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Permaculture Perspectives Podcast
by Andrew Faust
One of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with over two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and visionary presentations and curriculum have inspired and motivated teachers and thousands of students since his days as a high school teacher at a open community free school which he graduated from in 86' in Glenmoore, PA. Andrew lived off the grid in West Virginia for 8 years where he designed and built his Permaculture Ph.d homestead, including a 1600 sq ft strawbale house. He moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and has been applying his knowledge to the urban landscape culminating in a Permaculture Design Certification course, with thousands of graduates in NYC. Andrew and his partner Adriana Magaña are co-directors of The Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY a 14 acre, hands-on educational campus for students, clients and their daughter Juniper.
Episodes
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Tuba City-Southwestern U.S. = Food Desert
This is a short piece I wanted to share unedited on my observations in the field. The failings of a food system based on trucking and lang distance supply lines. The tortured barrenness created by the industrial infrastructure in the Southwestern U.S. The solutions? Embarrassingly simple send all...
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Agroforestry Accelerator With Buzz Ferver
Sit back and enjoy words from a master Nurseryman as he guides us through all the details of running a successful ,mail order Nursery , growing incredibly valuable and rare nuts and fruits. In this session you will hear Buzz Ferver of Perfect Circle Farm guiding our Agroforestry Accelerator class...
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The Burning Earth-Readings & Review
Herein I read a wide range of my favorite excerpts from The Burning Earth: 500 Year s of Environmental History written by a Yale professor Sunil Amrith, a 2024 publication. Very readable !...an erudite and articulate book. Spanning from early agrarian societies and the transition from Nomadic...
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Eco-Resort,Coffee Growers-Selva Negra-Matriarchs Vicky & Mausi
It takes a village run by Matriarchs , Vicky and Mausi who I interview here, to create a well integrated , Permaculture Coffee farm with 4 bio digestors fueling kitchens and fertilizing the farm, 2 micro-hydro generators powering their refrigeration, solar thermal hot water for all showers and...
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Syntropic Agroforestry Interview Erik Schellenberg
Syntropic Agroforestry with Erik Schellenberg Erik and I go in depth into his journey to Permaculture, what works and what doesn't when we land the plane of Permaculture gardening methods, on a given site. Erik takes us on his travels to Brazil in search of truly viable ,high production methods…
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Adam Lavendar- A Conversation
Adam Lavendar ,my Permaculture apprentice this season, and I ,discuss my book Earth Is Our Home and his take aways from it, Urban applications of Permaculture, and Permaculture education. Adriana joins us part way through, for a discussion on protein that heads into a piece on how the...
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Permaculture Perspectives-Lee Barnes Interview
Such a gem of a gentleman! Sit back and enjoy this candid frolicking conversation with a dear colleague who's work I have admired for decades. Apologies for how low the volume is on my voice you will hear Lee beautifully. Lee Barnes wrote the Permaculture Principles document that Peter Bane and...
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Scorched Earth - Interview with Jonathan Crary
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,...
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Transforming Education
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.
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King-A Life-Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
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...
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Belgian Congo & Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat
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…
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Clea Chandmal On Tropical Permaculture
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...
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Politics, Permaculture & Spirituality-A Conversation with Heavy Meadow
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…
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Permaculture Perspectives with Brock Dolman
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 ,...
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Michael Pilarski Interview
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...
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Kenneth Asmus of Oikos Interview
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/
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Permaculture Perspectives with Larry Santoyo
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/...
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Permaculture Perspectives-Interview with Lisa Fernandes
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...
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PP- Megan Offner of New York Heartwoods
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...
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Jared Woodcock Interview-PLLT Listening Series #3
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…
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Permaculture Perspectives: Mark Lakeman Interview
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...
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PLLT Listening Series- A Conversation with Buzz Ferver
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...
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Permaculture Perspectives Interview with Brian Fagan
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...
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Natalie Topa Permaculture Perspectives Interview
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…
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Dale Hendricks Interview-Permaculture Living Lands Trust Listening Series # 2
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…
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Interview with Michael Judd of Silvoculture : PLLT Listening Series #1
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…
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Inspiration for 2023 & What Have We Learned?
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...
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Adriana & I - Sunday Morning Tea Talk
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...
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Gobekli Tepe & Our Ancient Past
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...
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Shutting Down The U.S. War Machine
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,...
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Nurture Human Nature
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.
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Food Autonomy-Debunking Industrialism
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…
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Responding to Russia Invading the Ukraine
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.
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No Nukes In The Green Deal - 2:1:22, 10.12 AM
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…
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Evan Pritchard Interviews #1 - Rondout Valley Algonquin History
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...
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Food First, Energy Second!
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.
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Permaculture Magician Apprenticeship
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!
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Why Go back To Work? What Really Matters?
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 .
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Colonialism = Industrialization = Famine
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.
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Cars & Computers
Permaculture Perspectives on Cars and Computers. Why neither are important parts of our lives.
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Earth Businesses-Discussion w/ Greg Peterson of Urban Farm
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!
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Adam Smith,Ricarrdo & Malthusian Economics
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!
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The Dark Ages of Our Times
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...
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The Problem With Technology and Creationism
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…
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Why I Teach, What I Teach
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...
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Why I Am Not Scared Of China!
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...
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Petro-Chemicals and Nuclear Is Killing Us Not Carbon
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…
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Claim Our Autonomy In Our Solidarity
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.
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Liberation From Police State America
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…
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Golden Flower, Vonnegut, Nuclear Colonialism & Vavilov
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.
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One of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with over two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and visionary presentations and curriculum have inspired and motivated teachers and thousands of students since his days as a high school teacher at a open community free school which he graduated from in 86' in Glenmoore, PA. Andrew lived off the grid in West Virginia for 8 years where he designed and built his Permaculture Ph.d homestead, including a 1600 sq ft strawbale house. He moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and has been applying his knowledge to the urban landscape culminating in a Permaculture Design Certification course, with thousands of graduates in NYC. Andrew and his partner Adriana Magaña are co-directors of The Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY a 14 acre, hands-on educational campus for students, clients and their daughter Juniper.
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