So how big are your operations? How many people work at Regenerative Resources? I came here from the video about the Al-Baydha project video. And restoring ecosystems in as few years as that was, was incredible. Finally, anything common people can do to help?
Thanks for your interest! We have almost 50 people now in Mexico, Ghana and Scotland. We planted 85,000 mangroves in the last quarter of 2021. Please chek out our new website @ regenerativeresources.co/ and register for our updates.
Everyone helps by keeping the trash out of waterways community's working together to keep your own neighborhood clean and green after your space is good talk with neighbors and just keep moving a little farther away if we all do this the whole ball will be healthy and all the inhabitants good day to you sir
Sebastian- Indeed he does! Every day I work on these projects Carl is with me. I miss him very much. Have you seen the video I did about his life's work? ruclips.net/video/j0qU5cJQFDk/видео.html
@@howardwaz Just like your personal channel is a principle space for videos on Carl - might you be kind enough to share links to his principle papers please? I remember reading sporadic texts, then viscerally feel my mind bend a bit. For example, (disgustingly paraphrasing) - "minerals erode down the watersheds, into floodplains, then into the oceans. Our system brings the minerals back from the oceans onto the lands". All of a sudden, sea water isn't just a functionally infinite hydrological source - it's also an over-abundant source of nutrients (ie decades of agricultural runoff, etc). His thinking was quite unique as far as I can tell.
@@cupofkoa - please confirm how you describe yourself on LinkedIn (I'm pretty sure i found you) and I'll connect with you there and get you a few docs (Carl published very little)
Nathan- Thank you for asking. We continue to move forward with our funding efforts and are close to putting final deals together. Until we’re funded, though, it’s all concept. When it’s “real” we’ll have a lot to say…. Stay tuned!
Angela- Yes it would! We'made a propsal to the Imperial Valley Water District in the Fall of 2016 . There are a number of good organizations working towards a number of solutions. It needs to be fixed!
in iran the regime cuts down our forests, sells the wood and it even sells our forests' soil and spends the money for terrorist groups while you are regenerating the desert. seriously good job; i wish you well and hope you succeed doing this amazing work❤️.
Amir- Thank you for your kind comment. My Iranian-born friends share your disappointment in what has happened to a country and culture that they were once so proud of.
Well, the entire region was swaddled in cypress forests cut down long-long ago. It’s what people do, then we move on… but we got no where left for that. Herodotus wrote about them so thick the sun never hit the ground: cut for armies.
You are doing such an amazing work! Thanks for explaining with such clarity and simplicity what agroecology is about. I am very curious how you managed to convince local authorities, as well other stakeholders such as local landowner to support your work. I am truly inspired. While I have studied permaculture and agroecology. I have not yet got involved with such projects and really feel inspired to follow you steps. Be well and continue spreading the love!
@@suanho-dinh4372 - your curiosity is most appropriate. Addressing all those local issues are critical to success. I think this video by our CEO Neal Spackman about his Al Baydah project in Saudi Arabia will you give you a sense of importance of addressing the political and social issues. ruclips.net/video/T39QHprz-x8/видео.html
Interesting that people don’t focus on the rich ones who buy those woods, exotic animal and mineral. All eyes always go to the poor. No problem will be solved if capitalism remains as the roping system
This is brilliant! And beautiful, in many ways. We need this kind of thinking everywhere, and nature is a powerful partner to work WITH, encouraging an ecosystem to become more diverse, healthy, resilient and abundant, fertile, harvested and protected. It’s fundamental to our existence. “Most things happen at the edges, and water is life.”
Lawrence - Thank you for kind words and thoughtful response. If you haven't, please check out our website and registr for updates regenerativeresources.co/
Thanks for the feedback. And thank you for keeping up the tradition of family farming! Those chili's look great. (I've got family in Rock Hill. When this covid thing blows over it would be an honor to visit you folks.)
Excellent to see this happen. Do any of your projects have (or are planning to have) carbon credit systems attached to them through blue carbon? It would be a great opportunity for funding. I look forward to seeing this develop further.
Nick- Absolutely. Carbon credits are an integral part of our business model in most of our projects. Mangroves are incredibly efficient carbon sequesters. Thanks for your interest. Our updated website went up last week. Do check it out. Regenerativeresources.co
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 That's great to hear, and noted. The website is looking great, as are the projects. The possibility of using seagrass as a potential grain crop is very interesting. After spending a good portion of time researching and helping design multi trophic marine aquaculture systems up in British Columbia, I understand some of the opportunities and challenges that you will face. Still waiting for macro algae farming to meet the audit requirements needed to qualify for Blue Carbon. Will your seagrass meadows qualify as part of the blue carbon funding schemes? So many questions for your projects, but I'm sure you are very busy. The idea of increasing real estate values based on ecosystem restoration is one that I'm currently investigating further, esecpially if it can be coupled with carbon offsets. Looking forward to see how the Meliton project comes together as I've got friends slightly further South in Todos Santos. All the best for your projects in the New year.
We have never grown mycelium before, but we are seriously looking at it. We have proven we can grow on Salicornia straw. The biggest issue is whether WHERE our projects are located will support mushrooms in the marketplace.
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 Interesting! Thank you for the response! I was referring more to using Mycelium/Fungi to prep/regulate microbes in the soil and to filter and aid in the retention of water, but I understand that harvesting them may also be a desirable outcome. The books "Mycelium Running" and "Radical Mycology" are both interesting resources worth looking at - could possibly help with some of your projects.
@@AngelaMerkeltree I imagine you're generally referring to regenerating the mycorrhizal network? This occurs as a bi-product of restoring water and nutrient cycles where the land was once degraded. Mycelium is globally abundant, and remains dormant until conditions are favourable. If you revise Neal's work in the Al-Baydha project, ecological succession led to a regeneration of the mycorrhizal network within the watershed - a classic indicator that you're on the correct path.
Anthony- Thank you. We're counting on you being right! If you haven't, please check out our website and register for updates: regenerativeresources.co/
Makes me tear up. Seems to me education is they key, and generational education. Each one teach one down the generations. Otherwise the knowledge once again gets lost and people do the wrong things again. P.S. Neil et all, keep aneye on the marauders. The sociopaths, psychopaths a d extreme narcissists will see the abundance you guys created and will want it for themselves and take it by anymeans necessary. Most of these disorders never get cured so be prepared to provide protection, however that looks. Blessings on you all.
Hi. I'd very much like to know how I can get involved- this is the change I've wanted to be part of my whole life! I've left my email address on your site.
WOW! Thank you for enthusiasm and interest. Please check out our newly updated website @ regenerativeresources.co/ and be sure to register. We anticipate funding for a number of projects over the next year and will be staffing up at that time.
Michel G Rabbat/Egyptian-American/Florida: My Charity developed "sunken gardens" in Burkina Faso , West Africa...but I cannot use the millions I have there until I pay IMF/BF tax ...my successful project leader ,(widow) Helen and divorcee ..Veronica , mother to 3 kids...need money ..Can you send them small amount and I pay it here in USA...Banks here refuse to cooperate with B Faso any more
Linda- Thank you for your enthusiam! We are expecting funding for a number of projects over the next year and will be staffing up. Please visit our website regenerativeresources.co/ , signup for updates. When we need people we'll be out there asking for help.
Too bad there isn't more of this happening on a grand scale. You accomplish projects like this in a baron landscape with few resources in a poor country all the while the rich polluting nations find excuses and elect politicians that allow big corp. to reap rewards and huge profits from the Earth's resources. They never taking responsibility for the mess they left behind and leave it to the tax payer in many cases to restore as much as possible, even that is no match for eco systems that took 10's of thousands of years to create and will never bring back habitat for animals and creatures that once had a home. We are the purveyors of death and destruction for all of our existence and into the future till the earth stops giving.
Roy- hard to argue with you assesment. Hopefully each of us can find actions we can take that will ameliorate what we have done to our planet and reverse at least some of the damage. If you haven't, please chek out our updated website regenerativeresources.co/
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 These are great educational videos and I wish there was way more people watching and doing their part to help. For me, I retired almost 10 years ago, bought an old farmhouse that was slated for demolition in a small town that has everything I need to survive. Fixed it up, got rid of my car, bought a peddle bike with baskets for shopping and grow all my own food. Next year I'm going to start converting to green energy. I may never really live long enough to reap the benefits but I'll leave something that will for someone and their family. For most of us, this is the path forward, convincing governments who's sole purpose is to look after their citizens as cheaply as possible doesn't work fast enough. Keep up the good work, you must be proud.
This video lacks so much information. How are these plants grown? How long does that process take? At what cost? What plants/crops are grown to create food for "thousands?"
Abs-- So many good questions! The video is just meant as an introduction. Please visit and register on our website for more (though not all the details your asking for- I promise we will add more information!) regenerativeresources.co/ And to start- To build out an entire integrated seawater system is about an 18 -24 month process. In Ghana, where we are mostly doing mangroves, we get seedlinfgs growing in a nursery and are planting starting in about three months. Our primary "cash crop" for seed, oil and fodder is Salicornia Bigelovii. In a complete system we are growing shrimp, oysters, clams sea cucumbers and tilapia.
Tate- We accept donations in all forms. And the cryptocurrency issue is one we have, indeed, debated internally! Please look at our CEO Neal Spackman's Medium post on the question: medium.com/@neal.spackman/regenerative-web3-c6b4f5181982
Paul. Good question. Much of our effort is built around developing systems that have ocean water at the heart of our efforts. We look at, and hopefully, address how we build our systems that use the sea level rise to enhance our work as well as build in berming systems that protect areas that would affected by sea level rise.-- Challlenging, but we believe addressable. Have you checked out our updated website? regenerativeresources.co/
Using the word "nature" sets humans outside of the cycles you're speaking about - creating an us-and-them scenario. Instead of nature based solutions, why not soil based or water based or whatever specific component you're focusing on?
azmrl- Thanks for your feedback. I don't think it's our intent to set humans outside of "nature". Our point of using "nature based solutions" is to seperate what we do from the dominent industrial agriculture model. Hope you have a chance to check out our newly updated website regenerativeresources.co/
Blown away! If you want to know how we got here- follow the money. If you want to know how we get out- follow the Love. Love your work.
C+O2- Thank you for your kind words!. Pleas register on our website. We'd love to keep you up to date on what's happening. regenerativeresources.co/
Fantastic work Neal!
Thanks Curtis. Loved your winter chicken video!
So how big are your operations? How many people work at Regenerative Resources? I came here from the video about the Al-Baydha project video. And restoring ecosystems in as few years as that was, was incredible. Finally, anything common people can do to help?
Same here!
Don’t. Breed.
you want to help do the same thing in your area
Thanks for your interest! We have almost 50 people now in Mexico, Ghana and Scotland. We planted 85,000 mangroves in the last quarter of 2021. Please chek out our new website @ regenerativeresources.co/ and register for our updates.
Everyone helps by keeping the trash out of waterways community's working together to keep your own neighborhood clean and green after your space is good talk with neighbors and just keep moving a little farther away if we all do this the whole ball will be healthy and all the inhabitants good day to you sir
Carl Hodges lives on. I hope these coastal systems are resilient to sea level rise within the coming decades.
Sebastian- Indeed he does! Every day I work on these projects Carl is with me. I miss him very much. Have you seen the video I did about his life's work? ruclips.net/video/j0qU5cJQFDk/видео.html
@@howardwaz I have Howard, and it's thanks to your channel that I got to know about his great legacy.
@@howardwaz Just like your personal channel is a principle space for videos on Carl - might you be kind enough to share links to his principle papers please? I remember reading sporadic texts, then viscerally feel my mind bend a bit. For example, (disgustingly paraphrasing) - "minerals erode down the watersheds, into floodplains, then into the oceans. Our system brings the minerals back from the oceans onto the lands". All of a sudden, sea water isn't just a functionally infinite hydrological source - it's also an over-abundant source of nutrients (ie decades of agricultural runoff, etc). His thinking was quite unique as far as I can tell.
@@cupofkoa - please confirm how you describe yourself on LinkedIn (I'm pretty sure i found you) and I'll connect with you there and get you a few docs (Carl published very little)
How's it all going? I think the world would love more active vlogs/updates on this to help motivate others on restoring the world we live on!
Nathan- Thank you for asking. We continue to move forward with our funding efforts and are close to putting final deals together. Until we’re funded, though, it’s all concept. When it’s “real” we’ll have a lot to say…. Stay tuned!
@@howardwaz Thanks for the reply :)
Superb, inspiring.
Thanks, Stefan. Have you had a chance to look at our recently updated website? regenerativeresources.co/
Amazing to see you here, Stefan! Much love from Burlington, Ontario!
Woohoo! You did it!! I watched all of the Al Baydha videos and you mentioned this as your next project! Very cool 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks Brittany! Have you had a chance to see our updated website and register? regenerativeresources.co/
It would be amazing if your company would help the Salton Sea in California with mangroves and any other trees that can take up salt
Salton sea was man made by accident .
They have fixed the leak .
No more water is entering it
Angela- Yes it would! We'made a propsal to the Imperial Valley Water District in the Fall of 2016 . There are a number of good organizations working towards a number of solutions. It needs to be fixed!
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
in iran the regime cuts down our forests, sells the wood and it even sells our forests' soil and spends the money for terrorist groups while you are regenerating the desert. seriously good job; i wish you well and hope you succeed doing this amazing work❤️.
Amir- Thank you for your kind comment. My Iranian-born friends share your disappointment in what has happened to a country and culture that they were once so proud of.
Well, the entire region was swaddled in cypress forests cut down long-long ago. It’s what people do, then we move on… but we got no where left for that. Herodotus wrote about them so thick the sun never hit the ground: cut for armies.
You are doing such an amazing work! Thanks for explaining with such clarity and simplicity what agroecology is about. I am very curious how you managed to convince local authorities, as well other stakeholders such as local landowner to support your work. I am truly inspired. While I have studied permaculture and agroecology. I have not yet got involved with such projects and really feel inspired to follow you steps. Be well and continue spreading the love!
@@suanho-dinh4372 - your curiosity is most appropriate. Addressing all those local issues are critical to success. I think this video by our CEO Neal Spackman about his Al Baydah project in Saudi Arabia will you give you a sense of importance of addressing the political and social issues. ruclips.net/video/T39QHprz-x8/видео.html
Interesting that people don’t focus on the rich ones who buy those woods, exotic animal and mineral. All eyes always go to the poor. No problem will be solved if capitalism remains as the roping system
This is brilliant! And beautiful, in many ways. We need this kind of thinking everywhere, and nature is a powerful partner to work WITH, encouraging an ecosystem to become more diverse, healthy, resilient and abundant, fertile, harvested and protected. It’s fundamental to our existence. “Most things happen at the edges, and water is life.”
Lawrence - Thank you for kind words and thoughtful response. If you haven't, please check out our website and registr for updates regenerativeresources.co/
I’ve heard your voice before buddy you are my role model
Good stuff my friend. Every little bit helps it's more everyday that get involved thank you for your work
Michael- Thank you for your positve feedback PLease be sure to register on our website for updates regenerativeresources.co/
Amazing....I wan to work for this organisation one day...!!
Arun- Thank you for your enthusiasm! Please register at our website so we can stay in touch: www.regenerativeresources.co
The work you folks have is simply amazing 🤩. May God bless all of you snd the ppl that put this into practice
Thanks for the feedback. And thank you for keeping up the tradition of family farming! Those chili's look great. (I've got family in Rock Hill. When this covid thing blows over it would be an honor to visit you folks.)
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 thank you so much. I live in lower Florence county and would be honored to have you come visit.
1:45 Ecology for Wealth
Heart Chakra
Excellent to see this happen. Do any of your projects have (or are planning to have) carbon credit systems attached to them through blue carbon? It would be a great opportunity for funding. I look forward to seeing this develop further.
Nick- Absolutely. Carbon credits are an integral part of our business model in most of our projects. Mangroves are incredibly efficient carbon sequesters. Thanks for your interest. Our updated website went up last week. Do check it out. Regenerativeresources.co
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 That's great to hear, and noted. The website is looking great, as are the projects. The possibility of using seagrass as a potential grain crop is very interesting. After spending a good portion of time researching and helping design multi trophic marine aquaculture systems up in British Columbia, I understand some of the opportunities and challenges that you will face. Still waiting for macro algae farming to meet the audit requirements needed to qualify for Blue Carbon. Will your seagrass meadows qualify as part of the blue carbon funding schemes? So many questions for your projects, but I'm sure you are very busy. The idea of increasing real estate values based on ecosystem restoration is one that I'm currently investigating further, esecpially if it can be coupled with carbon offsets. Looking forward to see how the Meliton project comes together as I've got friends slightly further South in Todos Santos. All the best for your projects in the New year.
The solution is a plantbased food system! No more slaughterhouses is great, But skipping the animals as food saves heaps of recourses and suffering.
Great to see you go bigscale now!
Thanks. Have you checked out our new website? regenerativeresources.co/
Great work
Do you focus on mycelium and Mycorestoration/Mycoforestry/Mycofiltration at all in your projects?
We have never grown mycelium before, but we are seriously looking at it. We have proven we can grow on Salicornia straw. The biggest issue is whether WHERE our projects are located will support mushrooms in the marketplace.
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 Interesting! Thank you for the response! I was referring more to using Mycelium/Fungi to prep/regulate microbes in the soil and to filter and aid in the retention of water, but I understand that harvesting them may also be a desirable outcome. The books "Mycelium Running" and "Radical Mycology" are both interesting resources worth looking at - could possibly help with some of your projects.
@@AngelaMerkeltree I imagine you're generally referring to regenerating the mycorrhizal network? This occurs as a bi-product of restoring water and nutrient cycles where the land was once degraded. Mycelium is globally abundant, and remains dormant until conditions are favourable. If you revise Neal's work in the Al-Baydha project, ecological succession led to a regeneration of the mycorrhizal network within the watershed - a classic indicator that you're on the correct path.
Vision and courage combined with the entrepreneurial spirit will defeat the myopic dooms day climate zealots every time.
Anthony- Thank you. We're counting on you being right! If you haven't, please check out our website and register for updates: regenerativeresources.co/
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 Thanks. I will. Good job!
Nice, do you have a Web page?
Yes. Please register for updates. regenerativeresources.co/
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 don't forget to add the website to your about information page on youtube :)
Thank you for doing this!
Where's your social media? How do I find out about your Baja project?
Thanks for your interest. We’re just starting funding for the project. Would be pleased to send you an NDA if you’re an investor.
A refreshing film.
Thank you!
Makes me tear up. Seems to me education is they key, and generational education. Each one teach one down the generations. Otherwise the knowledge once again gets lost and people do the wrong things again. P.S. Neil et all, keep aneye on the marauders. The sociopaths, psychopaths a d extreme narcissists will see the abundance you guys created and will want it for themselves and take it by anymeans necessary. Most of these disorders never get cured so be prepared to provide protection, however that looks. Blessings on you all.
Hi. I'd very much like to know how I can get involved- this is the change I've wanted to be part of my whole life! I've left my email address on your site.
WOW! Thank you for enthusiasm and interest. Please check out our newly updated website @ regenerativeresources.co/ and be sure to register. We anticipate funding for a number of projects over the next year and will be staffing up at that time.
how can i join you?
Thanks for your interest! please sign up on our website regenerativeresources.co and I'll then have your email and will contact you.
747 ❤ We like solutions 🎉😂
@Regenerative Resources Co. Are you a publicly traded company? I would love to invest!
will it available in india
Good logo anyway
🥰
Can you suggest other similar projects?
Dank
I love this
Thnaks Kitty.
I love the idea but google does not show that much regeneration in the area.
Sounds good
Paul - Thanks. Have you had a chance to look at our updated websiter? regenerativeresources.co/
Go Neil!
Hey! What projects do you have?
We have operating projects in Scotland, Ghana and Vietnam and about to start up in Mexico
Subscribed to your page and interested in your Mexico’s projects. Will you have volunteers or apprentices?
@@mariovizcaino I have no volunteers and students
Where are your videos?
Michel G Rabbat/Egyptian-American/Florida: My Charity developed "sunken gardens" in Burkina Faso , West Africa...but I cannot use the millions I have there until I pay IMF/BF tax ...my successful project leader ,(widow) Helen and divorcee ..Veronica , mother to 3 kids...need money ..Can you send them small amount and I pay it here in USA...Banks here refuse to cooperate with B Faso any more
Can I come work for you? I have no experience but learn quick and this is something I'd love to do for people and for our planet.
Linda- Thank you for your enthusiam! We are expecting funding for a number of projects over the next year and will be staffing up. Please visit our website regenerativeresources.co/ , signup for updates. When we need people we'll be out there asking for help.
Too bad there isn't more of this happening on a grand scale. You accomplish projects like this in a baron landscape with few resources in a poor country all the while the rich polluting nations find excuses and elect politicians that allow big corp. to reap rewards and huge profits from the Earth's resources. They never taking responsibility for the mess they left behind and leave it to the tax payer in many cases to restore as much as possible, even that is no match for eco systems that took 10's of thousands of years to create and will never bring back habitat for animals and creatures that once had a home. We are the purveyors of death and destruction for all of our existence and into the future till the earth stops giving.
Roy- hard to argue with you assesment. Hopefully each of us can find actions we can take that will ameliorate what we have done to our planet and reverse at least some of the damage. If you haven't, please chek out our updated website regenerativeresources.co/
@@regenerativeresourcesco.7735 These are great educational videos and I wish there was way more people watching and doing their part to help. For me, I retired almost 10 years ago, bought an old farmhouse that was slated for demolition in a small town that has everything I need to survive. Fixed it up, got rid of my car, bought a peddle bike with baskets for shopping and grow all my own food. Next year I'm going to start converting to green energy. I may never really live long enough to reap the benefits but I'll leave something that will for someone and their family. For most of us, this is the path forward, convincing governments who's sole purpose is to look after their citizens as cheaply as possible doesn't work fast enough. Keep up the good work, you must be proud.
One way is, stop eating at MacDonald's.
This video lacks so much information. How are these plants grown? How long does that process take? At what cost? What plants/crops are grown to create food for "thousands?"
Abs-- So many good questions! The video is just meant as an introduction. Please visit and register on our website for more (though not all the details your asking for- I promise we will add more information!) regenerativeresources.co/ And to start- To build out an entire integrated seawater system is about an 18 -24 month process. In Ghana, where we are mostly doing mangroves, we get seedlinfgs growing in a nursery and are planting starting in about three months. Our primary "cash crop" for seed, oil and fodder is Salicornia Bigelovii. In a complete system we are growing shrimp, oysters, clams sea cucumbers and tilapia.
Jigatons?
It's a do or die
why subscribe to your site?
Just so i can confidentially have your email address so i can be in contact, as you requested. Your choice
Why do you only accept donations in cryptocurrency lmao. Isn't that entirely counter to your goal of reducing CO2 levels?
Crypocurrency uses massive amounts of energy and restricts your donator base. Sounds like elitism.
Tate- We accept donations in all forms. And the cryptocurrency issue is one we have, indeed, debated internally! Please look at our CEO Neal Spackman's Medium post on the question: medium.com/@neal.spackman/regenerative-web3-c6b4f5181982
Why build your restoration on the edge of the ocean when in years to come sea rise will destroy the good work?
Paul. Good question. Much of our effort is built around developing systems that have ocean water at the heart of our efforts. We look at, and hopefully, address how we build our systems that use the sea level rise to enhance our work as well as build in berming systems that protect areas that would affected by sea level rise.-- Challlenging, but we believe addressable. Have you checked out our updated website? regenerativeresources.co/
Better yet. What if the world population were reduced to only 3 billion people. Imagine how many problems that solves
Maybe that’s the purpose of plagues to limit the life on earth.
Using the word "nature" sets humans outside of the cycles you're speaking about - creating an us-and-them scenario. Instead of nature based solutions, why not soil based or water based or whatever specific component you're focusing on?
azmrl- Thanks for your feedback. I don't think it's our intent to set humans outside of "nature". Our point of using "nature based solutions" is to seperate what we do from the dominent industrial agriculture model. Hope you have a chance to check out our newly updated website regenerativeresources.co/