Taking Nature’s Solutions to Scale: Intersectional Governance and Bioregional Regeneration
As the reality of a changing climate bears down, it is increasingly clear that the only realistic pathway forward is to protect and regenerate the natural systems that undergird life on earth. We need to take care of the place that takes care of us. It’s time to go big for nature, with the resources and effort commensurate with the scale of the challenge. But while “nature” is a vast overarching concept, the actual practice of implementing nature-based solutions is deeply local, enacted watershed by watershed, bioregion by bioregion. How can we transform governance to operationalize local action at scale? What does truly bioregional planning look like? Can we mobilize to enable landscape-scale regeneration before it’s too late? Join three leading policymakers working at a variety of different scales to learn what the cutting edge of nature-based governance looks like. Hosted by Brett KenCairn, founding Director of the Center for Regenerative Solutions. With: Wade Crowfoot, the Natural Resources Secretary of the State of California; and Nancy Scolari, Executive Director of the Marin Resource Conservation District.
Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Shattuck Plaza
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March 27th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Brett KenCairn
Founding Director
Center for Regenerative Solutions
Brett KenCairn, founding Director of the Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Division Manager for Nature-based Climate Solutions for the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Department, has throughout his career supported community-based initiatives across the western U.S., particularly in rural, Native American, and other marginalized communities. He also co-founded several organizations, including: the Rogue River Institute for Ecology and Economy; Indigenous Community Enterprises; Veterans Green Jobs; and Community Energy Systems.
Wade Crowfoot
Natural Resources Secretary
State of California
Wade Crowfoot, on the frontlines of environmental leadership throughout his long career in the public and non-profit sectors, California’s Natural Resources Secretary since 2019, leads efforts to conserve California’s environment and natural resources, overseeing an agency of 25,000+ employees spread across 26 departments, commissions, and conservancies charged with stewarding the state's forests, natural lands, rivers, water supplies, coasts, wildlife and biodiversity, as well as helping oversee its world-leading clean energy transition, including a commitment to conserve 30% of its land and coastal waters by 2030. Secretary Crowfoot has led efforts to navigate California’s record-breaking droughts, floods, and wildfires and has initiated a new era of partnerships with the state's Native American tribes.
Nancy Scolari
