Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
45 Zach Weiss, climate change is a symptom of water cycle disturbance and we can fix it
Water is the ultimate capital of a farmer
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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 years
- We are carbon based life but the living part is mostly water
- There 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 energy
- Climate changes: everywhere the same story the precipitation is more when it comes and it comes less often
- Large dams and reservoirs are very energy intensive, smaller decentralised water retention systems are much more efficient
- Flood fire and drought mitigation is a sector Zach is very interested in
- Zach is building a platform to franchise his model, to pilot this in 2020
- Huge opportunity for video visual content, what have we done during the last 10.000 years, and our role and our options
- Could be something we all can get behind, water retention.
- We can’t address climate change without addressing the water cycle disturbance
- Zach tries to use most of the time with costumers on the implementation not on the consultation
Advice 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.
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