#Regreening

Helen McCarthy

@helenmccarthy51.bsky.social

12 hours ago

bone binding like bine
life repair repeat renew
the self as seedbed

#haiku #poetry #newgrowth #regreening

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Better than compost

@brookclinton.bsky.social

1 week ago

Eucalpytus grandis, the flooded gum, naturally thrives in lowland, rich alluvial soils. It's growth and early establishment are limited when available phosphourus is lacking. (1/2)

#revegetation #restoration #soils #carbon #forestry #ecology #regreening #circulareconomy #plantnutrition #rehydrating

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Gerco Wolfswinkel 🇪🇺

@gj.wolfswinkel.net

1 month ago

Planet Wild Planet Wild is a global community of people that deeply care about the planet. We're on a mission to bring back endangered species, clean up our waterways from plastic and to rewild entire forests to ...

Zie ook de video's van Planet Wild: www.youtube.com/@planet-wild #planetwild #regreening #restoration

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Save The Netherlands

@red-nederland.bsky.social

1 month ago

Arbaro de Espero is based in Lebanon. Yet our aims are global. One of those is to plant a lot of trees to mitigate global warming, limiting aridification and saving lowlands from rising seas.

#nature #sustainability #regreening #photography #reforestation #land #farm #farming #plants #peace #plants

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Global Earth Repair

@globalearthrepair.bsky.social

4 months ago

Water Retention & Flood Prevention - Global Earth Repair Foundation Flood prevention and water retention in the landscape are related through how communities can apply earthworks toward recharging aquifers.

Want to do something about intense flooding and droughts? Did you know that these are caused by the same thing, improper water retention in the landscape? Want to know how to make the land absorb more water? #regreening #rainharvesting #watershed globalearthrepairfoundation.org/harvest-rain...

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4 months ago

'Forgotten' water harvesting system transforms 'barren wasteland' into thriving farmland When the Great Green Wall initiative began in 2007, it was just a vision of a big, beautiful wall of greenery spanning the width of Africa to keep the Sahara Desert from encroaching on the rest of the continent. Despite years of successes and failures, celebration and criticism, we can see the progress being made as an inspiring example of how local and global collaboration can help counter the effects of climate change. Just a few years ago, the Sahel region at the northern edge of Senegal was a "barren wasteland" where nothing had grown for 40 years. But the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and local villagers teamed up to regreen the area, bringing back agriculture, improving the economy of the people who live there, and preventing the climate migration that desertification ultimately leads to. A barren desert.Canva Photos ## How do you hold back the world's largest hot desert? According to Andrew Millison, a permaculture designer and instructor at Oregon State University, the Sahara desert has expanded by about 10% in the past 100 years. The idea behind the Great Green Wall is to build a barrier of vegetation to stop that expansion, which threatens the ecosystems and economies of the Sahel—the region south of the Sahara that separates the desert from the savanna. In a video from February of 2024, Millison shared the collaborative nature and progress of one Great Green Wall project in Senegal, including the rejuvenation of 300,000 hectares (about the equivalent of 600,000 football fields) of seemingly unusable land. - YouTube youtu.be "The process started with the community-based participatory planning," WFP program policy officer Bakalilou Diaby shares in the video. "By the end of this process, it was agreed that one of the major actions is the land reclamation or land recovery project." At first, it took some time to convince the community that the regreening of the degraded landscape was even possible, but after learning about how to improve the land, "the people believe and they are convinced, and they are also committed," says Diaby. ## The "forgotten" half-moon method of harvesting water One of the keys to this particular regreening project is using long-forgotten techniques for harvesting water. When soil is crusted and sunbaked and hard as cement, rainwater doesn't penetrate and it's impossible for plants to take root. The solution? Half-moon shaped ditches dug in such a way that water flows into them on the straight side with an embankment built on the rounded side to hold the water in. Each half moon is four meters in diameter and takes about a day for one person to dig. Local vegetation domesticated on the Sahel thousands of years ago, such as sorghum and millet, are planted in these half moons, rehabilitating the land and feeding the local community at the same time. "This is nothing new—we have not invented a technology here," explains Sebastian Muller from the WFP resilience team. "The half moon technology is actually an endogenous technology to the Sahel and has been forgotten over time. We have rescued it from the past." Not only does capturing water in the half moons help with the immediate need to grow food and contribute to the Great Green Wall, but 10%—15% of the water will actually soak into the ground to replenish the water table, creating a more sustainable agricultural process. "That way we actually achieve a balance of water. So we are not depleting the water resources, but we're making sure that we keep enough water in the ground for future generations," says Muller. Other crops such as okra and tomatoes are grown in horizontal horticulture beds, and between those ditches grow trenches with fruit trees in them. Fruit trees.Canva Photos ## Engaging indigenous wisdom for sustainable farming "This is just a very first step in this pilot," adds Muller. "We'll also be using other native species that will be planting in the pits that will drive the rejuvenation of the soil and the protection of the soil as the system starts growing into abundance and producing food and life for the people here." According to Muller, the "syntropic farming" methods being employed were developed in Brazil and are based on global indigenous practices that mimic the way natural forests grow and thrive. These natural growing dynamics make agriculture more sustainable, continually replenishing the land rather than continually depleting it—truly a testament to global collaboration carried out at the local level with local community support. "This project was really, really interesting because the World Food Programme wanted to demonstrate how you could take the most devastated areas and turn them back into resilient, food-producing locations," says Millison. "And they specifically placed their project on a very degraded landscape that had been taken down to bare, compacted earth." If this desertified "wasteland" can be rejuvenated so successfully, it provides hope for recovering other land that many people might write off as useless or barren. As climate change continues to alter the Earth's landscape—literally—we'll need to keep working together both locally and globally to find solutions like the Great Green Wall and support their implementation. You can learn more about successful permaculture practices on Andrew Millison's YouTube channel. _This article originally appeared in January._

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Cozy Manny

@the-manny.bsky.social

8 months ago

Today is #regreening day! @unccd.bsky.social is working hard to raise awareness for, and help organizations fight, Desertification and Drought! This is a topic near and dear to my heart, and THE inspiration for our game The Regreening.

#hope #nature #restoration #indie #cozy #game

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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼

@danielhoffmann1.bsky.social

9 months ago

Medellín’s sublime return to nature – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian Over the last decade, Colombia’s ‘city of eternal spring’ has embarked on an ambitious effort to restore greenery to public parks, transit corridors and even high-rises

A reminder that there are also good, normal people with a positive vision and the capabilities to make it a reality. #regreening #biodiversity #livableCities www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Cozy Manny

@the-manny.bsky.social

9 months ago

Look!! It's our game! Do you enjoy nature? Farming sims? Cozy games? Relaxin music and watching plants grow? Look no further!!

And why yes! We ARE looking for the perfect publisher to support us with our game!

#indiegame #cozy #regreening #nature #restoration

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@amarkpark.bsky.social

9 months ago

VERY inspirational and informative video for anyone interested in #restoration, #regeneration, #regreening, #permaculture, #agriforestry, #LandManagement, #sustainability, #GreenLiving, #EcoFriendlyLiving, and our #SustainableFuture. For #NatureLovers with #EcoAnxiety or #ClimateHope. #GoGreen

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Whistleblower-Netzwerk

@whistleblowernet.bsky.social

9 months ago

Regreening-Programme auf den Philippinen – Interviews mit Whistleblowern enthüllen Manipulationen, damit weiterhin Cash Crops angebaut werden konnten.
tinyurl.com/46h8ph9e
©Heute.at, CC BY 4.0
#philippinen #regreening #greenwashing #whistleblowing #abholzungen #cashcrops

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Inanna Ihwa - The Poem Whisperer

@inannaihwa.bsky.social

9 months ago

Regreening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012 YouTube video by vpro documentary

#greenbelt #regreening #desert

In the past 20 years, China has planted over 2.4 billion trees, and India has planted over 2.1 billion trees. Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria have approximately planted 3.021 billion trees!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgD...

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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼

@danielhoffmann1.bsky.social

1 year ago

‘All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation | Conservation | The Guardian The Loess plateau was considered the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farming

Reversing vegetation loss can be winning strategy for water conservation, #biodiversity, prosperity, climate change resilience. Hopefully we can learn from problems & mistakes of this project. #regreening www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/14/...

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@alsinaallan.bsky.social

1 year ago

Planting the seeds of hope! Young climate champions taking action for a greener future. #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #ActOnClimate #TreePlanting #YouthClimateAction #Regreening #SustainableFuture #ClimateEducation #NatureRestoration #EcoWarriors #GreenGeneration

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Gerco Wolfswinkel 🇪🇺

@gj.wolfswinkel.net

1 year ago

Our 2024 highlights | Justdiggit YouTube video by Justdiggit

Ik mis op Bluesky nog JustDiggit, de non-profit die in Afrika met vele partner-organisaties werkt aan het hergroenen van 'degraded' land. Prachtig werk, waar ik al een tijdje graag aan bijdraag. Zie hier hun 2024 highlights: youtu.be/Ic8wYsB9P7c?... #justdiggit #regreening

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Niya Najima

@niyanajima.bsky.social

1 year ago

#GoodNews #Solutions #ClimateChange #Regreening

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Urban Forest_arboriculture_treerider

@arboltreearbre.bsky.social

1 year ago

Comment préférez-vous les fosses d’arbres, avec ou sans végétation ? Avec une végétation rudérale ou des annuelles à fleurs ?

#regreening
#arboriculture
#tree
#arbol
#arbopalm

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Urban Forest_arboriculture_treerider

@arboltreearbre.bsky.social

1 year ago

Paisajismo urbano con funciones ecosistémicas.
Vegetalización de techos, paredes y alcorques.
#biofilia
Urban #trees
#regreening
#arbopalm
#arboriculture
#arbre

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Michael ヘビ Steinwandter

@msteinwandter.bsky.social

1 year ago

A genius way to restore dead soil YouTube video by Planet Wild

As a baker of #PlanetWild, I am happy about the new mission #20 is focusing on #SoilRestoration and #Regreening degraded land in southern #Kenya.

Look at the video (called mission report) and if you like it, become a baker!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG1H...

#Soil #Rewilding #Desertification #Africa

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Áine ☽𖤐☾

@whoa-magic.lol

1 year ago

Green Gold: Regreening the Desert | John D. Liu | English Green Gold: Regreening the Desert | John D. Liu | EnglishEnvironmental filmmaker and Commonland Ambassador John D. Liu documents large-scale ecosystem restor...

Green Gold: #Regreening the #Desert

youtu.be/E3nR3G9jboc?...

#EcosystemRestoration #Land #Food #Farming #Ecosystems #Desertification #Water #Permaculture #China

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David N. Thomas

@dnthomas01.bsky.social

6 years ago

Ever tried revenge honey? It tastes good Justin Rowlatt is attacked by bees in Ethiopia's Tigray p...

The landscape of northern #Ethiopia has been transformed over the last three decades by a #regreening project that has turned degraded land into forest. This has had a positive impact on water supplies and on wildlife - including bees
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50435018

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