In the lead up to our collective entrance into what we suggest could be termed ‘The Regenerative Decade’, we open a new series of talks about regeneration, climate restoration, ecology, connecting with nature, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, resilience – and solutions.

Welcome to the regenerative journey!

Our first guest in this new series of ‘Regenerative Hours’ is Mark Dekker for a talk about deep adaptation, and what this expression really means. 

We also listen to two youtube-videos, ‘How to create an abundant economy’ narrated by Charles Eisenstein and produced by Sustainable Human, the video ‘Because the Future is Organic’ by the Rodale Institute, and Dr Rupert Read‘s ‘The Uncertain Situation We Are In | Extinction Rebellion’. You can see the videos below.

For the Australians: Before you let your garden overgrow as the Danish professor, check with your local fire brigades, and watch out before you have a clean up of “snake infested” area. Remember fire controls could be in place.

“We are all in this together.”~ Mark Dekker, permaculturalist

Servants of life: Finding the people who care

Mark’s remark on climate solutions and deep adaptation“We need to do with less,” says Mark. “And that is where we can all make those individual decisions to do with less. There is no substitute for that. We can also sequester carbon. There are ways and means to do that, but it is going to take a global effort – whether that is sequestering carbon with the use of rock minerals, no till, and biochar in our vegetable systems, properly grazed livestock through holistic management strategies, implemented through the likes of sustainable livestock management, who were inspired by Alan Savery’s work at the Savery Institute – they are sequestering carbon on the grasslands. And the world is covered in grassland and savanahs. That is going to take a war effort, but from that we can sequester six gigatonnes a year.

And that’s even getting to the point of [putting] ten per cent of carbon in the soil. It has just got to stay there. And with no till systems it will stay there. If you have got that healthy ten per cent carbon in the soil, with your rock minerals and biochar and no tilling, it is a no brainer – but is going to take a war effort. For example, on the topic of ‘a war effort’, we could see GM and Ford building electric cars and e-bicycles. We have seen this before in the Second World War: The whole of America’s industrial complex was turned upside down and created a war machine. So instead of creating that, how about we create some life?

We can do it. I have great faith in humanity, and there are a lot of good people, even in politics,