water (and heat) through transpiration sooner than others do. Plants’ response to water availability in turn affects the
- [Tree diversity regulates forest pest invasion, Guo et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/tree-diversity-regulates-forest-pest-invasion-guo-et-al-2019/) - Using data from 130,210 forest plots across the US, this study examines the effects of tree diversity on pest invasions. The authors found that tree diversity increases pest diversity by increasing the variety of host species available (i.e., facilitation), while also decreasing establishment of pests by increasing the number of non-hosts for any given pest
- [Restoration of living environment based on vegetation ecology: theory and practice, Miyawaki 2004](https://bio4climate.org/article/restoration-of-living-environment-based-on-vegetation-ecology-theory-and-practice-miyawaki-2004/) - Natural environments have been devastated and destroyed worldwide by recent rapid development, urbanization and industrialization. It is no exaggeration to say that the basis of human life is now threatened (Miyawaki 1982a,b). We ecologists have been giving warnings against the devastation of nature through study results, and have produced some good effects. Besides criticism, however,
- [The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon, Maezumi et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-legacy-of-4500-years-of-polyculture-agroforestry-in-the-eastern-amazon-maezumi-et-al-2018/) - This study combines archaeology, archaeobotany, palaeoecology and palaeoclimate investigation to shed light on the legacy of pre-Columbian land management practices on today’s Amazon rainforest. Evidence points to a millennial-scale cultivation practice that at once maintained ecosystem integrity while sustaining a large and growing human civilization. Here, we show that persistent anthropogenic landscapes for the past
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 1: Ecological intensification](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-1-ecological-intensification/) - The concept of ecological intensification in agriculture offers a framework for handling the question of how to produce enough food for a growing global human population while simultaneously protecting biodiversity. It draws on the language of ecosystem services, which includes supporting services such as soil formation, regulating services (pollination and pest control), provisioning services (production
- [Compilation of article summaries on ecological intensification](https://bio4climate.org/article/compilation-of-article-summaries-on-ecological-intensification/) - Ecological intensification: local innovation to address global challenges, Tittonell et al. 2016 World agriculture cumulatively produces enough to feed the whole human population and more, yet hundreds of millions of people on the planet are hungry due to problems of access to food. Noting that agricultural productivity is unevenly distributed around the globe, this book
- [Ecological intensification: local innovation to address global challenges, Tittonell et al. 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/ecological-intensification-local-innovation-to-address-global-challenges-tittonell-et-al-2016/) - World agriculture cumulatively produces enough to feed the whole human population and more, yet hundreds of millions of people on the planet are hungry due to problems of access to food. Noting that agricultural productivity is unevenly distributed around the globe, this book chapter proposes food security through ecological intensification in areas with low productivity
- [Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security, Bommarco et al. 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/ecological-intensification-harnessing-ecosystem-services-for-food-security-bommarco-et-al-2013/) - This review examines the concept of ecological intensification as a way to increase global food production by enhancing the ecological functionality of farmland. We present ecological intensification as an alternative approach for mainstream agriculture to meet [future climatic, economic and social] challenges. Ecological intensification aims to match or augment yield levels while minimizing negative impacts
- [Evidence that organic farming promotes pest control, Muneret et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/evidence-that-organic-farming-promotes-pest-control-muneret-et-al-2018/) - Citing the problems posed globally by pesticide use and farmland expansion, this study looks at the potential of organic farming, seen as a popular prototype of ecological intensification, to limit pest infestations. Ecological intensification “is based on optimizing the ecological functions that support ecosystem services to increase the productivity of agro-ecosystems” [Muneret 2018: 361], and
- [The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe, Martin et al. 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-interplay-of-landscape-composition-and-configuration-new-pathways-to-manage-functional-biodiversity-and-agroecosystem-services-across-europe-martin-et-al-2019/) - This paper analyzes 49 studies (1515 landscapes encompassing both organic and conventional agricultural production) in Europe to determine “effects of landscape composition (% habitats) and configuration (edge density) on arthropods[7] in fields and their margins, pest control, pollination and yield” [Martin 2019: 1]. Edge density is measured as the length of edge per area of land.
- [Compendium Vol. 3 No. 1: Blessed unrest, transformative change](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-3-1-blessed-unrest-transformative-change/) - One million of an estimated 8 million species on Earth are at risk of extinction in the coming decades, according to a May 2019 report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Children today will live as adults in a world without the Milky Stork, without the Caquetá Tití Monkey, and
- [Compilation of article summaries envisioning societal change](https://bio4climate.org/article/compilation-of-article-summaries-envisioning-societal-change/) - A global agenda for soil carbon, Vermeulen 2019 This paper calls for efforts to make farmers, land managers, policy makers, and the public at large keenly aware of the link between soil carbon and its more widely appreciated social outcomes, such as agricultural productivity and food security, improved water quality, flood and drought mitigation, lower
- [A global agenda for soil carbon, Vermeulen 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-global-agenda-for-soil-carbon-vermeulen-2019/) - This paper calls for efforts to make farmers, land managers, policy makers, and the public at large keenly aware of the link between soil carbon and its more widely appreciated social outcomes, such as agricultural productivity and food security, improved water quality, flood and drought mitigation, lower rates of migration, biodiversity preservation, and climate change
- [A global deal for nature, Dinerstein 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-global-deal-for-nature-dinerstein-2019/) - This paper recommends protecting 30% of Earth’s surface for conservation by 2030 and 50% by 2050. It also proposes building capacity for indigenous and other local peoples to enhance ecosystem integrity and sequester carbon in non-protected lands, halting energy infrastructure projects, and reducing plastics and toxic pollution. The authors frame a “Global Deal for Nature”
- [Joint statement on post-2020 global biodiversity framework 2050 Convention on Biological Diversity vision: “Living in Harmony with Nature,” Birdlife International et al.](https://bio4climate.org/article/joint-statement-on-post-2020-global-biodiversity-framework-2050-convention-on-biological-diversity-vision-living-in-harmony-with-nature-birdlife-international-et-al/) - In the lead up to the 2020 UN Convention on Biological Diversity, a consortium of conservation groups has also called for 30% both of oceans and 30% of land surface to be conservation protected. Specifically, The United Nations Foundation, Birdlife International, National Geographic and 10 other organizations call for a New Deal for Nature and
- [A Green New Deal for Agriculture, Patel & Goodman 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-green-new-deal-for-agriculture-patel-goodman-2019/) - In the U.S., some visions for food system change are anchored in the policy framework of the Ocasio-Cortez/Markley Green New Deal, itself viewed by many as a proposal for transformative change. Noting that the way we eat accounts for a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions and that “the food system is breaking the planet,” Patel
- [The future is rural, Bradford 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-future-is-rural-bradford-2019/) - Taking an altogether different angle, Jason Bradford of the Post Carbon Institute assumes radical societal change is inevitable and imminent, and focuses not on how to precipitate change but instead on how to adapt to it. “The future is rural” [Bradford 2019] is essentially a primer on how to navigate the profound changes society will undergo
- [Stories of blessed unrest](https://bio4climate.org/article/stories-of-blessed-unrest/) - The following sketches are but a tiny sampling of the countless ways people throughout the world push back against the socio-economic and political forces of destruction both of ecosystems and of the social fabric of society. Adopting Paul Hawken’s terminology and characterization of “blessed unrest” as a spontaneous, decentralized global social movement, we here present
- [Minibigforest in Nantes](https://bio4climate.org/article/minibigforest-in-nantes/) - Hearing of plans underway for a four-lane highway near their home in Nantes, France, local residents Jim and Stephanie responded by planting a small forest. The idea was not only to block out the added sound and air pollution, but also to try to compensate for the assault on the planet of any road expansion.
- [Greta Thunberg and a million international student strikers](https://bio4climate.org/article/greta-thunberg-and-a-million-international-student-strikers/) - At the age of 15, Greta Thunberg began sitting on the steps of the Swedish parliament with a handmade sign reading: “skolstrejk för klimatet” or “school strike for the climate.” The decision to act came about seven years after she first learned of climate change. The fact that adults didn’t seem bothered to do anything about
- [The Waorani people stand up for their rainforest homeland](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-waorani-people-stand-up-for-their-rainforest-homeland/) - When the Waorani people of the Ecuadorian Amazon heard their government was planning to sell drilling rights to their land to international oil companies, they mobilized. They mapped the land to illustrate to the Western world its otherwise unseen cultural, historical and ecological richness. These maps include “historic battle sites, ancient cave-carvings, jaguar trails, medicinal
- [Pondoland says no to mining](https://bio4climate.org/article/pondoland-says-no-to-mining/) - On the other side of the Amazon and across the South Atlantic Ocean, the small South African community of Xolobeni won a similar court case. Like the Waorani, the people of Xolobeni demanded that they be consulted rather than being forced to cede their land to mining interests - in this case to an Australian
- [Methow Beaver Project:enlisting beavers to make wetlands in compensation for declining mountain snowpack](https://bio4climate.org/article/methow-beaver-projectenlisting-beavers-to-make-wetlands-in-compensation-for-declining-mountain-snowpack/) - The deep winter snow falls on the mountains around the Methow Valley in the state of Washington are declining. To manage problems with drought, the Methow Beaver Project has been capturing, tagging, matching male and female beavers and releasing them in key valley areas. The project workers know beavers are master engineers that know how
- [Kids fight for their future](https://bio4climate.org/article/kids-fight-for-their-future/) - iMatter is a tight-knit national group of passionate pre-college individuals who are making real impacts in their communities. They are showing up in city halls and state offices, demanding their elected officials at every level possible commit to bold and visionary climate action. Students from Brookline High School in Massachusetts submitted resolutions to their town legislators,
- [Indigenous hunters have positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia, Penn State 2019](https://bio4climate.org/article/indigenous-hunters-have-positive-impacts-on-food-webs-in-desert-australia-penn-state-2019/) - When Australian authorities removed indigenous Martu people from their traditional lands in the desertic center of the continent in the mid-1900s, endemic species there declined or went extinct. Researchers observed that the Martu’s hunting regime of small burning patches of land reduced the size of wildfires while also boosting populations of native species such as
- [Blue carbon stocks of Great Barrier Reef deep-water seagrasses, York et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/blue-carbon-stocks-of-great-barrier-reef-deep-water-seagrasses-york-et-al-2018/) - The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) protects northeast Australia from wave exposure, while also creating habitat for a vast expanse of shallow- and deep-water seagrasses between the reef and the shoreline. Deep-water seagrasses here occupy an area roughly the size of Switzerland. While the carbon storage capacity of shallow-water seagrasses, dubbed ‘blue carbon,’ are known to
- [Vegetation as a major conductor of geomorphic changes on the Earth surface: toward evolutionary geomorphology, Corenblit & Steiger 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/vegetation-as-a-major-conductor-of-geomorphic-changes-on-the-earth-surface-toward-evolutionary-geomorphology-corenblit-steiger-2009/) - Geomorphology is the study of landforms and processes and how they developed. This conceptual commentary proposes that the emergence and evolution of life, especially vegetation, has played a major role in physically shaping the Earth. For example, plant roots trap and hold sediment (preventing erosion), resulting in the formation of hillsides, sand dunes, fluvial islands,
- [Gaia and natural selection, Lenton 1998](https://bio4climate.org/article/gaia-and-natural-selection-lenton-1998/) - The Gaia hypothesis invites us to imagine Earth as an integral living system in order to explore the mechanisms by which life helps create and maintain the conditions for life, such as an oxygenated atmosphere. “The Gaia theory proposes that organisms contribute to self-regulating feedback mechanisms that have kept the Earth’s surface environment stable and
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 2: Introduction](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-2-introduction/) - While previous issues of the Compendium have addressed ecosystem strategies to reverse global warming, here we discuss ecosystem restoration to adapt to the consequences of climate change. From drought in Cape Town and wildfire in California and Greece to flooding in Beijing, Paris, Houston and North Carolina, each new report of catastrophe makes climate change
- [Slowing down water and the art of survival](https://bio4climate.org/article/slowing-down-water-and-the-art-of-survival/) - Managing rainwater within a landscape so that neither heavy storms nor long dry spells devastate human endeavors and constructions is referred by Yu Kongjian as the “art of survival” [Yu 2012]. This Chinese landscape architect with an ecological mindset learned the art of survival by studying the ways of ancient peasant farmers. He contrasts the wisdom
- [Land management and hydrology](https://bio4climate.org/article/land-management-and-hydrology/) - The concept of hydrological drought (as distinct from meteorological drought) helps explain the success of these age-old techniques to enhance surface and groundwater supply. Meteorological drought is the occurence of abnormally low rainfall for a given region. Hydrological drought is a consequence of meteorological drought – it happens when surface and ground waters run low thanks
- [Making space for water](https://bio4climate.org/article/making-space-for-water/) - Given competing interests for floodplain property, some have argued for strategic partial reconnection of floodplains to the river by allowing portions of floodplain to flood, so that pressure elsewhere along the river during a flood may be alleviated [Opperman 2009]. For example, California’s Yolo Bypass was created in the early 1900s after the Sacramento River
- [Sponge cities, China](https://bio4climate.org/article/sponge-cities-china/) - “In the past, humans have taken the land away from the water; now we need to give the land back.” – Professor Hui Li [Guardian 2017] Faced with severe flooding in many cities across China, such as a major 2012 Beijing flood, the Chinese government announced the Sponge Cities Initiative in 2014 as a remedy.
- [Community-based watershed stewardship programs, USA](https://bio4climate.org/article/community-based-watershed-stewardship-programs-usa/) - From California to Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington DC, people are coming together in their communities to learn what river their watershed drains into, how urban stormwater management has impaired that river, and how to restore river-floodplain ecosystems through a grassroots approach. A watershed is an area of land over which any rain that falls
- [Beavers for flood reduction, United Kingdom](https://bio4climate.org/article/beavers-for-flood-reduction-united-kingdom/) - To reduce the severity of flooding in Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England, where a 2012 flood did extensive damage, the UK Ministry of Environment released a family of beavers upstream of the village in a 6.5 ha enclosure in a publicly-owned forest. Scientists who have studied the stream believe the beaver dams could hold back some 6,000
- [Riparian restoration, California](https://bio4climate.org/article/riparian-restoration-california/) - The arid San Joaquin Valley of California is intensively farmed and dependent on irrigation. The San Joaquin River, once teeming with migrating fish and other wildlife, is surrounded by farmland and has become warm, muddy, and nearly devoid of aquatic life. In 2012 and 2014, River Partners, a California non-profit dedicated to restoring riparian habitat and
- [Saltwater marsh restoration, Canada](https://bio4climate.org/article/saltwater-marsh-restoration-canada/) - The Atlantic coast of Canada has started seeing damages related to sea-level rise and storm surges, including flooding, landslides, and shoreline recession. Some communities fear dikes will fail. As a result, people are looking to restoration of native coastal ecosystems as a defense against rising waters. When flooded, coastal marshes often receive large sediment loads
- [Holistic planned grazing for drought relief, Zimbabwe](https://bio4climate.org/article/holistic-planned-grazing-for-drought-relief-zimbabwe/) - “You must have had a lot more rain because how else can water appear where it has not existed before?” asked Zimbabwe Minister of Water Development Sam Nkomo when he saw a clear water-lily-covered pool that had only come to exist in the upper river catchment two years prior [Savory 2009]. Two herders and their
- [Regreening the Tigray region, Ethiopia](https://bio4climate.org/article/regreening-the-tigray-region-ethiopia/) - More than 224,000 ha of drylands in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia that had previously succumbed to devastating cycles of drought and flood have been restored. As a result, the hillsides are green again, previously dry wells are recharged, and fruit trees now grow in the valleys. To remedy the problem of severe land
- [Culture revival of livestock grazing for wildfire management, California](https://bio4climate.org/article/culture-revival-of-livestock-grazing-for-wildfire-management-california/) - An old-school Italian festival celebrating the work of grazing animals and their faithful herders has taken root in Petaluma, CA. “Transhumance” is the act of moving grazing animals from one grassy site to another. The festival bearing this name takes place in the city or town centers through which the animals traverse en route to
- [Diverse cover crops and livestock for drought relief, Texas](https://bio4climate.org/article/diverse-cover-crops-and-livestock-for-drought-relief-texas/) - The 2011 drought in Texas was the worst in recorded history and it lasted until 2015. The ground was so dry that Jonathan Cobb, a 4th generation farmer in Blackland Prairie of central Texas, couldn’t even get crops planted. His 2,500-acre conventional row crop operation was already struggling financially through a treadmill of increasingly more inputs
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 2: Compilation of article summaries on resilience through eco-restoration](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-2-compilation-of-article-summaries-on-resilience-through-eco-restoration/) - The following articles were selected and summarized by Bio4Climate’s Compendium editors and writers. The purpose of this collection is to highlight the scientific evidence and argumentation showing healthy restored and protected ecosystems as a powerful (albeit under-recognized) tool for managing the weather extremes wrought by climate change. Floodplains and wetlands: making space for water
- [Floodplains and wetlands: making space for water](https://bio4climate.org/article/floodplains-and-wetlands-making-space-for-water/) - Sustainable floodplains through large-scale reconnection to rivers, Opperman et al. 2009 The area of floodplains allowed to perform the natural function of storing and conveying floodwaters must be expanded by strategically removing levees or setting them back from the river. Floodplain reconnection will accomplish three primary objectives: flood-risk reduction, an increase in floodplain goods and
- [Sustainable floodplains through large-scale reconnection to rivers, Opperman et al. 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/sustainable-floodplains-through-large-scale-reconnection-to-rivers-opperman-et-al-2009/) - The area of floodplains allowed to perform the natural function of storing and conveying floodwaters must be expanded by strategically removing levees or setting them back from the river. Floodplain reconnection will accomplish three primary objectives: flood-risk reduction, an increase in floodplain goods and services, and resiliency to potential climate change impacts [Opperman 2009: 1487].
- [Multifunctionality of floodplain landscapes: relating management options to ecosystem services, Schindler et al. 2014](https://bio4climate.org/article/multifunctionality-of-floodplain-landscapes-relating-management-options-to-ecosystem-services-schindler-et-al-2014/) - Human societies tend to value the potential benefits that a landscape might provide in a limited way, adjusting management practices towards desired outputs by maximizing the benefits gained from one or some of the services (often the provision of goods) leading to the loss of multifunctionality and the degradation of natural capital at the expense
- [Need for ecosystem management of large rivers and their floodplains: these phenomenally productive ecosystems produce fish and wildlife and preserve species, Sparks 1995](https://bio4climate.org/article/need-for-ecosystem-management-of-large-rivers-and-their-floodplains-these-phenomenally-productive-ecosystems-produce-fish-and-wildlife-and-preserve-species-sparks-1995/) - In their natural state, rivers are not separate or separable from surrounding lands. Rather, a river channel is just one integral part of a larger river-floodplain ecosystem. Annual flood pulses and larger flooding events connect river channels to their floodplains, driving the cycles of life for the particularly diverse ensemble of species that live in
- [The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Flood Damage Reduction in the Northeastern USA, Narayan et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-value-of-coastal-wetlands-for-flood-damage-reduction-in-the-northeastern-usa-narayan-et-al-2017/) - The authors address the lack of high-resolution, large-scale assessments of the value of coastal wetlands for reducing property damages from flooding. In the first part of this paper, they assess Hurricane Sandy-induced damages to wetlands. The second part examines the risk reduction benefits of salt marshes in Ocean County, NJ, in terms of average annual
- [The second warning to humanity – providing a context for wetland management and policy, Finlayson et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-second-warning-to-humanity-providing-a-context-for-wetland-management-and-policy-finlayson-et-al-2018/) - The authors of this article note that prior agreements to halt wetland degradation, such as the Ramsar Convention of 1971, have been largely unsuccessful. They advocate for both a re-emphasis on how wetlands help mitigate climate change, and how to protect existing wetlands from the damaging effects of climate change. They had previously authored the
- [Wetlands in a changing climate: science, policy and management, Moomaw et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/wetlands-in-a-changing-climate-science-policy-and-management-moomaw-et-al-2018/) - This article emphasizes the global importance of protecting and restoring wetlands in the context of climate change and outlines policy strategies for wetland protection and restoration. Wetlands play a major though under-appreciated role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Wetlands enhance local resilience to climate change by providing: “flood storage, buffering of storm damage, protecting
- [Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise, Schuerch et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/future-response-of-global-coastal-wetlands-to-sea-level-rise-schuerch-et-al-2018/) - The vulnerability of coastal wetlands to sea-level rise is disputed, with some researchers predicting most will be flooded out of existence by the end of the 21st Century. Coastal wetlands provide critical ecosystem services, including protection from storm surges, water quality improvement, fisheries habitat and carbon sequestration. By accounting for the enhancement of sediment build-up when
- [Partnering with beavers to restore ecosystems](https://bio4climate.org/article/partnering-with-beavers-to-restore-ecosystems/) - Beaver dams and overbank floods influence groundwater–surface water interactions of a Rocky Mountain riparian area, Westbrook et al. 2006 This study provides empirical evidence that beavers influence hydrologic processes in riparian areas. Conducted at the headwaters of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains, the study examines patterns from two beaver dams of surface inundation,
- [Beaver dams and overbank floods influence groundwater–surface water interactions of a Rocky Mountain riparian area, Westbrook et al. 2006](https://bio4climate.org/article/beaver-dams-and-overbank-floods-influence-groundwater-surface-water-interactions-of-a-rocky-mountain-riparian-area-westbrook-et-al-2006/) - This study provides empirical evidence that beavers influence hydrologic processes in riparian areas. Conducted at the headwaters of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains, the study examines patterns from two beaver dams of surface inundation, groundwater flow, and groundwater level dynamics. The authors observe that : Beaver dams on the Colorado River caused river
- [Modeling intrinsic potential for beaver (Castor canadensis) habitat to inform restoration and climate change adaptation, Dittbrenner et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/modeling-intrinsic-potential-for-beaver-castor-canadensis-habitat-to-inform-restoration-and-climate-change-adaptation-dittbrenner-et-al-2018/) - Beavers are recognized for their ability to restore floodplain hydrology and biological function, yet finding suitable places for their reintroduction remains a conservation challenge. The goal of this study was to identify places in the Snohomish River basin of Washington state suitable for beaver reintroduction. Because of their abilities to modify streams and floodplains, beavers
- [Beaver restoration would reduce wildfires, Maughan 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/beaver-restoration-would-reduce-wildfires-maughan-2013/) - Politicians often call for logging and fuel reduction to prevent future wildfires. However, it’s not good logging trees that are burning in such fires so much as cheatgrass, annual weed, dry brush and dead weeds. Reintroducing beaver to create ponds could raise the water table, increase humidity in the drainage area (thus reducing burn intensity)
- [More ecosystem-oriented considerations for heat wave, drought, flood and fire resilience](https://bio4climate.org/article/more-ecosystem-oriented-considerations-for-heat-wave-drought-flood-and-fire-resilience/) - Hot days in the city? It’s all about location, NOAA 2018 In a project funded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), about two dozen citizen scientists measured temperatures in Baltimore and Washington DC on two of the hottest days of 2018. By measuring temperatures second by second with thermal sensors while driving prescribed routes
- [Hot days in the city? It’s all about location, NOAA 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/hot-days-in-the-city-its-all-about-location-noaa-2018/) - In a project funded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), about two dozen citizen scientists measured temperatures in Baltimore and Washington DC on two of the hottest days of 2018. By measuring temperatures second by second with thermal sensors while driving prescribed routes through each city, the data collectors revealed a 17-degree temperature gap between
- [Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980–2009), Balch et al. 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/introduced-annual-grass-increases-regional-fire-activity-across-the-arid-western-usa-1980-2009-balch-et-al-2013/) - Cheatgrass is an introduced annual grass that has spread everywhere throughout the western USA. It is among the first plants to emerge in the spring, after which it completes its life cycle, drying out in summer and thus creating a continuous, dry, fine fuel load across the landscape. This study examined the cheatgrass invasion’s effect
- [Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes, Schoennagel et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/adapt-to-more-wildfire-in-western-north-american-forests-as-climate-changes-schoennagel-et-al-2017/) - Wildfires in the West have become larger and more frequent over the past three decades (globally, the length of the fire season increased by 19% from 1979 to 2013) and this trend will continue with global warming. Typical fire prevention strategy, centering on fuel reduction and fire suppression, has proved inadequate. Instead, society must accept
- [Amplification of wildfire area burnt by hydrological drought in the humid tropics, Taufik et al. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/amplification-of-wildfire-area-burnt-by-hydrological-drought-in-the-humid-tropics-taufik-et-al-2017/) - This study distinguishes between meteorological droughts (lower than average rainfall) and hydrological droughts, where rainfall shortage has eventually led to surface or groundwater levels falling, to predict area burnt from wildfires. By contrast, most studies consider only climate data when predicting wildfire, yet “these overlook subsurface processes leading to hydrological drought, an important driver” [Taufik
- [Tall Amazonian forests are less sensitive to precipitation variability, Giardina et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/tall-amazonian-forests-are-less-sensitive-to-precipitation-variability-giardina-et-al-2018/) - Our results demonstrate that in the Amazon, forest height and age regulate photosynthesis interannual variability and are as relevant as mean precipitation. In particular, tall, old and dense forests are more resistant to precipitation variability. Tree size and age directly impact forest structure and thus the carbon cycle in the Amazon. This is especially significant
- [Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands, Mariotte et al. 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/subordinate-plant-species-enhance-community-resistance-against-drought-in-semi-natural-grasslands-mariotte-et-al-2013/) - This study examines how subordinate species[8] influence community insurance against drought in semi-natural grasslands of the Swiss Jura. The insurance hypothesis proposes that an increase in community diversity corresponds to an increase in the range of potential species responses to environmental stress. The authors tested the role of subordinate species in community resistance to drought, recovery and
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 2: Worthy Miscellany](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-2-worthy-miscellany/) - Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls, Kallenbach et al. 2016 Although the overall contribution of decaying plants, available substrate, and microbes to the buildup of soil organic matter (SOM) is well recognized, their individual contributions are not as clearly understood. Analytical shortcomings have constrained a thorough study that can
- [Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls, Kallenbach et al. 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/direct-evidence-for-microbial-derived-soil-organic-matter-formation-and-its-ecophysiological-controls-kallenbach-et-al-2016/) - Although the overall contribution of decaying plants, available substrate, and microbes to the buildup of soil organic matter (SOM) is well recognized, their individual contributions are not as clearly understood. Analytical shortcomings have constrained a thorough study that can distinguish the amount of SOM attributable to plants and the amount attributable to microbes. Using pyrolysis-GC/MS,
- [Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification, Pretty et al. 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/global-assessment-of-agricultural-system-redesign-for-sustainable-intensification-pretty-et-al-2018/) - This article highlights the relevance of the concept of “sustainable intensification” (SI), wherein farming practices are improved to produce more crops (intensification) while doing no harm to – and possibly even enhancing - the environment (sustainable). The combination of the two terms was an attempt to indicate that desirable outcomes, such as more food and
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 2: Appendix A](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-2-appendix-a/) - Close up on California in the era of climate change: a verdant vision for fire-prone land Picture California in the 1700s, around the time the first Spanish missions appeared. It must have looked like heaven on earth for the 100,000s of native people living there [Ecological Society of America 2014], cradled between forested mountains and
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 2: Appendix B](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-2-appendix-b/) - Water Isn’t What You Think It Is: The Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald Pollack Guest author Gerald Pollack introduces a fundamental shift in how we view water. It has the potential to significantly alter our understandings of any processes that involve water, including aspects of climate, biology, and how we approach eco-restoration. The Fourth
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 1: Introduction](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-1-introduction/) - In this third issue of the Compendium of Scientific and Practical Findings Supporting Eco-Restoration to Address Global Warming by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (“Bio4Climate”), we focus on the pivotal roles of water cycles and soil ecology in stabilizing ecosystems and the climate.
- [Evapotranspiration – A Driving Force in Landscape Sustainability, Eiseltová 2012](https://bio4climate.org/article/evapotranspiration-a-driving-force-in-landscape-sustainability-eiseltova-2012/) - Vegetation cover cools Earth when it intercepts the sun’s energy. This is not just by providing shade, but also through evapotranspiration, which is how plants regulate their own internal temperatures. For a plant … transpiration[5] is a necessity by which a plant maintains its inner environment within the limit of optimal temperatures. And at the level
- [New climate solutions, water cycles and the soil carbon sponge, Jehne 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/new-climate-solutions-water-cycles-and-the-soil-carbon-sponge-jehne-2018/) - Regenerating the soil carbon sponge is our greatest point of leverage for salvaging the planet from the point of existential climate crisis. “Sponge” refers to the quality of a biologically active soil with high organic matter content to have lots of pore space for water absorption. Jehne states that every additional gram of soil carbon
- [Biotic pump of atmospheric moisture as driver of the hydrological cycle on land, Makarieva and Gorshkov 2007[12]](https://bio4climate.org/article/biotic-pump-of-atmospheric-moisture-as-driver-of-the-hydrological-cycle-on-land-makarieva-and-gorshkov-200712/) - ​The authors examine ecological and geophysical principles to explain how land far inland away from the ocean can remain moist, given that gravity continuously pulls surface and groundwater into the ocean over time. All freshwater on land originates in the ocean from which it has evaporated, is carried on air flux, and precipitates over the
- [How Forests Attract Rain: An Examination of a New Hypothesis, Sheil and Murdiyarso 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/how-forests-attract-rain-an-examination-of-a-new-hypothesis-sheil-and-murdiyarso-2009/) - Highlighting the significance of Makarieva and Gorshkov’s “biotic pump” hypothesis (above), Sheil and Murdiyarso explain it in layman’s terms in this article for the benefit of a broader public, and examine its validity. They point out that the biotic pump hypothesis offers an explanation for a question not otherwise resolved in conventional climate theory. Conventional
- [Human modification of global water vapor flows from the land surface, Gordon 2005](https://bio4climate.org/article/human-modification-of-global-water-vapor-flows-from-the-land-surface-gordon-2005/) - Human modification of the hydrological cycle has profoundly affected the flow of liquid water across the Earth’s land surface. Compared to changes to liquid water flow, alteration of water vapor flows through land-use changes has received comparatively less attention, despite compelling evidence that such alteration can influence the functioning of the Earth System. We show
- [A green planet versus a desert world: estimating the maximum effect of vegetation on the land surface climate, Kleidon 2000](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-green-planet-versus-a-desert-world-estimating-the-maximum-effect-of-vegetation-on-the-land-surface-climate-kleidon-2000/) - This climate model simulation illustrates how the biosphere affects the climate system. With “maximum vegetation,” more water is absorbed in the ground, allowing for evaporation to cool the land surface while also recycling more rain. This simulation resulted in an average temperature reduction over land of 1.2C. The authors describe their approach: We quantify the maximum
- [Historical deforestation locally increased the intensity of hot days in northern mid-latitudes, LeJeune 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/historical-deforestation-locally-increased-the-intensity-of-hot-days-in-northern-mid-latitudes-lejeune-2018/) - Deforestation contributes to climate change on a global scale through carbon emissions (biogeochemical effects), and on a local/regional scale through biogeophysical effects related to albedo, evapotranspiration and roughness, affecting surface energy budgets. Here, we show that historical deforestation has led to a substantial local warming of hot days over the northern mid-latitudes - a finding
- [Twentieth Century regional climate change during the summer in the central United States attributed to agricultural intensification, Alter 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/twentieth-century-regional-climate-change-during-the-summer-in-the-central-united-states-attributed-to-agricultural-intensification-alter-2018/) - Noting that “major increases in crop productivity and changes in regional climate are generally collocated in time and space over the central United States” [Alter 2018: 1587], the study tested the hypothesis that there is a causal relationship - that historical agricultural intensification has affected regional summer climate in this area. … from 1950 to
- [Intermediate tree cover can maximize groundwater recharge in the seasonally dry tropics, Ilstedt 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/intermediate-tree-cover-can-maximize-groundwater-recharge-in-the-seasonally-dry-tropics-ilstedt-2016/) - Responding to a common belief that trees lower groundwater infiltration due to transpiration, and a contrasting view that trees increase groundwater infiltration by increasing organic matter and soil porosity, these authors test an “optimum tree cover theory.” They find that “intermediate” tree cover maximizes groundwater recharge in the tropics, resulting in a 2-14% increase in
- [Critical impact of vegetation physiology on the continental hydrologic cycle in response to increasing CO2, Lemordant 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/critical-impact-of-vegetation-physiology-on-the-continental-hydrologic-cycle-in-response-to-increasing-co2-lemordant-2018/) - This study finds that the physiological response of plants to increased atmospheric CO2 affects the global hydrological cycle even more than does the greenhouse effect and changes in precipitation. The authors conclude: This highlights the key role of vegetation in controlling future terrestrial hydrologic response and emphasizes that the carbon and water cycles are intimately coupled
- [Weakening of Indian summer monsoon rainfall due to changes in land use land cover, Paul 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/weakening-of-indian-summer-monsoon-rainfall-due-to-changes-in-land-use-land-cover-paul-2016/) - The Indian summer monsoon rainfall has decreased since 1950, and several hypotheses have been proposed to explain why. Most of these hypotheses involving weakening temperature gradients over the continent. This study explores the potential link between a weakening monsoon and widespread land use land cover (LULC) change from woody savanna to cropland in recent decades.
- [Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon, Locatelli 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/tropical-reforestation-and-climate-change-beyond-carbon-locatelli-2015/) - When managed with both climate adaptation and mitigation in mind, tropical reforestation (TR) can serve multiple synergistic functions. TR mitigates regional and global climate change, not only by sequestering carbon but also through biophysical cooling (via evapotranspiration), by recycling rainfall regionally, and by reducing pressure on old growth forests. Furthermore, TR helps local communities adapt to climate
- [Water-retention potential of Europe's forests: A European overview to support natural water-retention measures, European Environment Agency (EEA) 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/water-retention-potential-of-europes-forests-a-european-overview-to-support-natural-water-retention-measures-european-environment-agency-eea-2015/) - The importance of water retention (the rainfall absorbed or used within an ecosystem) for mitigating flood and drought conditions and contributing to clean drinking water, for example, has been increasingly recognized in Europe in the past decade. Along with wetland preservation, better agriculture practices and other measures, preserving and re-growing forests are seen as key
- [Why Climate Change Makes Riparian Restoration More Important than Ever: Recommendations for Practice and Research, Seavy 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/why-climate-change-makes-riparian-restoration-more-important-than-ever-recommendations-for-practice-and-research-seavy-2009/) - Riparian[14] ecosystems are naturally resilient, provide linear habitat connectivity, link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change [Seavy 2009: 330]. Arguing for the restoration of riparian areas because of their ecological significance and inherent resilience, these authors articulate the importance of both
- [Compendium Vol. 2 No. 1: Fertilizer vs. Fungi](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-2-1-fertilizer-vs-fungi/) - Agrochemical companies argue that crops can’t be grown without their products. And in a sense, they are right, as long as we accept as inevitable a dysfunctional soil food web [LSP 2018: 16]. The importance of synthetic fertilizer for global crop production and the environmental consequences of its excessive use is often presented as a
- [Fertilizer vs. Fungi Article Summaries](https://bio4climate.org/article/fertilizer-vs-fungi-article-summaries/) - The nitrogen dilemma: food or the environment, Stewart & Lal 2017 Nitrogen (N) is the most important essential element for crop production because it is required in large amounts and is nearly always the first nutrient that becomes limiting after an ecosystem is converted to cropland. Cereal grains provide about 50% of the world’s calories,
- [The nitrogen dilemma: food or the environment, Stewart & Lal 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-nitrogen-dilemma-food-or-the-environment-stewart-lal-2017/) - Nitrogen (N) is the most important essential element for crop production because it is required in large amounts and is nearly always the first nutrient that becomes limiting after an ecosystem is converted to cropland. Cereal grains provide about 50% of the world’s calories, and their production has become largely dependent on the use of
- [Sustainability challenges of phosphorus and food: solutions from closing the human phosphorus cycle, Childers 2011](https://bio4climate.org/article/sustainability-challenges-of-phosphorus-and-food-solutions-from-closing-the-human-phosphorus-cycle-childers-2011/) - Our review of estimates of P recycling in the human P cycle show considerable variability and uncertainty, but today it appears that only about one-quarter of the fertilizer P used in agriculture is recycled back to fields. The rest is lost to the cycle, and much of this loss ends up in waterways, causing expensive
- [A broken biogeochemical cycle, Elser & Bennett 2011](https://bio4climate.org/article/a-broken-biogeochemical-cycle-elser-bennett-2011/) - Consider the fate of the approximately 17.5 million tonnes of phosphorus mined in 2005, analysed in the paper by Cordell et al. About 14 million tonnes of this were used in fertilizer (much of the rest went into cattle-feed supplements, food preservatives, and the production of detergents and industrial cleaning agents) but only about 3
- [Networks of power and influence: the role of mycorrhizal mycelium in controlling plant communities and agroecosystem functioning, Leake 2004](https://bio4climate.org/article/networks-of-power-and-influence-the-role-of-mycorrhizal-mycelium-in-controlling-plant-communities-and-agroecosystem-functioning-leake-2004/) - Two major groups of mycorrhizal fungi are arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) and ectomycorrrhiza (EM). Both form a symbiosis with plants by colonizing their roots and creating an interface where carbon from the plant can be exchanged for phosphorus, nitrogen and other nutrients from the soil and transferred to the plant by the fungi. The extraradical[15] mycorrhizal mycelium (ERMM), which
- [Mycorrhizal symbioses influence the trophic structure of the Serengeti, Stevens 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/mycorrhizal-symbioses-influence-the-trophic-structure-of-the-serengeti-stevens-2018/) - Our analysis shows that inputs of phosphorus through arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses substantially increase the ability of plants to grow and maintain nutritional quality, cascading through the biomass of consumers and predators in the ecosystem. Although they account for less than 1% of the total modelled biomass, the predicted nutritional benefit provided by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- [Rock-eating fungi, Jongmans 1997](https://bio4climate.org/article/rock-eating-fungi-jongmans-1997/) - Under a microscope, tiny tunnels can be seen in mineral particles from conifer forest soil. Scientists believe it is mycorrhizal fungi penetrating these particles by excreting organic acids in order to mine nutrients for their plant hosts. An estimated 150 meters of pores are bored by fungi per year per liter of E-horizon (layer that
- [The role of community and population ecology in applying mycorrhizal fungi for improved food security, Rodriguez & Sanders 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-role-of-community-and-population-ecology-in-applying-mycorrhizal-fungi-for-improved-food-security-rodriguez-sanders-2015/) - Given that nitrogen and phosphorus are the most limiting nutrients for crop growth, that global phosphorus supplies are becoming exhausted while the human population rapidly expands, and that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) symbioses improve crop phosphorus acquisition, AMF symbioses have a major role to play in current and future crop production. The potential of AMF
- [Bacteria and fungi can contribute to nutrients bioavailability and aggregate formation in degraded soils, Rashid 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/bacteria-and-fungi-can-contribute-to-nutrients-bioavailability-and-aggregate-formation-in-degraded-soils-rashid-2016/) - The paper argues for the use of bacterial and fungal inoculants in combination with organic amendments and cover crops to regenerate degraded soils. In order to produce enough food for a growing global population on ubiquitously degraded soils, synthetic fertilizers will be in increasingly high demand. However, these fertilizers require copious amounts of non-renewable energy
- [Meta-analysis of biofertilizer application in agriculture, Schutz 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/meta-analysis-of-biofertilizer-application-in-agriculture-schutz-2018/) - Given the global decline of reserves of both rock phosphate and fossil fuel, this study poses the question – to what extent can microbial inoculants replace/reduce the use of synthetic fertilizer? The authors find that “dryland agriculture can benefit most from biofertilizers [microbial inoculants used as fertilizers]. Due to climate change, in the future there
- [Future Directions International Strategic Directions Paper: Agricultural Application of Mycorrhizal Fungi to Increase Crop Yields, Promote Soil Health and Combat Climate Change, Johns 2014](https://bio4climate.org/article/future-directions-international-strategic-directions-paper-agricultural-application-of-mycorrhizal-fungi-to-increase-crop-yields-promote-soil-health-and-combat-climate-change-johns-2014/) - There are a number of agricultural practices that will enhance fungi colonisation. Wherever possible, of course, the full range of critical soil health processes that govern productivity should be allowed to regenerate agricultural ecologies naturally. It may, however, be necessary or more practical to inoculate seed with fungi spores in order to recover degraded soils.
- [Nitrogen: the double-edged sword, Jones 2014](https://bio4climate.org/article/nitrogen-the-double-edged-sword-jones-2014/) - The symbiosis between mycorrhizal fungi and plants drive carbon and nitrogen cycles. Fungi demand carbon exudate from plants in exchange for nitrogen and other nutrients retrieved and transported from the soil. The “liquid carbon” exuded from plant roots feeds mycorrhizal fungi and many other soil microbes, while also becoming stabilized in soil aggregates and humus.
- [Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers deplete soil nitrogen: a global dilemma for sustainable cereal production, Mulvaney 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/synthetic-nitrogen-fertilizers-deplete-soil-nitrogen-a-global-dilemma-for-sustainable-cereal-production-mulvaney-2009/) - There is a prevailing view that global food and fiber production will continue to expand because of modern agricultural management systems with improved cultivars and intensive chemical inputs dominated by synthetic ammoniacal fertilizers. The use of these fertilizers has led to concerns regarding water and air pollution but is generally perceived to play an essential
- [Nitrogen fertilizer dose alters fungal communities in sugarcane soil and rhizosphere, Paungfoo-Lonhienne 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/nitrogen-fertilizer-dose-alters-fungal-communities-in-sugarcane-soil-and-rhizosphere-paungfoo-lonhienne-2015/) - In this study, nitrogen fertilization altered the relative abundance of fungal taxa in the rhizosphere, increasing fungal genera with known pathogenic traits, and decreasing a fungal phyla (Basidiomycetes) known to break down lignin, thus important for carbon cycling in the soil. Fungi play important roles as decomposers, plant symbionts and pathogens in soils. The structure
- [Nitrogen fertilizer effects on soil carbon balances in Midwestern U.S. agricultural systems, Russell 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/nitrogen-fertilizer-effects-on-soil-carbon-balances-in-midwestern-u-s-agricultural-systems-russell-2009/) - Despite increasing residue input in annual crop production systems, N fertilization does not increase soil organic carbon (SOC) over time because N fertilization also increases organic carbon (OC) decay. This study also shows that belowground OC inputs contribute to soil carbon sequestration more than aboveground OC inputs to the soil. When all phases of the
- [Community proteogenomics reveals the systemic impact of phosphorus availability on microbial functions in tropical soil, Yao 2018](https://bio4climate.org/article/community-proteogenomics-reveals-the-systemic-impact-of-phosphorus-availability-on-microbial-functions-in-tropical-soil-yao-2018/) - In this study, long-term phosphorus fertilization limited the extent to which the genes and proteins of microbial communities were allocated to degrading recalcitrant soil phytate to acquire phosphorus. In phosphorus-deficient soil, on the other hand, the genes responsible for breaking down recalcitrant substrate to acquire phosphorus were more prevalent in microbial communities. In other words,
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 2: Introduction](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-2-introduction/) - In this second issue of the Compendium of Scientific and Practical Findings Supporting Eco-Restoration to Address Global Warming by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (“Bio4Climate”), we focus on the pivotal roles of biodiversity and regenerative agriculture in stabilizing ecosystems and the climate. We review a selection of a large and growing trove of research demonstrating
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 2: Biodiversity and why it matters](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-2-biodiversity-and-why-it-matters/) - Biodiversity refers to the outcome of 3.8 billion years of evolution since single-cellular life appeared on Earth. It is a concept embodied by an endless variety of life forms and strategies undertaken within the kingdoms of life. Biodiversity allows for a dynamic web of interactions, whereby countless organisms reliably supply one another with sufficient nutrients and
- [Compilation of biodiversity articles](https://bio4climate.org/article/compilation-of-biodiversity-articles/) - Biodiversity Mammal diversity influences the carbon cycle through trophic interactions in the Amazon, Sobral 2017 In a mixed forest-savanna landscape of tropical Guyana researchers found that mammal diversity is positively related to carbon concentration in the soil. The authors explain that this is due to increased feeding interaction associated with greater mammal diversity, and specify
- [Biodiversity](https://bio4climate.org/article/biodiversity/) - Mammal diversity influences the carbon cycle through trophic interactions in the Amazon, Sobral 2017 In a mixed forest-savanna landscape of tropical Guyana researchers found that mammal diversity is positively related to carbon concentration in the soil. The authors explain that this is due to increased feeding interaction associated with greater mammal diversity, and specify that
- [Mammal diversity influences the carbon cycle through trophic interactions in the Amazon, Sobral 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/mammal-diversity-influences-the-carbon-cycle-through-trophic-interactions-in-the-amazon-sobral-2017/) - In a mixed forest-savanna landscape of tropical Guyana researchers found that mammal diversity is positively related to carbon concentration in the soil. The authors explain that this is due to increased feeding interaction associated with greater mammal diversity, and specify that animal abundance per se did not increase carbon content in the soil. “The lack
- [Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity, Duffy 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/biodiversity-effects-in-the-wild-are-common-and-as-strong-as-key-drivers-of-productivity-duffy-2017/) - “Biodiversity has a major role in sustaining the productivity of Earth’s ecosystems” [Duffy 2017: 263]. This is the conclusion drawn from an analysis of 133 estimates reported in 67 field studies on the effects of species richness (number of species) on biomass production, isolating biodiversity as a variable from other factors that affect productivity (nutrient
- [Soil biota contributions to soil aggregation, Lehmann 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/soil-biota-contributions-to-soil-aggregation-lehmann-2017/) - This meta-analysis finds that biodiversity across groups, especially between bacteria and fungi, contributes more to soil aggregation than species from just one group acting alone. For example, fungi specialize in binding macroaggregates, while bacteria can also bind microaggregates, and earthworms can “grind and remould ingested particles into new aggregates” [Lehmann 2017: 1]. There were no
- [Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity, Hautier 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/anthropogenic-environmental-changes-affect-ecosystem-stability-via-biodiversity-hautier-2015/) - This study illustrates the importance of biodiversity for maintaining ecosystem stability. It tests the hypothesis that “other drivers of global environmental change may have biodiversity-mediated effects on ecosystem functioning - that changes in biodiversity resulting from anthropogenic drivers may be an intermediate cause of subsequent changes in ecosystem functioning” [Hautier 2015: 337]. Researchers found that
- [Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems, Weigelt 2009](https://bio4climate.org/article/biodiversity-for-multifunctional-grasslands-equal-productivity-in-high-diversity-low-input-and-low-diversity-high-input-systems-weigelt-2009/) - This English grasslands study, comparing alternative strategies for increasing productivity, showed that “increasing plant species richness levels were more effective than the imposed levels of increasing management intensity” [Weigelt 2009: 1701]. The management intensification strategy included synthetic fertilization and mowing, while the biodiversity strategy increased species richness from 1 to 16 species. The authors conclude
- [Low-cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration, Treuer 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/low-cost-agricultural-waste-accelerates-tropical-forest-regeneration-treuer-2017/) - This study illustrates how ecosystem restoration enhances biodiversity and productivity. A one-time application in 1998 of 1,000 truckloads of agricultural waste (orange peels) to 3 ha of degraded pasture accelerated tropical forest regeneration in this Costa Rica study. The treatment led to a tripling in species richness (24 tree species from 20 families, compared to
- [Remarkable roles of unremarked creatures](https://bio4climate.org/article/remarkable-roles-of-unremarked-creatures/) - The articles below offer a sampling of the myriad ecosystem roles played by species we may not think much about. For example, fungi, an exemplar ecosystem cooperator, buries carbon in the soil, sources otherwise unavailable nutrients like phosphorus for plant growth, and facilitates bacterial evolution. Great whales transport nutrients through the ocean for other species
- [Nutrient acquisition by symbiotic fungi governs Palaeozoic climate transition, Mills 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/nutrient-acquisition-by-symbiotic-fungi-governs-palaeozoic-climate-transition-mills-2017/) - Fossil evidence shows that early land plants hosted fungal symbionts, which are likely to have facilitated phosphorus acquisition by plants and thus increased net primary production, perpetuating the transition to a cooler, oxygen-rich environment suitable for animal life. Mills’ study tests this hypothesis by integrating plant-fungal phosphorus acquisition into a biogeochemical model of the Paleozoic
- [Mycelia as a focal point for horizontal gene transfer among soil bacteria, Berthold 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/mycelia-as-a-focal-point-for-horizontal-gene-transfer-among-soil-bacteria-berthold-2016/) - Fungus is a key component of healthy soil. It is known to “translocate compounds from nutrient-rich to nutrient-poor regions… facilitate the access of bacteria to suitable microhabitats for growth, enable efficient contaminant biodegradation, and increase the functional stability in systems exposed to osmotic stress” [Berthold 2016: 5]. This study shows that, in addition, mycelia facilitate
- [The rhizosphere ­- roots, soil and everything in between, McNear 2013](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-rhizosphere-roots-soil-and-everything-in-between-mcnear-2013/) - A variety of intimate, symbiotic relationships exist between the roots of plants and the microorganisms in the soil. For instance, mycorrhizal fungi colonize the surface of plant roots, effectively extending them further through the soil to collect nutrients otherwise out of reach. These mycorrhizal branching structures, known as hyphae, emanating from plant roots also improve
- [Fungal to bacterial ratios in soils investigated for enhanced C-sequestration, Bailey 2002](https://bio4climate.org/article/fungal-to-bacterial-ratios-in-soils-investigated-for-enhanced-c-sequestration-bailey-2002/) - Testing paired sites in four ecosystem types, this study finds that higher fungal activity in soil is associated with higher soil carbon content, and that disturbing the soil reduces fungal activity. The paper’s introduction explains why fungi have been found to store more carbon than do bacteria – for example, fungi can store up to
- [Whales as marine ecosystem engineers, Roman 2014](https://bio4climate.org/article/whales-as-marine-ecosystem-engineers-roman-2014/) - Baleen and sperm whales, known collectively as the great whales, include the largest animals in the history of life on Earth. With high metabolic demands and large populations, whales probably had a strong influence on marine ecosystems before the advent of industrial whaling: as consumers of fish and invertebrates; as prey to other large-bodied predators;
- [The role of dung beetles in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from cattle farming, Slade 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/the-role-of-dung-beetles-in-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-cattle-farming-slade-2015/) - “Dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae, Geotrupidae) are some of the most important invertebrate contributors to dung decomposition in both temperate and tropical agricultural grasslands. As such, they may help mitigate GHG [Greenhouse Gas] emissions and aid carbon sequestration through removing dung deposited on the pastures, increasing grass growth and fertilization” [Slade 2015: 1]. This Finland
- [Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change, Bonachela 2015](https://bio4climate.org/article/termite-mounds-can-increase-the-robustness-of-dryland-ecosystems-to-climatic-change-bonachela-2015/) - Termites are particularly important in savannas of Africa, Australasia, and South America, and their nest structures (“mounds”) shape many environmental properties; analogous structures built by ants and burrowing mammals are similarly influential worldwide. Mound soils differ from surrounding “matrix” soils in physical and chemical composition, which enhances vegetation growth, creating “islands of fertility.” Moreover, mounds
- [Ants and termites increase crop yield in a dry climate, Evans 2011](https://bio4climate.org/article/ants-and-termites-increase-crop-yield-in-a-dry-climate-evans-2011/) - Testing the effects of ants and termites on crop yield in an arid part of Australia, this study showed “that ants and termites increase wheat yield by 36% from increased soil water infiltration due to their tunnels and improved soil nitrogen” [Evans 2011: 1]. The authors conclude: “Our results suggest that ants and termites have
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 2: Agriculture as planetary regeneration](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-2-agriculture-as-planetary-regeneration/) - Agricultural production must produce enough food for almost 10 billion people by 2050 [FAO 2017],[10] and yet a third of all land is degraded [FAO 2015] and nearly all agricultural land has lost significant amounts of SOC (Soil Organic Carbon). So we have a puzzle to solve: how to produce more from less, and in the face
- [Drawdown, Hawken, ed. 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/drawdown-hawken-ed-2017/) - Edited by innovator and entrepreneur Paul Hawken, Drawdown is a remarkable and comprehensive work presenting eighty well-vetted solutions and twenty promising “coming attractions” to remove carbon from the atmosphere and restore planetary health. Hawken engaged numerous scientists, modellers, advisers, artists and writers, resulting in a beautifully illustrated and comprehensive exploration of possibilities for reversing global warming.
- [Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity, Trant 2016](https://bio4climate.org/article/intertidal-resource-use-over-millennia-enhances-forest-productivity-trant-2016/) - Abstract: Human occupation is usually associated with degraded landscapes but 13,000 years of repeated occupation by British Columbia’s coastal First Nations has had the opposite effect, enhancing temperate rainforest productivity. This is particularly the case over the last 6,000 years when intensified intertidal shellfish usage resulted in the accumulation of substantial shell middens. We show
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 2: Appendix A: The urgency of the climate crisis](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-2-appendix-a-the-urgency-of-the-climate-crisis/) - Global Warming has been a message of warning since climate research and discussions began roughly two hundred years ago in western science. Today, the predominance of the future tense in the climate dialogue has set the tone and expectations that however many times the “window of opportunity” for meaningful climate action were to close, it
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 1: PREFACE](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-1-preface/) - This Compendium of Scientific and Practical Findings Supporting Eco-Restoration to Address Global Warming (the “Compendium”) is a fully referenced compilation of the evidence outlining the power, benefits and necessity of eco-restoration to address global warming. Bringing together findings from the scientific literature, government and industry reports, and journalistic investigations, this is a public, open-access document
- [Release Notes: Volume 1, Number 1, July 21, 2017](https://bio4climate.org/article/release-notes-volume-1-number-1-july-21-2017/) - We have undertaken a far more ambitious enterprise than we had initially envisioned. One reason is that, just as in a forest, whenever you turn over a leaf or a log you discover a universe. The universe of knowledge about healing a devastated earth is vast, from indigenous wisdom to systems science and everything in-between.
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 1: ABSTRACT](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-1-abstract/) - There is substantial evidence that we can address the climate crisis by intensive global eco-restoration: drawing down vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere into global soils through photosynthesis; managing water cycles to cool the biosphere; restoring biodiversity and degraded terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Support for an eco-restoration hypothesis is solid and comes from a
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 1: INTRODUCTION](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-1-introduction/) - In order to re-evaluate our approach to climate change in the anthropocene and to find solutions in addition to reducing carbon emissions, we do well to consider the situation from a systems perspective. That is, to acknowledge that we’re not simply dealing with recent energy imbalances disrupting millions of years of relative stability in planetary temperatures,
- [Life as a Geological Force[2]](https://bio4climate.org/article/life-as-a-geological-force2/) - Going back almost 4 billion years, a scant half-billion years since the formation of planet earth from cosmic dust, life began to appear. It persisted through eons of celestial, tectonic and climatic upheaval. Around a billion years later, life, in the form of microbes, found the driver’s seat and has taken over the world ever
- [Wetlands](https://bio4climate.org/article/wetlands/) - Note: As mentioned in the Release notes, we have a small staff and therefore have had to postpone some important material to the next release, scheduled for January 2018. This will include a more thorough exploration of the importance of wetlands in addressing climate. Wetlands only cover only a small proportion of the terrestrial surface
- [Compendium Vol. 1 No. 1: APPENDIX A](https://bio4climate.org/article/compendium-1-1-appendix-a/) - The Advancement of Science: From Paradigms to Peer Review Paradigms and How They Shift Understanding the role of paradigms in scientific investigation is one of the keys to approaching the revolutionary view of climate as a problem of ecosystem dynamics as opposed to one simply of excessive greenhouse gases. The new paradigm doesn’t render the old

## Compendium

- [Compendium Volume 6 Number 1 July 2022](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-6-number-1-july-2022/) - Review of grassland ecosystems and of culture and its role in shaping human relationships to nature.
- [Compendium Volume 5 Number 2 January 2022](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-5-number-2-january-2022/) - Review of the relationship between vegetation and temperature, and the ecological role of animals.
- [Compendium Volume 5 Number 1 July 2021](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-5-number-1-july-2021/) - Review of the literature on the varied important ecological roles of native plants, as well as discussions of symbiosis, biophilia, and an Okanagan worldview of society.
- [Compendium Volume 2 Number 1 July 2018](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-2-number-1-july-2018/) - Reviews the pivotal roles of water cycles and soil ecology in stabilizing ecosystems and the climate.
- [Compendium Volume 4 Number 2 January 2021](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-4-number-2-january-2021/) - Explores the causes of wildfires and some technical and policy approaches to their management. Investigates ecological corridors and connectivity. Describes the importance of connected landscapes in conservation efforts to support biodiversity and offers examples of such ecological networks from around the world.
- [Compendium Volume 4 Number 1 July 2020](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-4-number-1-july-2020/) - In-depth review of zoonotic diseases such as the coronavirus as a consequence of biodiversity loss and ecosystem destruction, a section further exploring approaches to eco-restoration, and more examples of “Blessed Unrest.”
- [Compendium Volume 3 Number 2 January 2020](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-3-number-2-january-2020/) - Visits adaptation and urban resilience, the phenomenon of Heat Planet, more on land management and conservation, and a continuation of explorations in “Blessed Unrest,” where people around the world, in powerful local ways, are regenerating a healthy biosphere.
- [Compendium Volume 3 Number 1 July 2019](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-3-number-1-july-2019/) - Discusses forest dynamics and ecological intensification in regulating ecosystems, managing ecosystem services, and enriching biodiversity. Offers several examples of eco-restoration work, “Blessed Unrest,” by individuals and organizations around the world.
- [Compendium Volume 2 Number 2 January 2019 r.1](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-2-number-2-january-2019-r-1/) - Visits several examples of restoration in action from around the world, and reviews papers on floodplains, wetlands; discusses partnering with beavers; and considers how regenerative land management addresses heatwaves, droughts, floods and fires. Special guest article on the Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald Pollack.
- [Compendium Volume 1 Number 2 March 2018](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-1-number-2-march-2018/) - Focuses on biodiversity and why it’s so important, and regenerative agriculture as a critical path to global environmental health and stability.
- [Compendium Volume 1 Number 1 July 2017](https://bio4climate.org/issue/compendium-volume-1-number-1-july-2017/) - Covers a broad selection of eco-restoration articles, including soils, earthworms, water, wetlands, croplands, grasslands and forests. We also discuss how paradigms and peer review both advance and constrain the practice of science.

## Solutions

- [Beavers, the Master Water Engineers](https://bio4climate.org/solution/beavers-the-master-water-engineers/) - Climate Restoration Solutions – Leave it to Beavers! Learn how beavers can help restore wetlands, which have one of the greatest potentials to restore habitats and sequester carbon. Check out Eager! by Ben Goldfarb.
- [Cool Your Communities, Protect All Creatures (Including Us!)](https://bio4climate.org/solution/cool-your-communities-protect-all-creatures-including-us/) - Support and participate in community-driven programs for green initiatives. Work with your community to increase urban trees and vegetation to create an expanded urban tree cover, which is vital for cooling cities, managing water, improving air quality, and decreasing stress. And did you know asphalt heats up faster than bare ground? Depaving has a number of benefits including
- [Healthy Soils Legislation](https://bio4climate.org/solution/healthy-soils-legislation/) - Here’s a summary of Bio4Climate’s collaborations on building the foundation for regenerative land management into state law.
- [Riparian Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/solution/riparian-restoration/) - Free restoration manual explains effective & inexpensive low-tech methods for improving streams from the Sagebrush Grouse Initiative.
- [Biochar](https://bio4climate.org/solution/biochar/) - Biocharis a special charcoal product made from the slow burning of vegetable matter in a very low-oxygen environment to create almost pure carbon that, when buried in soils, provides many benefits for biodiversity and plant, soil health and human health. It has many tiny pores that store nutrients, water, microbes, and carbon captured from the atmosphere
- [Soil Carbon Cowboys](https://bio4climate.org/solution/soil-carbon-cowboys/) - Soil Carbon Cowboys is an entertaining twelve-minute video that clearly explains how three ranchers moved away from chemical-based ranching to holistic management and dramatically increased the soil carbon content and water-holding capabilities of their pastures – as well as the profitability of their operations and the time to spend with their families.
- [Can Cows Save The Planet?](https://bio4climate.org/solution/can-cows-save-the-planet/) - Holistic Management and Planned Grazing. Grasslands and grazing animals co-evolved over 50 million years. Good management of grasslands and grazing animals the way nature does it – constantly moving in tight herds rather than confined by fences – restores biodiversity, healthy water cycles, cools the biosphere and provides food and fiber to millions of people. Holistic
- [Water, Water, Everywhere We Want It](https://bio4climate.org/solution/water-water-everywhere-we-want-it/) - Restoring Water Cycles to Cool the Biosphere. View the videos from our Fall 2015 conference at Tufts University and learn more about how easy, low-tech regeneration of local water cycles can reverse global warming and change the world.
- [Bring Biodiversity and Lower Temperatures to Your Town](https://bio4climate.org/solution/bring-biodiversity-and-lower-temperatures-to-your-town/) - Set up biodiverse “pocket parks” and rain gardens. Pocket parks and rain gardens capture rainwater and allow for better water infiltration into soils, and increase soil health and groundwater recharge. Grow an inexpensive Miyawaki Forest in your urban habitat (shown: Clifton Park in Karachi), with native plants, pollinators and biodiverse animal life. If there’s not much space, you
- [Spread The Word](https://bio4climate.org/solution/spread-the-word/) - Educate your Neighbors. Host a talk at the library or local coffee shop on the vital importance of wetlands, grasslands, and forest ecosystems. Work with local schools. Incorporate lessons relating to organic gardening, urban forestry, wetlands, green infrastructure, and healthy soils. Improve children’s wellbeing.
- [Water Is Life](https://bio4climate.org/solution/water-is-life/) - Keep water on your property. Install rain barrels, rain gardens, and gray water systems.
- [How to Help Your Soils](https://bio4climate.org/solution/how-to-help-your-soils/) - Build soil health by using soil amendments, such as high-quality biochar, compost, and compost tea. Biochar, for example, improves water and nutrient retention, plant growth, and can store carbon underground for centuries. Composting feeds soil life by recycling nutrients for essential biodiverse microbial life. The Earth has been doing this for millions of years, our efforts
- [Revive Dead and Dying Lawns](https://bio4climate.org/solution/revive-dead-and-dying-lawns/) - Collective de-lawning. Most lawns are difficult to manage and do not allow for adequate water infiltration and carbon sequestration. Replacing turf grass with native grasses and plants would reduce the need for fertilizers and bring back critical functions of the soil.
- [No Bare Soils - Ever!](https://bio4climate.org/solution/no-bare-soils-ever/) - Keep soils covered with plants – don’t let your soils go bare! Plant multi-species cover crops and native plants, including plants that attract pollinators or provide habitat for beneficial insects. This allows for cooling and also helps in carbon sequestration.
- [Bring Life To Your Neighborhood](https://bio4climate.org/solution/bring-life-to-your-neighborhood/) - Green your Infrastructure. Transform your roof or balcony into a “green roof.” Lobby your town to support green roofs on new construction. Utilize green infrastructure to collect and infiltrate stormwater into the soils. Your neighborhood will soon be very cool!
- [Composting](https://bio4climate.org/solution/composting/) - Composting. Collect all plant-based food waste for outdoor compost piles or consider signing up with a compost service company. You could also make a worm bin and let worms turn your food and paper scraps into rich food for your garden to help feed your family, friends, and other hungry people. You can compost even in
- [Regenerative Practices](https://bio4climate.org/solution/regenerative-practices/) - Support Regenerative Farms, Ranches, and Food ForestsRegenerative Farming provides for a number of environmental and health benefits. By eliminating toxics and focusing on revitalizing soils, regenerative farming increases water infiltration and biodiversity activity, producing food that is rich in nutrients and vitamins.
- [Clothing For Life](https://bio4climate.org/solution/clothing-for-life/) - Buy clothing made of wool from regeneratively-raised sheep, or organic cotton or hemp. Strong, and comfortable fibers that will keep you warm or cool for a very long time from animals and plants that are well-taken care of – and happy!
- [Keep Organic Standards High](https://bio4climate.org/solution/keep-organic-standards-high/) - USDA organic standards have been seriously weakened over the past decade. Organizations like the Real Organic Project encourage consumers to inquire about how their USDA organic food is grown. A higher demand for organic and to know how the food is grown will incentivize stores to find out more and bring real organic to the stores.
- [Farmers Markets and CSAs](https://bio4climate.org/solution/farmers-markets-and-csas/) - Support Farmers directly through Farmer’s market and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture). Farmer’s market and CSAs have gained popularity across the United States. They allow for easy access to fresh produce, and help establish a personal relationship between the farmer and consumer. Find a Farmer’s market near you through the USDA local food directory.
- [Invest In Health](https://bio4climate.org/solution/invest-in-health/) - Demand Organic Food from your market/Inquire and Invest in Real Organic. Yes, high-quality food costs a bit more, and unfortunately not everyone can afford it – but if you possibly can, even as part of your diet, consider what you may gain by maintaining optimal health. Buy organic 100% grass-fed beef/dairy products and free range/pastured

## Newsletters

- [Summer 2024 Updates](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/Summer-2024-Updates.html) - Farewell and Welcome, Miyawaki Minute, Life Saves the Planet GBH Series: Beavers with Brock Dolman, Off Grid and on the Board: Welcome John Lambert, Education: Healing Our Land and Our Climate course, Richard Heinberg makes the case for nature based solutions, Muddy Boots and Helping Hands: Bio4Climate in the Community, Voices of Water Summer Reading
- [September 2023 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/September-2023-Newsletter.html) - Regenerating Life Premiere: Saturday, Life Saves the Planet Lecture Series, Milestones - NYTimes, First Miyawaki Forest Turns Two & Field Trips, Education - Jim’s Biodiversity Course, Maya’s Miyawaki Minute, Redesigning Our Communities, Global Youth Ambassador Program, Voices of Water Supports Scientists, Eco Restoration Stories That Inspire Us, Compendium Notes
- [June 2023 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/June-2023-Newsletter.html) - Regenerating Life Film, Milestones, Latest on the Blog, Education, Global Youth Ambassador Program, Eco Restoration Stories That Inspire Us, Compendium Notes, Life Saves the Planet: GBH Forum Network Series
- [March 2023 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/March-2023-Newsletter.html) - Ongoing & Upcoming Events, Voices of Water Corner, Maya’s Miyawaki Minute, Quotes That Inspire Us, Compendium Notes, A Word from the Editor
- [September 2022 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/September-2022-Newsletter.html) - Upcoming Youth Eco Restorers for Climate Mini-Conference, Jim Laurie’s Fall 2022 Course, Suggest a Featured Creature!, Voices of Water Corner, Eco-Restoration Stories Currently Inspiring us, New on the Bio4Climate Blog, Compendium Notes
- [October 2022 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/October-2022-Newsletter.html) - Upcoming Event: No Trees, No Rain, Suggest a Featured Creature!, Voices of Water Corner, Eco-Restoration Stories Currently Inspiring us , Moving On, Staff Spotlight: Tania Roa, New on the Bio4Climate Blog, Compendium Notes
- [August 2022 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/August-2022-Newsletter.html) - Suggest a Featured Creature, Eco-Restoration Stories Currently Inspiring us, Throwback from the Bio4Climate Blog, Voices of Water, Staff Spotlight: Maya Dutta, Compendium Notes
- [June -July 2022 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/June_July_2022_Newsletter.pdf) - GBH Forum Network Talk: Drying Rivers And Drought: What We Can Do In Massachusetts, Bio4Climate Summer 2022 Course Offering, Video: Rewilding our Planet Using the Miyawaki Method, Eco-Restoration Stories Currently Inspiring Us, New on the Bio4Climate Blog, Staff Spotlight: Jed Katch, Compendium Notes
- [April-May 2022 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/April_May_2022_Newsletter.pdf) - Upcoming Events, In Memoriam: Jan Lambert, Bio4Climate Summer 2022 Course Offerings, Video: Introducing the EcoRestoration Alliance, GBH Forum Network Talk: Using The Miyawaki Method To Rapidly Rewild The World, Intern Spotlight: Sreyashi Basak, Introducing Zuzka Mulkerin, Compendium Notes
- [February-March 2022 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/February_March_2022_Newsletter.pdf) - Upcoming Events, Announcements, Life Saves the Planet GBH Forum Network Talk: Introducing The EcoRestoration Alliance, Bio4Climate Spring 2022 Course Offerings, Bio4Climate + Worldwide Teach-In on Climate & Justice, Meet Carol Viana, Co-Founder of the Chloride Free Foundation, New on the Bio4Climate Blog, Compendium Notes
- [January 2022 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/January_2022_Newsletter.pdf) - email (5).html Upcoming Events, Announcements, Life Saves the Planet GBH Forum Network Talk with Jennifer Francis, Bio4Climate Spring 2022 Course Offerings, Meet Will Conklin, Executive Director of Greenagers, New On the Bio4Climate Blog, Compendium Notes
- [October-November 2021 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/October_November_2021_Newsletter.pdf) - Nature’s Solutions As National Policy Mini-Conference, Danehy Park Miyawaki Forest Update, Bio4Climate Fall 2021 Course Updates, Featured Article, Featured Blog Post, Compendium Notes
- [August-September 2021 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/August_September_2021_Newsletter.pdf) - Cool The Earth: Green The Planet Matching Grant Fundraiser, The July 2021 Compendium Is Now Available, Nature’s Solutions as National Policy: How Animals Shape Ecosystems Recording, Life Saves the Planet GBH Forum Network Talk With Felicia Keesing, Announcing the Bio4Climate Fall 2021 Course Offerings, Wild Donkeys in Western Australia Improve Degraded Landscape, Featured Video: Dr.
- [May-July 2021 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/May_July_2021_Newsletter.pdf) - Bio4Climate’s new website launch, Nature’s Solutions As National Policy conference, Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom and the Power of Place with Dawn Knickerbocker and Juan Martinez, Biodiversity 4: Forests, 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
- [March - April 2021 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/March-April-2021-Newsletter.html) - Ecosystem Restoration Camps, Life Saves the Planet lecture series, The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery, The Secret Language of Trees, Calling Home, an e-zine from Doug Zook and the Global Ecology Education Initiative, Equinox by Tamiko Beyer, ‘Teeming with biodiversity’: Green groups buy Belize forest to protect it ‘in perpetuity’, Integrating Agricultural Landscapes with
- [January-February 2021 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/January-February-2021-Newsletter.html) - 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, Grassland 2.0, Compendium Notes: Fence ecology: Frameworks for understanding the ecological effects of fences, McInturff et al. 2020
- [February 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/February-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - 2015 is the International Year of Soils, Carbon Farming for the Future
- [March 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/March-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Soil Not Oil: Campaigning for a Carbon Stable Future, USDA Approves GMO Apples
- [April 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/April-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Upcoming Conference: Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming, Speaker profile: Mel King, Catching Up with Jim Laurie
- [May 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/May-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - May Climate Conference Recap, The Living Building Challenge
- [June 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/June-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Urban Eco-Restoration Series Part 1, Jim Laurie’s Talk on Microbes
- [July 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/July-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Backyard Biochar and Beyond, Featured Event: Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Alright Seattle, where’s the rain?
- [August 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/August-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Urban Eco-Restoration Series Part 2, Featured Event: Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Catching up with Philip Bogdonoff of BLC, Washington D.C. Chapter
- [September 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/September-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Urban Eco-Restoration Series Part 3, Climate Conference Speaker Announcement, Featured Event: Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming
- [October 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/October-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Restoring Ecosystems with Nature’s Hydrologists: American Beavers, Featured Event: An Evening with Water Scientist Michal Kravcik, Water Cycles Conference Thank You
- [November 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/November-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Water Cycles Conference Recap, Community Grazing for Community Abundance, Jobs, Justice and Climate: A rally to defend New England’s future
- [December 2015 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/December-2015-Newsletter.pdf) - Soil’s Role at the Paris Climate Talks, The Next Generation of Young Farmers, Soil and Nutrition Conference: Nurturing Nature for Food Quality
- [January 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/January-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - Wild Alfalfa Contaminated by Genetically Modified Variety, International Coalition Aims to Curb Food Waste
- [March 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/March-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - Announcing The Power and Promise of Biodiversity Conference, Can Livestock Help Repair Degraded Soils?
- [April 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/April-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - The Victory Garden Initiative, Dung Beetles are Climate Warriors, Edible Cutlery, Bamboo, Pyrolysis and Bio-Char: Our Plan to Draw Carbon Down Exponentially
- [May 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/May-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - The Power and Promise of Biodiversity Conference Thank You, Colleges are a Hub for Sustainable Agriculture, Restoring a Greener New York City, Shade-grown coffee benefits ecosystems
- [June 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/June-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - The Ecological Benefits of Shade-grown Coffee, The Food is Free Project, Keeping your Garden Pollinator-friendly, Homeschool Symbiosis Team Presentation on Ecology in the Gulf of Maine
- [July 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/July-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - Scaling Up Local Food Systems, Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling?, Restoring Beaver Populations in California
- [August 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/August-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - The Potential of Perennial Wheat, A new short film by Peter Byck: One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts, Geo-Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Ought Never Come, Dung Beetles are as Important as Pollinators
- [September 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/September-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - Interview with Lesley Laws, of Zero Carbon Farming and Forestry Project Burga, Conference Speaker Anamarija Frankić, Conference Speaker Alfredo Quarto, The Vermont Farm to Plate food system
- [November 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/November-2016-Newsletter.pdf) - Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate Conference, Meet The Homeschool Symbiosis Team, Giant Coral Reef in Protected Area Rebounds, How Whales Change Climate: A Short Film Narrated by George Monbiot
- [December 2016 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/December-2016-Newsletter-.pdf) - Dryland Farming Magic: Interview with Charlotte Anthony of Terra Lingua Farm, Thank You Oceans Conference Attendees, Speakers and Supporters!
- [January 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/January-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Regenerative Seas: Implementing Regenerative Design to Restore Marine and Land-based Ecosystems, Living Shorelines for Enhanced Erosion Control, Adding Grazing Cattle to Improve Soil Health
- [February 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/February-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Saving Native Bees in the Garden in The Humane Gardener, Scientists Find Carbon Pools Deeper in the Soil, Can woolly mammoths save the world?
- [March 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/March-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Soaking up the Rain to Recharge Water Cycles, Thinking Beyond Carbon, Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Droughts, Floods and Global Warming with Michal Kravčík
- [April 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/April-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Using Ecological Restoration to Reduce Urban Flooding, Dr. Gina Angiola Helps Lead Maryland Ban on Fracking, Earthworms
- [May 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/May-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Building a Good Food Future with Eco City Farms, Thank You – Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool, Regenerative Projects Mapped Around the World
- [November-December 2020 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/November-December-2020-Newsletter.html) - 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 of Fungi, Compendium Notes: Effectiveness of the Miyawaki method in Mediterranean forest restoration programs, Schirone, Salis & Vessella 2011
- [September-October 2020 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/September-October-2020-.html) - 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 Movement, Compendium Notes: Integration of wildlife and environmental health into a One Health approach, Sleeman et al. 2019
- [July-August 2020 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/July-August-2020-Newsletter.html) - 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 higher for natural regeneration than foractive restoration in tropical forests, Crouzeilles et al. 2017
- [May-June 2020 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/May-June-2020-Newsletter.html) - Blessed Unrest, Hannah Lewis on Miyawaki Forests, William Horvath and the Promise of Permaculture, Compendium Notes: "Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases," Keesing et al. 2010
- [March-April 2020 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/March-April-2020-Newsletter.html) - Blessed Unrest Conference, Destruction of Nature and Covid-19, A Letter from Covid-19 to Humans, Pass the Torch!, Compendium Notes: Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size, Stephenson et al. 2014
- [February 2020 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/February-2020-Newsletter.html) - Pest Control with Wildflowers instead of Chemicals, Forest Foods, George Scarlett and Teaching Kids about Climate Change, Compendium Notes: Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment, Damschen et al. 2019
- [January 2020 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/January-2020-Newsletter.html) - Native Foods and Agroforestry in California, San Antonio’s Green Stormwater Management, Dave Chapman and the Real Organic Project, Compendium Notes: The rhizosphere - roots, soil and everything in between, McNear 2013
- [December 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/Newsletter_12_2019.html) - Permaculture in Communities, The Regenerative Development Manifesto, Bill Reed and the Regenesis Group, Compendium Notes: Community-based watershed stewardship programs, USA
- [June 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/June-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Help the Urban Ecosystem: Start a Native Garden, Carbon Farming Proves Profitable in Bismarck, North Dakota, A Road Map to Scenario 300
- [July 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/July-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Global Warming: Crisis Out Loud, Solutions in a (Powerful) Whisper, Ethiopia’s restored drylands offer new hope, Soil Health is on a Roll!, Announcing our Compendium of Scientific and Practical Findings Supporting EcoRestoration to Address Global Warming
- [August 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/August-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Blessed Unrest, The WILD Foundation, Urban Farming: Somerville Community Growing Center and Yarra-Yarra Biodiversity Corridor, Compendium Announcement
- [September-October 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/September-October-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - Climate Reckoning: Paths to an Earth Restored, Great Work, Australia!, Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Permaculture, Holistic Management, Compendium Announcement, Christine Jones, Healthy Soils Australia
- [November-December 2017 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/November-December-2017-Newsletter.pdf) - David Johnson: Mycelial Man!, SystemIQ, Climate Reckoning Conference Report, Homeschool Symbiosis Team, What’s Funny About Human Systems?, Compendium Announcement
- [January-February 2018 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/January-February-2018-Newsletter.pdf) - Roland Bunch, Quietly Teaching Regenerative Farming to the World, Land Stewardship Project, Book Review: What A Fish Knows, Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change, Eric Sanderson on Manhatta
- [March-April 2018 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/March-April-2018-Newsletter.pdf) - 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
- [May-June 2018 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/May-June-2018-Newsletter-1.pdf) - Bramberger’s Transformative Retirement, Regenerative Stories From Australia, Voices of Nature, Symbiotic Earth, Compendium Notes: Ants and termites increase crop yield in a dry climate, Evans 2011
- [July-August 2018 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/July-August-2018-Newsletter.pdf) - Primal Pastures, Trees for the Future, Determination!, Symbiotic Earth, Citizens Regeneration Lobby, Voices of Nature, Arielle Martinez Cohen, and Compendium Notes: Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon
- [September-October 2018 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/September-October-2018-Newsletter.pdf) - Voices of Nature Conference, Indigenous Wisdom, Pakistan’s 10 Billion Trees, Jed Katch, Doug Zook, Compendium Notes: The Perils of Peer Review
- [November-December 2018 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/November-December-2018-Newsletter-1.pdf) - Highlights from Voices of Nature Conference, Slime Mold, Charles Eisenstein, Kyrgyzstan Changing Climate, Manjulika Das, Healing Earth Book Review, Florence Reed Meetup, Compendium Notes: Biotic Pump of atmospheric moisture as driver of the hydrological cycle on land
- [January - February 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/January-February-2019-Newsletter-1.pdf) - Soul Fire Farm, Role of Wild Grazers, Blessed Unrest in Ethiopia, Christopher Haines, Compendium Notes: Natural Climate Solutions, 2017
- [March 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/March-2019-Newsletter-1.pdf) - Newsletter Youth Climate Strike, coastal wetlands, Maine Dam Removal, Jim Laurie, Victor Wallis Meetup, Compendium Notes: Sponge Cities, China
- [April 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/April-2019-Newsletter-1.pdf) - Tar Sands Songbook, Extinction Rebellion, Agro-ecology in Zimbabwe, Eco-restoration in Spain, Nourishment Book Review, Fred Jennings, Compendium Notes: Hot Days in the City? It’s all about location, NOAA 2018
- [May 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/May-2019-Newsletter-1.pdf) - UN Biodiversity Report, Global Deal for Nature, Conservation Agriculture in the U.K., Christopher Haines, Compendium Notes: Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase
- [June 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/June-2019-Newsletter-1.pdf) - Volunteers, Delaware Coastal Restoration, Support for Local Pollinators in Minnesota, Sue Butler, Compendium Notes: Regreening the Tigray Region, Ethiopia
- [November 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/email-4.html) - Newsletter stories; Fruit Tree Portfolios, Coastal Defense Approach, Felix Finkbeiner, Barn Swallows, Compendium Notes: The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon, Maezumi et al. 2018
- [July 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/July-2019-Newsletter-1.pdf) - Blessed Unrest, Matt Russell and Iowa Farmers, Prairies Restoration Movement, Paula Phipps, Compendium Notes: Trees, forests, and water: cool insights for a hot world
- [August 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/August-2019-Newsletter-1.pdf) - New Compendium issue, Cooling the Climate Mess, Rewilding Highways, Paradise Restoration, John Feldman, ATTRA, Compendium Notes: Community Driven Approach for Artificial Recharge –TBS Experience (Singh 2007)
- [September 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/September-2019-Newsletter.html) - 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
- [October 2019 Newsletter](https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/October-2019-Newsletter.html) - Global Landscapes Forum event, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot, Tony Rinaudo work in Niger, Dr. Susan Chomba; Compendium Notes: Blue carbon stocks of Great Barrier Reef deep-water seagrasses, York et al. 2018

## Featured Creatures

- [Featured Creature: Wolverine](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-wolverine/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Patagonian Mara](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-patagonian-mara/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Mycorrhizal Fungi](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-mycorrhizal-fungi/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Tardigrade](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-tardigrade/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Aphid](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-aphid/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Pika](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-pika/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Zombie Ant Fungus](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-zombie-ant-fungus-2/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Blue Dragon](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-blue-dragon/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Florida manatee](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-florida-manatee/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Hippopotamus](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-hippopotamus/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Leaf Sheep](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-leaf-sheep/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Dumbo Octopus](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-dumbo-octopus/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Elephant Seal](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-elephant-seal/) - What animal’s nose doubles as a megaphone and a built-in water recycler?
- [Featured Creature: Night-flying Moth](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-night-flying-moth/) - What animal evolved ears on its ribcage, can detect sounds far beyond the range of human hearing, and performs dazzling aerial evasive maneuvers in total darkness—all to avoid being eaten mid-flight? 
- [Featured Creature: Palm Tree](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-palm-tree/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Coquerel's sifaka](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-coquerels-sifaka/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Pangolin](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-pangolin/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Immortal Jellyfish](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-immortal-jellyfish/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Bison](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-bison/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Camel](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-camel/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Zombie Ant Fungus](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-zombie-ant-fungus/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Elderberry](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-elderberry/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: European Hamster](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-european-hamster/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Giant Kelp](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-giant-kelp/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Pygmy Owl](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-pygmy-owl/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Black Bear](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-black-bear/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Orchids](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-orchids/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Martial Eagle](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-martial-eagle/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Greenland Shark](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-greenland-shark/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: African Wild Dog](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-african-wild-dog/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Reindeer](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-reindeer/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Mistletoe](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-mistletoe/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Pronghorn](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-pronghorn/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: American Chestnut](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-american-chestnut/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Giant Panda](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-giant-panda/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Thylacine](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-thylacine/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: The Eastern Screech Owl](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-the-eastern-screech-owl/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Grand Cayman Blue Iguana](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-grand-cayman-blue-iguana/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Whale Shark](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-whale-shark/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Wasps](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-wasps/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Slow Loris](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-slow-loris/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Sun Bear](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-sun-bear/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Toxoplasma gondii](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-toxoplasma-gondii/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Siberian Taimen](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-siberian-taimen/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Moon Snail](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-moon-snail/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Mexican Wolf](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-mexican-wolf/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Right Whale](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-right-whale/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Jaguar](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-jaguar/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Fishing Cat](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-fishing-cat/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Humpback Whale](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-humpback-whale/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Cat](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-cat/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Gila Monster](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-gila-monster/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Canada Lynx](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-canada-lynx/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Blue Whale](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-blue-whale/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Burmese Python](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-burmese-python/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Banded Sea Krait](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-banded-sea-krait/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Mouse-ear cress](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-mouse-ear-cress/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: 'Ōhi'a Lehua](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-ohia-lehua/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Tamarack](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-tamarack/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Yangtze River Dolphin](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-yangtze-river-dolphin/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Common Loon](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-common-loon/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Ohio Buckeye Tree](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-ohio-buckeye-tree/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Fire Click Beetle](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-fire-click-beetle/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Great Basin Bristlecone Pine](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-great-basin-bristlecone-pine/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Black Capped Petrel](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-black-capped-petrel/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Markhor](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-markhor/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Fireflies](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-fireflies/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Coast Redwood](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-coast-redwood/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Axolotl](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-axolotl/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Macrotermes Termites](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-macrotermes-termites/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Giraffes](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-giraffes/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: African grey parrot](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-african-grey-parrot/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Stone Pine](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-stone-pine/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Rotifers](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-rotifers/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Sloth](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-sloth/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Japanese Knotweed](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-japanese-knotweed/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Cicada](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-cicada/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Prickly Pear Cactus](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-prickly-pear-cactus/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Penguins](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-penguins/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: European Starling](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-european-starling/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Pacific Salmon](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-pacific-salmon/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Poison Dart Frog](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-poison-dart-frog/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Slime Mold](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-slime-mold/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Dragonfly](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-dragonfly/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Atlas Moth](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-atlas-moth/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Ladybug](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-ladybug/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Giant Barrel Sponge](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-giant-barrel-sponge/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Clamworm](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-clamworm/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Lichen](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-lichen/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Banded Mongoose](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-banded-mongoose/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Turkey Tails](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-turkey-tails/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Asian Giant Hornet](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-asian-giant-hornet/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Beaver](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-beaver/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Luna Moths](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-luna-moths/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Nilgai](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-nilgai/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Black Drongo](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-black-drongo/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Pando](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-pando/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Bamboo](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-bamboo/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Prairie Dog](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-prairie-dog/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Crow](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-crow/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Groundhog](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-groundhog/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Flamingo](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-flamingo/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Atlantic Puffin](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-atlantic-puffin/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Pigeon](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-pigeon/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Northern Red Oak](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-northern-red-oak/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Northern Cardinal](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-northern-cardinal/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Aardvark](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-aardvark/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Cork Oak](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-cork-oak/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Bearded Vulture](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-bearded-vulture/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Chevrotain](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-chevrotain/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Coelacanth](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-coelacanth/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Leafcutter Bee](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-leafcutter-bee/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Eastern Emerald Elysia](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-eastern-emerald-elysia/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Iberian Hare](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-iberian-hare/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Cheatgrass](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-cheatgrass/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Red kite](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-red-kite/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Sphagnum moss](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-sphagnum-moss/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Strangler Fig](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-strangler-fig/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Kingfisher](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-kingfisher/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Lavender](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-lavender/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Staghorn sumac](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-staghorn-sumac/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Yucca](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-yucca/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.
- [Featured Creature: Seahorse](https://bio4climate.org/featured-creature/featured-creature-seahorse/) - Every creature deserves a voice. Join us each week to meet new animals, plants, or fungi and learn how we are all connected.

## Ambassadors

- [Mahfou Aidara](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/mafou-aidara/) - Tree planting project and environmental education. The goal of the two projects is to firstly, to train pupils about the importance of protecting the environment (biodiversity), to inculcate them the eco-citizen behaviors, but to also sensitize the local communities about the reality of climate change. Secondly, to plant more fruit trees, in order to fight
- [Mercy Kwiya](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/mercy-kwiya/) - Restoring land impacted by mining and Lake Victoria impacted by pollution.
- [Evan Yip](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/evan-yip/) - This program includes finding the best fit trees in my area, supporting the idea of natural selection. This allows volunteers to research and learn more about the trees that succeed in their environment the best. Some factors that affect these changes are the weather, soil, biome, animals/organisms, waste and community engagement. Lastly, we would plant
- [Nima Ntemi Mboje](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/nima-ntemi-mboje/) - My project proposal is concerning on planting trees campaign and Enviromental clean up campaign at Bunda district, Mara region in Tanzania. And the project objectives are: To establish tree nurseries to the school Enhance climate resilience to improve drought condition To plant trees To distribute tree to the community for climate restoration To provide Enviromental
- [Carlos Mdemu](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/carlos-mdemu/) - Waste management, plastic pollution, distributing trees for planting.
- [Magaiwa Elijah Bosco](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/magaiwa-elijah-bosco/) - Bosco is currently working on a personal level as an African Climate Action Advocate using social media and article writing calling upon Africa and global leaders to agree and commit to the urgent need to achieve the Paris Agreement on addressing the global greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
- [Kolawale Hammed](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/kolawale-hammed/) - I am involved in a personal eco restoration project where I plant crops and trees in my community. I have plans to propose doing this enmasse. I will detail my plans below - Sensitization of my immediate community on the importance of maintaining the ecosystem balance by several eco restoration practices making reference to the
- [Mathayo Bayaga](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/mathayo-bayaga/) - Education in a school climate hub (SACH) with the goal of highlighting how and why human activities like agriculture, irregular forests harvesting, and others affect climate. The project aims to visit more than 12 schools - 4 primary schools, 4 secondary schools, and 4 advanced secondary schools. I expect to partner with teachers, local governments,
- [Desmaidi Kemprai](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/desmaidi-kemprai/) - The project concerns with setting up of an Agroforestry farm. The goal of the project is to introduce the concept of Regenerative Agriculture to the local farmers. The project will be carried out by Biodiversity Management Committee of which I am a part of. It is an organization under Assam State Biodiversity Board that helps
- [Ivana Golianová](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/ivana-golianova/) - My project involves adding aspects of environmentalism to primary and secondary schools in Slovakia. This will be done through various projects and activities that will vary in complexity depending on the age of students. This project will consist of setting up an outdoor space where classes are allocated a planting spot to grow herbs and
- [Ogechukwu Aina](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/ogechukwu-aina/) - I would like to work on Environmental Advocacy about Waste Management. The goal is to research additional ways and new system for waste management. The project is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
- [Dancan Simba](https://bio4climate.org/ambassador/dancan-simba/) - I co-founded Rural Empowerment on Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development [RESEED]. We are currently planting fruit and indigenous trees to enhance reforestation and climate resilience, encouraging more plants in Kisumu Kenya.

## Newsfeeds

- [Wound-dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant society](https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00805-4)
- [European Parliament Adopts Nature Restoration Law](https://www.etifor.com/en/updates/nature-restoration-law/)
- [Government Scraps Construction Project After Beavers Finish The Job Themselves](https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/government-scraps-construction-project-after-beavers-finish-the-job-themselves)
- [Restoring Nature Is Our Only Climate Solution](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-07-01/restoring-nature-is-our-only-climate-solution/) - Richard Heinberg, Resilience
- [For Hardwick's Ridge Shinn, regenerative grazing is a key to easing environmental woes](https://www.worcestermag.com/story/lifestyle/nature-wildlife/2024/04/08/hero-of-hardwick-embracing-regenerative-grazing/72354031007/)
- [Even cooler insights: On the power of forests to (water the Earth and) cool the planet](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.17195)
- [Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests](https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/amid-record-high-fires-across-the-amazon-brazil-loses-primary-forests/) - deforestation leads to wildfires
- [We must unite our efforts to fight climate change and biodiversity loss](https://www.iucn.org/crossroads-blog/202311/we-must-unite-our-efforts-fight-climate-change-and-biodiversity-loss)
- [Majority of America’s underground water stores are drying up, study finds](https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4426143-majority-of-americas-underground-water-stores-are-drying-up-study-finds/)
- [Conservationists building beaver dams to help restore B.C.'s drying Columbia Wetlands](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/columbia-wetlands-beavers-1.7099586)
- [Mini rainforest aims to serve as reforestation blueprint](https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/mini-rainforest-project-aims-to-serve-as-kalimantan-reforestation-blueprint/)
- [A Century of Reforestation Reduced Warming in the Eastern United States](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003663)
- [Climate change is turning swaths of California's mountains into 'zombie forests'](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-climate-swaths-california-mountains-zombie.html#:~:text=Scientists believe that the conifers,have become "zombie forests.")
- [EU agrees on biodiversity law to restore nature](https://www.dw.com/en/eu-agrees-on-biodiversity-law-to-restore-nature/a-67362692)
- [EU agrees on biodiversity law to restore nature](https://www.dw.com/en/eu-agrees-on-biodiversity-law-to-restore-nature/a-67362692)
- [Pakistan is planting lots of mangrove forests. So why are some upset?](https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1208201179/pakistan-is-planting-lots-of-mangrove-forests-so-why-are-some-upset)
- [How underground fungi shape forests](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-underground-fungi-forests.html)
- [Indonesia Says a Half Million Acres of Palm Plantations will be Turned Back into Forests](https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/indonesia-says-a-half-million-acres-of-palm-plantations-will-be-turned-back-into-forests/)
- [In Montana, Wild Bison Are Back, and an Entire Ecosystem Is Healing](https://earthjustice.org/article/for-tribes-that-have-bison-youve-got-something-back-that-was-taken-from-you)
- [The Reappearing Forests of West Bengal](https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-reappearing-forests-of-west-bengal/)
- [Acorn by acorn, volunteers gather seeds to help save forests](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/12/virginia-acorn-collection-forests/)
- [Can goats and sheep stop wildfires? This shepherdess is rallying the flock](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/11/california-goat-grazing-wildfire-prevention-climate-crisis)
- [Can Seawalls Save Us From Rising Seas and Surging Storms?](https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/can-seawalls-save-us)
- [New study shows ancient Europe was not all forest, half was covered in grassland](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-ancient-europe-forest-grassland.html)
- [Restoration of Redonda Island in the Caribbean](https://www.facebook.com/reel/192413697223652)
- [Study shows surprising results around coastal restoration, mangroves and sediment](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-results-coastal-mangroves-sediment.html)
- [EU criminalises environmental damage ‘comparable to ecocide’](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/eu-criminalises-environmental-damage-comparable-to-ecocide)
- [Above- and belowground fungal biodiversity of Populus trees on a continental scale](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01514-8)
- [Restoring ecosystems to boost biodiversity is an urgent priority – our ‘Eco-index’ can guide the way](https://theconversation.com/restoring-ecosystems-to-boost-biodiversity-is-an-urgent-priority-our-eco-index-can-guide-the-way-217092)
- [New research suggests plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-absorb-co2-human-previously.html)
- [Maps reveal biochar's potential for mitigating climate change](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-reveal-biochar-potential-mitigating-climate.html)
- [Let forests grow old to store huge volume of carbon – study](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/13/conserving-restoring-forests-sequester-carbon-study-trees)
- [Examining the role wolves play in boreal forest dynamics as they constrain beaver movements](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-role-wolves-play-boreal-forest.html)
- [Prioritizing land to avoid species loss could reduce species extinction risk twice as efficiently](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-prioritizing-species-loss-extinction-efficiently.html)
- [California's Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble](https://www.wired.com/story/californias-giant-sequoias-are-in-big-trouble/)
- [It sounds like science fiction. But we can now sample water to find the DNA of every species living there.](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-science-fiction-sample-dna-species.html)
- [Soil study unearths microbe diversity discovery](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-soil-unearths-microbe-diversity-discovery.html)
- [Plants are more productive on weekends thanks to cleaner air](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2403856-plants-are-more-productive-on-weekends-thanks-to-cleaner-air/)
- [Mycorrhizal type regulates trade-offs between plant and soil carbon in forests](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01864-5)
- [Sea level rise found to encourage mangrove expansion on Great Barrier Reef islands](https://phys.org/news/2023-11-sea-mangrove-expansion-great-barrier.html)
- [Community forest governance and synergies among carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01863-6)
- [10 years after Haiyan, are mangroves protecting Philippine coastal areas?](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/22/10-years-after-haiyan-are-mangroves-protecting-philippine-coastal-areas)
- [Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work— changing basic human behaviours must come first](https://theconversation.com/slow-solutions-to-fast-moving-ecological-crises-wont-work-changing-basic-human-behaviours-must-come-first-215055)
- [The Ecological Benefits of Rehoming a National Park’s Booming Bison Population](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/theodore-roosevelt-national-park-to-rehome-300-bison-with-native-american-tribes-180983098/)
- [He [David Suzuki] Warned Canada About Climate Change but Says, ‘We’ve Failed Big Time’](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/world/canada/canada-environmentalism-david-suzuki.html)
- [How a farmer turned his fields into a wildlife sanctuary](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/farm-wetland-bird-animal-sanctuary-oregon)
- [Loss of plant biodiversity can reduce soil carbon sequestration in grasslands, suggests global study](https://phys.org/news/2023-10-loss-biodiversity-soil-carbon-sequestration.html)
- [The Invisible Force Keeping Carbon in the Ground](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/10/tree-survival-fungi-corsica-climate-change/675739/) - Fungi Could Be Helping Old-Growth Trees Survive Climate Change - The Atlantic
- [New study shows surprising effects of fire in North America's boreal forests](https://phys.org/news/2023-10-effects-north-america-boreal-forests.html#google_vignette)
- [Boreal and temperate forests now main global carbon sinks, satellite image analysis finds](https://phys.org/news/2023-10-boreal-temperate-forests-main-global.html)
- [Tiny Biological Particles Are Influencing Cloud Formation Over The Arctic](https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-biological-particles-are-influencing-cloud-formation-over-the-arctic)
- [Study reveals unexpected recovery times when forests are…](https://news.yahoo.com/study-reveals-unexpected-recovery-times-180000877.html)
- [Farmed rhinos will soon 'rewild' the African savanna](https://theconversation.com/farmed-rhinos-will-soon-rewild-the-african-savanna-213932)
- [We could sequester CO2 by 're-greening' arid lands, plant scientists say](https://phys.org/news/2023-09-sequester-co2-re-greening-arid-scientists.html)
- ['Dark earth' made by Amazon farmers stores carbon for centuries](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2393008-dark-earth-made-by-amazon-farmers-stores-carbon-for-centuries/)
- [Study finds human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life](https://phys.org/news/2023-09-human-driven-mass-extinction-entire-tree.html)
- [Six decades of plankton decline sparks call to protect the foundation of the marine food web](https://phys.org/news/2023-09-decades-plankton-decline-foundation-marine.html)
- [Beavers needed for wetland restoration, climate change battle](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-midwest-beaver-summit-20230917-uii6r4gz7jcwlabgsdxlp4cufa-story.html)
- [As climate change warms rivers, they are running out of breath – and so could the plants and animals they harbor](https://theconversation.com/as-climate-change-warms-rivers-they-are-running-out-of-breath-and-so-could-the-plants-and-animals-they-harbor-213297)

## Partners

- [The Future of the Amazon Foundation](https://bio4climate.org/partner/the-future-of-the-amazon-foundation/) - Purchasing resources needed for clearing of alien species and restoration of critically endangered fynbos.
- [Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve](https://bio4climate.org/partner/kogelberg-biosphere-reserve/) - Purchasing resources needed for clearing of alien species and restoration of critically endangered fynbos.
- [Dinkwayane Water Smart Project](https://bio4climate.org/partner/dinkwayane-water-smart-project/) - Purchasing equipment for the water project, training to make the local community self-sustainable, and any tools, seeds, and stock needed.
- [Citizen Science Project at Cape Winelands Biosphere Reserve](https://bio4climate.org/partner/citizen-science-project-at-cape-winelands-biosphere-reserve/) - Training Citizen Scientists to address water pollution, as well as buying equipment needed to ensure the project is successful.
- [Uilenkraal Project (Greenpop)](https://bio4climate.org/partner/uilenkraal-project-greenpop/) - Growing and planting trees for the Uilenkraal Restoration Project.
- [GWANISHI Initiative](https://bio4climate.org/partner/gwanishi-initiative/) - Growing spekboom plants in a nursery for the GWANISHI project as well as soil restoration and soil erosion control initiatives.

## Weekly Updates

- [Weekly Update: 2026-7-4](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-7-4/) - News and Insights Plankton Plays a Bigger Role in Climate Stability Than Initially Thought A new citizen-science survey of the Atlantic Ocean is revealing that the ocean's living surface layer, produced by plankton, plays a decisive role in regulating water vapor, cloud formation, and climate stability. Read more Volunteer Efforts Save Scottish Rainforest What began
- [Weekly Update: 2026-6-27](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-6-27/) - News and Insights African Researchers Mapping Underground Water Supplies as the Climate Crisis Accelerates Africa holds an estimated 0.66 million cubic kilometres of groundwater, roughly 20 times all the freshwater stored in the continent's lakes combined, even as 400 million Africans still lack basic drinking water access. Scientists are working to identify hotspots where about
- [Weekly Update: 2026-6-20](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-6-20/) - News and Insights Who Are the Researchers Mapping Mycorrhizal Fungal Networks? Meet the individuals doing the important work of mapping mycorrhizal fungal networks to identify areas where carbon storage is or isn't happening and the impacts of intense land use on these vital underground networks. Read more The Return of El Niño: A Reminder That
- [Weekly Update: 2026-6-13](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-6-13/) - News and Insights Week 6 of the Less Lawn More Life Challenge is under way! This week, Murray Fisher, Chief naturalist of Wildrplaces encourages us to go outside and pay attention! Research is unambiguous: noticing nature–really noticing it–reduces stress, anxiety, and depression. You don't need a forest or a national park. You need to go
- [Weekly Update: 2026-6-6](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-6-6/) - News and Insights One Person Really Can Make a Difference In 2009, then-Costa Rican university student and surfer Max Tattenbach was seeking shade for his then-girlfriend (now wife) to relax while he surfed, but found none. His promise to reforest that one surf spot turned into a mission to restore forests along the north Pacific
- [Weekly Update: 2026-5-30](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-5-30/) - News and Insights Looking Back to Move Forward: Why History Matters for the Future of Food Researchers are looking to historical agroecology, an interdisciplinary academic framework that studies how human societies have intentionally modified, managed, and adapted local landscapes for food production over centuries, to explore how to transform today’s food systems. By recovering the
- [Weekly Update: 2026-5-23](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-5-23/) - News and Insights The Paradox of a Wetter but Drier World Something strange is unfolding in the global water cycle: many regions are seeing more rainfall overall, yet landscapes are becoming drier. A recent article in USA Today highlighting a major new study in Nature using satellite-derived terrestrial water storage (TWS) data shows that climate
- [Weekly Update: 2026-5-16](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-5-16/) - News and Insights New Mexico Building a Greenhouse Large Enough to Increase Forest Seedling Production New Mexico’s wildfire burn scars need hundreds of millions of replacement trees, but the state produces only around 250,000 seedlings per year — a pace far too slow to keep up. A new multi-university greenhouse facility aims to more than
- [Weekly Update: 2026-5-9](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-5-9/) - News and Insights Meet a Pinecone Cowboy Pinecone cowboys are skilled climbers who harvest cones from threatened western trees to help reforest landscapes damaged by megafires and climate change. Learn how their work supports the genetic future of Western forests and how precarious the future of their field has become. Read more What Does It
- [Weekly Update: 2026-5-2](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-5-2/) - News and Insights Looking to the Past to Protect the Future Indigenous knowledge shaped the world we inherited but for too long, scientists treated it as folklore, rather than empirical science. That perspective is changing as more and more researchers are incorporating the lessons of the past into climate and ecosystem research. Read more Peru
- [Weekly Update: 2026-4-25](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-4-25/) - News and Insights Heavy Deforestation in Africa Triggers Massive Biomass Loss Leicester University researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive biomass losses, far outweighing any gains from regrowth elsewhere. Read more Community / Events What if restoring water where you live could transform your entire landscape? Many of the challenges
- [Weekly Update: 2026-4-18](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-4-18/) - News and Insights 24 Newly Discovered Species Potentially At Risk From Undersea Mining The discovery of 24 new species and an entirely new evolutionary branch deep in the central Pacific highlight the risk of an untold number of species disappearing due to seabed mining. Read more Hawaii Shows Us How Removing Invasive Species Supports Significant
- [Weekly Update: 2026-4-11](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-4-11/) - News and Insights The latest images of Earth from Artemis II reminds us of the wonder of our planet, and how important it is to understand and protect it. NASA isn’t just exploring earth from space. They are supporting learners around the world to research and contribute to environmental science and deepen our understanding of
- [Weekly Update: 2026-4-4](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-4-4/) - News and Insights Is Nature Restoration More Effective When It’s Community-Led? A global study by climate researchers found that the success of restoration efforts hinges on the involvement of local communities. From England to India to Africa and beyond, they determined that restoration can more effectively reverse degradation, address root causes, and benefit local people
- [Weekly Update: 2026-3-28](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-3-28/) - News and Insights How an Indigenous Community Defended its Ancestral forest from Logging The rights and roles of indigenous peoples is critical to good decision making and protecting important ecosystems. “The researchers compared global conservation maps and colonial-era cartography with a detailed map created by the community itself. The result reveals something striking: the forest
- [Weekly Update: 2026-3-21](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-3-21/) - News and Insights 15 Biodiversity Conservation Issues Scientists are Watching in 2026 Each year, a panel of scientists, practitioners, and policymakers from institutions across the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, and South America identifies emerging issues not yet well understood in the conservation community. Led by Cambridge University ecologist William Sutherland and running annually since
- [Weekly Update: 2026-3-14](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-3-14/) - News and Insights Rhode Island 2026 Land & Water Summit Bio4Climate’s Associate Director of Regenerative Projects, Alexandra Ionescu, will be presenting at the 2026 Land & Water Conservation Summit March 21, 2026 at the University of Rhode Island. Her sessions will focus on the role of beavers in creating water-retention landscapes (jointly with Molly Hastings
- [Weekly Update: 2026-3-7](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-3-7/) - News and Insights Sharing Land With Trees: An Essay on Global Climatic Implications of Forest-Human Coexistence We talk a lot about what forests give us. But what if they're actually running the water cycle that makes life on land possible in the first place? Anastassia Makarieva, Andrei Nefiodov, and Ugo Bardi make the case that trees don't just
- [Weekly Update: 2026-2-28](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-2-28/) - News and Insights New Satellite Observations Show How and Where Earth’s Vegetation is Changing Scientists from the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University have created a new method to help us better understand how the living surface of our planet is reorganizing in a
- [Weekly Update: 2026-2-21](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-2-21/) - News and Insights Grassroots Climate Action Returning Habitats and Coastal Defenses to Louisiana Coastlines Significantly Impacted by Extreme Weather For the past four years, volunteers and conservation groups have been working together to restore wetlands that once acted as nature’s buffer against storm surge and erosion by planting 30,000 native trees along the Gulf Coast
- [Weekly Update: 2026-2-14](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-2-14/) - News and Insights Forests in Warm Conditions Capture More Methane as Temperatures Rise While today's carbon markets see forests primarily as a collection of carbon sticks (trees), Bio4Climate knows that forests are climate regulating ecosystems from the fungi to the canopy. New appreciation for the soil biome comes from research which shows that in certain
- [Weekly Update: 2026-2-7](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-2-7/) - News and Insights New Study Links Miyawaki Forests to Early Soil Recovery Since 2021, Bio4Climate has supported eight miniforests across Massachusetts, where restoring degraded soil is a central goal alongside planting diverse native species. We’re excited to see new research—The Root of Urban Renewal: Linking Miyawaki Afforestation to Soil Recovery—examining early soil health changes in
- [Weekly Update: 2026-1-31](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-1-31/) - News and Insights Proposed Clean Water Act Revision Would Narrow Tribes’ Authority Over Water Quality Bio4Climate values indigenous knowledge and supports Indigenous decision making. We encourage encourage you to submit public comments against the proposed rule change by February 17. Despite widespread opposition among tribes to these changes, the EPA has moved forward with a
- [Weekly Update: 2026-1-24](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-1-24/) - News and Insights Restoration Led by Locals Deemed Most Successful “Degraded lands and seas are nearly always occupied, most often by farming communities,” which is why it’s of the utmost importance to include locals in the restoration process. Restoration led by non-locals often “fail to achieve lasting results because of the mismatch with the lives
- [Weekly Update: 2026-1-17](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-1-17/) - News and Insights Miniforests Are Popping Up in Big Cities As leaders in the East Coast Miyawaki forest revolution, we are excited to see coverage of this miniforest outside Los Angeles go mainstream on NPR. Learn how scientist use spider webs to track biodiversity and how park visitors become part of the citizen science team
- [Weekly Update: 2026-1-10](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-1-10/) - News and Insights Stingless Bees From the Amazon Become First Insects with Legal Rights Bees native to the Amazon are now internationally recognized as an endangered species, a first for insects of any kind. Stingless bees are the oldest bee species in the world, and they are key pollinators in the Amazon, responsible for the
- [Weekly Update: 2026-1-3](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2026-1-3/) - News and Insights The presenters shared early findings from the first summers of data collection, including research on how miniforests might cool their surroundings by comparing different surface covers and tracking temperature changes throughout the day; studies designed to measure insect diversity and herbivory in Miyawaki forests compared to other urban spaces; observations of plant
- [Weekly Update: 2025-12-27](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-12-27/) - News and Insights Birds Exhibited Changes In Beaks Due To COVID-19 A new study from the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) details the changes in birds living in urban areas, such as college campuses, during the COVID-19 pandemic. As food scraps and other sources of food became scarce due to the lockdowns, urban birds’ beaks
- [Weekly Update: 2025-12-20](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-12-20/) - News and Insights How Exposing Children to the Outdoors Could Improve Health Outcomes It’s no secret that biodiversity has positive effects on all aspects of life, and Finland is leading the charge on increasing children’s exposure to the outdoors. Outdoor playtime is a daily occurrence, and sections of the forest floor are dedicated to growing
- [Weekly Update: 2025-11-15](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-11-15/) - News and Insights COP30 Creates Finance Program for Forest Preservation At the COP30 Leader’s Summit, in Belém, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) was officially launched with leaders of more than thirty countries to create a global financial incentive to protect standing tropical forests, rather than destroying them.We were encouraged by these remarks from Brazil’s
- [Weekly Update: 2025-12-13](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-12-13/) - News and Insights Australia Recognized by United Nations for Reef Restoration Along Australia’s southern coast, shellfish reefs were nearly extinct by the time efforts to restore them were underway. The plan to rebuild the lost reefs has now been recognized by the United Nations as one of three World Restoration Flagships. Through these flagship projects,
- [Weekly Update: 2025-12-6](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-12-6/) - News and Insights The Power of Restoring Ponds to Boost Britain’s Climate Resilience When we think of bodies of water, ponds are not often thought of as the most “important.” Though small and oft-overlooked, ponds are crucial to storing water and supporting biodiversity. Ponds act as buffers during floods and periods of drought in ways
- [Weekly Update: 2025-11-29](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-11-29/) - News and Insights Seabirds Determined as Essential to Healthy Ecosystems The life of a seabird includes two major phases: their life at sea, and the times when they return to land to breed. Through these cycles, seabirds bring ocean-derived nutrients to their colonies on land, initiating a transfer of nutrients that land ecosystems would otherwise
- [Weekly Update: 2025-11-22](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-11-22/) - News and Insights Bringing Awareness to the World’s Most Forgotten Rainforest Can you name the three largest rainforests in the world? The average person may only be able to name the largest: The Amazon. The Congo and Mekong basins garner much less global attention than the Amazon, but they are just as important and worthy
- [Weekly Update: 2025-11-08](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-11-08/) - News and Insights Nature's Memory: How Soil Microbes Help Shape the Climate A new study from the University of Kansas published in Nature Microbiology reveals that soil microbes can “remember” drought and that this memory helps plants survive. These tiny organisms, which have evolved alongside native plants for thousands of years, store information from past
- [Weekly Update: 2025-11-01](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-11-01-2/) - News and Insights Biodiversity is Crucial to Human Health Scientists are now acknowledging the direct connection between the loss of biodiversity and impacts on human health. Despite this growing recognition, the loss of biodiversity is not getting the same attention that climate change is among health care professionals. This might be due to the dramatic effects
- [Weekly Update: 2025-10-25](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-10-18-2/) - News and Insights Organic vs Chemical Land ManagementBeyond Pesticides Differentiating two approaches, this cost comparison by our friends at Beyond Pesticides breaks down the hidden ecological and social costs of poor or unsafe land management strategies. This guide was shared as an essential resource by Sara Grantham and Rika Gopinath during Bio4Climate's Wildlife and Climate course this
- [Weekly Update: 2025-10-18](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-10-18/) - Events and Community Online | The Goldilocks Strategy: Getting Our Relationship with Bears and Lions Just Right Bio4Climate's GBH conversation series returns! Join South African novelist and photographer Tony Eprile from his home in Vermont in conversation with CLAWS Botswana director, Dr. Andrew Stein, and biologist/tracker, Meghan Walla-Murphy, as they share their adventures and insights from working with animals
- [Weekly Update: 2025-08-23](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-08-23/) - Courses Join us this fall for two new courses to explore how rewilding our thinking, about rivers, wildlife, and entire ecosystems, can reshape our climate future. Is a River Alive? Can rivers, forests, and other ecosystems be recognized as living beings with rights? Jim Laurie leads a new 10-week journey guided by the questions and travels
- [Weekly Update: 2025-10-11](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-10-11/) - A Miniforest Grows in Belmont Belmont, Mass. | Belmont High School Miniforest Words and images by Alexandra Ionescu,Director of Regenerative Projects On October 4th, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate and the Miyawaki Forest Action Belmont (MFAB) community came together to plant a 3,000 sq ft Miyawaki forest — 1,140 native trees and shrubs across 32 species at the Belmont
- [Weekly Update: 2025-10-04](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-10-04/) - News and Insights ‘Microforest’ takes root in Providence, reflecting worldwide trendEdward Fitzpatrick, Boston Globe Bio4Climate Director of Regenerative Projects Alexandra Ionescu recently spoke with the Boston Globe about the growing interest in the miniforest movement in the Northeast and beyond, featuring our friends at the Pearl Street Garden Collective and Groundwork Rhode Island. "In 2021, Biodiversity
- [Weekly Update: 2025-09-27](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-09-27/) - News and Insights How To Be A Better ParasiteSophie PavelleOnly foolish parasites kill their host; smart ones hold them close. What if humans could learn from that? What if we mirrored the restraint, reciprocity, and sustainability of Earth’s most successful exploiters? Could this new sort of parasitic relationship offer our host planet the chance to
- [Weekly Update: 2025-09-20](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-09-20/) - Events and Community Celebrating Allan Savory This week we joined many around the world to celebrate the 90th birthday of regenerative farmer and champion of all things alive, Allan Savory. Bio4Climate's Jim Laurie first met Allan Savory in Houston in the 1990s, learning holistic management alongside Texas ranchers and driving hundreds of miles for workshops.
- [Weekly Update: 2025-09-13](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-09-13/) - News and Insights Shaping a Vocabulary for Ecological Design - Stir World If the point of science might be to understand and inform how we live and coexist, then design shapes the very choices we make in response. More than Human is an exhibition at the Design Museum in London that reimagines how we might
- [Weekly Update: 2025-09-06](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-09-06/) - News and Insights Rethinking Biodiversity Loss:Why Climate Change Isn’t the Whole StoryDr. Poulomi Chakravarty with Hart HaganConserving biodiversity is not only about saving species for their own sake, it is also a powerful climate strategy. Ecosystems like forests, savannahs, and wetlands actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, regulate water cycles, and buffer against climate extremes (Caro et
- [Weekly Update: 2025-08-30](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-08-30/) - News and Insights The blind conservationist fighting to save nature’s soundscapesCNN Juan Pablo Culasso is capturing the voices of Cundinamarca's diverse landscapes and ecosystems in Colombia, preserving them before they fade, and opening new ways for people to connect with nature. "Soundscapes are used in science to tell you how healthy is an ecosystem. The
- [Weekly Update: 2025-08-16](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-08-16/) - Courses Are Causes of Sharp Wildlife Decline Also Driving Climate Instability? Wildlife & Climate, the new course from Bio4Climate taught by Hart Hagan and an exciting roster of guest experts, explores the actual connections between wildlife and climate change and gives us a real and viable framework for living with nature, restoring habitat and addressing climate change
- [Weekly Update: 2025-08-09](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-08-09/) - Courses Is wildlife simply at the mercy of climate chaos, or could its survival hold the key to restoring balance?Wildlife & Climate, the new course from Bio4Climate taught by Hart Hagan, explores the actual connections between wildlife and climate change and gives us a real and viable framework for living with nature, restoring habitat and addressing climate
- [Weekly Update: 2025-08-02](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-08-02/) - News and Insights Coaxing Water to Stay on the Land Across N.C. PeatlandsNew York Times“In its natural state, the soggy, spongy soil known as peat stores exceptional amounts of planet-warming carbon. Peatlands cover only about 3 percent of land on Earth, but they sock away twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests put
- [Weekly Update: 2025-07-26](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-07-26/) - Events and Community That's a wrap on the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit!Across a two-day virtual program and in-person bus tour, the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit drew more 600 registrations from around the region and beyond. Together, we explored the web of relationships that make miniforests, and the communities that care for them, thrive. We’re walking
- [Weekly Update: 2025-07-19](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-07-19/) - Courses What if your lawn could fight drought, sequester carbon, and grow food?In the first Water & Climate class last week, Brock Dolman shares how transforming suburban lawns into ecological powerhouses is easier (and more impactful) than you might think! News and Insights Glaciers are dying, and so few of us have even ever met them. These powerful
- [Weekly Update: 2025-07-12](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-07-12/) - News and Insights Floods are getting more dangerous around the country.When storms hit, it’s easy to keep our focus on the weather and the rain. And we've certainly seen evidence that climate change is fueling wetter wets. But often, the other half of the story is what the land can no longer do...and all that water has
- [Weekly Update: 2025-07-05](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-07-05/) - Courses Learn from the very best. Water is one of nature’s most powerful, yet most overlooked, climate regulators, acting as a built-in cooling system. Join us and a roster of the leading experts and thinkers in an exploration of how water, not just carbon, holds the key to a livable future.REGISTER FOR WATER & CLIMATE News and Insights Is
- [Weekly Update: 2025-06-28](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-06-28/) - Events and Community Mass. | Join us for a miniforest bus tour!Registration for the 2025 Massachusetts Miniforest Bus Tour is now open! Part of the Northeast Miniforest Summit, this bus tour to four different Massachusetts miniforests on Saturday, July 19, provides a reference point for how the Miyawaki method can be used in urban settings, in rural environments, and in collaboration with
- [Weekly Update: 2025-06-21](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-06-21/) - Courses Much of the US is (or is about to be) buried under record-shattering heat to start the summer. Water is one of nature’s most powerful, yet most overlooked, climate regulators, acting as a built-in cooling system. Join us and an impressive roster of experts and thinkers in an exploration of how water, not just carbon, holds the
- [Weekly Update: 2025-06-14](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-06-14/) - Courses What are climate models missing about water?The planet has a built-in cooling system—through the cycling of water—and it’s one of nature’s most powerful, yet most overlooked, climate regulators.Join us and an impressive roster of experts and thinkers in an exploration of how water, not just carbon, holds the key to a livable future. News and
- [Weekly Update: 2025-06-07](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-06-07/) - Courses Join Walter Jehne in the classroom!Soil Microbiologist and Innovation Strategist, and Co-Founder of Regenerate Earth Walter Jehne joins what might be Bio4Climate's most stacked classroom ever. Instructor Hart Hagan leads a four-week study of water & climate, and how forests, grasslands, and wetlands act as Earth’s air conditioners, and how we can restore these powerful systems
- [Weekly Update: 2025-05-31](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-05-31/) - Courses More expert instructors added!Katie Ross was raised in central Wisconsin and graduated with a degree in Ecology from Columbia University. She has focused on climate change by supporting Tribes and rural communities in their transition away from fossil fuels, both in Wisconsin and later in Australia. After 15 years as a transdisciplinary action researcher at
- [Weekly Update: 2025-05-24](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-05-24/) - Courses Meet your instructors! Visionary experts Brock Dolman and Anastassia Makarieva will each join our upcoming Water & Climate course to teach a class as guest experts. Instead of “Planet Earth,” biologist, educator, and policy changemaker Brock Dolman calls our home “Planet Water" to help reframe thinking about more progressive settlement systems, land use and water management practices at the watershed
- [Weekly Update: 2025-05-17](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-05-17/) - Courses Register early to start learning now. Early bird registration for Bio4Climate's newest course gives you immediate access to our private Water Cools group, where the instructor is already sharing valuable resources and sparking conversation ahead of the course.Water & Climate is a new 4-week course from Bio4Climate that will change the way you think about climate
- [Weekly Update: 2025-05-10](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-05-10/) - Courses The climate is overheating, but nature has a built-in cooling system.Water & Climate is a new 4-week course from Bio4Climate that will change the way you think about climate solutions. You’ll learn how water, not just carbon, regulates Earth’s temperature, and how forests, grasslands, wetlands, and animals work together to keep the planet cool.More
- [Weekly Update: 2025-05-03](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-05-03/) - News and Insights A recent Washington Post article by Sarah Kaplan highlights a record-breaking spike in atmospheric CO₂ in 2024, an increase far beyond what fossil fuel emissions alone can explain. Scientists are beginning to recognize that stressed ecosystems, particularly forests, are no longer able to absorb carbon the way they once did. Drought, wildfire, and extreme heat
- [Weekly Update: 2025-04-26](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-04-26/) - News and Insights In a world where carbon is often cast as the villain, Judy Schwartz sits down with Paul Hawken for an interview that invites us to see it instead as the lifeblood of all living systems.Judith Schwartz: How might humanity’s relationship with the broader living world change if we asked questions like “what does carbon want?” or “what would carbon do?”Paul
- [Weekly Update: 2025-04-19](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-04-19/) - News and Insights They call him "Yoda for scientists." But to Bio4Climate’s Jim Laurie, John Todd has always been a wonderful mentor, and a friend.They first met at the New Alchemy Institute in 1988, when John was building systems of bacteria, microbes, plants, fungi, and animals—self-organizing communities capable of breaking down toxic wastes from agricultural and septage
- [Weekly Update: 2025-04-12](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-04-12/) - News and Insights Over the last two decades, satellites have revealed something that we've been ringing the alarm bell on for some time: the planet’s land is drying out—and fast. Soil moisture levels are dropping across large parts of the Earth. And not just in historically dry regions, but in places once thought to be stable too. The culprit
- [Weekly Update: 2025-04-05](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-04-05/) - News and Insights What happens when you bury a highway? Madrid Río is a transformative ecorestoration project that revitalized the Manzanares River corridor in Madrid, Spain, by rerouting a section of the M-30 highway underground and rewilding the river it once traversed, becoming a benchmark for urban ecological recovery. And in a city particularly susceptible to temperature extremes
- [Weekly Update: 2025-03-29](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-03-29/) - Did you see that the United States just shut down a national tree-planting initiative that helped communities mitigate increasing heat, flooding, and climate collapse across the country?With heat intensifying each summer, and government support drying up, our work together just became even more urgent. Areas without trees will be sweltering as concrete and asphalt soak up the sun and
- [Weekly Update: 2025-03-22](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-03-22/) - International Forest Day, International Water Day, International Rewilding Day. It's been a week of days. A little overlooked perhaps in the shadow of these larger, more thematic days? World Frog Day, celebrating "natures tiny guardians.""They outlived dinosaurs, weathered ice ages, and adapted to shifting climates. Yet today, despite their incredible resilience, frogs stand on the brink of
- [Weekly Update: 2025-03-15](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-03-15/) - Wherever you are in the world, we hope spring is starting to find you (or autumn, for our southern hemisphere friends). And we think the change in season is a good time to take stock in nature's ability to heal not just planet, but ourselves as well. Kiley Price for Inside Climate News writes, "Exposure to green spaces can
- [Weekly Update: 2025-03-08](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-03-08/) - You've probably heard about keystone species. But what about a keystone molecule? Molly Herring writes in Quanta Magazine about the profound impact rare compounds, termed "keystone molecules," can have on ecological interactions. "The biological world is awash in chemical signals...If the message is powerful enough, the impact can ripple out across an ecosystem."“'One small, simple molecule can be tying together
- [Weekly Update: 2025-03-01](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-03-01/) - Reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands could restore ecosystems and help fight climate change. A research team from the University of Leeds explains their findings in depth, but the gist is that the wolves would naturally control booming red deer populations, allowing native forests to regrow and sequester around one million metric tons of CO₂ annually. Breaking News from
- [Weekly Update: 2025-02-22](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-02-22/) - Robin Wall Kimmerer recently sat down with Yale Environment 360 to discuss her new book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World."The language of natural resources suggests that we own them, that we deserve them, whereas I want to remember that it’s a gift. We haven’t earned berries. We have not earned oxygen to breathe. We
- [Weekly Update: 2025-02-15](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-02-15/) - On Valentine's Day exactly 10 years ago, Bio4Climate Restoration Biologist & Futurist Jim Laurie uploaded this photo from his camera to his computer for a closer look. Earlier he'd watched a critter leave a neighborly message, a trail of "hearts," in the sidewalk snow.What creature do you think left them? Send us your guesses!And in
- [Weekly Update: 2025-02-08](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-02-08/) - In 2023, record-breaking warming was linked to a global decline in Earth's ability to reflect sunlight, caused by reduced low-level cloud cover (Goessling et al.). The exact cause of the reduced cover remains unclear, but a team of analysts led by Anastassia Makarieva suggests that disruptions in global biospheric functioning could be a contributing factor, noting the significant drop in
- [Weekly Update: 2025-02-01](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-02-01/) - The new Transformative Change Report makes clear that "Fundamental shifts in how people view and interact with the natural world can help accelerate the system-wide changes needed for a more sustainable world." Truth is, there's a lot we can do to kickstart that change. Educate your Neighbors. Host a talk at the library or local coffee shop on the vital
- [Weekly Update: 2025-01-24](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-01-24/) - No single industry impacts our world more than farming. Our industrial farms could be carbon sinks. Instead, most emit significant amounts of carbon. They could double as water-rich oases of biodiversity, preventing both flooding and drought. Instead, many contribute to both. Join us for Food & Farming: How Farming Impacts Our Water, Wildlife, Climate, Health & Economy,
- [Weekly Update: 2025-01-18](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-01-18/) - What if you could help change farming practices, transforming them into systems that build healthier soils that capture carbon, grow nutrient-rich food, and strengthen our communities’ resilience to climate change? As a citizen, shopper, or gardener, you have the power to make an impact. Join us for Food & Farming: How Farming Impacts Our Water, Wildlife, Climate,
- [Weekly Update: 2025-01-11](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-11-01/) - There's a lot to unpack behind the fires raging through Los Angeles County. But right now, efforts to contain the blaze continue as people evacuate, animals seek refuge, and firefighters work around the clock. Our friends at Earthrise Studio said it right; "When crisis hits, community answers." If you're looking for ways to support the Los Angeles community right
- [Weekly Update: 2025-01-04](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2025-01-04/) - If you've got "take down the Christmas tree" on your to-do list this weekend, consider giving it a chance to support life beyond the season. From creating habitats for freshwater fish to enriching soil in gardens, your tree can be repurposed in ways that nurture ecosystems in your community. Be on the lookout for local lake habitat drives and mulch
- [Weekly Update: 2024-12-21](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2024-12-21/) - Look, we've all been there. When your work and passions are rooted in care for the earth, it's hard not to feel deflated sometimes. But as the year comes to a close, it's important to take stock in the progress made around the world. This weekend, we're reading Wild Hope's 10 Conservation Stories that Gave Us Hope in
- [Weekly Update: 2024-12-14](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2024-12-14/) - If you haven't noticed, we talk a lot about the water cycle here. And for good reason–from the soil to tree-top canopies, healthy ecosystems are fuel for the local and global water cycles that keep things cool. But it's not just about rain and evaporation. A research team led by the Alfred Wegener Center found that much of 2023's
- [Weekly Update: 2024-12-07](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2024-12-07/) - New! Story and science convene in this recent conversation between adventurer and photographer Jon Waterman, and climate scientist Flavio Lehner. Buckle up for a journey into the Arctic and its threatened future, led by the experiences and research of those studying it. The full episode is available now, produced in collaboration with the GBH Forum Network. We champion
- [Weekly Update: 2024-11-30](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2024-11-30/) - There's still time to enroll in Bio4Climate's new course, Trees & Forests: wildlife, wildfires, water & climate change. This 8-week course, taught by Hart Hagan, begins December 5 and dives deep into the power of forests to absorb and hold billions of metric tonnes of CO2, and nurture water cycles. "The greatest risk we face is the temptation to
- [Weekly Update: 2024-11-23](https://bio4climate.org/weekly-update/weekly-update-2024-11-23/) - It can be difficult describe and convey our fascination for this ecosystem, that is in a way hostile but also very fragile," says Polar Bears International climate scientist Flavio Lehner. Join us this Monday, Nov. 25, for a conversation on the science and the stories reshaping the Arctic with Lehner and Patagonia author and explorer Jon Waterman. Our world

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- [water](https://bio4climate.org/tag/water/)
- [beaver](https://bio4climate.org/tag/beaver/)
- [solution](https://bio4climate.org/tag/solution/)
- [grazing](https://bio4climate.org/tag/grazing/)
- [cities](https://bio4climate.org/tag/cities/)
- [neighborhood](https://bio4climate.org/tag/neighborhood/)
- [ocean](https://bio4climate.org/tag/ocean/)
- [rainwater](https://bio4climate.org/tag/rainwater/)
- [forest](https://bio4climate.org/tag/forest/)
- [climate change](https://bio4climate.org/tag/climate-change/)
- [environment](https://bio4climate.org/tag/environment/)
- [tree](https://bio4climate.org/tag/tree/)
- [holistic](https://bio4climate.org/tag/holistic/)
- [garden](https://bio4climate.org/tag/garden/)
- [carbon](https://bio4climate.org/tag/carbon/)
- [justice](https://bio4climate.org/tag/justice/)
- [organic](https://bio4climate.org/tag/organic/)
- [regenerative](https://bio4climate.org/tag/regenerative/)
- [agriculture](https://bio4climate.org/tag/agriculture/)
- [climate](https://bio4climate.org/tag/climate/)
- [insect](https://bio4climate.org/tag/insect/)
- [urban](https://bio4climate.org/tag/urban/)
- [suburban](https://bio4climate.org/tag/suburban/)
- [worm](https://bio4climate.org/tag/worm/)
- [desert](https://bio4climate.org/tag/desert/)
- [permaculture](https://bio4climate.org/tag/permaculture/)
- [meadow](https://bio4climate.org/tag/meadow/)
- [animals](https://bio4climate.org/tag/animals/)
- [agroforestry](https://bio4climate.org/tag/agroforestry/)
- [fungi](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fungi/)
- [biology](https://bio4climate.org/tag/biology/)
- [science](https://bio4climate.org/tag/science/)
- [deforestation](https://bio4climate.org/tag/deforestation/)
- [grassland](https://bio4climate.org/tag/grassland/)
- [rural](https://bio4climate.org/tag/rural/)
- [dung](https://bio4climate.org/tag/dung/)
- [spirit](https://bio4climate.org/tag/spirit/)
- [youth](https://bio4climate.org/tag/youth/)
- [Climate Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/tag/climate-restoration/)
- [New Water Paradigm](https://bio4climate.org/tag/new-water-paradigm/)
- [water cycles](https://bio4climate.org/tag/water-cycles/)
- [Beaver dams](https://bio4climate.org/tag/beaver-dams/)
- [Beaver Deceiver](https://bio4climate.org/tag/beaver-deceiver/)
- [Beaver problems](https://bio4climate.org/tag/beaver-problems/)
- [Beavers](https://bio4climate.org/tag/beavers/)
- [flooding](https://bio4climate.org/tag/flooding/)
- [flow devices](https://bio4climate.org/tag/flow-devices/)
- [wetlands](https://bio4climate.org/tag/wetlands/)
- [ecosystem](https://bio4climate.org/tag/ecosystem/)
- [Beaver deceivers](https://bio4climate.org/tag/beaver-deceivers/)
- [Rotch Town Forest](https://bio4climate.org/tag/rotch-town-forest/)
- [Water Management](https://bio4climate.org/tag/water-management/)
- [atmoshpere](https://bio4climate.org/tag/atmoshpere/)
- [Water cycle](https://bio4climate.org/tag/water-cycle/)
- [soil sponge](https://bio4climate.org/tag/soil-sponge/)
- [harvesting rainwater](https://bio4climate.org/tag/harvesting-rainwater/)
- [carbon sequestration](https://bio4climate.org/tag/carbon-sequestration/)
- [communities](https://bio4climate.org/tag/communities/)
- [infiltration](https://bio4climate.org/tag/infiltration/)
- [runoff](https://bio4climate.org/tag/runoff/)
- [stormwater](https://bio4climate.org/tag/stormwater/)
- [blessed unrest 2020](https://bio4climate.org/tag/blessed-unrest/)
- [voices of nature 2018](https://bio4climate.org/tag/voices-of-nature/)
- [climate reckoning 2017](https://bio4climate.org/tag/climate-reckoning/)
- [restoring water cycles 2015](https://bio4climate.org/tag/restoring-water-cycles/)
- [activism](https://bio4climate.org/tag/activism/)
- [climate activism](https://bio4climate.org/tag/climate-activism/)
- [Decade for Ecosystem Restoration](https://bio4climate.org/tag/decade-for-ecosystem-restoration/)
- [Earth Day](https://bio4climate.org/tag/earth-day/)
- [ecosystem restoration](https://bio4climate.org/tag/ecosystem-restoration/)
- [environmental advocacy](https://bio4climate.org/tag/environmental-advocacy/)
- [Interdependence](https://bio4climate.org/tag/interdependence/)
- [Planet Partners](https://bio4climate.org/tag/planet-partners/)
- [import 2021-05-28](https://bio4climate.org/tag/import-2021-05-28/)
- [restoring oceans 2016](https://bio4climate.org/tag/restoring-oceans/)
- [power of biodiversity 2016](https://bio4climate.org/tag/power-of-biodiversity/)
- [scenario 300 2017](https://bio4climate.org/tag/scenario-300/)
- [landscape heroes 2017](https://bio4climate.org/tag/landscape-heroes/)
- [John - need to fix signup form](https://bio4climate.org/tag/john-need-to-fix-signup-form/)
- [combine with other DC pages?](https://bio4climate.org/tag/combine-with-other-dc-pages/)
- [our standard donate page up to 2021 06](https://bio4climate.org/tag/our-standard-donate-page-up-to-2021-06/)
- [fix font sizes](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fix-font-sizes/)
- [fix fonts](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fix-fonts/)
- [fix colors](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fix-colors/)
- [fonts](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fonts/)
- [fix text colors](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fix-text-colors/)
- [some speaker photos are missing](https://bio4climate.org/tag/some-speaker-photos-are-missing/)
- [fix font size to 1 em](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fix-font-size-to-1-em/)
- [standard monthly giving form](https://bio4climate.org/tag/standard-monthly-giving-form/)
- [import 2021-05-28; hide this page when https://bio4climate.org/conferences/natures-solutions-as-national-policy/ becomes available on dev](https://bio4climate.org/tag/import-2021-05-28-hide-this-page-when-https-bio4climate-org-conferences-natures-solutions-as-national-policy-becomes-available-on-dev/)
- [an old Civi page](https://bio4climate.org/tag/an-old-civi-page/)
- [import 2021-05-28; would make good template for other email registration forms](https://bio4climate.org/tag/import-2021-05-28-would-make-good-template-for-other-email-registration-forms/)
- [import 2021-05-28; would make good template for other free email registration forms](https://bio4climate.org/tag/import-2021-05-28-would-make-good-template-for-other-free-email-registration-forms/)
- [import 2021-05-28; not sure that we need this - Adam](https://bio4climate.org/tag/import-2021-05-28-not-sure-that-we-need-this-adam/)
- [good explanation of the why's of our ticket prices](https://bio4climate.org/tag/good-explanation-of-the-whys-of-our-ticket-prices/)
- [some missing images](https://bio4climate.org/tag/some-missing-images/)
- [as of 6/4/2021 we hardly get any paypal donations](https://bio4climate.org/tag/as-of-6-4-2021-we-hardly-get-any-paypal-donations/)
- [we've shifted almost everything to Stripe](https://bio4climate.org/tag/weve-shifted-almost-everything-to-stripe/)
- [planet partners matching grant appeal](https://bio4climate.org/tag/planet-partners-matching-grant-appeal/)
- [could use a couple of book cover images to liven up the page a bit](https://bio4climate.org/tag/could-use-a-couple-of-book-cover-images-to-liven-up-the-page-a-bit/)
- [none of the Urban/Suburban Farming conference links go to where they're supposed to - all circle back to conference home page for some reason](https://bio4climate.org/tag/none-of-the-urban-suburban-farming-conference-links-go-to-where-theyre-supposed-to-all-circle-back-to-conference-home-page-for-some-reason/)
- [another page from urban/suburban farming where links need fixing](https://bio4climate.org/tag/another-page-from-urban-suburban-farming-where-links-need-fixing/)
- [fix fonts and colors](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fix-fonts-and-colors/)
- [update to reflect new menu; add a couple of images](https://bio4climate.org/tag/update-to-reflect-new-menu-add-a-couple-of-images/)
- [if this is a duplicate delete it](https://bio4climate.org/tag/if-this-is-a-duplicate-delete-it/)
- [needs lots of review and curating and new material](https://bio4climate.org/tag/needs-lots-of-review-and-curating-and-new-material/)
- [I don't think we've ever used this - delete?](https://bio4climate.org/tag/i-dont-think-weve-ever-used-this-delete/)
- [Chico](https://bio4climate.org/tag/chico/)
- [is this meant as a blog post?](https://bio4climate.org/tag/is-this-meant-as-a-blog-post/)
- [page needs to be imported from old site](https://bio4climate.org/tag/page-needs-to-be-imported-from-old-site/)
- [is this being used?](https://bio4climate.org/tag/is-this-being-used/)
- [incorporate into Resources page(s) planning](https://bio4climate.org/tag/incorporate-into-resources-pages-planning/)
- [page needs updating - see Bugherd #415](https://bio4climate.org/tag/page-needs-updating-see-bugherd-415/)
- [combines mission and background from old home page](https://bio4climate.org/tag/combines-mission-and-background-from-old-home-page/)
- [revitalizing ecosystems 2018](https://bio4climate.org/tag/revitalizing-ecosystems/)
- [restoring ecosystems 2014](https://bio4climate.org/tag/restoring-ecosystems-2014/)
- [carbon farming bristol 2015](https://bio4climate.org/tag/bristol-2015/)
- [carbon farming cambridge 2015](https://bio4climate.org/tag/cambridge-2015/)
- [restoring ecosystems 2015](https://bio4climate.org/tag/restoring-ecosystems-2015/)
- [import 2021-05-28; with Chico](https://bio4climate.org/tag/import-2021-05-28-with-chico/)
- [import 2021-05-28; this seems to be a duplicate](https://bio4climate.org/tag/import-2021-05-28-this-seems-to-be-a-duplicate/)
- [import 2021-06-18](https://bio4climate.org/tag/import-2021-06-18/)
- [butterfly](https://bio4climate.org/tag/butterfly/)
- [monarch](https://bio4climate.org/tag/monarch/)
- [wildlife](https://bio4climate.org/tag/wildlife/)
- [nature](https://bio4climate.org/tag/nature/)
- [people of color](https://bio4climate.org/tag/people-of-color/)
- [indigenous](https://bio4climate.org/tag/indigenous/)
- [policy](https://bio4climate.org/tag/policy/)
- [Regeneration](https://bio4climate.org/tag/regeneration/)
- [biodiversity](https://bio4climate.org/tag/biodiversity/)
- [ERAdiversity](https://bio4climate.org/tag/eradiversity/)
- [ERAsoils](https://bio4climate.org/tag/erasoils/)
- [ERAwatercycles](https://bio4climate.org/tag/erawatercycles/)
- [ERAearth](https://bio4climate.org/tag/eraearth/)
- [ERAcontinent](https://bio4climate.org/tag/eracontinent/)
- [ERAwaterways](https://bio4climate.org/tag/erawaterways/)
- [ERArehydrate](https://bio4climate.org/tag/erarehydrate/)
- [ERAanimals](https://bio4climate.org/tag/eraanimals/)
- [ERAbareground](https://bio4climate.org/tag/erabareground/)
- [ERAcommunities](https://bio4climate.org/tag/eracommunities/)
- [ERAcommunity](https://bio4climate.org/tag/eracommunity/)
- [ERAdepave](https://bio4climate.org/tag/eradepave/)
- [miyawaki](https://bio4climate.org/tag/miyawaki/)
- [youth ecorestorers for climate](https://bio4climate.org/tag/youth-ecorestorers-for-climate/)
- [ERA](https://bio4climate.org/tag/era/)
- [youth leadership](https://bio4climate.org/tag/youth-leadership/)
- [Big Map](https://bio4climate.org/tag/big-map/)
- [Ecorestoration Alliance](https://bio4climate.org/tag/ecorestoration-alliance/)
- [Featured Creature](https://bio4climate.org/tag/featured-creature/)
- [ROC](https://bio4climate.org/tag/roc/)
- [Biodiversity 8](https://bio4climate.org/tag/biodiversity-8/)
- [Class Page](https://bio4climate.org/tag/class-page/)
- [Course Page](https://bio4climate.org/tag/course-page/)
- [Sustainability and Humandkind's Dilemma](https://bio4climate.org/tag/sustainability-and-humandkinds-dilemma/)
- [solutions](https://bio4climate.org/tag/solutions/)
- [LifeRules](https://bio4climate.org/tag/liferules/)
- [Biodiversity 9](https://bio4climate.org/tag/biodiversity-9/)
- [Regenerating Life](https://bio4climate.org/tag/regenerating-life/)
- [gya](https://bio4climate.org/tag/gya/)
- [GlobalFight](https://bio4climate.org/tag/globalfight/)
- [vow](https://bio4climate.org/tag/vow/)
- [movie](https://bio4climate.org/tag/movie/)
- [Dr. Anastassia Makariev](https://bio4climate.org/tag/dr-anastassia-makariev/)
- [forest protection](https://bio4climate.org/tag/forest-protection/)
- [legislation](https://bio4climate.org/tag/legislation/)
- [advocacy](https://bio4climate.org/tag/advocacy/)
- [redesigning our communities](https://bio4climate.org/tag/redesigning-our-communities/)
- [Biodiversity 10](https://bio4climate.org/tag/biodiversity-10/)
- [adaption](https://bio4climate.org/tag/adaption/)
- [ProtectOurWinters](https://bio4climate.org/tag/protectourwinters/)
- [SmallWaterCycles](https://bio4climate.org/tag/smallwatercycles/)
- [slowwater](https://bio4climate.org/tag/slowwater/)
- [watercycle](https://bio4climate.org/tag/watercycle/)
- [VoicesOfWater](https://bio4climate.org/tag/voicesofwater/)
- [economics2024](https://bio4climate.org/tag/economics2024/)
- [Hagan2024](https://bio4climate.org/tag/hagan2024/)
- [Biodiversity 11](https://bio4climate.org/tag/biodiversity-11/)
- [fire](https://bio4climate.org/tag/fire/)
- [wildfire](https://bio4climate.org/tag/wildfire/)
- [Miyawaki forests](https://bio4climate.org/tag/miyawaki-forests/)
- [microforest](https://bio4climate.org/tag/microforest/)
- [microforests](https://bio4climate.org/tag/microforests/)
- [Coupon](https://bio4climate.org/tag/coupon/)
- [Course](https://bio4climate.org/tag/course/)

## Creature

- [Mammals](https://bio4climate.org/creature/mammals/) - Warm-blooded animals with hair or fur, most of which give birth to live young.
- [Birds](https://bio4climate.org/creature/birds/) - Creatures with feathers, wings, and the ability to lay eggs, many of which can fly.
- [Insects](https://bio4climate.org/creature/insects/) - Small, air-breathing arthropods with six legs, often having wings.
- [Reptiles](https://bio4climate.org/creature/reptiles/) - Cold-blooded, scale-covered animals that typically lay eggs and are well-adapted to diverse environments.
- [Marine Life](https://bio4climate.org/creature/marine-life/) - Creatures that primarily inhabit oceans, seas, and other saltwater environments.
- [Forest Inhabitants](https://bio4climate.org/creature/forest-inhabitants/) - Creatures that thrive in forest ecosystems, from birds to mammals to insects.
- [Desert Dwellers](https://bio4climate.org/creature/desert-dwellers/) - Creatures that have adapted to live in arid and dry desert environments.
- [Endangered Species](https://bio4climate.org/creature/endangered-species/) - Creatures at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, hunting, or other environmental pressures.
- [Unique Adaptations](https://bio4climate.org/creature/unique-adaptations/) - Creatures that have developed specialized adaptations for survival, behavior, or reproduction.
- [Plants](https://bio4climate.org/creature/plants/) - Photosynthetic organisms that form the base of most ecosystems and provide food and shelter for various creatures.
- [Fungi](https://bio4climate.org/creature/fungi/) - A group of spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter, including molds, yeast, and mushrooms.
- [Venomous Creatures](https://bio4climate.org/creature/venomous-creatures/) - Creatures that use venom as a defense mechanism or for subduing prey.
- [Amphibians](https://bio4climate.org/creature/amphibians/) - Cold-blooded vertebrates that live both in water and on land, including frogs, salamanders, and newts.
- [Infiltration Team](https://bio4climate.org/creature/infiltration-team/) - Creatures or organisms that help water penetrate the soil, such as earthworms and burrowing animals like prairie dogs.
- [Pollinators](https://bio4climate.org/creature/pollinators/) - Diverse pollinators such as bees, butterflies, bats, and wind-pollinating plants, playing a critical role in food production and plant biodiversity.
- [Water Quality Team](https://bio4climate.org/creature/water-quality-team/) - Creatures that maintain clean water, like freshwater mussels or beavers, which create wetlands that filter pollutants.
- [Filter Feeders](https://bio4climate.org/creature/filter-feeders/) - Organisms like oysters that filter particulates from water, improving clarity and ecosystem health.
- [Decay Wizards](https://bio4climate.org/creature/decay-wizards/) - Species like fungi, bacteria, and detritivores that break down organic material, returning nutrients to the soil.
- [Top Predators](https://bio4climate.org/creature/top-predators/) - Animals like wolves, sharks, and eagles that regulate populations, maintaining balance within ecosystems.
- [Soil Sponge](https://bio4climate.org/creature/soil-sponge/) - Organisms like fungi and plant roots that build soil structure and enhance water retention.
- [Transpiration Champions](https://bio4climate.org/creature/transpiration-champions/) - Trees that release water vapor through transpiration, contributing to local and global water cycles.
- [Maximizing Photosynthesis](https://bio4climate.org/creature/maximizing-photosynthesis/) - Highly efficient photosynthesizers like cyanobacteria, seagrasses, and algae that sequester carbon and produce oxygen.
- [Mother Tree Networks](https://bio4climate.org/creature/mother-tree-networks/) - Trees like Douglas fir that act as central hubs, sharing resources via underground mycorrhizal networks.
- [Mycelium Connections](https://bio4climate.org/creature/mycelium-connections/) - Mycorrhizal fungi that form symbiotic relationships with plants, facilitating nutrient and water exchange.
- [Ecosystem Engineers](https://bio4climate.org/creature/ecosystem-engineers/) - Creatures that drastically alter environments, such as beavers, corals, elephants, or wolves.
- [Keystone Species](https://bio4climate.org/creature/keystone-species/) - Species with a disproportionately large effect on ecosystems, like sea otters or elephants, often also ecosystem engineers.
- [Environmental Monitors/BioIndicators](https://bio4climate.org/creature/environmental-monitors-bioindicators/) - Species like frogs and lichens that reveal environmental health through their presence or absence.
- [Cooling](https://bio4climate.org/creature/cooling/) - The role of plant transpiration in shedding heat to space via the small water cycle (transpiration -> clouds -> rain -> infiltration).
- [Grazers](https://bio4climate.org/creature/grazers/) - Grazing animals like cows, sheep, and goats, converting plant biomass into meat and bioactivated fertilizer that enriches soil.
- [Wetlands](https://bio4climate.org/creature/wetlands/) - Vital ecosystems that support biodiversity, filter water, and protect against flooding.
- [Forests](https://bio4climate.org/creature/forests/) - Ecosystems rich in biodiversity, acting as carbon sinks and critical habitats for countless species.
- [Grasslands](https://bio4climate.org/creature/grasslands/) - Ecosystems dominated by grasses, supporting grazing animals and acting as carbon reservoirs.
- [Living Shorelines](https://bio4climate.org/creature/living-shorelines/) - Coastal ecosystems that protect against erosion and support marine biodiversity through natural barriers like seagrass and oyster reefs.
- [Pest Controllers](https://bio4climate.org/creature/pest-controllers/)
- [Grassland Inhabitants](https://bio4climate.org/creature/grassland-inhabitants/)
- [Burrowing Animals](https://bio4climate.org/creature/burrowing-animals/)
- [Medicinal Organisms](https://bio4climate.org/creature/medicinal-organisms/)
- [Rapid Growers](https://bio4climate.org/creature/rapid-growers/)
- [Intelligent Creatures](https://bio4climate.org/creature/intelligent-creatures/)
- [Urban Wildlife](https://bio4climate.org/creature/urban-wildlife/)
- [Invasive Species](https://bio4climate.org/creature/invasive-species/)
- [Scavenger](https://bio4climate.org/creature/scavenger/) - Organisms that feed on dead or decaying organic matter, playing a crucial role in nutrient recycling and ecosystem health.
- [Pioneer Species](https://bio4climate.org/creature/pioneer-species/) - Species that are the first to colonize barren or disturbed environments, facilitating ecological succession and habitat restoration.
- [Extinct Species](https://bio4climate.org/creature/extinct-species/)
- [Apex Predator](https://bio4climate.org/creature/apex-predator/)

## Event Types

- [Film Screenings](https://bio4climate.org/event-type/film-screenings/)