Viewing water as the engine of all life on earth
Our Approach

Why
The world we know today is facing severely degrading ecosystems. Earth suffers from declining trends in productivity, and species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate. With the current climate change crisis trajectory, the livelihoods of millions of people are seriously threatened.
Viewing water as the engine of all life on earth, we restore water cycles as the key to achieve overall biosphere restoration in order to create a healthy planet.
The Weather making Approach for restoring the water cycle
We developed the Weather Making Approach, which is an agile, impact driven ecosystem planning, engineering and management strategy that can be implemented on multiple scales and with different stakeholder groups.
It provides understanding how to regenerate ecosystems as a basis for restoring water cycles.
The Weather Making approach (re)values the role of the biosphere in weather and climate and develops long-term nature-based strategies for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and translates them into targets and reward systems. It creates an umbrella for a multitude of challenges for society (water security, biodiversity, climate and food security).
We use it to build our services, develop our solutions and determine our research.
Services

At The Weather Makers we engineer and develop nature-based solutions to restore water cycles.
We are specialised in strategic areas, creating the highest impact on water security, biodiversity and climate change.
We build with nature by combining ecology with engineering, practical research, data analytics, technology and business.
The services and solutions we provide are integrated strengths of our engineering, solutions and research.

Initiatives
Bardawil & Sinai Initiative
We started our journey with the plan to restore the water cycle of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
Discovering the potential of regreening the Sinai Peninsula: a greener and cooler Sinai can bring more moisture to the region, and can positively influence the larger weather systems that cause extreme weather around the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
Restoring the water cycle in this area will have a big impact on earth in rebalancing our climate, reverse diversification of the Mediterranean, provide water and food security to the local people and improve livelihood and prosperity of people.
Our approach is not only applicable to the Sinai Peninsula. We can use it worldwide.
Perspective paper
In light of our close collaboration with academics and our vision to continue to do so in the future, we have produced a report that introduces the scientific concepts upon which the Sinai & Bardawil Initiative lays its foundations. Our intention with this paper is to communicate our vision, shed light on the critical unknowns in the field of climate science and biosphere restoration and make a call for more transdisciplinary research.

Henriëttewaard Initiative
The Henriëttewaard is both a central waterways hub and ecological hub located at the area where the river Dieze floats into the Meuse. The Henriëttewaard is essential for the drainage of the area and besides that also a potential hub for further ecological development in the area.
The municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch wants to redevelop the polder into a river nature park as part of the Green Delta Program.
The central guiding principle of the Henriëttewaard nature park is the transformation of the current agricultural land use into a functional and dynamic natural landscape. The Weather Makers are forming a consortium with several stakeholders and take the lead in determining the added values of the area in terms of water safety, water quality, carbon sequestration and to setup a financial model for the development. The design supports the different cycles by introducing key ecological processes through landscape diversity and biodiversity.
About

About Us
The Weather Makers is an engineering company with a holistic vision. We aim to restore water cycles, achieve overall biosphere restoration and create a healthy planet. We do this by designing and implementing innovative restoration projects.
We believe that, as humanity, we already possess all the tools required to mitigate the catastrophic effects of climate change. It is those tools we, as a company, employ to accelerate large scale ecosystem regeneration.
The company was founded in 2017 and named after the book “The Weather Makers” by Professor Tim Flannery.

Viewing water as the engine of all life on earth
The Team
Viewing water as the engine of all life on earth
Angel Imaz
Technology Architect
Anneleen Geurts
Earth Scientist
Prof. Charling Tao
Cosmological scientist
Daniel Halsey
Permaculture Specialist
Duke ten Velden
Ecological Engineer
Eduardo Vias Torres
Ecological Engineer

Farah Shishani
Project manager
Gabriel Bellido Perez
Software Developer
Gijs Bosman
Technical Director / Co-Founder
John D. Liu
Ecologist & Filmmaker
Prof. John Todd
Ecological Scientist
Juliette Kool
Water Resource Engineer
Maarten Lanters
Hydraulic Engineer
Maddie Akkermans
Managing Director / Co-Founder
Prof. Millán Millán
Meteorologist
Mohammed Nawlo
Business Consultant
Mohamed Zakaria
Vegetation and Ecology Scientist
Pepijn Noordhuizen
Draftsman
Pieter van Hout
Project Manager
Rick van Bentem
Hydraulic Engineer

Robin Heukels
Digital Advisor/Architect
Rogier Kuiper
Biological Engineer
Sanne Murraij
Communication and organisation
Ties van der Hoeven
Creative Director / Co-Founder
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What is at stake
The world we know today is facing severely degrading ecosystems. Earth’s vegetated cover suffers from declining trends in productivity, and species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate. The consequences of which are felt through climate change, and which threatens the livelihoods and food security of millions of people.
What we stand for
The existential threat of climate change is humanity’s most urgent challenge, but all too often the problem has been split into separate issues: greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss, unsustainable production and consumption, and environmental degradation. The Weather Makers offer a holistic, nature-based solution to a multitude of problems, by seizing our role in making the weather and dedicating it towards a regenerative future.
Our goal
Viewing water as the engine of all life on Earth and the primary driver of weather and climate, we aim to restore water cycles by restoring the integrity of the biosphere – a crucial foundation for overall societal wellbeing. Drawing inspiration from nature and using water cycles as our guiding principle, we ultimately aim to restabilize the climate by harnessing the power of healthy ecosystems. By restoring water cycles and the biosphere, we have the unique advantage of positively influencing weather conditions, and in return, enhancing food security, biodiversity, and overall welfare of society.
What we do
At The Weather Makers we use our intelligence, capacity and knowledge to positively and effectively influence the weather in order to stabilize the climate and achieve natural regeneration. Ecology and engineering are used to identify and leverage cross-scale, cross-disciplinary synergies to generate positive, transformative change at local-to-global scales, with the ultimate goal to stabilize the climate system. We created the Weather Making Approach, which is a holistic, science-informed and data-driven method to understand how to regenerate ecosystems as a basis for restoring water cycles. The Weather Making approach (re)values the role of the biosphere in weather and climate and develops long-term strategies for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and translates them into targets and reward systems.
The Weather Makers believe that every person involved in the regeneration and management of natural resources can provide an optimal value to the process when there is an environment of trust and respect. We build trust by monitoring and providing transparent results to all stakeholders involved by implementation of the Weather Making Approach. This enables all stakeholders to give input and steering to the system that is acted upon.
Who We Are
The Weather Makers is a company and network of specialists, researchers and designers in the field of holistic water cycle and biosphere restoration, both in water and on land. Humanity has all the tools required to mitigate the catastrophic effects of climate change. It is those tools we, as a company, employ to accelerate large scale ecosystem regeneration.