Thomas Kliemt

Foodie, Photographer, Startup, Student, Technologist, World traveler

"This bulls*** might save the world" - Making Compost with Cow Manure and Biochar - Thomas Rippel talking at TEDxZurich 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeL72c6scAs Thomas has initiated several sustainable farming projects in Switzerland as well as being involved in EU financed agricultural projects. His novel approach to manure treatment, composting and the use of biochar has won him several awards as well as media attention. Thomas is the runner-up winner of the Hub Zurich and WWF Switzerland Fellowship for bio-diversity and resource-efficiency and the winner of the 2012 Falling Walls Lab in Berlin. In 2009 Thomas gave a 10 minute presentation to the Premier of China, Wen Jiabao, about the prestige project of the Economics Department of the University of Nottingham China, Ningbo. Thomas has been profiled in print by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tages Anzeiger, Blick an Abend, Schweizer Familie and 20 Minuten as well as on TV on the show "Einstein" and "Aeschbacher" on Swiss National Television SRF2 is.gd/QujrOs, the TV show "Quarks&Co" on German Television WDR tinyurl.com/pl74n8a and the Swiss internet show BuureTV tinyurl.com/o2khgxj Thomas is currently engaged in a 5 year vocational training to become an organic dynamic farmer in Switzerland where he works on a farm full-time as well as going to school in the winter.

Organic agriculutre, biodynamic farming, compost, biochar, manure management, animal husbandry, China, Nutrition, positive psychology, technology trends, economics, behavioral economics

We may turn the world's soils into a lush paradise, reverse global warming and reduce world hunger by living in symbiosis with cows and composting their manure with biochar. I have a vision of a world where cows only eat grass and clover from pastures like the alps and from crop rotation. I imagine a world where the number of cows on this planet is not determined by our appetite for meat, but by the amount of grass and clover available to us in this wonderful symbiosis. And I wish for a world where every farmer composts the manure of his cows with biochar, giving us all the organic fertiliser we need to grow grains and vegetables for humans without needing any chemical fertilisers.

Animal husbandry, Biochar, Compost making, organic farming, Soil Fertility

I have been watching TED talks online since 2008 and have seen several hundred of them. In 2013 I attended my first TEDx event in Zurich. In 2014 I was a speaker at the TEDxZurich event.

table tennis