2018 Speakers

Peter Byck

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Peter Byck is director, producer and writer of “Carbon Nation” and Professor of Practice at ASU, in the Schools of Sustainability & Journalism. Byck is now focusing on soil health – via short films: “Soil Carbon Cowboys” and in leading a large systems science project comparing regenerative grazing to conventional – measuring a whole suite of data from water retention to soil carbon to animal well-being and more. Byck has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher and NPR’s Science Friday. He has shown “carbon nation” at the House of Commons; Boeing, Nike, Google, Microsoft, Shell, Walmart.com and more. Awards: “Garbage”, Best Doc at SXSW; “Carbon Nation” Best Doc, IVCA, London; “One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts” Best Short Doc at Cleveland International Film Festival and six more festivals.

Can Soil Health Equal Rancher Wealth?

Adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing is regenerating soils, watersheds, critical ecosystem services and livelihoods in North America. Early data shows soil carbon is the essential currency for this vibrancy. We are building on these early results with multi-disciplinary research conducted with regenerative ranchers in different regions of US. We will present our latest interim data and have open dialogue relating to our research and future plans. This is a panel with Richard Teague.