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Regenerating Life: A Film by John Feldman and Hummingbird Films

...invented by ecological… Speaker Adam Sacks speaking at Blessed Unrest: Growing a Future for Life on Earth Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education,...

Danehy Park Forest

...area to mitigate the urban heat island effect. Photo: Dino Kuznik Photo: Dino Kuznik Elderberry and Chokecherry trees (Photo: Maya Dutta) Photo: Adam Sacks Photo: Adam Sacks Photo: Adam Sacks...

Featured Creature: Cats

...road to purr-fect purr-ful bliss, By Adam Sacks P.S. If you have access to Netflix, there’s a fascinating video entitled “Inside the Mind of a Cat.” You can train cats...

Featured Creature: Asian Giant Hornet

...Adam Sacks Sources: https://www.discoveringbelgium.com/asian-hornets/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet Alfred Lord Tennyson In Memoriam A. H. H., 1850:    Who trusted God was love indeed    And love Creation’s final law    Tho’ Nature, red...
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Climate Emotions: Facing the Storm Together

...Outreach Coordinator for Bio4Climate 2. Yvonne Cuaresma, Founder of https://www.theclimatejournalproject.com/ 3. Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Bio4Climate With moderator Maya Dutta, Outreach and Operations Manager for Bio4Climate And commentator psychiatrist...

Climate Emotions: Facing the Storm Together

...guests Yvonne Cuaresma, Abby Abrahamson, and Adam Sacks, followed by breakout rooms for all participants. Though our path forward can feel uncertain and overwhelming at times, we are stronger together....
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Miyawaki Forests and the Meaning of Regeneration

...with honest acknowledgment of the past, hope for a better future, and the compassion and connection that can bridge them.  Photo by Adam Sacks Our work is at that unity...
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Life After Fossil Fuels

Monday, August 16th at 1pm ET
On August 16, Alice Friedemann and Adam Sacks joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss moving beyond fossil fuels and how our civilization can rise to meet...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming, Washington D.C. 2015
Adam Sacks is executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming
Adam Sacks is executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Reversing Global Warming: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity, and Planet!
Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy. For five years he directed...

Speakers – Tufts 2015

...Adam Sacks is executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past...

Speakers – Harvard 2016 – Power and Promise of Biodiversity

...life on this planet possible. She also teaches workshops for community leaders on how to build trusted networks of peer support. Adam Sacks is the Executive Director and co-founder of Biodiversity for a...

Speakers – Oceans 2016

...who are rumored to be growing fins. Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy....

Climate Reckoning – Speakers

...1991). LinkedIn Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist...

Voices of Nature – Speakers

...continues to bring an ever larger assortment of international collaborators together to interact with the sounds of other species. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Adam Sacks is...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool!
Adam Sacks has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy. For five years he directed a non-profit that worked with communities invoking basic democratic and constitutional...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Climate Reckoning: Paths to an Earth Restored
Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist since 2000,...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Climate, Biodiversity, and Survival: Listening to the Voices of Nature
Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist since 1999, since 2007...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Tufts 2015
Adam Sacks is executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at The Power and Promise of Biodiversity: Visions of Restoring Land, Sea and Climate
Adam Sacks is the Executive Director and co-founder of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy. For five years...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Restoring Oceans, Restoring Climate: Facing Fire & Ice, Food & Water, Floods & Droughts
Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist for the past 16...

Core Team

...Sustainable business from local colleges.  Adam Sacks, Founder Adam has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy. For five years he directed a non-profit that worked...
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Adam Sacks

speaking at Blessed Unrest: Growing a Future for Life on Earth
Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist since 1999, since 2007...

November-December 2020 Newsletter

Vijay Kumar on Community Managed Natural Farming, SUGi Spotlight, Jim Laurie’s Biodiversity and Symbiosis III: Mastering the Water Cycle, Adam Sacks’ Call Story, Ngā Uruora Book Review, The Hidden World...
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A Message from our Executive Director

Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, shares his call to action to work with life for a thriving Earth. Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable...
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Pathways to Regeneration: Restoration, Resiliency & Reciprocity, hosted by the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions

November 6-8, 2020
A virtual conference exploring the routes to a regenerative future for life on the planet, featuring Executive Director Adam Sacks giving a talk on November 6 at 10:15am ET, titled...
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The Urgent Call to Restore the Earth

Climate advocates in order: Reverend Dele: Climate Reality Leader and spiritual director Adam Sacks: Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Paula Phipps: Associate Director of Biodiversity for a...
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Grandpa Climate Rap

A senior citizen, Adam Sacks, takes up rap to help you find your way out of climate chaos! Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate...
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Blessed Unrest: People for the Planet with Adam Sacks

Adam Sacks will briefly set the stage for the conference, with the why and how of Blessed Unrest. What does it mean for global ecological health, climate disruption, and thriving...

Blessed Unrest Program

...Sacks Introduction Adam will briefly set the stage for the conference, with the why and how of Blessed Unrest. What does it mean for global ecological health, climate disruption, and...

Blessed Unrest Speakers

...Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics, and advocacy. A climate activist since 1999, since 2007 he...
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Adam Sacks: Healing Lands Across the World

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ A brief talk by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate’s Executive Director, Adam Sacks,...
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Adam Sacks: Connecting All (!!!) the Dots

...of our rope. How will we learn from our multiple-species mentors how to behave as if we want to survive? Hint: All you need is love! Adam Sacks: Executive Director...

Voices of Nature – Program

...our multiple-species mentors how to behave as if we want to survive? Hint: All you need is love! Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate...
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I’m an energy saver bulb!

A brief animated community ad from Adam Sacks’ alternative energy days (ca. 2006). Nowadays, Adam Sacks (Executive Director for Biodiversity for a Livable Climate) focuses on nature-based solutions and the...
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Kannan Thiruvengadam: Building Soil and Growing Food and Community

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ The importance of community farms Kannan Thiruvengadam: Eastie Farm Presented at Revitalizing Ecosystems...
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Maggie Booz: Neighborhood Tree Stewardship

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Transforming public spaces Maggie Booz: Cambridge Committee on Public Planting Presented at Revitalizing...
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John Reinhardt: Reviving a River

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ John Reinhardt: President Mystic River Watershed Association Presented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater...
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Anamarija Frankic: Oyster Beds and Living Shorelines

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Anamarija Frankic: UMass Boston Green Harbors Project Presented at Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater...
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Tom Wessels: Self-organization, Co-evolution, Resiliency, and Stability

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Self-organization is a natural process—that, as a system grows it also becomes more...
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Zeyneb Magavi: Energy Execs, Ecosystems, and Alliances

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Ecosystems across our highly developed region are threatened by climate change. At the...
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John Pitkin: Revitalizing Ecosystems in Greater Boston to Survive Climate Change Introduction

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ John Pitkin: Greater Boston Group of the Sierra Club Presented at Revitalizing Ecosystems...
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Love As an Ecosystem Property with Adam Sacks

Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/​ Connect with us Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bio4climate Twitter: https://twitter.com/bio4climate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4climate/ Presented at the...
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Climate Reckoning with Adam Sacks

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Introduction to Climate Reckoning conference November 17-19, 2017 at Harvard University...

Program – Climate Reckoning

...unraveling around us. Adam Sacks is the Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. 6:50 – Migrations of People, Migrations of Place (Where Are We Going?) Video Up to 200...
Compendium Article

Compendium Vol. 1 No. 1: PREFACE

...collection are Hannah Lewis, Adam Sacks, Robert Blakemore, Erica Antill, Andrew Blair, Gina Angiola, Philip Bogdonoff, Annita Seckinger, Paula Phipps and Fred Jennings. The contributions from our many speakers and...
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Philip Bogdonoff & Adam Sacks: Welcome to Scenario 300- Making Climate Cool conference

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Philip Bogdonoff, Director, Washington DC Chapter, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Adam Sacks,...
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Adam Sacks: The New Water Paradigm

...ground for as long as possible. This simple shift in water management can make a dramatic difference in the course of global warming. Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a...
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Scenario 300: Making Climate Cool!

...for the next 11 years. Adam Sacks has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy. For five years he directed a non-profit that worked with communities...
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Our Oceans, Our Selves with Adam Sacks

Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate emphasizes the connections between human well-being and the state of the Earth’s oceans. Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate:...

Oceans 2016 Program

...p.m. – 9 p.m. 6:00 – Our Oceans, Our Selves Adam Sacks, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Video The earth is a system and humans are currently a keystone species...
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What Is Biodiversity Worth in our High-Tech World? with Adam Sacks

Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, an environmental nonprofit spreading awareness for the powerful potential of ecosystem restoration. Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate:...

Program – Harvard 2016 – Power and Promise of Biodiversity

...deal about all of this and more during our fascinating day exploring the nature of life on earth. 9:00  What Is Biodiversity Worth in our High-Tech World? Adam Sacks, Biodiversity for...

DC Chapter

...and Adam Sacks. Part I, Adam Sacks Part II, Jim Laurie And check out the DC Chapter’s September 26, 2015 Conference, which was part of the Moral Action for Climate...
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Jim Laurie: How Eco-Restoration Can End Global Warming

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ An overview of eco-restoration to end global warming. Jim Laurie, Staff Scientist at...
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Adam Sacks: How Ecosystem Restoration Can End Global Warming

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ An overview of eco-restoration to end global warming. Adam Sacks, Executive Director of...
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Maude Barlow, Rajendra Singh, Precious Phiri: Activist Panel- Empowering Water Restoration

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Moderated by Adam Sacks, our three panelists speak of success in mobilizing people...
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Adam Sacks: Welcome to a Water Story Untold

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Executive Director Adam Sacks welcomes conference attendees and speaks about the importance of...

Program, Videos, Slides – Tufts 2015

...evening Welcome to a Water Story Untold Introduction 6:00 Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Executive Director Adam Sacks welcomes attendees and sets the agenda for the weekend: conveying the power...

Resources

...TX; Mr. John Wick, Co-Founder, Marin Carbon Project, Palo Alto, CA. * Post Tufts-2015 conference interviews on Emerald Planet TV.  With Michal Kravcik, Precious Phiri, Jon Griggs, Adam Sacks, and with Jim Laurie. Coral...
Conference

Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming, Tufts 2015

Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming Conference Home Program Speakers Sponsors/Partners Click here for videos and slideshows! Watch interviews with Michal Kravcik, Jon Griggs, Precious Phiri and Adam Sacks...

Speakers – Cambridge 2015 – Power and Promise of Biodiversity

...of urban ecology in a program called Urban Metabolism. Adam Sacks is executive director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology,...

Program, Videos, Slides – Cambridge 2015 – Urban/Suburban Farming

...welcome us all on behalf of their organizations, which are sponsoring this conference. Video 9:15 The Climate Imperative Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Adam Sacks will...
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Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming, Washington D.C. 2015

...Welcome Adam Sacks, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate – The Other Side of the Climate Change Equation Slides Meet the organizers and sponsors of the conference, with an overview of...
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Adam Sacks, Jono Neiger, Bruce Fulford: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity and Planet Q&A

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Jono Neiger, Ecological Designer,...
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Adam Sacks: Global Warming- The Good, the Bad, and the Very, Very Scary

...the familiar narrative and transform it into one of biodiversity, planetary regeneration and abundance. Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate From Biodiversity for a Livable Climate conference...

Speakers & Books – Bristol 2015

...was recently presented at the Cambridge Public Library. Adam Sacks is the Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. He has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology,...
Conference

Reversing Global Warming: Carbon Farming for Food, Health, Prosperity, and Planet!

...Video Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate The climate news gets worse every year. Adam suggests how we may broaden the familiar narrative and transform it into...
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Adam Sacks & Seth Itzkan: “Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming” Conference Closing

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Adam Sacks, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate Seth Itzkan: Futurist...
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Antje Danielson, William Moomaw, & Adam Sacks: Opening A World of Possibilities

Learn more about Biodiversity for a Livable Climate: https://bio4climate.org/ Please donate to our ecosystem restoration work: https://bio4climate.org/donate/ Meet the organizers and co-sponsors of the conference, with an overview of what...

Program, Videos, Slides – Tufts 2014 Restore Eco, Reverse GW

...Hugh McLaughlin Biochar Workshop Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate. Adam Sacks has had careers in education, holistic medicine, computer technology, politics and advocacy.  He has been...

Internships

...resume to Adam Sacks, adam.sacks@bio4climate.org. Indicate in the subject line of the email the title of the internship for which you are applying. Include a statement of around 500 words...

Events

...1pm ET – Life After Fossil Fuels, On August 16, Alice Friedemann and Adam Sacks joined our Life Saves the Planet lecture series to discuss moving beyond fossil fuels and...

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