Presentations

“Unbreaking News: Regenerative Stories From Around the World” with Commonland and Precious Phiri

“Digging In On a Global Plan For Ecological Restoration”

Carbon8 Conversation With Walter Jehne “Reindeer, Rivers and Regeneration

Webinar for journalists with the Earth Institute at Columbia University, with John Liu and Dale Willman: Reporting On Eco-Restoration October 8, 2020

Keynote for Regenerative Rising, “Women on the Land”: All We Can Regenerate October 1, 2020

Reindeer, Beaver, and Healing Nature with Nature, WGBH Forum Network August 13, 2020

The Curious Person's Guide To Earth Repair

WGBH Forum Network December 12, 2019

Over the past year, the public has grown increasingly aware of the ways we have inadvertently harmed the biodiversity and ecosystems upon which life depends. The United Nations having declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration presents the opportunity for a global focus on regenerating natural systems.

Journalist and author Judith D. Schwartz has travelled widely to find people who are successfully restoring healthy soil and water ecosystems. She talks with Cambridge, MA activist Nicola Williams about her research as well as a forthcoming book about the global ecosystem restoration movement.

Photo: “Red pouch fungus” Tony Wills [CC BY 2.5 ]


Grassfed Exchange, Albany, New York 2017

“Water Is A Verb”


Judith Schwartz speaking at "How to Feed the World and Cool the Planet: Soil Is the Solution" at Capitol Hill on January 11, 2017.


Living Soils Symposium, Montreal, 2017

“Climate Opportunities In Plain Sight:

Judith D. Schwartz is a widely published journalist and the author of Cows Save the Planet and Other Improbably Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth and ...