[Southern California Permaculture] Fri/ Sat. Sept. 4-5 Soil Not Oil International Conference Richmond, CA

Mon Aug 24 17:55:52 PDT 2015

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 
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=&msgid=0&act=11111&c=607027&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grain.org%2Farticle%2Fentries%2F4357-food-and-climate-change-the-forgotten-link>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 
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=&msgid=0&act=11111&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Frodaleinstitute.org%2Fassets%2FRegenOrgAgricultureAndClimateChange_20140418.pdf>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 
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=&msgid=0&act=11111&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Fnumbers%2Fcan-organic-farming-counteract-carbon-emissions-1373%2F>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, 
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=&msgid=0&act=11111&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fsoilnotoilcoalition.org>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 
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=&msgid=0&act=11111&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soilnotoilcoalition.org>www.soilnotoilcoalition.org, 
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Soil Not Oil Conference 
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=&msgid=0&act=11111&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fsoilnotoilcoalition.org%2F>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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