Name: Survival by Design: Engineering a Healthier Planet
Start: 2025-05-20T19:00:00
End: 2025-05-20T21:30:00
Location: Cowboy Monkey

What connects the health of our soil to the safety of our water? This evening explores how engineering, policy, and systems thinking can help us survive in a rapidly changing world. From redesigning our food system to regulating industrial pollution, discover the hidden infrastructure behind resilience—and the science working to protect it.

Engineering Survival

Anya Knecht (PI at UIUC IGB)

Engineering Survival explores how systems engineering can help us survive and thrive by redesigning the food system from soil to gut. Anya Knecht maps the complex relationships between regenerative agriculture, nutrition, and healthcare—showing how soil health connects to human health. Drawing from research, farming, and lived experience, she reveals how engineering resilience into our food system may be key to our collective survival.

Preventing water pollution on land and onshore

Farah Bemi (/)

Plenty of industries in the US are sources of water pollution. How do we mitigate their effects nationally? The Clean Water Act enables a means of pollution control, including the regulation of wastewater from facilities, or point sources. Standards are developed by identifying available technologies to treat wastewater, then calculating effluent limitations based on those technologies’ demonstrated efficacy. This (unofficial) talk discusses various aspects of the process used to calculate limitations for an industry: embracing statistics, accepting realities, and making plenty of graphs.

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