We need to restore the Earth as quickly as possible for hydrological function, climate mitigation and adaptation, food security, reducing the risk of armed conflict and migration and more. I’m really excited by how much interest there is now in restoration. The Commonland Foundation is growing very quickly with regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration projects in all continents. This is very gratifying but even with very fast growth there is a nagging question of whether it is fast enough and whether the skills for restoration are sufficient to manage the growth. Over the years and decades I’ve been working on Large-Scale ecosystem restoration one thing has really concerned me, how can we speed up implementation and engage the largest numbers of people in this necessary activity? My conclusion after puzzling for over 20 years about this has been to indulge in a hobby and encourage everyone to “Go Camping and restore a little bit of paradise everyday". This thought has led to the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement that is working to build ecosystem restoration camps wherever they are needed and the foundation is invited to set up a camp. We have found that there are seemingly unlimited numbers of volunteers and “If we build it they will come”. We are only constrained by our ability to allocate resources to the camps. So far it seems that we can deploy as many highly motivated volunteers as we can give accommodation and meals to and they will work to live the future they want to see on the Earth. In this way vast numbers of people can be quickly trained in the skills necessary and they can spread this idea around the world helping others also gain these skills. To be a sustaining member is just 10 Euros per month or 120 Euros per year. The foundation also accepts larger donations but we are working to have broad public participation, self organization and self governance so that the movement can be a platform for grass roots activism around the world. My involvement is as a sustaining member and the Voluntary Chairman of the Advisory Council. The Supervisory Board has registered a non-profit in Holland and is dedicated to putting all efforts into learning how to build camps, building camps, training by doing restoration led by the world’s leading experts in the field and collaborating with other organizations to rapidly grow this movement. We’d love you to join the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement, to help lead and to help this grow the movement to restore our common home the Earth. Here is an interview done by the Center for Food Safety about the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Movement. www.academia.edu/36324222/Ecosystem_Restoration_Camps The link below is to an Essay that appeared in Permaculture Magazine about the concept: www.academia.edu/29054691/Earth_Restoration_Peace_Camps Here is a podcast with some of the people working on the ground in the first Ecosystem Restoration Camps in Spain. museecology.com/2018/04/01/episode-1-ecosystem-restoration-camps-an-idea-takes-root/ Here is the original Facebook page which now has 15,000 people discussing all aspects of ecosystem restoration and regenerative agriculture. facebook.com/groups/1206960359323785/ Here is the website where you can join as a sustaining member: www.ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/ Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like to talk with the supervisory board. Best regards, John D. Liu
The contrasting shots at 20:56 are astounding! This is an amazing project. I hope they reclaim the whole plateau. What a national treasure that would be.
I am Lorenda I have been working with rural farmers for 20 years helping them to learn permeculture and funding them with books to improve their farming
Hello, I'm glad to have read your remarks and thankful for your altruistic spirit. I'm doing the same in the high desert of Arizona I the poorest county in The US. People here have given up trying to change things and I believe I was lead here to give hope and rebuild self- esteem and confidence. I'm a retired engineer and have dreamed of building a small farm using the natural materials on site. I've had some setbacks but I'm learning to work with mother nature and not dominate her. I'm recycling many materials and having success. I've always wanted to pay it forward ,as you have and just now starting on my permaculture plans. I admire you starting so long ago but I was raising children and life got in the way. The dream does live on though. I pray you have continued success in the future Respectfully, Charles Hugh Bryan
This is unimaginable! I was so touched by how the project changes people's lives; from seeing faces of despair and resignation to happy smiling faces. Just great!!!
This was a project which has proved what can be done. To also regenerate zones, where ecological biodiversity and traditional farming have not yet been totally destroyed....preventing them from going that far;re training local farmers to cherish the natural ecosystem, and restore both soil and water within the zone, will also ensure a future for young people,sustainable local food and local micro climates and wild biodiversity. Thank you for your work - through your films the word can be shared and together people may move forward.THE FOUR RETURNS ARE SO IMPORTANT. Hopefully our small project will help fill those criteria in our are of Spain.
The principles is this video could save the world from drought and climate change. The transformation of the Loess Plateau proves that real change is possible!
This notion that humanity can "fix" the climate is ludicrous. Additionally, the popular plan of punishing carbon, as if it was a pollutant, is repulsive because it threatens the poorest in the world. Cheap fossil fuels are a benefit that has raised humanity. Fix real pollution. Fix desertification. But don't think for a second that climate change is something that we caused. We didn't. Climate change is not even responsible for desertification. Bad land management practices are mostly to blame.
Thanks to all the people who made kind remarks about this presentation. If you are interested in following the journey I have taken to this point and where I post all new published materials you can find them at the following URL: knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu
what a wonderful film, just seeing the changes on the Loess Plateau has rekindled my hope that maybe, just maybe there is hope for us to turn back the destruction on our home planet.
This video is extremely educational and a visual demonstration of how damaged ecosystems can be restored by adopting necessary soil and water conservation measures and introducing biodiversity suitable to that land. Excellent work!
I love this guy, I think most people in the world if educated right want to live in harmony with earth, but because of money and power hungry elites they block it on purpose. for example I live in California a state that has passed a law to stop giving out free plastic or paper grocery bags in the name of environmental protection, but at the same time sells everything we put in our new "safe" bags in plastic packaging including new inventions like Keurig cups. What? Why is plastic even legal when we know what it is doing to the ocean and wild life? There are people that have invented other materials like seaweed containers that would not harm our landfills or ocean when disposed of but for some reason are not being pushed by the elected officials that claim to support the green movement. The solutions already exist, but there are very sinister reasons we the people of the earth are forced into using systems and materials that are controlling and killing us.
Hello John, I am so inspired by your presentation and I think now that this is the kind of job that I want in my life.. I am stuck teaching technical drawing here at the local university I am a designer of crafts. I 'll see what can i do with a our land up there in the mountains of Cebu in the Philippines. Thank you.
Thanks, Yes John Liu and Commonland are doing some amazing work. Did you join their facebook page? They are looking for more support to start another restoration camp.
Here are some additional links for those who want to follow up. My published papers and films are collected here: Commonland Foundation's work is highlighted here: The Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation is now functional and you can learn about this and join as a member here: The original Facebook page that led to the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Movement now has over 15,000 members and can be joined here: Feel free to join the movement and participate in "The Great Work of Our Time" Thanks for all the kind words. Thanks also to all who put together the venue, the audience, the video and the music it is much appreciated and Brooklyn is a very interest place. I actually just spent a week in Breukelen in the Netherlands. Its almost as close to Amsterdam as Brooklyn is to Manhattan (New Amsterdam).
The resilience perspective on the livelihoods of the populations in the presentation is excellent. Although I still consider it a challenge for governments to become aware of the burden on vulnerable populations to extreme weather events.
Yes great possibilities and apparently business opportunities. The engines of commerce must keep moving. Hopefully this transformation will slow down the consumption and extraction process currently compromising most of the ecosystem's inhabitants on the planet.
Hi John: We have a huge homeless problem due to mental illness, drugs, etc. in the Pacific Northwest. Foundational human needs such as physical, emotional, food and shelter security make it very difficult for people to become freed from the bonds that tie them down. A group in Texas has created a community where all of those needs are addressed and people have the community and safety to then address the binds of mental disorder and drug addiction and people find the joy of seeing the productivity of their work. With that concept... people who are trapped becoming freed from that trap by communities (under intentional shepherding) building together and then prospering from the work of their hands, might the groups you represent consider partnering with those who would like to give people a pathway off of the streets and create restoration camps in target areas? Thanks for your thoughts. Ken
Great work. What to do with urban lands covered with asphalt and concrete and no vegetative cover? My city of Islamabad 20 years back had it water hit when drilling to 40 feet. Today, you do not find water drilling to 350 feet. While the city has annual precipitation close to 1000mm.
When you really think about it. Sometime, I do want to agree on the Agenda 21 . Those who are in the so call third world country deserved the chance to live on because, they have to go through hardship everyday just to survive. In the rich countries and like here in America, people are so careless, and spoiled that they waist so much foods and their resources like there's no end to everything.
Could someone please update the under write to have a hyperlink for further information for Commonland or a way to find out how to participate? I can do a "google" search, but maybe others might find it easiest to link from here to there. Thank you!!!!!!
This is an argument for "National Socialism". National socialism was not communism, it was a system where a free market, private ownership existed, but the free market was controlled and directed towards ends that benefited the nation. This shows that an uncontrolled free market leads to devastation.
You could also call this Social Democracy or Socialist Market Economy which Deng Xiao Ping called it in an interview I filmed with Mike Wallace for 60 minutes back in the 1980s.
An extraordinary job you are doing to restore nature. Congratulations. My only concern is the fact that the world bank is involved, it is logical to me that they seek to take advantage of economics and that helping people is only a secondary objective for them. Sorry, but I can't trust the world bank
Powerful? Or just a concentration/bottleneck of scale? Sure by man's definition, "powerful" (physics) ... but it's so weak it can't move the banks! wtf ...
It seems you are aware of what needs to get washed away. (that is - the banks) which are actually - The fellow man - slavery to Money Systems managers). "After all" if lazy people were removed from the villages - all this could be accomplished - without needing to get loans to buy - petrol = money burning equipment. Seeds and (understanding type) working people's labor - "could be" free = no money necessary - or aloud .- within the (gated - thick hedge row walls) of the village. . - Now if only the Bank and Government owned lands were free to use. We could have all our sustainable needs taken care of by our own efforts . That is our "no cost" - provided by GOD's Green Earth self sustaining (fellow man nurtured) provision system. I have thunked up a method (using our PCs, the internet and a specialized software Application.) - with which - we can organize ourselves into like minded design/work groups. I named the App. - Application Gods Green Earth Its where Via the internet - People make Proposals and vote on Proposals which automatically separate like minds - each into their own - population of like minded people working to plan out every aspect of an efficient functioning Village . Eventually when the design of your - self sustained Village - is completely finished. You and your fellow villagers can pool your funds and purchase a tract of land at some beautiful location on - Gods Green Earth - and live and \work contently ever after.. Without Banks. - except maybe (free food) banks.
we need to get over the idea that religion and evolution are mutually exclusive. Perhaps evolution is just a reflection or a symptom of a wider plan by a Creator. The philosophical war between science and religion is just used to separate, manipulate, and control people for the purpose of political power and votes and advance hidden agendas. We have fallen for this crap for a few decades and it's gotten old.
Do you even listen? His point was that the religion and the science are not in conflict, yet all you heard was conflict and hate? Is that really part of your religion? Conflict and hate?
Is this a joke? How can you "BELIEVE" in something that's been scientifically proven? I guess you don't "BELIEVE" in human induced climate change and that 2+2=4 either?
what an amzing inspirations youve doen for peoples and community i hope you will help all countries that never do thigns like you do to change the ecosystems
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We need to restore the Earth as quickly as possible for hydrological function, climate mitigation and adaptation, food security, reducing the risk of armed conflict and migration and more. I’m really excited by how much interest there is now in restoration. The Commonland Foundation is growing very quickly with regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration projects in all continents. This is very gratifying but even with very fast growth there is a nagging question of whether it is fast enough and whether the skills for restoration are sufficient to manage the growth.
Over the years and decades I’ve been working on Large-Scale ecosystem restoration one thing has really concerned me, how can we speed up implementation and engage the largest numbers of people in this necessary activity?
My conclusion after puzzling for over 20 years about this has been to indulge in a hobby and encourage everyone to “Go Camping and restore a little bit of paradise everyday".
This thought has led to the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement that is working to build ecosystem restoration camps wherever they are needed and the foundation is invited to set up a camp. We have found that there are seemingly unlimited numbers of volunteers and “If we build it they will come”. We are only constrained by our ability to allocate resources to the camps. So far it seems that we can deploy as many highly motivated volunteers as we can give accommodation and meals to and they will work to live the future they want to see on the Earth. In this way vast numbers of people can be quickly trained in the skills necessary and they can spread this idea around the world helping others also gain these skills.
To be a sustaining member is just 10 Euros per month or 120 Euros per year. The foundation also accepts larger donations but we are working to have broad public participation, self organization and self governance so that the movement can be a platform for grass roots activism around the world.
My involvement is as a sustaining member and the Voluntary Chairman of the Advisory Council. The Supervisory Board has registered a non-profit in Holland and is dedicated to putting all efforts into learning how to build camps, building camps, training by doing restoration led by the world’s leading experts in the field and collaborating with other organizations to rapidly grow this movement.
We’d love you to join the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement, to help lead and to help this grow the movement to restore our common home the Earth.
Here is an interview done by the Center for Food Safety about the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Movement. www.academia.edu/36324222/Ecosystem_Restoration_Camps
The link below is to an Essay that appeared in Permaculture Magazine about the concept: www.academia.edu/29054691/Earth_Restoration_Peace_Camps
Here is a podcast with some of the people working on the ground in the first Ecosystem Restoration Camps in Spain.
museecology.com/2018/04/01/episode-1-ecosystem-restoration-camps-an-idea-takes-root/
Here is the original Facebook page which now has 15,000 people discussing all aspects of ecosystem restoration and regenerative agriculture.
facebook.com/groups/1206960359323785/
Here is the website where you can join as a sustaining member: www.ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like to talk with the supervisory board.
Best regards,
John D. Liu
John -- The work you are doing is THE most important, and I am forever grateful to you for that.
John D Liu I agree with you because time is running out .
you need rain.
The contrasting shots at 20:56 are astounding! This is an amazing project. I hope they reclaim the whole plateau. What a national treasure that would be.
I am Lorenda I have been working with rural farmers for 20 years helping them to learn permeculture and funding them with books to improve their farming
Hello,
I'm glad to have read your remarks and thankful for your altruistic spirit.
I'm doing the same in the high desert of Arizona I the poorest county in The US.
People here have given up trying to change things and I believe I was lead here to give hope and rebuild self- esteem and confidence.
I'm a retired engineer and have dreamed of building a small farm using the natural materials on site. I've had some setbacks but I'm learning to work with mother nature and not dominate her.
I'm recycling many materials and having success.
I've always wanted to pay it forward ,as you have and just now starting on my permaculture plans.
I admire you starting so long ago but I was raising children and life got in the way. The dream does live on though.
I pray you have continued success in the future
Respectfully,
Charles Hugh Bryan
This is unimaginable! I was so touched by how the project changes people's lives; from seeing faces of despair and resignation to happy smiling faces. Just great!!!
just shows as way out of our mistakes...wake up people...Rise up Leaders...Thanks for your effort Dr. Liu...
This was a project which has proved what can be done. To also regenerate zones, where ecological biodiversity and traditional farming have not yet been totally destroyed....preventing them from going that far;re training local farmers to cherish the natural ecosystem, and restore both soil and water within the zone, will also ensure a future for young people,sustainable local food and local micro climates and wild biodiversity. Thank you for your work - through your films the word can be shared and together people may move forward.THE FOUR RETURNS ARE SO IMPORTANT. Hopefully our small project will help fill those criteria in our are of Spain.
The principles is this video could save the world from drought and climate change. The transformation of the Loess Plateau proves that real change is possible!
Climate change is not a problem. We didn't cause it. It has been going on since the last ice age and the trend has not increased.
Mac Tek does it matter? Who cares what or who causes climate change, if we can fix it for ourselves.
This notion that humanity can "fix" the climate is ludicrous. Additionally, the popular plan of punishing carbon, as if it was a pollutant, is repulsive because it threatens the poorest in the world. Cheap fossil fuels are a benefit that has raised humanity.
Fix real pollution. Fix desertification. But don't think for a second that climate change is something that we caused. We didn't. Climate change is not even responsible for desertification. Bad land management practices are mostly to blame.
poor propaganda victim, fooled by the oil cartel
we have so much water from our seas...cant we build rivers ??
GREAT WORK AND A GREAT START.......
Thanks to all the people who made kind remarks about this presentation. If you are interested in following the journey I have taken to this point and where I post all new published materials you can find them at the following URL: knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu
great job, i'm fascinated by this whole regreening the desert.
what a wonderful film, just seeing the changes on the Loess Plateau has rekindled my hope that maybe, just maybe there is hope for us to turn back the destruction on our home planet.
I hope he makes this presentation to the British Government
so that it will start DOING SOMETHING in UK.
The whole landscape need to be re-forested.
This video is extremely educational and a visual demonstration of how damaged ecosystems can be restored by adopting necessary soil and water conservation measures and introducing biodiversity suitable to that land. Excellent work!
An astounding project, and my great gratitude to John Liu for what he has brought to all of us. Gives me hope.
Amazing!
Thank you
I love this guy, I think most people in the world if educated right want to live in harmony with earth, but because of money and power hungry elites they block it on purpose. for example I live in California a state that has passed a law to stop giving out free plastic or paper grocery bags in the name of environmental protection, but at the same time sells everything we put in our new "safe" bags in plastic packaging including new inventions like Keurig cups. What? Why is plastic even legal when we know what it is doing to the ocean and wild life? There are people that have invented other materials like seaweed containers that would not harm our landfills or ocean when disposed of but for some reason are not being pushed by the elected officials that claim to support the green movement. The solutions already exist, but there are very sinister reasons we the people of the earth are forced into using systems and materials that are controlling and killing us.
Hello John, I am so inspired by your presentation and I think now that this is the kind of job that I want in my life.. I am stuck teaching technical drawing here at the local university I am a designer of crafts. I 'll see what can i do with a our land up there in the mountains of Cebu in the Philippines. Thank you.
www.ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/
Please write to Fae@ecosystemrestorationcamps.org and cristina@ecosystemrestorationcamps.org
Amazing!... this is just the beginning.
Thanks, Yes John Liu and Commonland are doing some amazing work. Did you join their facebook page? They are looking for more support to start another restoration camp.
cant find the face book page
So many great quotes from this video...I have saved this
Here are some additional links for those who want to follow up. My published papers and films are collected here:
Commonland Foundation's work is highlighted here:
The Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation is now functional and you can learn about this and join as a member here:
The original Facebook page that led to the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Movement now has over 15,000 members and can be joined here:
Feel free to join the movement and participate in "The Great Work of Our Time"
Thanks for all the kind words. Thanks also to all who put together the venue, the audience, the video and the music it is much appreciated and Brooklyn is a very interest place. I actually just spent a week in Breukelen in the Netherlands. Its almost as close to Amsterdam as Brooklyn is to Manhattan (New Amsterdam).
This lecture is so informative. I like it so much.
Very impressive projects with critical impact. Bravo!
why would anyone thumb Down this video?
Why would anyone think that 6 out of 21,600 was anything other than random error?
Because a lot of people are crazy.
aliens disliked this video
Could be what he said beginning at 21:37 -- critiquing Economics is blasphemy to some.
@nonya damnbus: I hope you're being facetious!
The resilience perspective on the livelihoods of the populations in the presentation is excellent. Although I still consider it a challenge for governments to become aware of the burden on vulnerable populations to extreme weather events.
Yes great possibilities and apparently business opportunities. The engines of commerce must keep moving. Hopefully this transformation will slow down the consumption and extraction process currently compromising most of the ecosystem's inhabitants on the planet.
great work man ....love you from Nepal
really positive hope for the world。
great work
promote the protection of land, save of our generations generations, well done.
beautiful
Thank You!
good ancestors okigjh
Hi John: We have a huge homeless problem due to mental illness, drugs, etc. in the Pacific Northwest. Foundational human needs such as physical, emotional, food and shelter security make it very difficult for people to become freed from the bonds that tie them down. A group in Texas has created a community where all of those needs are addressed and people have the community and safety to then address the binds of mental disorder and drug addiction and people find the joy of seeing the productivity of their work. With that concept... people who are trapped becoming freed from that trap by communities (under intentional shepherding) building together and then prospering from the work of their hands, might the groups you represent consider partnering with those who would like to give people a pathway off of the streets and create restoration camps in target areas? Thanks for your thoughts. Ken
nice video. great work...😊😊😊
Thank you
WOnderful! Tell me how we can be a base camp in Western Australia.
Thanks for the offer, its best to use the contact form at www.Commonland.com to reach John and the Commonland staff.
wooow...
Great work. What to do with urban lands covered with asphalt and concrete and no vegetative cover? My city of Islamabad 20 years back had it water hit when drilling to 40 feet. Today, you do not find water drilling to 350 feet. While the city has annual precipitation close to 1000mm.
When you really think about it. Sometime, I do want to agree on the Agenda 21 . Those who are in the so call third world country deserved the chance to live on because, they have to go through hardship everyday just to survive. In the rich countries and like here in America, people are so careless, and spoiled that they waist so much foods and their resources like there's no end to everything.
Could someone please update the under write to have a hyperlink for further information for Commonland or a way to find out how to participate? I can do a "google" search, but maybe others might find it easiest to link from here to there. Thank you!!!!!!
www.commonland.com/en
I will update the info, thanks!
This is an argument for "National Socialism". National socialism was not communism, it was a system where a free market, private ownership existed, but the free market was controlled and directed towards ends that benefited the nation. This shows that an uncontrolled free market leads to devastation.
You could also call this Social Democracy or Socialist Market Economy which Deng Xiao Ping called it in an interview I filmed with Mike Wallace for 60 minutes back in the 1980s.
😍😍😍😍
What about self sustainability community es?
An extraordinary job you are doing to restore nature. Congratulations. My only concern is the fact that the world bank is involved, it is logical to me that they seek to take advantage of economics and that helping people is only a secondary objective for them. Sorry, but I can't trust the world bank
The Common Earth Project is where #GretaThunberg needs to get her ecological education... and temper her media presence.
We need this right in the breadbaskets of America. Where our oil based practices are destroying the ecology of land
Geothermal energy is not literally clean energy
Ahh, you've studied in our Kingdom, good move 👍-up.
Cuando el Banco Mundial o cualquier otra organización esta detrás de ese tipo de "desarrollo", detrás de ese empeño hay intereses turbios
24:20
Quite a wrong understanding of anthropology but the rest is good :)
Yeah the CCP wanted to help the people and you worked for the world bank , enough said skip skip skip
Powerful? Or just a concentration/bottleneck of scale?
Sure by man's definition, "powerful" (physics) ... but it's so weak it can't move the banks! wtf ...
It seems you are aware of what needs to get washed away. (that is - the banks) which are actually - The fellow man - slavery to Money Systems managers). "After all" if lazy people were removed from the villages - all this could be accomplished - without needing to get loans to buy - petrol = money burning equipment.
Seeds and (understanding type) working people's labor - "could be" free = no money necessary - or aloud .- within the (gated - thick hedge row walls) of the village.
. - Now if only the Bank and Government owned lands were free to use. We could have all our sustainable needs taken care of by our own efforts . That is our "no cost" - provided by GOD's Green Earth self sustaining (fellow man nurtured) provision system.
I have thunked up a method (using our PCs, the internet and a specialized software Application.) - with which - we can organize ourselves into like minded design/work groups. I named the App. - Application Gods Green Earth
Its where Via the internet - People make Proposals and vote on Proposals
which automatically separate like minds - each into their own - population of like minded people working to plan out every aspect of an efficient functioning Village .
Eventually when the design of your - self sustained Village - is completely finished.
You and your fellow villagers can pool your funds and purchase a tract of land at some beautiful location on - Gods Green Earth - and live and \work contently ever after.. Without Banks. - except maybe (free food) banks.
He believes in evolution? WOW?? I lost interest f watching this video!
we need to get over the idea that religion and evolution are mutually exclusive. Perhaps evolution is just a reflection or a symptom of a wider plan by a Creator. The philosophical war between science and religion is just used to separate, manipulate, and control people for the purpose of political power and votes and advance hidden agendas. We have fallen for this crap for a few decades and it's gotten old.
Do you even listen? His point was that the religion and the science are not in conflict, yet all you heard was conflict and hate? Is that really part of your religion? Conflict and hate?
Is this a joke? How can you "BELIEVE" in something that's been scientifically proven? I guess you don't "BELIEVE" in human induced climate change and that 2+2=4 either?
what an amzing inspirations youve doen for peoples and community i hope you will help all countries that never do thigns like you do to change the ecosystems