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Ecopoint has teamed up with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP), and John D. Liu, Founder & Director of EEMP, is proud to bring you this film. In 2005, the Chinese government, in cooperation with the World Bank, completed the world's largest watershed restoration on the upper banks of the Yellow River. Woefully under-publicized, the $500 million enterprise transformed an area of 35,000 square kilometers on the Loess Plateau — roughly the area of Belgium — from dusty wasteland to a verdant agricultural center.
This is the first of a series of many more to come. Enjoy! And you are also welcome to start, join, or continue the conversation at www.ecopoint.asia.
- published: 27 Jun 2012
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"Loess" is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It covers about 10% of the Earth's surface.
Loess is an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometer size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate. It is usually homogeneous and highly porous and is traversed by vertical capillaries that permit the sediment to fracture and form vertical bluffs.
The word "loess", with connotations of origin by wind-deposited accumulation, came into English from German "Löss" , which can be traced back to Swiss German and is cognate with the English word "loose" and the German word "los". It was first applied to Rhine River valley loess about 1821.
Loess is homogeneous, porous, friable, pale yellow or buff, slightly coherent, typically non-stratified and often calcareous. Loess grains are angular with little polishing or rounding and composed of crystals of quartz, feldspar, mica and other minerals. Loess can be described as a rich, dust-like soil.
Loess deposits may become very thick; more than a hundred meters in areas of China and tens of meters in parts of the Midwestern United States. It generally occurs as a blanket deposit that covers areas of hundreds of square kilometers and tens of meters thick.
Loess often stands in either steep or vertical faces. Because the grains are angular, loess will often stand in banks for many years without slumping. This soil has a characteristic called vertical cleavage which makes it easily excavated to form cave dwellings, a popular method of making human habitations in some parts of China. Loess will erode very readily.
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Excerpts from Hope in a Changing Climate (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-hope-changing-climate)
Part I: Loess Plateau, China - http://youtu.be/sK8JNXHcBMA
Part II: Ethiopia - http://youtu.be/mbEM6DCTK3Y
Part III: Rwanda - http://youtu.be/BVxVC7PuEL8
Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can to restore empty, degraded ecosystems -- transforming them into fertile, life-sustaining environments which enable people to break free from entrenched poverty. This is the simple application of Agricultural Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles, such as earthworks, water harvesting, soil building, creating biodiversity.
The area of restoration on the Loess Plateau in China is the size of Belgium and thousands of years of subsistence farming had made it barren and infertile. In 1995 the Chinese Government, with support from The World Bank, took drastic action to rehabilitate the plateau, and local people -- seen as both perpetuators and victims of the devastation -- became part of the solution. They completely transformed 8.6 million acres of wasteland into hyper-productive land. This caused a 300% increase in agricultural income and enabled millions of local family farmers to break free from entrenched poverty.
Anybody can take a Permaculture Design Course and learn how to do this in their local area or internationally. There are over 1,000 such courses taught all over the world each year. You can find one here: http://permacultureglobal.com/users or take one online: http://permaculturevisions.com
It is time to solve hunger worldwide, through creating local food abundance.... Anyone can do it, once you learn how.
(Thank you Environmental Education Media Project & Dr. John D. Liu)
- published: 22 Mar 2012
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A set of HD time lapse images I set to the melancholic yet beautiful track "Brumal" by Loess.
- published: 07 Jan 2013
- views: 2329
Home to more than 50 million people, the Loess Plateau in China's Northwest takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil. Centuries of overuse and overgrazing led to one of the highest erosion rates in the world and widespread poverty.
Two projects set out to restore China's heavily degraded Loess Plateau through one of the world's largest erosion control programs with the goal of returning this poor part of China to an area of sustainable agricultural production.
More than 2.5 million people in four of China's poorest provinces -- Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region -- were lifted out of poverty. Through the introduction of sustainable farming practices, farmers' incomes doubled, employment diversified and the degraded environment was revitalized.
- published: 14 Aug 2008
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Artist: Loess
EP: 3D Concepts Part 2
Label: Toytronic
Release: 31 March 2003
- published: 06 Jan 2014
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Loess (/ˈloʊ.əs/, /ˈlʌs/, /ˈlɛs/, or UK /ˈlɜrs/) is an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometre size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate. It is usually homogeneous and highly porous and is traversed by vertical capillaries that permit the sediment to fracture and form vertical bluffs.
The word loess, with connotations of origin by wind-deposited accumulation, is of German origin and means “loose.” It was first applied to Rhine River valley loess about 1821.
Loess is homogeneous, porous, friable, pale yellow or buff, slightly coherent, typically non-stratified and often calcareous. Loess grains are angular with little polishing or rounding and composed of crystals of quartz, feldspar, mica and other minerals. Loess can be described as a rich, dust-like soil.
Loess deposits may become very thick; more than a hundred metres in areas of China and the Midwestern United States. It generally occurs as a blanket deposit that covers areas of hundreds of square kilometres and tens of metres thick.
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Ecopoint has teamed up with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP), and John D. Liu, Founder & Director of EEMP, is proud to bring you this film. In 2005, the Chinese government, in cooperation with the World Bank, completed the world's largest watershed restoration on the upper banks of the Yellow River. Woefully under-publicized, the $500 million enterprise transformed an area of 35,000 square kilometers on the Loess Plateau — roughly the area of Belgium — from dusty wasteland to a verdant agricultural center. This is the first of a series of many more to come. Enjoy! And you are also welcome to start, join, or continue the conversation at www.ecopoint.asia. -
2:15Loess - Video Learning - WizScience.com
Loess - Video Learning - WizScience.comLoess - Video Learning - WizScience.com
"Loess" is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It covers about 10% of the Earth's surface. Loess is an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometer size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate. It is usually homogeneous and highly porous and is traversed by vertical capillaries that permit the sediment to fracture and form vertical bluffs. The word "loess", with connotations of origin by wind-deposited accumulation, came into English from German "Löss" , which can be traced back to Swiss German and is cognate with the English word "loose" and the German word "los". It was first applied to Rhine River valley loess about 1821. Loess is homogeneous, porous, friable, pale yellow or buff, slightly coherent, typically non-stratified and often calcareous. Loess grains are angular with little polishing or rounding and composed of crystals of quartz, feldspar, mica and other minerals. Loess can be described as a rich, dust-like soil. Loess deposits may become very thick; more than a hundred meters in areas of China and tens of meters in parts of the Midwestern United States. It generally occurs as a blanket deposit that covers areas of hundreds of square kilometers and tens of meters thick. Loess often stands in either steep or vertical faces. Because the grains are angular, loess will often stand in banks for many years without slumping. This soil has a characteristic called vertical cleavage which makes it easily excavated to form cave dwellings, a popular method of making human habitations in some parts of China. Loess will erode very readily. Wiz Science™ is "the" learning channel for children and all ages. SUBSCRIBE TODAY Disclaimer: This video is for your information only. The author or publisher does not guarantee the accuracy of the content presented in this video. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Background Music: "The Place Inside" by Silent Partner (royalty-free) from YouTube Audio Library. This video uses material/images from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess, which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . This video is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . To reuse/adapt the content in your own work, you must comply with the license terms. -
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14:32Agroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess Plateau
Agroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess PlateauAgroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess Plateau
Excerpts from Hope in a Changing Climate (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-hope-changing-climate) Part I: Loess Plateau, China - http://youtu.be/sK8JNXHcBMA Part II: Ethiopia - http://youtu.be/mbEM6DCTK3Y Part III: Rwanda - http://youtu.be/BVxVC7PuEL8 Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can to restore empty, degraded ecosystems -- transforming them into fertile, life-sustaining environments which enable people to break free from entrenched poverty. This is the simple application of Agricultural Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles, such as earthworks, water harvesting, soil building, creating biodiversity. The area of restoration on the Loess Plateau in China is the size of Belgium and thousands of years of subsistence farming had made it barren and infertile. In 1995 the Chinese Government, with support from The World Bank, took drastic action to rehabilitate the plateau, and local people -- seen as both perpetuators and victims of the devastation -- became part of the solution. They completely transformed 8.6 million acres of wasteland into hyper-productive land. This caused a 300% increase in agricultural income and enabled millions of local family farmers to break free from entrenched poverty. Anybody can take a Permaculture Design Course and learn how to do this in their local area or internationally. There are over 1,000 such courses taught all over the world each year. You can find one here: http://permacultureglobal.com/users or take one online: http://permaculturevisions.com It is time to solve hunger worldwide, through creating local food abundance.... Anyone can do it, once you learn how. (Thank you Environmental Education Media Project & Dr. John D. Liu) -
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A set of HD time lapse images I set to the melancholic yet beautiful track "Brumal" by Loess. -
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10:23Loess Plateau - China
Loess Plateau - ChinaLoess Plateau - China
Home to more than 50 million people, the Loess Plateau in China's Northwest takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil. Centuries of overuse and overgrazing led to one of the highest erosion rates in the world and widespread poverty. Two projects set out to restore China's heavily degraded Loess Plateau through one of the world's largest erosion control programs with the goal of returning this poor part of China to an area of sustainable agricultural production. More than 2.5 million people in four of China's poorest provinces -- Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region -- were lifted out of poverty. Through the introduction of sustainable farming practices, farmers' incomes doubled, employment diversified and the degraded environment was revitalized. -
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- Agriculture
- Alaska
- Alemannic German
- Anticyclonic
- Arable land
- Balatonakarattya
- Baton Rouge
- Biome
- Blanket deposit
- Brickearth
- British English
- Buff (colour)
- Calcareous
- Calcium carbonate
- Champaign, Illinois
- China
- Clay
- Colorado
- Crowley's Ridge
- Danube
- Desert
- Dunaújváros
- Dune
- Dune field
- Erosion control
- Europe
- Fall tilled
- Feldspar
- Fertilizer
- Friable
- Gansu
- Gastropod
- Glacial maximum
- Glacier
- Grassland
- Great Depression
- Great Plains
- Gulley
- Gypsum
- Humus
- Hungary
- Hunyuan
- Idaho
- Illinoian (stage)
- Iowa
- Iowa City
- Kansas
- Leipzig
- Loam
- Local regression
- Loess
- Loess Hills
- Loess Plateau
- Louisiana
- Low till
- Lubbock, Texas
- Masonry
- Mastodon
- Matanuska Colony
- Matanuska Glacier
- Matanuska Valley
- McGraw Hill
- Mica
- Mineral
- Mississippi
- Mississippi River
- Mouldboard plough
- Neanderthal
- Nebraska
- New York
- No till
- Outcrop
- Paha (landform)
- Paleosol
- Palouse
- Patagonia
- Peasants
- Plateau
- Playa lake
- Pleistocene
- Porosity
- Porous
- Prairie
- Prevailing wind
- Quartz
- Quaternary Research
- Rhine Valley
- Ridge
- Rounding (sediment)
- Sand
- Shaanxi
- Shanxi
- Silt
- Slump (geology)
- Soil
- Soil horizon
- Springer-Verlag
- Stratum
- Topsoil
- Trade wind
- Tropical
- Tundra
- Vertical cleavage
- Vicksburg Campaign
- Volcanic
- Volcanic ash
- Wallachian Plain
- Weathering
- Wisconsin glaciation
- Yazoo River
- Yellow River
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- Burrows released: 2009
- Wind and Water released: 2006
- Loess released: 2002
Burrows
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Loess - Nomon
Video of the Loess track nomon -
Lessons of the Loess Plateau
Ecopoint has teamed up with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP), and John D. Liu, Founder & Director of EEMP, is proud to bring you this film. In 2005, the Chinese government, in cooperation with the World Bank, completed the world's largest watershed restoration on the upper banks of the Yellow River. Woefully under-publicized, the $500 million enterprise transformed an area of 35,000 square kilometers on the Loess Plateau — roughly the area of Belgium — from dusty wasteland to a verdant agricultural center. This is the first of a series of many more to come. Enjoy! And you are also welcome to start, join, or continue the conversation at www.ecopoint.asia. -
Loess - Video Learning - WizScience.com
"Loess" is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It covers about 10% of the Earth's surface. Loess is an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometer size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate. It is usually homogeneous and highly porous and is traversed by vertical capillaries that permit the sediment to fracture and form vertical bluffs. The word "loess", with connotations of origin by wind-deposited accumulation, came into English from German "Löss" , which can be traced back to Swiss German and is cognate with the English word "loose" and the German word "los". It was first appl... -
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Agroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess Plateau
Excerpts from Hope in a Changing Climate (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-hope-changing-climate) Part I: Loess Plateau, China - http://youtu.be/sK8JNXHcBMA Part II: Ethiopia - http://youtu.be/mbEM6DCTK3Y Part III: Rwanda - http://youtu.be/BVxVC7PuEL8 Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can to restore empty, degraded ecosystems -- transforming them into fertile, life-sustaining environments which enable people to break free from entrenched poverty. This is the simple application ... -
Loess - Brumal
A set of HD time lapse images I set to the melancholic yet beautiful track "Brumal" by Loess. -
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Loess Plateau - China
Home to more than 50 million people, the Loess Plateau in China's Northwest takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil. Centuries of overuse and overgrazing led to one of the highest erosion rates in the world and widespread poverty. Two projects set out to restore China's heavily degraded Loess Plateau through one of the world's largest erosion control programs with the goal of returning this poor part of China to an area of sustainable agricultural production. More than 2.5 million people in four of China's poorest provinces -- Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region -- were lifted out of poverty. Through the introduction of sustainable farming practices, farmers' incomes doubled, employment diversified and the degraded environment was re... -
Loess - Nomon
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- Updated: 20 Aug 2006
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Video of the Loess track nomon
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Lessons of the Loess Plateau
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- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
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Ecopoint has teamed up with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP), and John D. Liu, Founder & Director of EEMP, is proud to bring you this film. In 2...
Ecopoint has teamed up with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP), and John D. Liu, Founder & Director of EEMP, is proud to bring you this film. In 2005, the Chinese government, in cooperation with the World Bank, completed the world's largest watershed restoration on the upper banks of the Yellow River. Woefully under-publicized, the $500 million enterprise transformed an area of 35,000 square kilometers on the Loess Plateau — roughly the area of Belgium — from dusty wasteland to a verdant agricultural center.
This is the first of a series of many more to come. Enjoy! And you are also welcome to start, join, or continue the conversation at www.ecopoint.asia.
wn.com/Lessons Of The Loess Plateau
Ecopoint has teamed up with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP), and John D. Liu, Founder & Director of EEMP, is proud to bring you this film. In 2005, the Chinese government, in cooperation with the World Bank, completed the world's largest watershed restoration on the upper banks of the Yellow River. Woefully under-publicized, the $500 million enterprise transformed an area of 35,000 square kilometers on the Loess Plateau — roughly the area of Belgium — from dusty wasteland to a verdant agricultural center.
This is the first of a series of many more to come. Enjoy! And you are also welcome to start, join, or continue the conversation at www.ecopoint.asia.
- published: 27 Jun 2012
- views: 27795
Loess - Video Learning - WizScience.com
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 02 Sep 2015
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"Loess" is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It covers about 10% of the Earth's surface.
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"Loess" is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It covers about 10% of the Earth's surface.
Loess is an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometer size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate. It is usually homogeneous and highly porous and is traversed by vertical capillaries that permit the sediment to fracture and form vertical bluffs.
The word "loess", with connotations of origin by wind-deposited accumulation, came into English from German "Löss" , which can be traced back to Swiss German and is cognate with the English word "loose" and the German word "los". It was first applied to Rhine River valley loess about 1821.
Loess is homogeneous, porous, friable, pale yellow or buff, slightly coherent, typically non-stratified and often calcareous. Loess grains are angular with little polishing or rounding and composed of crystals of quartz, feldspar, mica and other minerals. Loess can be described as a rich, dust-like soil.
Loess deposits may become very thick; more than a hundred meters in areas of China and tens of meters in parts of the Midwestern United States. It generally occurs as a blanket deposit that covers areas of hundreds of square kilometers and tens of meters thick.
Loess often stands in either steep or vertical faces. Because the grains are angular, loess will often stand in banks for many years without slumping. This soil has a characteristic called vertical cleavage which makes it easily excavated to form cave dwellings, a popular method of making human habitations in some parts of China. Loess will erode very readily.
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This video uses material/images from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess, which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . This video is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . To reuse/adapt the content in your own work, you must comply with the license terms.
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"Loess" is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It covers about 10% of the Earth's surface.
Loess is an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometer size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate. It is usually homogeneous and highly porous and is traversed by vertical capillaries that permit the sediment to fracture and form vertical bluffs.
The word "loess", with connotations of origin by wind-deposited accumulation, came into English from German "Löss" , which can be traced back to Swiss German and is cognate with the English word "loose" and the German word "los". It was first applied to Rhine River valley loess about 1821.
Loess is homogeneous, porous, friable, pale yellow or buff, slightly coherent, typically non-stratified and often calcareous. Loess grains are angular with little polishing or rounding and composed of crystals of quartz, feldspar, mica and other minerals. Loess can be described as a rich, dust-like soil.
Loess deposits may become very thick; more than a hundred meters in areas of China and tens of meters in parts of the Midwestern United States. It generally occurs as a blanket deposit that covers areas of hundreds of square kilometers and tens of meters thick.
Loess often stands in either steep or vertical faces. Because the grains are angular, loess will often stand in banks for many years without slumping. This soil has a characteristic called vertical cleavage which makes it easily excavated to form cave dwellings, a popular method of making human habitations in some parts of China. Loess will erode very readily.
Wiz Science™ is "the" learning channel for children and all ages.
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Disclaimer: This video is for your information only. The author or publisher does not guarantee the accuracy of the content presented in this video. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Background Music:
"The Place Inside" by Silent Partner (royalty-free) from YouTube Audio Library.
This video uses material/images from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess, which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . This video is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . To reuse/adapt the content in your own work, you must comply with the license terms.
- published: 02 Sep 2015
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Loess - Lull
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- Duration: 6:24
- Updated: 18 Jun 2010
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- published: 18 Jun 2010
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Creshiem - Loess
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- Duration: 7:37
- Updated: 14 Jun 2009
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Agroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess Plateau
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- Duration: 14:32
- Updated: 22 Mar 2012
- views: 44547
Excerpts from Hope in a Changing Climate (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-hope-changing-climate)
Part I: Loess Plateau, China - http://yo...
Excerpts from Hope in a Changing Climate (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-hope-changing-climate)
Part I: Loess Plateau, China - http://youtu.be/sK8JNXHcBMA
Part II: Ethiopia - http://youtu.be/mbEM6DCTK3Y
Part III: Rwanda - http://youtu.be/BVxVC7PuEL8
Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can to restore empty, degraded ecosystems -- transforming them into fertile, life-sustaining environments which enable people to break free from entrenched poverty. This is the simple application of Agricultural Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles, such as earthworks, water harvesting, soil building, creating biodiversity.
The area of restoration on the Loess Plateau in China is the size of Belgium and thousands of years of subsistence farming had made it barren and infertile. In 1995 the Chinese Government, with support from The World Bank, took drastic action to rehabilitate the plateau, and local people -- seen as both perpetuators and victims of the devastation -- became part of the solution. They completely transformed 8.6 million acres of wasteland into hyper-productive land. This caused a 300% increase in agricultural income and enabled millions of local family farmers to break free from entrenched poverty.
Anybody can take a Permaculture Design Course and learn how to do this in their local area or internationally. There are over 1,000 such courses taught all over the world each year. You can find one here: http://permacultureglobal.com/users or take one online: http://permaculturevisions.com
It is time to solve hunger worldwide, through creating local food abundance.... Anyone can do it, once you learn how.
(Thank you Environmental Education Media Project & Dr. John D. Liu)
wn.com/Agroecology In China 300 Increase On 8.6 Million Acres Loess Plateau
Excerpts from Hope in a Changing Climate (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-hope-changing-climate)
Part I: Loess Plateau, China - http://youtu.be/sK8JNXHcBMA
Part II: Ethiopia - http://youtu.be/mbEM6DCTK3Y
Part III: Rwanda - http://youtu.be/BVxVC7PuEL8
Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can to restore empty, degraded ecosystems -- transforming them into fertile, life-sustaining environments which enable people to break free from entrenched poverty. This is the simple application of Agricultural Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles, such as earthworks, water harvesting, soil building, creating biodiversity.
The area of restoration on the Loess Plateau in China is the size of Belgium and thousands of years of subsistence farming had made it barren and infertile. In 1995 the Chinese Government, with support from The World Bank, took drastic action to rehabilitate the plateau, and local people -- seen as both perpetuators and victims of the devastation -- became part of the solution. They completely transformed 8.6 million acres of wasteland into hyper-productive land. This caused a 300% increase in agricultural income and enabled millions of local family farmers to break free from entrenched poverty.
Anybody can take a Permaculture Design Course and learn how to do this in their local area or internationally. There are over 1,000 such courses taught all over the world each year. You can find one here: http://permacultureglobal.com/users or take one online: http://permaculturevisions.com
It is time to solve hunger worldwide, through creating local food abundance.... Anyone can do it, once you learn how.
(Thank you Environmental Education Media Project & Dr. John D. Liu)
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Loess - Brumal
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A set of HD time lapse images I set to the melancholic yet beautiful track "Brumal" by Loess.
A set of HD time lapse images I set to the melancholic yet beautiful track "Brumal" by Loess.
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A set of HD time lapse images I set to the melancholic yet beautiful track "Brumal" by Loess.
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Brumal - Loess
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Loess Plateau - China
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Home to more than 50 million people, the Loess Plateau in China's Northwest takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil. Centuries of overuse and overgr...
Home to more than 50 million people, the Loess Plateau in China's Northwest takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil. Centuries of overuse and overgrazing led to one of the highest erosion rates in the world and widespread poverty.
Two projects set out to restore China's heavily degraded Loess Plateau through one of the world's largest erosion control programs with the goal of returning this poor part of China to an area of sustainable agricultural production.
More than 2.5 million people in four of China's poorest provinces -- Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region -- were lifted out of poverty. Through the introduction of sustainable farming practices, farmers' incomes doubled, employment diversified and the degraded environment was revitalized.
wn.com/Loess Plateau China
Home to more than 50 million people, the Loess Plateau in China's Northwest takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil. Centuries of overuse and overgrazing led to one of the highest erosion rates in the world and widespread poverty.
Two projects set out to restore China's heavily degraded Loess Plateau through one of the world's largest erosion control programs with the goal of returning this poor part of China to an area of sustainable agricultural production.
More than 2.5 million people in four of China's poorest provinces -- Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region -- were lifted out of poverty. Through the introduction of sustainable farming practices, farmers' incomes doubled, employment diversified and the degraded environment was revitalized.
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Loess - Viscer
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- Duration: 6:21
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Artist: Loess
EP: 3D Concepts Part 2
Label: Toytronic
Release: 31 March 2003
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Loess - Nomon
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published: 20 Aug 2006
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Lessons of the Loess Plateau
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Loess - Video Learning - WizScience.com
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Loess - Lull
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Creshiem - Loess
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Agroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess Plateau
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I remember when I was just a little child
I remember when all of this felt so alive
I remember when I could see and I could smile
I remember when I would hope and I would try
I remember when I would stare out at the miles
I remember when I could fall deep in blue skies
I remember when I was just a little child
I remember when all of this felt so alive
now I look around and all of this just feels like nothing
now I look around and all of this is so declined
now I look around and wonder why my heart feels nothing
now I look around and wonder why the blue skies died
now I look around, I realize that I've been tainted
now I look around, I see the world through blurry eyes
now I look around and all of this just feels like nothing
now I look around and all of this is so declined
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Labour MP Jo Cox Dies From Injuries Sustained In Birstall Shooting
Edit WorldNews.com 16 Jun 2016
Labour MP Jo Cox has died after being shot and stabbed by a man reportedly shouting “Britain first” at lunchtime in Birstall, West Yorkshire during her constituency advice surgery, The Belfast Telegraph reported. "I am now very sad to have to report that she has died as a result of her injuries.” – Dee Collins, temporary chief constable for West Yorkshire ... "The death of Jo Cox is a tragedy. She was a committed and caring MP....
photo: AP / Senate Television via AP
[VIDEO]: Senate Democrats Yield Filibuster After Compromise Reached
Edit WorldNews.com 16 Jun 2016
With assurances of a vote on two proposed gun-control measures from Republican Party leaders, Senate Democrats ended their nearly 15-hour filibuster early Thursday, NBC News reported.Connecticut Democrat Sen ... "We did not have that commitment when we started today. I've had enough. I've had enough of the ongoing slaughter of innocents, and I've had enough of inaction in this body.” – Connecticut Sen....
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
Why our nuclear deal with Iran is turning to dust
Edit The Independent 16 Jun 2016
The Middle East is littered with missed opportunities, lost chances and dreams turned to dust. The Iranian nuclear deal is now heading in the same direction ... But he’s beginning to look like a patsy ... The sanctions have been lifted – but they haven’t been lifted ... Washington both giveth and taketh away; it’s a slogan that every Iranian president should learn ... don’t trust America. ....
photo: Creative Commons / Rameshng
Recovered EgyptAir Flight 804 Black Box Returning To Egypt For Analysis
Edit WorldNews.com 16 Jun 2016
A specialist ship owned by a Mauritian company recovered one of the two black box recorders from EgyptAir Flight 804 found deep in the Mediterranean Thursday, Egyptian authorities have told The Daily Telegraph.The discovery of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) is a key element in determining what brought down the doomed flight – including evidence whether it was brought down by a terrorist’s bomb or a technical fault....
photo: AP / Michael Conroy
Sanders Speech Prioritizes Beating Trump
Edit WorldNews.com 17 Jun 2016
Bernie Sanders did not concede or throw his support behind Hillary Clinton during a live online speeech to his fans on Thursday night where he read a script from a teleprompter standing in his hometown according to ABC News. However he did explicitly state the need for avoiding a Trump presidency at all costs ... Sanders also hoped that the campaigns "political revolution" would move past his own fight for the Democratic Party ticket....
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What Massive Land Rehabilitation Project Teaches Us About Ecological Health, Poverty and Our Prospects for ...
Edit Mercola 07 Jun 2016
The featured film, "The Lessons of the Loess Plateau" by John D ... Yet projects such as the regeneration of the Loess Plateau in China show that when we make the right corrections, we can reestablish a thriving environment once more, and much quicker than expected. The Loess Plateau was until recently one of the poorest regions of China where centuries of agriculture had taken its toll ... Lessons Learned at the Loess Plateau....
5 decades after China's Cultural Revolution, a few say sorry
Edit Springfield News-Sun 02 Jun 2016
As a teenager, Wang Keming felt nothing but contempt for the older peasant his village singled out for collective persecution in 1970 ... guilt ... "Otherwise, my heart would be troubled for the rest of my life." ... ___ ... Wang found himself in Yujiagou in northern Shaanxi province, a stark area of loess hills where he was forced to endure back-breaking work plowing fields of buckwheat, millet, wheat and sorghum on the arid slopes ... At an Aug ... ___ ... ....
Community gardens grow in popularity in Siouxland
Edit San Francisco Chronicle 29 May 2016
CrossPointe Church, 2300 W 19th St., started its community garden to address the neighborhood's food insecurity, which was brought to light through interactions with students at Loess Hills Elementary and residents of the income-based apartments across the street ... ....
Behind the Scenes / 50 years on, Xi follows Mao’s political style
Edit The Japan News 28 May 2016
By Hiroyuki Sugiyama / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior Writer YANAN, China — It has been 50 years since Mao Zedong, present-day China’s founding father, launched the Cultural Revolution — a period of domestic turmoil that brought destruction and chaos across the country — in May 1966 ... In April, I visited Liangjiahe Village in Yanan, Shaanxi Province. It is a small agricultural village in a valley on the Loess Plateau ... Slide 1 of 2. PrevNext ... + - ... ....
TIFF SERVES UP A SIZZLING SUMMER SLATE OF CINEMATIC TREATS (TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival Inc)
Edit Public Technologies 18 May 2016
(Source. TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival Inc) 53c72d0a-1074-4422-a46d-f33f055a438b.pdf. May 18, 2016. NEWS RELEASE TIFF SERVES UP A SIZZLING SUMMER SLATE OF CINEMATIC TREATS ... Harvey and Elvis Costello ... The last programme brings audiences Yi Cui's Of Shadows (2016), a captivating documentary that follows a shadow-play puppeteer troupe in their travels across the Loess Plateau and the struggles of nomadic life in modern China....
Public Meeting to Discuss Recreational Trail Development Along Highway 12 (City of Sioux City, IA)
Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
(Source. City of Sioux City, IA) ... The proposed trail route will follow the Loess Hills scenic by-way, around the Milwaukee Railroad Museum, along Highway 12, and connect at Military Road ... The public is invited to attend ... Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 17 May 2016 19.22.12 UTC....
Sparta Commercial Reports Its iMobileApp Harley-Davidson® Customer Base Continues to Grow
Edit Stockhouse 05 May 2016
New York, NY, May 05, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --. Sparta Commercial Services, Inc. (OTCQB. SRCO), reported today that Harley-Davidson® dealerships continue to be a growing segment of the client base for Sparta’s iMobileApp product ... House of Harley-Davidson®, in Alaska, ... (http.//imobileapp.com/customer-applications/abernathyh) Loess Harley-Davidson®, in Iowa,. (http.//imobileapp.com/customer-applications/loesshillshd). ... ....
Citations Per Dollar as a Measure of Productivity (NIH - National Institutes of Health)
Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
... increase in output (citations, normalized as described earlier)?' If there is a 1.1 relationship between the input and the output, and a 10% increase in funding yields a 10% increase in citations, we'd expect a plot with a slope of exactly 1.The trendlines/curves are based on loess smoothers, with shaded areas representing 95% confidence intervals....
Bringing the landslide laboratory to remote regions
Edit Science Daily 12 Apr 2016
Thanks to millions of years' accumulation of the wind-deposited, highly-porous sediment from which China's Loess plateau takes its name, the region has been called the most erosion-prone on Earth. However, despite the prominent geomorphic role gravity erosion plays on the slopes, the process isn't well understood due to the complexity of soil failure occurrence and behavior ... ....
Polish President Andrzej Duda Inaugurates GPW’s 25th Anniversary Celebrations (WSE - Warsaw Stock Exchange SA)
Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
(Source. WSE - Warsaw Stock Exchange SA). 2016-04-12 13.47.26. Warszawa, 12 April 2016. Polish President Andrzej Duda Inaugurates GPW's 25th Anniversary Celebrations. PRESS RELEASE President of Poland Andrzej Duda has inaugurated celebrations at the Warsaw Stock Exchange on the 25th anniversary of the signing of GPW's founding deed ... This is great, let's keep it up ... 'The mould is largely made of loess clay, the same as in bricks ... *** ... (noodl....
The Meandering Missouri
Edit The Atlantic 11 Apr 2016
Adam Feiges. A reader, inspired by the Orbital View last week of a braided river carrying the runoff of a small New Zealand glacier, merges two Notes features. ... Ten thousand years of erosion have created the Loess Hills, a relatively unique geologic feature of sharp sided mounds without a rock anywhere....
Palaeosol loess shed light on early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia
Edit Science Daily 30 Mar 2016
The transition from shallow marine sediments to loess deposits at ~2.4 Ma in the northeastern Iranian Golestan Province documents a dramatic change in the early Pleistocene from a region with a humid, marine-influenced climate to a semi-arid climate ... ....
Perfecting Pinot in Willamette Valley
Edit Huffington Post 24 Mar 2016
When a new vintage tastes like it's been around the block, or rather, aged for 3-5 years instead of 1 or 2 I feel like I've won the lottery. Take perhaps the almighty Pinot Noir which isn't as fussy about age as a Cabernet, but getting the layers, the nuances of some of the best can be a feat ... One where the soils of volcanoes, sand and loess were dropped as if a blessing from someone with a grander eye, a more powerful objective ... ....
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