Water Stories: The Untapped Way to Heal the Planet with Zach Weiss

In this episode We hear about the potential of local and global water restoration from Zach Weiss, inspired founder of Water Stories, a learning, training, and action platform focused entirely on Water Cycle Restoration. A globally renowned Water Cycle practitioner, Zach continues to activate thousands of people around the globe to restore the health of watersheds and ecosystems, while ensuring water security and true wealth in their own communities. Water is the prime mover of life and we each bear responsibility for its continuance in order to heal ourselves and our living relatives on the planet. Support the Podcast via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Decentralized water retention is both quietly and radically transforming desertified, urbanized and degraded landscapes, ushering in fertility and abundance, restoring peace and the livelihoods of numerous communities worldwide. Indigenous peoples have traditionally regarded water as sacred, safeguarding it as the precious inheritance of life. We would do well to remember our ancestral, original connections to water and how, if we respect and protect it, we can collectively change the world. Water regulates 70-95% of the heat dynamics of planet earth, yet it is virtually non-existent in climate change conversations. Over the past 10,000 years human activity has desertified ⅓ of earth’s land, causing catastrophic consequences, water and food scarcity, displacement of peoples, and created repeated cycles of severe flood, drought, and fire - otherwise known as the Watershed Death Spiral. All of this is not only preventable, but reversible if we work with water and recognize this as the ultimate calling of our times. Work for water and the world changes. Decentralized Water Retention delivers meaningful results after the first rainy season. People around the world are learning how to quickly create real substantive change for the health of their landscapes and communities - by working for water. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio RESOURCES https://www.waterstories.com/water-cycle-restoration Zach Weiss is a Water Cycle Restoration Practitioner and Founder of Water Stories. Over the past decade Zach has implemented Decentralized Water Retention in more than 25 different countries on six continents, spanning a wide range of climates, contexts, land-forms and ecosystems. After more than a decade of experience, Zach created www.WaterStories.com [http://www.waterstories.com/] to bring these approaches and solutions to people around the world. Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, Indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt Hosted by Carry Kim Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats