[Santa Cruz, CA Permaculture] Feb 24 & 26/Urban Soil Carbon Water Summit Los Angeles

Sat Feb 7 18:23:08 PST 2015

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 at sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org

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