Restoring Creation: How Nature Regulates the Climate and How Humans can Help

Plants, microbes, fungi, insects and animals all have roles to play in local and global temperature regulation, cloud formation, rainfall, wind patterns, prevention of flooding, drought and wildfires. Humans have overlooked this biological workforce in our current policies and in our historical land management, which has intensified climate change and its local effects. It's time to recognize that we cannot solve climate change by technological means. We need to allow all of life to do its God given work. Life regulates the climate and when we understand this, we start to see opportunities to rapidly cool and rehydrate landscapes, while providing climate resilience and abundant food, water and shelter for all. 

This interactive session with Didi Pershouse offers tremendous hope and a source of real agency that we can act on immediately. 

When: September 15, 2023, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. (last hour is optional discussion)

Where: MCC Welcoming Place, Meeting Place Upper Assembly 

Speaker: Didi Pershouse 

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Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative and the author of The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function. She is currently working on projects with the UN-FAO Farmer Field School program and the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Initiative (APCNF) in India (involving over 800,000 farmers).