[Southern California Permaculture] Urban Soil Carbon Water Summit/Feb 24 & 26

Sat Feb 7 11:30:56 PST 2015

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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.

<http://www.greengardensgroup.com/who-is-g3/>G3 
Green Gardens Group feels so strongly that the 
soil will save us that we are partnering with the 
<http://www.nhm.org/site/>Natural History Museum 
of Los Angeles County and the 
<http://www.watershedhealth.org/Default.aspx>Council 
for Watershed Health to present the 
<http://urbansoil.org/>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 
<http://www.soilfoodweb.com/>Soil Food Web, Ray 
“the Soil Guy” Archuleta from 
<http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/>NRCS, 
and Dr. 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRSPy3ZwpBk>Suzanne 
Simard, pioneer of the forest carbon 
sequestration process are joined by moderator 
Judith Schwartz, author of 
<http://www.judithdschwartz.com/>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 
<http://www.savoryinstitute.com/>Savory 
Institute, and 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izf6D1LQlFE>Brock 
Dolman, consummate educator on watershed science 
are joined by moderator Kristin Ohlson, author of 
<http://www.kristinohlson.com/books/soil-will-save-us>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. 
<http://www.greengardensgroup.com/events/urban-saving-our-soil-symposium-los-angeles/>Reserve 
your place at the table today.

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