Netflix for Earth

 These 5 Netflix documentaries fit together perfectly as a guide for everyone on the planet, individuals and groups, to understand climate change, how it affects all life, and the possibility for climate renewal. 

The most exciting aspect of this 'series' of films is the hope and prospect of ecological evolution expressed by people who understand better than most the ecological disaster well on it's way.

The absolute beauty of the planet, it's mystery and vast wonder, which human beings have only barely begun to understand, is the common backdrop for these films. Because of this common backdrop, all of the films uplift and inspire, much more than depress. At the end of the tunnel of dark human history is a bright new sense of purpose to live in harmony with the planet. 

 

Our Planet

Breaking Boundaries: The Science Of Our Planet

David Attenborough's, A Life on Our Planet

Life In Color With David Attenborough

Fantastic Fungi

Akashinga Elephant Rangers

 

Women park rangers, in a prototype conservation program in Zimbabwe known as Akashinga, vow to protect elephants and rhinos with their lives.  The 'Brave Ones' are an all-women, vegetarian, anti-poaching group recruited locally in an effort to engage the community to live in harmony with wildlife. The founder, Damien Mender, says he started focusing on the women's training after seeing they were more successful at de-escalating violence and community engagement.  As the women achieve autonomy and empowerment, the wildlife and lands are getting that 'fighting chance'.

https://www.iapf.org/akashinga

Amazing Agriculture

My stellar Grammi sent me this article recently, knowing how much I love good news.  This article reports on a pioneering regenerative agriculture method  for farmers in rainforest habitats, replacing slash and burn with alley cropping, using a very special tree, the Inga.  Fifteen countries have some farmers using this method, all have been able to grow food, cash crops, and even started reforestation.

 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/inga-tree-creating-organic-farming-climate-resistance-carbon-sequestration-honduras/

Need to Grow, and Project Drawdown

In the documentary, Need to Grow, a renewable energy project, known as a green powerhouse, makes a potent  byproduct to sustain regenerative agriculture, biochar.  I wondered though that the powerhouse was reliant on waste from logging operation-  if in an age where deforestation must be halted, was there an alternative? Then, when looking through the Project Drawdown website, noted a connection by following the 'Engineered Sinks' tab, to 'Biochar', and seeing a claim that this byproduct has been made using all kinds of natural waste, intriguing.

Project Drawdown also deserves a good study by all of the people on the planet, immense carbon solution database.

https://grow.foodrevolution.org/

https://drawdown.org/

Ambitious, yet Doable

This is the most comprehensive site to understand the 30x30 global conservation plan. As the US heads it's own 30x30 plan, the UN gets ready for a worldwide change in human economy, business, and lifestyle change, that replaces actions that destroy nature with actions that protect nature. The best part about this political globalized movement is the potential for all human societies to begin to build "nature positive" ways of life (not just doing no harm, but in fact enhancing ecology through participation). 

 https://www.campaignfornature.org/

Tale of The Thing Cleaning up Plastic in the Oceans

This story crossed my path 3 years ago now, and it sounds like the project is still going strong.  Since 2013, a non profit group started by an 18 year old in the Netherlands, have been busy cleaning up plastic from the ocean's 5 garbage patches, and 1,000 most polluting rivers.  The

Big Thing is called System001; luckily, this group is dedicated to getting it best, launching better- System002, this year, 2021.

https://theoceancleanup.com/