Re: [ERA] Digest for ecorestoration-alliance@googlegroups.com - 5 updates in 3 topics

[Tom Goreau]

Thanks for this, Neal!

 

Lying carbon speculators are holding back essentially needed environmental solutions everywhere in the world with false promises of investment money.

 

Your experience with saline wetlands fully agrees with my experiences in other places and other ecosystems around the world.

 

I’m just back from the Maldives, where dredgers are working non-stop creating sand banks for luxury beach resorts, killing coral reefs that provide and protect the sand.

 

Corals and mangroves can’t provide immediate kickback$ to guarantee permit$!

 

For the current situation in coral reefs, please see our annual report:

www.globalcoral.org

 

Buena suerte a todos!

 

Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD
President, Global Coral Reef Alliance

Chief Scientist, Blue Regeneration SL
President, Biorock Technology Inc.

Technical Advisor, Blue Guardians Programme, SIDS DOCK

37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

gor...@globalcoral.org
www.globalcoral.org
Skype: tomgoreau
Tel: (1) 617-864-4226 (leave message)

 

Books:

Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466595392

 

Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466557734

 

Geotherapy: Regenerating ecosystem services to reverse climate change

 

No one can change the past, everybody can change the future

 

It’s much later than we think, especially if we don’t think

 

Those with their heads in the sand will see the light when global warming and sea level rise wash the beach away

 

“When you run to the rocks, the rocks will be melting, when you run to the sea, the sea will be boiling”, Peter Tosh, Jamaica’s greatest song writer

 

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·        GEA news: Re: [ERA] climate chat on clouds and climate sensitivity - 1 Update

·        The False Promise of Blue Carbon - 2 Updates

article in Nature Water on water for climate stabilization

Peter Paap <peter...@farmtree.earth>: Jan 06 02:10PM Hi Erica,   Indeed, a Sponge planet would be one I think we can all thrive in. Hence my plea to concentrate our efforts for ecosystem restoration in watersheds and marine conservation areas, preferably even promoting a spatial reshufling of administrative borders along these lines. And a phased approach starting with the ecological network.   Cheers,   Peter   Verzonden vanaf Outlook voor Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: ecorestorat...@googlegroups.com <ecorestorat...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Climate Water <climatewa...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2025 2:26:15 PM To: Erica Gies <er...@2141.net> Cc: EcoRestoration Alliance <ecorestorat...@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [ERA] article in Nature Water on water for climate stabilization   I like the term Sponge Planet idea that is described in the paper. Did you come up with that phrase?   I like the idea described in your paper that Sponge Planet is composed of local slow water projects.   alpha   On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM Erica Gies <er...@2141.net<mailto:erica@2141.net>> wrote: Hi all, I've published a Comment today in Nature Water with Kongjian Yu, Mr. Sponge City, as I've dubbed him, and Dr. Warren Wood. Here's what I wrote about it on LinkedIn:   Mr. Sponge City, Kongjian Yu, makes cities porous to soften floods & droughts. I told his story, part of the global hashtag#slowwater<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=slowwater&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7280644232963354625> movement, in my book "Water Always Wins." Now we & Dr. Warren Wood have a Comment in Nature Water on how to help stabilize the climate: a Sponge Planet. Humans have degraded 75 percent of Earth's land, destabilizing the #water<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=water&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7280644232963354625> cycle, amplifying effects of excess CO2. The water cycle is a key climate stabilizer but overlooked by policymakers. Restoring wetlands, floodplains, forests, recreating a Sponge Planet, will help.   Linked In wouldn't let me put a link, but here it is in case anyone wants to share it elsewhere: https://rdcu.be/d5ouG   Linked In did allow me to upload the PDF, however, so you can find that on my profile in LinkedIn.   Happy new year! Erica Erica Gies Author of Water Always Wins: https://slowwater.world/ Independent journalist National Geographic Explorer Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism URI Metcalf Institute's Leeson Lecturer www.ericagies.com<http://www.ericagies.com/>   Living in and acknowledging the homelands of the Songees and Esquimalt nations of the Coast Salish peoples (aka Victoria, BC) and the Yelamu, a local tribe of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples (aka San Francisco).     -- View this message at https://groups.google.com/a/googlegroups.com/d/msg/ecorestoration-alliance/topic-id/message-id   Group emails flooding your inbox? Click here: https://groups.google.com/g/ecorestoration-alliance/settings#email   Our website is at http://EcorestorationAlliance.org/ Our calendar is at https://tinyurl.com/EcoResCalendar --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EcoRestoration Alliance" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ecorestoration-al...@googlegroups.com<mailto:ecorestoration-alliance+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ecorestoration-alliance/CAKQxwZ0KQhnNerZ2rfvRZ83Oq1u%3D4z%2Bmjb5uOaj_MgSBLKf2Vg%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ecorestoration-alliance/CAKQxwZ0KQhnNerZ2rfvRZ83Oq1u%3D4z%2Bmjb5uOaj_MgSBLKf2Vg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.   -- View this message at https://groups.google.com/a/googlegroups.com/d/msg/ecorestoration-alliance/topic-id/message-id   Group emails flooding your inbox? Click here: https://groups.google.com/g/ecorestoration-alliance/settings#email   Our website is at http://EcorestorationAlliance.org/ Our calendar is at https://tinyurl.com/EcoResCalendar --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EcoRestoration Alliance" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ecorestoration-al...@googlegroups.com<mailto:ecorestoration-alliance+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ecorestoration-alliance/CAG2EHRnBGi64DMPcxaox43ZiQ%2BUTyH-nWLn2sQCMpJQUm%2BsFeg%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ecorestoration-alliance/CAG2EHRnBGi64DMPcxaox43ZiQ%2BUTyH-nWLn2sQCMpJQUm%2BsFeg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.

Erica Gies <er...@2141.net>: Jan 06 10:33AM -0800 Hi Alpha, Sponge Planet is Kongjian's coinage, as was (to my knowledge) Sponge Cities. I profiled his Sponge Cities idea in Scientific American in 2018 ( https://ericagies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Sponge-City-Revolution-Gies-SciAm.pdf), and when I visited him in Beijing then, he showed me maps he had of China marking all kinds of ecological patterns, as well as human civilization patterns, and he told me he was thinking country-wide, and continent-wide. "It's time to expand the scale," he said.   Expanding the scale is something I hear from nearly all my sources for "Water Always Wins." Small Slow Water local projects, many thousands of them, is locally empowering. And every little bit helps, and the effect is cumulative. So when Kongjian asked me to be a coauthor for this Comment (and I ended up rewriting it because I write for Nature and know what they would agree to publish), I called them Slow Water projects, as I did in my book. Best, Erica   Erica Gies Author of *Water Always Wins*: https://slowwater.world/ Independent journalist National Geographic Explorer Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism URI Metcalf Institute's Leeson Lecturer www.ericagies.com   *Living in and acknowledging the homelands of the Songees and Esquimalt nations of the Coast Salish peoples (aka Victoria, BC) and the Yelamu, a local tribe of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples (aka San Francisco).*     On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM Climate Water <climatewa...@gmail.com> wrote:

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GEA news: Re: [ERA] climate chat on clouds and climate sensitivity

Rob Lewis <earthcraf...@gmail.com>: Jan 06 08:53AM -0800 Thanks Judith and Rob for your attention to this. It will be interesting to hear what sort of response you get, Judith. Keep us posted   It makes me think of how the storms in Valencia, smack dab in the middle of Millan's study area, were reported on as a purely CO2 event, with no mention of Millan or his findings anywhere. As Millan often said, when it comes to climate and land/water interactions, the modellers "just can't see it."   Rob L.

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The False Promise of Blue Carbon

Neal Spackman <neal.s...@regenerativeresources.co>: Jan 06 08:26AM -0700 https://open.substack.com/pub/nealspackman/p/the-false-promise-of-blue-carbon?r=6yyg3&utm_medium=ios     Hi all,   Published this today after being on multiple coastal projects the last 5 years, on the False Promise of Blue Carbon.   Happy New Year! Neal

Peter Paap <peter...@farmtree.earth>: Jan 06 04:22PM Hi Neal,   I can feel the frustration dripping from your piece; I commend you on your tenacity. I would also say that climate impact investing is a ruse to get more high tech solutions funded, ignoring the more obvious NbS. I fear that the new hype of blended crediting will not provide any leeway with regards to the overly risk averse attitude of investors. Mind you, many of those are publisizing themselves as private sector investment while filling their funds with public sector money (bugger 'm - my tax euros!!). Question is: how do we change this?   Only if investors are willing to lower their requirements with regards to due dilligence and prospected financial ROI, we might get somewhere. Can we find a way to rate impact investers on those criteria?   Cheers,   Peter   Verzonden vanaf Outlook voor Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: ecorestorat...@googlegroups.com <ecorestorat...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Neal Spackman <neal.s...@regenerativeresources.co> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2025 4:26:30 PM To: EcoRestoration Alliance <ecorestorat...@googlegroups.com> Subject: [ERA] The False Promise of Blue Carbon   https://open.substack.com/pub/nealspackman/p/the-false-promise-of-blue-carbon?r=6yyg3&utm_medium=ios     Hi all,   Published this today after being on multiple coastal projects the last 5 years, on the False Promise of Blue Carbon.   Happy New Year! Neal   -- View this message at https://groups.google.com/a/googlegroups.com/d/msg/ecorestoration-alliance/topic-id/message-id   Group emails flooding your inbox? Click here: https://groups.google.com/g/ecorestoration-alliance/settings#email   Our website is at http://EcorestorationAlliance.org/ Our calendar is at https://tinyurl.com/EcoResCalendar --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EcoRestoration Alliance" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ecorestoration-al...@googlegroups.com<mailto:ecorestoration-alliance+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ecorestoration-alliance/CA%2BGMNO%3D2Wgg51VBM%3DWUAwPTUqg0RreYivyJ-CcTezb5aMMqDSw%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ecorestoration-alliance/CA%2BGMNO%3D2Wgg51VBM%3DWUAwPTUqg0RreYivyJ-CcTezb5aMMqDSw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.

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