JustUs is the story of a family in the Española Valley of New Mexico ministering to their community during an epidemic of heroin addiction and political corruption.  This location is

JustUs is the story of a family in the Española Valley of New Mexico ministering to their community during an epidemic of heroin addiction and political corruption.  This location is the homeland of a variety of Indigenous tribes.  In 1598 Spanish Conquistadores attempted to colonize this area. The Pueblo rebellion of 1680 was a reaction to enslavement that resonates with historical traumas that even remain today.  Most of the people here are bi-racial. The Spanish language is a dominant cultural influence.  Though the land is enchanting, poverty is endemic and the State of New Mexico is ranked 49th in educational achievement.  Job training facilities and job opportunities are nearly nonexistent with the distribution of heroin and methamphetamine being the primary source of income.  Produced by Paul Steinbroner and David Okimoto and directed by Paul Steinbroner of Touchpoint Productions, paul@touchpointproductions.com at (541) 941-5317 to schedule a preview.

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 Andrew Revkin - The Scariest Climate Science - GLEX summit 23

Between 14 to 16 June 2023, Portugal held in

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 Andrew Revkin - The Scariest Climate Science - GLEX summit 23

Between 14 to 16 June 2023, Portugal held in the Azores The Global Exploration Summit (GLEX Summit) bringing together the world’s leading explorers to showcase the latest discoveries, innovative solutions and cutting-edge technology in exploration of our planet, oceans and the new frontiers of space… A Co-Organization between The Explorers Club and Expanding World.

With 40 years of his life dedicated to journalism, Andrew Revkin became one of the most innovative and lauded reporters on the sustainability beat - filing stories and multimedia reports from the Amazon to the Arctic and talking about the scariest climate science.

Heart of the World. Sequoyah Trueblood speaks candidly of his experiences with the Mamos, or spiritual elders of the high mountains of Colombia. He was accompanied by James O'Dea, one of the great

Heart of the World. Sequoyah Trueblood speaks candidly of his experiences with the Mamos, or spiritual elders of the high mountains of Colombia. He was accompanied by James O'Dea, one of the great peacemakers of our time. This is the third segment of this three part series describing Sequoyah and James' experiences in Colombia, the land known as "The Heart of the World." In this final segment Sequoyah describes the events initiating the translation of "The Law of Origin," the Gifts of Global Telepathy and Divining. The Foundation for Global Humanity is grateful for this opportunity to film Sequoyah at the Shift Retreat at IONS in Northern California in June 2011. With deep respect, we present this sacred story from Sequoyah Trueblood, accompanied by James O'Dea.

Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone), born and raised in the village of Huichin (aka Oakland, CA), is the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan and co-founder and Lead Organizer

Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone), born and raised in the village of Huichin (aka Oakland, CA), is the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan and co-founder and Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native-run organization that sponsored annual Shellmound Peace Walks from 2005 to 2009. As a tribal leader, she has continued to fight for the protection of the Shellmounds, uphold her nation’s right to sovereignty, and stand in solidarity with Indigenous relatives to protect sacred waters, mountains, and lands all over the world. Her life’s work has led to the creation of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a women-led organization in the Bay Area that seeks to heal and transform legacies of colonization and genocide.

This talk was delivered at the 2023 Bioneers Conference.

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Forests are vital ecosystems for fighting climate change, supporting livelihoods and protecting biodiversity.

Yet critical gaps remain in the scientific understanding of the structure

Forests are vital ecosystems for fighting climate change, supporting livelihoods and protecting biodiversity.

Yet critical gaps remain in the scientific understanding of the structure and extent of forests around the globe. While satellite data has made it possible to visualize and analyze timely, globally consistent information about the world’s forests, the majority of existing data has resolutions of 10 or 30 meters, which is not granular enough to see the details of more dispersed forest systems such as agroforestry, drylands forests and alpine forests, which together constitute more than a third of the world's forests.

But now, WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative and researchers from Land & Carbon Lab have partnered with Meta to develop a groundbreaking AI foundation model that we’ve used to produce the world’s first global map of tree canopy height at a 1-meter resolution, allowing the detection of single trees at a global scale.

This new high-resolution data sets a baseline for remotely monitoring changes at the level of individual trees, making it a critical advancement for measuring land use emissions and tracking progress on conservation and restoration projects, which are essential for achieving the world’s goals for climate, nature and people. While this initial data set has limitations, it demonstrates the power of foundation models — a type of AI model that can serve as the “foundation” for a variety of tasks — to pave a new path toward AI-driven earth monitoring.

How was the 1-meter tree canopy height data developed?
The accelerating pace of breakthroughs in AI and foundation models are changing the ways in which we all interact with the world around us. In recent years, mapping forests through remote sensing has made rapid improvements in terms of scale, resolution and refresh rate (how often an area is imaged).

This new 1-meter tree canopy height data set creates a global baseline of where trees are located, including individual trees and forests with open canopies.

To create the maps at this resolution, both a globally robust model and the computational resources to generate 100 trillion pixels of data were needed. To do this, we used a state-of-the-art AI model called DiNOv2 based on methods developed by AI at Meta Research. The model was trained on 18 million satellite images encompassing more than a trillion pixels from across the globe.

To learn more visit: https://www.landcarbonlab.org/news-updates/mapping-trees-unprecedented-detail-ai