Ecoflix Education: Creative Arts
Hot Poets - Chris Redmond, Green Futures; The Earth is Waiting
Season 3, Episode 12
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4m 32s
Hot Poet and Co-Artistic Director: Chris Redmond
Matched with: The Weather Makers
Poem Focus: Re-greening the Desert
With an ever-increasing human population extracting value from Earth, the world faces severely degrading ecosystems. Over 1.3 billion people are affected by degrading agricultural land. It has never been so abundantly clear that we need functional ecosystems to support the complex life forms that live on Earth. A biosphere producing ecological value is the basis for all value creation. We need to regenerate ecosystems on a large scale to restore our biosphere. If we don’t, everything will be lost!
The Weather Makers have an ambition to support the local community and the population of Egypt in turning the Sinai into the lush Garden of Eden it used to be. Successful regreening of deserts demands a watershed-wide, holistic approach. The watershed scale allows us to properly address the complex interconnection between fauna, flora, soils, water, atmosphere… and to harvest the multitude of positive impacts that regreening at watershed scale can deliver.
Up Next in Art: Ages 7-11
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Matched with: Met Office
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Hot Poet: Matt Harvey
Matched with: Whale and Dolphin Conservation
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Hot Poets - Yomi Ṣode, Chaos in the ...
Hot Poet: Yomi Ṣode
Matched with: Professor David M Schultz from the Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation, and Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
Poem Focus: How big weather events are reportedA crisis resulting from ...
