
Regenerative Agritourism Farm Tour with Green Mountain Girls Farm – Slow Living Summit
Slow Living Summit partnered with Green Mountain Girls Farm To present a virtual Farm Tour during DIG IN VT’s Open Farm Week (Aug, 10-16). About Green Mountain Girls Farm Laura and Mari see a future within which Vermont persists as a global geotourism* leader and...
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Frances Moore Lappé – Keynote Presentation – Slow Living Summit 2020
Frances Moore Lappé will explore how “following the food” can help us grasp the roots of the climate crisis—with its health impacts worsening Covid-19 impacts—that lie within our failing mindset about democracy, the market system, and the...
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Bill McKibben – Keynote Presentation – Slow Living Summit 2020
There are no silver linings to a pandemic, but if we’re going to go through this kind of trauma we might as well learn some things–here’s my sense of what we should be thinking about as we come out of quarantine. Reality is real, since we’ve delayed so long...
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Tom Newmark – Keynote Presentation – Slow Living Summit 2020
Climate change, soil health, food security, and…pandemics? Is there a connection, and even more importantly is there a possibility that restoring biodiversity with regenerative agriculture might help reduce the threat of future disease outbreaks? Tom will...
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Sandra Steingraber – Keynote Presentation – Slow Living Summit 2020
Solving for Pattern in a Time of Emergency: Food, Farming, Fracking, Climate, COVID, and Justice American agriculture rides a tandem bicycle with a the fossil fuel industry—with natural gas-derived anhydrous ammonia used to fertilize crops and petroleum-derived...
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Panel: Food Justice and Climate Justice – Slow Living Summit 2020
Panel: Food Justice and Climate Justice Food justice asks the questions: where does injustice live in our food system and what would a just food system look like? Climate justice asks the questions: who is responsible for climate change and who will bear the...
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Ben & Jerry’s – Reducing our Carbon Footprint – Slow Living Summit 2020
Ben & Jerry’s – Reducing our Carbon Footprint Ben & Jerry’s has an ambitious plan to reduce its carbon footprint that follows the guidance of global experts and includes Science Based Targets along with social and economic justice components. Rob...
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Panel: Financing Farming – Slow Living Summit 2020
Panel: Financing Farming How can different financial models help fund farming. Co-op models and Regenerative Farming? With Julie Snorek, Nico Lustig, Nic Cook, Jesse McDougall. Additional Resources regenorganic.org rodaleinstitute.org Merger Moratorium Bill:...
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Panel: Agricultural Policy in a Time of Uncertainty – Slow Living Summit 2020
Panel: Agricultural Policy in a Time of Uncertainty What does the future of feeding ourselves look like when faced with pressing issues of climate change and a global pandemic? A small group of farmers, activists, and advocates come together to discuss just...
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Panel: Cooperative Ownership – Slow Living Summit 2020
Panel: Cooperative Ownership with Real Pickles & Vermont Employee Ownership Center The cooperative model has long been recognized for its resilience in challenging times. Crises have historically spurred waves of cooperative entrepreneurship, as people come...
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Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs – Slow Living Summit 2020
Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs Green Team, Pete and Gerry’s Green initiative. Clean up day video and photos! With Akaylah Glidden, Christina...
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Rise and Root Farm Tour – Slow Living Summit 2020
Join Karen Washington for a virtual farm tour and talk! Rise and Root Farm strongly rooted in New York City and committed to engaging rural and urban communities through food and farming. Our current and previous farming related affiliations include: Just Food,...
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How We Move on This Earth & Why That Matters – Slow Living Summit 2020
Join in an exploration into how our mobility choices influence our human perceptions and worldviews and ultimately our communities and our environment. Taking a deep dive into the dynamics of our bodies and our essential human capacities to sense and interact...
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Nature’s Design Principles for Regenerative Systems – Slow Living Summit 2020
Climate change, locust plagues in Africa, emerging novel viruses such as Covid-19, widespread environmental degradation, planetary boundaries (e.g., Rockström et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015): there are all symptoms of the true underlying problem — our flawed...
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