Conservation

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Dr. Willie Smits

The Orangatans’ Best Friend – Borneo In 1989, while working as a forest researcher in Indonesia, microbiologist Willie Smits first

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Dr. Chris Reij

Sustainable Land Management – Amsterdam, Netherlands Dr. Reij was honored by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as

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Alfredo Quarto

Mangrove Action Project – USA and International Alfredo Quarto has been active for over 40 years in organizing and writing

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Alan Watson Featherstone

Trees for Life – Scotland, UK Alan Watson Featherstone is an inspirational public speaker, ecologist, nature photographer and writer based

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Boris Ersson

Boris is perhaps best known for his film, “Battle of the Elms,” which depicts the Elm Conflict, a public protest

March 16, 2022 Global Earth Repair

Park Chung-Hee

Park Chung-Hee (1917-1979) led the reforestation of South Korea after the Korean war. Normally politicians aren’t mentioned in honors lists

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Delphine Robbe

Gili Eco Trust – Indonesia Delphine Robbe is a marine and land Conservationist actively involved in the protection of reefs

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Chikukwa Project

Communal Village Regeneration Project – Zimbabwe, Africa For the last 20 years, villagers in this area have taken their lives

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Peter Andrews

Natural Sequence Land Restoration – Australia Peter Andrews is the creator of “natural sequence land restoration,” a holistic land management

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Yacouba Sawadogo

The Green Wall of Africa – Burkina Faso, Africa Yacouba Sawadago is famed for being “The Man who Stopped the

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Anil K. Gupta

Honey Bee magazine – India Anil K. Gupta is an Indian scholar and pioneer in the area of grassroots innovations.

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Rajendra Singh

Tarun Bharat Sangh & The Flow Partnership – India/UK Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar

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John D. Liu

Ecosystem Restoration Camps – America, China, International John D. Liu is is an American ecologist and filmmaker and one of

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Wendy Campbell-Purdie

Wendy Campbell-Purdie – Woman Against the Desert – Africa Born and raised in New Zealand in the 1920’s, Wendy Campbell-Purdie

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Richard St. Barbe Baker

Richard St. Barbe Baker – Men of the Trees Society – Kenya, Africa Richard St. Barbe Baker (1889-1982) is the

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Wangari Maathai

Green Belt Movement – Kenya, Africa Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental and political activist and the first

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Neal Spackman

Regenerative Resources – USA Neal Spackman is a Terraformer, an internationally recognized pioneer of hyper-arid agro-forestries. Neal is the director

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Manavendra Singh Shekhawat

Manavendra Singh Shekhawat, changed the fortune of a 500 acre barren, degraded landscape (only 30 trees on it) using traditional

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Glenn Albrecht

Glenn Albrecht is an environmental philosopher with both theoretical and applied interests in the relationship between ecosystem and human health.

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The Eden Project

The Eden Project is educational charity and social enterprise with the global mission to create a movement that builds relationships

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Wes Jackson

Wes Jackson is founder and president emeritus of The Land Institute. He established and served as chair of one of

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Didi Pershouse

Didi Pershouse is Founder and Lead Educator for Land & Leadership Initiative; Coordinator, Researcher and Writer for Seed Media Project;

March 12, 2022 Global Earth Repair

Findhorn Community

Findhorn Community is a leading international centre of transformative learning, rooted in a spiritual ecovillage community in the north of

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March 11, 2022 Global Earth Repair

Lyla June Johnston

Lyla June Johnston is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages.

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March 11, 2022 Global Earth Repair

Nemonte Nenquino

Nemonte Nenquino is an indigenous Waorani woman who has committed herself to defending her ancestral territory, ecosystem, culture, economy, and

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March 11, 2022 Global Earth Repair

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is one of the founders of the Association of Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad, a group

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George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver (1864-1963) was an African American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton (like peanuts

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Isabella Tree

Isabella Tree (1964) is a conservation pioneer that has proved that if nature is allowed to take its own course,

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Dr. Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall (1934), an Ethologist and Conservationist, has shown the world the urgent need to protect chimpanzees from extinction

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Chief Oren Lyons

Chief Oren Lyons (1930) is a Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan living in Onondaga, NY. He was a

February 17, 2022 Global Earth Repair

Tony Rinaudo – The Forest Maker

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration – FMNR This is one of the most inspirational earth repair success stories of recent times.

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December 22, 2021 Global Earth Repair

Sustainability and Biodiversity Preservation in Developing Countries: Palestine as an Example.

Mazin Qumsiyeh Founder/Director of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability,Bethlehem University A Zoom Presentation January 23, 2022, Sunday, 10:00

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February 13, 2021 Global Earth Repair

Rehydrating Landscapes – Great Info

On February 3-4, 2021, the Russian River Watershed Association hosted a two-day online event, Rehydrating the Russian River Watershed: Moving

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November 16, 2020 Global Earth Repair

How to Establish Plants in the Landscape

John D. Liu interviews Michael Pilarski at Hotlum Ecosystem Restoration Camp in Shasta, CA, USA. Some of these concepts have

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January 30, 2020 Global Earth Repair

Restore an Acre initiative.

Macphail Woods, Prince Edward Island, Canada. “Prince Edward Island was once home to ancient hemlock and white pine trees shading

Conservation News

January 10, 2020 Global Earth Repair

Video: Will This be Humanity’s Fate?

Please enjoy this profound spoken-word poetry slam about a possible future (one that, once we can see it coming, we

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Timothy Sexauer – Muse Ecology Podcast

Tim accomplished amazing things in particular on this Global Earth Repair Conference. His Muse Ecology Podcast covers a range of

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Peter McCoy – Radical Mycology

Peter speaks on behalf of the fungi, the most overlooked and misrepresented organisms in the web of life. An interdisciplinary,

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Peter Lumsdaine – Earth Repair in War Torn Areas

Business-Organization: Tree of Life Education Project Center (Port Hadlock), Veterans for Peace nuclear disarmament speakers bureau, Washington PSR Nuclear Weapons

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Paul C’iyokten Wagner – Salish Sea Protector

Paul Wagner is a member of Saanich First Nations and has been speaking out on social environmental issues since he

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Paul Cereghino – Public Restoration Planning

Paul Cereghino is an ecologist, designer, bureaucrat, gardener and educator living in Olympia Washington. He combines landscape design/build experience, with

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Michael Crofoot – Native Seed Harvest and Sowing

In Michael’s own words: “I arranged with the French and New Zealand governments to harvest the seeds and nodules of

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Maya Elson – Amazon Mycorenewal

Maya Elson is a teacher, naturalist, mycologist, organizer and lover of the wild. As the Executive Director of CoRenewal and

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Max Wilbert – Revolutionary Ecology Training

Max Wilbert is a third-generation organizer who grew up in Seattle’s post-WTO anti-globalization and undoing racism movement. He has been

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Marc Gauthier – United by Water

Working with tribes and management of natural resources for over 20 years, Marc’s hands-on experience in forest management, wildlife biology

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Kyle Birchard – Regen Network

Kyle works at the intersection of economics and natural resource management. In recent years, he has helped estimate the benefits

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Joe Pacal – Restoring Indigenous Lands

Business-Organization: Saint Michael Indian School Joe Pacal has lived and worked on the Navajo Reservation for the past 18 years

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Jim O’Donnell – Wildland Conservation

Business-Organization: City of Austin, Wildland Conservation Division For over 30 years, Jim has combined his love of teaching, biology, and

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Jessie and Carrie Nightwalker – Removing the Snake River Dams

Joining the conference will be Chief Jessie Nightwalker of the Palouse tribe and his mother Carrie Schuster Nightwalker, who have been