This workshop follows Jan’s talk: Soak Up the Rain! What We Can All Do to Reduce Drought, Floods, Heat Waves and Severe Storms
Jan Lambert: environmental writer and editor of The Valley Green Journal
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Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020
#rain #floods #storms
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Soak Up the Rain! What We Can Do to Reduce Drought, Floods, Heat Waves & Severe Storms: Jan Lambert
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 central role of the natural water cycle in regulating and moderating each region’s climate. It is not at all hard to understand how humans, by interfering with the natural flow of water through landscapes and the atmosphere, have damaged both land and climate. The good news is that by making some simple changes, we can restore the natural life-giving flow of water. It may surprise you to learn that it’s not how much water we use, but what happens after we use it, that really matters.
Jan Lambert: environmental writer and editor of The Valley Green Journal
Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/
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Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020
#drought #floods #heatwaves
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 this keystone species for over thirty years. All species are important in an ecosystem, but keystone species like the beaver run the show by creating vital habitat for wildlife, and valuable natural services for people. Yet only a small fraction of North America’s original Castor canadensis population that was present prior to European settlement, remains today.
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https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LIBRARY-Beavers-help-save-12.2017-.pdf
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 is installed in front of a road culvert in Marlboro VT, thanks to local collaboration and the skills of Skip Lisle, inventor of Beaver Deceiver™ flow devices, which solve the problem of beaver dams blocking road culverts and cause flooding.
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https://bio4climate.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LIBRARY-Beaver-deciever-08.2018-.pdf
Jim Laurie & His Homeschool AP Biology Students: Nature Wants to Be Wet
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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 with these species we can jumpstart the restoration of stable local water cycles. Jim also introduces students from his Homeschool Advanced Placement Biology / Restoration Ecology course who perform a short play called “Symbiosis”, including sketches on “Making Holes to Improve the Small Water Cycle” and “Stopping Flash Floods and Cleaning Water.” Jim will finish with a brief description of a new initiative in state government: since 2009 the Mass. Division of Ecological Restoration has helped partners remove 40 dams and restore approximately 2,000 acres of coastal wetland.
Presented a Biodiversity for a Livable Climate’s “Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming” conference October 16th-18th, 2015 at Tufts University.
#biological #ecology #watercycles
Jan Lambert: Retain the Rain, No More Down the Drain!
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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 models for water retention to jumpstarting new forests by curbing erosion, huge strides are being made in forest, farm, desert, and city to renew the water cycle, reduce floods and drought and renew hope for nature and humanity.
Presented at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate’s “Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming” conference October 16th-18th, 2015 at Tufts University.
#rainwater #restoration #holistic