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Cooper Freeman works to protect Alaska's wildlife, lands and oceans. Before joining the Center for Biological Diversity, he worked with Alaskan Native Tribes and Tribal organizations as a strategic planning facilitator and policy advisor, was program manager and development director at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center in Northern California, and professionally guided class V […] Read full article: Episode 144 | Fighting Back: Alaska's Stand Against Trump's Environmental Blitzkrieg

In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is on it. In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature. This is an episode of Nature's Genius, a Bioneers podcast series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems. Visit the series page to learn more. Featuring Kate Lundquist, co-director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center's WATER Institute and the Bring Back the Beaver Campaign in Sonoma County, is a conservationist, educator and ecological artist who works with landowners, communities and resource agencies to uncover obstacles, identify strategic solutions, and generate restoration recommendations to assure healthy watersheds, water security, listed species recovery and climate change resiliency. Brock Dolman, co-founded (in 1994) the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center where he co-directs the WATER Institute. A wildlife biologist and watershed ecologist, he has been actively promoting “Bringing Back Beaver in California” since the early 2000s. He was given the Salmonid Restoration Federation's coveted Golden Pipe Award in 2012: “…for his leading role as a proponent of “working with beavers” to restore native habitat. Resources Beaver Believer: How Massive Rodents Could Restore Landscapes and Ecosystems At Scale Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change Brock Dolman – Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme The WATER Institute's Beaver in California reader Bioneers – Where Water, Flows Life Thrives - Ensuring Drought Resilience and Water Security for Farms, People and Ecosystems Credits Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Written by: Kenny Ausubel Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris Producer: Teo Grossman Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey Production Assistance: Monica Lopez Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

Nature's Genius is a Bioneers podcast series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems. For all the talk about the Age of Information, what we're really entering is the Age of Nature. As we face the reality that, as humans, we have the capacity to destroy the conditions conducive to life, avoiding this fate requires a radical change in our relationship to nature, and how we view it. Looking to nature to heal nature, and ourselves, is essential.  Traditional Indigenous wisdom and modern science show us that everything is connected and that the solutions we need are present in the sentient symphony of life. We can learn from the time-tested principles, processes, and dynamics that have allowed living systems to flourish during 3.8 billion years of evolution.  In this enlightening series, we visit with scientists, ecologists, Indigenous practitioners of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, community organizers, and authors reporting from the frontlines of ecological restoration. They explore the intelligence inherent in nature and show us how to model human organization on living systems. Guests featured in the series include: Jeannette Armstrong - Co-Founder, Enwokin Centre; Brock Dolman - Co-Founder and Program Director, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center; Erica Gies - Author and Journalist; Brett KenCairn - Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions; Toby Kiers - Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Co-Founder of SPUN; Kate Lundquist - Water Institute Co-Director, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center; Samira Malone - Urban Forestry Program Manager, Urban Sustainability Directors Network; Teresa Ryan - Teaching and Learning Fellow, Forest and Conservation Sciences Dept., Univ. of British Columbia; Merlin Sheldrake - Biologist and Author; Suzanne Simard - Author and Prof. of Forest Ecology, Univ. of British Columbia; Rowen White - Seedkeeper/Farmer and Author from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Written by Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel Produced by Cathy Edwards Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris Producer: Teo Grossman Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey Post Production Assistants: Monica Lopez and Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is on it. In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature. Featuring Kate Lundquist, co-director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center's WATER Institute and the Bring Back the Beaver Campaign in Sonoma County, is a conservationist, educator and ecological artist who works with landowners, communities and resource agencies to uncover obstacles, identify strategic solutions, and generate restoration recommendations to assure healthy watersheds, water security, listed species recovery and climate change resiliency. Brock Dolman, co-founded (in 1994) the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center where he co-directs the WATER Institute. A wildlife biologist and watershed ecologist, he has been actively promoting “Bringing Back Beaver in California” since the early 2000s. He was given the Salmonid Restoration Federation's coveted Golden Pipe Award in 2012: “…for his leading role as a proponent of “working with beavers” to restore native habitat. Resources Beaver Believer: How Massive Rodents Could Restore Landscapes and Ecosystems At Scale Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change Brock Dolman – Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme The WATER Institute's Beaver in California reader Credits Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Written by: Kenny Ausubel Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris Producer: Teo Grossman Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey Production Assistance: Monica Lopez This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

WHOOEE. Brock Dolman, folks, in this episode is weaving together all sorts of things previously explored on the podcast in a new (old) and incredibly articulate way. This podcast is about water cycles, beavers, fire, sand, geology, the oceans, a living earth, and so much more. Brock is a conservation ecologist and a specialized generalist over at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. He's also, in his own right, a linguist and an incredible waeaver of words. We explore the nouns and verbs of earth as energy flows, matter cycles, and life webs. This episode is a catch all - and at the heart of it, is a message about how to build lasting community. Find Brock Dolman:Occidental Arts and Ecology CenterWater and Fire VideoThe Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story by Brian SwimmeBiomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine BenyusCreating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities by Diana Leafe ChristianThe End of Growth By Richard HeinbergThe Ghost Forest by Greg King Eager by Ben GoldfarbBeaver Land by Leila PhilipTree Crops by J. Russell SmithPicture of subsidence san Joaquin valley of telephone pole Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThinking in Systems by Donella MeadowsBlessed Unrest by Paul Hawken AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards WarSponsored By:REDMOND REAL SALTMine to Table Salt from Utah, Redmond Real Salt is packed full of 60+ Trace Minerals and is a staple in my kitchen. Find their salt, Re-Lyte Hydration Powder, and so much more here. Use code MINDBODYSOIL_15 for 15% off!redmond.life

Have you ever wondered about terms like ecosystem, watershed and biodiversity? Joining this conversation is Kate Lundquist, co-director of the Water Institute at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and Champion of Bring Back the Beaver Campaign.

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 great conversation about all the ways a congregation stewards and shares its land in the wider parish and community. From permaculture to playground! Join co-hosts Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows and Brian Sellers-Petersen along with Rev Christy Laborda Harris and Liza Brickey for ideas and inspiration.  St. Stephen's Episcopal Church - https://www.ststephenssebastopol.org/ Occidental Arts and Ecology Center The Playground Community Cafe Sebastopol Community Seed Exchange and Garden  

Hosts Tim Bray and Dr. Robert Spies talk with Brock Dolman and Kate Lundquist, co-directors of the Water Institute at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, about their work on beavers in California ecosystems.Because beavers transform ecosystems and have done so for millennia, a number of other species are adapted to the conditions they create, including many California natives and some threatened species. Dolman and Lundquist are engaged in a project to restore beavers to the landscape wherever possible. 

In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss - you name it, and beaver is on it. In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature. For more information and transcript, visit: https://bioneers.org/beaver-believers-how-to-restore-planet-water/ Resources Beaver Believer: How Massive Rodents Could Restore Landscapes and Ecosystems At Scale Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change Brock Dolman – Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme The WATER Institute's Beaver in California reader This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to find out how to hear the program on your local station and how to subscribe to the podcast. 

“It's time to take our fire fears and connect that with our water woes!” – Brock Dolman Caroline welcomes “Fluid Druid” Water Wizard Brock Dolman, for auspicious hydro cahooting: that we ally with Beavers. To cooperate to cooperate, good for the whole Community the human relationships become more egalitarian…. Even our rogue species learns manners. Neptune, Mercury, exactly aligned (on Brock's Moon!)… So Water would like to speak with us… through its dedicated ally… The California deluge… The Sky Rivers stalling…losing the capacity for undulating flow… So, let's undulate…. To protect water become more like water… Tao Teh Ching Brock Dolman co-founded (in 1994) the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center where he co-directs the WATER Institute. A wildlife biologist and watershed ecologist, he has been actively promoting “Bringing Back Beaver in California” since the early 2000s. He was given the Salmonid Restoration Federation's coveted Golden Pipe Award in 2012: “…for his leading role as a proponent of “working with beavers” to restore native habitat. oaec.org   Brock contributing to Bioneers Conference: Revitalizing the Biosphere by Protecting Animal Habitats and Species April 6th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm According to a recent World Wildlife Fund report, since 1970 we have lost, on average, roughly 70% of the global populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish. Scientist activists working tirelessly to reverse this catastrophic trend share their strategies. With: Dave Phillips, co-founder of the Earth Island Institute and Director of its International Marine Mammal Project; Brock Dolman, Co-Director of the WATER Institute and Permaculture Design and Wildlands programs at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, and a leader in CA beaver reintroduction; Michelle Lute, Carnivore Conservation Director for Project Coyote. Moderated by Maureen Nandini Mitra, Editor of Earth Island Journal.   And find Caroline at Bioneers on Thursday, April 6th, at 9:00pm at Freight & Salvage (2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA). Free and Open to the Public – Holy Moly! See more details     Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Hydro Cahooting · Cooperating with Water appeared first on KPFA.

On this week's EcoNews Report, host Tom Wheeler talks to friends from across California about "rewilding." What the heck is rewilding? It is a global movement to restore lands and ecosystems to a more complex and "wild" state, often with the reintroduction of keystone species—think large mammals like elk or ecosystem engineers like beavers—that may be absent. This episode is a crossover collaboration with John Davis of the Rewilding Institute (and host of the Rewildling Earth Podcast) and the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. Support the show

July 26, 2022-- Host Anna Halligan replays and interview she had with Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, followed by a recent discussion she had with Kate about what the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's new beaver management plan is all about.

This episode explores the topic of Mission, Vision, and Values in community. These guiding principles and founding documents help communities determine who they are and what they do. In many ways, this is the “intention” part of intentional community. Joining me on a deep dive into this topic is Dave Henson. Dave Henson is a co-founder and current member of the 27-year old Sowing Circle intentional community, as well as a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, OAEC.org. Sowing Circle and OAEC share living and working at an 80-acre organic farm and social movement training and retreat center in Sonoma County, Northern California. An ecologist, educator and facilitator for 40 years, Dave has served as a strategy and organizational design consultant to hundreds of environmental and social justice organizations, movement networks, foundations, and land-based projects in the US and around the world. Within the intentional communities' movement, over the past 25 years Dave has led more than 50 weekend or week-long “Starting and Sustaining Intentional Communities” workshops at OAEC for more than 1000 participants, and has consulted with over 100 projects around the U.S. seeking to develop shared living farms, centers and Communities. If you want to learn more about creating Mission, Vision, and Values, or any aspect of building community check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, an extensive bookstore and lots of free educational materials. You can learn more about FIC, access show notes, at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you'll consider donating through our website while you are there. Follow the show and see inspiring images and video of community life on Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I'd love to hear from you there! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.

January 25, 2022--Anna Halligan interviews Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman from the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center about the importance of beavers in river and floodplain ecology.

Kate Weiner and Kailea Frederick share about creativity, art, and beauty as integral to activism work. You’ll also hear about: Co-creating a world that values and priorities the health and wellbeing of future generations Embodied, reciprocity and holding space for nuance  A reimagining of the matriarchy Kailea and Kate share a special announcement and new project by Loam   ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgment   When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** Kailea Frederick (Loam Editor) is a mother and First Nations woman dedicated to supporting individuals of all cultures in remembering their ties to the earth. A graduate of the International Youth Initiative Program, she has in-depth training in interpersonal communication, community building across cultural and linguistic boundaries and large group facilitation. She is a Spiritual Ecology Fellow, and has served as a youth delegate twice to the United Nations Climate Change conferences (COP). Currently, Kailea offers facilitation and project consultation through her project Earth Is `Ohana and is a Climate Commissioner for the city of Petaluma.  Kate Weiner (Loam Creative Director) is an environmental educator, writer, and gardener. Kate is a 2015 Brower Youth Award winner, a 2017 recipient of the John Goddard Prize for Environmental Conservancy, and a 2018 Spiritual Ecology Fellow. Kate was an Artist-in-Resident at Woodland Keep in the San Juan Islands as well as a beneficiary of the Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant. She facilitates workshops across the country on low-waste living, permaculture in practice, and resilience, and has a Certificate in Permaculture Design from the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.  In this episode, we talk about: Kailea shares a spell by Brontë Velez on repatriation How flowers, activism, and literature, weave within Kate and Kailea’s story Kate shares the co-creation story of Loam How beauty is perceived as supplementary and not integral Flowers as an entry point into compassion and activism On why it’s easy to become cynical and overwhelmed in the current climate How Loam holds space for the unraveling of the human experience We speak on how to navigating crisis with beauty and art Creating spaciousness for future visioning How beauty helps us evoke the world we want to live in Why imagination is necessary for moving forward with hope and compassion How honoring beauty is honoring the sovereignty of other beings How beauty invokes gratitude Tuning in to the sensual and spiritual nature of the matriarchy A reimagining of the matriarchy How does it feel to be embodied How embodiment work invites in greater empathy and spaciousness How our bodies are the Earth The matriarchy as power within, not power over Creating a path to healing with plants Kailea and Kate share stories of how the plants speak to them On how the plants feel like home Kailea and Kate share a special announcement about a new project with Loam On Compassion in Crisis How we are born of crisis, yet have the capacity and the resilience to make it through challenging times Kate and Kailea share about the Loam Listen podcast and on current Loam publications and projects Plus so much more!   Secret Episodes! Get past secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Links: Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective Learn more about Kailea and Kate’s offerings at https://loamlove.com/ Support Loam on Patreon @loamlove Explore the Loam Listen Podcast Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret    References: Embodied Plant Medicine workshop https://www.earthspeak.love/embodied-plant-medicine Alissa Maya https://akashaapothecary.com/ Cacao Ceremony workshop https://www.earthspeak.love/cacao-ceremony Naomi Love https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/ Episode 6 with Kailea Fredrick https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/spiritual-ecology-compassion-in-crisis-kailea-frederick Brontë Velez https://www.instagram.com/littlenows/ Alyssa Gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/alyssajgonzalez9/ Monsanto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto Sweet Alyssum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobularia_maritima Borage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borage Calendula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendula How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong https://amz.run/4K6I California Poppy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschscholzia Lilacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringa_vulgaris Spiderwort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradescantia Nasturtium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeolum Dahlia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia Compassion in Crisis https://loamlove.com/shop/compassionincrisis Compasión en tiempos de crisis https://loamlove.com/shop/compasion-en-tiempos-de-crisis  Milla Prince https://www.instagram.com/thewomanwhomarriedabe Nourishing the Nervous System by Tayla Shanaye https://loamlove.com/shop/nourishing-the-nervous-system   Living Through Liminality https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_ysUmHeU9/ Black Histories / Black Futures Bookshelf https://bookshop.org/shop/loam  Loam listen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loam-listen/id1477513600 Amirio Freeman https://www.instagram.com/plantasia_barrino/     ► Leave us a written review on iTunes, and get shouted out on the show! 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Kate Weiner and Kailea Frederick share about creativity, art, and beauty as integral to activism work. You’ll also hear about: Co-creating a world that values and priorities the health and wellbeing of future generations Embodied, reciprocity and holding space for nuance  A reimagining of the matriarchy Kailea and Kate share a special announcement and new project by Loam   ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgment   When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** Kailea Frederick (Loam Editor) is a mother and First Nations woman dedicated to supporting individuals of all cultures in remembering their ties to the earth. A graduate of the International Youth Initiative Program, she has in-depth training in interpersonal communication, community building across cultural and linguistic boundaries and large group facilitation. She is a Spiritual Ecology Fellow, and has served as a youth delegate twice to the United Nations Climate Change conferences (COP). Currently, Kailea offers facilitation and project consultation through her project Earth Is `Ohana and is a Climate Commissioner for the city of Petaluma.  Kate Weiner (Loam Creative Director) is an environmental educator, writer, and gardener. Kate is a 2015 Brower Youth Award winner, a 2017 recipient of the John Goddard Prize for Environmental Conservancy, and a 2018 Spiritual Ecology Fellow. Kate was an Artist-in-Resident at Woodland Keep in the San Juan Islands as well as a beneficiary of the Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant. She facilitates workshops across the country on low-waste living, permaculture in practice, and resilience, and has a Certificate in Permaculture Design from the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.  In this episode, we talk about: Kailea shares a spell by Brontë Velez on repatriation How flowers, activism, and literature, weave within Kate and Kailea’s story Kate shares the co-creation story of Loam How beauty is perceived as supplementary and not integral Flowers as an entry point into compassion and activism On why it’s easy to become cynical and overwhelmed in the current climate How Loam holds space for the unraveling of the human experience We speak on how to navigating crisis with beauty and art Creating spaciousness for future visioning How beauty helps us evoke the world we want to live in Why imagination is necessary for moving forward with hope and compassion How honoring beauty is honoring the sovereignty of other beings How beauty invokes gratitude Tuning in to the sensual and spiritual nature of the matriarchy A reimagining of the matriarchy How does it feel to be embodied How embodiment work invites in greater empathy and spaciousness How our bodies are the Earth The matriarchy as power within, not power over Creating a path to healing with plants Kailea and Kate share stories of how the plants speak to them On how the plants feel like home Kailea and Kate share a special announcement about a new project with Loam On Compassion in Crisis How we are born of crisis, yet have the capacity and the resilience to make it through challenging times Kate and Kailea share about the Loam Listen podcast and on current Loam publications and projects Plus so much more!   Secret Episodes! Get past secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Links: Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective Learn more about Kailea and Kate’s offerings at https://loamlove.com/ Support Loam on Patreon @loamlove Explore the Loam Listen Podcast Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret    References: Embodied Plant Medicine workshop https://www.earthspeak.love/embodied-plant-medicine Alissa Maya https://akashaapothecary.com/ Cacao Ceremony workshop https://www.earthspeak.love/cacao-ceremony Naomi Love https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/ Episode 6 with Kailea Fredrick https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/spiritual-ecology-compassion-in-crisis-kailea-frederick Brontë Velez https://www.instagram.com/littlenows/ Alyssa Gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/alyssajgonzalez9/ Monsanto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto Sweet Alyssum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobularia_maritima Borage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borage Calendula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendula How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong https://amz.run/4K6I California Poppy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschscholzia Lilacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringa_vulgaris Spiderwort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradescantia Nasturtium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeolum Dahlia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia Compassion in Crisis https://loamlove.com/shop/compassionincrisis Compasión en tiempos de crisis https://loamlove.com/shop/compasion-en-tiempos-de-crisis  Milla Prince https://www.instagram.com/thewomanwhomarriedabe Nourishing the Nervous System by Tayla Shanaye https://loamlove.com/shop/nourishing-the-nervous-system   Living Through Liminality https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_ysUmHeU9/ Black Histories / Black Futures Bookshelf https://bookshop.org/shop/loam  Loam listen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loam-listen/id1477513600 Amirio Freeman https://www.instagram.com/plantasia_barrino/     ► Leave us a written review on iTunes, and get shouted out on the show! Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/ ► Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective Follow Earth Speak on Instagram and tag us when you share @earthspeak https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

Brock Dolman is a biologist and systems thinker. He is the co-founder of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center—one of the first permaculture education centers in North America. In this episode, Brock colorfully muralizes the concept of regenerative hydration by connecting backyard tools like rainwater, greywater, and fog harvesting, with conceptual tools like water budgets and unorthodox partnerships with keystone species, like the beaver. Brock wants us to think of watersheds as a lifeboat, where we not just slow it, spread it, sink it, but think it, too. This conversation will leave you looking at your space and place differently—and gives you easy-to-implement water and land management solutions for your backyard, business, or organization!

Sim Van der Ryn is an architect, author, and educator. He is President of The Ecological Design Collaborative and has, for over forty years, been at the forefront of integrating ecological principles into the built environment, creating multi-scale solutions driven by nature's intelligence. He served as California's first energy conscious state architect and is emeritus professor of architecture and environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley. He was founder of the Farallones Institute, now known as the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.His books include The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City (Random House 1982), Sustainable Communities (co-author Peter Calthorpe) (Sierra Club Books 1991), Ecological Design: Tenth Anniversary Edition (co-author Stuart Cowan) (Island Press 2007), The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water (Chelsea Green Publishing1999) and Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting to People, Nature, and Self (Island Press 2013)Interview Date: 1/22/2014     Tags: Sim Van der Ryn, empathic design, architecture, homes in Samoa, community based architecture, Real Goods Solar Living Center, housing, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Social Change/Politics, Arts & Creativity

Episode #48 of the Ground Shots Podcast is the last recording Gabe and I conducted on our 2020 Colorado Trail Plant-a-go walk. This episode documents a few conversations Gabe and I had with our friend Téo Montoya who came to hike with us for a brief stint on the west side of the Collegiate Loop section of the trail.   Téo Montoya is a Lipan Apache(Ndé) Writer, Indigenous futurist, Electronic Music Producer, Human Design Analyst, Traditional Ecological Knowledge Student, and Educator. After completing his BA in Food and Medical Anthropology, with a focus on Indigenous diets and health disparities in Native American communities, Teo spent 5 years exploring the worlds of plant medicine, Ancestral Health Coaching, Djing and Producing music, Information Technology, working with a Native-Led Non-profits, and completing his Human Design Training. As a writer and creator he has begun the long process of writing a speculative fiction series and media project imagining future worlds and societies built upon indigenous values, ideals, and cultures. Teo believes imaging the future, specifically a future grounded in indigenous knowledge and technology, will provide us with the solutions to meet the largest challenges to the Earth and our Humanity. Today, Teo lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, writing, producing music, and supporting people on their personal and spiritual health journeys.   Teo and I met at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in the Spring of 2019 during a multi-week permaculture training. This episode of the podcast isn't a formal interview or formal conversation with Teo, though I would like to do that with Teo in the future. This episode features snippets of the conversation between Teo, Gabe and I during dinner and then again for breakfast.   In this episode, we touch on:   Teo's thoughts on ‘transcommunality' and moving forward into the future by learning from indigenous wisdom but also not romanticizing it a place for modern technology in new visions of the future re-thinking the ‘anti-sacredness' of the urban and complex technologies some more Russian Olive rants (again I know) and talk more about how our culture uses invasive plants as scapegoats for our mistakes the need for indigenous wisdom in the Green New Deal talks Teo's perspective on white folks or settlers wild harvesting food and medicine and the complexity of this practice problems that arise with the ‘white-hands off' perspective on land tending indigenous peoples are innovative: in the past, present and will be in the future questioning how we define ‘wild' and ‘wildcraft' and within the colonialist concept of private land ownership Teo tells us a little bit about an indigenous futurism media project he's working on and got funding for with a grant in California      I know some of the topics we dip into here will be controversial, and I personally am open to multiple sometimes contradictory perspectives at once. It is necessary in a time of such political and social polarization. Some topics require consistent critical conversation and hearing from multiple perspectives, looking at deep time and into the future, and all of the socio-economic-cultural factors at play. I think we need to be able to have different beliefs and try to understand where the other is coming from, even if you know they are totally wrong (or believe they are).  Teo offers a unique perspective as an indigenous person that doesn't mean all other indigenous people agree. As humans, culturally, we are just as diverse as the plant life that shift and morph from one mountain, forest or meadow to another.      Links: ‘Rekindling Native California Ecologies Part 1” with Redbird (Edward Willie) from the Native Seed Pod Podcast, a teaching we mention a few times Metapod music, Teo's project featured as interstitial music for this episode Teo's Instagram accounts: @Teomontoya.nde @humandesignreadings   Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute to our grassroots self-funding of this project.  Support the Ground Shots Project with a one time donation via Paypal at: paypal.me/petitfawn Donate on VENMO: @kelly-moody-6 Cashapp: cash.app/$groundshotsproject   Our website with backlog of episodes, plant profiles, travelogue and more: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com  Our Instagram pages: @goldenberries / @groundshotspodcast Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Interstitial Music: ‘Willow Call' by Metapod Hosted by: Kelly Moody Produced by: Kelly Moody and Opia Creative    

This week, Mouthful welcomes Doug Gosling of Occidental Arts & EcologyCenter, along with Renée Hayes and Sue Lovelace of the Master Gardenersprogram. The evening's focus will be on OAEC Nursery's upcoming fall plant saleand everything you need to know about planting your fall vegetable garden.Mouthful, Smart Talk About Food, Wine & Farming, Sunday evening at 6 p.m.with guest host Clark Wolf sitting in for Mouthful's founder, Michele AnnaJordan Mouthful: Smart Talk About Food, Wine, and Farming in the North Bay andBeyond can be heard Sunday evenings at 6:00 pm on KRCB-FM. / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play! (Photo: Doug Gosling – Courtesy of Occidental Arts & Garden Center) If you enjoy this and other programs on KRCB FM, you can support us duringour Fall Fundraiser, September 7th – 14th! Start your membership at just $5 a month, or maybe a little more, like $10or $20 a month as an ongoing sustaining member. Your contribution keeps themusic, news, and other programs you love on your radio, and in your life. Make a donation right now at norcalpublicmedia.org/donate.THANK YOU! https://media.krcb.org/podcast/mouthful/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/mful_20190908.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS     

Episode #21 of the Ground Shots Podcast This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Alicia Toldi, who currently lived in Oakland, California. Alicia co-runs Piney Wood Atlas.  According to their website:  "Piney Wood Atlas is a collaborative project between citizen artists Alicia Toldi and Carolina Porras and was formed out of a desire to help spread the word about the magical world of artist residencies. Through a series of regional road trips, we travel across the country unearthing small, emerging and unconventional artist residencies. Visiting is essential in absorbing the atmosphere, embedding into the space as if we were residents ourselves. We share meals, conversations and experiences with facilitators and artists. So far, we have visited around 45 residencies across 15 states and plan to visit the whole country in the next two years, representing alternative residencies through annually printed regional guidebooks, online content, and workshops. Alternative residencies offer individual character, personalized experiences and room to experiment. Featuring these kinds of spaces allows us to connect creative thinkers with places where they can become visionaries, unlocking fresh ideas that only come from being in a new environment, and thus engaging in a symbiotic relationship between the artist, the residency locale and the outside world. Piney Wood Atlas' intention is to bridge the gap between residency databases and word-of-mouth, ensuring that attending a residency is an attainable, productive, and fun adventure for all."   We did this interview in Alicia's art studio in Oakland, California this past Spring after we both completed a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in Occidental, California. I first met Alicia when I stumbled upon Piney Wood Atlas online. We have communicated online about the project over the past couple years and both decided to sign up for the Spring PDC at OAEC without realizing the other had also. It was a sweet surprise to finally meet Alicia. She hosted me a bunch this Spring as I came through the Bay area for interviews and meet-ups with folks. I appreciated being welcomed by Alicia and her partner and able to fit my big truck camper home in her tiny driveway by the freeway in the heart of Oakland.     In this conversation with Alicia, we talk about:   a little bit of the story of how Alicia co-found Piney Wood Atlas   the nature of artist residencies and how they can be designed in many ways, including their ability to be accessible to everyone   some of Alicia's favorite residencies featured in the PWA zines. So far the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest zines are out, and the Midwest themed zine will be out soon   adventures in road-tripping for the PWA project   Alicia's personal story of living in different places as an artist on the east and west coasts, and coming back home to the Bay area   a few of our post-permaculture training reflections   Alicia's relationship with spoon carving and making things   We're giving away one copy of the Piney Woods Atlas 'Southwest' zine to a Ground Shots Project Patreon subscriber. Comment on the post for the giveaway to be entered, here.   Links:   Alicia's personal website: http://www.aliciatoldi.com Piney Wood Atlas' website: http://www.pineywoodatlas.com Alicia on instagram: @t0ldi Piney Wood Atlas on instagram: @pineywoodatlas Email Piney Wood Atlas: contact@pineywoodatlas.com Sierra Nevada College low-residency interdisciplinary MFA program and where PWA received a grant Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, Colorado   The interstitial music for this episode is 'Mojave' by Marisa Anderson Marisa Anderson on bandcamp: https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/   Jim Croft's 'Old Ways of Making Books' class in Santa, Idaho where I taught hide tanning and visited during the month of July 2019. This is where I mention I edited and recorded the intro/outro for this and the next few episodes of the podcast:    https://cargocollective.com/oldway Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute to our grassroots self-funding of this project.    Our Instagram page @goldenberries Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Additional Music: 'Mojave' by Marisa Anderson Marisa Anderson on Bandcamp: https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/ Produced by: Opia Creative  

Lev and Sea had a chance to talk with Marley Peifer, an educator with The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center about nature journaling, cognition, and the roots of our interest in the world around us. Marley's work can be found at http://marleypeifer.com

Brock Dolman is the founder of Occidental Arts & Ecology in Northern California, one of the first permaculture education centers in North America. In this conversation Brock displays a tiny fraction of his savant-level knowledge of ecology, water, soil, trees, and how to engage in a healing relationship to our environment. His unorthodox insights, especially relevant in a time of forest fires and extreme weather events, embed scientific reasoning within an ecospiritual aesthetic.

Today I'll be talking with Charles Eisenstein, the best-selling author of numerous books including The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, economist, humanitarian, and activist, and the author of a brilliant new must-read, on healing mother earth, Climate, a New Story. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about what's really going on with the world today, and what we can do about it. That plus we'll talk about the importance of passenger pigeons, seppi garret and the Conodoquinet creek, prairie dogs and the rain, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, the danger of mcMansions, and what in the world temporary employees type #2 have to do with anything! Topics Include: What's really killing us? What's going on in our hearts? What's the new story Thich Nhat Hanh calls “interbeing” What does it mean to restore the inner ecosystem? Why isn't carbon reductionism the whole answer? What is meant by the earth being a complex living system? What's the real story of our climate crisis? What does it mean that we're killing the organs of Mother Earth? Why is it so important to protect the water and the soil? What's the importance of promoting land regeneration? What's the importance of protecting the Earth's rain forests? How do the trees affect rainfall? What are teacher trees (Peter Wohlebben “The Secret Life of Trees” What does artificial scarcity have to do with anything? What has to be changed about the world economic system (Sacred Economics) What's it mean to build a deeper relationship with the earth? What does it mean to change our awareness with the earth? What does it mean to “tend the wild”? How do we regenerate and heal what's been damaged? What does it mean to become an “earth healer”? What can we do to help our kids help the earth? What do we need to teach our kids today? To Find Out More Visit: www.CharlesEisenstein.org And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Sharon Weil talks with Adam Wolpert, painter, permaculturist and group facilitator about the moving patterns of relationship in nature, art, and group dynamics. As one of the founders of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Adam holds a fascinating, holistic perspective. “Every form tells a story,” Adam says, “the relationships are expressed by the form." When it comes to group dynamics and finding agreement, it is necessary to look to the recognizable patterns while at the same time allowing the unexpected to emerge. Creating the unique and particular map through any reorganization or conflict requires deep listening, an embrace of the constant movement of Change, and finding the forms that can serve. Find out how Adam Wolpert does it!

Are you a beaver believer? You May become one after listening to this EcoNews Report! Beavers are nature's engineers, helping to turn unproductive streams into great salmon habitat by reconnecting old floodplains, providing pools for salmon to rest, and by increasing the quantity and quality of summer waters. In short, they are amazing. But California faces a problem: we don't have enough beavers. Guests Kate Lundquist, Director of the WATER Institute at that Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and Eli Asarian, principal scientist at Riverbend Sciences join the EcoNews Report will make you a beaver believer.

Natalie Kilmer lives in Oakland, California where she owns and is the lead gardener for a socially minded, mini-farming and consulting business called, The Little Acre. Natalie also works with Bay Area pioneer, Greywater Action giving lectures and leading hands on workshops across Northern California. Natalie graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Religious Studies. She continued her ongoing studies through Permaculture Design at Esalen Institute, a gardening internship at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Ayurveda at the dhyana Center and a Chinese Herbal Farming Internship at the Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm.

Sharon Weil talks with Adam Wolpert, painter, permaculturist and group facilitator about the moving patterns of relationship in nature, art, and group dynamics. As one of the founders of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Adam holds a fascinating, holistic perspective. “Every form tells a story,” Adam says, “the relationships are expressed by the form." When it comes to group dynamics and finding agreement, it is necessary to look to the recognizable patterns while at the same time allowing the unexpected to emerge. Creating the unique and particular map through any reorganization or conflict requires deep listening, an embrace of the constant movement of Change, and finding the forms that can serve. Find out how Adam Wolpert does it!

Caroline hosts Brock Dolman, aka Humble Fluid Druid Permaculture Program & WATER Institute Director co-founder Occidental Arts and Ecology Center He has taught Permaculture and consulted on regenerative project design and implementation globally. He was featured in the films, Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th hour, The Call of Life, A Quiet revolution, and Russian River:All Rivers-the Value of an American Watershed. He also serves as an appointed commissioner on the Sonoma County Fish and Wildlife Commission. http://oaec.org/ https://www.facebook.com/theOAEC and Betsy Damon artist and activist http://www.healing-power-of-art.org/betsy-damon-artist-spokesperson-and-guardian-of-our-living-waters/ Call of the Forest Conference, sponsored by Point Reyes Books tickets information, and a few scholarships ptreyesbooks.com which segues beautifully into my talk-Council at Commonweal, in next door Bolinas, the following Sunday 4-6 pm http://tns.commonweal.org/events/caroline-casey-2/#.Vt5R_xh3Xhd and then my grand cahooting at Open Secret in San Rafael CA on March 22nd at 7 pm The post The Visionary Activist Show – Call of the Forest Radio, Planet Water and Tree Radio appeared first on KPFA.

Olivia Rathbone. This week on Sharp and Hot Emily and Anne are joined by Olivia Rathbone. Olivia manages the dynamic kitchen at Occidental Arts & Ecology Center. Life-long farmer and cook, she orchestrates innovative and delicious meals inspired by seasonal produce from OAEC’s gardens and orchards. She is the editor of the long-awaited OAEC Cookbook published by Chelsea Green. With a formal background in education, she was the Director of vocational programs in the culinary arts and holistic health in the San Francisco Bay Area before coming to the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.This program was sponsored by Escape Maker. “Most GMO crops are designed not to be tastier…just to be more resistance to pesticides, that means just more pesticides in out food.” [21:00] — Olivia Rathbone on Sharp and Hot

Badger and Coyote Cahooting in Regenerative Hedonism for Good of All Beings! Carolinee welcomes Brock Dolman (also presenting at the Harmony Festival June 10th-12th in Santa Rosa CA.) Brock is co-founder of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center where he directs the WATER  Institute and Parmaculture Program. “In the face of rampant nature deficit disorder and global weirding – we are called, individually and collectively, to bring our best selves forward to pragmatically meet the challenges of the day through ecological emulation based designs intended to produce abundance & fecundity for all.”   The post The Visionary Activist – May 26, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

Brock Dolman is a biologist, innovative design consultant, and nationally recognized permaculture educator. Dolman, co-founder of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC), co-manages the Center’s biodiversity collection, orchards and 70 acres of wildlands. Brock is the director of OAEC’s WATER Institute and Permaculture Design Program.