Water is the ultimate capital of a farmer ----------------------------------------------------------Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food.Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ----------------------------------------------------------- Today I’m joined by Zach Weiss of Elemental Ecosystems working on water retention landscapes.Thank you Judith D. Schwartz for the introduction to Zach! Take aways from the interview:Climate change is a symptom of the severe water cycle disturbance and there is something we can do about it! When the landscape isn’t being recharged with water, it leads to flooding and drought (worst case also fire)Humans desertified 1/3 of the earth’s cover the last 10.000 yearsWe are carbon based life but the living part is mostly waterThere is much more you (as a land owner/manager) to influence the water cycle on and above your land- Often when we talk about water we talk about big centralised water systems or the weather, Zach is focussed on decentralised water retention landscapes- Sub-irrigated, you use a lot less energyClimate changes: everywhere the same story the precipitation is more when it comes and it comes less oftenLarge dams and reservoirs are very energy intensive, smaller decentralised water retention systems are much more efficientFlood fire and drought mitigation is a sector Zach is very interested inZach is building a platform to franchise his model, to pilot this in 2020Huge opportunity for video visual content, what have we done during the last 10.000 years, and our role and our optionsCould be something we all can get behind, water retention. We can’t address climate change without addressing the water cycle disturbanceZach tries to use most of the time with costumers on the implementation not on the consultationAdvice for investors from Zach (not investment advice): Rewriting natural resource policy management, very often what Zach wants to do is illegal. All show notes and links:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/02/03/zach-weiss. ----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensedhttps://groundswellag.com/2023-speakers/ https://groundswellag.com/2023-speakers/ Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!