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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Webinar date/time: August 17, 2023; 2-3 pm EDT</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">July 2023 has been a month of climate crisis around the world, raging wild fires, soaring heat waves, and devastating flooding.</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">In this webinar, Sustainable Herbs Program Director, Ann Armbrecht, will speak with Elizabeth Sawin, Biologist and Founder and Director of the Multisolving
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">The future we have been warned about is here – and demands an immediate response. Yet our lives are enmeshed in systems that will take time to rebuild.
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">In this webinar, the speakers will talk about that tension and explore some of the questions that seem most pressing at this time:<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">What can we do now to invest in the institutions - social, economic, ecological, and cultural - that will get through these crises now and in the
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Amy Seidl, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Webinar presented by American Botanical Council Sustainable Herbs Program:
</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">https://www.herbalgram.org/resources/herbalgram/issues/124/table-of-contents/hg124-shpnews-overview/</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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