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We should have schools on wind turbine with solar roof hybrid system, we have solar window film, solar rolls, solar shades, solar lights in/outdoor, natural gas, hydrogen, biofuels, and tidel, river/ocean currents, wave, geothermal, and piezoelectric energy where applicable. Then vertical farming (Freight, Bowrey, Plenty) all school food. With ivestock farm on vertical farming fodder. Fisheries, aqua pontic with classes and farmers market vendors. Use the NEOM solar dome desalination on coastline areas. With all school buses (Lion Electric ) and staff vehicles electric with charging stations. We can also have electric tools on building hybrid system or electric generators with personal solar. Electric tractors can be used. Its a complete self sustainable system. Villages can solar water well tankless water heater and air conditioning or purification? One tree planted, 4ocean, mangroves kelp farms coral restoration are good. This old house RU-vid has construction. Hope this helps? God bless. 2 Peter 1:7 hydroseed grass. Drip irrigation solar water well, worm bee farm, permaculture no till 6 inch soil microbiology. Vertical farm berries vegetables on solar wind hybrid. Livestock feed no pesticides fodder new dairy Angus?
I have heard suggestion that much of Australia was heavily forested or even rain forest but the Indigenous actually desertified much of it by constantly burning it down. I personally think there's credence in it because from what the blokes here are doing it seems on a long enough timeline the land could very well completely rehydrate and recover to something resembling what it formerly was.
This film is the best thing I've seen in years. I worked through that country in the early eighties, and west of there. All I remember is the whole place hard baked bare country. This is bloody wonderful, keep up with this great work.
It's the snowball effect: water retention, gradual greening, less soil erosion, more drought resistance, increased biodiversity, ability to support trees/grasses/shrubs/flowering plants, encourage shading, more water in dams/streams/water table, all adds to better soil and yield.
It's great to see action being taken to improve soil health in these western communities. I spent much of my childhood years in those areas and my early working career in some of these communities and the land degredation was something to behold. Sadly although these people are working to fix it in an agricultural sense most of the problem stems from tree clearing, over grazing and collapse of ecosystem function by removal of native animals and introduction of pest species. I hope more thought is put into fixing these other parts to restoring the land equation so we can all share a more productive and healthy landscape.
Good on you!!! Creative Innovative, Imaginative, Pre-ememptive maintenance of land. This is IMPRESSIVE stuff. However, the "greenies" will hate you for turning desertification around, reduce topsoil loss, rebuilding water retention in the landscape, improve the populations of flora fauna, bugs & insects and a wholesome eco system, and run stock that fart.
Great work which needs to adopted for any exposed soil (dirt) starting from the Australian coasts going all the way to the interior. Reason: bare dirt recycles heat as vortices in the air (starting with willy nillys) that may combine with each other and become powerful enough to drive off rain that may have fallen because plant life can trigger rainfall (Walter Jehne). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_TsX7ffouxQ.html (watch at 1.5 speed if you aren't taking notes)
Human activity is not the primary driver of climate change. We are actually emerging from the second coolest period on earth in the last 10,000 years. We are thawing out. Climate change is the greatest banking fraud of all time. I only hope we get brave scientists who will speak up. Ice core data backs up everything I say. Bankers are killing our economy.
Old Mate in the green shirt,and the bloke in the blue shirt and cap, they told it how it is.They called a STORM a STORM, NOT a Wanky Woo 'Rain Event' The Most Annoying Bullshit Term EVER Adopted in Describing a Bloody STORM.
This is so hopeful. How did we loose this knowledge? I know we came from Europe with that climate's mindset, but we just devastated this land. When England reports a drought, I think, if they can't conserve water in a place it always rains, no wonder they created vast tracts of cracked mud here. To think that what looked like barren land was in reality a wetland! I'm glad this knowledge is coming back and that the farmers are finding a cheap way to conserve water. It's so effective, that it will get past down generationally.
Just one good project can change The Water Situation of 80% Australia in all directions - East West North South. All smaller projects then will be more viable and efficient. If the Government agrees and also people have to agree it's doable in 3 yrs, giving results from the very 1st yr of start. Meanwhile people have to do what little they can.
Absolutely fantastic work being done. If we could harness these ideas and a "Volunteer Army" of retired folk ( I'd love to be involved), then just imagine what could be achieved at almost no cost.
Australia should give funding to farmers to just get a load of trench diggers in or pipe laying equipment (without the laying of pipe) as you get a berm and weir from the one process
As much as I love 'the bush' and all that Australia has to offer, I can't help thinking that despite all the technological and societal advances we've enjoyed in the last few generations and will enjoy in the next couple, we are seeing this magnificent land at its absolute worst, and we are lesser for it. I'd love to retire (early) on 100 acres or so and spend the next few decades before I depart, replanting and regrowing what I can so that a generation or few down the track, will once again see the mighty forests that used to be here, and enjoy them.
I have a section near the edge of my property where I used to get runoff along the road like a river so I added a foot of mulch along the edge of the road and even during heavy rain the winecap mycelium that has grown into that mulch absorbs the water like a sponge and pulls it into my land
I only have an acre so I might not be scalable but we get free unlimited arborist mulch from the arborists I’ve made friends with. It’s amazing how much an acre can change with a few hundred cubic yards of mulch
In reality you're fixing a problem Australians themselves have caused. Over grazing, either from livestock, or from the overpopulation of kangaroos created by the abundance of water from those huge cattle stations, possibly over grazing from introduced animals like goats and camels, logging... all of this caused massive erosion that we have to fix today.
The country being "regenerated" is not suitable most years for any production . Regenerative agriculture though better than traditional methods is just a catch phrase used to justify farming country that shouldn't be farmed. The term is a best a hoax at worst a con or green washing the public. If the land hadn't been degrade and over grazed for generations this sort of programme wouldn't be needed
