Ogallala Life

#ReFi Generation #podcast episode 13 ?? Will M. convo w/ host Cash Upton re our latest #landscape #rehydration works at Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center (80 #leakyweirs, awaiting rains) & that of the year prior along the Canadian River breaks (110 #NIDS aka natural infrastructure, dryland streams, on 6 ephemeral drainages). & lots more - covered lots of ground - previewed below the link but you should stop reading & give it a listen ?? ?????? https://lnkd.in/gxu3h39U We reviewed challenges, such as consolidated ownership whereby oft absent & abstracted entities own huge swathes of the #txpanhandle & are entitled to #mine water, basically as much as they can #pump. Our public is understandably, but tragically, disconnected from place, denied mere access by threat of trespass. Daunting circumstances... A short aside too re #bison ?? Discussed what all this ?? has to do with #web3, #blockchain, digital assets et al. Overviewed a critical component to a functional ecosystem services market, ie #MRV, and briefed our work w/ dMeter (for #dMRV where d is digital, decentralized & distributed). Again, the "task" is to engage locals for applied citizen science, so as to support accessible & effective markets. Mentioned too our FOAM Inc #lorawan pilot whereby data can be made available to #oracles, to fulfill or deny conditions of smart contracts, with a #GPS independent #proofoflocation. And, within $Regen ecosystem whereby we've reviewed others' water centric proposals (ie Virridy, avoided emission credits to subsidize green infrastructure), have outlined concepts of our own (ie #playa #wetland #ecocredit) and will more intensively engage in #governance as csDAO-to-be, cohort 3. Whew! ?? #lfgrow #refi #desci #dePIn

Our bioregion is famous for unsustainable agricultural productivity, enabled by tapping the #highplainsaquifersystem (HPAS). Our landscape is depleting in terms of its' productivity potential, #biodiversity, air & water quality & quantity. Our communities exist in a state of learned powerlessness. But there's hope! There are all kinds of things we can do to #rehydrate our #landscape. This includes stormwater harvesting & riparian recovery, like the #NIDS we constructed on a half dozen #ephemeral streams N of the Canadian River & the #leakyweirs on West #Amarillo #creek at Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center. We intend to continue to grow a portfolio of research & demonstration projects and to cultivate bioregional learning centers... We're proud of our work, #IRL, but it's not enough. We can add dozens, even hundreds of projects and succeed in terms of raising local water tables, but it pales in insignificance to the scope & scale of #degradation. A transition to a sustainable, much less #regenerative, agroeconomic system requires better incentives. In other words, we need to pay land users to treat their #playa #wetlands like a wetland, to treat a river, stream & spring like the natural & cultural treasures they are. We need to keep more of the rain we get. Smart contracts enable the creation of novel systems that can underpin markets, enable transparent & democratic governance and finance distributed infrastructure. Regen Network Development PBC is an absolute leader in this space, and we are honored and privileged to participate in their community & engage in the larger ecosystem. It is our pleasure to announce our inclusion in Regen's Community Support #DAO program (csDAO)! We are in the 3rd cohort, themed “Ecosystem Partnership and Continuous Decentralization. It's a most excellent group including Shamba, ecoToken, Sunflower EcoTech, DAODAO & Finance for Gaia. To learn more about the #csDAO program, our participation therein and others in the cohort, see https://lnkd.in/duMhQQ5Q #LFG ??