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Climate Change – the answer is beneath our feet

Sheila Cooke • May 10, 2018

Conversations from the Edge invites us to engage the significant issues of our times. The scope of our exploration is from the soil, to the stomach, to the soul.

Our first event on the 1st of June, Climate Change – the answer is beneath our feet, promises to lift your spirits with fresh ideas about countermeasures we can take as consumers, farmers, gardeners and businesses.

We can reverse global warming and re-green our planet by harnessing the water cycle to re-cool the changing climate.

— Walter Jehne

3LM, in collaboration with Rheged, wish to invite you for an evening that lays out the latest scientific insights, and a radical new way forward around climate change.

Our speaker, Walter Jehne , is an internationally-recognized climate scientist. He joins us during his six-week whistle-stop tour, Regenerate Earth , across the USA, Canada, Sweden and the UK.

BIO

Walter Jehne is an internationally recognized climate scientist, soil microbiologist and innovation strategist. He has immense field and research experience in forests, grasslands, agriculture and soils at national (CSIRO) and international (UN) level. Walter’s scientific work has focused on soil biology, plant root ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin, soil-carbon formation, as well as on biology’s enormous influence on hydrological cycles, weather patterns, regional and global cooling, air quality, and cloud formation and precipitation. He has a remarkable ability to explain complex systems in easy to understand ways.

For the other half of his decades, Walter has worked more broadly beyond science, at Federal Government level, leading transformation in industry and policy. This diversity of experience has given Walter a unique and exceptional capacity to devise multi-stakeholder win-win strategies – turning challenges into opportunities. This year he was part of an invitation-only UN-FAO conference in Paris looking at bringing soil into the next IPCC report.

We intend this talk to stimulate new thinking and practice that exceeds our expectations about what is possible for our future. Walter will take us to the edge of science, and the edge of our seats, as he lays out the deeper story of our situation and opportunities.

Watch Walter’s recent talk at Harvard University, New Climate Solutions .

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Conversations From the Edge

First in a Series: Climate Change – the answer is beneath our feet

Speaker: Walter Jehne, internationally-recognized climate scientist, soil microbiologist and innovation strategist from Australia

When: Friday, 1st June 2018, 7 pm to 9 pm, including a 20 minute interval

Where: The Theatre at Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 0DQ. Registration through the Rheged website.

Cost: £10 per person

Before and After: Rheged will be serving food from 5 pm onwards in the Café and the Bar will be open until 8.30pm. We hope to see you there!

Parking: Onsite and free of charge.



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