building healthy earth is a passion for
Matthew Trump it all starts with rotting
plants and early morning phone calls shy
Matthew it's Egypt colleague he is part
of a growing worldwide network
evangelizing the powers of healing soil
by replanting native species sculpting
land to store water and composting their
work could be critical as a third of the
world's soil is degraded and getting
worse due to climate change it's a
global movement from California to just
outside Cairo at this ecosystem
restoration camp that John Liu is
visiting Liu is a mentor in the movement
to build dozens of these camps around
the world in some ways it started with
the film the project certainly changed
my life John is an amazing storyteller
who filmed the loess plateau project in
China which was the largest land
restoration project in history at the
time
after watching matt reached out to john
on social media just in time the worst
wildfires in California history burned
through the area where Matt lives just
days after the pair first connected on
social media thousand acres have been
burned 50,000 plus people have been
displaced he called me and he said John
you must come back to California
immediately because paradise is lost it
was really the worst-case scenario
this is a tragedy but also an
opportunity John flew out right away to
help set up the first ecosystem
restoration camp in the United States
literally like the first demonstration
of what this could look like in the US
and we had over 100 people show up
it is Matthew in just a few days John
and Matt taught hundreds of volunteers
their method it brings volunteers
experts and resources together like a
flash mob this system for restoring soil
and repairing ecosystems has spread from
three camps in 2018 to 23 camps in 16
countries today the challenge at every
camp is the same dry dirt where nothing
can grow recently in Egypt
John was checking in on one of the
oldest projects in the network when we
started this was desert pure sand and
stone desert since thousands of years
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some of the techniques they use to
restore soil are centuries old others
are based on the latest restoration
methods they break up the soil control
the flow of water and erosion and plant
fast-growing crops that get tilled back
into the land and most importantly
campers use technology to teach and
inspire each other from it's part of
restoration project which we undertook
with a group of 10 volunteers casa de
san jose la trajectory olivia organical
mo recibido amedeo cha mill busy fantasy
their goal is to open 30 new locations
per year through the end of this decade
and grow to 1 million volunteers
this is a really powerful solution to
reverse climate change and to make our
future abundant and thriving and
peaceful we are doing what we need to do
to ensure that our children and future
generations have a life that's the
purpose of this
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