"Water is the ultimate capital of a farmer" according to Zach Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems, working on water retention landscapes.
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This is summary of the longer interview with Zach Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems. Blending a unique combination of systems thinking, empathy and awareness, Zach created Elemental Ecosystems to provide an action-oriented process to improve clients' relationship with their landscape.
Full interview with Zach:
https://soundcloud.com/investinginregenerativeagriculture/interview-zach-weiss
www.elementalecosystems.com
Thank you Judith D. Schwartz for the introduction to Zach!
Listen to Judith's interview here:
https://soundcloud.com/investinginregenerativeagriculture/interview-judith-d-schwartz
Take aways from the interview:
- Climate change is a symptom of the severe water cycle disturbance and there is something we can do about it!
- When the landscape isn’t being recharged with water, it leads to flooding and drought (worst case also fire)
- Humans desertified 1/3 of the earth’s cover the last 10.000 years
- We are carbon based life but the living part is mostly water
- There is much more you (as a land owner/manager) to influence the water cycle on and above your land
- Often when we talk about water we talk about big centralised water systems or the weather, Zach is focussed on decentralised water retention landscapes
- Sub-irrigated, you use a lot less energy
- Climate changes: everywhere the same story the precipitation is more when it comes and it comes less often
- Large dams and reservoirs are very energy intensive, smaller decentralised water retention systems are much more efficient
Links mentioned in the interview:
Sepp Holzer (Austria)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepp_Holzer
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