Film Screening & Climate Change Mitigation Roundtable
What can we do about carbon?
Strategies you can use to mitigate climate change
Held 12 August 2018 at Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History | poster
Panelist Lineup:
- Daniel Robin, Moderator, co-founder and Managing Director RIF & In3 Group
- Policy: Max Henrion, Founder and CEO, Lumina Decision Systems, Inc., Los Gatos, CA
- Emissions reduction: Marc Adato, MBCP (expanded/renamed Central Coast Community Energy, 3CE)
- Carbon drawdown: Sallie Calhoun, CEO of Paicines Ranch, founder of No Regrets Initiative
Description:
Most discussions of climate change focus on the reduction of carbon emissions as the only practical, effective action we can take. However, there are a myriad of other options available. This event will spark awareness of specific steps we can take to slow it down and even move toward climate change reversal and restoration of our natural environment.
This event kicked off with a presentation of The Dirt on Climate Change, a 46-minute film (1-min preview) by local documentary filmmaker Lois Robin, followed by a Roundtable Discussion to address awareness and information gaps in actionable climate change mitigation strategies. Listen to a radio interview of Lois Robin, speaking about the film.
Speaker Biographies:
Sallie Calhoun, CEO of Paicines Ranch, founder of No Regrets Initiative
Sallie Calhoun, along with her husband, Matt Christiano, purchased the Paicines Ranch in central California in 2001. Part of an original land grant, the Paicines Ranch has been a working ranch since the mid-1800’s. Sallie has operated the ranch implementing holistic management to improve the health of the grasslands, producing grass fed beef, and now 100% organic pastured sheep.
Sallie is the founder of the No Regrets Initiative which focuses on rebuilding the health of agricultural soils to sequester carbon, mitigate climate change, and create healthier people and planet. She and her team employ a regenerative asset management strategy which uses all available forms of capital – human, natural, investment, and philanthropic to affect change in the agricultural system. The work is done through the Paicines Ranch, Cienega Capital, and the Globetrotter Foundation.
Prior to becoming a rancher, Sallie spent almost 25 years as an engineer, COO, and high-tech entrepreneur.
Marc Adato, formerly Community Outreach Coordinator, MBCP
Marc Adato, formerly Community Outreach and Events Coordinator for Monterey Bay Community Power, now Local Government Affairs Advisor at renamed Central Coast Community Energy, 3CE, specializes in the development and delivery of policy, programs and projects related to community choice energy.
Marc’s journey to work in the field of sustainability is the amalgam of three careers: one in planning, a second in residential finance and a third in the social entrepreneurship sector.
Marc has professional experience in city and regional planning; community outreach and education; team driven collaborations and meeting facilitation; strategic planning and organizational development; finance, budgets and operations; public administration; and non-profit governance. His policy and program work have included project delivery in the fields of transportation demand management, electric vehicles, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Max Henrion, Founder and CEO, Lumina Decision Systems, Inc., Los Gatos, CA
Max Henrion is passionate about building software tools to illuminate practical paths to a sustainable future. He is the CEO and Founder of Lumina Decision Systems. Lumina creates models to evaluate policies for energy, environment, and climate change using its Analytica software. Analytica users include the California Air Resources Board, CPUC, US EPA, Department of Energy, and the World Bank. Max was previously a Professor in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published three books and 70 articles on risk and decision making, energy, and the environment. He has a BA in Natural Science from Cambridge and PhD from Carnegie Mellon. A former Brit, Max has enjoyed living in the Santa Cruz Mountains for over 20 years.
Daniel Robin, Moderator, co-founder and Managing Director REIF & In3 Group
Daniel Robin is founder and managing partner of In3 Group and co-founder of Renewables Investor Forum (RIF), an industry association for accelerating investments in energy, water and healthy and regenerative food systems worldwide. Since 1996, Daniel has delivered educational forums, business planning and impact capital advisory services to produce triple bottom line (people/planet/profit) results.
Daniel was adjunct professor of strategy and management at Monterey Institute of International Studies (now Middlebury Institute at Monterey) and brings more than 25 years business experience to this work as a workshop leader, strategist, and venture catalyst, with clients mostly in developing countries and emerging markets.
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Background / approach: We use a three-legged stool, capturing interactions and integration of policy with practice:
(1) Carbon pricing mechanisms (policies/incentives) — see also, separate event on 11 Sept 2018
(2) Greenhouse gas emissions reduction practices, and
(3) Carbon drawdown strategies and related solutions in food/water/soil.
Through prepared remarks, discussion and Q&A, we’ll examine both the benefits and potential downsides of carbon pricing mechanisms; linking those mechanisms to related strategies for climate change mitigation, food and transportation systems, land restoration, water cycles and location action. We need to consider biodiversity and social justice in the overarching narrative.
Why this session? Driving down emissions is a good start but insufficient. The goal is not to “slow the rate of damage by being incrementally less bad,” but instead, coming up with a strategic plan that disrupts business-as-usual and greatly accelerates climate change mitigation and ecosystem restoration.
Admission is free; come prepared to watch the film and engage in a lively and constructive discussion with a panel of local experts.
Poster | Top Ten Actions you can take | Questions? Contact Daniel Robin at +1.831-761-0700.
Related event: A Carbon Price is Right
Practical Applications to Drive Down Carbon Emissions in California
A GCAS-affiliate event focused on putting a price on carbon with a panel of experts, including In3 affiliate Max Henrion.
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