Permaculture Perspectives Podcast

A Permaculture and historical view point on the Coronavirus and food security for the long term and near term.

Learn about our positive pathways to restoring our self image and the ecological integrity of this planet. Herein I read from Erle Ellis on the Anthropocene, John Reader on the Potato and Krishnamurti on ending violence. Enjoy!

Herein I discuss water quality and how to improve it. I read several passages from each book to give you a good sense of my thinking and information resources and share with you my understanding in the water quality work that I am passionately involved in, throughout my life as a permaculture educator.

Who are we? Where have we come from? Where would we like to go in the future? These are questions to contemplate and explore that I give some viewpoints on Hawking's Genius series and Neal deGrasse Tyson lectures where they touch on these questions, and offer some differing takes for you to enjoy and be buoyed up by and I hope get a laugh from!

A Expose piece on toxic realities of the northeast reading from Green Amendment, and my home region of Chester County along with the vision for our way out. Lot's of details you will want to know to fortify your friends family and all those you love from the toxic fall out of our everyday lives.Please contribute to my efforts to create regional scale master plans and watershed models of economic development that encourage energy and Food independence

I wanted to launch into the new year with a vision. A vision of what we would rather see in the world and how to go about doing it! Claiming greater local autonomy by producing more of our food locally year round full diet and more of our energy from diverse, appropriate renewable, distributed systems.

I delve into 2 readings one from Fred Pearce The New Wild an excellent exploration into the dynamic history of introduced species and the character of their behavior. I then read from Ester Boserup batting against Malthus and I offer some narratives in between to connect them all to our Permaculture solution set and viewpoint.

I do readings from 3 books, the first an excerpt from Kurlansky's, Food of a Younger Nation, The Pecan by Mcwilliams and Vonnegut- Fates Worse then Death. I tie these together with themes of changing landscapes and the roots of the Permaculture Ethics. I explore the solutions that emerge from them.

Herein I read selections from a collection of Vonnegut essays in Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons. Ethics and morals that align with the Permaculture solutions and values, enjoy and give feedback!

Exploring the theme of what does truly purposeful education look like and how the present system is failing us. The real purpose as I see it is outlined herein, listen and enjoy!

A little montage of my journeys in values and ethics and some personal communication breakdowns as a portal into a range of topics on education, expression and livelihood choices.Hope you enjoy it and give any feedback insights discussion desired.Thanks for listening!

We discuss why we moved to Ellenville, NY . How we choose this property and what are some of my personal formative life experiences in Permaculture. Check it out, listen and learn.

Herein I share my frustrations with the present mindset which i often encounter in these meetings and groups involved in water issues in the region. I then go into my response to this condition and how to fully reconfigure our approach to water quality issues in this country, to address foundational and systemic causes. You are sure to learn something powerful about fresh water on planet earth by giving this a full listen.

Exploring the differences and relevance of Eastern philosophy to western philosophy.Defining consciousness and it's dimensions.How to extract ourselves from preconceived notions of who we are and what our true potential is as human beings on Earth.

Recorded Live at our Brooklyn Permaculture Meetup. A Unapologetic historical review of Permaculture's view on the political realities of our times and how to address them. I outline positions on key topics and the reasoning behind them.

I get into the history of Nuclear power the way the mIlitary is trashing our real needs and the lack of awareness there is of investing in our Real Needs. I provide solutions based thinking for how to systemically solve these chronic abuses of the American people at the hands of our own government in collusion with private industries..

Here I dig into the details of how to reconfigure agriculture and city systems to be in a beneficial restorative relationship.

What is the purpose of education and how can we accelerate ecological literacy in a largely eco-illiterate society? I answer this question and add new directions to move education in and our contributions to this great work.

Dive into our day here at the Center For Bioregional living and get into the knowledge of bio-gas herein!

This one is distilling how we address the neurosis of modernity with Permaculture.

Permaculture is about retrofitting the infrastructure to be more regionally self reliant in ecologically adaptive, socially attuned and prosperous ways .Here I outline how to do this and what part bio- gas technology plays in the process.

A short but powerful piece, with two aspects, one a beginning for dream cycle sample and repeat, the second a solid synopsis of a broad kelson for ideas.

I outline the watershed based concept for regional models of greater autonomy and self-reliance in Food and Energy. I also go into some local meetings and the nuances of what is needed to achieve this in the Rondout river basin in particular where our family lives.

Mark and I hanging out, talking about the politics in Vermont around energy and conservation, at our apartment in Brooklyn, after a day of Mark teaching for our Permaculture Designers Certification course. More about Mark's work here...http://www.keylinevermont.com/Welcome.html

Further explorations into the Ethics of Permaculture and how they prescribe a clear path forward for addressing global food and energy security. I go into how to feed and power the advanced civilizations supporting Earths future caretakers at a population of 10 billion. Rocketing around the sun together having a most excellent party!

We discuss water from esoteric to the hard science of contamination issues in the U.S. We tell you how to be sure you have healthy good drinking water and inform you of things to be cautious of.We also define what really is good water and what the inexpensive, low tech ways to enjoy partaking of it daily!

Here I give a breakdown of how to rank energy options for site development.This is the first in a series I am doing on permaculture Energy Solutions. I will be building on this one as the base, starting with: What kind of work can be well provided for, passively, with Ecological Aikido? I then get into what kind of work and in what order and type to use, for renewable active systems. Layering and nesting your active systems for electric needs, heating, cooling, pumping, etc within/ having maxxed out your use of passive systems, appropriately.

Here I go into the foundation of the ethics of Permaculture through the lense of the civil rights work of Martin Luther King Jr. and to give homage to his great work.

Listen to this for the baseline of what to look for for buying your place in the country.Phase plans for setting it up in a financially accessible way to be fully off grid and self reliant. Here are some photos to accompany it of off grid set ups we have built...https://www.facebook.com/andrewfaust/media_set?set=a.608962459224042.1073741835.100003308798338&type=3 and more here...https://www.facebook.com/andrewfaust/media_set?set=a.719549528165334.1073741838.100003308798338&type=3

Dive into outer space and explore how Permaculture permutates and adaptively radiates it's methodologies via the Principle of Multiple Functions from a single element and the Sun.

Enjoy this creative soundscape exploring profiles of graduates from our most recent Permaculture Design Certification Course completed in Brooklyn Dec.9th. I also do a short piece on limits and where they apply and where they fall short as a design tool.

This is the first in a longer format broadcast we are developing.It is an Interview style discussion between Clay a graduate of our program and myself .In this session we discuss my time Permaculture homesteading in West Virginia and some of my background in the Communities /Commune scene, on the East Coast of the U.S. , in the 80's and 90's.

This is a musical intro. and outro. with some serious science on carbon on planet earth and how to understand it more broadly.

Here I go into why I feel religion is more a part of the problem and mysticism the solution.How to use introspection to do good design.

I take this fine Fall day to remember and project forward into our evolutionary future. A future Informed by the past.

Herein I breakdown the flaws of the present centralized fossil fuel model of economic growth. Then I outline what the retrofit process looks like fore creating greater regional autonomy as an economic goal.

Here I am laying the conceptual foundation for how to use permaculture For creating a new model of economic development. A model focused on greater regional self reliance and less import export dependency with our energy sources being renewable and local.

Here I take a different path and read from a Address that Vonnegut gave to Bennington college graduating class.A Great piece on military science, pessimism and religion all in an address to College graduates in 1970. Give a listen and let me know what you think! His insights and viewpoints I felt were of great use to us all today. I hope you enjoy it.

In this broadcast I get into the permaculture vision of abundance, where does it come from and how do we achieve it? I also share a music track I recorded with my daughter Juniper at the end.

Herein I build on the theme of giving a in-depth exploration of the foundations of Permaculture. I share examples from consultations we have done recently and how to read the landscape in order to know how to fit in and be suited to the places we call home.

This is field recording I did one night in Vermont while teaching a class at Yestermorrow. The recording is a little lower quality sound, but great peepers in the background. I get into the beginning of a topic I will be expanding on in future broadcasts; Scaling up Permaculture to be applied at a Regional and watershed scale as the foundation of a new economy.

This a candid conversation with Permaculture Designer extraordinaire! Lisa DePiano, about what brought her to permaculture how to use it to navigate through the chaos of modernity!

This is an exploration of the era when we transitioned from Paleolithic hunter gatherer societies to Neolithic producers and Farmers. I also explore the permaculture solutions that emerge from this historical overview.

This is my second piece on the Permaculture Principle Use Biology. I like to dig deep! ...here I go into a good background of earth history of Life to inform and inspire the view of working cooperatively with evolution through permaculture design.

This a exploration into the depths of our Principle to Use Biology, this is a two part series that I am doing on this principle. Here I lay the groundwork that i will build on in #2 on how to use biological resources.

Mark Krawczyk and I discuss renewable energy initiatives in Vermont and some of the issues of scale that come up around them.

Permaculture designer Andrew Faust of Center for Bioregional Living gives us an inspiring and heady narrative about the evolution of all life and human consciousness on Mother Earth. This is a brilliant condensation of the core of the scientific worldview with the metaphysical implications highlighted along the way. Visit: http://www.permaculturenewyork.com Follow Us: https://www.facebook.com/permaculturenewyork/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7Eeoypxfc&t=134s

This talk outlines a regional economic application of permaculture. A unique vision for a new economy that is human scale and ecologically designed. Visit: http://www.permaculturenewyork.com Follow us: https://www.facebook.com/permaculturenewyork/