Agenda- July 11, 2023

Ecologically Sound Practices Partnership (ESP), 2-4 pm

 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83207299518?pwd=WnMLrFIX2Hma1nisN5ly8NMK6IsLUw.1  

Welcome and ESP Update- Belle, 10 minutes

MWPA Summer Overview- Mark Brown, 5 minutes

Speaker: Chance Cutrano Director of Programs, Resource Renewal Institute. Chance will present his innovative research and practices in rice cultivation in California and beyond, and explain how these lessons and tools can inform climate adaptation, fire prevention and biodiversity restoration strategies closer to home. 1 hour with 20 minutes for Q&A.

Chance, an ESP member, is an award-winning Bay Area environmentalist whose work centers around large landscape conservation, from the preservation of wildlife in National Parks to the restoration of biodiversity on working lands.

In 2021, Chance was awarded the inaugural "Champion of Promise" award in Food Sustainability from the Silicon Valley non-profit, Acterra, for his development of RRI's Fish in the Fields program in California’s rice growing region.

 Chance is Mayor of Fairfax and Chair of Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.

 Next Meeting: August 8; What Master Gardeners Are Up To
(Jim Kasper, Sophia Porter and Bob Mauceli)