Ecosystem Based Adaptation, - by, John D. Liu, FULL VIDEO, The Great Work Of Our Time 

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

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.

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

just shows as way out of our mistakes...wake up people...Rise up Leaders...Thanks for your effort Dr. Liu...

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!!!

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 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.

GREAT WORK AND A GREAT START.......

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!

Amazing!

An astounding project, and my great gratitude to John Liu for what he has brought to all of us. Gives me hope.

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!

Amazing!... this is just the beginning.

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.

promote the protection of land, save of our generations generations, well done.

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.

why would anyone thumb Down this video?

This lecture is so informative. I like it so much.

Very impressive projects with critical impact. Bravo!

really positive hope for the world。

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.

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.

beautiful

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

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

wooow...

WOnderful! Tell me how we can be a base camp in Western Australia.

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).

nice video. great work...😊😊😊

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.

We need this right in the breadbaskets of America. Where our oil based practices are destroying the ecology of land

What about self sustainability community es?

Geothermal energy is not literally clean energy

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

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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!!!!!!

The Common Earth Project is where #GretaThunberg needs to get her ecological education... and temper her media presence.

Cuando el Banco Mundial o cualquier otra organización esta detrás de ese tipo de "desarrollo", detrás de ese empeño hay intereses turbios

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Ahh, you've studied in our Kingdom, good move 👍-up.

Quite a wrong understanding of anthropology but the rest is good :)

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 ...

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

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 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.

Yeah the CCP wanted to help the people and you worked for the world bank , enough said skip skip skip

great work

So many great quotes from this video...I have saved this

great work man ....love you from Nepal

He believes in evolution? WOW?? I lost interest f watching this video!