Episodes
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Week 320 trees_trees_and_more_trees
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
A review of massive global tree planting and conservation efforts.
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Week 319 the chauka system - from desert to lush forest
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
The communities of Rajasthan India were catapulted into poverty due to desertification and water mismanagement. Lakshman Singh created a low tech high efficiency way to recharge depleted aquifers and restore farms and forest scapes. Could the Pacific Northwest be turned into a desert?
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Week 318 the horseshoe crab - your life depends on it
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
The horseshoe crab is an ancient fossil species that is on the bottom of the web of life and yet so critical as a keystone species. Let's talk about the reason your life depends on it.
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Week 317 the billion oyster project of new york
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
The Billion Oyster Project is an innovative effort to restore the marine environment of Hudson Bay. High school students are working to turn the tide of habitat destruction by reestablishing the oyster reefs of the polluted waters of the Hudson River estuary. It's an amazing effort and worth learning about.
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Week 316 the whale jail and its ilk
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Why, after decades of restorative effort, are we still wrestling with wild caught captive animals like Orcas, Belugas and whales in general. Perhaps sanctuaries are the solution to species recovery, rescue and scientific research. Either way learning to coexist with the natural world is a paramount cause in these times.
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Week 315 trees bring water
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Efforts around the world are being made to restore ecosystem microclimates. The forest based ecosystem functions are critical to every aspect of world health. Let's talk about it.
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Week 314 the business of coexistance
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
There are incredible strides being made with regard to our societies obligation to coexist with the world that sustains us. Here's an encouraging story.
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Week 313 oyster reefs are a strategic component of coastal health-who knew?
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Oysters are a great food delicacy around the world. Coastal communities have utilized these mollusks from time immemorial. Since the onset of the industrial revolution though somewhere between 85 to 95% of the worlds coastal oyster reefs have been destroyed. Few knew how important these reefs were. Efforts are being made to restore them.
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Week 312 from desert to thriving farm managed natural ecosystem
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
In less than 150 years Ethiopia went from 60% forested and thriving farming land to 3% natural woodland drought stricken desertland. What happened and how is this man made disaster being turned around.
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Week 311 let's listen to what the natural world has to say
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Modern technology has paved the way for us to respond to the natural world's response to our restoration efforts. What if we could fine tune our efforts to bring restoration project to the next level of success. What do the plants, insects and animals have to say about what we are doing? We can do it.