At the start of this year, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) established a Regenerative Agriculture Work Group to assist the State Board of Food and Agriculture in defining “Regenerative Agriculture.” We submitted the letter below as our public comment on the matter to represent how we believe the term should be defined. Dear CDFA: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed definition of regenerative agriculture in California.
Author: David Bronner
David Bronner is Cosmic Engagement Officer (CEO) of Dr. Bronner’s, the grandson of company founder, Emanuel Bronner, and a fifth-generation soap maker. He is a dedicated vegan and enjoys surfing and dancing late into the night.
Regenerative Agriculture: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Author’s Note: This article builds on Regenetarians Unite, my call-to-action for our industry that was published March 7, 2018 and helped lay out the vision and path to the formation of the Regenerative Organic Certified® standard that brings together the best of soil health, animal welfare, and fair labor & fair trade practices, into a single consumer facing standard.
The Importance of Group Healing with Psychedelic Medicines and How Massachusetts Gets it Right
Combining Regulated Access with Self-Regulating Community Healing Models These are exciting times in the realms of psychedelic healing. In particular, I’ve been psyched by the traction and progress that group healing models are getting in both state and federal regulated access routes. Group therapy is much more cost-efficient, as well as arguably more effective, for short and long-term mental health.
Urgent! Ask Gov. Newsom to Sign Senate Bill 58 to Decriminalize Psychedelics for Personal Healing & Growth!
What Is Senate Bill 58? California Senate Bill 58 would legalize personal use of certain natural psychedelics. It passed the California Senate in May and the Assembly earlier this month with strong bi-partisan support, and is now headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk to be signed into law. The scope of the measure has been scaled back by various amendments imposed in legislative committees,
Israel is Building an Apartheid State on Palestinian Land: What We Must Understand and What We Can Do to Stop It
The United States and Europe must meaningfully support a two-state solution by conditioning financial and military support to Israel on the removal of settlements that meet urgent timelines and clear milestones. We at Dr. Bronner’s count ourselves as allies of both Israel and Palestine. Our family and company history are deeply connected to the enormous tragedy and crime of the Holocaust,
Remembering and Honoring Our Family and All Who Were Killed in the Holocaust
Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2023 A few months ago, our good friend and Dr. Bronner’s Director of Social Action Adam Eidinger invited me, my wife Mia Bronner, my 25-year-old kid Maya Lin-Bronner, and our friends Ariel Vegosen and Kris Furnish, to accompany him and his eighteen-year-old daughter Arundhati to visit Auschwitz in Poland. Set up about sixty miles outside of Krakow,
Reflections and Gratitude for the Measure 122 Campaign and Next Steps in Colorado
While it was an intense process that not everyone was psyched about, I’m grateful to all the community leaders who gave such great input and feedback that helped shape and refine the Natural Medicine Health Act (NMHA) into the most progressive drug policy this country has ever seen. In particular, a shoutout to Kevin Matthews, Veronica Lightninghorse,
My Journey to Embrace “He/They” as My Pronouns!
Thanks for reading this blog posted on National Coming Out Day, Oct 11th. For some time, I’ve thought it would be a good idea to “come out” and celebrate that I’ve considered myself “about 25% girl” for quite a while. I was in a fair amount of denial about this until a dramatic LSD and MDMA mediated initiation into spirit world in Amsterdam in a gay trance club called Mazzo,
Setting the Record Straight on the Natural Medicines Health Act, New Approach, and PSFC
Recently leadership at SPORE posted a misleading statement regarding the Natural Medicines Health Act, following up the inaccurate op-ed that SPORE co-Executive Director Matthew Duffy wrote for the Denver Post (read my colleague Sean McAllister’s response to that op-ed). According to SPORE’s narrative, the New Approach PAC swooped in uninvited by any pre-existing in-state coalition in order to set up a regulated access program to financially line the pockets of wealthy donors involved in the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative,
To the Magical Goddard Graduating Class of 2022!
On Sunday September 18, 2022, Dr. Bronner’s CEO David Bronner gave a commencement address to the graduating class at Goddard College. The students invited David to speak at the commencement—we share his remarks here as a window into David’s thoughts on life and learning and to help mark this occasion. Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today.