Join two Colorado-based regenerative activists – Adam Brock, author of Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation, and Don Hall, author of The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World – for a hopeful, inspiring, solution-centric conversation about the prospects for community-based regeneration over the next four years and beyond. Ask questions and share your own thoughts, ideas, and invitations! 

Adam Brock is a  Denver-based cultural artist practicing regenerative social design. For over a decade, he has worked to create the conditions for regenerative relationships among individuals, grassroots initiatives, and institutions throughout the country.  

As co-founder of food justice nonprofit The GrowHaus, Adam led the transformation of an abandoned half-acre greenhouse into an award-winning hub for healthy food and urban agriculture. While at GrowHaus, Adam co-chaired  Denver’s Sustainable Food Policy Council, spoke at TEDxMileHigh, and was named one of “Colorado’s Top Thinkers” by the Denver Post. 

A trained permaculture designer since 2008, Adam has led over a dozen Permaculture Design Courses and is a national leader in the field of social permaculture. In 2017, Adam published Change Here Now: Permaculture Strategies for Personal And Community Transformation, a recipe book for social change inspired by the more-than-human world. Since 2019, Adam has served as co-director at Regenerate Change, a national consulting and education group focused on regenerative social design. 

Don Hall is the founder of Evolutionary Change and author of The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World.  

Don has served in a variety of capacities throughout the international Transition Towns Movement over the past 16 years: first as Education & Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, then as Founder and Executive Director of Transition Sarasota (Florida) and Executive Director of Transition US. He currently serves as Training Coordinator for the international Transition Network. 

Don holds a Master’s in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, a certification in Permaculture Design from the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, and regularly teaches on a wide variety of topics including leadership development, community organizing, effective collaboration, and local food systems.