Andrew Millison's How to Fix a Broken Ecosystem
Restoring the Earth - The Great Work of Our Time • 10m
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains the process for repairing a degraded ecosystem. We begin with the metrics for assessing ecosystem health, and then go over the steps to triggering biological activity and ecological succession.
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