by John Allen
The BirdHouse has the honor of announcing our collaboration in the first episode of the livestream event series, known as The Great Work of Our Time, along with John D. Liu and Woodshed Gardens and Studio.
The BirdHouse is featured twice in the livestream, with a Band of Singers performance at 01:35:05 and John Allen speaking about the BirdHouse at 04:44:20.
This is just the first of a series of what will be ‘deep dives’ into the work being done globally in Regenerative Agriculture, Water Cycle repair, Education, Ocean Restoration, Alternative Economic models, and the growing number of Ecosystem Restoration Camps around the world.
If you haven’t already, we invite you to watch the luminaries of human and ecological restoration who have come together to introduce us to their inspiring work.
John D. Liu is a force to behold. His calm voice and endearing demeanor captivated our attention with tales of his work around the world, facilitating and documenting ecological restoration projects, for which he’s been a spokesperson for 30 years.
John Liu was invited to speak here in Los Angeles by our friends and collaborators, Linda Gibbs of Woodshed Gardens, and Carry Kim of the Soil Sponge Collective, at what became the very moment of COVID-19 shutdown. The night of his arrival, after his speaking engagement had been canceled, and we realized he would be ‘stuck here’ for a while, we were inspired to do something epic to mark the moment. Seven of us sat at a ‘social distance’ for eight hours, long enough to collectively pound out the makings of the five-hour livestream event dubbed the Great Work of Our Time.
This livestream does feel like the beginning of something epic; it introduced thousands of online viewers to real-world examples of what’s truly possible in this time of great change.
Be inspired. Get engaged. Stay connected.
Find out what you can do, with what you have, wherever you are.
See below for a list of the participants and the different topics that were introduced, as well as a list of links to their organizations.
INTRODUCTION
1:03 The Calderon Family, Gabrieliño Tongva & Ventureño Chumash
ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION CAMPS 1*
13:20 Jane Goodall
38:06 Pieter Van der Gaag (Ecosystem Restoration)
49:00 KUMAR NEERAJ (Ecosystem Restoration India)
INTRODUCTION OF CAMPS: Habiba (Sinai), Altiplano (Spain), Hotlum (CA), France, Portugal
FEATURED CAMP: KETEE – BIHAR, INDIA – KUMAR NEERAJ
HUMAN RESTORATION*
57:00 Sorry Day – Australian Government Apology to Aboriginal People.
1:02:25 Deborah Sanchez (Chumash, O’Odham),
World Central Kitchen,
Adrian Vallera (Disclosurefest) – Mass Meditation Events
Dulanie Ellis (Ground Operations)
Christopher Breedlove (Burning Man),
Misha Tisdale (Greenpop) – SA Greening events
01:39:00 – ECOLOGY & THE WATER CYCLE*
Paul Stamets (Fungi Perfecti)
Sonne Copijn (The Bee Foundation)
Lian Phoa (Drinkable Rivers)
Manari, Sapara Tribe (Amazon)
Sam Teicher (Coral Vita)
Roxane Boonstra, Derek Hagen (Coral Restoration Found)
02:26:41 – Ecosystem Restoration Course – Gaia Education CTA
02:27:47 – Arouna & Biko
02:31:48 – REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
Didi Pershouse (Land & Leadership Initiative)
Dr. Allen Williams (Soil Health Academy)
Mollie Engelhart (Sow a Heart)
Wouter Van Eck (Foodforest Ketelbroek)
03:11: REGENERATIVE ECONOMY
Willem Ferwerda (Commonland)
Jessie & Ana Smith (White Buffalo Land Trust)
Tom Duncan (Earthbanc)
Ties Van Der Hoeven (The Weathermakers)
Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Econ)
John Fullerton – The Capital Institute
04:16:00 – ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION CAMPS PT 2
SEKEM CEO / CAMP MGR
Matthew Trumm (Camp Paradise)
Ellen Farmer/Jared Wood/Jonathan Kabot (CA Camps Council)
John Allen (BirdHouse)
Yasmin Muhammed (Somalia – Camp Dryland Solutions)
Andrew Langford (Syria – Gaia University)
Finian Makepeace (Kiss the Ground)
01:35 Band of Singers (song)
https://atthebirdhouse.org/
04:37 John Allen, BirdHouse
https://atthebirdhouse.org/
1:03 The Calderon Family, Gabrieliño Tongva & Ventureño Chumash
facebook.com/tina.o.calderon
18:25 Rolf Winter & Renata Heinen, Down to Earth Collective BV
https://www.downtoearthfilm.com/uk
44:28 Rising Appalachia (song)
http://risingappalachia.com
Arouna & Biko
https://arounabiko.bandcamp.com/
Sonne Copijn, The Bee Foundation
https://www.thebeefoundation.org/
Christopher Breedlove, Burning Man Leadership Council
https://burningman.org/
Ecosystem Restoration Camps California Advisory Council
https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org
Ellen Farmer, Jonathan Kabat & Jared Wood
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2197059180534835/
Willem Ferwerda, Commonland
https://www.commonland.com/
Sam Teicher, Coral Vita
https://www.coralvita.co/
Roxane Boonstra, Coral Restoration Foundation
https://www.coralrestoration.org/
Adrian Vallera, Disclosurefest
https://disclosurefest.org/
Li An Phoa, Drinkable Rivers
https://drinkablerivers.org/
Tom Duncan, Earthbanc
https://earthbanc.io/
38:06 Pieter van der Gaag, Ecosystem Restoration Foundation
https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/foundation/
Ecosystem Restoration Course – Gaia Education CTA
https://www.gaiaeducation.org/product/ecosystem-restoration-design/
Charles Eisenstein
https://charleseisenstein.org/
Wouter van Eck, Foodforest Ketelbroek
https://www.facebook.com/foodforestketelbroek/
Paul Stamets, Fungi Perfecti
https://fungi.com/
Andrew Langford, Gaia University
https://gaiauniversity.org/
Misha Teasdale, GreenPop
https://greenpop.org/
Dulanie Ellis, Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields
https://walkyourtalk.tv/
Finian Makepeace, Kiss The Ground
https://kisstheground.com/
Didi Pershouse, The Land & Leadership Initiative
https://www.landandleadership.org/
Playing for Change
https://playingforchange.com/
Manari, Sapara tribe
https://www.pachamama.org/
Rising Appalachia
https://www.risingappalachia.com/
26:20 Helmy Abouleish, Sekem
https://www.sekem.com/en/index/
Dr. Allen Williams, Soil Health Academy
https://soilhealthacademy.org/
Mollie Engelhart, Sow A Heart
https://www.sowaheart.com/
Matthew Trumm, Treetop Permaculture
http://www.treetoppermaculture.org/
Kumu Mikilani Young, United Pillars of Aloha
https://unitedpoa.com/
Ties van der Hoeven, The Weather Makers
http://theweathermakers.nl/
Jesse Smith & Lauren Tucker, White Buffalo Land Trust
https://www.whitebuffalolandtrust.org/
