2024 Dialog: Ecosystem Restoration

Nineteenth Annual Dialog on Sustainability

Saturday, July 27, 2024

 

The Consortium for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability (CESAS) at Kansas State University and its partners hosted the Nineteenth Annual Dialog on Sustainability: Ecosystem Restoration - The Use of Biochar.

This dialog focused on ecosystem restoration with an emphasis on the use of biochar for ecosystem restoration to improve soil quality and improve carbon sequestration and productive value of brownfields. 2021-2030 is the United Nations decade on ecosystem restoration because of the global need to improve soil health and the production of food and other products using vegetation. Carbon sequestration is very important in the efforts to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Ecosystem restoration of Native American lands and lands impacted by military operations will be included.

You can view the agenda for this dialog here.

A recording of the dialog can be accessed here.

 

Speakers

TeMashio Anderson, Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians and Tribal
EcoRestoration Al

Larry E. Erickson, Professor of Chemical Engineering, KSU

Ted Jojola, Indigenous Design and Planning Institute, University of
New Mexico

Cuauhtemoc Landeros, Intrinsyx Environmental and Organic Matters

Blase Leven, Director, Center for Hazardous Substance Research, KSU

Aigerim Mamirova, Faculty of Environment, Jan Evangelista Purkyne
University

Robert A. Newton, Faculty of Environment, Jan Evangelista Purkyne
University

Valentina Pidlisnyuk, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, UJEP, Czech
Republic

Oral Saulters, Center for Hazardous Substance Research, KSU

Donna Schenck-Hamlin, Facilitator, KSU

 

Thank you to our sponsors:

Gold sponsor

  • Consortium for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability (CESAS)

Bronze sponsors

  • Mark Moser
  • Konza Solar Trackers

In-Kind sponsors:

  • Center for Hazardous Substance Research (CHSR)
  • Climate & Energy Project (CEP)
  • Indigenous Design and Planning Institute, University of New Mexico
  • Intrinsynx Environmental and Organic Matters
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyne University (UJEP)
  • K-State Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering (CoE)
  • K-State Department of Agronomy
  • K-State Carl R. Ice College of Engineering (CoE)
  • Kansas Rural Center (KRC)
  • Lutherans Restoring Creation (LRC)
  • Students for Environmental Action (SEA)
  • Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance