Global Ecosystem Restoration with John D Liu

Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley

Global Ecosystem Restoration John D. Liu is my guest on Episode 171 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. In the 1980s and 1990s, John worked as a television producer and cameraman with CBS News, RAI, and ZDF covering geo-political events including the rise of China from poverty and isolation and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s the World Bank asked John to document the rehabilitation of the Loess Plateau. Since learning that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems John has devoted his life to understanding and communicating about the potential and responsibility to restore degraded landscapes on a planetary scale. Since 2009 John has worked with Willem Ferwerda the Founder and CEO of the Commonland Foundation, which is catalyzing privately invested large-scale restoration in many parts of the world. John is also the founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement that began in 2016 and has grown to over 50 camps in 6 continents and continues to grow. Studying ecology led John to receive a number of academic appointments. In 2014 John was named a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIOO/KNAW) and continues to study.

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