Working With and Learning From Nature
Keyline Design with Darren Doherty
Episode 19: Permaculture designer and teacher Darren Doherty introduces Keyline Design and outlines the many ways that it can serve as a solution to climate change. Darren explains how water cycles through the landscape in a sequence of natural patterns. Keyline Design is a design system…
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Wild Food, Survival Skills, and Useful Plants
Episode 17: Since 1974, Christopher Nyerges has taken over 30,000 children and adults on Wild Food and Survival Skills Outings, field trips and outdoor programs. Christopher is the author of seven books, including Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants, Urban Wilderness, Extreme Simplicity:…
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What’s For Lunch? The Importance of Healthy School Lunches
Episode 15: Chef Kate Adamick, of Food Systems Solutions LLC talks about the link between our food system and the health of the planet and our kids. http://traffic.libsyn.com/pdcastsusworldradio/Kate_Adamick.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:01 — 9.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: RSS | More
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The Plight of India’s Farmers
Episode 14: Mukesh Ray, a scholar with a Masters in Social Work from the TATA Institute of Social Sciences in India, works in movements working to curb India’s large agrarian crisis that has resulted in the suicidal death of over 140,000 farmers in the…
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Organic Gardening and Permaculture
Episode 13: Loren Luyendyk, the owner of Santa Barbara Organics, has over ten years of experience in the field of permaculture, sustainability and small-scale farming. Loren is a Certified Master Gardener, Certified Arborist and a member of the American Society of Consulting Arborists. In…
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How Conscientious Consumption of Chocolate Can Change The World
Episode 5: Did you know that Americans eat 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate every year? Dr. Tom Neuhaus is the co-founder, president, and chocolatier of Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates, Inc: the only Fair Trade Organic artisan chocolate company in the US. Tom Neuhaus is also…
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Maya Food Gardeners in Belize
Episode 4: The Maya cultivated the forest as a garden for thousands of years. Maya forest gardeners from El Pilar, Master Gardener Alfonzo Tzul, Traditional Healer Beatrice Waight, and young Entrepreneur Lucas Medina discuss how they conserve and prosper in the Maya forest and the importance…
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