In this episode we talk about the scale that permaculture needs to get to get to in order to shift the planetary situation. This episode is different from previous ones, because the interview is conducted by a guest, Andrew Toth, and Andrew Millison is the one being interviewed. Andrew weaves the story of how he found himself teaching permaculture in a major state university, and how that has lead to his current work, documenting the massive scale water harvesting landscapes of India. The episod...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 12 min
This episode explores ways to grow urban food security with permaculture design. Marisha Auerbach describes how she established her thriving and abundant urban permaculture food forest in Portland Oregon. We discuss methods of food production, fertility systems, economic opportunities and more in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This episode is for those who are stuck at home and wanting to grow a raging permaculture garden! Marisha's Links: www.permaculturerising.com Permaculture Food Fore...
Apr 16, 2020•1 hr 23 min
This episode examines permaculture responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic. We discuss techniques to jumpstart food production, soil fertility, and many other ways that permaculture design can assist in the process of home-based survival. We also discuss how to keep kids engaged and active while your all stuck at home during quarantine. Matt and I both teach online permaculture courses and have large quantities of free permaculture material online, which is linked to below. Matt's link: www.theper...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Ayana Young shares her planetary perspective on climate change, Redwood forests, and the Coronavirus pandemic. We talk about her "MIllion Redwoods" project, where she is working to preserve and propagate the biodiversity of the old growth Redwood forest. We then journey into the soul of the Coronavirus pandemic, where Ayana has some words of reality from her wide and Earth connected perspective. Ayana's links: https://forthewild.world/ Ayana Young Full Bio: Ayana Young is a podcast and radio per...
Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Hear what life is like for a farmer, teacher, and father practicing permaculture under military occupation. Murad Al-khuffash is the founder of Marda Permaculture Farm, which is an internationally recognized NGO, a permaculture demonstration site, and his ancestral home, located in the Palestinian West Bank town of Marda. As a permaculture teacher, Murad has travelled internationally, and has trained a cadre of permaculture practitioners within Palestine and beyond. This episode hears about his ...
Oct 23, 2019•54 min
In this episode we talk with Raya Cole about her work with permaculture and water harvesting in many villages of rural India. Raya has worked with Aranya Agricultural Alternatives for five years on the ground teaching, designing, and organizing community efforts to restore water tables and improve nutrition. Raya has a lot of insight into the complicated dynamics of making lasting changes in a region where water, food, and soil have all been critically degraded over the last half-century. Now at...
Sep 17, 2019•1 hr 1 min
This episode weaves through a number of stories of rainwater harvesting from around the world. This episode focuses more on the community aspect of water harvesting and addresses the question of how large scale water harvesting projects involving multiple stakeholders and communities actually happen? Brad has initiated his own extensive projects, as well as visited many others throughout the world. Please enjoy this lesson on catalyzing community and healing hydrology. Links referenced in the ep...
Aug 23, 2019•1 hr 6 min
In this episode we dive into the social aspects of using design to repair the fragmented social fabric of the urban landscape. The City Repair Project in Portland, Oregon has been working for a quarter century on making places within the city that help to bring together communities and establish new rituals and celebrations around community empowerment. The results are beautiful and artistic public spaces woven throughout the city, created by residents, and a change in the feel and functionality...
May 30, 2019•1 hr 1 min
In this episode we dive deeply into the genetic history of life on Earth, and how biodiversity can be encouraged through garden-based plant breeding. Dr. Alan 'Mushroom' Kapuler is a world renowned plant breeder and is considered one of the fathers of the organic seed movement in the USA. This episode reveals some of the background science of evolution that informs Dr. Kapuler's perceptions, philosophy, and ultimately his plant breeding practices and family seed company, Peace Seeds. Dr. Kapuler...
Mar 06, 2019•50 min
In this episode, we dive deep into the global water cycle, and how repairing degraded landscapes and increasing water retention can help to stabilize global temperatures. We talk about Zach's work, where he has worked on projects in over twenty countries, and about the practical nuts and bolts of assessing, planning, and installing large scale permaculture water management projects. Zach's Links: www.elementalecosystems.com We cover a lot of the science behind deforestation, precipitation, and a...
Feb 27, 2019•1 hr 9 min
In this episode we talk to elder of the permaculture movement, MIchael "Skeeter" Pilarski about his life, and the upcoming Global Earth Repair Conference that will be help May 2-5, 2019 in Port Townsend, Washington, USA. Michael has the wisdom of years and experience as someone who has dedicated himself to serving humanity and nature for 50 years. We cover a diversity of topics besides the conference, including politics, right livelihood, the baby boomers, and he even sings. So please enjoy this...
Jan 18, 2019•57 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we hear firsthand about the ongoing grassroots transformation of a Jordanian village into a resilient food and water secure settlement. Elham Abbadi has been working within her village and the surrounding region with a group of women since 2012 to bring back regenerative agricultural practices to an area that has lost their traditional "permaculture" practices for only a couple of generations. Elham explains the history of her village and how t...
Dec 18, 2018•56 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM This episode explores the new movement to regenerate the planet with "Ecosystem Restoration Camps", where groups of people set up temporary camps on degraded lands for education and implementation of ecological rehabilitation and permaculture. The first camp is now up and running in Spain, with many more in the works. John D. Liu, one of the ideas inspirations, shares much about his vision of the camps and movement to restore the planet's degraded lands and st...
Sep 22, 2018•1 hr 34 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM This episode looks at a new economic system being developed using cryptocurrency to promote regenerative agricultural practices. Gregory Landua first guides the listener through a "Cryptocurrency and Blockchain 101" for all of those unfamiliar with these new technologies. (for those listeners who are really familiar, you can skip to the 24 minute mark). He then explains how his new project Regen Network is building a blockchain and cryptocurrency that is based...
Jun 12, 2018•1 hr 14 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM This episode looks at the successful and ongoing story of the Ghana Permaculture Institute and their work in creating region-wide economic development using permaculture strategies. Dr. Paul Yeboah has not only restored the fertility and the water table of his 30 acre demonstration site, but he has created a processing system for a number of local crops to add value that is then returned to the farmers, improving their livelihoods and basic standard of living....
May 16, 2018•58 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM This episode takes a hard look at the conditions of refugees and how permaculture is being used to improve their lives in a number of situations. Natalie Topa is the Regional Resilience and Livelihoods Coordinator for East Africa and Yemen for the Danish Refugee Council, with 13 years of experience in East Africa and beyond, so she has a very practical and wizened perspective rooted in on-the-ground realities that she works in every day. Natalie has also taken...
Mar 19, 2018•1 hr 8 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we dive deep into climate change projections for sea level rise and insightful solutions to this complex problem. Much of the conversation is focussed on the San Francisco Bay Area and lessons learned from a massive design challenge to address future sea level rise along that area of coastline. But the conversation is relevant for all coastal areas in the world, highlighting the utter urgency to simultaneously halt the melting of glaciers and s...
Feb 12, 2018•59 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we explore the impacts of tropical superstorms and the permaculture design strategies for mitigating their effects. Between massive winds that defoliate entire islands, flash flooding from torrential rains, and storm surges that devastate coastlines, the damage from category 5 hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones seems to be the new normal. This episode's guest is on the front line of climate change adaptation; farming, teaching, designing and bui...
Feb 02, 2018•59 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM DONATE TO GHANA PERMACULTURE CENTER: https://www.gofundme.com/ghanapdp In this episode we explore life in Ghana and the amazing attributes of the Moringa tree, Moringa oleifera, which is helping to reverse childhood malnutrition throughout Ghana. Aaron Justice Tsatsaku is a regional representative of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Ghana, which has planted Moringa school gardens throughout the country. Aaron talks to us about his projects, life in a rural ...
Nov 02, 2017•50 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we explore wildfire with renowned old growth Permaculture teacher and practitioner, Tom Ward, also known as Hazel. With the combination of climate changes and historic forest management, wildfires have reached a new level of threat and explosiveness. But not all wild fires are bad, and in fact, fire is an important element to healthy ecological functioning. So how can we tell a good from bad fire? How did we get to this point? What are some str...
Oct 05, 2017•1 hr 5 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM Online Permaculture Design Certificate Course: https://pace.oregonstate.edu/catalog/permaculture-design-certificate In this episode we explore the current state of climate science and how the common person goes about forecasting the changes likely to occur in their area. Our guest Linnia Hawkins works at the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute as a specialist in water, vegetation, and land surface processes, and relates up-to-date information on how clima...
Aug 25, 2017•59 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we explore the climatic design tools used by Dave's Permaculture design firm, Terra-Phoenix. Dave has been planning Permaculture properties all over the world and has developed methods for assessing the "climate analogue" of an area. He uses his climate analogue identification process to find other places in the world with remarkably similar conditions. This has enabled him to create plant assemblages that are productive and resilient, building...
Aug 04, 2017•1 hr 6 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we hear from the husband and wife team who have grounded Permaculture in India for the last 30 years. Narsanna and Padma Koppula are the hosts of the upcoming International Permaculture Conference and Convergence in Hyderabad, India in November of 2017 (http://ipcindia2017.org/) and have an incredible wealth of experience working throughout the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the South. They have worked training farmers through their organ...
Jul 02, 2017•1 hr 2 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM This episode is a deep exploration into the intersection of land use, religion, and the fragmenting of societies. Rhamis has worked and travelled throughout North Africa, The Middle East, Central Asia and Southern Europe, teaching Permaculture and working on projects throughout the region. In this episode we explore the role that land degradation plays in the destabilization of societies, and how it has been a component in the rise of religious fundamentalism ...
Jun 02, 2017•1 hr 28 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we talk with the renowned itinerant Permaculturist Rico Zook. Rico has spent most of the last 14 year traveling in India teaching farmers about Permaculture, as well as designing and installing ecological systems. Rico has a unique perspective on India as an outsider who has worn a path through nearly every corner of the vast nation, and deeply observed the ways of life from the Permaculture perspective. Rico is gearing up for his substantial r...
May 24, 2017•1 hr
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we talk about Social Permaculture and how to cultivate the ecosystem of social connections and potentials in a system. Pandora has done amazing work, notably using Permaculture as a tool for transitioning people coming out of prison back into society in an uplifting way. Pandora's Link: www.pandorathomas.com Pandora Thomas full biography The earth is my employer Pandora Thomas is a passionate global citizen who works as a caregiver, teacher, wr...
May 16, 2017•1 hr
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM Thriving in the business of Earth repair. Jessi Bloom is a business founder and owner, ecological designer, arborist, consultant, author, speaker, and dedicated Earth steward. In this episode we hear Jessi's story of how she built her successful 18-year-old Permaculture landscaping company and get advice for people who want to earn their livelihood doing beneficial work for the planet. Jessi has a lot of wisdom to share about how to communicate ecological conc...
May 04, 2017•51 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM Don tipping's Permaculture Farm is just about the best one out there. Don has been developing his thriving Permaculture system for 20 years now, and it is really something to behold, he is living the dream! Don is a an organic seed farmer in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, USA. In this episode he talks about his legal battles against GMO pollen contamination, his amazing Permaculture farm, reaching out to the next generation of young farmers, agricu...
Mar 23, 2017•1 hr 1 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode we talk with Permaculturist, ecologist and author Tao Orion. We discuss her book "Beyond the War on Invasive Species" and what a new paradigm of land management for novel ecosystems in a changing climate looks like. Novel ecosystems are defined as "human-built, modified, or engineered niches of the Anthropocene. They exist in places that have been altered in structure and function by human agency." This means ecosystems that are functioning and...
Mar 14, 2017•1 hr 4 min
SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM In this episode I sit down with the near legendary Neal Spackman. Neal talks about his work on large scale reforestation on the Arabian Peninsula with the Al Baydha project, and how to increase rainfall using in desert environments. The Al Baydha project lies in an area receiving 0-2 inches of rainfall annually. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia brought Neal in to help establish a productive Permaculture system in this hyper-arid environment in an effort to settle n...
Feb 28, 2017•1 hr
