This document discusses how regenerative agriculture and soil health can help address climate change by drawing down and storing carbon in the soil. It provides examples of regenerative practices like composting, cover cropping, minimizing soil disturbance, and integrating livestock. Studies have shown that organically managed soils can convert carbon dioxide from a greenhouse gas into a food-producing asset. The principles of soil health from the Natural Resources Conservation Service are outlined. The document argues that a transition to regenerative organic agriculture has potential to reverse the greenhouse effect.

1. Awe of Nature:
How Culture & History are Shaping our Destiny
John W. Roulac, Founder & CEO

3. “Currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.”
Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “The universal patterns and principles the
cosmos uses to build stable, healthy, &
sustainable systems throughout the real
world can & must be used as a model for
economic-system design.”
-John Fullerton, Capital Institute

5. Natural systems thrive because they are regenerative.
Yet we have devised degenerate food, energy & water systems

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11. Nutiva’s Offering

12. Nutiva Donating 750 Chestnut Seedlings
to Farmers & Ranchers

16. The 3 Sisters of Wyrd

17. Celtic Green Man

18. “The Lakota was a true naturist – a lover of
nature. He loved the Earth & all things of the
Earth... The soil was soothing, strengthening,
cleansing and healing.”
- Lakota Chief Luther Standing Bear

21. Shifting Story of Climate Change
New story – oceans are becoming
acidic, destroying our oxygen supply
Solution: new app to drawdown carbon
via regenerative & pasture systems
Current story argues the planet is
getter hotter
Solar & wind is the answer

22. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
~30% emitted
via agriculture
Largely
attributable to
animals &
Nitrogen
Fertilizers
92.5% of
farmland is
devoted to
animal
production
• emits by far the
most GHGs

23. Rodale Institute: Down-to-Earth
Solution to Climate Change
“Regenerative
Organic
Agriculture”
Maximize carbon
fixation, minimize
loss of carbon once
returned to soil
Reverse the
Greenhouse Effect
Organically
managed soils
can convert
carbon CO2 from
a greenhouse gas
into  a food-
producing asset

24. 5 Principles of Soil Health from Natural Resources Conservation Service
Compost &
Cover Soil
Plant Cover
Crops
Minimize
Soil
Disturbance
Maximize
Diversity
Integrate
Livestock on
Land

25. Wright’s 1918 article
“Wisconsin’s Hemp Industry”
"Hemp has been demonstrated to
be the best smother crop for
assisting in the eradication of quack
grass and Canada thistles… At
Waupon in 1911 the hemp was
grown on land badly infested with
quack grass, and in spite of an
unfavorable season a yield of two
thousand one hundred pounds of
fiber to the acre was obtained and
the quack grass was practically
destroyed."

28. Both growing their organic offering & recently announced that
they will voluntarily label their packed goods w/ GMO’s

30. National Academy of Sciences
“To date, no adverse health
effects attributed to genetic
engineering have been
documented in the human
population.”
“There remain sizeable gaps in our ability
to identify compositional changes that
result from genetic modification of
organisms intended for food; to determine
the biological relevance of such changes to
human health; & to devise appropriate
scientific methods to predict & assess
unintended adverse effects on human
health”
“Given the possibility that food with
unintended changes may enter the
marketplace despite premarket safety
mechanisms, postmarket surveillance of
exposures & effects is needed.”

32. “There is no doubt that over the last few years a growing anxiety has
developed among all sections of the community of the consequences
of modern intensive farming methods. It is increasingly felt by
members of the public that large-scale soil erosion, the destruction of
wildlife habitat & the excessive use of chemicals… cannot continue
unabated without ruining the countryside.”
-Prince Charles

35. Will our industrial model end up killing mother nature
in our rush to consume her?

37. Generation Rx
1 in 13
has food allergies
1 in 68
US children has autism
1 in 13
has asthma
1 in 3
has allergies, asthma, ADHD or
autism
Parenthood has
changed.
Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in
American children.
Copyright © 2015 Robyn O’Brien

43. A Monster Algae Bloom Takes Over the Pacific Ocean

47. Imagine a healthy ocean…

50. Let us bring balance to the Natural World

52. Learn more…
Why Are Climate Groups Only
Focused on 50% of the
Solution?
By John W. Roulac
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