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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…

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

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

Ongoing & Upcoming Events, Voices of Water Corner, Maya’s Miyawaki Minute, Quotes That Inspire Us, Compendium Notes, A Word from the Editor

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

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

Suggest a Featured Creature, Eco-Restoration Stories Currently Inspiring us, Throwback from the Bio4Climate Blog, Voices of Water, Staff Spotlight: Maya Dutta, Compendium Notes

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

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

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

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

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

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.…

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Permaculture in Communities, The Regenerative Development Manifesto, Bill Reed and the Regenesis Group, Compendium Notes: Community-based watershed stewardship programs, USA 

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

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

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

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)

Blessed Unrest, Matt Russell and Iowa Farmers, Prairies Restoration Movement, Paula Phipps, Compendium Notes: Trees, forests, and water: cool insights for a hot world

Volunteers, Delaware Coastal Restoration, Support for Local Pollinators in Minnesota, Sue Butler, Compendium Notes: Regreening the Tigray Region, Ethiopia

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

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

Newsletter Youth Climate Strike, coastal wetlands, Maine Dam Removal, Jim Laurie, Victor Wallis Meetup, Compendium Notes: Sponge Cities, China

Soul Fire Farm, Role of Wild Grazers, Blessed Unrest in Ethiopia, Christopher Haines, Compendium Notes: Natural Climate Solutions, 2017 

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

Voices of Nature Conference, Indigenous Wisdom, Pakistan’s 10 Billion Trees, Jed Katch, Doug Zook, Compendium Notes: The Perils of Peer Review

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

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

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

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

David Johnson: Mycelial Man!, SystemIQ, Climate Reckoning Conference Report, Homeschool Symbiosis Team, What’s Funny About Human Systems?, Compendium Announcement

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

Blessed Unrest, The WILD Foundation, Urban Farming: Somerville Community Growing Center and Yarra-Yarra Biodiversity Corridor, Compendium Announcement

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

Help the Urban Ecosystem: Start a Native Garden, Carbon Farming Proves Profitable in Bismarck, North Dakota, A Road Map to Scenario 300

Building a Good Food Future with Eco City Farms, Thank You – Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool, Regenerative Projects Mapped Around the World

Using Ecological Restoration to Reduce Urban Flooding, Dr. Gina Angiola Helps Lead Maryland Ban on Fracking, Earthworms

Soaking up the Rain to Recharge Water Cycles, Thinking Beyond Carbon, Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Droughts, Floods and Global Warming with Michal Kravčík

Saving Native Bees in the Garden in The Humane Gardener, Scientists Find Carbon Pools Deeper in the Soil, Can woolly mammoths save the world?

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

Dryland Farming Magic: Interview with Charlotte Anthony of Terra Lingua Farm, Thank You Oceans Conference Attendees, Speakers and Supporters! 

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 

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 

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 

Scaling Up Local Food Systems, Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling?, Restoring Beaver Populations in California

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

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

The Victory Garden Initiative, Dung Beetles are Climate Warriors, Edible Cutlery, Bamboo, Pyrolysis and Bio-Char: Our Plan to Draw Carbon Down Exponentially

Announcing The Power and Promise of Biodiversity Conference, Can Livestock Help Repair Degraded Soils?

Wild Alfalfa Contaminated by Genetically Modified Variety, International Coalition Aims to Curb Food Waste

Soil’s Role at the Paris Climate Talks, The Next Generation of Young Farmers, Soil and Nutrition Conference: Nurturing Nature for Food Quality

Water Cycles Conference Recap, Community Grazing for Community Abundance, Jobs, Justice and Climate: A rally to defend New England’s future

Restoring Ecosystems with Nature’s Hydrologists: American Beavers, Featured Event: An Evening with Water Scientist Michal Kravcik, Water Cycles Conference Thank You

Urban Eco-Restoration Series Part 3, Climate Conference Speaker Announcement, Featured Event: Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming

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

Backyard Biochar and Beyond, Featured Event: Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Alright Seattle, where’s the rain? 

Urban Eco-Restoration Series Part 1, Jim Laurie’s Talk on Microbes

May Climate Conference Recap, The Living Building Challenge

Upcoming Conference: Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming, Speaker profile: Mel King, Catching Up with Jim Laurie

Soil Not Oil: Campaigning for a Carbon Stable Future, USDA Approves GMO Apples

2015 is the International Year of Soils, Carbon Farming for the Future