Exploring regenerative finance, technology, and our living planet. Hosted by Matthew Monahan and published by Ma Earth: https://maearth.com
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Permaculture is a design system for ecological and sustainable living, integrating plants, animals, buildings, people and communities.
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Timely interviews on environmental issues that matter most on the North Coast and our bioregion, along with news and information on upcoming meetings, hikes and events. Presented by the Northcoast Environmental Center, publisher of our bioregion's environmental newspaper, EcoNews. The EcoNews Report features a rotating cast of representatives from our member groups.
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Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
The Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier
A monthly conversation with creative activists pioneering new forms of commoning.
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The 1st Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures of October 1981 emphasized the importance of vibrant regional economies at a time when the focus of the nation was on an expanding global economy. Much has happened since then. The promise of the global economy has faded in face of ever greater wealth disparity and environmental degradation. There is growing interest in building a new economy that is just and recognizes planetary limits. The speakers of the Schumacher Lecture Series continue to be at ...
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Join our journey as we shine light on why school shootings happen and understand how we can best respond. Contact me at chris@letstalk.fm
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If there was ever a time for fresh thinking, for being bold, for being visionary and imaginative – for reimagining everything – this is it. Each episode, writer and Transition Movement founder, Rob Hopkins, invites cutting edge thinkers to visualise a new future. Join us as we ask What If...
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Hosted by Ross Reid, Nerdy About Nature is a passion project that creates fun, educational content with the aim of inspiring folks to engage with the outdoor world, to fall in love with it, and to advocate on it's behalf so that we can create a more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and just future for us all. From a 'Podchat' series that interviews experts in their field to the 'Undercurrent' news updates and everything in between, full of fun fact to make your time outside more fun. Visit Ner ...
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On Partisan Gardens, we know climate catastrophe is here, and it’s our food system’s dead end. Here we see sustainable fine dining and ecological destruction, hunger and obesity, extreme wealth and immense poverty. We can’t wait any longer — for a tech breakthrough, climate apocalypse, the revolution, or a reform of the USDA loan system. We must be frank about reality, to reckon with our options. We must choose sides, and become partisans of a new way to live and grow food.
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Humanity is nearing a critical inflection point. We're either going to survive a rocky landing onto a breathtaking new frontier or collapse into a state of chaos not seen since the last World War. A beautiful future is possible. Hosted by Albert Kim, Noetic Nomads is a conversational space where visionary thinkers from around the globe make sense of and navigate the unfolding global meta-crisis in the course of co-creating a better future.
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Brandon Letsinger on Cascadia and Bioregional Activism
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Brandon Letsinger, a Seattle organizer and cofounding director of the Cascadia Department of Bioregion, discusses the history of bioregional activism in Cascadia and current challenges and strategies. Cascadia consists of three watersheds in the Pacific Northwest extending from British Columbia to northern California. For more than 40 years, Cascad…
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Designing from an Abundance Perspective - Stuart Cowan (BFI)
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Stuart Cowan is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. https://www.bfi.org/By Ma Earth
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The Land Justice Movement - Neha Sharma (CELT)
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Neha Sharma is the co-founder of the Center for Ethical Land Transition (CELT). https://centerelt.org/By Ma Earth
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Living Permaculture | David Lipsky Part II
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This month on Living Permaculture, we'll air Part II of Vanessa Harmony's and Jerome Osentwoski's interview with New York Times bestselling author, David Lipsky, discussing his non-fiction book entitled, “The Parrot and the Igloo - Climate and the Science of Denial”, and reflecting on permaculture approaches to the challenges ahead.…
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Impact Consulting in the Next Economy - Erin Axelrod (LIFT Economy)
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Erin Axelrod is a partner and worker owner at LIFT Economy. https://www.lifteconomy.com/By Ma Earth
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Alternative Exit Strategies - Derek Razo (Common Trust)
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Derek Razo is co-founder and Managing Partner at Common Trust. https://www.common-trust.com/By Ma Earth
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Bram Büscher: Bridging the Human/Nature Divide through Convivial Conservation
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Bram Büscher, an activist-scholar in sociology at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, has launched an ambitious international project to invent noncapitalist forms of land conservation. He calls it "convivial conservation." Instead of locking up land as wilderness or using it to make money through ecotourism and genetic patents, "convivial co…
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Making Soil While AI Awakens - Josh Whiton (MakeSoil)
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Josh Whiton is a regenerative technologist and the founder of MakeSoil. https://makesoil.orgBy Ma Earth
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Living Permaculture | Author David Lipsky
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This month on Living Permaculture, Vanessa Harmony and Jerome Osentwoski interview New York Times bestselling author, David Lipsky, to discuss his non-fiction book entitled, “The Parrot and the Igloo - Climate and the Science of Denial”, published in 2023.By Vanessa Harmony
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Podchat 26 | Deconstruction, Reducing Waste & Re-envisioning How We Build with Adam Corneil
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For the past couple hundred years, buildings and homes in North America have been constructied using virgin timber from the vast forest resources that once stretched across the continent, and when those structures fall out of use, they are typically demolished, sending all of those old high quality timbers to the dump. Yet with that supply of quali…
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The Ma Earth Journey - Matthew Monahan
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Matthew Monahan is a co-founder of Ma Earth and host of The Regeneration Will Be Funded. https://maearth.comBy Ma Earth
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Safouan Azouzi: Lessons of Desert Oases for Eco-Resilient Transformation
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Safouan Azouzi, a Tunisian scholar of the commons and participatory social design, discusses how cultural traditions in desert oases hold important socio-ecological lessons for the world. For the Global South, long victimized by colonialism and capitalist extraction, oases culture embodies an eco-friendly, alternative vision of development. For the…
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Guiding Biodiversity Investment in New Zealand - John Reid (Eco-index)
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John Reid is the co-director of Eco-index. https://eco-index.nzBy Ma Earth
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Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet - Samantha Power (BioFi Project)
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Samantha Power is a regenerative economist, futurist, bioregionalist, co-founder of the BioFi Project, and founder of Finance for Gaia.By Ma Earth
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Finding the Transcendent Center - Charles Eisenstein
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Charles Eisenstein is a public speaker, teacher and author. https://charleseisenstein.org/By Ma Earth
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Living Permaculture | Melanie Eggers of Apple Core Project
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On the June episode of Living Permaculture, Vanessa Harmony interviews Melanie Eggers of Apple Core Project, a non-profit organization preserving Western Colorado's fruit heritage and rare apple genetics in west San Miguel and Montrose Counties of Colorado. They discuss the importance of preserving apple tree genetics, collaboration with Montezuma …
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Ecoweaving Collective Stories - Susanne Aichele (Mothertree Labs)
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Susanne Aichele is a filmmaker and co-steward of Mothertree Labs. https://www.mothertreelabs.comBy Ma Earth
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Exploring AI and the Metacrisis - Stephen Reid (Futurecraft)
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Stephen Reid is a transdisciplinary technologist and co-founder of Futurecraft. https://stephenreid.net/By Ma Earth
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Podchat 25 | The power of Economic Reconciliation with Michelle Laviolette
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What is economic reconciliation, why is it important, and what does it have to do with protecting lands and empowering communities? I sat down with Michelle Laviolette, the director of Indigenous Banking Strategy at Vancity to break it all down and hear about all the ways that they are working to support and create opportunities for individuals and…
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Sustainable Business Standards in New Zealand - Florence Van Dyke
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Florence Van Dyke is the co-founder of Chia Sisters and Global Sustainability Lead at NZTE. https://www.chiasisters.co.nz/By Ma Earth
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Moral Courage and Imagination Activism - Phoebe Tickell (Moral Imaginations)
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Phoebe Tickell is the founder of Moral Imaginations. https://www.moralimaginations.com/By Ma Earth
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Camila Vergara's Vision of Plebeian Constitutionalism
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Chilean political philosopher Camila Vergara boldly argues in her book 'Systemic Corruption' that decay and corruption are inevitable even in liberal, representative systems because oligarchs end up capturing state governance and law. Ordinary people rarely have their own plebeian institutions to express their interests and curb the abuses of the e…
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Centralized Resistance, Decentralized Economics - Helena Norberg-Hodge (Local Futures)
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Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures. https://www.localfutures.org/By Ma Earth
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Gestures in the Minor Key - Bayo Akomolafe (Emergence Network)
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Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of the Emergence Network. https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/By Ma Earth
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Podchat 24 | Managing our forests for a better future - Ecoforestry with Barry Gates
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Forestry is a large part of the culture and economy of the PNW in both the US and Canada, but over a century of poor forest management has led to some of the largest issues we face today from a lack of biodiversity and carbon stores, to ecosystems that are less resilient to drought and forest fires. How can we create healthy communities living amon…
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On this month's episode of Living Permaculture, our guest is Rita Mary Hennigan, co-director of UpRoot Colorado. UpRoot Colorado is a local non-profit organization with the mission of increasing the nutrition security of Coloradans by harvesting and redistributing surplus, nutrient-dense foods while supporting the resilience of farmers. They discus…
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Finding Authentic Alternatives - Manu Caddie (Matawai Bio)
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Manu Caddie is the co-founder of Matawai Bio. https://matawai.nz/By Ma Earth
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Using Capital to Liberate Capital - Lynn Murphy (Transition Resource Circle)
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Lynn Murphy is the Co-Director of Transition Resource Circle. https://www.transitionresourcecircle.org/By Ma Earth
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100 - In conversation with Walidah Imarisha.
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And here we are. Episode 100. What a journey! Thank you so much for being a part of it with me. I could not be more delighted by today's guest, who I have wanted on this podcast since its inception. It's the wonderful writer, educator and poet Walidah Imarisha, one of my great she-roes. I really hope you are going to love the conversation that we h…
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Post-Capitalist Dialogues in the Kali Yuga - Alnoor Ladha (Brave Earth)
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Alnoor Ladha is a partner at Tierra Valiente (Brave Earth) and co-author of Post-Capitalist Philanthropy. https://braveearth.com/By Ma Earth
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Restoring Agrarian Commons - Severine von Tscharner Welcome (Agrarian Trust)
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Severine von Tscharner Welcome is the founder of Agrarian Trust. https://www.agrariantrust.orgBy Ma Earth
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How Can We Save the Seeds? Kay Baxter (Kōanga Institute)
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Kay Baxter is the co-founder of Kōanga Institute. https://koanga.org.nzBy Ma Earth
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Biodiversity Worldviews - Alexa Firmenich (Lifeworlds)
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Alexa Firmenich is the founder of Ground Effect and host of Lifeworlds. https://www.lifeworld.earthBy Ma Earth
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Cooking Sections Serves Up Art, Eco-Activism & Local Food
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The artistic duo known as Cooking Sections -- Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual of the Royal College of Art in London -- use their virtuoso visual, performance, and installation artworks to jolt people into new understanding of local ecosystems, capitalism, and food. Their work, shown at prestigious venues around the world to great acclaim,…
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Undercurrents 4.16.24 | Heatwave trends, bad winters, forest fires and better management in a changing climate
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Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and climate which all impact our understanding of the world and the way we relate to it. In other words, it’s all the unseen things that happen without much notice that impact the direction or flow of ou…
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On this episode of Living Permaculture, hosts Vanessa Harmony and Jerome Osentowski interview Claude Jolicoeur, a cider maker, apple grower, engineer, and author of multiple books and articles on the topic of cider including, “The New Cider Maker’s Handbook”, and, “Cider Planet”. They discuss the methods behind Claude’s award-winning ciders and exp…
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99 - What if invitations to participate in civic life were creative and caring?
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On this, our 99th episode of ‘From What If to What Next’, we have the first episode in which both guests actually joined my physically in the studio! I was joined by Ruth Ben Tovim and Anne-Marie Culhane, both extraordinary practitioners of community arts and what they call ‘the Art of Invitation’. I have learned so much from both of these extraord…
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Philanthropy, Privilege, and Power - Peter Lipman (Anthropocene Actions)
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Peter Lipman is an initiator of Anthropocene Actions. https://www.anaction.org/By Ma Earth
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Catching Poems in the Wind - Aubrey Yee (Our Beloved Futures)
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Aubrey Yee is the founder of Our Beloved Futures. https://www.ourbelovedfutures.com/By Ma Earth
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Conservationists on the Cap Table - Kevin Webb (Superorganism)
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Kevin is the co-founder and Managing Director of Superorganism. https://www.superorganism.com/By Ma Earth
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Composting Late Stage Capitalism - Tom Chi (At One Ventures)
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Tom Chi is the founding partner of At One Ventures. https://www.atoneventures.com/By Ma Earth
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98 - What if we deeply listened to the natural world?
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You're in for a bit of a treat here. In today's episode things are a little bit different: you usual Producer is your host, you usual host is a guest, we've woven some beautiful sound recordings into our episode to make it a sensory experience for you. Our other guest is Andrew Skeoch, sound recordist and author of the excellent book, Deep Listenin…
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Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet
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To counter the "implicit feudalism" that is the norm on the Internet, activist-scholar Nathan Schneider explains the potential of democratic governance in online life and its importance to "real world" democracy. A professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, Schneider argues that "online spaces could be sites of creative, radi…
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Beyond Legacy Carbon Credits - Josh Knauer (ReSeed)
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Josh Knauer is the co-founder of ReSeed. https://reseed.farm/By Ma Earth
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