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The mass media needs to focus the public's attention on these succesful, positive projects instead of always focusing on the negative...Excellent work!

California should be taking notes

I'm Zimbabwean and I'm so proud of my country for its project in Chimanimani

Thank you very much Andrew Sir for visiting my village. Indeed, with the help of Paani Foundation Team and the solidarity of the villagers, the village has undergone a major transformation in the last 2-3 years....

Being Indian, Iam happy you acknowledged developmental activities going on here, Its really appreciable. Lots of efforts are being done by govt. as well. We are in verge of getting uplifted, well in advance. A lot more is yet to come.

It would be interesting to see these concepts used to restore the American West and Great Plains

With so much bad news and disasters on climate change, this stories are heart warming and gives hope.

Wow. Restoring a river in less than 10 years: that is impressive. Beautiful example of a quick response to crisis

In the UK, the charity "the Heart of England Forest" aims to plant the largest national forest in the UK, a diverse mix of all native broadleaf trees, meadows, wetlands etc, bringing back diversity and restoring our country to what it once was. They're doing well already and hope to, in the future, re-introduce species that were hunted to (local, UK) extinction.

I shed tears. A 42 years old grownup man wept like a baby on watching this. In my book these people are the real unsung heroes that make life worth living. The ultra-rich vultures that only hoard paper money and start wars are nothing more than parasites and common criminals that need to be eradicated

Great video.. Being an Indian ,i am so proud that I worked with paani foundation.The work that changed the life of farmers . Great efforts by team paani foundation... Andrew ,i met you 2 years back as a part of Ajinkyatara Shramadan group ,it was a great moment for us...

I kept asking myself "Why haven't they mentioned Paani foundation?" Turns out you saved the best for last. It really is amazing that have done so much since only 2016. And as you say that the results show the same year. Where as other projects took years or decades. Truly inspirational.

India.. one mission, diverse projects. Unique land scapes across different regions

This is so profoundly moving and lifechanging it makes me want to cry! This is how the land should be managed!! I love that the so-called under-developed world is showing the developed world how it should be done.

This is so inspiring, why isn’t there a Netflix programme and why don’t major television networks publicise these successes. There is so much doom and gloom with organisations saying we are doomed because of climate change, why not show the power of people to change their environment and nourish themselves. Thank you so much for sharing this with us all.

So proud to see my own place n taking no 1 place in his global list.. My district has been profited most by paani foundation projects.. Though we have a lot of rain in one side n literally too less at other now those areas are becoming self reliant in water..n not needing external water tankers in most of the part. N I know still work needs to be done..we will do our best.

I’ve been a huge follower of the Indian water cup and other water harvesting projects for some time now. It saddens me to see how easily we could terraform our earth into such a diverse and abundant place but corporate greed and first world selfishness won’t allow it to happen. Too many people would rather come home and watch their sports then put in any effort to leaving a prosperous planet for the generations to follow them.

Of the "5 Most Epic Earth Healing Projects" 3 are from India! I am so impressed. With love and best wishes from South Africa.

Felt so proud, Being an indian person the fact india is growing so fast as both aspects development and environmentally aware.

It was heartening to notice that three Indian projects were included in your video. It was positive also because we are always seeing alarming picture of environmental degradation this was inspiring.

I am from Maharashtra(India) Great to see the Work of Paani foundation. Great Video Andrew !!

Very happy to hear that India is setting an example

6 months after you posted this, you are still changing lives. Don't stop. "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her"- William Wordsworth

The best video on UKposts . I cried. So much needed was this news. These projects show us the true future. Not the doom 'n gloom nonsense. Just "Let's get busy folks ' So GOOD.

Well done India ! I am so proud of you

3 projects from India 👏👏

It is incredible just how much competition really motivates people to do things- that human urge of _wanting_ to be the best and show their prowess at something is just so strong 😂 "What? Do I want to be the best at something? OF COURSE I want to be the best, give me that shovel- I'm gonna WIN THIS." We need more and more competitions like the #1 project.

This must be the first time I have heard some actual good news about this doomed planet. Now there may be some hope for humanity after all. Thanks for making this video.

Videos like this are incredibly encouraging. If such dramatic progress can be made with such low tech approaches we can absolutely improve our footprint on the ecology as humans in total.

Hey brother, Science teacher here and I’ve watched your content off and on for quite some time - you seem to to keep popping up on my feed! I just wanted to take some time to say thank you for the positive attitude and effort. I’ve got a 3 year old daughter and my wife and I have wanted to just recluse away from society to escape the hurt, getting back to the land ourselves. Every time your videos pop up they remind me there are others out there who don’t have that luxury and I need to make an effort to help. Promise to keep the content coming and I promise my family and I will put shovel to soil. Love from Brazil 🇧🇷

I have learned so much from Mr. Millison's videos. Why isn't there a program in the U.S. for this type of restoration? We need a way to lift up small organic sustainable farmers.

This fills me with hope. Together, we can heal the planet. Have to concentrate on stopping oil production. All of this increases community and unity.

Thank everyone for earth healing projects all over the world. 🙏🙏🙏 ... respect from Thailand...

The first 3 similar examples were particularly good because they support under-developed regions recovering water with simple very low cost, low tech engineering solutions without the need to reduce their crop areas as opposed to typical revegetation solutions.

These wonderful, large scale permaculture projects bring happy tears to my eyes. Not only do they show that devastated areas of the planet can be restored to healthy productivity leading to opportunities for sustainable life, but they demonstrate what mankind can do when we work together. If we can do these works in such hot, arid, eroded lands, just imagine what we can do in other areas of the world. Working together is all encompassing love -- of self, mankind, plants, animals, and the planet. Growth in this direction fills my heart to near bursting. Awesome!

You should be proud of your carbon footprint. You are providing the earth with exactly the right food for all plant life to flourish. We don’t need “carbon capture “ or “carbon sequestration “ or reduced carbon emissions. We need more. The planet has seen a net green in of 17-21% over the last 30 years.

Nice job Andrew, you’re spreading hope and possibilities.

The satellite picture of the desert during the dry season transformed by Gravis Jodhpur.... AMAZING. So many lives sustained through a natural process that can easily be implemented. The world can looks at that transformation with hope for the future

India is doing great things and this video increases my respect and admiration for them.

All of these projects are amazing and bring hope to all of us around the world. It is possible to act and go from degradation to healing. Thank you to all those people in Africa, India, China and certainly other projects and other people out there who are trying to fix what others have destroyed 🙏🙏🌍🌍

Architecture grad student here. Andrew, I just want to say you have amazing content and your videos helped me with my design project. Keep up the good work!

As someone from India, it makes me proud to see that 3 out of the 5 mentioned on this list are based here. And it is kinda fascinating to think how hard people have to work to actually get access to water. Here in the northwest we have plenty of rainfall and the ground water is abundant as well yet we waste tonnes of it on obsolete irrigation practices

This video is life changing! The work you are doing is inspiring and is so important. All land should be managed in this manner!! I love that the so-called under-developed world is showing the developed world how it should be done.

The Water Cup Competition can be tailored to fit just about any massive project that the governments cannot fund themselves. By offering a prize to the teams who do the best work, it gives challenges and incentives to people who do not expect to be paid for the work donated. It becomes a team effort for each village or area to beat the other teams. I love this concept, and it shows what can be done when the masses get together under a common cause, and it becomes fun. I would like to see this model adopted by many other areas that need massive help in restoration. Astounding results!

I wish I could give multiple 'likes' on this video. This is so much what we need to hear about, and start doing what we can locally.

The documentary by John D. Liu has always been one of my favorites. Now that I've seen the India project at No. 1, I gotta see more of it. it looks so awe-inspiring! Amazing work. 🙌

The Arvari River Restoration project is freaking cool! India is blessed with powerful monsoon rains. The problem is that so much of the nation doesn't know how to capture these incredibly fast rains, so that this huge amount of water can be retained for later use. Apparently they figured it out in Rajasthan! I feel Pakistan needs to learn from this, as there are massive monsoon floods that happen there pretty frequently now. Some of that vast amount of water needs to be captured and retained for long-term use.

so proud to see India being mentioned so many times i will definitely contribute to these efforts as well

This is such an encouraging and beautiful video. How our species is able of some of the most destructive behavior BUT ALSO some of the most beautiful ones. The surprising thing is that it doesn't take much to completely transform and rebuild. Thank you for sharing. Let's always preach hope!!

A big shout out & mad respect to all who are involved in these projects. All of humanity must learn of this, unite, and jump in!

You make me cry seeing unbelievable dedicated people who restore our world. Thank for sharing this important know how that will determine humankind fate .

Your carbon footprint is providing breath for all those beautiful green plants you love, my friend. It needs to be larger, not smaller.

This is simply one of the best, most inspiring videos on the environment I have seen. Thank you.

So inspiring, so beautiful to see the regenerative capacity of humans and the earth working together. This is definitely where healing is at. You are a fantastic teacher, Andrew, I am so grateful to have found your channel... keep it rockin'!

All the ponies at the same end of the wagon is a beautiful thing! I love seeing people work together.

I watch these videos when I feel down and hopeless, thank you Andrew for your content. I'm young and have started permaculture on a small scale and found it gives me a lot of purpose and satisfaction. From year to year growing something and growing with it is something I wish for everyone to experience :)

what i love most about these epic projects is that they show you don´t need much money to achieve great results, just the cooperation of the local people. heck, most of these changes were acomplished by illiterate people using their farming tools! and it improved their situation, both quickly and lasting - which is way more than most western charity project that just throw money at a problem can claim!

Hope in a Changing climate was what made me see how "easy" our solutions are back in 2009. Your videos from India specifically very much echo the same sentiment, but in a more direct personal way! Planning on visiting and showing off more projects in the future?

Genuinely one of the most inspiring videos. Be honest how many positive stories do u usually see about India and China? Well here are some of the truly amazing things happening there. Fantastic

3 out of 5 mega projects are from India!! I'm feeling proud!! 🇮🇳

The Colorado river needs the Avari treatment!

Australia is also part of this movement. Since our country is so large and diverse, it was hard to know where to start at first. Australia has tropical rainforests, snowy mountains, wetlands, bushland and yes, the wasteland desert. But since most of Australia is farm land, first focus on was making sure farmland had water. Water catchments and rivers and lake were made to catch water coming down from mountains and up river, along with getting laws in to restrict what types of non toxic fertiliser you can use so it doesn't pollute the water. Also most houses in wetlands are built on stilts, to help prevent flooding. Fire breakers are dug with lakes and rivers and wells to help with large summer bush fires, which, while the plants need it to germinate and grow, harm the native wild life. Over head bridges left to grow grass on over roads allow native wild life to safely cross roads to lessen the risk of running them over, and allow them to safely migrate to find food. More Australians take up safe farming practices and grow their own urban gardens to help lessen the strain of the agricultural sector. Since most of Australia is cattle and sheep farms. Australia spend millions in researching how to lessen the impact or negate the issues caused by our natural disasters, which are flooding, bush fires, cyclones (Hurricanes for Americans) and drought. How to use one area which gets too much rains and transfer it to places where they don't get enough. Willows planted along riverbeds to help retain water. Trees planted to provide shade for native animals on hot days. Building up for infrastructure rather than out. Australia mostly lives within 10 kilometres of the ocean. So Australians are taught to respect the oceans too. Kids have holidays that are used for things like Green Earth Day, where they go out and pick up rubbish from the wildlife. Schools also grow their own food gardens, some even keep chickens to collect eggs. Children are taught to grow plants and take care of animals too. It's all pretty cool.

It is heartening to see land reclaimed from drought on a significant scale around the globe!

I really appreciate those person who loves to support project like this

Hi Andrew! These project are all great. I am vary aware of your work and other permaculturists. Been following and practising this movement for 10 years now. I have one observation, none of these project are in developed world. I wonder why. I am sure that this kind of work is needed in California or, Australia etc. All these projects did not operate under the assumption that people are guilty for they carbon footprint, neither did they ask people for money, so corporations can solve their problems. People must be educated to plant their own trees. They should be volunteering, so we can see these projects happening in North America as well. Here the big corporations and big government has made it almost impossible to do anything. So many laws and restrictions are put forth every year, and the people’s will is disappearing every day. Maybe that is the route we should be taking and not giving money to corporations. We have to stop buying the narrative. So in all these regions where these projects occurred, there is no climate change any longer, as they are substantially changing. Hmmm. Also, you must not feel guilty for you carbon footprint. With all you work in education and participation in permaculture, you have exceeded you carbon footprint many many times. That is what I believe. Keep doing what you are doing but maybe change perspective a bit. Respect!

I wish I could give this a 100 likes. Sharing it with friends, family, etc. It is so good to see that the solutions are here, the only thing we need to do is implement them on a broader scale. How can we get this information to the right people as soon as possible?

Tears of deep gratitude flow from the beginning of this video from mine eyes. In a world seemingly lost to tyranny and the genocide of many peoples your video of healing this earth has helped to heal a piece of my broken heart. There is inspiration away from the lies There is many a way to heal Mother Earth and all her children. Thank you soooooo very much❣ I will remember "wren"

8:20. The Hills need hats, belts and shoes! Awesome analogy of permaculture thinking principles! The Pani reward is inherent in itself… no matter if you build the most water storing berms, swales etc, every single person wins with the water restoration!!

These stories warm my heart ♥️ reversing desertification is so beautiful. Imagine what we could accomplish if the oil powers that be would stop suppressing Thorium, Fusion and other new energy technologies… water desalination could produce all the battery 🔋 materials we need for abundantly powered EVs or synthetic fuel powered combustion engines… all the technologies needed to solve the problems are already here. I swear it.

The amazing results shown in this video keep my hope for a better world alive. Thanks for sharing! I want to be part of the solution, otherwise I'll be part of the problem.

This projects restore our faith to humanity. Human are able to make destructions, also able to restore it. It inspire us to doing something similar on our village, start with waste, trash and water problem. May be not as big as this project but had impact on our everyday life. :)

Celebrity can do amazing things. Amir khan has proven it. Well done PAANI (WATER) FOUNDATION and excellent work Amir khan, tou the the true legend of Bollywood. Lots of love. ❤❤❤

Dear Media of the world, PLEASE focus your, and our, attention on solutions such as is presented here. So many problems solved in this mind blowing video. ❤

God bless India. They have done incredible work.

Intelligence started in this part of the world its beautiful to see people bringing pride to themselves again

There's a guy called Ernst Götsch. He lives in Brazil since 1980's and bought a land destroyed by mining and wood logging. He restored over 300 hectares through a technique called agrofloresty. He produces food using the nature natural process as it favor and building forest, restoring land. It's now proven some of projects using his approach has made agroforest with higher carbon seequestration than native forest itself. The key goal is to use human labour as catalyst to boost photosynthesis. Take a look at what he has done....it's a great example!

I hate that this made me tear up multiple times, very inspirational. I hope an Australian can do the aboriginal people proud and make it into a list like this one day soon ☺️

Fantastic video and thanks to both Andrew and the Wren for hosting and bringing it to the video on UKposts . Speaks of human efforts which can heal when they have hurt the Earth for a long time.

Not only are these examples of earth-healing feats, but it places a great emphasis on the importance of water conservation that isn't as thoroughly documented in the western world. Excellent job!

I love the panni foundation

heart warming news , thank you these people are the heroes not a girl named greta

I am a 2 day old Subscriber and Andrew I have to say I havent been more happy and exciting to venture trough A channel or body of work than yours. I am very eager to learn and already your content and information and knowledge is satiating and satifying! I am happy to be here and im very glad i came across your channel. Many Thanks for what you do and for sharing it with the world! Permaculture lifestyle and way of being needs to be implemented in all aspects of our lives even if its on the microcosmic scale. This will save us from ourselves.

The Al Baydha project with Neal Spackman deserves an honourable mention, maybe? But I see he is Founder & CEO at Regenerative Resources Co. mentioned at 11:59. I followed that project for years, and to this day I am stunned at the outcome. We WILL repair the Earth. We are THE keystone species and the rest of the living world depends on us. We know enough now to not only undo all the damage we've done, but to revitalise areas, and prevent flooding world wide.

I watched how the people volunteered and made their communities thrive. I wonder if that's even possible in Western societies (esp. in the arid southwest and increasingly drought-ridden midwest of the US). Too many are waiting for the government to "do something", which is a failed strategy. Love the competition that was initiated by India's Paani Foundation. The villagers and communities in these videos are all amazing for their effort and discipline. They provide inspiration for the world.

More wonderful work Andrew. Thank you for continuing to bringing the information about these projects to us.

I didn't realize how discouraged I was by the evident greed and abuse here in the US until I was these examples globally. I was tremendously moved by the positive and good! Thank you for leading!

Every time I see restoration videos I am soexcited

Such a motivational compilation of instances where people saw the need and met the challenge. How full are their chests... Those who looked, thought, and then did what was needed in spite of the naysayers.

This needs to be taught in every high school. The next 100 years on this planet drpends on it.

Your and my carbon footprints make our gardens thrive.

This is great work, Andrew! Thank you for sharing these amazing climate solutions! Keep up the great work :)

A couple of the projects reminds me of the 'Stairway to Heaven' in Banaue Philippines. Where they grow rice and other produce. While keeping the surroundings, with native trees and plants. Great job to all the participants of these earth healing projects.

Happy to see all positive news - information about the environment. God bless you. Hare Krishna 🌷

NorthWest Ohio here.. TAKING NOTES. and facts.

Here in the US, we just complain about the desert southwest running out of water and then we buy expensive water from companies that make a huge profit. We're so dumb.

Wonderful! Thanks. It's all about contour gardening/farming. I wish you had pointed out that just about anybody can do that on a tiny scale in their own back yard, if they have one. They could start at the bottom of a downspout.

My ancestors at Cahokia managed water with the mound system they destroyed the mounds and now there are so many issues. Perhaps we should restore this ancient system in North America. ❤ thanks to these rolemodels in our world today!

Very hopeful. Great that the villagers do the work with there own hands and symple tools.

This is amazing! Would love to hear even more specific details. Maybe do a deep dive episode?