Soil Not Oil International Conference Day ONE
August 14th @ 9:00 AM CST - Central Standard Time-
9:00 AM Welcome by Miguel Robles Founder and Executive Director of the Soil Not Oil Coalition
9:05 AM Keynote Dr. Vandana Shiva, Environmentalist and Author
10:00 AM Keynote The Sixth Mass Extinction and the Future of Humanity
Dr. Gerardo Ceballos, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ecology at the UNAM
10:45 AM Promoting Agroecological Solutions in Kenya
Dalmas Tampati, Founder and Director of Masai Center for Regenerative Pastoralism
Stella Nyambura, Ph.D. Scientist and Researcher
Mlesh Ellija, Founder and coordinator of Garden of Hope Community Based Organization
Facilitator: Esther Ngumbi, Assistant Professor of Entomology and African-American studies and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Latin American Perspectives for a Healthy Planet Session ONE
11:45 AM Building a regenerative economy, now!
Eduardo Muller, Founder and Director of University for International Cooperation Costa Rica
Marta Astier, Professor at the Center of Environmental Geography, UNAM, Campus Morelia. Mexico
12:25 PM Sustainable Health Equity
David Chiriboga, Former Minister of Health of Ecuador
Juan Garay, Medical Doctor. Spain
1:05 PM Agroecology and Sustainable Rural Development
Clara Nicholls
Peter Rosset, Professor of agroecology at the ECOSUR Advanced Studies Institute in Chiapas, Mexico
Rosa Castizo, ECODES, Ecology and Development Foundation
1:45 PM The Importance of Small-Scale, Regenerative Vegetable Farming in Crisis and Change
Keynote Elizabeth and Paul Kaiser, Owners of Singing Frogs Farms
2:30 PM Keynote Anuradha Mittal, founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute
3:15 PM Performance by Diana Gameros
3:30 PM Addressing the Tragedy of Modern Meat.
Katie Cantrell, Founder and Board Co-Chair of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition
Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director of Organic Consumers Association
4:30 PM Soil Health for Climate Health
Seth Itzkan, Co founder and Co Director of Soil4Climate Inc.
Paigelynn Trotter, Regenerative Grazes Goats, Sheep and Cattle in Sonoma and Marin County
Dr. Cindy Daley, Director and Co-founder of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture at California State University, Chico
5:30 PM Keynote Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network
6:15 PM Keynote John D Liu, Ecosystems Ambassador, Commonland Foundation