Special Event – Creating Sustainable Systems: Soil, Carbon, and Food

CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Larry Rosenberg Memorial Webinar Series

Creating Sustainable Systems: Soil, Carbon, and Food

Thursday, September 28, 7:30 pm to 9pm  

The panel will highlight some of the technical/economic/political/practical challenges and opportunities that we need to honestly face in order to make nature-based climate-improving strategies actually work at scale.  Our hope is to raise the level of discussion about these important strategies, acknowledging the unknowns and limits while suggesting ways forward.

• David Montgomery, Professor of Geology at University of Washington and an expert on regenerative agriculture, will focus on farming for soil quality as a way to both feed our growing population and reduce greenhouse gasses.  
• Walter Willett, Harvard T.H. Chan  School of Public Health, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, currently the co-chair of the EAT-Lancet Commission on sustainable nutrition, will summarize their findings about staying healthy in a climate-endangered world.  
• Ilan Zugman, 350.org’s Latin America Director, will provide an overview  connecting the pressure on land use with fossil fuel extraction from a Global South perspective.  
• Danielle Nierenberg, moderator, co-founder and President of Food Tank with a long history of making discussions exciting and insightful.