@HLBurdett &co advocate for prioritizing #environmental and #climate considerations to increase the sustainability of future #CoralReefs and open up opportunities for new restoration approaches.
Our peach tree has peach leaf curl. It's a fungal disease. A copper fungicide is the common treatment, and it can kill soil microorganisms. Instead, I'm relying on our long relationship. Our tree is shedding the damaged leaves and starting to grow new ones. My part is to help lighten that load. I gently twist off extra peaches from all winter honey bee visits. I feed the soil. Today is a load lightening day. #restoration#gardening
"Some of the rarest creatures in Britain have now made Knepp their home, including kingfishers, hazel dormice, scarce chaser dragonflies and purple emperor butterflies. The river has returned to its natural course and the soil is now storing as much #carbon per hectare as a 25-year-old plantation of trees does, according to recent tests."
"A global annual investment of just 1% of the world’s GDP – around $1tn – to pay farmers who choose to transition from cattle husbandry to #restoration and management of native #forests and #grasslands would significantly raise the income of cattle farmers and stimulate rural communities, while rapidly reducing global warming and reversing the global collapse of biodiversity. And that would be a bargain."
“Most of us love #nature and appreciate it for its beauty, but living in relation to land through ecosystem restoration, #stewardship or harvesting creates a different appreciation and perspective,” says Sarah Jim.
“Once I started seeing the land for who it was and who it was trying to be, that’s when I realized the ivy was not letting the land be who it was meant to be.”
Since the 1980s, Xiamen has spared no efforts in #ecological#restoration in the city. So far, Xiamen authorities have launched five campaigns aimed at Yundang Lake's ecological restoration. Now with six different #parks, the lake area has virtually become a "recreational center" for residents.
"‘Dust is everywhere’: rare glimpse of how Michelangelo’s David is kept clean" by Angela Giuffrida #TheGuardian
"Michelangelo’s David is recognised as one of the most sublime works in the history of sculpture, but according to the director of Florence’s Accademia Gallery, dusting it is much like cleaning a bathroom.
“You know when you clean a bathroom, you clean and clean and think you’ve done a great job but then you spot some dust and wonder ‘where did that come from?’,” Cecilie Hollberg said on Monday. “This is what it’s like. Dust is everywhere.”
Once every two months, the Accademia Gallery’s in-house restorer Eleonora Pucci clambers up the side of scaffolding assembled around the 5.17-metre-tall figure and gets to work on dusting David’s marble locks and perfectly toned muscles, using a vacuum and fine brushes and cloths."
"Little did we know that those first shovels full of earth would launch a journey of unimaginable joy. Or how greatly our work would transform not just our home, but our lives."
💧 Do you know where the water from the property you're on right now ends up? What creek or river is your property connected to?
Can the property soak up rain from heavy storms? Or is the site mostly paved, causing water to flood streets & overwhelm sewers? 🌊 Does the water sweep up pesticides or fertiliser as it does?
Find out where all that ends up using the link below - it might be in the water you drink & shower in. 🚿
Everything that ends up in the water that leaves your property (eroded dirt, pesticides, fertilizers, heat - all of which can harm tiny stream creatures, harm the fish that eat them, harm the birds and mammals that eat the fish, and harm us when drinking or showering) winds up in someone's water source.
And everything that your neighbors do upstream (sometimes hundreds of miles upstream) wind up in yours.
Since I'm now in my last semester of grad school for my Master of Landscape Architecture degree, I'm going to begin sharing pieces of my capstone project on here regularly.
I welcome all your comments, feedback, suggestions, references to related projects and people, and encouragement!
First up, my project title -
WATERSHED NEIGHBORHOODS:
Exploring Community-Building as a Method for Stormwater Management and Ecological Restoration
"For more than 15 years, cameraman and ecologist John D. Liu has been working on his worldwide mission to green #deserts and to restore #biodiversity.
It all started in 1995 when Liu filmed the Loess-plateau in China. He witnessed a local population who turned an area of almost the same size as The Netherlands from a dry, exhausted wasteland into one green oasis. This experience changed his life. From that moment on, Liu has been travelling all over the world to convince & inspire government leaders, policy-makers and farmers with his film material & knowledge. Liu diligently spreads the message that restoration of ecosystems is not only possible, but also economically very meaningful.
Backlight accompanies Liu on his mission in Jordan and shows on the basis of Liu’s own film material that a green future is possible worldwide." #permaculture#restoration#drylands https://youtu.be/IDgDWbQtlKI
#ClimateDiary Now this is a story that has cheered me up (not much, recently). It sounds like a really wonderful, thought-through regenerative #restoration project - tree planting done the right way.
And: it is wonderful to see the efforts of people like Guy Shrubsole, George Monbiot and Eoghan Daltun, campaigning and writing about UK and Irish #rainforests for years, bear fruit. All this work does matter. Spurs me on a bit again! #HistoricalEcology#Devon
Bryony Wilde, project manager at Arlington Court, said:
“Through this tree planting, we’re helping to create a living landscape where both nature and people can thrive. These trees will not only provide a habitat for wildlife but also fix carbon into the soil, purify air and water, and provide a place for people to enjoy.” 💚
"A totally wild, unkempt, cacophony of lawn-to-meadow conversion is a lost opportunity, and indeed, shooting ourselves in the foot," writes Benjamin Vogt.
This afternoon I found two tiny kahikatea seedlings in a patch of planted native trees along the Wigram Retention Basin in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, #NZ.
These are the first wild kahikatea I've seen here, below trees that were planted in the earlier 1990s. They're also the first wild kahikatea here on #iNaturalistNZ