What happens when bold regenerative ideas meet human-caused environmental destruction? Two large-scale, long-term environmental repair projects—the undamming of the Klamath River and the reforestation of the Sahel—are achieving inspiring results for ecosystems, economies, and communities. These mega-projects support wildlife, restore relationships between people and landscapes, and demonstrate the healing capacity that lives within ecosystems. In this conversation with Sammy Gensaw (Yurok leader and director of Ancestral Guard) and Andrew Millison (permaculture practitioner and documentarian), we’ll see how a deep-rooted sense of place, strong leadership, and thinking big can spark profoundly positive changes on the landscape and in our communities.
We’ll discuss:
- What can happen when we dream big and push bold ideas for a sustainable future.
- How communities can inhabit and manage landscapes so that they work hand-in-hand with nature instead of against it.
- Nature’s capacity for self-repair and how we can we can set up conditions that tap into or even supercharge that capacity.
- How people find inspiration to engage in ecosystem repair at a time when crises (of environment, economy, energy, and equity) are exerting themselves so far and wide.
About the Panelists
Sammy Gensaw III is a Yurok environmental and cultural preservationist. He became an activist in his early teens with the Klamath Justice Coalition to fight for dam removal and river restoration in the Klamath Watershed. He is now the director of the organizing network known as Ancestral Guard, which combines Indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge to teach fishing and farming methods to young people. Sammy’s work has become increasingly focused on connecting people directly to nature.
Andrew Millison is a permaculture practitioner, teacher, communicator, and change agent. He has visited an incredible array of ecosystems around the world to document permaculture and landscape repair projects, working with organizations like the United Nations World Food Program in Africa and the Paani Foundation in India. Through his work at Oregon State University, Andrew developed the world’s leading permaculture education platform in the world. His YouTube channel, where he shares his work, has generated over 100 million views.
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