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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

216) Ashleigh Brown: Reversing desertification and regenerating life on degraded lands

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ashleigh Brown is the co-founder of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, which is a grassroots nonprofit organization that builds research, training and innovation centers for ecological restoration all around the world.

If you're wondering how you can get your hands dirty to help restore degraded lands, enrich ecosystems with biodiversity, and sequester soil carbon, this conversation is one not to be missed!

In this podcast episode, Ashleigh sheds light on what it means for climate change that 90% of our greenhouse gases by volume is water vapor; what it takes to regenerate life and help jumpstart the water cycle on desertified lands; and more.

 

Featured music: Mountain Twin by Joel Porter

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What a lot of people don't realize is that 90% of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are actually just water

1:29.4

vapor. And because of desertification due to agriculture, due to mining and urbanization covering

1:37.1

the ground with impermeable surfaces, it means that the water circle has been broken and the

1:42.9

water vapor remains in the air because

1:44.8

it can't find places to fall as rain.

1:50.4

That was Ashley Brown, the co-founder of ecosystem restoration camps, which is a nonprofit that

1:56.7

builds research, training and innovation centers for ecological restoration all around the world.

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