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From YouTube: Regenerative Solutions to Climate Change - Greg Landua - Plenary I - Soil Not OIl 2017
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The leading cause of climate change today is industrial ag -not the oil sector. Come learn how regenerative ag and restorative ocean farming can sequester carbon, conserve water and create economic growth. These nature friendly solutions are vital to help prevent the current state of climate chaos.
Soil Not Oil promotes agro-ecological practices and community powered solutions to restore ecosystems and reach environmental justice.
www.soilnotoilcoalition.org
A
It's
my
honor
and
pleasure
to
introduce
Greg
endow
who's.
The
next
speaker
in
this
panel
he's
from
terrigenesis,
and
they
do
global
work
as
well
from
the
standpoint
of
working
with
some
of
the
companies
that
are
leading
in
the
regenerative
thinking
with
regard
to
cropping
systems
and
some
of
their
important
crops
in
cocoa
and
in
some
of
these
unique
and
individually
and
importantly,
healthy
foods
and
working
towards
the
perennial
systems
as
well.
To
try
and
establish
perennial
agriculture
in
in
an
opportunity
for
obviously
less
tillage
and
an
opportunity
to
build
more
resilient
systems.
B
All
right
everybody
so
who
here
is
a
believer
in
soil
as
the
great
hope
of
humanity
raise
your
hand
all
right
awesome,
so
we
can
just
start
from
there
and
keep
going
right.
So
just
a
little
bit
about
me,
so
I
work
with
farmers,
mostly
in
the
global
south.
Personally,
the
the
design
group
that
I'm
a
part
of
works
all
over
the
world,
and
we
really
we
try
to
approach
the
problem
holistically,
noticing
and
and
one
of
the
things
that
I've
noticed.
B
One
of
the
things
that
I
want
to
talk
about
with
everybody
is
actually
that
it's
extraordinarily
difficult
to
regenerate
soil
without
regenerating
the
mind
whether
it's
of
the
company,
that's
purchasing
an
ingredient
or
the
consumer,
that's
purchasing
a
product
or
of
the
farmer
who's,
managing
the
agro
ecosystem.
That's
producing
that
ingredient.
You
know
all
these
great
slides
that
we've
seen
you
know
just
think
of
the
metaphor
of
the
soil
as
mind.
B
So
if
we
have
minds
that
are
fragmented
by
the
tillage
of
our
reductionist
thinking,
we're
going
to
dissolve
our
capacity
to
hold
steady
and
and
approach
a
goal
as
audacious
and
important
as
sequestering
all
atmospheric
carbon.
That's
been
produced
during
the
industrial
revolution
into
biological
sinks
is
going
to
be
very
hard
because
our
will
will
just
erode
into
the
oceans
of
despair
yeah.
B
Possible
all
of
a
sudden
right,
a
great
thinker
once
said:
Bill
Mollison
who's,
who
I
would
consider
a
a
luminary
and
in
inviting
us
to
think
regenerative.
Li
said
you
know,
although
the
the
world's
problems
remain
complex
and
challenging,
the
solutions
are
embarrassingly
simple.
Ok,
one
of
the
big,
simple,
simple
solutions
here
has
to
do
with
the
ecology
of
our
mind.
Okay,
you
guys
you
guys
might
be
asking
what's
this
guy
prattling
on
about
what
what?
What
exactly
are
you
talking
about?
B
B
Well,
the
soil
may
not
be
the
fastest
way
to
do
that.
Actually,
but
if
the
questions
different,
if
the
question
is
something
like
what
are
the
conditions
in
which
blight
does
not
ever
reach
epidemic
status
in
an
ecosystem,
then
soil
emerges
right,
so
I
just
want
to
propose
that
perhaps
there's
something
about
the
way
that
we're
currently
operating
as
a
society
in
which
we're
getting
the
right
answers
to
the
wrong
questions.
B
B
Yeah,
so
if
I
might
we
might
say
what
does
what
does
an
agricultural
system
look
like
that
values,
farmers
deeply
as
the
basis
of
our
entire
civilization
right,
the
civilization
exists
without
agriculture.
No,
it
doesn't
okay,
and
does
agriculture
exist
without
soil?
No,
it
doesn't
okay.
So
what
what
does
it
look
like
when
we
deeply
value
farmers?
Okay,
I?
B
Think,
that's
a
really
good
question
and
I'd
like
to
sort
of
speak
to
the
the
idea
that,
in
order
to
answer
that
question,
we're
all
going
to
have
to
be
pretty
courageous
in
in
applying
the
same
sort
of
rigor
and
ability
to
actually
look
at
what's
really
happening
and
not
trust,
reductionist,
abstractions
yeah,
so
that
soil
test,
that's
a
brilliant
brilliant.
So
so
what
happens
when
you
go
to
a
farmer
and
they're
living
in
the
Midwest
and
they're
spraying,
chemicals
and
there's
cancer
in
their
family
and
they're
eating,
TV,
dinners
and
they're?
B
You
know
shopping
at
Walmart
and
all
of
these
different
things
and
what
happens
when
you
go
to
someone
who's?
A
farmer
and
their
kids
are
working
with
them
on
the
farm
and
there's
a
whole
bunch
of
different
things.
Going
on
and
what
happens
when
we
say
well,
but
if
you're
taking
the
reductionist
mindset,
the
farmer
farmer,
a
Exhibit
A,
there's
much
more
financial
capital
flowing
through
that
system.
So
therefore
it
must
be
superior
and
Exhibit
B,
there's
hardly
any
financial
capital
flowing
there.
B
That's
a
good
one,
but
what
does
food
waste
have
to
do
with
soil
health
so
in
a
in
a
system?
So
so
just
in
an
in
a
natural
system?
If,
if
you're
in
the
Amazon
jungle-
and
you
see
a
flock
of
scarlet
macaws
coming,
what
are
they
doing?
They're
eating
like
five
or
ten
percent
of
every
seed,
and
the
rest
is
dropping-
is
that
waste.
B
Right
there
providing
a
key
ecological
service
for
every
other
animal
that
comes
and
cleans
it
up
and
it
you
know,
and
some
of
them
fall
and
they
sprout
and
all
of
these
different
things
happen.
So
so
I
guess
I
would
ask:
how
do
we
connect
waste
back
into
the
whole
system
right?
So,
if
the
question
is,
how
do
we
reduce
food
waste
I?
Think
we
go
off
on
a
tangent
because
we're
trying
to
get
the
right
answer
to
the
very
simple
question:
it's
like:
how
do
you
fix
blight?
B
How
do
you
fix
this
this
one
thing
you
know
instead
I
want
to
propose
that
if
we
start
getting
in
the
habit
of
asking,
how
do
we
link
this
particular
aspect
of
the
whole
of
the
whole
system
that
we
notice
is
out
of
balance
back
to
the
whole,
there's
a
whole
system
in
a
powerful
way,
we'll
start
to
get
very
interesting
answers.
So
what
does
wastage?
B
How
does
wastage
look
in
a
system
where
we're
actively
cultivating
the
health
of
the
soil
and
we're
looking
to
increase
the
amount
of
economic
gains
that
are
in
the
hands
of
the
people
who
are
stewarding?
Our
agriculture
system-
anybody
have
a
you-
know,
overpower
the
bad
with
the
good
yeah.
So
there's
something
here
that
I've
been
sort
of
dancing
around,
probably
not
very
elegantly,
which
has
to
do
with
you
know.
Regenerative
agriculture
and
regenerative
economics
are
completely
connected.
B
Well,
you
can't
have
one
without
the
other
and
and
that
weaves
back
to
to
policy
and
that
weaves
back
to
governance,
so
so
I
recently
I
was
sitting
back
at
the
table
with
Rosie
and
she
said
something
that
really
sat
with
me.
It
really
sunk
in
which
is
you
know
this
is
going
to
take
all
of
us
doing
many
different
things,
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
got
to
overcome
is
the
illusion
of
separation
between
someone,
who's,
doing
policy
work
in
Washington,
DC
towards
agrarian
Orme,
or
shifting
subs
subsidies.
B
Away
from
you
know,
chemical
agriculture
and
somebody
who's
working
to
to
you
know:
revolutionize
broad,
acre
annual
agriculture
into
a
no-till
revolution.
Those
people
are
on
the
same
team,
we're
all
on
the
same
team.
So
one
of
the
things
that
I've
really
been
been
sitting
with
recently
is
is
what
does
it
look
like
to
have
rigorous,
deep,
powerful
disagreements,
because
you
want
to
serve
the
same
thing.
B
B
What
does
it
look
like
for
humans
for
us,
as
a
society
as
a
group
as
a
movement
to
deeply
embody
and
explore
what
it
looks
like
to
have
both
heated
agreement
and
heated
disagreement
in
service
to
one
another
in
a
whole?
So
I
think
that's
really
where
you
know.
I've
got
plenty
of
other
things
to
say,
but
that's
really
what
I
want
to
kind
of
leave?
The
conference
with
you
know
leave
all
of
us
to
take
out
into
there's.
There's
other
plenaries.
There's
working
groups,
there's
all
these
other
things.
B
What
does
it
look
like
when
you
hear
something-
and
somebody
says
you
know
like
ray
talked
about-
he
was
he
was
narrating,
what
it
what
it
was
like
for
him
to
talk
to
farmers,
and
he
referred
to
Walmart,
okay
or
you
know,
sometimes
we're
gonna
work
with
people
who
are
doing
GMO
things
because
we
want
to
improve
the
system.
What
does
it
look
like
to
deeply
hold
to
your
value
system
and
not
say
wow?
B
That's
completely
right
and
I'm,
just
gonna
like
let
it
go
but
to
deeply
say
I,
wonder,
what's
happening
here
and
I
wonder
how
I
could
communicate
what
feels
important
to
me
and
also
listen
to
what's
important
to
them,
because
I'm
deeply
committed
to
serving
the
same
aim,
which
is
what
sequestering
all
of
the
atmospheric
carbon
that's
been
accumulated
over
the
Industrial
Revolution
into
biological
sources,
so
that
we
can
increase
the
abundance
and
health
it's
the
basis
of
our
very
existence
as
humans.
So
thank
you
all
very
much.