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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Fri/ Sat. Sept. 4-5 Soil Not Oil International Conference Richmond, CA
  • Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:18:51 -0700

http://soilnotoilcoalition.org/2015-international-conference/about-the-conference/



Soil Not Oil International Conference
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 4-5, 2015, 9:00 am
Memorial Civic Center Complex, 403 Civic Center Plaza,

Richmond, CA 94804

Focuses on Regenerative “Carbon Farming” to Mitigate Climate Change


Dr. Vandana Shiva keynote speech is on Friday, Sept. 4, 7:00 pm

International conference on agriculture and climate change, Soil Not Oil,
Sept. 4-5, in Richmond, CA, features speakers Vandana Shiva, Fritjof Capra,
Anna Lappé, former EPA senior scientist Ray Seidler, soil scientist Rattan
Lal, agro-ecologist Miguel Altieri, environmental and land use attorney
Claire Hope Cummings, and others.

Richmond, CA (July 29, 2015) ­ Getting to the root of global climate change,
the 2015 Soil Not Oil International Conference will bring together farmers,
ranchers, scientists, policy makers, NGOs and community leaders on Sept. 4-5,
2015, at the Memorial Civic Center Complex in Richmond, CA, to explore how
sustainable, regenerative agriculture practices can help mitigate the
planet’s global warming.




Soil Not Oil speakers include, from left: Dr. Vandana Shiva, Fritjof Capra,
Anna Lappé and Ronnie Cummins.

“The goal of the two-day conference is to provide practical information,
research, and networking to help society create a more vibrant, healthy
future via better farming practices. Along with reduced reliance on fossil
fuels and increased availability of green energy, we need to shift to carbon
farming to mitigate climate change,” said Miguel Robles, conference organizer
and Director of the Biosafety Alliance.

Vandana Shiva Headlines Conference
Inspired by Dr. Vandana Shiva’s book, Soil Not Oil, the 2015 Soil Not Oil
International Conference examines the crisis on food security while
highlighting the role of oil-based agro-chemicals and fossil fuels in soil
depletion and climate change. The conference will focus on practical carbon
farming solutions including cover crops, planned grazing, compost application
on range land, tree planting and other holistic land use practices.

The conference will feature a keynote address by Dr. Vandana Shiva on Friday,
Sept. 4, 7:00 pm, along with presentations featuring noted soil scientist
Rattan Lal; author Fritjof Capra; environmental and land use attorney Claire
Hope Cummings; Earth Guardians director and youth leader Xiuhtezcatl
Martinez; author Anna Lappé; agro-ecologist Miguel Altieri; Adelita San
Vicente Tello, Ph.D., director of Seeds of Life; Regeneration International
and Organic Consumers Association co-founder Ronnie Cummins; John Roulac, CEO
and founder of Nutiva; and other international leaders, farmers, researchers,
climate change experts, and environmental and food justice advocates.

“We are pleased to host this important gathering in the San Francisco Bay
Area, the heart of the organic food industry,” said Richmond-based John
Roulac, founder and CEO of organic food leader Nutiva. “To secure a livable
planet we need to both de-carbonize energy and re-carbonize our soils via
regenerative agriculture.“

Carbon Farming Defined
Carbon farming (also known as regenerative agriculture) is an agricultural
system that improves the rate at which CO2 is removed from the atmosphere and
converted to plant material and/or organic matter in the soil. Today,
mainstream industrial food and farming and unsustainable land use generate
the majority of all greenhouse gas emissions, with carbon that is stripped
from the soil ending up in our atmosphere and oceans, creating acidic
conditions that threaten plant and animal species. In removing carbon from
the atmosphere and oceans by implementing the practices of regenerative
organic agriculture, we can sequester carbon into the soil and expand the
soil’s water-holding capacity.

As a 2014 Rodale Institute report states, “Organically managed soils can
convert carbon CO2 from a greenhouse gas into a food-producing asset.” In
fact, says Rodale after conducting more than 30 years of ongoing field
research, regenerative, organic farming practices and improved land
management can move agriculture from one of today’s primary sources of global
warming and carbon pollution to a potential carbon sink powerful enough to
sequester 100% of the world’s current annual CO2 emissions.

Or, as the Wall Street Journal reported in May 2014, “Organic practices could
counteract the world’s yearly carbon dioxide output while producing the same
amount of food as conventional farming…”

About the Soil Not Oil Coalition
The conference organizer, Soil Not Oil Coalition, is a cross-sector,
multi-ethnic alliance of over 60 organizations, scientists, farmers,
businesses and individuals coordinated by the Biosafety Alliance to promote
research and further understanding to optimize soil carbon sequestration and
sustainability to aid in the development of adequate food production for
future generations and to help reverse of the effects of global warming. We
believe that restructuring land management practices is key to combating
climate change, restoring water cycles, reducing global environmental
pollution, stopping ocean acidification, re-establishing biodiversity,
improving food production and revitalizing local economies across the planet.
For more information, registration or volunteering opportunities visit
www.soilnotoilcoalition.org, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Soil Not Oil Conference Sponsors include Nutiva, Dr. Bronner’s, RSF Social
Finance, Good Earth Natural Foods, Burroughs Family Farms, International
Development Exchange, Organic Consumers Association, Regeneration
International and Food Democracy Now.


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