Soil4Climate: Enabling a Revolution

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Allan Savory is the Founder and President of the Savory Institute whose mission is to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world's grasslands and the livelihoods of their inhabitants through holistic management. His TED Talk on 'How to Fight Desertificaqtion and Reverse  Climate Change' has nearly 9 million views. 

Dalmas Tiampati is the Founder Maasai Center for Regenerative Pastoralism and a Regenerative Grazing Consultant. He is a Chief Maasai elder who is passionate about regenerative agriculture, pastoralism and ecotourism. He leads grassroot effort to help restore savanna grasslands to reverse climate change. Dalmas has worked with Soil4Climate since 2017 on the Maasai Lands Restoration Project. 

Hunter Lovins is the President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions(NCS), a non-profit formed in 2002 in Longmont, CO. She is a renowned author and champion of sustainable development for over 35 years. In "Regenerative agriculture: Key to solving the climate crisis," Hunter Lovins features a number of farmers, scientists, and policymakers working to restore soils and sequester carbon.

Dr. David Johnson researches the potential of adaptive multi-paddock grazing (AMP) management, together with BEAM (Biologically Enhanced Agricultural Management), and has said that together, AMP and BEAM could draw down 61.72 gigatons of CO2 per year, or approximately 1.6 times the annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions. See Dr. Johnson make these remarks in a Soil4Climate video. 

Dan Kittredge has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years and is the founder and executive director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA), a non-profit whose mission is to “increase quality in the food supply.” Known as one of the leading proponents of “nutrient density,” Dan works to demonstrate the connections between soil health, plant health, and human health. 

Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. His work currently focuses on community food systems and the dynamics between local and geo-economic systems. He served as the first Executive Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust and was Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative.

Benoit Lambert, Ph.D., is the Owner, Biochar Génération, developing biochar in Canada. Cbiochar Inc. transforms wood residues to produce biochar, an excellent soils' amendment (conditioner). With biochar mass production, we are making soils fertile on a large scale, we better manage organic residues, we retain water and fertilizers for agriculture.

Joanna Brown is an expert in living soil and sustainable agriculture. Her passion is for building closed loop agricultural ecosystems that reduce labor and input costs while increasing yield, crop quality, and operational resilience. She has nine years managing happy people and happy plants. Joanna Brown has a Master of Science in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture from Tufts University. 

Patrick Worms, educated as a molecular geneticist, is Senior Science Policy Adviser for the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre. With three languages, a multinational family, a career spanning four continents and a wide experience in intercultural education, Patrick received bachelors and masters degrees from Cambridge University.

Dr. Kristina Wolfe is a grasslands ecologist. She has specialized experience and training in livestock production and medicine, range management (including plants, soils, wildlife, livestock, and social components), soil science, and plant ecology in rangelands (specifically grasslands and savannas). 

PhD Ecology; M.S. Agriculture, Soil Science; B.S. Ag (Ani Sci)

Steven Schwartz is a Media Producer whose goal is to connect with people through film making in an emotional and entertaining way. Companies need their stories told so that they can make new customers and organizations need to deliver their messages and enlist people to help and support.

Skip Kauffman is a Horticulturist, Non-profit Administrator, Grants Administrator, and Program Specialist. Since 2018, he has served as a Volunteer Garden Guide at North Carolina Botanical Garden, which is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In the last 16 years, Francis has been a leading persuasive biodiversity & ecosystem recovery advocate/solutionary working to create global awareness towards reconnecting all human developmental endeavours back to the biosphere & connect life-in-the-soil approach/regenerative agriculture solutions to the critical interlinked challenges of land/soil, water, food, nutrition & climate change.

André Leu is the Author of the ‘Myths of Safe Pesticides’ and ‘Poisoning our Children’. He is the co-author with Dr Vandana Shiva of ‘Biodiversity, Agroecology, Regenerative Agriculture – Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change’.
André is the International Director of Regeneration International.

Fred Provenza was a faculty member in the Department of Range Science from 1982 to 2009. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University. He earned a B.S. Degree in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Range Science at Utah State University. 

Craig Altemose is the founding Executive Director of Better Future Project and co-founded and Senior Adviser for the volunteer-led 350 Mass for a Better Future volunteer network. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from Eckerd College, a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.

Jesse McDougall is an author, a public speaker, and an accredited professional holistic management educator. Since 2012, he and his wife, Cally, have used holistically-managed livestock to rebuild soil, increase biodiversity, increase water infiltration and retention, and sequester carbon across 100 acres of their 270-acre farm.