Sometime last year, I began to realize Millan Millan was reading this Climate Water Project newsletter, as he would send me thoughts and papers after different editions. I think he was happy I was spreading the word, and exploring various aspects of the water equation.
Beautiful tribute, Alpha, and a stark reminder that there is much planting to be done to right the small water cycle. I love the idea of planting reforestation buffer zones around cities and inland coastal valleys to “make it rain”.
I mentioned Millan Millan in a zoom to Anastassia Makarieva how in your conversation with Millan Millan where he said, a six mile (10 km) square disruption of wetlands or even grass land but especially trees has small water cycle affects and the example of extensive oil refineries in the Nile Delta has led to drought in Greece and Italy, Anatassia responded by adding the space above the the ground to an altitude of 30,000 ft or 10 km must also be included in observations and calculations. The Zoom is a weekly "Practice Your Pitch" at 11 AM EDT on Thursdays here is the link
Excellent tribute, Alpha. You communicate his insights so well, and thanks for sharing links to his interview with you and others. I look forward to listening to them.
I listened to him on a podcast where he predicted that reforesting an area of 160km2 near the coast of Spain would bring back the summer rain there (the small water cycle). But I can't find any detailed analysis of his that explains this in detail, with the math and the models. Any ideas where I could dive into it?
I asked Millan this once, he said he wanted to give people and government a number to work with... Not sure exactly what he meant by that, but maybe he meant he guessed a number, based on his intuitions from looking at a lot of weather and data. Rajendra Singh gave a similar estimate. See this article https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/indias-regenerative-water-movement
Hart Hargan’s interview with Tony Eprile and Judy Schwartz , found on YouTube, is a deep dive into the life and times they spent whit Millan Millan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEW7iBbjcUM)
Hart begins to talk there about the carbon malaise. and how we're all stuck in this vicious cycle, this unending unanswerable, unquestionable confusion around the role of carbon in our atmosphere and how these conversations have so completely overtaken the conversation around the rest of the story which is our land use practices and the primary greenhouse gas Water Vapor. This has to change. We here at the [ERA] (EcoRestoration Alliance)are a small cadre of enlightened people who need to coalesce and change the conversation. This entire interview has laid out many of the aspects of how this works. How human kind continues to talk about Carbon because we've convinced ourselves that it is the Carbon dioxide in the air and that there is nothing else we need to concern ourselves with. There is nothing anyone can do about Atmospheric Carbon dioxide!?* The real bugaboo is our land use practices! And that becomes a bit of a sticky wicket when we start dictating to people what they can and can't do with their ground. Perhaps approaching this from what I learned in the Regenesis Institute. (https://www.regenerat.es/) When we learn how to talk to people, the players and encourage them to ask the questions themselves, How is what I'm doing making it so that my grandchildren will be impacted in a positive way? I firmly believe that the solution is relatively simple; plant more plants. It becomes complex when we have to decide which plants to plant and learn how those plants interact with the other plants that are growing around them and in turn how that affects crosstown neighbors. Reshaping the conversation in a manner which brings hope for the future is key to engaging the agency that we all have.
Sometime last year, I began to realize Millan Millan was reading this Climate Water Project newsletter, as he would send me thoughts and papers after different editions. I think he was happy I was spreading the word, and exploring various aspects of the water equation.
Beautiful tribute, Alpha, and a stark reminder that there is much planting to be done to right the small water cycle. I love the idea of planting reforestation buffer zones around cities and inland coastal valleys to “make it rain”.
yes to the planting of reforestration buffer zones... and perhaps a way to pay tribute to Millan
I just went back to my above essay and added that Judith Schwartz's book "Reindeer Chronicles" also has a chapter on Millan https://www.judithdschwartz.com/the-reindeer-chronicles
This is quite a valuable newsletter and I think it's getting more and more notice. I'm happy to be a subscriber.
Me too. I just went upgraded.
So grateful we are all in this community together.🌱
Thank you, grateful..... And yes we have a community building around this, glad to be connected with you.....
thank you appreciate it.
Wonderfully informative tribute Alpha! Thank you! Millan’s legacy is rich and strong and the community inspired by it, is bound to grow.
Thanks Nikos
I mentioned Millan Millan in a zoom to Anastassia Makarieva how in your conversation with Millan Millan where he said, a six mile (10 km) square disruption of wetlands or even grass land but especially trees has small water cycle affects and the example of extensive oil refineries in the Nile Delta has led to drought in Greece and Italy, Anatassia responded by adding the space above the the ground to an altitude of 30,000 ft or 10 km must also be included in observations and calculations. The Zoom is a weekly "Practice Your Pitch" at 11 AM EDT on Thursdays here is the link
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Nice, this is Hart Hagan's project
YES lots of fun hope to see you there.
Here is the link without the Face Book screen, i also scrapped off the google layer. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2120007384&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw1PUULLRiqpWOisd8QrDXCd
Excellent tribute, Alpha. You communicate his insights so well, and thanks for sharing links to his interview with you and others. I look forward to listening to them.
Thanks. And thanks for your tribute.
I listened to him on a podcast where he predicted that reforesting an area of 160km2 near the coast of Spain would bring back the summer rain there (the small water cycle). But I can't find any detailed analysis of his that explains this in detail, with the math and the models. Any ideas where I could dive into it?
I asked Millan this once, he said he wanted to give people and government a number to work with... Not sure exactly what he meant by that, but maybe he meant he guessed a number, based on his intuitions from looking at a lot of weather and data. Rajendra Singh gave a similar estimate. See this article https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/indias-regenerative-water-movement
Hart Hargan’s interview with Tony Eprile and Judy Schwartz , found on YouTube, is a deep dive into the life and times they spent whit Millan Millan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEW7iBbjcUM)
Hart begins to talk there about the carbon malaise. and how we're all stuck in this vicious cycle, this unending unanswerable, unquestionable confusion around the role of carbon in our atmosphere and how these conversations have so completely overtaken the conversation around the rest of the story which is our land use practices and the primary greenhouse gas Water Vapor. This has to change. We here at the [ERA] (EcoRestoration Alliance)are a small cadre of enlightened people who need to coalesce and change the conversation. This entire interview has laid out many of the aspects of how this works. How human kind continues to talk about Carbon because we've convinced ourselves that it is the Carbon dioxide in the air and that there is nothing else we need to concern ourselves with. There is nothing anyone can do about Atmospheric Carbon dioxide!?* The real bugaboo is our land use practices! And that becomes a bit of a sticky wicket when we start dictating to people what they can and can't do with their ground. Perhaps approaching this from what I learned in the Regenesis Institute. (https://www.regenerat.es/) When we learn how to talk to people, the players and encourage them to ask the questions themselves, How is what I'm doing making it so that my grandchildren will be impacted in a positive way? I firmly believe that the solution is relatively simple; plant more plants. It becomes complex when we have to decide which plants to plant and learn how those plants interact with the other plants that are growing around them and in turn how that affects crosstown neighbors. Reshaping the conversation in a manner which brings hope for the future is key to engaging the agency that we all have.
* Walter Jahne (https://soilcarboncoalition.org/walter-jehne-water/)clearly explains how our oceans are Carbon Batteries and that our atmosphere will remain at 400 ppm CO2 for the next Thousand Years.
Thanks for adding the link to the Hart Hagan interview. Judy Schwartz wrote a chapter about Millan Millan in her book Reindeer Chronicles https://www.judithdschwartz.com/the-reindeer-chronicles