What ever you are doing right now, you are much more powerful than you think you are.
So is the invisible life in the land around you.
Your yard, your farm, your neighborhood, your parking lot at work, the trees around you, and the sky above you, are all part of a larger interconnected system through which water flows. Most people, including those who make policies, instinctively understand the power of landscape function, but are totally unaware of it in their daily actions, and so unknowingly contribute to weird water flows that gradually create the "natural" disasters we fear. The online course that starts tomorrow will show you how small actions can create profound feedback loops that build much more resilient neighborhoods, regions, and even continents--with clean water, working economies, a stable climate, and food to support life of all species.
What happens to the water that moves across the sky above you? Does it form raindrops, soak into the sponge, and rehydrate the land, or does it run off to the ocean? Does it transpire through green vegetation, cool the climate and spread rainfall evenly over the continent? Or does it collect on dust particles and turn into a hot humid haze that makes it hard to breathe, trapping larger and larger storms at the coast?
Your individual actions can determine whether huge wildfires, major flooding, heatwaves and drought, lack of clean water, and the forced migration that comes from these--all become a distant memory, or a growing threat.
Whether you are in health care, construction, caring for children, real estate, finance, an assembly line worker or the president of a corporation, you may think that the soil around you has little to do with your life. But after this course, you will never look at the road you drive to work on, and the landscape that surrounds it in the same way.
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"This will be an incredible course. Didi Pershouse is one of the best educators around.”
— Nicole Masters, Integrity Soils Ltd.
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My popular soil sponge intensive course begins tomorrow
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Beginning this Wednesday, May 29th, I'll be offering my popular online course "Regenerating the Soil Carbon Sponge for Flood, Drought, and Wildfire Resilience."
Join the incredible community of people (farmers, educators, policy folks, and more) from around the world who have taken this foundation course, and are using it to work together to shift land management practices, write new policies, and communicate more effectively with others about what is really going to get us out of the mess we are currently in.
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"I have participated in several of Didi Pershouse’s seminars and they are clear, accessible and paradigm shifting. She is the only person I know of worldwide making this foundational science information available to the general public in a palatable format."
– Phyllis Tichinin, dairy farmer, and eco-nutritionist at True Health Ltd. NZ
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Walter Jehne's webinar now available on demand
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This past Sunday, I hosted a live Q&A webinar with renowned Australian soil microbiologist and climate scientist Walter Jehne.
We answered questions about the biology and physics of restoring water cycles for cooling and rehydration of landscapes at local, regional, and global scales, as well as questions about the soil sponge that underlies all healthy functional landscapes and water cycles. This webinar is now available on demand and You can sign up to watch the recording.
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Now accepting new students for these ongoing communities of practice
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We are all enjoying each other so much, in the online Writing for Regeneration course that we've decided to keep the class going, probably move it to Wednesday evenings, and open it up to new folks in a few weeks. Jeff Goebel and I are doing the same thing in our Consensus-Based Policy class. Please reply to this email or contact me if you are interested in joining us for either of these ongoing groups.
I hope you'll join us as we continue to grow the circle of people who are committed to real change and long-term health for our local and worldwide communities.
Warmly,
Didi
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