Muse Ecology

At Muse Ecology, we hear the voices and grooves of people and place as we make our way back to harmony with the song of life.

#27 Vicki Hird: Rebugging the Planet 02/02/2022

#26 Addressing the Other Leg of Climate Change, 2nd Panel 01/23/2022

#25 Addressing the Other Leg of Climate Change, 1st Panel 01/12/2022

#24 Renewables and Accountability: A Panel Discussion 08/16/2021

#23 Life and Lithium at Thacker Pass 07/13/2021

#22 Judith Schwartz and Walter Jehne: Climate Change Narrative Shift 04/25/2021

#21 Paul Cereghino Part 2: Bioregional Restoration and Social Complexity 04/19/2021

#20 Paul Cereghino Part 1: Ecosystem Guild and Restoration Camping 03/25/2021

#19 The Mangrove Action Project 02/13/2021

#18 Neal Spackman; The Business of Restoring the Earth 01/30/2021

#17 Felipe Pasini, Syntropic Farming 12/13/2020

#16 Li An Phoa, Drinkable Rivers 11/15/2020

#15 Professor Millan Millan: The Second Leg of Climate Change 10/30/2020

#14 Prelude to the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization Series 08/12/2020

#13 Quail Springs, There's Music in the Walls 03/29/2020

#12 Grandma Aggie, Voice for the Voiceless 12/07/2019

#11 David Bronner and the All-One Legacy 07/13/2019

#10 Worth a Dam and the Tale of the Martinez Beaver 06/28/2019

#9 Peia; Songs of The Old Ways Restored 06/25/2019

#8 Holistic Management, The Savory Institute, and Wild Bison 06/22/2019

#7 Wild Idea Buffalo Company 04/15/2019

#6 777 Bison Ranch 04/06/2019

#5 Bonus Episode: Protecting the Black Hills 02/10/2019

#5 Tanka Bar: for the Bufalo, the Land, and the People 01/20/2019

#4 The Buffalo Field Campaign, Protecting the Last Wild Bison 12/09/2018

#3 A Bonn Voyage with John D. Liu 08/28/2018

#2 Global Landscapes Forum V, Economy and Indigenous Sovereignty 08/16/2018

#2 Global Landscapes Forum IV, Economy and Peatlands 08/01/2018

#2 Global Landscapes Forum IV, Economy and Peatlands While largely unfamiliar to many, peatlands perform crucial funcions in Earth's carbon and water cycles. For many centuries we have been draining peatlands to free up land for commodity agriculture, destroying these important living systems. We now are growing aware of the effects of draining peatlands, and some folks are exploring ways to preserve and restore these wet ecologies while still being able to produce and harvest biomass and other crops from these areas. This sort of peatland agriculture is called paludiculture. In part 4 of this 5 part series at the Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn, Germany, we will hear John D. Liu interview 3 individuals who are working to change agriculture, finance, and policy so that they work to restore, rather than drain peatlands. John D. Liu is Ecosystem Ambassador for Commonland Foundation and Visiting Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also catalyzed the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement. You can find his films and research papers at Jans Joosten, one of the world's foremost experts on peatlands, is head of the Department of Peatland Studies and Paleoecology of Greifswald University. () He will describe how peatlands function and some of the consequences of draining them. Through his research, writing, and policy advising he has helped to protect and restore peatlands all over the world. Annawati van Paddenburg is Head of Sustainable Landscapes at the Investment and Policy Solutions Division of the Global Green Growth Initiative. () With member countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, she has worked on climate and food security and sustainable growth in forest, agriculture, coastal, and marine areas. Growing up in rural Indonesia, she is motivated by her observations of the destructive effects of business on the pristine landscapes of her childhood. The Indonesian government has recently determined to rewet their drained peatlands, and she is working with them to develop commodity production business models that support both local communities and peatland ecologies. Aldert van Weeren is a cattail farmer. () After rewetting and restoring peatland areas, intending to sustainably harvest cattails for housing insulation, he found that he had legally created nature reserves and was not allowed to harvest from them. He and others have been working to change these policies so that folks like him can restore and preserve peatland function while producing a nontoxic, renewable source of housing insulation. Michael DiGiorgio recorded the banjo-bird jams I'm using in the intro and ending. You can find his amazing nature art at . Mike says that if you'd like to buy the album of his nature-banjo jams, you can find his email on his website and he can mail you a CD. /episode/index/show/museecology/id/6873618

#2 Global Landscapes Forum III, Economy and Trees 07/09/2018

#2 Global Landscapes Forum III, Economy and Trees In Part 3 of this episode at the Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn, Germany, we will hear conversations between John Liu and folks who are working to restore degraded forest lands around the world through research, international business, and volunteer initiatives. John D. Liu is Ecosystem Ambassador for Commonland Foundation and Visiting Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also catalyzed the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement. You can find his films and research papers at Patrick Worms is President of the European Agroforestry Federation and Senior Science Advisor for the World Agroforestry Centre, a research organization that studies the benefits of trees in agicultural systems and helps farmers to implement their findings. Pieter van Midwoud is the Tree Planting Officer for Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees. As people use the search engine, their counter shows how many trees they are responsible for purchasing, and Pieter is the one who connects with reforestation projects around the world to get the them planted. You can set Ecosia as your default search engine or try it out at . Paul Hol is the Executive Director of Form International, a forest management and services company that manages 27,000 hectares of sustainable forest plantations, forest restortion, nature conservation, and agroforestry in Ghana and Tanzania. They work to restore degraded forest lands and local livelihoods while creating models that demonstrate that trees can be a good investment. Aviram Rozin is the Founder and International Director of Sadhana Forest, a vegan volunteer-based organization focused on creating long-term plant-based food security through environmental restoration. Globally, there are 133 million malnourished people living in arid areas who have private land but are not using it to grow food due to lack of water and agricultural knowledge. Sadhana Forest trains local people in India, Haiti and Kenya in the use of water-saving irrigation techniques and provides them with free seedlings to plant drought-resistant, indigenous, food-bearing trees around their homes. Aviram is also a board member of the Foundation for the World Education and the first council member from India in the Global Restoration Council. Sadh Guru is a mystic, best-selling author, and founder of the Isha Foundation. He has inspired a people's movement in India that has planted over 32 million trees. You can find the entire conversation between Sadh Guru and Eric Solheim, Environment Director for the U.N. . Michael DiGiorgio recorded the banjo-bird jams I'm using in the intro and ending. You can find his amazing nature art at . Mike says that if you'd like to buy the album of his nature-banjo jams, you can find his email on his website and he can mail you a CD. /episode/index/show/museecology/id/6787309

#2 Global Landscapes Forum II, Economy and Landscape Restoration 06/25/2018

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