Since the plants can be harvested after a while, the dangerous metals are also taken out of the soil, leaving behind an environment suitable for the regrowth of lost flora and fauna.

Mining companies and even small-time farmers both can potentially benefit from cleaning up former mines while collecting some revenue as nickel is often used to make batteries, mobile phones, medical equipment, transportation and the creation of the ubiquitous stainless steel."

"The wall will reclaim 247 million acres of land by the year 2030, which can then be used for more economically productive purposes like agriculture and livestock. More trees will result in more rainfall being diverted back into the land, and therefore more water available to communities and ecosystems. The new trees will capture around 250 million metric tons of carbon ever year, roughly equivalent to removing all of California’s cars from the road for more than three year. The process of planting and maintaining the wall will also create hundreds of thousands of jobs over the course of the next several years."

 The Soil Carbon Sponge is porous, well-aggregated soil rich in plant roots, diverse life forms, nutrient availability, air, and often holding lots of water.

 Building up the Soil Carbon Sponge draws down massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere AND regenerates our soils AND enhances agricultural productivity and human health.

But bringing down more than 80 smaller dams? That can also cause a transformation.

This innovative project could aid endangered native species — and provide a useful roadmap for other dam-removal efforts.

The next question is: Once all the "dead-beat dams" are removed, how can we invite in the original bio-boundary builders, BEAVERS!?

~ Joanna Macy

by Toko-pa Turner, excerpt from "Belonging"

Artwork by Autumn Skye

Small wonder that rivers and forests no longer compel our focus or our fierce devotion. For we talk about such entities only behind their backs, as though they were not participant in our lives.

Yet if we no longer call out to the moon slipping between the clouds, or whisper to the spider setting the silken struts of her web, well, then the numerous powers of this world will no longer address us – and if they still try, we will not likely hear them.

~ David Abram

Before their numbers were devastated by the fur trade, North America looked much different. For one thing, it was a much soggier landscape. Beavers don't just build lodges and dams, but entire wetlands. Thanks to the beavers' efforts, streams back up behind their dams, forming ponds, marshes, and swamps, filled with stumps and dead or dying trees and bustling with frogs, fish, and otters, to name just a few of the countless creatures that rely on beavers to make their habitat possible. Beaver ponds help store water, recharge aquifers, filter out pollutants, mitigate floods, and stop wildfires in their tracks."

“Evolution is no longer seen as a competitive struggle for existence, but rather some kind of cooperative dance in which creativity, and the constant emergence of novelty, are the driving forces.”

Just. Wow. 

Food for thought in any tree plating or reforestation initiative.

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We transform degraded landscapes and watersheds into productive ecologies through regenerative agricultures. This creates new circular, rural economies while increasing biodiversity, increasing freshwater resources, and sequestering carbon in soils.

This is the premier place to find out who is doing what, and where, in the permaculture world.

The cattle have returned, and secondary industries have sprung up, with tourists flocking to new locally-run hotels and restaurants, eager to explore the dunes on boards and buggies.

It will integrate contemporary natural resource management best-practice with traditional cultural and ecological knowledge and establish systems and approaches, including long-term financing and market enabling strategies that will build environmental resilience across the desert landscape.

The reforestation project in southern Senegal has become one of the largest of its kind in the world.

Project Seagrass is committed to the conservation of seagrass ecosystems and ensuring that the benefits they provide communities are sustained now and for the future.

Seaweed is also a highly valuable end product. It is a nutritious food source for both people and animals and can be used as an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based fertilisers and plastics. It is a unique untapped resource, and the goal of the Seaweed Company is to unlock the potential of this wondrous resource to benefit people and planet.

“With their ability to soak up carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, the world’s great forests are often referred to as the planet’s lungs"

Nobody really knows what the New Normal will be. We have to ‘sit in the mess for a while’ and use this time to get more comfortable with uncertainty and more humble in acceptance of the limits of our knowing. Regenerative cultures are cultures of constant inquiry into appropriate participation in the nested complexity that human and planetary health depend upon. In cooperative inquiry we can move from arguing about perspectives to understanding our diversity of perspectives as a source of creative potential."

Okay, let’s just start with the fungi. Small steps. 

We, as all life on Earth, are reliant on fungi and their vast, dynamic and unfathomable ecological wizardry. They are the dazzling embodiment of interdependence and symbiosis, and without them, life as we know it would cease to exist.

It’s (been) time to get fungal biodiversity adopted into global conservation frameworks.

Click on the link to sign the statement and be a part of the world-wide movement to push this effort forward.