A Permaculture Course for Busy People

Peak Moment 171: Bill Wilson and Wayne Weiseman pour their hearts into their permaculture design courses, changing lives as well as landscapes. In a unique format, students do initial course work online and then attend a one week hands-on course. In this chat along with Sivananda Yoga Farm sponsor Vidya Chaitanya, Wayne discusses principles starting with with observing elements like wind, water, sun and topography in a specific property. Bill provides alarming information on "peak soil". Together they note that permaculture's goal is to create small, intensive ecologies, a foodweb where everything is exchanging with everything else. Eat and Be Eaten, and Share the Bounty.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• permaculture
• soil
• water
• gardening
• agriculture

[oceanirons]

While I appreciate pm videos, they will be so much more useful and actively contribute to solutions if they go beyond talking heads into actually showing how to do what is merely theorized about in these interviews.

[peakmoment]

@oceanirons, I agree and we're trying to do more "showing" along with the "telling." For permaculture and related topics with more visuals on Peak Moment channel, see #68, "Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project", #87 "How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?", and #100 "Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg". ~Janaia

[1EarthWays]

It is interesting to see how 'people' are diverting the attention away from the real issue. I suggest everyone stops reading the discussion about global warming and google the work 'astroturfing' instead.

[peakmoment]

@1EarthWays, corporate interests like Exxon/Mobil have paid for a lot of misinformation about climate change in the past couple of decades. And formulated a lot of astroturn "grass roots" groups claiming it ain't so. But the factual information from the planet says otherwise. Ozone hole over the arctic, melting ice sheets in Canada, hottest years in record -- aren't politicking. They're observable facts.

[cresidue]

Like the video, EXCEPT, temperatures are NOT rising & there is NO global warming!! 33,000+ scientists have contradicted Al "idiot" Gore & his handful of wacko pseudo-scientists & denounced "An Inconvenient Lie" fictional video. As for actual Climate Change, it's been happening for billions of years & will continue to happen. Now human disasters, like oil spills, will definitely harm all life, but you need to convey facts not myths!!

[peakmoment]

@cresidue, report just out from NASA scientist James Hansen that last year was the hottest on record. Oil companies have poured massive amounts into a very skillful mis-information blitz against global climate change. Of course climate changes over time -- but the accelerated rate of CARBON in the atmosphere is coincident with our burning fossil fuels.

Reduced glacial ice, reduced snowpack here in the Sierra, reduced arctic ice -- verifiable facts, not myths.

[cresidue]

@Glomerol Oh shut up already you ignorant moron. I have no facts to check because they are 100% verified, just like your super low IQ.

[Glomerol]

@ cresidue :

Suggestion:

Google, "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" and have a read. Follow some links.

It's a dated warning, so what are we all waiting for?

There you'll notice many other issues beyond just global warming vis-a-vis fossil fuel, so I'd also advise that you refocus your attention away from this "triviality" and to some of those that, as you seem to suggest, need to change anyway.

Life is short, kiddo. Use your time wisely for the better good.

[Glomerol]

@cresidue :

Which is why you need to get your facts straight and cross check them.

[cresidue]

@Glomerol “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

[Glomerol]

@cresidue:

Get your facts straight and cross-check them too.

Example: "Global volcanic carbon dioxide emission estimates contain uncertainties and are variable, but there is virtually no doubt that volcanism adds far less carbon dioxide to the oceans and atmosphere than humans."

[RiverMpls]

@cresidue hahaha only 3,000 of them had a PhD. Gore gave the facts from real climate scientists. You parrot some stupid petition who some of among the 30,000 "scientists" are zooligists. Next time I see an elephant, I'll ask the trainer his thoughts on global warming. hahahaha 10,000 of the scientists of your golden petition are engineers! hahahaha hahhaha I'm really laughing here. Thanks for the laughs. Enjoy your "summer".