Permaculture Perspectives Podcast

Here I have an excellent and timely conversation with one of the great Urban Permaculture Designers in this Country, Mark Lakeman out in Portland Oregon more about Mark:

MARK LAKEMAN, ASSOCIATE AIA – PRINCIPAL, Communitecture, Inc.

Mark Lakeman Bio: (B: 1961 – )

Mark Lakeman is the founder of the City Repair Project in Portland, Oregon and served as the Co-Director of Creative Vision from 1995 to 2008. He has also been a long time board member as well as a core member and project leader for the annual Village Building Convergence. Mark is also the founder and principal of Communitecture, Inc, a cutting edge design firm with sustainable building and planning projects at many scales. These highly popular projects include such social and ecological innovations as The ReBuilding Center, numerous ecovillage projects and infill co-housing examples, and many projects involving low income and homeless people in the development of sustainable community solutions.

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This is the third session of my Permaculture Living Lands Trust Listening Series. Here I am talking with Buzz Ferver of Perfect Circle Farm in VT. Buzz and I have worked together for more then a decade in the field of Permaculture and he is a true inspiration to me especially his work in discovering and proliferating rare and valuable Nut trees.We discuss John Hershey's trees in PA. The work of J. Russell Smith, author of Tree Crops a seminal text from 1924 on the subject, and Buzz's latest research and development of cold hardy Persimmons.

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A great conversation here with Brian Fagan professor of Archaeology at University of California in Santa Barbara, author of many of my favorite books on early civilizations and climate and environmental histories. From Cambridge to Zambia to the socio-economic ripples into neo-determinism and stalking wild animals. Here we discuss his latest book Climate Chaos and many of his works; The Long Summer, Intimate Bond , The Complete Ice Age and others. We explore a range of my other favorite authors and books related to Brian's field of work. In his words here is our: "study of humans as a multi-disciplinary enterprise, enjoy!

A lively conversation with Natalie Topa a Regenerative Permaculture Designer working internationally on a broad range of projects, providing humanitarian Permaculture design services for displaced people, in Africa, Myanmar and the Middle East. Natalie and I discuss her background in Urban Planning and Economics and how her work is aligned with much of our regional focus.We touch on Naomi Klein and policies for Solutionaries. Natalie shares apartment and city living methods for permaculture lifestyles and the need for policy change and not so much is the need to provide different services but rather to be providing services differently. We discuss Vandana Shiva, Eco-Feminism & Natural Building and the need for socio-cultural levels for change . Natalie will be guest teaching in our upcoming Permaculture Certification course

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Dale and I explore his history in Permaculture and plant propagation and latest work with us at the Permaculture Living Lands Trust. We discuss the John Hershey trees, see links below for more on those plantings. Dale gives a introduction to his explorations into biochar and combining conservation with production. We also discuss the whole native/invasive species and management approaches he recommends.

Dales site-https://greenlightplants.com/

From Dale below, to follow up on some projects we discuss herein:

Much good work to get to going forward.

2 articles on John Hershey for folks: Here is a most important piece on the Hershey trees and why they matter: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/07/07/downingtown-food-forest-urban-farming/

And this one with more photos, tree info and links to historical documents: https://www.shelterwoodforestfarm.com/blog/2018/10/17/exploring-americas-oldest-food-forest

I mentioned Austin Unruh, a few times, and his company is

Trees for Grazers -https://onpasture.com/author/crownberry/

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The first in our Permaculture Living Lands Trust Listening Series. We explore a range of ideas and subjects with a rich walk into the past with Michael Judd on his personal journey and Ahh Ha! with Permaculture. The origin of his latest project Silvoculture. I go into some of my personal connection with the Quaker meeting house in Downingtown, PA. where John Hershey lived and planted valuable fruit and nut trees. See the links below for more about Michael's work.

www.EcologiaDesign.com

www.SilvoCulture.org

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Looking over the issues of the last two years as we enter 2023; vaccines, masks, the pandemic, war in Ukraine, overturning of Roe vs. Wade and offering a long view to our evolutionary trajectory. Here I dig into some themes that have come up over the past two years of the pandemic and addressing our media mindset.

Here Adriana reads from and we discuss articles in a really cool quarterly called Noema- This edition linked here, and we start and return to the theme of this-https://www.noemamag.com/quarterly-capitalism-cant-compete-with-china/

We explore topics ranging from the Global and U.S. economies and their true costs, to a philosophy of women and children first and technology and it's role in our lives to day, Enjoy our conversation, we did! We always appreciate your responses and feedback.

In the discussion referenced on impacts of the grid- NIH data abt. power lines proximity-

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931365/

"Results:

For leukaemia, there was a slight excess of cases within 50 m of a transmission line over 200 kV (odds ratio 1.4, 95% confidence interval 0.7–2.7). There was no evidence of increased risk for distances beyond 50 m, for lower-voltage lines, or for CNS cancers."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1128834/

"This meta-analysis tends to confirm the presence of an association between exposure to magnetic fields and leukaemia among people who reside in the vicinity of high voltage transmission electric lines of > or = 49 kV. There is consistency across studies. Measures of exposure used in the studies were either distance from the lines or calculated fields estimated from pertinent line features. The results apply to adults as well as to children."

Here I go into some of my favorite ancient sites and to balance the bogus science behind a popular series called Apocalypse. The books I read from are first Gobeki Tepe by Avi Bachenheimer, next is a reading from Early Humans By Nick Ashton, and wrapping up with a reading from Brian Fagan's book The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization.

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Economy, war, ecology and human integrity.

Where and how will the change happen that must happen?

Looking at politics, nuclear legacies and applying our collective efforts where they are needed.

A correction on a number I give for how many people died in Hiroshima from the dropping of Little Boy, not 10,000 but more like 66,000.

TABLE A: Estimates of Casualties

Hiroshima Nagasaki

Pre-raid population 255,000 195,000

Dead 66,000 39,000

Injured 69,000 25,000

Total Casualties 135,000

More here- https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/med/med_chp10.html