Day 4: June 21, 2026

Location: Science Center

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7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.              Breakfast at Stevenson Dining Hall
Registration Open at the Science Center Atrium at 8:30 a.m.

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.           Parallel Sessions 6

6A: Science Center A154

• Gary S. Kleppel   (Professor Emeritus, University at Albany)
  Can regenerative pasture management sustain soil health and economic vitality in animal agriculture?
  Session Chair

• Zafarani UWINGABIRE (Senior Professor, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France)          
  Linking values to actions for wild pollinator conservation: perspectives in Europe

• Glenn A. Gall (Staff, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate)
  The Incredible Value of Regenerative Agriculture

6B: Science Center A155

• Caleb Tyrell Gallemore (Associate Professor, Lafayette College)
  Can’t teach an old plantation new tricks? Oil palm age and the impacts of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification in Sabah, Malaysia
  Session Chair

• Brandon Sosa (PhD Candidate, Florida International University)
  Restoring reefs: Assessing public preferences and willingness to pay for nature-based solutions

• Brian Jacob Cultice (Sustainability Science Researcher, The Ohio State University)
  Sustainability Science in Practice; The Role of Model Coupling in Integrated Assessment Modeling

6C: Science Center A254

• Amitrajeet A. Batabyal (Distinguished Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology)
  An Ecological-Economic Approach to Air Pollution Regulation in New Delhi, India
  Session Chair

• Robert B Richardson (Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University)
  Contemplative Practice and Resilience: Sustainability Pedagogy to Support Wellbeing and Transformation

• Lizah Makombore (Phd Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant, University of Vermont) and and Katharyn Hassan  (Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania)
  How to feed South Africa  An Ecologically Sustainable & Healthy Diet

6D Science Center A255 (DeGrowth Track)

• • • Moderated Session

    • John Mulrow and Kendrick Hardaway (The DeGrowth Institute) - Moderator
      Degrowth Curriculum: Activities, Experiments, and Brainstorms

    • This session will present several examples of integrating degrowth into existing environmental and engineering curriculum. Participants will conduct two hands-on activities prepared by the session leads, critique them, and engage in a brainstorm of ideas for bringing degrowth into their own curricular and educational settings

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.          Coffee/Tea and Networking

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.          Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall (Room A162)

• Closing Plenary (with David Orr, Gaya Herrington, and Christopher Jones)

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.             Lunch at Stevenson Dining Hall

CONFERENCE ENDS

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