Zach Weiss: Restoring watersheds, revitalizing community
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
What is the “watershed death spiral” that has led to the vicious cycle of more droughts and floods at the same time? How might learning about the water cycle expand our perspectives on climate change? And how can restoring watersheds support the sovereignty of land-based communities?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chayne speaks with Zach Weiss, who founded Water Stories to help empower as many people as possible to revive their local waters and lands.
Join us in this conversation as we explore the humility of working with ecosystems that resist formulas and master plans, how people can support the revitalization of their own local water cycles, and more.
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Song feature: “Honor the Water” by Ayla Schafer
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, it's your host, Kamea. I've been feeling kind of perpetually overwhelmed by the state of the world, |
| 0:07.4 | and I'm really realizing again how important it is to have a daily re-centering practice for myself. |
| 0:14.6 | So I've been really working on that, and I'm not sure how this may be finding you, |
| 0:19.3 | but I want to use this maybe as a gentle reminder |
| 0:22.2 | for you as well to also nurture a ritual or practice whatever that may look like that feels |
| 0:29.0 | the most grounding to you. And also, if you happen to be interested in working on this with me |
| 0:35.6 | and with us, I want to invite you to check out Alchemize, |
| 0:39.1 | Green Dreamers 12-week audio-based program of daily imagination and creative practices, inspired |
| 0:46.6 | by a lot of our show's inquiries, and led by a variety of our past guests, collaborators, and myself. |
| 0:54.0 | My inspiration to conceive this offering really came from this question, |
| 0:58.2 | what could it be like to partake in practices of mindfulness that aren't just about this |
| 1:03.1 | re-centering of us as individuals, but like practices of earthfulness. |
| 1:08.0 | So like moving from mindfulness to earthfulness that reroute our imagination |
| 1:13.6 | and embodiment in our deeper and broader webs of relations. This is the question that undergirds |
| 1:20.7 | the program as an invitation to move beyond engaging a lot of the topics that we talk about |
| 1:26.1 | on the show intellectually, but into |
| 1:28.3 | more embodied, sensorial, participatory, and creative ways. So yeah, Alchemize is now open for |
| 1:36.2 | enrollment again, and if this speaks to you, I welcome you to learn more at greendreamer.com slash alchemize. |
| 1:46.5 | We have this ecological amniveda where we think the past five years, the average of that |
| 1:53.2 | is just the way it's always been. And this is where it's really important to connect with |
| 1:57.8 | your elders. Talk to them about the landscape, what it used to be like, |
| 2:03.2 | what the flow and the waterways used to be like, and you will learn so much about the potential |
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