GERC2019

GERC2019 Honoring_Gaia Keynotes Presenters Video

John D. Liu – Restoring Damaged Ecosystems Worldwide

John Liu has lent his knowledge to countless ecological restoration efforts across the globe. In the numerous projects he’s been

Audio Community GERC2019 Indigenous Panels Presenters

Charles Eisenstein – Sacred Economics

CHARLES EISENSTEIN is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of

Agroforestry Ecosystems Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters Video

Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim: A Voice for the Voiceless

“We grandmothers have come from far and wide to speak the knowledge we hold inside. In many languages we have

Farming GERC2019 Keynotes Presenters Video

Dan Halsey – Ecological Design Master

Business-Organization: SouthWoods Ecosystems Website: http://Southwoodsecosystems.com https://www.facebook.com/southwoodsecosystems/ Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.halsey.5 Daniel Halsey 09/2018 Curriculum Vitae Daniel has a Bachelor of Science

Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Panels Presenters

Precious Phiri – Regeneration International

Precious Phiri is a member of the Regeneration International (RI) steering committee and also serves as RI’s Africa coordinator. She

Animals Climate Community Conservation Culture Ecosystems Farming GERC2019 Indigenous Panels Presenters Stewardship Video Watersheds Webinars

Vicki Robinn – Your Money or Your Life

Copied from Vicki’s Biography Page (https://vickirobin.wordpress.com/biography/): Vicki Robin is coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the national best-seller, Your Money or

Ecosystems Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters Stewardship Watersheds

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

Art Community Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Healing Honoring_Gaia Indigenous Presenters Rewilding Spirituality

Zach Weiss – Decolonizing Water

Protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer, Zach is the first person to earn Holzer Practitioner certification directly from Sepp

Bioremediation Ecosystems GERC2019 Marine Presenters Science

Yuri Kazantsev – Ringing Cedars Movement

Yuri Kazantsev was born and raised in Kazakhstan and in Russia. He has always had a love for nature and

Agroforestry Farming Food GERC2019 Presenters

Tim Visi – Sea Plants Solutions

Tim Visi started his marine biology career while in undergraduate studies at Kent State University when he volunteered on two

GERC2019 Healing Health Herbal Medicine Presenters Rewilding

Tao Orion – Resilience Permaculture Design

Tao Orion is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration. She teaches

Art Culture GERC2019 Indigenous Presenters

Sean Guinan – Rewilding Medicine

Sean Guinan, L.Ac., EAMP, is an adult and pediatric acupuncturist with a medical degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the

Agroforestry Farming Food GERC2019 Presenters Seed Saving

Scott MacGregor – Indigenous Storytelling

Scott is a Jamestown S’Klallam member, farmer, and a part of theSkipper Jamestown Canoe family. He is also an indigenous

Sam Benowitz – Raintree Nursery

Sam is the founder of Raintree Nursery. For 45 years Raintree has been supplying millions of edible plants to people

Activism Farming Food GERC2019 Health Policy Presenters Soils

Art Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Presenters

Ronnie Cummins – Organic Consumers Association

Copied from his profile page at the Organic Consumers Association: Ronnie is co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers

GERC2019 Marine Policy Presenters Waste Watersheds

Rob Lewis – Earth Craft Painting

Rob Lewis is author of “The Silence of Vanishing Things,” a deep exploration of the language of environmentalism, arguing through

Bioremediation Carbon Farming GERC2019 Mycology Presenters Soils

Richard C. Honour – The Precautionary Group

Richard C. Honour, PhD, is a Founder and Principal of Save Our Soil (SOS) and The Precautionary Group (TPG), both

Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Healing Honoring_Gaia Panels Presenters Spirituality

Rei Yoon – Sarm Society

Rei has spent many years working to define consciousness and natural arming, having spent time as a Buddhist monk and

Bioremediation Conservation Ecosystems GERC2019 Mycology Presenters Reforestation

Rebecca Wildbear – Being at Home in Nature

Rebecca Wildbear M.S., E-RYT 500 ~ Rebecca Wildbear is a river and soul guide who supports individuals as they discover

Conservation Culture Ecosystems GERC2019 International Peace Policy Presenters

Peter McCoy – Radical Mycology

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

Farming GERC2019 Literature Permaculture Presenters

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

Agroforestry Building Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters

Peter Bane – The Permaculture Handbook

Peter Bane is a native Illinoisan who grew up in the university city of Champaign-Urbana. A frequent speaker and conference

Activism Conservation GERC2019 Indigenous Presenters

Penny Livingston-Stark – Regenerative Design Institute

Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She holds a MS in Eco-Social Regeneration

Community Conservation Ecosystems Farming GERC2019 Panels Policy Watersheds

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

Carbon Climate Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters

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

Animals Culture GERC2019 Healing Honoring_Gaia Presenters Spirituality

Norman and Peggy Baker – Northstar Nurseries Biochar

We have been environmentalists our entire adult lives. Even though Norm is trained as a pesticide toting entomologist and ecologist

Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Healing Health Presenters Spirituality

Moses Brings Plenty – CANA Foundation

CANA Foundation Director of Relations & Rangeland Acquisitions, Co-Founder of 7 Cedar Ranch Rewilding Retreat, Lakota Spiritual Leader Moses provides a

Agroforestry Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters

Miku Lenentine – The Way of Vibrantly

Miku is an experienced meditation practitioner and circle facilitator. She was raised in a mindfulness tradition and has trained with

Agroforestry Carbon GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters Team Wildcrafting

Mike Maki – PacificGro

Mike Maki is an environmental activist and entrepreneur in agriculture and forestry with forty plus years of experience in Earth

Bioremediation Conservation Ecosystems GERC2019 Presenters Seed Saving

Michael Pilarski – Friends of the Trees Society

Michael Pilarski, farmer, wild-crafter and educator, has worked with over 1,000 species of plants. He is the founder of Friends

Bioremediation Conservation Ecosystems GERC2019 International Permaculture Presenters Reforestation

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

Activism Climate Conservation Ecosystems GERC2019 Presenters

Maya Elson – Amazon Mycorenewal

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

Activism Community Culture GERC2019 Presenters

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

Agroforestry Culture Farming GERC2019 Indigenous Presenters Reforestation Stewardship Swidden

Mark Lakeman – City Repair Project

Mark Lakeman co-founded The City Repair Project which “fosters thriving, inclusive and sustainable communities through the creative reclamation of public

Building Community Culture Farming GERC2019 Healing Herbal Medicine Honoring_Gaia Off-Grid Presenters

Margo Robbins – Cultural Fire Management Council

Margo Robbins is the co-founder and president of the Cultural Fire Management Council (CFMC). She is one of the key

Activism Community Conservation GERC2019 Indigenous International Presenters Social Justice Video Watersheds

Marcy and Nicholas Riggle – Kin Domain Academy

Marcy and Nicholas Riggle joined Vedrica Forest Gardens Community in Orofino, Idaho in 2011 to co-create a community of people

Animals Community Culture GERC2019 Healing Honoring_Gaia Presenters Stewardship

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

Consciousness GERC2019 Healing Honoring_Gaia Presenters Spirituality

Manda Kalimian – CANA Foundation

Manda Kalimian is the founder of the national non profit, CANA Foundation; as well as founder of Naturally Considerate™ a

Consciousness Culture GERC2019 International Policy Presenters

Mahala M Frye – The Awakening at Heart

Mahala’s passion for healing the Earth led her to the Perelandra methods of land healing and clearing, and she now

Community Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Honoring_Gaia Literature Music Presenters Spirituality

Louis G. Herman, Ph.D – The Ecology of Consciousness

Prof. Louis Herman is a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii West Oahu, author of “Future Primal:

Beekeeping Consciousness Culture Farming GERC2019 Honoring_Gaia Presenters Spirituality

Libby Roderick – Turtle Island Records

Libby is an internationally recognized, award-winning singer/songwriter and recording artist whose music has been featured on CNN, CBS, at the

Climate Community Conservation Ecosystems GERC2019 Nonprofits Policy Presenters Watersheds

Laura Bee – Sacred Beekeeping

Laura Bee Ferguson is the Founding Director of the College of the Melissae–an online and on-the-ground sacred beekeeping school and

Climate Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Panels Presenters

Kyle Birchard – Regen Network

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

Artisans Fermentation GERC2019 Healing Health Presenters

Kriss A. Kevorkian – Environmental Griefworker

Kriss A. Kevorkian, PhD, MSW, holds a doctoral degree in thanatology, the study/science of death, dying and bereavement. She combined

GERC2019 Presenters Science Spirituality

Kirsten K. Shockey – Ferment Works

Kirsten K. Shockey is a mother and homesteader living in Southern Oregon with increasingly fewer children at home, significantly less

Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Healing Honoring_Gaia Indigenous Presenters Spirituality

Julie Ann Koehlinger – Science with Spirituality

After working for more than 20 years in health care, Julie Ann fully embraced her spiritual connection to water by

Community Conservation Culture Ecosystems Farming GERC2019 Indigenous Presenters

Juan Gabriel Apaza Lonasco – Reviveolution

Juan Gabriel Apaza Lonasco is a respected wisdom-keeper of the Q’ero Nation of Peru. Known as the last living descendants

GERC2019 Health Presenters Soils

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

Community Consciousness Culture GERC2019 Presenters

Joanna Campe – Remineralizing the Planet

Business-Organization: Remineralize the Earth As the founder and Executive Director of RTE, Joanna Campe raises public awareness of the crucial

Conservation Ecosystems GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters Stewardship

Jim Rough – Earth Wisdom Council

Business-Organization: Center for Wise Democracy Jim Rough is a social innovator and Director of the Center for Wise Democracy. As

Agroforestry Ecosystems Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters

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

Activism Conservation GERC2019 Indigenous Panels Presenters

Jillian Hovey – Transformative Permaculture

Jillian is an experienced practitioner of regenerative systems, who co-creates transformative learning experiences in Permaculture and Ecovillage design. The founder

Agroforestry Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters

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

Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters

Jerome Ostentowski – Rocky Mountain Permaculture Guru

Business-Organization: Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute A forager and permaculturist with roots in rural Nebraska, Jerome Osentowski lives in a

Agroforestry Carbon Farming GERC2019 Permaculture Presenters

Jenny Pell – International Permaculture Design

Business-Organization: Permaculture Now!, Permaculture Design International Jenny Pell works overseas as a full-time permaculture designer while based out of Maui. Her

Community GERC2019 Permaculture Policy Presenters

Javan Kerby Bernakevitch

Business-Organization: All Points Land Design Javan Kerby Bernakevitch is Principal Consultant at All Points Land Design. This firm help clients

Climate Culture GERC2019 Indigenous Keynotes Panels Presenters Spirituality

Jan Spencer – Permaculture in Suburbia

Business-Organization: Suburban Permaculture Jan Spencer has lived in Eugene for 25 years. His interests are a convergence of care for

Carbon Conservation Ecosystems GERC2019 Presenters

Ilarion Merculief – Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways

Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff has almost four decades of experience serving his people, the Unangan (Aleut people) of the Pribilof Islands