Breathing with the Climate Crisis

Lin Bautze is Project Manager for the "Living Farms" program at the Goetheanum Section for Agriculture. Previously, she was Scientific Coordinator at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, where she led scientific monitoring activities for the "Strategies for Organic and Low-input-farming to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change" (SOLMACC) project, which focused on optimized nutrient management, crop rotation, reduced tillage and agroforestry in Germany, Italy, and Sweden. She was also engaged in the negotiations in Bonn, Germany, for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She holds a Master's of Science degree in Global Change Management from the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany, a Bachelor's of Science in Environmental and Resource Management from the Brandenburgische Technische Universitat Cottbus, Germany, and studied Environmental Science at the University of Buea in Cameroon. Lin has published numerous articles and books. She is also a yoga teacher and a music therapy educator.

"No, I shall not leave this dry, barren region. Because, although I go away, the soil remains; it cannot leave. But we belong together, the soil and I, the earth and we human beings." -- Clement Vincent, southern India, speaking at the 2021 Agriculture and Youth Conference in Dornach