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The Earth Convention Live — Land and Soil, 9 September

Greenbank and Rathbones are delighted to partner with 5x15 for The Earth Convention 2025, a three-part series offering insights into the urgent issues facing our changing world. The third session ‘Land and Soil’ will explore what can we learn from the distant past about the possible future for our land and soil.

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Article last updated 19 June 2025.

Tuesday 9 September 2025
7.00pm — 8.30pm

Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore
London SW7 2AR

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If you are a client of Greenbank or Rathbones, please contact us at marketing@greenbankinvestments.com to claim a free ticket for the events in this series.

About this event

Greenbank and Rathbones are delighted to partner with 5x15 for The Earth Convention 2025, a three-part series featuring celebrated speakers and offering insights into the urgent issues facing our changing world. 

The third and final session of the 2025 series will focus on 'Land and Soil', and features bestselling author and leading conservationist Isabella Tree, author of Otherlands, a bestselling, monumental history of life on earth, Thomas Halliday, the former president of the National Farmers' Union, Minette Batters, and conservationist and acclaimed author of Our Oaken Bones, Merlin Hanbury-Tenison.

What can we learn from the distant past about the possible future for our land and soil? How can we nourish our soil and reground our societies?

The importance of restoring biodiversity, and preventing further losses, is not in question. Nor is the need to feed the 8 billion humans living on our planet. But can the answers be found in regenerative agriculture or rewilding? Grass-fed beef or vat-grown proteins?

Featuring a line-up of expert writers, thinkers and practitioners, and hosted by 5x15 co-founder Rosie Boycott, this panel addresses the importance of understanding the past and finding solutions and innovations for the future.

About 5x15

5x15 is one of the UK's leading producers of public-facing spoken-word events. Renowned for the quality of curation, skilled storytelling, and inspirational and informative speakers, their events bring together world leading figures to spark ideas and inspiration. 

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Speakers

Isabella Tree

Writer and Conservationist

Isabella Tree

Writer and Conservationist

Isabella Tree is an award-winning writer and conservationist who lives with her husband, Charlie Burrell, in the middle of a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex. She is the author of six non-fiction books, including the award-winning book Wilding, which was made into a documentary film in 2024. In 2020 Isabella was awarded a CIEEM Medal for her contribution to ecology and environmental management, and in 2021 received the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award. She is currently writing The Return of the White Stork, about the reintroduction of white storks to Britain after an absence of more than 600 years.

Isabella Tree is an award-winning writer and conservationist who lives with her husband, Charlie Burrell, in the middle of a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex. She is the author of six non-fiction books, including the award-winning book Wilding, which was made into a documentary film in 2024. In 2020 Isabella was awarded a CIEEM Medal for her contribution to ecology and environmental management, and in 2021 received the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award. She is currently writing The Return of the White Stork, about the reintroduction of white storks to Britain after an absence of more than 600 years.

Thomas Halliday

Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham

Thomas Halliday

Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham

Thomas Halliday is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham. His PhD won the Linnean Society's John C. Marsden Medal for the best thesis in the biological sciences in the UK, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018. He is also the author of Otherlands, a history of life on earth, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, a Foyles Book of the Year 2022, and longlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. 

Thomas Halliday is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham. His PhD won the Linnean Society's John C. Marsden Medal for the best thesis in the biological sciences in the UK, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018. He is also the author of Otherlands, a history of life on earth, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, a Foyles Book of the Year 2022, and longlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. 

Baroness Minette Batters

British farmer and president of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales from 2018 to 2024

Baroness Minette Batters

British farmer and president of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales from 2018 to 2024

Minette Batters was the first woman to be elected President of the National Farmers’ Union in 113 years. She’s represented the interests of over 46,000 farming businesses across England and Wales through unprecedented times, navigating the challenges of Brexit, Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine. In 2020, she led the NFU on one of the most successful campaigns ever seen, bringing together a coalition of chefs, farmers, environmentalists consumer groups and animal welfare experts - resulting in over one million people signing the NFU food standards petition. In 2021, Minette was made a Deputy Lieutenant to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and in July 2024 she was made a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords.

Minette Batters was the first woman to be elected President of the National Farmers’ Union in 113 years. She’s represented the interests of over 46,000 farming businesses across England and Wales through unprecedented times, navigating the challenges of Brexit, Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine. In 2020, she led the NFU on one of the most successful campaigns ever seen, bringing together a coalition of chefs, farmers, environmentalists consumer groups and animal welfare experts - resulting in over one million people signing the NFU food standards petition. In 2021, Minette was made a Deputy Lieutenant to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and in July 2024 she was made a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords.

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison

Cornish Conservationist

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison

Cornish Conservationist

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison is a Cornish conservationist and veteran who founded The Thousand Year Trust, Britain's rainforest charity. The charity's mission is to catalyse the movement to triple Britain's rainforest cover to one million acres in the next thirty years. His work has been featured in National Geographic, the Guardian and on the BBC. His highly acclaimed book, Our Oaken Bones, is an honest and intimate true story about the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return.

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison is a Cornish conservationist and veteran who founded The Thousand Year Trust, Britain's rainforest charity. The charity's mission is to catalyse the movement to triple Britain's rainforest cover to one million acres in the next thirty years. His work has been featured in National Geographic, the Guardian and on the BBC. His highly acclaimed book, Our Oaken Bones, is an honest and intimate true story about the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return.

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