Episode 116: Restoring Water Cycles and Ecosystems with Alpha Lo

Alpha Lo runs the Climate Water Project and is Co-founder of Regenerative Water Alliance. He’s also a water researcher, writer, and podcaster. With a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of natural systems, Alpha advocates for rewilding initiatives and holistic land management practices to address environmental challenges. Through collaboration and education, Alpha works to promote sustainable solutions that enhance soil health, water retention, and ecosystem resilience.
In this episode, Alpha and John discuss:
The importance of rewilding and reintegrating keystone species into ecosystems
The concept of the "small water cycle" and its influence on atmospheric water movement
The need for collaboration among scientists, farmers, governments, and communities to address environmental challenges
The impacts of groundwater depletion
Additional Resources To follow the Climate Water Project and Alpha’s work, visit substack.com/@climatewaterpro...
About John Kempf John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA). A top expert in biological and regenerative farming, John founded AEA in 2006 to help fellow farmers by providing the education, tools, and strategies that will have a global effect on the food supply and those who grow it.
Through intense study and the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition - a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology.
Support For This Show & Helping You Grow Since 2006, AEA has been on a mission to help growers become more resilient, efficient, and profitable with regenerative agriculture.
AEA works directly with growers to apply its unique line of liquid mineral crop nutrition products and biological inoculants. Informed by cutting-edge plant and soil data-gathering techniques, AEA’s science-based programs empower farm operations to meet the crop quality markers that matter the most.
AEA has created real and lasting change on millions of acres with its products and data-driven services by working hand-in-hand with growers to produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and higher profits.
Beyond working on the ground with growers, AEA leads in regenerative agriculture media and education, producing and distributing the popular and highly-regarded Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, inspiring webinars, and other educational content that serve as go-to resources for growers worldwide.
Learn more about AEA’s regenerative programs and products: www.advancingecoag.com
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VIDEO: To learn more from John Kempf about regenerative agriculture, watch this conversation between John and three AEA grower partners about how regenerative agriculture is changing lives and conventional farming: • How regenerative agric...

[@suburbanbiology]

I linked this video on my channel. I hope it sends some traffic this way. The AEA team should have more subscribers. Each one will make the world a slightly better place. Keep up the great work yall!!

[@thingformob]

Great conversation! Thanks Alpha and John for your valuable work.

[@michelezebell3133]

Cindy Morris in France did an amazing presentation regarding the effect of wind patterns and landscape on the rain in far distance places. She spoke for Zach Weiss' organization a year or so ago. I think it's available via water Stories on KZbin. Brilliant.

[@larrysiders1]

Water runoff from croplands into the oceans has a FAR GREATER WARMING Effect on Continents than CO2 from burning fossil fuels does. Not even close.

[@regenerativegardeningwithpatti]

Excellent interview. Some NFP are making manmade beaver dams in Montana. Hopefully, we can increase the knowledge to get more people on board. Unfortunately, it is like John says that change will happen one funeral at a time. Too many people are still killing beavers without understanding how they are helping the water cycle. Does the 7 acres of trees have to be planted all together in one block or can it be hedgerows? Thank you for your work.

[@DavidBelliveau]

Prairie dogs bring rain by digging "dust pumps" that send the dust into the atmosphere which is similar to cloud seeding.

[@mikebunetta7420]

Thanks for remembering the beaver no river ever ran free.

[@JohnPierce-so8hw]

I never made the connection that predators help prevent deserts.

[@squeaker19694]

Very interesting and inspiring. I shall definitely be putting these ideas into practice on my farm. I can't help thinking though that perhaps humans need some predators to regulate us.

[@tyee.5023]

"Plant the rain"- Brad Lancaster talks about this, his book 'Raibwatet Harvesting For Dry lands And Beyond' is about permaculture type principles applied in the desert using native plants and encouraging to start where you are- even in urban landscapes. He learned from an African farmer named Zephaniah Phiri, who learned how to slow and hold water on 1/4 acre of eroded sloped desert land with no job and grew his own food to feed his family.

[@DavidBelliveau]

I'm a proponent of long ponds. Follow an elevation contour with a 6 meter wide pond as long as possible. Then go downhill 2 meters and do it again. This way you'll maximise water/land interface. These edges have the land feeding the water and the water feeding the land. The effect is multiplied.

[@Trojas-bp9ej]

I like AEA as a hidden gold nugget. I will support them until they are mainstream, then move on.

[@markus_selloi]

The part about the ethanol plants makes sense.. I am pretty sure that they do not give a dang about the consequences of the heaviest possible pesticide and haber-bosch use, which they are doing