Regenerative Revolution Podcast

By Jennings Ingram

Welcome to the experimental learning vehicle of the Regenerative Revolution Podcast! Exploring all the juicy, fascinating facets of the earth regeneration movement, such as food forestry, mycology, an... more

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March 31, 2022Stress Management, Ram Dass's Teachings & Nature Mysticism with Jon Vasu Seskevitch
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Recorded on Ram Dass’s lanai here on Maui, in this unique episode we deep dive into the crucial skills of stress management that are so needed to be active agents of regenerative change in this global moment. We’re exploring how to work with our nervous systems with one of the best possible guests to teach us about this, Jon Vasu Seskevitch, who has taught over forty thousand hospital patients with complex & challenging health conditions stress management & self relaxation in their hospital rooms. (Vasu is the name Ram Dass gave Jon, and it means that part of god that gives himself to others.) Ram Dass’s teachings are a big part of John’s lifelong journey with mind-body medicine, and we explore those as well as several immediately actionable, research-backed techniques such as mantra meditation for stress management.
Show Notes:
Change, good or bad means stress. We explore the science of stress & how it physically affects the body. The biggest stress is waiting and not knowing

Ram Dass’s basic teachings & how that helped teach mind-body medicine: Be Here Now with loving awareness
TECHNIQUES:
Mantra meditation: Take a short, positive thought, and think those words intentionally over & over. This allows your body to calm and give energy to managing stress. “Mantra” literally means something that protects the mind, and 15 minutes per day is all that’s needed to see the benefits. A crucial piece of this is WHEN you notice other thoughts come up, kindly and gently let go of that thought and return to the mantra

Soft belly breathing: Put your hand on your stomach and aim your breath towards it. The result is stress goes down and control goes up.

How to relax: Feel the chair or bed holding you, which allows a softening & relaxing all through the body.

MIndfulness meditation: pick a primary concentration, such as breath, sound or physical sensation
Importance of practicing regularly so it’s established for you to lean on in times of stress

Nature mysticism: working with our operating systems & the living systems of the Earth as two essential halves
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54min
March 16, 2022Seaforestation & Marine Permaculture with Dr. Brian Von Herzen of Climate Foundation
Ocean regeneration is a rapidly emerging & fascinating area of the regenerative revolution, and in this episode we explore the challenge and the opportunity being taken on by the Climate Foundation, led by Dr. Brian Van Herzen. Together with an international team of scientists, engineers, technicians, social scientists & seaweed farmers, Dr. Van Herzen and his team are working to regenerate thousands of kilometers of lost kelp forest, protect coral reefs, and provide food security for millions of people. Their simple, thoughtfully designed approach involves floating marine permaculture arrays consisting of seaweed/kelp scaffolding and a wave driven or marine solar pump to re-start the natural upwelling that’s been disrupted due to heating of the oceans. This is a fascinating and hopeful discussion highlighting a rapidly growing movement and sustainable industry! We learned a ton and know you will too.
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Resource recommendation: Paul Hawken’s Regeneration “The world’s largest, most complete listing and network of solutions to the climate crisis. And how to do them!”
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Show notes:

What the current situation in the ocean is & why it needs to be regenerated: Over 90% of global warming has gone into the oceans, which has led to the top layer of ocean water heating up. This prevents natural upwelling, which was one of the major causes of the Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago. By restoring natural upwelling, we make it so kelp, seaweed forests, and coral reefs can stay alive.

Bill Mollison’s inspiration for permaculture originally came from observing kelp forests off the coast of Tasmania in the 60s!

Applying permaculture principles to the sea - look out for upcoming article with David Holmgren on permaculture design for the ocean.

Moving from extraction to regeneration while providing food security for billions of people, by creating enviornmentally and economically sustainable industry

How marine permaculture arrays are constructed and how they function: seaweed scaffolding & wave driven/marine solar pumps/depth adjustment

Addressing scale: How much of this needs to happen how quickly? Covering just 1% of the ocean would create a climate wedge.

How kelp functions for carbon sequestration

How these systems help coral reef regeneration & give tools to address thermally induced coral bleaching

How to get involved
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51min
December 16, 2021 Earth Magic, Plant Communication & Sisterhood with Autumn Brianne
In this final episode of 2021, we sit down with the amazing Autumn Brianne to talk all things earth magic, plant communication, space holding, sisterhood, and the deep meaning in using our feminine bodies to care for the ultimate feminine body: Earth!
Autumn & I are both so blessed to be able to support and be supported by networks of women at this moment in time, and I really want to honor the femininity, collectivism and symbiotic people care that this embodies with an episode devoted to it!
This is an intimate, girly conversation with a talented, dear friend of mine as she and I are both still really living and loving formative parts of our life journeys, and i hope as you listen to it you feel like youre here with us on this lush island, immersed in plant magic, feeling safe, inspired and witchy!
Get in touch with Autumn: Autumnbrianne.com or IG @autumnbrianne
Resources:
Witch by Lisa Lister
Witch in the Kitchen by Cait Johnson
Priestess of the Forest re: Druidism/Celtic mysticism
Katie Hess flower essences: Lotus Wei/ The Flower Room podcast
Masaru emoto water research
The Chalice & the Blade by Rianne Eisler
Braiding Sweetgrass & Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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1h 2min
November 18, 2021Exploring Fungi, Mycoremediation & Applied Ecology with Leif Olson
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Listen to Leif’s podcast, Applied Mycology: Discussions on the various ways that fungi influence ecology and human culture and how they can be leveraged to address challenges of the modern world. Topics include mushroom cultivation, soil health, bioremediation, medicinal mushrooms and more.
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In this creative exploration of applied ecology, fungi, and mycoremediation, Environmental scientist & educator (and good friend!) Leif Olson takes us on a journey of understanding fungi, how they function in the environment, mycoremediation and the importance of diversity and holism in approaching challenges of environmental degradation. He also gives us simple, actionable steps for how we can all bolster the health of the environment where we live! The first part of the episode builds out our knowledge and framework for understanding why the actionable steps at the end will work, and at 48:00 is where he gives us specific steps to bolster our local environments, so if you’re just looking for that, skip there!
Recommendations for further study from Leif:
Soil food web: The work of Elaine Ingham https://www.soilfoodweb.com

Fungi: Radical Mycology by Peter McCoy https://www.radicalmycology.com

Land management at scale: Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard https://bookstore.acresusa.com/products/restoration-agriculture
Show notes
How fungi work in the environment: they’re unique because they can digest their surroundings! They’re a crucial part of cycling organic material and helping plants acquire nutrients

Fungi & Mycorrhizae as the multiple internets of the soil (not a single internet!). They’re sometimes collaborating, sometimes competing - what they’re working towards overall is nutrients to be acquired out of the soil, as well as soil to be built.

The fungi we have inside us: Yeasts!

Endophytes: fungi that live inside plants and assist them with various processes, examples and explanation of endophytes doing their thing

Mycoremediation: facilitating a compled chain of reactions, and a diversity of fungi & bacteria help tackle challenging & complex contaminants. Doing this work in the “real world” is very site specific, and differs greatly from reality of laboratory testing

The importance of holism/a holistic approach in bioremediation: not constraining out thinking a a single methodology or kingdom of life. These are complex systems with many variables, and the phyto-, myco-, and bacterial parts are all important for approaching environmental degradation.
48:00 Practical things everyone can do to boost their ecology where they live
Covering the soil! Barren soil dries out a lot faster, and microorganisms can’t perform their functions when dry. Naked soil gets oxidized, meaning the nutrients get burned up and released as gas (!). Then, when bare soil is rained on, the water compacts the soil and basically crushes the passageways/cavities microorganisms would live in and/or plant roots would grow in. Mulch to create a hospitable environment for soil microorganisms!
2. Dialing in the type of mulch: woody plant material or leaves that’s aged naturally colonizes with the fungi that’s around the environment or in it. Keeping tabs on the organic matter on your site is important! Seeing organic matter as future soil and treating it like the resource it is. 3. is remineralizing soil but I ran out of space to put the steps!
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1h 18min
November 03, 2021Reclaiming & Unleashing Ahupua'a Economics via Technology with Exchange Ave
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In this episode we sit down with John Kealoha Garcia, Executive advisor to the Nation of Hawaii and founder and CEO of the Ahupua’a inspired barter and trade app Exchange Ave. We explore what an ahupua’a system is, and how the Native Hawaiian people lived in this highly efficient, organized, brilliant, earth-honoring system based on communal land care from mountain to ocean. We dive into John’s merging of his technical background and Hawaiian heritage in this way that strengthens community resource sharing without any fiat currency involved, building bridges both on and off the app. We go into the deep hope found in this merging of ancient and modern technologies, how it works, and how everyone can help reclaim direct peer to peer connection with barter and trade economics by joining the app or using Exchange Engine.
Thank you so much John for coming on as a guest, and I hope everyone checks out Exchange Ave!

Show notes:
Overview of what was/is the Ahupua’a system: The Native Hawaiian people lived in a highly organized, self sufficient, subsistent social system that was based on communal land tenure and had a unique language, culture & religion. This was a closed loop system that ran from mountain to ocean, and was fueled by barter and trade.

The vision and function of the app is to reinvigorate resource sharing through technology, via the creation of this “digital ahupua’a” which functions on barter and trade mechanics - no fiat currencies involved.

Focuses on what skills and resources each person brings to the table beyond money, and also functions to build bridges and connections beyond the app.

John bringing his technological background and Hawaiian heritage together in this way helped him to reconnect with his culture and to connect others. Some unique items on the app right now include fresh grated coconut milk and the ability to trade horseback lessons for kalo huli and other plants!

Circumventing modern monetary/real estate barriers to connection this way

How the app works: Exchange ave for individuals & Exchange Engine for other indigenous communities

The hope found in this merging of the ancient and the new and acknowledging the sophistication of the Hawaiian people, while unleashing it and allowing people to adopt and co-create with it.

Guidance & life advice from John: trusting your na’au (gut) & being with the aina, and to eat something from the aina every day.

Importance of and moment for vision holding for stream restoration and making sure the water flows from mountain to ocean

Knowledge exchange as an important part of the evolution of the community of the app
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35min
August 10, 2021Paradigm Shifting Reforestation with Tree Jenny of Community Carbon Trees
Jenny Smith, a.k.a. Tree Jenny, is an environmental lawyer turned founder of Community Carbon Trees Costa Rica, a nonprofit & scalable model where they have planted over half a million trees while providing living wage jobs to Costa Rican men and women. Reforestation approached this way lifts people out of poverty , empowering Costa Rican land owners to make money off reforestation and tree product cooperatives AND giving companies the ability to offset their carbon footprint by sponsoring tree planting. Community Carbon Trees is over halfway to their goal of a million trees, and this deep dive with founder Jenny is uplifting and inspiring! Jenny and this work is also the subject of the documentary One Precious Life.
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Show notes:
About community carbon trees: Creates sustainable jobs paying living wages, planting and reforesting degraded land for local Costa Rican land owners, transitioning it to food/productive forest (the land owners choose their species), and funded by companies sponsoring trees to offset their carbon footprint.

Educational, collaborative, hand-holding vibe with land owners allows for the addressing poverty as the reason for deforestation, and fixing it by creating jobs

Proper financial management & transparenty as an essencial part of an ethical nonprofit

Being a scalable model as a major part of CCT: resources they have available include manuals of communication trees and consulting remotely or online to mentor/help other small tree planting groups

Jenny’s journey from working as a lawyer to direct action with reforestation and CCT

Constellations of signs, dreams, signals and resonance as ways our destiny calls us! It hurts more ot not get up and do the work and show up for the thing that futhers us than to do the work.

Things open for us with persistence and bravery - trust that slow growth and continuing on will grow for us in the way trees grow and fruit

Inexhaustible faith and early environmental awakenings

Jenny’s recommendations for remaining positive and activated in 2021: meditation and kundalini yoga
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1h 6min
July 15, 2021Gardening as Experiential Spirituality with Manju Kumar
Manju Kumar is the co-founder of Sarvodaya Institute, president of Brush with Bamboo (the first ever bamboo toothbrush company), mother of @farmerrishi, and advocate for Earth & all beings on this planet. In this episode, we dive into the massive empowerment available to us in growing our own food, as well as exploring Manju’s journey and perspective on connecting with the force of what some call “God” through nature. “I’ve learned more about spirituality in the garden than I have through a church or a text. It’s like actual experiential spirituality.” This is a joyful, lively conversation and I know everyone will love it and learn a lot! (I did!)
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In this episode, we dive into:
How Manju came to understand Earth as an extension and reflection of ourselves - her epiphany moment realizing we’re all rising from the planet and falling back in.

How we got to this point in society -

In working with the land, we learn that giving is the key - we live in a circular system, and the possibility for regeneration is always there. We have to give back, take care & create a loving relationship with Earth. Doing this dissolves illusions of lack & leads to abundance

Disrupting the circular flow means problems. Giving and letting the system give back to you means healing and feeling good.

The empowerment available to us in growing our own food: fabulous joy, connection, and nourishment. Breaking up with the grocery store and feeling good!

Manju’s journey and perspective on connecting with the force of what some call “God” through nature. She learned about upheavals and learning to flow with the cycles of energy as expressed in seasons and days.

Gardening as a way to understand we can literally grow our dreams

Plants communicating with us via us sensing their needs

Her journey getting into urban food forestry and teaching as a family, through her son Rishi studying with Vandana Shiva and wanting to teach those methods. Together, they created an urban farming center at their house to be able to teach how to do it!

Failures as an important teacher: be resilient, don’t take it personally, and stretch yourself even more!

Building a role for herself in an often male-dominated movement: She didn’t look at it that way, just followed her passions and did it for herself. And in the process of helping herself, many others got helped!

Life lesson: focus on what grows, teaches and fulfills us. By doing this everything falls intp place & we end up touching many people’s lives!

Invite for in-person monthly potlucks and gardening days for people in the LA area: for this, connect with Manju on instagram at @zerowastefarmer
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49min
June 30, 2021Solutions-Based Storytelling with Rob Herring
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Rob Herring has carved out a unique niche for himself in the regenerative movement as a documentary filmmaker, storyteller, and musical activist. Best known for his film The Need to Grow, in this episode we learn about Rob’s mycelial path to where he is now, with lots of ecological parallels & helpful resources sprinkled throughout. We cover many insights for creatives looking to find their path in the Earth-centered movement, as well a list of resources for farmers looking to transition away from chemical farming. This was such a fun episode to record and I know everyone will learn a lot!
Show notes:
How Rob saw the need for transtioning away from doom & gloom type activism around GMOs & glyphosate, and decided to do it through solutions-based storytelling showing a diverse set of hopeful options in a documentary, The Need to Grow

Rob’s creative leap into activism by writing songs about GMOs & other environmental issues, which went over well & people started connecting with him and bringing him opportunities.

Through the journey to make the documentary, he learned how important soil is and that working with soil needed to be the focus of their work. It’s about restoring the carbon cycle through healthy microbial life and plant roots - getting away from extractive farming & helping heal the literal foundation of all life on earth.

Overcoming the fear of sharing our creative work for the greater good - it allows us to spark passion and action in other people & remind them of the importance of their work.

The importance of community to not feel like a weirdo - becoming mycelial as you connect through the curiosity to learn and help the planet.

From Larry Santoyo & the Permaculture Academy of LA The concept of highest generalization: leading to positive change

Bringing people together & catalyzing them by focusing on positive solutions that feel good and are inviting to do.

How human health & planet health are the same conversations - the pollutants & healing solutions are the same. We are nature - it is not a metaphor!

The Biggest Little Farm documentary as an example of accelerated regeneration by focusing on soil health.

Yellowstone ecosystem transformation by reintroducing wolves: How Wolves change rivers

Resources for farmers for moving away from using chemicals:
Kiss the Ground https://kisstheground.com
Farmer’s Footprint https://farmersfootprint.us
Replant Capital https://www.replantcapital.com
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1h 1min
June 01, 2021Reclaiming Our Consciousness & Ecological Literacy with William Padilla Brown
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Show notes:
William’s self-created lifestyle as a citizen scientist, permaculturist and professional nerd

William’s journey with self-education & deciding to value and pursue what he was interested in over the prescribed academic curriculum, as well as advice for people looking to self-educate

Insect farming & working with styrofoam eating mealworms - this as a way to start creating a new language of remediation & organic depolymerization for the next generation

Mushrooms as the hooked-on-phonics of ecological literacy: a way into the conversation with nature

His recommendations for people developing their ecological literacy - learning their morphological patterns showing themselves differently in different areas of the planet

The role of the divine feminine as the creative life force energy in higher evolution, and the suppression and commodification of the feminine as a source of the sickness of society

Psychedelics as a tool for reclaiming his consciousness from cultural conditioning and destructive patterns, and as a way to draw our minds back to the present moment- Instead of ego death/loss of identity, the shedding of the false character sold to him via growing up in modern society - found his multidimensional true identity on the other side

Bringing into existence what we see ought to exist around us - asking the question, why isn’t someone doing this already? “It didn’t exist, so I did ALL of it.”

Seeing things that are descructive that if we don’t do something about it, it will take generations to repair. Recognizing the fact that we see it means we’re supposed to do something about it!

Cryptocurrency & decentralized currency in the regenerative movement - a vital example of decentralized systems. Decentralized systems teachers William learned from:

1. Charles Eisenstein , 2. Paul Glover, 3 & 4. Scott Kellogg & Stacy Pettigrew

How extractive & destructive it is to value people’s time by the hour, and how it warps our self-worth and value systems

Recommendations for people to build resilience: in community and in our families, setting an example with building family health

Family as inspiration and ability to stay in a hopeful, high vibration
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59min
April 23, 2021Plant Medicine, Science & Spirituality with Bryen Lehto of Biotemple Hawaii
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Show Notes
All about Biotemple Hawaii: A combination of spirituality, art, science, and lab work

Opening our minds to allow us to heal so that we can help the planet, which psychedelics help us with

The possibility that these same compounds that are there to incite creativity in plants, allowing them to create new possibilities for thriving in their environment, are there to help us do the same thing

Proven health benefits of psychedelics such as neuroplasticity

Some of our personal experiences with microdosing, overcoming stuck thinking, and overcoming depression with the use of psychedelics

The law of intelligent nonconformity and plants using quantum effects to overcome entropy

Biotemple and other alternative, empowering models growing up out of the decomposition of outdated systems

Worldwide mushroom consciousness developed over 7-10 million years

Psychic connection to plants

Metamorphic thinking & becoming a society of alchemists

How to connect with plants no matter where in the world you are

If a plant shows up in a neighborhood, it’s for the needs of someone there - it’s the intelligent consciousness of nature communicating with us

Approaching plants in the right mindset, with gentleness & reverence for the sacrifice plants give us

Foraged & homegrown foods and herbs ad a meaningful point of connection & entry into the plant world

Making medicine out of invasive species: a medicinally relevant and abundant resource

How Biotemple teaches people to make an affordable, accessible DIY medicinal plant lab & understand the chemistry to create extraction strategies based on what compounds are in the plant, plus spiritual connection

Bryen’s story of rural upbringing & how he got onto the path of working with plants

Resonance as explained through my story with rosemary and how hawaiian medicine people used it to find plants to heal people

Books Bryen recommends: On Growth & Form by D'Arcy Thompson and Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Stephen Buehner

How to sign up for classes at Biotemple Hawaii!
Resources for the safe use of psychedelics:
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies https://maps.org
Psychedelic peer support line https://firesideproject.org call or text 623-473-7433
https://zendoproject.org/resources/
https://michaelpollan.com/resources/psychedelics-resources/
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1h 3min

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