Animals are helping our water cycle : Judith Schwartz

From restoring peoples health to restoring the earth health, Didi Pershouse, brings her sweetness and wisdom to help heal humans and Gaia. She is the author of “Understanding soil health and watershed function”, and teaches ecological knowledge through her Land and Leadership Initiative. In conjunction with Walter Jehne, she has facilitated numerous water projects around the world.Didi Pershouse is landandleadership.orgThe Climate Water Project is at climatewaterproject.substack.com This is a newsletter you can subscribe to. Instagram.com/climatewaterproject

Zach Weiss is a land and water manager that helps restore the water cycle on our land. He also teaches a course to train people in water restoration. For the essay interview see here. For a link to his water course see here

Andrew Millison is one of the world's most known permaculture teachers. He travelled to India to document what he calls the worlds largest permaculture project, where 8000 villagers participated to build earthworks and reforest the land, which restored the water cycle to help the crops grow, and also brought back the rain.Time stamps for podcast:1:10 Learning about water Arizona. Curb cut idea of Brad Lancaster6:15 Teaching permaculture and water at Oregon State University. The launch of his videos.16:50 India and water30:25 How revegetation and restoring watersheds has increased the rain in those watersheds in India47:00 water situation in Africa49:20 water situation in USA53:57 dampening extreme weather through restoration of the land. Shock absorbers do lessen extreme flooding and drought.56:10 On integrating climate movement and permaculturehttps://www.youtube.com/@amillisonFor accompanying article to this podcast climatewaterproject.substack.comTo support this podcast patreon.com/watercology

Rodger Savory is an ecologist, land manager, and ranch owner who worked in his Holistic Management, the ecorestoration movement his dad Alan Savory started. He set himself the goal of figuring out how to turn deserts into grasslands.His website is www.fixdeserts.comThe article that goes with this podcast is at https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/cows-chickens-microbes-and-fungi

Judith Schwartz, author of "Water in Plain Sight" joins us to discuss how animals affect the water cycle.Her website is judithschwartz.comOur website is climatewaterproject.substack.comand instagram.com/climatewaterproject

Brock Dolman is a conservation biologist and permaculture teacher who coined the phrase "Slow it, sink it, spread it" and helped co-found the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and the Water Institute https://oaec.org/our-work/projects-and-partnerships/water-institute/His organizations work helped bring back the beaver in California, and has helped communties restore the water cycle in their neighborhoods. The template for neighborhood watershed restoration is here https://oaec.org/publications/basins-relations-citizens-guide-2018/You can read his interview here https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/beavers-biology-and-slow-water-brock#detailsYou can subscribe to the Climate Water Project https://climatewaterproject.substack.comYou can support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/watercology

Teisho and Alpha rap about the water cycle.For more info : https:climatewaterproject.substack.comwww.instagram.com/climatewaterprojectIf you would like to support this project https://www.patreon.com/watercology

Charles Eisenstein is the author of "Climate", "Ascent of humanity", "The more beautiful world that we know". He discusses the importance of water to our ecosystems and the climate, and how we can heal our relationship to the environment.You can see the article at the Climate Water Project newsletter https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/charles-eisenstein-water-and-the#detailsYou can support this work at www.patreon.com/watercologyInstagram: www.instagram.com/climatewaterproject

Forests evapotranspire water vapor. When that vapor condenses to form clouds it creates a lessening of pressure which can then attract more moisture from the ocean. Anastasia Makarieva and Victor Gorshov discovered this effect called the Biotic Pump

An ambitious project to regreen the Sinai desert in Egypt is underway. It involves 1) restoring Lake Bardawil at the northern tip of the Sinai 2) turning the sediment from the lake into soil which is then used to jump start the regreening process in the desert. Creating temporary ecosystems in geodesic domes that catalyse the ecosuccession process 3) a shift in the rain and wind patterns that result from the regreening