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„Her sensor is not only robust and energy efficient but is also easy to install compared to conventional measuring stations that have to be attached to the riverbed with cement. The sensors measure water flow, temperature and fine sediment concentration.“ Read more about the ETH Pioneer Fellow and her start-up in the news article.

Some of you might be interested in a new paper I was involved in, entitled: "Socio-political and ecological fragility of threatened, free-ranging African lion populations" - https://lnkd.in/env_qYsx

a paper we may all be interested in.

I can't stop thinking about the Honorable Harvest these days. It isn't a written code, but if it were, it would look something like this: -Ask permission of the ones whose lives you seek. Abide by the answer. -Never take the first. Never take the last. -Harvest in a way that minimizes harm.  -Take only what you need and leave some for others. -Use everything that you take.  -Take only that which is given to you.  -Share it, as the Earth has shared with you.  -Be grateful.  -Reciprocate the gift. -Sustain the ones who sustain you, and the Earth will last forever. The tenets of the Honorable Harvest have come to me from the Potawatomi Nation by way of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. https://lnkd.in/gx7GMW3Q It has changed me and I am trying to teach it to my children. I used to be bothered unless I could harvest every huckleberry from the patch and every ripe tomato from the bush. I didn't need each one, I was just unthinkingly driven by some sort of perfectionism. Now I delight in the left berry, the one that will feed the bird or the bug or the soil microbe, the one whose seeds will plant the next bush. I realize that I am not the only one harvesting from my garden; I see myself as part of a bigger community, something Wendell Berry calls "the Grand Economy" and someone else called "the Kingdom." Here is my question out into cyberspace to anyone who is still reading this far into the post: Is the Honorable Harvest a better solution to our global crises than the EPA, the TNFD, carbon credits and biodiversity offsets?

I am very excited to share this recent report written by Katharina F., Georgia Sainas, Montserrat Carion, Natasha Bonn and myself, for the course FRE 340: International Agricultural Development. All five Pacific salmon species native to British Columbia are in various states of decline due, in-part, to overfishing, coastal development, pollution, and energy and resource extraction. In "Swimming Towards Sovereignty: Challenges and Opportunities of Salmon Protection and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in British Columbia", we explore the historical drivers of salmon decline in BC, and the various impacts of the species loss experienced by Indigenous communities in the province. We evaluate the effectiveness of current provincial policies impacting salmon decline, and discuss amendments and new policies that might contribute towards more effective and equitable salmon conservation.

💧🌍 Dive into the #IndusRiver Basin's challenges and solutions with this study in #OptionsMagazine by Muhammad Awais & Bárbara Willaarts. Learn how enhancing #EnvironmentalFlows benefits both nature and communities. #WaterManagement Read it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dHJ_y6AA

Starting to give attention to the regeneration of the Ogallala Aquifer in preparation for a bioregional activation process we will begin in two weeks. As I watched this video, I noted that the presenter assumes human population growth and is unable to see regenerative pathways. We need systemic understandings of global change to see how to regenerate massively important hydrological systems like this one. For example, the work of Jason Baldes and the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative shows us how indigenous lifeways can be re-introduced to restore perennial grasslands. This could be applied to all of the Great Plains as the current civilization collapses around us. In order to see a regenerative pathway like this one, we must move beyond the "naturalizing" of unsustainable human cultures and see different worldviews for how to relate to land. Onward, fellow humans.

First, we have to realize how we are all living on land that was abundant with food, medicine, and community. Unfortunately, we have stripped that away through abusive and illegal land ownership, and toxic farming and nature stewardship. We can regenerate the land, waters, and air. However, we need to give the cultural engineers resources, space, and opportunity to do this important work. Instead of talking about it, endlessly, let's empower those who DO the actions that honor ancestors and descendants to come. https://lnkd.in/grn26DXU