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Life in Syntropy

A short film from Agenda Gotsch introducing syntropic agriculture and Ernst Gotsch's agroforestry methods, made for COP21. It shows degraded land regenerated into productive forest farms.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN users repeatedly offer it as the best introduction to agroforestry as a climate and food solution.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Agenda Gotsch
Topic
syntropic agriculture
Format
documentary
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
12
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • I think for agriculture the way to go is syntropic agriculture: [VIDEO] I've seen people implementing this very successfully, I've been doing it myself for around 4 years now, and its very impressive how much carbon the soil stores after a few years on this …

    alisson on Hacker News · 2020-01
    In Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate Change
  • Ever since watching the video on syntropic agriculture which I bumped into by reading a comment here in HN [1], I've been doing some research on the matter. The practice seems promising. It seems to work at both small and large scales, so it enables …

    reginaldo on Hacker News · 2020-07
    In Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
  • Sure! When I started learning about agroforestry I looked for english books on the subject but didn't find good ones, Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway have really good info you could use. But in portuguese I've so a few good PDFs here, I guess that's …

    alisson on Hacker News · 2017-03
    In UN experts denounce ‘myth’ that pesticides are necessary to feed the world

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