Inspire, Empower, Engage, and Awaken.
We start with soil, water, and people
We use a ground-up approach that starts with local knowledge. The stories told and untold by the land, water, and people combined with the best available data and science illuminate the pathway to reverse land degradation. Starting here, we identify where community values and goals intersect with approaches that are driven out of the need to make a change for the better, working with nature. We identify regenerative solutions that benefit all.
Oso Eco prioritizes low cost, high ROI land treatments to leverage small investments into sustainable returns that not only inspires, but brings social, natural, and financial capital back to the community. We prefer to use simple, context-appropriate techniques derived from local and onsite materials. We apply technology consciously where it is helpful and appropriate.
Head and Heart Based
Our approach is simple: we will work with you to do what is good. We help you find inspiration by giving you the information you need to empower your head and heart to reach the goals of your project. Our technical expertise and project management experience provides the structural foundation to expand your ability to tangibly realize your values. Think of Oso Eco as another limb of your body focused on increasing your capacity for regenerative thinking and action on the ground.
We are not a template generator. We work directly with people, on the ground, where they live. We will work with you to solve your specific problems.
Plant the Rain. Build the Soil. Grow the Plants. Abundance.
Our Cosmic Judo Approach
A rain harvesting garden (a fancy ditch) is a small investment of energy that provides a passive and steadily growing return for years after its installation.
Nothing in the universe is static but in a constant state of change. Our Earth is located in the ‘goldilocks zone’, perfectly situated between the extreme heat of the sun at 5800 Kelvin and the cold of deep interstellar space at 3 Kelvin. Sitting between those two extremes, our planet is constantly being bombarded by light energy from the sun with only a fraction of this light energy being held on Earth. The process of light energy being converted into chemical energy is called photosynthesis and done by all the plants and trees on our planet.
The trees and plants around us are all taking atmospheric carbon from the air around us and convert it into plant matter. In very basic terms this is how plants grow. As vegetation increases, the soil below benefits from reduced temperatures and reduced evaporation, two critical components that allow the natural soil microbiology to flourish. Thriving soil microbiology helps the plant by making the necessary nutrients available, which in turn creates new niches for biodiversity to increase at all levels and a multitude of benefits for all of us.
Exposed soil due to inadequate vegetation cover creates negative feedback loops that continue to build on themselves. When water is the main limitation for growing vegetation, the simple act of digging a ditch to harvest, hold and infiltrate water is a simple and efficient method to leverage our existing natural systems towards positive feedback loops that sequester more carbon from our atmosphere, improve soil conditions and help create an environment that benefits all of us.
Thus, the simple act of digging a ditch is a one-time expenditure of energy that results in beneficial payback exponentially larger than the initial investment.
Practice cosmic judo and dig a rain harvesting garden.