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Dr. Tim LaSalle Co-Founder & Co-Director, Regenerative Agriculture Initiative Regenerative agriculture is an approach to food and farming systems. It works with nature’s rhythms and…
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Cheri Chastain Sustainability Manager Sierra Nevada Brewing Company The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, founded and still headquartered in Chico, is known not only for its award-winning beers, but…
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Dr. Roland Bunch International Regenerative Agriculture Consultant & Author There is a serious drought in Africa, one in which more than 20 million people from Yemen to Tanzania are at risk of…
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Alison Divine Environmental Advocates Director, CSU Chico Community Legal Information Center Natalie Carter Executive Director, Butte Environmental Council The Sustainable Groundwater…
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Becky Holden Assistant Director Butte Environmental Council Every day, we turn on a tap and water comes out. As we do this, we might want to ask some basic questions, such as “Where does…
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Vickie Newlin Assistant Director, Butte County Department of Water and Resource Conservation Ms. Newlin, a CSU, Chico alumnus, serves as chair of the Technical Advisory Committee for the…
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Heather Cooley Co-Director of the Water Program, Pacific Institute, Oakland, California Ms. Cooley’s presentation begins with a look at California’s water – where it is found,…
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Dr. Anita Chaudhry Faculty, Department of Economics, CSU, Chico In 1997, the government of Pakistan passed laws to decentralize the irrigation system and hand its management over to farmers. Dr.…
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Dr. Eve Robinson UC Berkeley A common sight for visitors to the rocky beaches on the Pacific Coast is the large colonies of sea anemones clinging to the rocks. How do these creatures, which look…
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Jim Brobeck Water-Policy Analyst, AquAlliance Jim Brobeck from AquAlliance explains why it is inefficient to use Northern California water to grow orchard crops in the San Joaquin Valley. He…
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Dennis Dimick Executive Editor, Environment, National Geographic Magazine Scientists and others have begun calling the human-dominated era of the Earth’s history the Anthropocene, or…
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