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Delaware Valley University: Farming In Climate Chaos Seminar, Sept. 25 In Bucks County

The One Health Working Group and Food Systems Institute at Delaware Valley University will host Farming In Climate Chaos, part of the One Health Seminar Series, on September 25 at the University's Life Sciences Building Auditorium in Doylestown, Bucks County from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Journalist Katherine Rapin will share insights gathered from her reporting on how Pennsylvania farmers are adapting to extreme weather caused by climate change, and how the practices they implement can hasten mitigation.

You can read her article “Farming in Climate Chaos" in the latest issue of Edible Philly.

Rapin is a freelance journalist and the managing editor at the Philadelphia Citizen. She has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, FoodNetwork.com, and Provisions Magazine.

She was also the associate editor at Edible Philly for three years. Katherine covers foodways, agriculture, the environment, and pressing issues facing our communities. You can read her work at KatherineRapin.com.

One Health is the multi-disciplinary approach that works locally, regionally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal well-being for people and society, the environment, and plants and animals. Together, the three major components make up the One Health triad, and the well-being of each is inextricably linked to the others.

Click Here for more information. This program is free

Other Upcoming Seminars

Four more seminars in this series have been scheduled--

-- October 17: “Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Climate Change Adaptation,” Richard Evans (Ecologist/Delaware Water Gap);

-- October 29: “Shored Up,” a film on rising sea levels, Ben Kalina (Director, “Shored Up”);

-- November 19: “DCNR Climate Change Action Plan," Greg Czarnecki (DCNR); and

-- December 4: “Climate Change: The Benefits of Doing Something vs. Doing Nothing," Seth Blumsack & Joel Landry (Penn State University)

For more information, visit the One Health Seminar Series webpage.

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