Out of a total of 35 videos recommend, 6 rose to the top. I grouped them into two categories: “Start Here” (~20 minutes or less) and “Go Deeper” (Usually 1 hour or more).
If you want to add your vote (or recommend another video!), check out the “Methodology” section below for a link to the public spreadsheet and original posts.
Start Here
Videos 20 minutes or less in length
- How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change
2. Life in Syntropy
3. Greening the Desert
These top videos on regenerative agriculture have been viewed (according to YouTube, and TED) about 7.5 million times. That’s about 0.1% of earth’s population (and if you’re like me, many of those views are repeats;). How could we invite more people to engage with regenerative agriculture?!?
Go Deeper
Here are the top videos that are more than an hour long
- Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective
2. Tomorrow (Demain)
3. Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem
Commentary
1. Lineage
The full set of videos clearly highlight the three primary lineages of regenerative agriculture that are active in the world today: Permaculture, Holistic Management, and (Rodale)-Organic. I’ll write another post soon that covers these in detail.
2. Language
Of the 36 videos, all except for 2 are in English. Where’s the regenerative agriculture documentation in Mandarin? Arabic? Spanish? Hindi? Russian?
3. Gender
These videos overwhelming feature men. Where are the feature-length inspirational portrayals of regenerative agriculture leaders like Precious Phiri, Doniga Markegaard, and Daniela Ibarra-Howell? What can the regenerative agriculture community do to support and make visible the incredible work women are doing in this space?
Methodology
I posted the following question to the Facebook groups Regenerative Agriculture, Soil4Climate, Regenerative Agrarians, and my own feed:
“What would you say are the top 3 videos to introduce someone to #Regenerative #Agriculture?”
Then I tallied up the responses in this spreadsheet, which is publicly available for viewing and commenting. I gave 2 points for a direct mention, and 1 point for a “like”.
Probably the easiest way to add your voice is to like or add a comment to the original post:
While you’re here…
After a 10 year break, I’m re-starting my own blog to post stuff like this on Regenerative Agriculture, Business, and Life. I just put it up and I’d love to see what you think — it’s called “Re-Source” and you can find it over at EthanSoloviev.com.
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Cheers,
Ethan