TEDxDubbo - Ichsani Wheeler - The Good Carbon Story
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Originally from Far North Queensland, Ichsani Wheeler is a young scientist as well as a mad keen gardener, lover of worms, fungi, and all lowly compostable things. With a succinct soft spot for home made aquaponics systems and soil that smells good enough to eat she has a long standing passion for agriculture, the environment and pragmatic approaches to the challenges of sustainability.
After graduating from a Bachelor of Land and Water Science she worked as an environmental consultant to the design and development industries. Her project experience primarily focused on designing natural storm water treatment systems, waterway rehabilitation and urban design. Returning to take-up a PhD in 2009 examining soil carbon sequestration on farms she is committed to highlighting the importance of healthy, functioning soil as vital to a healthy, functioning society.
TEDxDubbo focused attention on what we call FACETS -- Food, Agriculture, Climate, Energy, Topsoil and Sustainability. These FACETS are actually potent ideas shared by everyday people with an interest in these disciplines. In many of these topics there is an awareness campaign; the aim of bringing our community together united against catastrophic failures in our food-chain, environment and health. It is worth mentioning that we are also indebted to our natural systems for our economic wealth. Failures in Food, Agriculture, Climate, Energy, Topsoil and Sustainability are not just a local issue -- they are a global concern. tedxdubbo.com/
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I so needed to hear this. the idea of straight line vs cycle thinking. so obvious.
Awesomely presented.
Good lecture giving an overview - but not even 9,000 views !
I could literally listen to this woman talking about soil for the rest of my life. Lol. Something about her voice had my full attention.
Share it, get this info out there
The biggest miracle is that all life on earth relies on six inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains!
Hi Ichsani, Compost is the answer to so many problems. If we managed our forest fuel overburden, we could be harvesting materials which currently are wasted with much collateral damage. Not only could we be recycling materials for composting, but we could be sorting for a wide diversity of organic materials such as weed free mulches, firewood and kindling, feed for animals, odds and ends for habitat reconstruction such as hollow logs and limbs, materials for making methane and ethanol, bark for a variety of purposes such as tanning, dyes and who knows what else. Our catchments are screaming at us for management. The riparian environment in Australia is devastated. Our rivers carry a tiny fraction of their potential, and the riparian environs are rich in endangered species, but mixed with many weeds. This a situation that calls for loving, hands-on teamwork. These zones are the major asset of this country and the world. We have silted them up, and we can take the silt out again. In that silt, there are logs, rocks, soil, sand and gravel, just what is required to repair eroded banks, because much of that erosion is the banks. If we did this job with all of our love and intelligence, and are prepared to do it with our hands and simple tools, we could make a giant step towards the planet we all, deep in our hearts, really want. We can make an infinite amount of compost, and every tonne of it, if properly prepared, will grow twenty tonnes of vegetation. This is an infinitely reproducible process, and with that compost we can reclaim arid land. With all the water in a self-renewing river system, deepened to its optimum carrying capacity. we would have all we need to revegetate the whole earth, without the need for dams. The humusphere is the responsibility of we humans and it is the parent of all of the atmospheres above - lets rebuild it.
Grazing ruminants is the answer.
@@btudrus How? Please elaborate. I know cattle can do much good in rehabilitation of open country, but how does that affect the forest fuel? And if you are suggesting free range herds, that means a big change in general management. we have to control fuel now due to massive uncontrolled fires getting ever more common and severe.
EXCELLENT
Very interesting.
If there was no Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere ALL life on earth would dry! What is the effect one large volcanic eruption??!!
She showed that in one of her slides. It was very small in comparison to what bare soil/desert land does.