10.04 Water: Thinking Like a Water Shed - by Brock Dolman, Water Institute

Renowned speaker Brock Dolman gave a talk about "Thinking like a Watershed" that was very well received, indeed. It seems that this is a subject dear to everyone’s heart, spleen, liver and all the rest. He showed maps of how Sonoma County has formed itself geologically into regions that determine how the rain falls and where it goes. He had much to say about how so much of our rain and pumped water is wasted and the disasters that await us if we continue to ignore some very simple precepts. These have been very successfully and simply instituted in other states that we like to imagine are "behind us" in matters ecological. Only a tiny portion of water on this planet is unpolluted drinking water and they ain't making it any more. Global warming, or "climate change" as our administration likes to say, is going to be THE hot topic as water scarcity makes oil seem uninteresting. Especially interesting to many of us who thought we were hip to the workings of the environment were how much the health of our land depends on nutrients brought inland from the sea in the bodies of fish. Now that we have killed off these fish, their absence will haunt us. These complex, subtle and intertwined matters are not immediately grasped by minds of elected or appointed officials who have other things on their plates, like reelection and reappointment. Think water, folks; Truthful water. I think Dolman wants us to vote water, as well.

Brock Dolman at SBC, October 4th, 2007

Brock Dolman & Earl at SBC, October 4th, 2007

Brock Dolman & Andre at SBC, October 4th, 2007

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Brock Dolman

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BROCK DOLMAN is the Director of OAEC’s WATER Institute and the director of OAEC's Permaculture Program. 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.