vue - Green Gold - Documentary by John D. Liu

1. This is incredible, thank you for posting this. I have been wondering how green it is possible for Central Texas to be with the natural rainfall.
2. Hey Green Gold I like your channel
3. I applaud John D. Liu -Thank you
4. You may need to see this video
   How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
5. Really great video! We will make sure we do our part when we buy our piece of land :) and hope to help others learn to live a sustainable life so the world can slowly restore ecological function.
6. It is so important to keep educating people, or re-educating people, about being proper stewards of our planet. I live in an established neighborhood where the common practice is to drown everything in pesticides, herbicides and water. My neighbors use systemic pesticides on their trees without a care to the damage it does to the ecosystem. I have one lone gardener besides myself that uses a permaculture approach, and we are not popular. Too messy. Never mind our ground is healthy and productive.
7. okay so if i go buy some desert land in america and i just make sure no live stock walks on in it will turn green ?
8. if you stop life stock from eating the vegetation, what solution you have for the population's need of meat products?
   Isn't true solution for the problems we are facing more and more in the world, population reduction by means of one child policy?
9. it is obvious that if you let ecosystems recover, they will come back. the problem is civilization, particularly industrial civilization. Nature is valuable for itself, not only a functionality for human beings.
10. If those animals was only on the hills for a short duration at the right times they wouldn't eat all the grass.
11. Notepad messed up -please extract those links to cut and paste.
12. Money is a representative-replacement system for the barter system by acting as a "REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REAL PHYSICAL GOODS AND MANUFACTURES AND SERVICES". Money by itself is not wealth by itself, it is just a representative of wealth. Any additional money printed beyond the number of goods "WILL CREATE INFLATION-SPECULATION" and this can be prevented by investing money in "THE PRODUCTION OF GOODS AND SERVICES IN THE PHYSICAL ECONOMY OF ANY NATIONAL ECONOMY" then consumption can come later by using Henry Ford's wage-salary policies of turning workers into customers by simultaneously lowering the costs of production and transferring an strategic proportion of the lower costs of production and labor savings made possible "BY INVESTING FIRST IN PRODUCTION" in his factories by creating the assembly line and perfecting it! And also by investing in his workers not just by increasing their wages-salaries to nearly 3 times above the average wages of that time-era but also in their medical and psychological and physical well being and that of their families. And he knows also that the ultimate resource is the "HUMAN RESOURCE" so he invested in the educational upgrading of their children and that of his workers regardless of their age and smartening them up "JUST LIKE THE EXAMPLES OF JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN, SINGAPORE, GERMANY, FRANCE, AND OTHER RESOURCE POOR BUT HIGHLY ADVANCED 1ST WORLD NATIONS HAS PROVEN IT TO BE THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE FACTOR OF ANY NATIONAL ECONOMY!"
13. I'm really into land healing since a couple of years now. Working on my own permaculture garden too. I have seen the documentary and all it's offshoots many times and i keep watching them when i feel hopeless. Every single time i see the image morph from that eroded desolate area to this lush green landscape tears roll down my face of pure gratitude. Thank you to all the people who work on these kinds of things. You are the real heroes in this world. Never stop, you are too important.
14. This is like one of those bad weight loss infomercials. No actual info just 'how terrible things are'.
    Lawtons videos are much better and give actual practical, useable information.
    Time to stop talking and start doing.
15. A large group of people are working on a way to engage and train many in direct action to restore ecological function on a planetary scale. The Ecosystem Restoration Cooperative and the Ecosystem Restoration Camps. You can learn more about this and join this effort. Let's all work together. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1206960359323785/
16. This documentary is great but missing valuable and necessary information. The overwhelming majority of people do not understand basic principles of ecosystem restoration, like carbon sequestration. It would have been great if this documentary elaborated a bit more about the principals if improving carbon sequestration and water retention in arid climates.
    
    Knowledge is power.
    
    Something that really strikes my interest is how we humans tend to deal with our own excrement.
    
    We destroy valuable nutrients and biomass in the form of raw sewage. We believe that storing human excrement in a stagnant anaerobic environment is somehow sustainable practice.
    I think there is a stigma associated with humanure composting, but before the advent of indoor plumbing, many early cultures pioneered the process of turning human waste into a nearly limitless supply of fertile soil.
    
    The process is somewhat labor intensive and involves a careful attention to detail, but if done properly, humanure composting poses zero risk for pathogens and human health.
    
    Some of the most fertile soil on Earth, the amazonian 'Terra Preta' soils were built this way. Composting human manure with organic materials amended with biochar, created a humus rich soil several feet deep. Soil that became immune to drought and erosion, and supports a plethora of abundant life.
    
    Living on the high plains of the western US, I can still see the evidence of the great dust bowl of the 1930s. I wonder if I can begin to restore some of the neighboring land by planting native trees and shrubs. But I'm not quite sure how to deal with the low humidity and calcareous soils native to my area. I've concluded that I'll need to bring in a few truck loads of organic matter, like compost, and go from there. The pH of my soil tested at around 8.0 and I need to bring that down by a few orders of magnitude. Reducing the pH should make nutrients in the soil available to plants, nutrients that were previously "locked out" by the excessive calcium carbonate, or 'lime' alkalinity.
    
    I have a hot compost pile a meter square, consisting of horse manure, straw, hay, and wood shavings. I'm hoping to use this to fill some raised beds in the spring... but I need about hundred times more than that. You can never get enough organic sequestered carbon (compost).
    
    I'll need to airlayer some native trees from my area and plant them on my 10acre lot.
    
    It's pretty much barren aside from some grass and the sweetclover biennials that have taken over. I was thinking about starting my trees in a gully or trench that seems to generally hold more moisture than the rest of my lot.
    
    Anyway, if you know a thing or two about growing trees above 6,000 ft. elevation, feel free to share them :)
    
    I am determined to get some fruit trees out here...
17. We are so fortunate to have such wonderful souls as John Liu, Dr. Suzuki and the ancient knowledge of people still practicing their simple and sustainable agricultural methods.
18. Of course we can recover eco-systems. But there will be no funding for such attempts as the planet-raping Corporations run the Governments... if we just get rid of these useless, greedy fools, then we can help our poor planet recover from the Rule of Foolish Men.
19. Geoff Lawton you and Roger Payne Janine Benyus and Jane Goodall have been my heroes for year. Now I get to add the brilliant visionary John Liu! I feel blessed the planet and the world are lucky to have you. As Geoff once said, We are the Weeds!'
20. GreaT Job, Thank you for the info and the great job