Watershed 2.0 (re-thinking and retrofitting for resilience): Brock Dolman at TEDxMission City2.0

Director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's WATER Institute and Permaculture Design Program, Brock co-directs its Wildlands Biodiversity Program, co-instructs Basins of Relations and permaculture-related courses, and co-manages the Center's biodiversity collection, orchards and 70 acres of wildlands. Living up to his specialized generalist nature, and rekindling the dwindling art of the peripatetic natural historian, his experience ranges from the study of wildlife biology, native California botany and watershed ecology, to the practice of habitat restoration, education about regenerative human settlement design, ethno-ecology, and ecological literacy activism towards societal transformation.

[gaiautube]

I celebrate Brock's passion, incredible skill set and vision and committment. So happy to see him at Ted at last!

[kimbell]

Pure brilliance!!! I'm studying watershed management and the solutions/models that are presented in this talk "slow it, spread it, sink it" counteract the damage we're doing by making urban surfaces impenetrable. "Follow the money" increases the likelihood that governments will employ these solutions. Thank you for posting this content!!!!

[vidaripollen]

The first step is to respect, cherish and revere water.every thing will fall into place.

[MarkLL]

Brilliant as usual, Brock! I love listening to you dear man!
Marky L

[DanMarshallSails]

I was thinking about Slow it, spread it, sink it. Home supply stores such as Home Depot and Lowes sell 4" flexible drain tubing. You can buy it solid or perforated. The perforated is currently intended to be laid under gravel for collecting water. The solid is intended for carrying collected water to a drain. If perforated tubing was used to carry water to the drain, some of the water would move out through the perforations and down into the water table (sink it). What if the shelf in every Lowes and Home Depot had a sticker on the drain tubing shelf which said "Use perforated wherever possible to maximize ground water recharge during precipitation"

[Rodney]

Yes. Capture as much of the precipitation as possible. The streets of Los Angeles are smeared with hard to remove oil/grease/tar because we have an oil based transportation system. California and other places are moving away from gasoline and diesel powered vehicles. It just may be replaced with mostly electric powered vehicles which leave an almost zero oil footprint and this might happen at the same time that cities start to capture water from the streets. That captured water would be way less polluted.

[MarkLL]

This model comes with or without a mustache.

[ElementalSerenity]

mmmm you dont live on planet earth, You live on planet WATER.