Courses
- Join Walter Jehne in the classroom!
Soil Microbiologist and Innovation Strategist, and Co-Founder of Regenerate Earth Walter Jehne joins what might be Bio4Climate’s most stacked classroom ever. Instructor Hart Hagan leads a four-week study of water & climate, and how forests, grasslands, and wetlands act as Earth’s air conditioners, and how we can restore these powerful systems right where we live.
He’s accompanied throughout the course by guest instructors Jehne, Katie Ross, Didi Perhouse, Anastassia Makarieva, and Brock Dolman.
Join us is an exploration of how water, not just carbon, holds the key to a livable future.
News and Insights
- The Microbial Garden Within
Biodiversity is not just something found in forest, wetlands, and oceans. It’s in the soil and on your skin. Diverse life is all around, and within, us.
“Inside you, there is a garden. It teems with microscopic communities of life forms—microbes including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa—that are rich in purpose we are only beginning to understand. This garden also envelopes you, growing on all your surfaces to form an invisible barrier. It is the threshold where you interface with the world, a world rich with its own unseen gardens. What I’m talking about here is your microbiome: the world within you.
Humans might act as if the Earth belongs to us, but microbes were here long before us. ”
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Events and Community
- Virtual | 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit
Did you catch our big announcement this week? We’re thrilled to open registration for the 2025 Northeast Miniforest Summit, a multi-day event focused on advancing miniforest projects and cultivating a spirit of collaborative ecological restoration across the region.
Spread virtually across two days and an in-person bus tour, the Northeast Minforest Summit brings together practitioners, researchers, and leaders from a range of disciplinary perspectives—including city officials, landscape architects, scientists, and community organizers—to explore the Miyawaki method from root to canopy.
LEARN MORE AND REGISTER - Virtual | Ecorestoration & Social Justice Around the World, June 10
Join us on Tuesday, June 10, as we team up with MAPA Peace & Climate Group to explore ecorestoration efforts around the world that challenge colonial models and extractive climate responses with community-driven solutions. As top down aid programs face political challenges, we will talk with programs in Senegal and the Amazon working from the ground up with local communities to leverage eco-restoration into both climate and economic resilience.
John Leary, Executive Director, Mother Trees
Rob de Laet, Project Lead, Cooling the Climate
Ousmane Aly Pame, PhD, distinguished professor of literature at Université of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal and founder and President of REDES
Moderated by:
Beck Mordini, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
REGISTER AND LEARN MORE - Greater Boston | Miyawaki Forest Bike Tour, Self-guided
Lace up and clip in for a summer of regenerative riding.
This self-guided cycling route, designed by a Boston University student team for Cycle to Science, winds through four Miyawaki mini-forests across the Boston area, including our very own forests at Danehy Park and Greene-Rose Park. These densely planted forests are small in size but mighty in function, cooling neighborhoods, restoring biodiversity, and reconnecting communities with nature.
Have fun, send us some photos, and please wear a helmet!
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