Resources

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Articles

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• "Why Communities Should Invest in Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Sponge" by Didi Pershouse
   

• "Working with Nature to Cool Climates through plants, soil, and water" by Didi Pershouse
   

• "Enrich the soil, cool the planet" by Victor Feldman
   

• "There’s another story to tell about climate change. And it starts with water" by Judith D. Schwartz
   

• "Water: The Missing Link for Solving Climate Change by Monika Berghoff
   

• "Forests versus hurricanes: How trees may be the first defence in the battle against disaster" by  Douglas Sheil
   

• "Mushrooms make it rain, literally." 
   

• "Forests as rainmakers: CIFOR scientist gains support for a controversial hypothesis" by Ashlee Betteridge
   

• "Analyzing precipitation sheds to understand the vulnerability of rainfall-dependent regions" 
   

• "Bioaerosol generation by raindrops on soil" by
  Young Soo Joung, Zhifei Ge & Cullen R. Buie 
   

• "Cool insights for a hot world: trees and forests recycle water" by Daisy Ouya
   

• "Trees are much better at creating clouds and cooling the climate than we thought" by Hamish Gordon and Cat Scott
   

• "Cloud-seeding surprise could improve climate predictions" by Davide Castelvecchi

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Books
 

• Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World by Judith Schwartz 
   

• Cows Save the Planet by Judith Schwartz
   

• Water, a Natural History by Alice Outwater
   

• Water, Land and Climate—The Critical Connection: How We Can Rehydrate Landscapes Locally to Renew Climates Globally by Jan Lambert
   

• The Soil Will Save Us by Kristin Ohlson
   

• For the Love of Land, Global Case Studies of Grazing in Nature’s Image by Jim Howell
   

• How to Not Go Broke Ranching by Walt Davis
   

• Holistic Management by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield
   

• Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb

Watch

"The Soil Sponge: An Introduction to Soil Health" - Didi Pershouse, India (2019)

"The Soil Sponge: Infrastructure that makes life on land possible" - Didi Pershouse, India (2019)

"Soil Health, Agriculture and Climate in New England" Panel Discussion at Tufts University (2019)

"Ecosystem Restoration for Climate," Global Earth Repair Conference, 2019