India's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation

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Recommends fredrikholm · 2021-07 · on “How to plant a forest: Context is key”

A great start is the Paani foundation; they move thousands of villages from water tank dependency to self-sufficiency in their annual competition. [this video]

Recommends carapace · 2022-07 · on “The world is awful, the world is much better, the world can be much better”

> At scale? Yes, of course, all lifeforms reproduce exponentially. Literally the biosphere would (re-)vivify the Earth automatically if we just stop destroying it. It's been doing it for four billion years. > Can this be implemented globally in a few decades? That I cannot say, but I believe the limiting factors are social/political rather than biological or physical. In other words, yes, if we have the will we could probably turn things around, go from destruction to regeneration, within three decades. It would be unprecedented but I don't see any intrinsic physical reasons that we couldn't do it. The revitalization of the Loess Plateau took less than three decades, and as a side-effect it

Recommends hosh · 2022-09 · on “A Climate Love Story”

Also, I missed you asking about sharing what I found. Permaculture was the gateway into the world of what is possible. Consider, for example, the 3 permaculture ethical principles: - Care of Earth - Care of People - Fair Share This is all voluntary. It’s not about making people change, or changing the masses. The design principles shows a way of decentralizing food production in a way that is more resilient, adaptive, and also works with the culture (and not just the technologies or methods, hence “perma-culture”)Although the two people who originally put this together doesn’t address Consciousness or spirituality, I have found that these design principles can lead to way of life that has ro

Cites hosh · 2021-09 · on “Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up”

I live in Phoenix and have heard some of the local discourse about this. Fabs need a lot of water, like a swimming pool. Once you fill it up, then you need comparatively less to stay operational. Intel has invested in both recycling water as well as partnering with organizations on water conservation and ecology projects. Arizona does draw water from the Colorado River, but among the four states, Arizona is at the bottom of the water rights. We get what is left over after Colorado, California, and Utah get their legal share. The biggest user of water here in Arizona are the commercial farmers. (The Hopi people practice dryland agriculture and so don’t irrigate at all; most everyone else irri

Cites hosh · 2021-10 · on “Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature”

All those problems are systemic problems where the system enters a state of degeneratiom. Those “act big and fast” are not sustainable (not enough resources, time, effort, will — political or otherwise). Those same degenerate processes can be reversed by taking advantage of the very second-order effects and feedback loops. Do things that will regenerate and restore the land. Regenerative agriculture has a much bigger impact than reducing carbon emissions. Even stuff like, modifying the “slash and burn” for clearing out to Amazon to “slash and char” taps into that feedback loop. Buying local — or better yet, growing local, like in your backyard — isn’t just to develop resiliency for what is t