Section V: Ecological Civilization
TRACK 5
AGROECOLOGY AS FOUNDATIONAL FOR AN ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
Dean Freudenberger – moderator
The objective of the track (workshop)
When human beings began to plough, they began to degrade and deplete the soil. Now its exhaustion is in plain view! This track will ponder how we can learn from nature in order to produce food while at the same time enrich the soil. The discussion will explore how this urgent transformation can be made in order to mimic the regenerative process of natural ecosystem. The objective is to envision agriculture as an ecologically enhancing and a socially and economically just human endeavor.
Friday, June 5
Plenary for Section V, 11:00 – 12:30
“What can we hope for?”
Sandra Lubarsky – Appalachian State University, Department of Sustainable Development, Boone, North Carolina
Session 1: 2:00 – 3:30
Jia Weilei, Vice-president of the Beijing Ecological Civilization Academy
Session 2: 4:00 – 5:30
“Dirt: the Erosion of Civilization”
David Montgomery, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Science, Seattle, Washington
Saturday, June 6
Session 3: 11:00 – 12:30
“New Roots for Agriculture: Perennialsim and Its Promise”
Wes Jackson
Founder and president, The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas
Session 4: 2:00 – 3:00
“Integral Agriculture: Taking Seriously the Farmer and the Life-world of the Beings on the Farm”
Travis Cox
Assistant professor, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa
Session 5: 4:00-5:30
“Local Community Empowerment in Norway”
Dag Jorund Lonning
Norwegian University, College for Agriculture and Rural Development,
Stavanger, Norway
Sunday, June 7
Session 6: 11:00 – 12:30
“Envisioning an Ecological Agriculture: Illustrations from Australia
David Freudenberger, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra,
Session 7: 2:00 – 3:30
“Public Education Outside”
Ron Mittino, Dessa D’Quila and Lynne Juarez
Sustainable Claremont Schools Action Group, Claremont Unified School District, San Francisco Unified School District
Session 8: 4:00 – 5:30
“Regenerative Studies in Higher Education”
Douglas Kent, lecturer, John Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
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“The final requirement of an ecological agriculture is an evolved conscious human being whose attitude toward nature is that of co-existence … not exploitation”
Miguel Altieri. Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture. Boulder, CO
Westview Press, 1987, p. 199.