Join us for a conversation with award-winning producer-director Leila Conners about her latest feature documentary Legion 44, which chronicles dozens of visionary innovators worldwide advancing groundbreaking carbon removal technologies. From the vulnerable islands of Tuvalu to the Hajar mountains in Oman, the film showcases human ingenuity and collaboration in the face of our unfolding climate emergency.
Leila will share the story and goal of Legion 44's conception and production, and information on how you can help spread the word and bring the film to your local cinema.
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Join us for a conversation with award-winning producer-director Leila Conners about her latest feature documentary Legion 44, which chronicles dozens of visionary innovators worldwide advancing groundbreaking carbon removal technologies. From the vulnerable islands of Tuvalu to the Hajar mountains in Oman, the film showcases human ingenuity and collaboration in the face of our unfolding climate emergency.
Leila will share the story and goal of Legion 44's conception and production, and information on how you can help spread the word and bring the film to your local cinema.
This Is CDR Ep. 98: PlantVillage with Dr. David Hughes
This is CDR
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1 year ago
This Is CDR Ep. 98: PlantVillage with Dr. David Hughes
This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. David Hughes of Penn State University to present his work with PlantVillage and discuss how we can advance biochar carbon removal to gigatonne scale.
PlantVillage: https://plantvillage.psu.edu/
About David:
David Hughes is the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security at Penn State University and Director of USAID Innovation Lab on Current and Emerging Threats to Crops. David is additionally founder of PlantVillage; the for-profit enterprises Carbon4Good and PlantVillage+; and the Village Youth Fund. PlantVillage is a public good research enterprise at Penn State that leverages AI to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change and leverage their farms to mitigate climate change via AI. PlantVillage is one of the fifteen teams to have won an XPRIZE Carbon Removal Milestone Award and is now competing for the Grand Prize. PlantVillage has developed a digital monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system which is available to co-development partners including Biochar Life, Carboneers, and others via PlantVillage+ and the company's Biochar App.
This is CDR
Join us for a conversation with award-winning producer-director Leila Conners about her latest feature documentary Legion 44, which chronicles dozens of visionary innovators worldwide advancing groundbreaking carbon removal technologies. From the vulnerable islands of Tuvalu to the Hajar mountains in Oman, the film showcases human ingenuity and collaboration in the face of our unfolding climate emergency.
Leila will share the story and goal of Legion 44's conception and production, and information on how you can help spread the word and bring the film to your local cinema.
