Jim Laurie, "Closing the Nutrient Loop: Creating Abundant Clean Water"

Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming

See bio4climate.org

Tufts UniversityMedford, Massachusetts, USAOctober 16-18, 2015

Biodiversity for a Livable Climate

Loss of Biodiversity: Consequences

1. Freshwater: Reduced Availability & Quality

2. Food: Reduced Availability & Quality

3. Disease Processes in Many Species (including Humans)

4. Loss of Climate Stability - Global Warming Jim Laurie

jimlaurie7@gmail.com

“When you understand the power of self-organization, you begin to understand why biologists worship biodiversity even more than economists worship

technology.”

“Hierarchical Systems evolve from the bottom up. The purpose of the upper layers of the hierarchy

is to serve the purposes of the lower layers.”

from Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

Places to Intervene in a System12. Numbers - “Mostly, the numbers are not worth the sweat put into them”

(I’ll skip a few.)

4. Self-Organizing Systems (John Todd & Eco-Machines)3. Goals (What do you want? - Allan Savory & HM)2. Paradigms (Lynn Margulis - Microbial Symbiosis)1. Transforming Paradigms (questioning your own beliefs and paradigms)

Lynn Margulis - 5 Kingdoms >>> Gaia

Lynn Margulis - Symbiosis is a key to evolution.

New Alchemy Institute1969 to 1990

John Todd, Nancy Jack Todd, Bill McLarney

Bucky liked this dome.

• ghg

Inside the Pillow Dome ~ 1980’s

Lab Results In Out Ammonia, ppm 20.51 1.07 (NH3)Chloroform, ppb 14.4 0.3 (CHCl3)BPA, ppb 513 7 (hormone disruptor)

Where are the Microbes?What is

brittleness?What do

you want?

Elizabeth, Hayden, Jamila, Annie, LynusRestoration Ecology Home-Pod

also AP Environmental Science

90% of the Work will be done by other species.

How do we give Voice to them?

How do we learn from them?• Think like a Fish.. or like a Nitrobacter.. or

Fungi.

• What does the Fish need?

• How does the Fish interact with other species?

• How can the “Symbiosis Team” work together to improve the process?

• Can Humans be a part of the Symbiosis Team?

Jerrie Tipton - 1989

Carol EvansBLM Biologist

near Elko, Nevada~ 10 inch annual rain

Jon GriggsMaggie Creek Ranch

If you can rehydrateNevada, you cando it anywhere!