Rob Avis, of Verge Permaculture, joins me to talk about rainwater harvesting.

This episode is a look at the large-scale operations at D.C. Water to turn municipal waste into fertilizer and energy at the Blue Plains Waste W10ater Treatment Plant and looks at ways we can take the principles of permaculture and move them from the home to the community scale. The audio of the interview comes from a video which you'll find on the podcast's YouTube Channel at: YouTube.com/thepermaculturepodcast You can view the video directly by visiting: bit.ly/bloomsoil

In this episode Co-host David Bilbrey continues to explore the edge between permaculture, business, and social change by sitting down with Dr. Otto Scharmer. Together they talk about Dr. Scharmer’s work on Presencing and Theory U, the development of effective organizations, and how each of us can become more powerful changemakers. Resources Otto Scharmer Presencing Institute Theory U Books MITx u.Lab Peter Senge The Limits to Growth (Wikipedia) Club of Rome EdX Capitalism-Lab.pdf#/">Transforming Capitalism Lab

In her storytelling way, Rosemary Morrow joins me to share why, after all these years, she continues to practice permaculture and finds this design system so important to our present and the future. Her newest book is Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture, which you can find in the store at PermaculturePrinciples.com. Listen to the first conversation with Rosemary: Rosemary Morrow's Journey to Permaculture

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My guest for this episode is Brad Lancaster author of the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series. In this episode, Brad and I discuss the value of infiltrating water into the soil so that it becomes a resource that we invest during water-rich times and withdraw from that bank only when needed during dry times. As Brad’s work includes more than just drylands the conversation also includes ideas for storing water in rich areas. Along the way we also look at several listener questions including fog harvesting, using living systems to hand wet basements, and observing to find the right match for plants suitable to wet clay soils. What I really enjoyed about this conversation was Brad’s continued reference to creating and using living systems.

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Other resources of interest Brad's blog post on Fog Harvesting David Eisenberg and the Development Center for Appropriate Technology Zephaniah Phiri Maseko's biography at National Geographic.

Looby Macnamara, with Delvin Solkinson, joins me to discuss Looby's work on Cultural Emergence, her vision for our work as permaculture practitioners, and the tools she's developing to help facilitate this transition. Find out more about Looby and the Cultural Emergence deck at emergence.com/">Cultural-Emergence.com. Delvin is at VisionaryPermaculture.com. Cultural Emergence Kickstarter

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How do we limit the damage of the greatest terrestrial environmental disaster ever, climate change? By drawing down carbon.

How we do that, and the most effective ways possible, form the base of this conversation with Eric Toensmeier, as he shares his ongoing research about the impacts of agriculture and how we can use agroforestry to increase productivity and sequester carbon. Find out more about Eric at perennialsolutions.org, and The Carbon Farming Solution at ChelseaGreen.com.

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Resources The Carbon Farming Solution Project Drawdown Perennial Solutions The Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri Agroforestry at Virginia Tech IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Trees on Farms by RJ Zomer, et al. (PDF) Savanna Institute Steve Solomon - Gardening When It Counts John Jeavons - Grow Biointensive Pathways-Carbon-Neutral-Agriculture.pdf">Legal Pathways to Carbon_Neutral Agriculture by Peter Lehner and Nathan Rosenberg (PDF) Diet for a Small Planet

Related Interviews  Dr. Laura Jackson - Modern Agricultural Systems  Keefe Keeley - The Savanna Institute  Jean-Martin Fortier - The Market Gardener  Dave and Lee O'Neill - Radical Roots Farm  Jerome Osentowski - The Forest Garden Greenhouse

My guest today is the adventurer, activist, and humanitarian Rob Greenfield. Rob joins me to talk about the Food Freedom project he launched in Orlando, Florida, where he is growing and foraging for all of his nutritional needs. Find out more about Rob, his work and other projects, including those mentioned during his introduction, at RobGreenfield.TV. 

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Resources National Farmers Market Directory (USA) Trash Me Green Riders Free Ride Orlando Permaculture Meetup Group Shad Qudsi - Atitlan Organics  

My guest today is Akiva Silver of Twisted Tree Farm in Spencer, New York. He joins me to talk about his life and the experiences that lead to his book Trees of Power from Chelsea Green Publishing. You can find Akiva, his farm, and work at tree.net/">twisted-tree.net and you can find his book, Trees of Power, at chelseagreen.com. Visit Our Partners Wild Abundance - Top 10 Vegetables to Grow that Will Really Feed You! Marjory Wildcraft - How to Grow Food!

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Resources tree.net/">Twisted Tree Farm Trees of Power (Chelsea Green) Tom Brown Jr. Tracking School The Graves Tree - Arthur Graves Chestnuts Empire Chestnut Company (Route 9 Cooperative) Related Interview: Foraging with Sam Thayer

In this guest episode, the final in this series, naturalist and writer Shane Sater, shares his insights and thoughts on kochia as it relates to sparrows; a reflection on how an introduced plant species create novel ecosystems and adaptations. And that was Shane Sater. You can read more of his nature writing and view the photographs from his journey in the natural world at WhatsGoingOnBlog.org.