Volume 246, October 5, 2023

Regenerating Life with Planet-Cooling, Holistic Green Thumb Practices 


The Boston Premier of the documentary film Regenerating Life: How to Cool the Planet, Feed the World, and Live Happily Ever After will be screened on Saturday, October 14, 2023, from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Tufts University.

John Feldman shares his journey through science and the stories that helped him see the climate crisis in a whole new light.


Traveling the regenerative holistic management landscape, he visits: 

Adam Sacks, Executive Director Emeritus, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate;

Claudia Kenny, Little Seed Gardens;

Cynthia Daley, Co-Director, Center for Regenerative Agriculture & Resilient Systems, California State Univ. Chico;

Dan Kittredge, Executive Director, Bionutrient Food Association;

Didi Pershouse, Lands & Leadership Initiative;

Drona Chetri, former youth program coordinator at the GNH Centre of Bhutan;

Gail Fuller, Fuller Farms;

Gerald Pollack, Professor, University of Washington;

Jim Laurie, restoration biologist and co-founder of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate;

Karen Washington, Co-owner of Rise & Root Farm

Leah and Naima Penniman, Soul Fire Farm;

Lisa Stokke, Founder, Next 7 Project;

M.L. Bhairava Kumar, master farmer, Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming initiative, India;

Molley Knight, Little Seed Gardens;

Robyn Mast King, Jako Farm;

Rubén Duro Pérez, Science into Image;

Satish Kumar, Resurgence Trust

Stephan Harding, Schumacher College;

Steffen Schneider, Institute for Mindful Agriculture

Tom Goreau, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance;

Vandana Shiva, Navdanya;  

Vijay Kumar, Executive Vice Chairman, Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS), Govt of Andhra Pradesh; 

Walter Jehne, Regenerate Earth, Ltd.

Wes Jackson, The Land Institute

Willy Denner, Little Seed Gardens;

Yapmaan Swetha, Master Farmer, Zero Natural Farming program in Andhra Pradesh, India.


The film will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker John Feldman, atmospheric physicist Anastassia Makarieva (biotic pump), marine biologist Tom Goreau, educator and soil sponge strategist Didi Pershouse, environmental journalist Judith Schwartz, and farmer & Bionutrient Assoc. founder Dan Kittredge. 


For more information and tickets, press here.

Summer Interns Meghan Mathieu, Morgan Owens and Sabrina Machtay at Medford Farmers' Market


The Regenerating Life film premiere and panel discussion are co-sponsored by the Ocean River Institute. Rob Moir will host a table there, alas, without the charismatic leadership of summer interns pictured above, to discuss the Massachusetts Slow Water Drought Relief Carbon Offset Fund and the MA Let Forests Grow Carbon Offset Fund that pays to bring home water and living landscapes with more healthy soils while capturing more carbon. 


“​We’ve been so focused on fossil fuels and the short-term methane from burping cows that we’ve missed the significant amount of carbon (and water) being lost from under our feet to the air and to the seas.” Nicole Masters, For the Love of Soil


Check out their well-researched website and Morgan’s published article.

In Ukraine, Intrepid Farmers Advance Holistic Agriculture


Bogdan Popov, after completing the Savory Institute’s 3LM Holistic Management program online from his home in Ukraine, has turned the Ecological Research Station Hlyboky Balyky into a demonstration site of holistic pasture management. 


The permaculture practice actively and systematically moves cattle about to restore degraded soils with more vegetation-greening landscapes. Erosive water no longer runs off. It is retained, and local water cycles are restored to further green the area and provide healthier forage.   


Popov is teaching holistic management to others and consulting with Ukrainian farmers in order to spread the adoption of regenerative practices to begin restoring the war-torn nation. 


Visit their webpage to learn more about the vital research station with a dedicated staff and view a five-minute video. There, you may make a donation directly to Popov’s research station. 

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Publications:


How We Created the Hottest Global Average Temperature Day and What to do about it. The Eden Magazine, September 2023


"Gasping climate change contrarians." Greenfield Recorder, June 6, 2023


"Saving Forests with Carbon Offset Rewards for Not Cutting, Let Forests Grow Old." E The Environmental Magazine, March 14, 2023


"Slowing Water For Greener Neighborhoods." The Environmental Magazine, December 18, 2022


"Speak for the trees: President Biden should protect public forests." Illuminem, December 18, 2022


"Slowing Water for Greener Neighborhoods." Illuminem, December 9, 2022


"Top Gun at COP27. It's not the plane. It's the pilot." The Environmental Magazine, November 29, 2022


"Biden’s game-changing administrative actions for climate at COP27." illuminem Voices, November 19, 2022


"Taking action to improve plight of right whales." Boston Herald, November 9, 2022


"Revival Coffee in Somerville takes up the Natural Lawn Challenge." The Somerville Times, August 27, 2022


"For eco groups, less lawn fertilizer is key to water crisis." By Dustin Luca, Salem News August 12, 2022


More carbon capture, better water retention and greener emerald bracelets for Dedham.” The Dedham Times, August 12, 2022.


“Emerald Bracelets to Solve Three Of The World’s Greatest Environmental Problems.” by Rob Moir, The Environmental Magazine, June 21, 2022


"Of Mousy and Elephantine Cycles, Managing the CLIMATE CRISIS after Glasgow COP26." The Eden, March 2022



“Lincoln resident promotes natural lawn care,” Concord Journal, Aug 3, 2021


Zumi’s host Natural Lawn Care for Healthy Soils Challenge,Ipswich Chronicle Transcript, Aug 10, 2021


Peabody peak capacity generator need not burn fossil fuels,” The Salem News, Aug 5, 2021 


30% preserved or restored by 2030,” The Salem News, Sep 29, 2021


Pogie deaths, a Mystic River mystery,” Boston Herald, Oct 4, 2021


Remember the right whales with a special day,” CommonWealth, Oct 29, 2021


Retreating Arctic Sea Ice, Sea Ice Formation, and the Stronger Flow of the Gulf Stream” Seven Seas November 2021


"Rob Moir, PhD, Science Advocate," Bloomberg Business, April 11, 2022

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