The Permaculture Podcast
Caring for Earth, Ourselves, and Each Other.
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
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Avery Ellis, of Colorado Greywater, joins me to talk, in a conversation recorded live at a local coffee shop, about aquaponics, water harvesting, and his entry into the world of community politics when he joined the stakeholder process that changed the laws around how people can collect and use water in Colorado.
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Saturday Feb 10, 2018
Saturday Feb 10, 2018
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“We will not fight to save what we do not love.” Emma Huvos joins me to talk about her role as an educator who blends together her time as a classroom teacher with the forest and outdoor school models of Europe to create a hands-on, experiential, student-driven early-childhood learning experience that is Riverside Nature School.
Resources
Emma HuvosRiverside Nature SchoolNo Better Classroom Than Nature: Re-Imagining Early Childhood EducationBalanced and Barefoot by Angela HanscomBalanced and Barefoot BlogForest Kindergarten (Wikipedia)What is a Forest School? from Forest School Association
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
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Co-host David Bilbrey sits down with Jacqueline Smith, the founder of Central Grazing Company, to talk about her entry into the world of animal agriculture, after having no previous experience with farming or even family ties to a farm or the land.
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Saturday Jan 20, 2018
Saturday Jan 20, 2018
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How do we prepare for the end of life? How do we honor the dead? How do we care for the living, through our rites and rituals, after a loved one passes? Michael Judd joins me to answer these questions as he shares the very personal story of his father’s passing, and how his family went about establishing a home cemetery.
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Saturday Dec 30, 2017
Saturday Dec 30, 2017
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A highlight of the year behind, the current state of the show, and what's coming up.
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Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
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To know where we are headed, it’s important to know where we are and where we come from. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his book Strength to Love, “We are not makers of history; we are made by history.”
With that in mind, in the conversation that follows Maddy Harland provides a 25 year retrospective on permaculture as viewed through her role as the longtime editor of Permaculture Magazine, which has been encapsulated in her new book Fertile Edges.
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Sunday Dec 10, 2017
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
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As I was reminded of in a recent conversation with Emma Huvos, we protect what we love. As the ethics of permaculture call for us to care for Earth and people, then practicing permaculture can be a political act requiring activism.
In this conversation facilitated by guest host David Bilbrey, John Seed shares his work of nearly 40 years to preserve landscapes all over the world, beginning first in New South Wales, Australia to save rainforests.
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Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
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How do we limit the damage of the greatest terrestrial environmental disaster ever, climate change? By drawing down carbon.
How we do that, and the most effective ways possible, form the base of this conversation with Eric Toensmeier, as he shares his ongoing research about the impacts of agriculture and how we can use agroforestry to increase productivity and sequester carbon.
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Monday Nov 20, 2017
Monday Nov 20, 2017
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With smartphones, tablets, and other always-on, always-connected devices at our fingertips, finding a piece of information becomes easier and easier, if we have a few keywords to search for. When it comes to a subject as off the well-trod path as permaculture, how can someone find this information? As practitioners, what outlets do we have to share these ideas with our more mainstream friends or family? Of all the media available, the least expensive and most accessible are magazines.
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Friday Nov 10, 2017
Friday Nov 10, 2017
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Image: Kai Sawyer at the Peace and Permaculture Dojo. (Source:YouTube: Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour)
“The more generous we are, the more relaxed we’ll be, the more wealthy we’ll feel, and the more gifts these will cycle.” - Kai Sawyer
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