Our work is based on the fact that complex systems are changed through relationships, meaning that even the best project idea will likely fizzle out if it isn’t supported by new and existing relationships. So we’re proud of the fact that our first Food Summit introduced 80 participants to a minimum of a dozen people each, creating hundreds of new relationships that are already leading to collaboration outside the Summit project groups. This is critical because carbon sequestration/reduction on any meaningful scale is a by-product of building community relationships, whether at the local or global scale, and can't be successful or enduring without that. The rapid and continuing increase in global emissions bears out the futility of anything other than a systemic approach.