Permaculture Perspectives Podcast

Permaculture Perspectives Podcast

By Andrew FaustEducation
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Permaculture Perspectives Podcast episodes

  • Avoiding The Mistakes Of Past Civilizations
    We need to borrow from the many ingenious examples of cultures who have responded wisely to their ecological impacts, The terraces all over the Mediterranean were built to stem the tide of severe erosion from centuries of overgrazing with goats and sheep. The terraces of Turkey, Spain, and Greece are mostly a polyculture perennial food forest like we describe in permaculture as a truly sustainable agriculture. Another brilliant adaptation to limits are the terraces of the Inca and the Aymara in Peru and Bolivia.
    These systems enabled food production in landscapes where you could not grow any major food crops before creating their extensive and spectacular engineering feats of terrace systems and roads throughout an extremely rugged and barren environment. One of the most productive horticultural systems in the world was employed by the Aztec around what today is Mexico City.
    43 min
  • Anthropocene & Beyond Violence
    Learn about our positive pathways to restoring our self image and the ecological integrity of this planet. Herein I read from Erle Ellis on the Anthropocene, John Reader on the Potato and Krishnamurti on ending violence. Enjoy!
    43 min
  • Water Water Everywhere But Not a Drop To Drink
    Herein I discuss water quality and how to improve it. I read several passages from each book to give you a good sense of my thinking and information resources and share with you my understanding in the water quality work that I am passionately involved in, throughout my life as a permaculture educator.
    40 min
  • Limits are Good-Hawking was Wrong-Colonization of Space?
    Who are we? Where have we come from? Where would we like to go in the future? These are questions to contemplate and explore that I give some viewpoints on Hawking's Genius series and Neal deGrasse Tyson lectures where they touch on these questions, and offer some differing takes for you to enjoy and be buoyed up by and I hope get a laugh from!
    39 min
  • Our Toxic Legacy And The Solution- A Rossum-Green Amendment Reading-
    A Expose piece on toxic realities of the northeast reading from Green Amendment, and my home region of Chester County along with the vision for our way out. Lot's of details you will want to know to fortify your friends family and all those you love from the toxic fall out of our everyday lives.Please contribute to my efforts to create regional scale master plans and watershed models of economic development that encourage energy and Food independence
    48 min
  • Permaculture For Regional Planning
    I wanted to launch into the new year with a vision. A vision of what we would rather see in the world and how to go about doing it!
    Claiming greater local autonomy by producing more of our food locally year round full diet and more of our energy from diverse, appropriate renewable, distributed systems.
    22 min
  • Who You Calling Exotic Invasive!
    I delve into 2 readings one from Fred Pearce The New Wild an excellent exploration into the dynamic history of introduced species and the character of their behavior. I then read from Ester Boserup batting against Malthus and I offer some narratives in between to connect them all to our Permaculture solution set and viewpoint.
    55 min
  • Changing Landscapes-Pecans, Cod & Guns-
    I do readings from 3 books, the first an excerpt from Kurlansky's, Food of a Younger Nation, The Pecan by Mcwilliams and Vonnegut- Fates Worse then Death. I tie these together with themes of changing landscapes and the roots of the Permaculture Ethics. I explore the solutions that emerge from them.
    36 min

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One of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with over two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and visionary presentations and curriculum have inspired and motivated teachers and thousands of students since his days as a high school teacher at a open community free school which he graduated from in 86' in Glenmoore, PA.