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Recent Videos Produced by Phil

"Food’s Future: Nature or Technology" a 1h28m presentation to Bowen Island Library on Nov. 3, 2024, exploring the tensions between Nature and Technology, part of a series on Food Matters, hosted by the Library and the Bowen Island Food Resilience Society. Includes audience questions and comments.
    YouTube video (1h 28min.)

"Regenerative Bowen Island: Helping to Build a Resilient Food System" A 59 minute presentation to the Bowen Island Rotary Club on Oct. 24, 2022, based on his 2021 book, 'Pathway to Regenration: An Astrophysicist's Journey into Food, Health, Climate, and Complexity'. The talk highlights some of Nature's biological systems underlying regenerative agriculture and shows efforts by the Bowen Island Food Resilience Society to implement these ideas on our island.
    YouTube video (59 min.)

"The Magic of Soil" A 39 minute Youtube video presentation on the hidden universe of soils. How a recent revolution in our understanding of soil biology and nature's complexity points to a solution to global warming and food security issues. An abbreviated version of two talks given at the UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy on Feb. 6 and Mar. 22, 2017.
    YouTube video (39 min.)

"How to Solve Global Warming in 39 Minutes" If we change our current agricultural practices in response to a recent revolution in our understanding of soil biology and nature's complexity, we can avoid the looming collapse of agriculture on our planet and in the process go a long way to solving global warming.
    YouTube video (39 min.)

"How to Solve Global Warming & Food Security in 17 Minutes" If we change our current agricultural practices in response to a recent revolution in our understanding of soil biology and nature's complexity, we can avoid the looming collapse of agriculture on our planet and in the process go a long way to solving global warming. Understanding this revolution is crucial to our survival. An abbreviated version of above video.
    YouTube video (17 min.)

"Supplementary Soil Science Reading" to support the above videos.
    PDF file (323 kB)