Watershed Wisdom Council, Forests & Water
Watershed Wisdom Council - Tues Sept 13th, 4 pm-5:30 pm (Pacific Time)
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4387884267?pwd=Qk1Ob0RIbjhEQzBCcWpyazFXVG1QUT09
The RWA Watershed Wisdom Councils Sessions are a space for individuals and groups to check in on their watershed, organize their efforts, meet others working to regenerate their Watersheds to see what everyone is progressing and help with advice and support for the Water Stewards working their local water projects.
Elizabeth Dougherty, whose organization, WhollyH2O has helped neighborhoods tell their stories of Water in their local areas, will speak about how you can learn to tell your own watershed story to catalyze dynamic, informed connections between people and their watersheds that yield proactive and appropriate water management through conservation and reuse.
Elizabeth Herald, the founder of the Watershed Wisdom Council Concept and the WaterUnity Networks, will speak on how you can form a Watershed Wisdom Council in your own watershed. The Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept (WWCC) is an emerging whole systems blueprint for creating a new paradigm human organizational system for returning our species to a balanced, revitalized Planetary Water Cycle.
In the Regenerative Water Alliance meeting last month we looked at how to hydrate the land to prevent fires. We will look at how to apply some of these fire prevention methods to our local watersheds, and how you can organize your local watershed council around increasing groundwater and soil hydration, which both lower wildfire risk. The video from last months rwa meeting :
Also here is a video of part of last months Watershed Wisdom Council meeting where Hart Hagan talked about how we can get our gardens to capture more rainwater
Here is a list of DIY projects your neighbors in your watershed can help each other implement, that simultaneously helps reduce wildfire risk, reduce flooding issues, replenishes groundwater, and helps increase the small water cycle:
1.swales 2. check dams 3. terraces 4. compost tea (to improve soils ability to absorb water) 5. mycelial compost tea 6. appropriate plants depending on ecological succession stage to help improve soil quality 7. Hugelkultur
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Regenerative Water Alliance meeting on Thu Oct 6th 9am-103:30am. Each month RWA tackles a different topic around water. In October we will look at Forests and the Water Cycle: how forests help create the rain, absorb the rainfall, and how deforestration impacts droughts and floods. Rob de Laet, who has been working to save the Amazon Rainforests will be speaking. We will also have a roundtable discussion about the issues.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4387884267?pwd=Qk1Ob0RIbjhEQzBCcWpyazFXVG1QUT09
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Climate Permaculture Seminar, Sat Sept 17th, 11 am-1 pm (Pacific Time)
Permaculture is an approach to land management by harmonizing with nature’s ecosystem. Climate permaculture is an accessible approach to climate adaptation by restoring natural connections and cycles between the land and the atmosphere.
The scaling of small-scale restoration of soils and ecosystems can lessen extreme weather, and the impact of droughts, heatwaves, and floods.
In the seminar we will discuss ways that you can tend and manage the land, help restore our wetlands, rivers, and forests, to have a positive impact on our climate. We will look at how restoring the water on our land, and in our aquifers, has an impact on evapotranspiration, heat, and rain. We will see how harmonizing carbon and water cycles on the land, helps harmonize carbon and water cycles in the land-atmosphere system.
For more info and to register : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/413136320857
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News around the world
.Around the world there are heatwaves occurring. An article by Michal Kravcik (of People and Water International) about how we can naturally cool without airconditioning by using the power of water and trees.
.A group is working to regreen and restore water cycles in the Sinai. The group is led by Van de Hoeven, and includes John Liu, who gained fame for his documentaries about the regreening of the Chinese Loess Plains. A link to an article about Regreening the Sinai
. Neal Spackman, who was the instigator of the Al Baydrha Project in Saudi Arabia which helped regreen the area by capturing the very rare rainfall there through swales and other earthworks, has an NFT crypto project to grow 100 million mangroves to restore our coastal wetlands and waterways. https://medium.com/@neal.spackman/our-first-web3-project-100-million-mangroves-via-dynamic-chainlinked-nfts-7e2b55d2c2ee