Climate Change Is a Factor in Desertification, But It Might Not Be the Major Cause

I’ll never forget one of the very first conversations I had with a cleantech innovator, shortly after the launch of 2GreenEnergy.  I was in my office, speaking on the phone with Abe Collins in Vermont.  Abe wasn’t an electronic engineer with a breakthrough in battery chemistry or photovoltaics; he wasn’t a fluid dynamics physicist with a set of calculations that would alter the course of the development of wind turbines or hydrokinetics.  He was a  simpler salt-of-the-Earth type, who claimed to have come upon a simple truth, and a technology for bringing the world’s ever-expanding deserts back into a healthy and usable condition.  His secret (and I’m oversimplifying): running cattle on the land.

I listened intently, though, as this isn’t my field (pardon the pun) I really had no way of evaluating what he was telling me.  Until now.

I urge you:  check this out.  I learned so much in 20 minutes, it was astonishing, and what’s more, now I’m completely convinced in the power of Abe’s idea.  And I recall an additional detail from our conversation: Abe has developed a software package that will help the managers of large pieces of land to manage them with precision, maximizing the rate that they can be restored to their natural state – before man came on the scene, removed the native animals and their natural predators, and then proceeded to change the climate, further accelerating the process of desertification. 

If you’d like to speak with Abe, just hit contact and let me know.