Tag: Permaculture

permacvulture, ecological garden
EcoJustice Radio, Sustainability

Creating Resilient Ecosystems & Regenerating the Planet – EcoJustice Radio

Erik Ohlsen is the director of the Permaculture Skills Center, a vocational training school that offers advanced education in ecological design, landscaping, farming, and land stewardship. Creator of the the Eco-Landscape Mastery School online training program, Erik is also founder of Permaculture Artisans which specializes in design and installation of ecological landscapes and farms throughout California. Carry Kim interviews him on EcoJustice Radio.

convivial degrowth, overpopulation, ecologic collapse
Sustainability

Convivial Degrowth: An Ecologic Reckoning for an Ailing Planet

The model planners and economists touted as “sustainable development” has only exacerbated ecologic distress and community dislocation through its focus on wealth-creation. The needs of our ailing planet facing an impending 11 billion population calls for ecology and human welfare to dominate economy, but how to achieve this in a world bought and paid for by finance capitalism?

sustainable agriculture, carbon sequestration
Environmental Health

Soil and Nutrition: No-Till Organics and Carbon Sequestration

Everyone needs vitamins and minerals like potassium, calcium, magnesium and others to stay strong and healthy. Courtney White describes in an excerpt from his book Grass, Soil, Hope how industrial farming has decreased these essential nutrients in our food and using regenerative agriculture practices we can get them back while offsetting a large amount of greenhouse gases.