Jason and Roxanne (@happyholistichs ) speak with Andrew Millison (@andrewmillison ), who runs the permaculture design course for Oregon State, and who produces a serious of remarkable educational videos on permaculture concepts and on projects all over the world. They talk about the importance of water in landscapes, his journey towards permaculture and education, how he sees the permaculture movement growing, applying permaculture in different cultural contexts, the lost opportunity of designing U.S. political borders around watersheds and bioregions, the economics of permaculture, motivating people to grow food, creative arrangements to enable broad scale land access, cutting edge ideas and projects for Andrew, how to address with the ecological problems in the California food system and the rising prevalence of wildfires, and his recent video documenting the work of Planting Justice

Andrew currently teaches the for-credit courses Permaculture Design Course (Hort 285) and the Advanced Permaculture Design Tools for Climate Resilience (Hort 485) at OSU, on campus and online.

Andrew teaches non-credit courses for the general public as well, including the:

Andrew also has produced two open source textbooks for his courses that are freely available:

Finally, Andrews excellent Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@amillison

In this episode Jason speaks with Scott Miller (@thrivingtthefut) about his podcast and newsletter Thriving the Future, building up his homestead, growing community, holding skills workshops, starting a tree nursery side hustle, and more

Scott lives on 10 acres in NE Kansas with gardens, (relatively) new food forests, and a tree nursery.

Thriving The Future Podcast focuses on positive solutions to help you Thrive. Including Designing your Intentional life, Homesteading, Gardening, Building Community, and Skills (#SkillsOverStuff).

Check it out at http://ThrivingtheFuture.com and the newsletter/blog at Thriver.News.

Nathaniel Marshall sits down to chat with Going Godward on vocation, the good purpose of work, and rejecting ease as a means of becoming a more integrated person. Explore meaning, work ethic, and optimism in this warm and enlightening episode

Nathaniel Marshall:

Twitter handle: @‌oblatenate

Editor: thebluescholar.substack.com, @‌bluescholarwork

Going Godward:

Twitter handle: @‌goinggodward

Tres and Sim interview Zach Loeks, and talk about the problems and opportunities around growing food in sub/urban spaces. Zach debunks many of the myths around maintaining food production in urban landscapes, and we dig into the secrets of lesser-known city fruits.

Zach is an educator, author, artist, and farmer based in Canada.

Zach Loeks (@zachloeks) - https://www.zachloeks.com/

Tres Crow (@dogeatcrow) - https://www.greenboxus.com/

Sim Gooder (@slimgoober) - https://permapeople.org/

In this episode Jason speaks with Steven Stoll, the author of the excellent book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia, about the history of land dispossession in Appalachia and the rise of industrial capitalism, manufactured dependency on wage labor due to land degradation or dispossession, The Whisky Rebellion, absentee land ownership and the initial squatters rights movement, coal towns and the how household gardens often served the interests of coal companies, a comparison of the experience of indigenous populations and early white settlers in losing access to land, his modern-day proposal for The Commons Communities Act and land reform more broadly, the potential of community land trusts, the broader international context e.g., modern-day land dispossession in Africa, and much more

Donald and Joey talk to writer Jordan Castro about his new novel, the history of the Alt Lit literary movement, punk rock, and the Midwest.

Jordan bio:

Jordan Casto is the author of The Novelist (Soft Skull, 2022) and two poetry books. He is from Cleveland, Ohio.

Donald and Joey talk to writer Jordan Castro about his new novel, the history of the Alt Lit literary movement, punk rock, and the Midwest.

Jordan bio:

Jordan Casto is the author of The Novelist (Soft Skull, 2022) and two poetry books. He is from Cleveland, Ohio.

Brian Fink chats with Going Godward, offering a unique

The Weird Wild Wonderful World of Biochar – with Tom Miles, Kelpie Wilson, Myles Gray, and Josh

What is biochar and why should we care about it? A roundtable discussion with veterans of the biochar world.

Tom Miles –  TR Miles Consultants (ag and bioenergy) and US Biochar Initiative

Kelpie Wilson – Wilson Biochar

Myles Gray – US Biochar Initiative

Josh Kearns – A Field Guide to Biochar Water Treatment

Interest in biochar – “charcoal, with a purpose” – has been growing for 20 years. Biochar can enhance garden and agricultural soils and improve crop yields, provide a mechanism for drawdown and sequestering of atmospheric carbon, and provide a tunable engineered sorbent for a variety of water treatment and environmental remediation applications.

In this conversation, we discuss contemporary innovations and developments for using biochar to tackle a variety of sustainability challenges.

2024 North American Biochar Conference

February 12-14, 2024

Sacramento, CA

In this episode, Ashley and Jason talk with Michel Bauwens about his work developing ideas for a ‘cosmo-local’ society through the power of horizontal P2P networks, a reimagining of the commons, and crypto. Along the way they talk about ascending and descending civilizations, why he thinks we’re in a descending one, and what that potentiates in terms of reinvigorating local societies and provisioning systems through the power of superlinear collaboration networks

Michel’s work can be found here:

https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Civilizational_Analysis