Awe of Nature: How Culture & History are Shaping our Destiny

John W. Roulac, Founder & CEO

“Currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.”Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The universal patterns and principles the cosmos uses to build stable, healthy, & sustainable systems throughout the real world can & must be used as a model for economic-system design.”

-John Fullerton, Capital Institute

Natural systems thrive because they are regenerative. Yet we have devised degenerate food, energy & water systems 

he end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

~ Thomas Jefferson

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Nutiva’s Offering

Nutiva Donating 750 Chestnut Seedlings to Farmers & Ranchers

The 3 Sisters of Wyrd 

Celtic Green Man

“The Lakota was a true naturist – a lover of nature. He loved the Earth & all things of the Earth... The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.”

- Lakota Chief Luther Standing Bear

Shifting Story of Climate Change

New story – oceans are becoming acidic, destroying our oxygen supply

Solution: new app to drawdown carbon via regenerative & pasture systems

Current story argues the planet is getter hotter

Solar & wind is the answer

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

~30% emitted via agriculture

Largely attributable to

animals & Nitrogen Fertilizers

92.5% of farmland is devoted to animal production• emits by far the most

GHGs

Rodale Institute: Down-to-Earth Solution to Climate Change

“Regenerative Organic

Agriculture”

Maximize carbon fixation, minimize

loss of carbon once returned to

soil

Reverse the Greenhouse Effect

Organically managed soils

can convert carbon CO2 from a greenhouse gas

into a food-producing asset

5 Principles of Soil Health from Natural Resources Conservation Service

Compost & Cover Soil

Plant Cover Crops

Minimize Soil

Disturbance

Maximize Diversity

Integrate Livestock on

Land

Wright’s 1918 article “Wisconsin’s Hemp Industry”

"Hemp has been demonstrated to be the best smother crop for assisting in the eradication of quack grass and Canada thistles… At Waupon in 1911 the hemp was grown on land badly infested with quack grass, and in spite of an unfavorable season a yield of two thousand one hundred pounds of fiber to the acre was obtained and the quack grass was practically destroyed."

How do we monetize conventional farmers for using

regenerative practices?

Both growing their organic offering & recently announced that they will voluntarily label their packed goods w/ GMO’s

National Academy of Sciences

“To date, no adverse health effects attributed to genetic

engineering have been documented in the human

population.”

“There remain sizeable gaps in our ability to identify compositional changes that

result from genetic modification of organisms intended for food; to determine the biological relevance of such changes to

human health; & to devise appropriate scientific methods to predict & assess unintended adverse effects on human

health”

“Given the possibility that food with unintended changes may enter the

marketplace despite premarket safety mechanisms, postmarket surveillance of

exposures & effects is needed.”

“There is no doubt that over the last few years a growing anxiety has developed among all sections of the community of the consequences of modern intensive farming methods. It is increasingly felt by members of the public that large-scale soil erosion, the destruction of wildlife habitat & the excessive use of chemicals… cannot continue unabated without ruining the countryside.”

-Prince Charles

Will our industrial model end up killing mother nature in our rush to consume her?

Generation Rx

1 in 13has food allergies

1 in 68US children has autism

1 in 13has asthma

1 in 3 has allergies, asthma, ADHD or

autism

Parenthood has changed.

Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in American children.

Copyright © 2015 Robyn O’Brien

A Monster Algae Bloom Takes Over the Pacific Ocean

Imagine a healthy ocean…

Now, how do we make this spaceship work?

We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one.

Let us bring balance to the Natural World

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