Hope in a world of crisis: Water cycle restoration | Zach Weiss

Hope in a world of crisis: Water cycle restoration | Zach Weiss | TEDxBozeman

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Zach Weiss, an ecological warrior, emphasizes the tendency of the western world to practice symptom-based medicine. He stresses that there are actionable steps each of us can take to lessen the effects of climate change by shifting our efforts from symptom-based action to truly understanding the root cause. Zach Weiss blends a unique combination of systems thinking, empathy, and awareness to specialize in watershed restoration and ecosystem regeneration. Harvesting time and the productivity of natural systems is the guiding principle. The result? Abundant oases that produce for many lifetimes. Zach is a passionate advocate for nature, striving to harmonize human relationships with the living world around us. Growing up in the woodlands of Vermont shaped Zach’s perspective and taught him to look to nature first for answers. A chance to work with the revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer empowered Zach with the vision and skills to restore and revive degraded landscapes. Zach created Elemental Ecosystems, an ecological development contracting and consulting firm, to provide an action-oriented process to enhance clients' relationship with their landscape. Elemental Ecosystems has worked on projects in more than 25 countries, spanning 6 continents and a wide range of climates, contexts, and ecosystems. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@leifcian4288 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! PA Yeomans and Sepp Hotzer are so far ahead of there time, giants. Great to see such a concise presentation, I would love to get involved.

@SerenaSarah 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting to see the role trees play in creating stable weather patterns....in my opinion this is more of an issue than global warming

@kentmadin9408 5 жыл бұрын

Great talk, Zach.. keep it up..!

@tom66222 3 жыл бұрын

Great talk! And thank you for your work.

@OBRfarm 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Zack

@paulreimer9358 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Thank you.

@ThePermacultureStudent 5 жыл бұрын

@cornelstrydom9757 5 жыл бұрын

Hear hear!!!!

@myra7883 5 жыл бұрын

Great talk! You should write a book on how to change earth's landscapes and cities and what it could be like...it could be amazing! (Our world and your book;) )

@colinsteddy3056 5 жыл бұрын

There is a book by Peter Andrews OAM Back from the Brink. This great talk sums up exactly what Peters Book is about $) years of science, There is proof that we can fix our climate out there by helping nature.

@rocarr180 3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@johnmarkhatfield 5 жыл бұрын

The only problem is most peoples attention is on co2 and alt energy and this ted talk will probably never be cared about. This guy is dead on and putting whats important up front. The west will never listen.

@leifcian4288 4 жыл бұрын

Very difficult to impress the connection of landscape hydrology carbon sequestration on western environmentalists. For many it's just an ideological thing at this stage. It's literally decades of established one track narrative though soo... Just got to carry on explaining.

@johnmarkhatfield 4 жыл бұрын

Felix Keenan most western environmentalists/middle class liberals are only into ideology. Drive a prius to work and buy products from thousands of miles away when more oil is burnt from consumer choices and not personal usage. They want change, but not personal change. They want it to happen but wait for a company or government to do it. Theres no climate change product to save the earth. Theres no treaty agreement thats going reverse climate change. Even if we went to 0 co2, whats in the air currently wont go away for many decades, and we will have to withstand the increasingly wild weather.

@leifcian4288 4 жыл бұрын

@@johnmarkhatfieldThat sort of ecological working lifestyle should be an ethos for the working classes, not a few alternative middle class land owners who like having people to come work for them for free in exchange for '' experience''. It's OK doing some voluntary work on an alternative farm if you've already got some money in your pocket, we need an economic template where people are actually paid to do what needs doing.

@leifcian4288 4 жыл бұрын

@@johnmarkhatfield Anyway how come the Co2 stays in the air for decades? The dry mass of all vegetation is Co2 that is coming from the air right? Dose it not follow that a global increase in propagation/cultivation in more intuitive layers and patterns will shorten the time Co2 persists in the air?

@johnmarkhatfield 4 жыл бұрын

Felix Keenan good luck getting rid of the monoculture farms and putting in permie food forests. Merica needs its fast food burgers. Hardly anyone has the time to cook meals or the drive to eat vegetables. Its true our trees are growing faster these days because of increased co2, but theres not enough wild spaces left, and the faster growth leads to faster death.