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Research, training and innovation centers for ecological restoration are the logical next step in restoring Earth systems.

As the policy and science of restoration comes together and agrees that it is necessary in order to mitigate and adapt to climate change to restore degraded landscapes around the world, it is required that there will have to be large numbers of workers who are able to restore large-scale degraded ecosystems.

These innovation centers should exist together with large-scale ecosystem or restoration projects throughout the world. The innovation centers should aggregate all of the technologies necessary for restoration.

These technologies should include water harvesting, soil creation, seed identification and seeds saving, connected to studies mapping species distribution and species richness of indigenous and endemic plants, propagation and nursery systems, grassland restoration planning and implementation, reforestation and afforestation, distributed energy production from solar, biogas, mini-hydro, geothermal where possible and permanent agriculture systems such as permanent agriculture, agro-ecology, intercropping and multistory cropping.

Innovation centers also allow experimentation with social systems such as participatory natural architecture, car-free communities, zero pollution, and many other highly desirable outcomes.