Doug Fine will be presenting his keynote titled, “What Anyone Can Do to Stabilize Climate-Plant Hemp” at the Climate Change Track of SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 16, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. (Hilton Salon F).
We’re all excited that that the SXSW folks have scheduled Doug’s talk in the Climate Change track — clearly the awareness is rising that sequestering carbon via regenerative farming is a topic whose audience goes far beyond fans of one plant, crucial though it is.
Here’s how Doug puts it in AMERICAN HEMP FARMER: "A growing body of research suggests that each cubic inch of topsoil we restore of the world’s farmland sequesters up to three billion tons of carbon annually. And hemp’s substantial taproots are absolutely stunning at creating the conditions that allow for the building of topsoil. We’re all wise to root for an industry that helps with climate stabilization. If the regenerative farming mode catches on, farmers might even sequester sufficient carbon to buy us humans a crucial century to get our underlying infrastructural cards in order—the goal being to thrive, rather than panic, as we glide into the post-petroleum future.” Building soil is one of my key tasks in this life. And recovery happens.”
Info on Doug’s SXSW session: https://schedule.sxsw.com/2022/events/PP119236
About Doug Fine
Doug Fine is a comedic investigative journalist, bestselling author, and solar-powered goat herder. His latest book, American Hemp Farmer, is nominated for the Santa Fe Reporter’s 2021 Book of the Year award, and helped announce the arrival of the regenerative farming renaissance. His focus for the past 15 years has been regenerative living for regular folks, beginning with his Boston Globe bestseller Farewell, My Subaru. Most recently, Doug has cultivated hemp food for farm-to-table products and seed-building in six U.S. states, and his own hemp seeds have been used to clean soil in a New Mexico university study. In addition to American Hemp Farmer and Farewell, My Subaru, his books include Too High to Fail and Hemp Bound. Willie Nelson calls Doug’s work “a blueprint for the America of the future.” The Washington Post says, “Fine is a storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams.” A website of Doug’s books and audiobooks, and print, radio and television work, United Nations testimony, Conan and Tonight Show appearances, TED Talk and online regenerative hemp course is at dougfine.com -- His global work from Rwanda, Guatemala and Alaska has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Wired, Esquire and the Los Angeles Times, and before his television and book career, he was a long-time correspondent for the US National Public Radio network from five continents. Twitter and Instagram: @organiccowboy