Free Webinars, re: Water, Forests, Plants, Gardens & the worldwide loss of soil moisture
Please review these topics and click on the link to RSVP, where you are interested
Dear Friends,
If you've enjoyed my courses or the Climate Cafe in the past, you may be interested in this exciting array of upcoming topics, including:
How Forests Drive Our Water Cycles
The Worldwide Loss of Soil Moisture
My Kentucky Garden
Plants & Climate Change
Please see below for details and click on the link to RSVP, wherever you are interested.
How Forests Drive Our Water Cycles
Date: Friday, June 20 at 3:00-4:30 PM
Forests have a tremendous impact on our climate and not just as storehouses of carbon. Forests drive our water cycles. From evaporation to condensation, to cloud formation and precipitation, forests drive every major step in our water cycles.
When we remove forests, we remove that which drives our water cycles. It should be no wonder that our rainfall patterns are all out of whack!
RSVP: How Forests Drive Our Water Cycles, Friday, June 20 at 3:00-4:30 PM - Google Forms
The Worldwide Loss of Soil Moisture: What’s the big deal and what you can do about it
Date: Monday, June 23 at 12:00-1:30 PM
Researchers have reported that between 2000 and 2015, the soils of the world lost over 2,000 billion tons of freshwater.
A few observations, which we will explore:
These findings reveal why the land is dying of thirst.
These findings change how we understand climate change and sea level rise, as water escapes our soils and flows into the atmosphere and into the oceans.
We can be part of the solution, by changing how we nurture our soils, starting right where we live.
RSVP: The Worldwide Loss of Soil Moisture: Monday, June 23 at 12:00-1:30 PM - Google Forms
My Kentucky Garden
Date: Wednesday, June 25 at 7:00-8:30 PM
Let’s take a walk in My Kentucky Garden. Each week during the growing season, I give a photographic tour and show the latest happenings in my Kentucky garden, including the native plants, the soil and the insect visitors.
My management priorities are to capture all the rainfall and cause it to soak into the ground, while rapidly improving the soil and growing a vibrant community of native plants.
In the first four growing seasons, I have seen a dramatic increase in insect life that occurs when we plant a diversity of wildflowers and let them spread, while the sun, soil and rain do most of the work.
RSVP: My Kentucky Garden. Wednesday, June 25 at 7:00-8:30 PM - Google Forms
Plants & Climate Change
Date: Friday, June 27 at 3:00-4:30 PM
Plants cool their surroundings. Plants cool the air locally and regionally. Plants positively impact rainfall on a local basis and across continents. And yet we have eliminated 50% of the plant matter in the last 5,000 years, via deforestation, agriculture and real estate development.
What if we went back in the other direction and added some of the plant matter we have removed? I will argue that we can increase our plant matter and thereby eliminate global warming. In fact, I will argue, this is the quickest, cleanest, safest way to eliminate global warming. If we increase plant matter by 10% we will (arguably) eliminate the greenhouse effect, which is only a 1% excess of incoming heat over outgoing heat.
RSVP: Plants & Climate Change. Friday, June 27 at 3:00-4:30 PM - Google Forms
I hope to see you via Zoom.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Kindest Regards,
Hart