Groundwork: Transforming the Food System
The challenge and promise of regenerative agriculture
Speakers include:
Allie Rougeot (MC), Fridays for Future Toronto coordinator - a tireless advocate for sane climate policy.
Isaac Crosby - based at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, he is a horticulturalist, historian and a leader in re-indigenizing urban agriculture, which requires us to learn how to be in deep relationship to the living land and all beings.
Mary Delaney - Land Over Landings - Hear the story behind a movement that has grown from a protest against an airport to becoming a powerful force for local food, rural revitalization, farmland and water preservation in a time of climate change.
Darrin Qualman - National Farmers Union /Farmers for Climate Solutions- is uniquely qualified to show how federal agricultural policy should be changed to support regenerative agricultural methods that can reduce emissions, increase carbon sinks and improve farm incomes.
Rachel Parent- founder of Kids Right to Know - a consumer activist for labelling of GMO based foods and powerful critic of the consequences of their use for human and ecosystem health.
Through three sessions, we are bringing to light the importance of the land and food production as drivers of global warming--and what we can do about it!
Climate Fast in collaboration with Drawdown Toronto, EcoJust Food Network & Green Thumbs Growing is presenting a series of webinars about agriculture, land-use and climate change.
Food systems have a huge impact on climate and climate has a huge influence on food production. Agriculture and land-use release as much carbon emissions every year as global electricity production -- and far more than the transport sector.
Learn how agriculture and changes in our food system can be a climate solution. Research by Project Drawdown has demonstrated that by scaling up existing solutions, land-use can become a carbon sink rather than a source, while securing future food production, protecting natural systems and creating a more equitable world.
Collaborating organizations:
CLIMATEFAST - www.climatefast.ca
DRAWDOWN-TORONTO - www.drawdowntoronto.ca
ECOJUST FOOD NETWORK - www.ecojustfoodnetwork.ca
GREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDS - www.greenthumbsto.org
AUGUST 9th - Groundwork: Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide
Growing our future together!
Speakers include:
Sally Miller, Fair Finance Fund
Sunday Harrison, Green Thumbs Growing Kids
Michelle Delaney, Thorncliffe Park Urban Farm
Lily Phan, National Farmers Union (farmer)
REGISTER FOR August 9th program HERE! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/groundwork-bridging-the-rural-urban-divide-tickets-161522846181
Recording for June 7 event available at this link
https://youtu.be/IXRxXsPdX9M (on ClimateFast Action youtube channel)
MONDAY JUNE 7 - Food, Land, Climate: Groundwork for change
Speakers included: Allie Rougeot (MC), Fridays for FutureTo; Diane Longboat Haudenosaunee elder, traditional healer; Guy Dauncey , Economics of Kindness; Josephine Grey, EcoJust Food Network; Bjørnar Egede-Nissen, Drawdown Toronto