Permaculture Perspectives Podcast

Enjoy this important discussion on technology and how it is shaping our world today. A free form conversation with Jonathan Crary, author from Columbia University, about his book Scorched Earth: Beyond The Digital Age To A Post-Capitalist World. I ask Jonathan about the inspiration for the boo, what his goals with it are, and read key passages that interested me the most. We discuss foundational thinker and influences that we share and that we wanted to introduce to one another to.

A quick sketch of some the fundamental flaws in western education and it's ideology and how to remedy them from a values viewpoint. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback on what I outline here.

I review and read excerpts from King -A Life by Jonathan Eig ,came out 2023. I focus on King's life history, his philosophy, politics and his, later in his too short life, views on war and poverty. This book is an epic homage to an epic man. Enjoy this exploration of King's life and gain inspiration for the ongoing justice work of our times!

My reflections and review of the film Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat, by director Johan Grimonperez, a powerful documentary about U.S. espionage in the Belgian Congo to secure Uranium for winning the race to build the bomb against the Nazis. This film beautifully portrays the complexity and intensity of the times and the role the jazz world played in the CIA's pursuits to hide our interests and role in murdering Patrice Lumumba to secure our control on uranium reserves discovered there by the Belgians. I also read from Adam Hochschild's essential history book King Leopold's Ghost and Susan Williams Spies In The Congo. Subscribe to to my youtube channel here-https://www.youtube.com/@andrewfaust2091 and contribute to me on Patreon here-https://www.patreon.com/c/andrewfaustpermaculture

Clea Chandmal and I discuss her journey to and with Permaculture. We discuss her innovative systems in India and her insights into Tropical Permaculture. We explore Tigers, Vashtu and the ethics of Permaculture. Clea shares stories of her time studying and talking with Bill Mollison which for me was one of the highlights of our conversation. Clea will be a instructor in our Permaculture design courses covering tropical landscapes.

This is a conversation about our personal philosophies and our lives as artists and creators in the modern age.We discuss social media, technology, consciousness, evolution, history and politics. Enjoy this rich and varied discussion of all things Permaculture and beyond! You can find our class to register here- https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/ and pick up a copy of my book here- https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/andrew-faust-books

A packed and meaningful interview here for you, some really potent permaculture history and explorations into the well known Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in Sonoma County CA. through the mind of Brock Dolman, Brocks depth of experience is unparalleled in the permaculture community , international in scope and teaching powerful PDC's three times a year from 30 years at OAEC. We discuss Bill Mollison's history with the community there, Alan Chadwicks legacy on the land, how to compose with nature rather than imposing on, and how to run good meetings in intentional communities! More about Brock and to contact hime go here- https://oaec.org/about-us/staff/brock-dolman/ https://www.regenerativedesign.org/instructors/brock-dolman

A deep exploration of Permaculture's roots with Michael Pilarski , David Harper and I Praise be to Hippies! There's more to do then just selling tomatoes at the farmers market. Hear about the first Permaculture Design certification course offered in the U.S. in the Pacific Northwest by Bill Mollison in 1982 and the cast of characters around it. Hear Michael talk about his personal history with Bill Mollison as his mentor and teacher. We discuss Permaculture Living lands Trust work and the distinction between TEK and Permaculture.Also we explore the emergence of Bioregionalism and the first PDC in Canada on the topic. Michaels work here- https://friendsofthetrees.net/ PLLT-https://www.permaculturelivinglandstrust.com/ Upcoming design courses-https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/ Youtube channel-https://www.youtube.com/@andrewfaust2091/featured -https://www.instagram.com/permacultureliving/

Enjoy this interview with a pioneer of Tree cultivation Ken Asmus of Oikos trees. We discuss the founding of his nursery and future vision. https://www.permaculturelivinglandstrust.com/ https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/

Larry and Adriana and I explore Larrys early years cavorting with Uncle Bill and their friendship and animosities, also Larrys work with Scott Pittman and we discuss permaculture curriculum innovations that we have both explored over the years. https://www.earthflow.com/ https://www.permacultureacademy.com/

Listen and learn from Lisa Fernanades here as we explore her journey to Permaculture , how to strategize our emerging cultural nodes of growth. Lisa offers some very useful languaging like; Humans embedded in the ecosystems they depend upon and encourages us to think more of well being contrasted to what is oft referred to as "wealth". More about Lisa here-https://about.me/lisa.m.fernandes Links in order of their mention: https://www.spiritinaction.net/about-us/our-approach/ https://www.democracyatwork.info/about_co_ops https://nefoodsystemplanners.org/#vision https://adriennemareebrown.net/podcasts/ https://www.agrowingculture.org/ https://grist.org/

This is an interview with Megan Offner a graduate of our Permaculture Design Certification program and collaborator in the region Megan started New York heartwoods- https://www.newyorkheartwoods.com/ .Enjoy our candid conversation and please pardon some of the background road noise due to our street side cafe setting.

Jared Woodcock is a multi talented genuine spirit who I had the pleasure of interviewing here focusing on agroforestry, Nut trees horse logging and more . I had heard about Jared's work from people in the Regenerative farming community who I respect and wanted to know more, so here you have a romp through life philosophies, history, and many projects and people in the region involved in this work, enjoy!

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. Find us here- www.permaculturenewyork.com https://www.instagram.com/permacultureliving/ https://www.facebook.com/permaculturenewyork

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. https://www.perfectcircle.farm/ https://www.instagram.com/permacultureliving/ https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/

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 More about Natalies work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-topa-91b28126/ https://www.youtube.com/@natalietopa6118

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/ https://treesforgraziers.com/

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 For Permaculture Living Lands Trust contact us here- https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/lands-trust

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. www.permaculturenewyork.com https://www.facebook.com/andrewfaust

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

Readings and thoughts on the main premise of these books and a review of them. I highlight how these all converge into a permaculture understanding of the world and where our work is best applied.

Market driven Permaculture is droll and meaningless what we need are regional scale permaculture solutions to the broken industrial nightmare we live in. Sadly many people in Permaculture act as if it is our task to show the technocrats that they can make money with permaculture methods, it is not nor has it ever been a worthwhile endeavor what we need are comprehensive master plans that make the present food system obsolete.

Responding to Russia's invasion of the Ukraine and looking at the history of propaganda in Nazi Germany and through history. The history of sewage sludge in the U.S. landscape and designing resilient local renewable energy systems to address waste issues and oil dependence.

The Nuclear Power infrastructure in the U.S. has sacrificed future generations and has destroyed our nations economy. The only intelligent decision is to expunge all considerations of this monstrous technology and decommission all Nuclear power plants and clear our minds of this nightmare and clean up our communities. Save the planet and the people from a morally and ethically toxic phenomenon created by our species.

This is a highly in-depth interview with one of the most revered historians in our region Evan Pritchard in our first segment we discuss the Munsee tribe and their names for our streams here, the Kahaksink is the Rondout and Ankerops the Vernooy and more, you will hear about in our first discussion, in a series of interviews with Evan I am releasing.

Herein you will find a clear and concise outline of what our national priorities must be to achieve true resilience and to truly deal with the roots of our ongoing crisis of Climate Change and Ecological destruction.

Hear about a year long apprenticeship with the Center For Bioregional Living with Ben our most recent apprentice, handing off the keys to those who study with us!

Some of my personal life philosophy in this broadcast. Why work for works sake is not needed, how do we find meaning and the utter meaninglessness of identifying with your position on vaccinations, organic food, veganism or the sexual politics of meat .

Here I share the history of how Colonialism laid the foundation for industrialization and unprecedented human exploitation of one another and the planet. I read sections from each of these books shown and how the theme of history reveals the patterns of our demise and of our healing solutions.

Permaculture Perspectives on Cars and Computers. Why neither are important parts of our lives.

A candid interview with Greg Peterson of Urban Farm.org a old school Permie, kick'in it out in Phoenix AZ for more the 30 years professionally batting for the Earth, don't miss us talking shop about making a living teaching and creating Permaculture and Urban gardening!

Here I am explaining the history of specialization and exploitation in the western world starting with it's roots in the economic model of today. This is a synopsis of a great deal of research i have been doing that I am sure you will find valuable and insightful.Thanks for listening!

This podcast is about taking the power back from the hoarders and exploiters of the twentieth century.I read from four different books, to give a sense of perspective and directions for positive growth. This is why we need a decentralized means of production for food first and energy and transportation too.

If many of our locally consumed potatoes, onions, squash and beans came from this amazingly rich and fertile field, where those solar panels are going off 209 across from walmart , we would not be letting it happen, it would not have even been considered. This is the fundamental issue I want to put together a master plan for our watershed and our communities, to be more food independent and more energy independent. This dovetails beautifully when the goals of greater local food autonomy year round full diet food production goal with a integrated and thoughtfully designed renewable energy system, are combined, when kept separate, we sacrifice food growing for energy. This is because of our industrialized import/export model of land use and economic growth. We need a new model of growth that focuses on greater local/regional food and energy security, integrated in a plan for resilient long term investments in a sustainable infrastructure for our region.

I go into some toxic legacy information and why I teach and how Upattinas, in Glenmoore,PA. , influenced my educational philosophy. This was a K-12 school that I both graduated from, and then taught at, for a decade and created my trademark ecological literacy curriculum there. I read a dissertation on educational philosophy I wrote in 1998. Please listen and enjoy!

The worst actor on the global is stage is and has been the United States for the past 70 years we have held the world hostage at gun point with a toxic nuclear bullet to their head. It is racist propaganda to call China anything other then our brother and sister in this struggle on earth to bring the U.S. military under control.

In this podcast I go into why we need a better social ethic for technology in this country and greater literacy in toxicology to navigate these issues around which ones shall we invite into our world and how and why and which ones shall we eschew and avoid. I also get into why attitude is not what causes cancer or is causing BIPOC people to die from COVID in greater numbers then the privileged white population.

We need to create a future that includes all of the people all of the time not just some of the people some of the time.The Landscapes of permaculture are a pathway to true egalitarian living.

This whole society is substantially, morally and ethically broken and has been for a long time after the utter injustice of colonialism and ethnic genocide against American Indians and a nation built on slavery and exploitation we added industrialization and contamination of our own people. We die at the hands of the police and the military every day and have a sick industrial prison complex full of our ethnic people due to the white supremacists in charge of our government and our economy. Permaculture has the tools to change this inequity and here I outline some of what they are, for those who care to learn.

So much to share and so little time on this Earth! Squandering our window with Nuclear legacies is a travesty and must be stopped. We have to grasp that ethical evolution is essential for the quality of life of future generations. Enjoy these readings on longer cycles of human evolution.

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.

A Permaculture and historical view point on the Coronavirus and food security for the long term and near term.

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!

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.

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!

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

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.

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.