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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network is a promotional co-sponsor
of the Urban Soil Water Summit, if you'd like to sign up for the
event, you can mention coupon code SOIL2015 to receive a 10%
discount. This event uniquely focuses on the soil, living soil,
in urban areas for solutions to many things, including climate
change.
Urban Soil Carbon Water Summit
Feb 24-25 2015
Los Angeles Natural History Museum
http://urbansoil.org/
It’s dry and getting drier here in the arid West. But drought is just a
symptom of something much more insidious called desertification –
creating a man-made desert out of a historically dry area.
In order to influence policy and projects aimed at reducing the
effects of climate change, the Urban Soil Carbon Water Summit
Partners invite you to join the dialogue and claim a leadership role
in building the formula for abundance and urban resiliency:
Living Soil + Carbon Sequestration + Native
Plants = Soil Security = Water Security
Over two days in February 2015 our
internationally renowned speakers, in dialogue with YOU, our
Summit attendees, will share strategies for:
- • Restoring urban soils
- • Reducing drought
- • Creating a more verdant and economically viable city, and
- • Sequestering carbon in the soil biome to reverse climate
change.
Living Soil is truly a multifaceted 'super hero': it grows
nutritious food, supports all plant and insect life on earth, holds &
cleans water, eliminates water and air pollution, and sequesters
atmospheric carbon, reversing climate change. It is NOT dirt.
Many of our current construction, farming, urban design, and industrial
processes kill Living Soil. When our soil is damaged in these ways it can
no longer function to support human existence. When soil dies we get
desertification, one symptom of which is drought. When we kill
the soil, we kill ourselves. We must change our ways of
dealing with soil so that we can thrive.
G3 Green Gardens
Group feels so strongly that the soil will save us that we are
partnering with the Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County and the
Council for
Watershed Health to present the Urban
Soil Carbon Water Summit in February 2015. Our 'soil slap down'
conference will bring together world-renowned speakers who know we can
bring soil back from the brink. They want to share their groundbreaking
research and experimentation to help us gain the tools and confidence to
save our way of life by creating soil security, water security, and
reversing climate change.
Dr. Elaine Ingham, founder of the
Soil Food Web, Ray “the Soil
Guy” Archuleta from
NRCS, and Dr.
Suzanne
Simard, pioneer of the forest carbon sequestration process are
joined by moderator Judith Schwartz, author of
Cows Save The
Planet, to explore the science of locking carbon into the soil,
and using the soil to filter water before it reaches our rivers, lakes
and beaches.
Allan Savory, developer of the Holistic Land Management strategy
of the Savory Institute,
and Brock
Dolman, consummate educator on watershed science are joined by
moderator Kristin Ohlson, author of
The Soil
Will Save Us, to translate the science into action and draw from
projects around the globe in which the conservation and restoration of
soil biology has resulted in improving the resilience of ecosystems to
climate change.
See website for other speakers:
http://urbansoil.org/
The culmination of the two-day discussion will be applying this
information to an urban setting such as Los Angeles. How are our urban
cities going to survive unless we use these approaches to secure our
future, create jobs and improve the urban economy?
The limited number of tickets for The Urban Soil Carbon Water Summit
are selling fast.
Reserve your place at the table today.
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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