Thursday, March 26th
In a time of climate crisis, wars for oil, and rising authoritarianism threatening people and planet, we find hope in resistance and in solutions led by Indigenous peoples and local communities calling for phasing out fossil fuels and a just transition to local, clean and renewable energy. We are also encouraged by subnational and international commitments, including California’s investigation of its imports of oil from the Amazon and its plans to phase out its use of fossil fuel by 2045, as well as Colombia’s announcement during COP30 that it won’t license any new oil extraction. Colombia will, in fact, host the First International Conference for the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels this April together with the Netherlands and several other countries. In this session, some local, national and international leaders in the Just Transition Movement will delve into the challenges and opportunities and share their strategies. With: Michelle Chan, Co-Executive Director of Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN); Katie Valenzuela, CA Policy Consultant & former Sacramento City Council Member; Josh Becker, CA State Senator (D-13) and author of SR 51, a unanimously approved CA state resolution to review imports of crude oil from the Amazon rainforest and an eventual phase-out; and Nadino Calapucha, a young Kichwa leader from the Shiwakucha community in the Ecuadorian Amazon and President of the TU AMAZONÍA Foundation. Hosted by Leila Salazar-López, Executive Director of Amazon Watch.
March 26th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Panelists
Michelle Chan
Co-Executive Director | Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Michelle Chan is the Co- Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), a California-based environmental justice organization that builds the power of Asian immigrant and refugee communities and advances climate resilience, affordable housing and a just transition off fossil fuels. Prior to joining APEN, Michelle was the VP of Programs for Friends of the Earth (FOE) US, where she provided strategic leadership for campaigns on climate, energy, oceans, food and economic justice. Previously, she led FOE’s Economic Policy team, and campaigned to hold Wall Street accountable for its environmental impacts.
Nadino Calapucha
President | TU AMAZONÍA Foundation
Nadino Calapucha, a young Kichwa leader from the Shiwakucha community in the Ecuadorian Amazon, has, since his childhood championed the rights of his people and advocated for Indigenous rights and protection of the Amazon at international fora, including the UNFCCC negotiations. He has held leadership roles in multiple Indigenous organizations, including the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), and he currently serves as President of the TU AMAZONÍA Foundation. Since 2013, Nadino, who holds a law degree from the Private Technical University of Loja (UTPL), has also led the intercultural Amazonian music band KAMBAK.
Katie Valenzuela
CA Policy Consultant
Katie Valenzuela, a policy consultant based in Sacramento, CA, has empowered communities, organizations, and coalitions to engage in state and local policy for 25+ years. She has built legislative campaigns for education justice, civil rights, food access, public safety, public health, housing access, and environmental justice. Katie’s experience includes serving as a member of the Sacramento City Council from December 2020 to 2024, as Policy and Political Director for the California Environmental Justice Alliance, as Principal Consultant for the California Legislature’s Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies, and as a founding board member of the Sacramento Community Land Trust. She has shared her expertise as an invited speaker and training session leader at major venues across the country.
Josh Becker
Senator | State of California
Senator Josh Becker, JD/MBA, a public policy innovator working at the nexus of community activism, technology and social justice, was elected to the California State Senate in 2020, representing the 13th District, which comprises most of San Mateo County and northern Santa Clara County. Among his many accomplishments, Josh worked with refugees in war-torn Central America in the 90s; later created Full Circle, a community leadership and policy innovation organization; served 7 years on the California State Workforce Development Board; was a founding trustee at UC Merced; co-founded New Cycle Capital, a pioneer in building socially responsible businesses; founded a legal tech accelerator to support innovative entrepreneurs in the public policy realm; and, while still a student, co-founded the Stanford Board Fellows program, which trains students to serve on the boards of local nonprofits. (sd13.senate.ca.gov)
Leila Salazar-López
Executive Director | Amazon Watch
Leila Salazar-López has worked for 25+ years to defend the world’s rainforests, human rights and climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns. She has been the Executive Director of Amazon Watch since 2015, leading that organization’s work to protect and defend the bio-cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest in solidarity with Indigenous and forest peoples.
This powerful film follows the life and activism of Juma Xipaia, an extraordinary Indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon whose activism against illegal mining, land-grabbing, and corporate exploitation caused her to endure multiple assassination attempts but ultimately took her from her remote community in the rainforest to becoming Brazil’s first Secretary of Articulation and Promotion of Indigenous Rights.
Directed by Richard Ladkani, produced in association with Malaika Pictures and Leonardo DiCaprio.
March 26th | 6:40 pm to 8:40 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Introduced by
Leila Salazar-López
Executive Director | Amazon Watch
Leila Salazar-López has worked for 25+ years to defend the world’s rainforests, human rights and climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns. She has been the Executive Director of Amazon Watch since 2015, leading that organization’s work to protect and defend the bio-cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest in solidarity with Indigenous and forest peoples.
Eric Terena
Indigenous Youth Climate Leader
Eric Terena, from the Cachoeirinha Indigenous Territory in the Pantanal of Brazil, is an Indigenous Youth Climate Leader; co-founder of Midia Indigena; film producer and sound designer; and an internationally recognized DJ, blending ancestral roots with modern electronic elements. He is the executive producer of the award-winning film Yanuni, screened at Bioneers.
Friday, March 27th
Kyle Trefny was 18 years old in 2020 when skies in the San Francisco Bay Area and much of the Pacific Coast turned orange with wildfire smoke. He will share how that moment led him to become a wildland firefighter and to join other youth in creating FireGeneration Collaborative (FireGen), dedicated to imagining and building a future beyond intense wildfires and their devastating health impacts, a future of healthy communities and livelihoods that recenters Indigenous leadership in land management. Kyle will reflect upon the power of questions, of friendship, of breaking negative cycles, of art, of mentors and elders, and of taking leaps of faith in life.
March 27th | 11:00 am to 11:09 am | Zellerbach Hall
Kyle Trefny
Co-Founder | FireGeneration Collaborative (FireGen)
Kyle Trefny is an organizer, artist, wildland firefighter, and co-founder of FireGeneration Collaborative (FireGen), which started out with a GoFundMe campaign and a petition and became a dynamic, influential youth-led organization that has helped bring about the historic involvement of firefighters and Indigenous fire management practitioners in governance processes and engaged hundreds of young people in fire research. A faculty research assistant at the University of Oregon’s Ecosystem Workforce Program, Kyle is also active in movements for Indigenous sovereignty, queer rights, and climate justice and was a recipient of a 2025 Brower Youth Award.
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.
March 27th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Shattuck Plaza
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
Executive Director | Marin Resource Conservation District
Nancy Scolari has led the Marin Resource Conservation District since 1998, partnering with local ranchers to protect and enhance natural resources in western Marin County. In 2008, she co-founded the Marin Carbon Project to advance research and implementation of climate-smart agriculture on local rangelands. During her tenure, more than 20 miles of streams have been restored, water quality has improved, and fish populations are rebounding. The district is progressing toward Marin County’s 2030 climate goals, with Nancy emphasizing collaboration as the foundation for lasting environmental stewardship.
Outdoor learning and exposure to nature are not simply nice ideas: a cascade of physical, emotional and academic benefits accompany even basic outdoor activities such as recess. For purposefully built models of outdoor and experiential learning, the results are even greater. During the COVID-19 pandemic a long-simmering movement around green schoolyards and outdoor education went from niche to increasingly mainstream. Today, thousands of school districts are working to transform the modern schoolyard from a monoculture of lawns and asphalt to verdant and resilient environments. A movement that is both interdisciplinary and systemic, the goal is to leverage school communities, education systems and school properties in order to restore and regenerate urban ecological systems while transforming how students learn along the way. In this session, visionary movement leaders will share their insights and strategies as to how they are using nature-based solutions to build resilience and transform education. With: Sharon Gamson Danks, founder and CEO of Green Schoolyards America; Rosey A. Jencks, environmental planner and water management expert; Julia Gowin, Urban Forestry Supervisor at CAL FIRE.
March 27th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Campanile Room, 6th Floor, Hotel Shattuck Plaza
Panelists
Sharon Gamson Danks
Founder and CEO | Green Schoolyards America
Sharon Gamson Danks, MLA-MCP, an environmental city planner, social entrepreneur, and author, founded Green Schoolyards America in 2013 and is its CEO. She has been a leading figure in the “green schoolyard” field for 25+ years, helping build a movement to transform school grounds at scale into vibrant, nature-rich public spaces that engage the community and nurture children as they learn and play. Sharon is the author of Asphalt to Ecosystems and also co-founded the International School Grounds Alliance.
Rosey Jencks
Environmental Planner
Rosey A. Jencks, MLA/EP, an environmental planner with over two decades of experience, leads technical teams in developing community-centered programs and plans for stormwater, wastewater, flood resilience, and sea level rise. Rosey, who has helped numerous communities re-envision their future by integrating green and nature-based infrastructure, believes climate resilience requires a “one water” mindset, focusing on land management and balancing green and grey infrastructure.
Julia Gowin
Urban Forestry Supervisor | CAL FIRE
Julia Gowin, Ph.D., the Northern California Urban Forestry Supervisor for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), co-leads CAL FIRE’s Green Schoolyards Program. Julia is an International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Certified Arborist, a California Registered Professional Forester, the incoming President for the Western Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), and a founding member of the California Schoolyard Forest System Initiative.
Although they receive less than 1% of climate funding, women-led climate justice grassroots projects around the world are generating cascading benefits, from greater gender and economic equity and less gender violence to improved biodiversity and ecosystems’ health. Simultaneously, the centrality to many Indigenous peoples’ cultures of traditional relationships to place and to honoring all of life as sacred are a tremendous resource in strengthening efforts to protect and renew biodiversity and water resources. Join an emergent conversation to explore what these two vastly under-resourced constituencies have to offer in the quest to co-create regenerative landscapes and futures. Hosted by Osprey Orielle Lake, founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). With: Zainab Salbi, co-founder of Daughters for Earth; Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, Executive Director of Home Planet Fund.
March 27th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm | Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Shattuck Plaza
Panelists
Dilafruz Khonikboyeva
Executive Director | Home Planet Fund
Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, of indigenous Pamiri ancestry from Khorog, Tajikistan, is the Inaugural Executive Director of Home Planet Fund. Previously a political appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration who spent five years with the Aga Khan Development Network and eight years responding to conflict and climate crises, she is a transformational conflict expert, focused on civil war, environment and resource conflicts. Dilafruz has also served on the board of her alma mater, the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University and led the Climate Change Working Group for Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS).
Zainab Salbi
Co-Founder | Daughters for Earth
Zainab Salbi, a humanitarian, author, and media host who has dedicated her life to women’s rights and global freedom, is co-founder of Daughters for Earth, a philanthropic fund and a movement focused on supporting, celebrating, and mobilizing women to protect and restore our Earth. At age 23, she founded Women for Women International, which helped more than 460,000 women survivors of war rebuild their lives. Honored with the TIME100 Impact Award, she has been recognized by Oprah Winfrey, People, and Harper’s Bazaar for her groundbreaking leadership on behalf of women worldwide.
Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder and Executive Director | Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network
Osprey Orielle Lake, the founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. Osprey, who sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Free Non-Proliferation Treaty, is the author of The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.
Introduction by Brandon Jones and Yomi Young, of Shelterwood
This brand-new short by the Shelterwood Collective, a community rooted in a commitment to restoration, sustainability, and new life, describes their fire stewardship efforts on the 900-acre forest they caretake.
March 27th | 7:25 pm to 7:35 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
This brand-new film produced by Greenpeace USA follows Jane Fonda on a road trip through Texas oil fields and Gulf Coast communities, meeting the incredibly diverse people who are fighting back against the oil and gas extraction and plastics production booms poisoning their communities.
Director: Katie Camosy
March 27th | 8:45 pm to 10:30 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Saturday, March 28th
The clean energy transition is in a moment of tremendous flux. Here in the U.S., the current administration is doing its best to derail progress, ending tax credits meant to spur development of renewables, creating arbitrary regulatory barriers, and propping up dirty coal plants. These setbacks are deeply alarming for anyone who cares about the climate crisis, but around the world, and even here at home, the transition is still moving forward in hopeful ways. Thanks primarily to falling costs, almost all new power generation in the U.S. is now carbon-free. Meanwhile, China is flooding the world with cheap solar panels and Europe is about to start building the largest offshore wind installation yet. The influx of good and bad news can be hard to make sense of even for those paying close attention. In this session, several leading clean energy experts will walk us through the data and offer their big-picture takes on where things really stand. Hosted by Wendy Becktold of Canary Media. With: Victoria Chu, Partner at Industrious Labs; Rushad Nanavatty, Managing Director of RMI’s Third Derivative.
March 28th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Panelists
Wendy Becktold
Managing Editor | Canary Media
Wendy Becktold is the Berkeley, CA-based Managing Editor at Canary Media, a national nonprofit news outlet that covers the clean energy transition and solutions to climate change. Before joining Canary Media, Wendy was Story Editor at Sierra magazine.
Victoria Chu
Director of Analytics and Chief Impact Officer | Industrious Labs
Victoria Chu, an analyst, technologist, and data visualization expert with 13+ years’ experience in climate and electric sector analytics, is the Director of Analytics and Chief Impact Officer at Industrious Labs, responsible for ensuring that the organization delivers measurable impacts in achieving its mission to transform the industrial sector for climate, justice, and jobs. Before joining Industrious Labs, Victoria led the development of data systems and evaluation models for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign.
Rushad Nanavatty
Managing Director | RMI’s Third Derivative
Rushad Nanavatty is the Managing Director of RMI’s Third Derivative, the world’s leading early-stage climate tech accelerator, which has helped 100+ startups, each with gigaton-scale emissions abatement potential, raise over $500 million in funding. Rushad’s previous roles have included: establishing the Global Cooling Prize global innovation competition; working with the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), a partnership between RMI and Grid Singularity; founding COO of WeGen Energy, an off-grid energy start-up in the Philippines and Vietnam; and working internationally on sustainability and infrastructure at McKinsey and Company.
3:00 pm: Water, Spirit, Power
Hosted by Taproot Earth
In this session Bioneers ally Taproot Earth, a global climate justice organization rooted in Louisiana, will bring together Indigenous women leaders from around the world to share their Earth-honoring perspectives and describe the extraordinary pilgrimage they undertook to gather waters from the Nile, Mississippi and Amazon rivers and return them to East Africa where the oldest human bones are found as a necessary spiritual component of their climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty and Black liberation struggles. Hosted by Colette Pichon Battle, Esq., Taproot Earth. With: Mama Iya Ada, Durham, NC community activist; Nádia Akawã, a leader of Brazil’s Tupinambá people; Phoenix Rose, New Orleans-based Ifa spiritual teacher and artist/performer.
March 28th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Magnes Museum
Panelists
Colette Pichon Battle
Co-Founder | Taproot Earth
Colette Pichon Battle, a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, is an award-winning lawyer and prominent climate justice organizer. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when Black and Indigenous communities were largely left out of federal recovery systems, Colette led the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy (GCCLP) to provide relief and legal assistance to Gulf South communities of color. After 17 years at GCCLP’s helm, as frontline communities from the Gulf South to the Global South face ever more devastating storms, droughts, wildfires, heat, and land loss, she co-founded Taproot Earth to create connections and power across issues, movements, and geographies.
Phoenix Rose
Owner and Lead Artist | Phoenix Rose Artistry LLC
Phoenix Rose, a first-generation Jamaican-American New Orleans-based artist, beauty professional, and Ìyánifá (a priestess in the Yorùbá Ifá-Òrìṣà tradition), is the owner and lead artist of Phoenix Rose Artistry LLC. She has long worked as a makeup and hair artist in a wide range of settings including film and theater, and is also a dancer and singer/songwriter who performs under the name Huebian.
Mama Iya Ada
Elder Advisor | SpiritHouse
Mama Iya Ada (formerly known as Nia Wilson), with a background in pediatric and psychiatric nursing, has worked with teens and their families in drop-out, drug and pregnancy prevention in Durham, North Carolina, since 1998. She also served as Co-Director of SpiritHouse until recently as well as Senior Advisor for the Forward Justice Law Policy and Strategy Center since 2017.
Nádia Akawã
Healer, Educator and Grandmother
Nádia Akawã, an Indigenous leader of the Tupinambá people of Olivença in Southern Bahia, Brazil, in the Atlantic Forest biome, one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems, is a healer, educator, and grandmother who works with traditional herbal knowledge to care for her community and support women through natural gynecology practices. Nádia is also an advocate for the protection of Indigenous territories threatened by real estate development and mining, fighting for the relationship between land, healing traditions, and the survival of Indigenous communities.
This session will be facilitated by Brett KenCairn, founding Director of the Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team. We will gather those working in a wide range of ways to design and implement Nature-based Solutions towards solving critical problems.
March 28th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm | Ashby Room, Residence Inn
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.
Over 140 labor and community organizations have come together across the country to launch the “Living Wage for All” campaign, advancing bold visions and actions to address the affordability crisis, a centerpiece of which is raising the minimum wage closer to the actual cost of living (at least $25 nationwide and $30 in higher-cost regions) with no exceptions. Working people across the country are questioning the plea to ‘join us to save democracy’ when democracy has not worked for them, as they have to work multiple jobs and still aren’t able to make ends meet. Come and hear about how this coalition is demonstrating that democracy can deliver on working people’s top concern, their survival, in order to restore faith in the idea that democracy is worth saving, and how you can join this campaign. With: Saru Jayaraman,President, One Fair Wage; Angela Glover Blackwell, renowned Civil Rights and democracy and equity activist, now “Founder-in-Residence” at PolicyLink, the highly influential organization she started in 1999; and award-winning author, filmmaker, scholar, and one of the planet’s leading experts on and advocate for a just food system, Raj Patel.
March 28th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Panelists
Saru Jayaraman
President | One Fair Wage
Saru Jayaraman (JD, Yale, MPP Harvard), an academic at UC Berkeley and a renowned labor activist, is President of One Fair Wage, which organizes to raise wages and end sub-minimum wages nationwide. She has won numerous awards for her activism, including being named: one of CNN’s “Top10 Visionary Women,” a White House Champion of Change, a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner, and a San Francisco Chronicle ‘Visionary of the Year.’ Saru, who is interviewed and cited frequently in major media outlets, is author of: Behind the Kitchen Door; Forked: A New Standard for American Dining; and One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America.
Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder in Residence | PolicyLink
Angela Glover Blackwell, “Founder in Residence” at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity for all, gained national prominence in the movement to use public policy to improve access and opportunity for all low-income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, and infrastructure. Angela is also the host of the Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life podcast and Professor of Practice at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
Raj Patel
Activist, Journalist, and Filmmaker
Raj Patel, an award-winning author, film-maker and academic, is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin who has worked for the World Bank and WTO but also protested against them around the world and testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US, UK and EU governments. A member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and of the council of Progressive International, he has written extensively for a range of scholarly journals in economics, philosophy, politics and public health and also contributes frequently to a range of other publications, including The Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times, and Scientific American. He is the author of: Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and The Value of Nothing, and co-author of: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things and (with Rupa Marya) of: Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice. His first film, co-directed with Zak Piper, is the award-winning documentary The Ants & The Grasshopper. He also co-hosted the food politics podcast The Secret Ingredient.
Sunday, March 29th
In this daylong intensive that will include theory, demonstrations, and hands-on activities, master Permaculture teacher and designer Erik Ohlsen, author of The Regenerative Landscaper, will share perspectives and techniques we can use to regenerate not only farms and gardens, but larger landscapes as well. The material covered will include how to observe natural patterns of ecological succession so that we can support a landscape in transition facing the stresses of climate shifts and larger ecosystems’ decline, and much more. With Redbird Willie, a highly experienced Permaculture design instructor.
Transportation to and from the site and lunch will be provided.
March 29th | 10:30 am to 5:30 pm | Permaculture Artisans Center
Note: A separate Early bird registration $195 fee is required for this event.
Panelists
Erik Ohlsen
Founder | Permaculture Artisans
Erik Ohlsen, a master of regenerative design, internationally-recognized Permaculture teacher, landscape contractor, award-winning author, farmer, herbalist, and practitioner of Nordic folk traditions, has founded numerous organizations that regenerate ecosystems, including his award-winning landscape design and contracting firm, Permaculture Artisans, established in 2006. Erik has committed decades to repairing ecosystems and connecting people with the land throughout the globe, designing and implementing hundreds of regenerated landscapes and farms, growing food and capturing millions of gallons of water per year.
Redbird Willie
Organizer | Buckeye Gathering
Redbird Willie, a true native of California (of Pomo, Wintu, Paiute, and Wailaki ancestry), is a multi-faceted artist (graphic design, illustration, painting, wood and stone sculpture, basket-weaving, etc.) as well as a highly experienced Permaculture design instructor. Land Manager for the Cultural Conservancy’s Heron Shadow land project in Sonoma County where he shares and practices his skills in traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), including habitat restoration, cultural revitalization, and fire ecology, Redbird, who has taught people of all ages from elementary schools to universities, has, among his many roles been: an organizer of the annual Buckeye Gathering; an instructor for Weaving Earth; and an advisor for Daily Actsʼ Leadership Institute.
