John Roulac is the Founder and Board Member at Great Plains Regeneration. John was blessed to spend his childhood summers on islands of the Pacific Northwest, where he played among the forests and tide pools. When nuclear waste was dumped nine miles from his California home, John’s ecological awareness was awakened and he began his central life journey: to study natural systems and discover practical solutions to pressing environmental challenges. As a longtime advocate for healthy people and ecosystems, John has founded five nonprofit ecological groups, including Forests Forever, which placed the California Forest Protection Act, Prop 130, on the state ballot in 1990; GMO Inside, a group dedicated to educating people on the dangers of GMO foods; and the Nutiva Nourish Foundation, which donates 1 percent of Nutiva’s annual sales to sustainable agriculture and environmental programs. John has gained respect for his expertise on whole foods, organic farming, natural healing, hemp agriculture, forestry, permaculture, recycling and composting, and the conservation of water and energy. He helped jumpstart the modern home-composting movement in the early 1990s, successfully sued the US DEA to keep hemp foods legal in 2001, and has written four books on environmental topics that have combined sales of more than one million copies. He has been interviewed on numerous radio and television programs and is widely quoted in the print media—from Wired magazine to the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. In his leisure time, John enjoys travel, hiking, playing basketball, and soaking in natural hot springs. To learn more about John Roulac and Nutiva, visit www.nutiva.com. "The current industrial food model is broken. People are waking up to the fact that food choices matter, and no healthcare plan is going to solve the issue of eating industrial goop sold as food."