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Gloria Flora, founded and directs Sustainable Obtainable Solutions (SOS), an organization dedicated to the sustainability of public lands and of the plant, animal and human communities who depend on them. SOS focuses on large landscape conservation strategies, climate change action, forest restoration through collaboration, and agroforestry systems to complement natural capital across ecosystems. As a project of SOS, Gloria founded and directed the U.S. Biochar Initiative (USBI) for 7 years, promoting the sustainable production and use of biochar.
Gloria served 23 years in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), notably as Forest Supervisor on two national forests, including the largest in the continental U.S.. She was a leader in establishing the human dimension as a component of the USFS ecosystem management system.
While Senior Project Manager at the Center for Climate Strategies, Gloria co-lead multi-stakeholder-driven climate change action plans (mitigation and adaptation) at the direction of the governments of Alaska, Maryland and six northern Mexico states. She also served as the Forestry, Agriculture and Waste climate change mitigation and adaptation expert on eight other state and regional climate change action plans. She co-authored a guide book to climate adaptation strategies.
She's a certified Landscape Architect and permaculture designer putting theory into practice at TerraFlora Permaculture Learning Center, her home in Washington state.
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Zero-Waste BlockChain Economy: Entropy and Information meet Financial Accounting | Apr 17, 2018 |
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Gloria Flora is supporting proposal Zero-Waste BlockChain Economy: Entropy and Information meet Financial Accounting | Apr 17, 2018 |
Gloria Flora joined the Climate CoLab community | Apr 17, 2018 |