This episode contains two interviews. One is with Yvonne Chu and Tay Stenson of the Onandaga Earth Corps in Syracuse, New York and the other is with Bob Randall, a permaculture icon in Houston, Texas.

The OEC is a local non profit with focus is to  empower young people to engage in community service and learn life  skills. Yvonne and Tay explain projects and partners for OEC and the  benefits OEC has delivered to the community. Both Yvone and Tay  elaborate on the how OEC has changed lives for the better. The  conversation describes a variety of projects OEC has taken on in  Syracuse such as tree planting, garden building and creek restoration.  Other items touched on are the prospects of a new national Climate Corp  as well as how OEC might partcipate in the reclamation of a possible  removal of an 1 1/2 miles of elevated interstate highway in central  Syracuse.

Bob describes his work in Houston building urban food systems. He starts at home, certainly a pioneer of suburban permaculture, starting his own sub tropical food forest in the mid 1980's.  Bob describes his years with Urban Harvest, and its many projects to start gardens and farmers markets all over Houston.  Bob  has been a main teacher and facilitator for Permaculture Design Courses  in Houston. Bob is currently on the board of the Permaculture Institute  of North America.  Bob is also known for research and documentation of climate change and its effects on food  production, with focus on Southeast Texas.