Soil Security changes our Climate Destiny, join the conversation at Urban Oil Summit: Terroir! August 7-9th in Los Angeles

Love Button Global Movement is a Proud Sponsor of Urban Oil Summit. Hosted by G3, Green Gardens Group and UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture and Gardening & Horticulture Programs

Urban Soil Summit: Terroir! Will unite a diverse group of leading thinkers in an energetic exchange about the science and actions necessary to create Soil Security, a fundamental building block of human resilience. Unlike most conferences, this one dives deep into the topic of soil and covers a breadth of perspectives rarely found in the same place. Likened to a wild and wonderful dinner party, it embraces both the science and the mystery of soil, and the role it has played throughout human history.
Beginning with the science of soil, presenters will share proof of the huge impact healthy soil can have on our environment, our resources, our health, our future. Conversation will then expand to include sacred soil, the role soil plays in the taste of foods, the color of fabrics, and the way we commune with, and communicate about, the environment. The Summit concludes with action, the economic relevance of soil, and how we can create an economy that restores rather than degrades soil and stimulates a thriving green workforce in the process.

Confirmed Speakers:

John Wick – Co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project, co-owner of the Nicasio Native Grass Ranch.
Alice Feiring – Journalist and Author of The Dirty Guide to Wine, For the Love of Wine and Naked Wine.
Doria Robinson – Executive Director of Urban Tilth, a community based organization rooted in Richmond dedicated to cultivating urban agriculture to help her community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.
Kiara Boone – Deputy Program Manager, Community Remembrance Project, Equal Justice Initiative, Alabama.
Michael Martinez – the Founder and Executive Director of L.A. Compost.
Rebecca Burgess – Executive Director of Fibershed, Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute, author of the best-selling book Harvesting Color, a bioregional look into the natural dye traditions of North America.
Judith D. Schwartz – Journalist and Author of Water In Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World and Cows Save the Planet and Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Dr. David Montgomery – Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, member of the Quaternary Research Center, author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, co-author of The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health and
Anne Bikle – Biologist with experience in watershed restoration, environmental planning, and connections between public health and the built and natural environment, Co-author of The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health.
Kristin Ohlson – Author of The Soil Will Save Us
Keali’i Bright – Deputy Secretary for Climate and Energy at the California Natural Resources Agency
Dr Gracelyn Smallwood – Australian Aboriginal Health and Human Rights activist and academic.
Renata Brillinger – Co-Founder and Executive Director, California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN)
Kat Superfisky – designer, educator, and urban ecologist

REGISTRATION INFO :

Tickets are available now until August 6th for the Full Summit or for individual days.

Use code lovebutton15 for 15% discount on ticket price!

About G3: Urban Soil Summit Founder and Host, Green Gardens Group imagines resilient cities that are water and soil secure, with Watershed Wise landscapes, designed, built and managed by confident property owners and certified professionals who understand the connection each yard has to healing the global environment. We are a collaborative of more than 500 people dedicated to landscapes as a climate change solution — starting with Healthy Living Soil.

About UCLA Extension: UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program is a 3-year sequenced evening and weekend program tailored for the working person. The curriculum provides design methodology, technical knowledge and land stewardship which is applied to actual sites within the Los Angeles area. UCLA Extension’s Landscape Architecture program curriculum is approved by the California Architects Board Landscape Architects Technical Committee to meet the education requirements for licensure in California.
About G3: Urban Soil Summit Founder and Host, Green Gardens Group imagines resilient cities that are water and soil secure, with Watershed Wise landscapes, designed, built and managed by confident property owners and certified professionals who understand the connection each yard has to healing the global environment. We are a collaborative of more than 500 people dedicated to landscapes as a climate change solution — starting with Healthy Living Soil.
About UCLA Extension: UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program is a 3-year sequenced evening and weekend program tailored for the working person. The curriculum provides design methodology, technical knowledge and land stewardship which is applied to actual sites within the Los Angeles area. UCLA Extension’s Landscape Architecture program curriculum is approved by the California Architects Board Landscape Architects Technical Committee to meet the education requirements for licensure in California.

Gardening & Horticulture – This program gives a solid foundation in plant biology, soil health, plant identification, and horticultural care. The courses combine environmental stewardship with the art and science of horticulture.- This program gives a solid foundation in plant biology, soil health, plant identification, and horticultural care. The courses combine environmental stewardship with the art and science of horticulture.