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SUMMARY:YBG Monthly Speaker Series\, Wednesday\, May 20\, 2026 - Holding Ground: Conservation\, Community\, and the Long View
DESCRIPTION:Laly Lichtenfeld\, PhD\, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer\, African People and Wildlife \nRegistration : https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/L9J9CUyzRC2_mkg-6DTuhA \n \nHolding Ground: Conservation\, Community\, and the Long View \nFor more than two decades\, Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld has partnered with communities in Tanzania to build conservation solutions that hold — through shifting politics\, funding disruptions\, and the daily pressures of life in landscapes where people and wildlife rely on the same land. Her work centers on a question that rarely gets asked in environmental science: not whether a solution was implemented\, but whether it lasts. In this talk\, she draws on field experience to explore what sustainable solutions require in practice\, including local decision-making\, women’s leadership\, and the collaborative processes that keep conservation grounded when conditions change. The lessons reach well beyond conservation\, offering a framework for anyone working on complex social and environmental challenges in an uncertain world.
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-monthly-speaker-series-wednesday-may-20-2026/
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SUMMARY:YBG June Speaker Series - An Exploration in Healing with the Land
DESCRIPTION:Reverend Rachel Field \nWednesday\, June 17\, 4:00-5:00 PM ET \nRegistration link is here \nPartnering with Creation: An Exploration in Healing with the Land \n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to truly partner with the land for healing\, restoration\, and transformation? Together we will explore the combination of regenerative agriculture\, anti-racist organizing principles\, and the agency of the land as an active participant in collective healing. We will explore examples from Heartberry Hollow Farm & Forest\, such as: fall Michaelmas rituals\, winter Wassail gatherings\, and natura divina prayer practices.  Using these examples we will discuss the connections between anti-racist organizing principles\, which are foundational to the work of Heartberry Hollow\, and folk ritual practices in the Christian tradition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio:\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Reverend Rachel Field lives on a small regenerative farm in a cold hollow in the Green Mountains of Vermont surrounded by maple\, ash\, and hemlock. She founded Heartberry Hollow Farm & Forest in 2019 and it has become a retreat center for the Episcopal Church as well as a small scale farm. She holds a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School (’16)\, a certificate in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale\, and a certificate in Contemplative Leadership from the Shalem Institute. She is the Program Manager for An Episcopal Path to Creation Justice as well as the Priest Associate at St Mary’s in Northfield Vermont. She has been leading retreats in the Episcopal Church for 20 years\, and has a deep love of working with the more-than-human world to deepen relationships with Christ and heal from internalized racism. When she’s not gardening or wrangling chickens\, she can be found curled up with a good book (probably the Lord of the Rings) and her cat\, Eowyn.
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-june-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:YBG Speaker Series - July - The Fight Against Ocean Plastic
DESCRIPTION:Monty Sims\nRegistration link is here \n\n\nMegacities\, Microplastics\, and Machines: How AI\, Drones\, and Data Are Powering Asia’s Fight Against Ocean Plastic \nFrom megacities and rivers to the open Pacific\, much of the world’s ocean plastic problem starts — and can be stopped — in Asia. This talk takes you inside The Ocean Cleanup’s work across East and Southeast Asia\, showing how AI\, drones\, and real-time data are being used to track plastic\, stop it in rivers\, and clean it up before it reaches the ocean. Along the way\, we’ll look at why microplastics matter\, how everyday urban life connects to ocean health\, and why technology — paired with local action — is becoming one of the most powerful tools in the fight against ocean plastic. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\nMontgomery (“Monty”) Simus is Senior Advisor\, Blue Finance at The Ocean Cleanup\, the Dutch nonprofit organization developing and scaling technologies to remove plastic pollution from the world’s oceans and rivers. His work focuses on the intersection of environmental infrastructure\, ocean policy\, and innovative finance — including how plastic remediation\, river systems\, and coastal resilience can become investable components of 21st-century infrastructure strategy. \nMonty is also a member of the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Birmingham\, where his interdisciplinary PhD research examines conflicts surrounding resource extraction\, Indigenous jurisdiction\, and environmental governance through the case of Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay\, Alaska. \nIn 2023\, he served as an inaugural Impact Leader-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative\, focused on global water accessibility\, resilient infrastructure\, and sustainable finance. He currently serves as an Associate with the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and as an Associate Fellow of Branford College at Yale University. \nPreviously\, Monty spent more than two decades working across impact investing\, frontier markets\, catalytic philanthropy\, and sustainable development initiatives spanning Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East. He holds degrees from Yale University and Harvard University.
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-speaker-series-july-the-fight-against-ocean-plastic/
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