Day 1 we learned about regenerating and how transformation starts with our words. And the value of rest…long live naps!

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Welcome: Being human

From sustaining to thriving

Let's kick things off by shaking up how we think about our role in shaping change and the potential world we can create. For starters, there's sustainability—and then there’s regeneration. Discover the difference from one of the field’s thought leaders. Then, explore how playing your role starts by looking within to reconsider how we can be, not what we can do.

  • Guide: Carol Sanford (Executive Producer @The Regenerative Business Summit, Best-selling Author, and Paradigm Educator)

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How to make choices in a broken system

There are bigger systems at play in today’s society, which means the weight of change does not rest solely on your shoulders. It can still feel pretty damn heavy, though. The good news: You do have the ability to make your choices and actions matter. And it’s not just about straws. Explore ways to think about your choices in a world designed for waste.

  • Panelists: Madeline Rotman (Head of Sustainability @Imperfect Foods), Maia Tekle (Co-Founder @Dispatch Goods), Sally Garcia (Content Creator @Call Me Flower Child)

  • Moderator: Ella Hedley (Emerging Innovators Manager @Ellen MacArthur Foundation)

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Reclaim your personal agency in a crisis

Navigating the climate crisis is mentally exhausting, and can be emotionally draining to the point of paralysis. But there’s a better way. Let’s discuss how to navigate the very real challenges of this crisis, and regain personal agency through things like: processing emotions, reconnecting with nature, joining a movement, and becoming of service. Not included: doom-scrolling. This session will also touch on actionable things parents can do with their kids.

  • Panelists: Caroline Hickman (University of Bath, Climate Psychotherapist), Heather McTeer Toney (Vice President for Community Engagement @Environmental Defense Fund), and Elin Kelsey, PhD (Scholar, Author A Last Goodbye, and Leader on evidence-based hope and environmental solutions)

  • Moderator: Dr. Eliza Nemser (Executive Director and Co-Founder @Climate Changemakers)

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A recipe for less waste and greater health

We all eat. Let’s understand what’s behind each bite so we can make each one count. We’ll explore what food has to do with climate change, the role and power of local food systems, and meet people planting the seeds of greater health and wealth.

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Reimagine our future, starting with design

Nature is regenerative, and designers who mimic it can teach us a lot about how it works. Meet biomimicry practitioners who see nature as a muse, teacher, and the best creative partner.

  • Panelists: Dawn Danby (Co-Founder @Spherical), Michael Pawlyn (TED Speaker and Director @Exploration Architecture), and Dian-Jen Lin (Co-Founder @Post Carbon Lab)

  • Moderator: Marc O’Brien (Co-Founder @Climate Designers and Teacher @California College of the Arts)

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Reimagine our future, starting with schools

The education system is complicated, and often the target of eye rolls and frustration. But there are climate opportunities for parents, kids, and teachers. Learn why education is a critical solution to preparing the soil for change. Explore what it might look like to educate and empower the next generation inside and outside the classroom.

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The art and science of transformation

Whether you’re working on change within yourself or trying to inspire others, it’s easy to get stuck and lost in the process. Change is hard, man. Explore what prevents us from changing, and how we can shake off that inertia and break patterns to move forward, together. We’ll learn how (and how not) to ignite lasting change—not just in yourself, but in those around you, from your closest friends to your community to your mom.

  • Guides: Cassandra Vieten (Executive Director @Director of Research Arthur C Clark Center for Imagination, UC San Diego) and Bristol Baughan (Executive Educator @Inner Astronauts and Regenerative Community Weaver)

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Community conversations

Let’s take a second to reflect on what we learned, and what’s ahead.

DAY 1 SPEAKERS

 

Carol Sanford

Senior Fellow of Social Innovation, Babson College; CEO @The Regenerative Paradigm Institute, Educator and Social Change designer for people in change agents roles, organizational leaders who aspire to make a difference, business and organizational teams pursuing meaningful work and business effectiveness. Author of Five best-selling books, including The Regenerative Life: Transform Any Organization, Our Society, Your Destiny, No More Feedback, The Regenerative Business (Michiel Bakker, Google VP wrote Foreword.) 22 Gold Awards thus far for her books.

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Cassandra Vieten

Cassandra Vieten is Executive Director of the John W. Brick Foundation, Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of California, San Diego, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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Jonathan Schorr

Jonathan is a Partner at Be Clear, a communications and strategy firm for people building a better, more progressive world. He served in the Obama Administration as Communications Director to the Secretary of Education, and previously as a journalist, philanthropist, and public school teacher.

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Elin Kelsey, PHD

Elin Kelsey, PhD is a scholar, author and passionate leader in the evidence-based hope and climate change and environmental solutions movement. Her newest book for adults, Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical For Solving The Environmental Crisis was published by Greystone Books in 2020.

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Heather McTeer Toney

Heather McTeer Toney served as the first African-American, first female and youngest mayor of Greenville, MS. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Regional Administrator for Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Southeast Region and led the Moms Clean Air Force field team. Heather is currently serving as an environmental justice liaison for Environmental Defense Fund.

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Julia Collins

Julia Collins is a serial entrepreneur who spent her career building food companies and was the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn company; today, Julia leads Planet FWD, a company on a mission to tackle climate change by making it easier to bring climate-friendly products to market.

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Reilly Brock

Reilly Brock is a storyteller and marketing professional. After getting his start as a food entrepreneur in college, he worked in professional kitchens before landing a job at an early-stage Imperfect Foods in 2016. There he built the brand voice, ran the company's podcast, and created content that empowered people to reduce food waste in their lives.

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Bristol Baughan

Bristol works with leaders from Hollywood to Silicon Valley and around the world through 1:1 coaching, the Inner Astronauts Leadership Program, and a playful, bold, and brave presentation (she sings!), revealing surprising insights into how we aim this drive for "more" in the direction of inspiration and connection with our colleagues, community, and planet.

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Dr. Eliza Nemser

Geoscientist-turned-climate strategist working on solutions at the intersection of science, policy, and politics.

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Eugene Cordero

Dr. Eugene Cordero is a climate scientist and professor in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San José State University.   Eugene is also the founder of Green Ninja (www.greenninja.org), an education publisher that uses solutions to climate and environmental problems as a lens for teaching science.

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Michael Pawlyn

Michael Pawlyn established Exploration Architecture in 2007 to focus on regenerative design. His TED talk has had over 2 million viewings and his latest book, co-authored book with Sarah Ichioka, Flourish: Design paradigms for a planetary emergency is about to be published by Triarchy Press.

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Naima Penniman

Naima Penniman is a devotee of seeds, a soulful storyteller, a multidimensional artist, movement builder, medicine grower, healer, and educator. Life-long lover and defender of the Earth, Naima dedicates her creativity and community-building skills to regenerate practices towards planetary interdependence. She serves as the Program Director at SOUL FIRE FARM and is a visionary poet whose performances have inspired thousands of people.

Opening: Being Human

Caroline Hickman

Caroline Hickman is a psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Bath conducting qualitative research into children and young people’s emotional responses to climate change for 10 years examining eco-anxiety & distress, eco-empathy, trauma, moral injury, and the impact of climate anxiety on family relationships. A practicing psychotherapist and board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance she has been developing a range of therapeutic services for ecological distress including a psychological assessment model for eco-anxiety and delivered workshops in climate psychology, emotional resilience, and mental health internationally.

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Nancy Metzger-Carter

Nancy Metzger-Carter is the Sustainability Curriculum Coordinator at Sonoma Academy (SA), and the Education Leader with Schools for Climate Action. She uses the climate resolution process as a teaching tool for high school students and her SA students run day-to-day operations for Schools for Climate- including monthly newsletters, website/social media, speaking engagements, and national outreach to schools and education sector organizations. Nancy and her students worked with Rep Barbara Lee’s office in 2019 to draft the House Resolution 574 in Support of Teaching Climate Change in Schools.

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Marc O'Brien

Marc O'Brien is a climate designer, strategist, and educator. He co-founded The Determined, a creative studio for a climate-resilient world. In 2019, he co-founded Climate Designers, a hub for designers and creative professionals from all industries, committed to using creative skills for climate action. He also teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA.

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Ella Hedley

Ella works for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation as Innovators Manager, tasked with scouting, engaging and activating the next generation of natively circular businesses. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works in Education & Training, Business & Government, Insight & Analysis, Systemic Initiatives and Communications to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

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Jillian Hishaw

Jillian Hishaw, is an agricultural attorney, founder, and C.E.O. of F.A.R.M.S., an international non-profit. Inspired by her family’s land loss, she provides technical and legal assistance to small farmers, while reducing hunger in the farmer’s community. F.A.R.M.S. has purchased and donated over 1.5 million lbs. of produce in five countries and saved over $1 million in real estate from foreclosure last year during COVID. Hishaw’s book "Systematic Land Theft," examines the history of land and natural resource theft in Black and Indigenous communities. Hishaw is recognized as a Food Changemaker by the Clif Bar Foundation and Food Tank organization voted for her 1 of 15 women in the World Impacting the Food Industry.

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Dawn Danby

Dawn Danby is an ecological design strategist cultivating reciprocal relationships for healing living systems. Co-founder of SPHERICAL, an integrative research and design studio offering cosmovision remediation and ontological repair services. Conducted design research programs across scales, spanning materials, manufacturing, food systems and the built environment. Current work supports regional-scale circular economics and integrated watershed management. Spent a decade leading sustainable design and fronting the house band at Autodesk. Educator, speaker, parent, musician, urban gardener.

Maia Tekle

Maia Tekle is the co-founder and head of sales & partnerships of Dispatch Goods; a Bay-Area-based startup revolutionizing reusability by making it easy and delightful for consumers and businesses alike. A lifelong environmentalist, Maia has always been passionate about leaving the planet in a better place than when she found it. Prior to Dispatch Goods, Maia was the West Coast Partnerships Lead at Caviar (then DoorDash) where she met Lindsey. Seeing how much single-use was being consumed daily motivated Maia to shift gears and join Lindsey to help solve this huge problem

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Madeline Rotman

Madeline Rotman is Head of Sustainability at Imperfect Foods, a for-profit social enterprise that aims at tackling food waste through changing redistribution networks. Rotman first met Imperfect Foods’ founder Ben Chesler ‘15 through her involvement with Brown Market Shares, an organization that redistributes food across the College Hill community. Rotman’s job not only involves coming up with new ways of reducing food waste, but also transitioning business operations to be sustainable in every dimension.

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Laney Siegner

Dr. Laney Siegner is Director of Academic Programs at Terra.do and Course Creator for the Climate Farm School. Laney completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley Energy and Resources Group. Her research covers sustainable, agroecological food systems and climate change education, and she farmed for several summers on the West coast while completing her graduate studies. She has published book chapters on the topic of teaching climate change in U.S. K-12 classrooms and on conducting participatory agroecology research.

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Dian-Jen Lin (DJ)

Dian-Jen Lin is a transdisciplinary designer with the academic rigor of a researcher, the analytical rationality of a scientist, and the aesthetic sensitivity of an artist. With a decade of professional experience in the fashion & design industry, she has worked with multidisciplinary teams across sectors to build impactful collaborations. In addition, she has participated in numerous courses of multifaceted natures to acquire a broad skill set with unconventional intelligence and an aptitude for creative communication and innovative thinking.

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Sally Garcia

Sally Garcia is a born and raised South Central Angeleno who has worked in the outdoor education and park access space for over 12 years to provide access to the outdoors to underserved communities, just like the one she grew up in. Sally is a Planning Assistant for the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA), a Lead Naturalist for Community Nature Connection, and serves on the Next Generation Advisory Board for the National Parks Conservation Association. She builds creative content focused on ecological footprint reduction through mindful consumption, outdoor access advocacy, and changing the meaning of what it means to be "outdoorsy" on social media.

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Madigan Traversi

Madigan Traversi is a 16-year-old Junior at Sonoma Academy. She is in her third year of volunteer work with Schools for Climate Action where she regularly schedules, leads, and attends Congressional meetings for climate-related requests and resolutions. Her role also includes marketing and social media for Schools for Climate Action, and she attends events to share her climate story and educate others on the climate crisis.

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Keith Desrosiers

Keith is a nationally recognized leader in the field of environmental education with more than 25 years leading environmental nonprofits. He is best known for his work at Thorne Nature Experience, which was named the top environmental education provider in the country in 2019 for its work to develop and implement the Nature Kids/Jovenes de la Naturaleza Lafayette Collective Impact project. NKJN is the nation's largest community-scale environmental education project through which 20 organizations collaborate to provide 1,500 youth, the majority of whom are from low-income and Latino families, with a pre-k to high school and backyard to backcountry continuum of programming worth more than $1 million annually.

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