Timothy Bowles

Eating the Earth: How Do We Feed Ourselves and Protect the Planet? Debate with Michael Grunwald

Dr. Timothy Bowles will be debating Michael Grunwald on the Churchtown stage about the best way to produce food into the future to mitigate climate change and restore biodiversity. This debate will be Round Two after an earlier debate at Berkeley in May, 2025. The debate was an important conversation exploring critical questions for the future of our agriculture.

Dr. Bowles is an agroecologist whose research investigates soil health, climate resilience, and sustainable farming systems.

He leads the UC Berkeley Agroecology Lab, which conducts interdisciplinary research on farming systems that rely on and restore biodiversity in order to produce food, rather than those that depend on non-renewable and often harmful inputs. The lab studies showcase how these farming systems – in California, the broader U.S., and the world – affect soil health and climate resilience. They collaborate widely to understand how policies and socioeconomic issues help or hinder such farming systems. Their research contributes to designing, managing, and making the transition to broader adoption of farming systems that support environmental stewardship with production of healthy food and support of farmers’ livelihoods.

Tim has two interviews on the Real Organic Podcast.