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Peter Byck
Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Arizona State University; Writer, Director, and Producer, Carbon Nation
Peter Byck is a professor of practice at Arizona State University, in both the School of Sustainability and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, where he teaches students to make short documentary films about sustainability solutions. He is the director, producer and writer of carbon nation, a documentary film about climate change solutions. In 2020, Byck completed Carbon Cowboys, a 10-part documentary short film series, focused on regenerative grazing. He is currently helping to lead an $8.5 million research project focused on Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing; collaborating with 20 scientists and 10 ranchers, focused on soil health & soil carbon storage, microbial/bug/bird biodiversity, water cycling and much more. His current film production is an episodic documentary series, “Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there),” about the AMP Research Project.
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Agriculture creates an astounding 23% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, which is just one of many significant problems with the industrial agricultural system in the...