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Unstress with Dr Ron EhrlichSam Betteridge: Urban Agriculture MonthIn this inspiring episode of Unstress with Dr. Ron Ehrlich, I speak with Sam Betteridge, an educator and urban agriculture advocate, to celebrate Urban Agriculture Month. Together, we explore the transformative power of growing food in our cities and reconnecting with nature. Sam shares his journey from teaching in schools to managing education at Pocket City Farms, one of Sydney’s leading urban farms. He discusses the challenges and rewards of turning underutilized urban spaces into thriving hubs of regenerative agriculture, community connection, and sustainability. We delve into the innovative practices of permaculture, the importance of...
2024-11-2458 min
Nottingham PanthersPanthers Podcast - 2024 Off-Season Episode ThreeThe Panthers Podcast is back and in the latest edition focuses on the return of forward Sam Herr to the club.
Jono Bullard, Chris Ellis, Ken Feast and former Panthers netminder Dan Green also discuss the other signings from the past few weeks, including British players Jordan Kelsall, Ollie Betteridge, Josh Tetlow and Logan Neilson.
They also talk about the addition of forward Matt Alfaro.
2024-06-0732 minUnstress with Dr Ron EhrlichSam Betteridge: The Importance of Urban Agriculture for Human Health and Why We Need to Integrate rather than SegregateSam is an Urban Agro-ecologist and Regenerative Educator. His role as Education & Community Manager at Pocket City Farms, in the densely populated City of Sydney, is to teach people the importance and achievability of Urban Agricultural practices. ---- You can view the episode here at our website: Sam Betteridge: The Importance of Urban Agriculture for Human Health and Why We Need to Integrate rather than Segregate ---- Join the Unstress Health Community & Transform Your Life! https://bit.ly/3SRq0gg Connect with Dr Ron at...
2022-11-191h 03
SolarPunk PermacultureS2. The [__~#%^*S-*tripl*-P*^%#~__]The thoughts continue to pile up as I prepare for a new education endeavour. Let’s Get Dis.
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2022-08-0501 min
SolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Part 8 - CommunityCommunityI’m writing this text for Community. I’m writing this text for the Earth System.I’m writing this text for the gardeners, market growers, forest fillers, regen rangers, loggers, land clearers, guerillas and grand scale permaculturalist of our planet.Without community, we have nothing in common.In this tale of forest thoughts, we have relished in the joy and wonder of abundance that beby-products of our carbon gardens.In learning to create from scratch, we have created a garden to which others are no match.The gardener as archetype has been discovered.For no longer do you mine countr...
2022-01-0502 minSolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Part 7 - PreservationPreservation“All that yield. ALL OF THAT FOOOD!So much produce and beauty to preserve.” - I think to myself.There are no preservatives in the aisle of your syntropic agroforest. Not the store-bought shelf types anyway. This is good! We like it this way. A system in syntropy is a system of self-sorting.More or less preserving its own beauty over time, a carbon garden doesn't need much upkeep in the department of pretty. Gaia sure knows how to put on a show.But food on the other hand can last a long time if you know how to pres...
2022-01-0502 minSolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Part 6 - Edible Carbon GardensEdible Carbon GardensEver since your run-in with the forest mage, you've been racking your brain tryna remember seeing any limes in the forest.After a few days, the thought gradually catches up with you - *There aren't usually that many edible species in a natural growth forest system. Not many you know of with limes anyway.In our day and age, fruits, along with nuts and timbers and fibres and edible foods and medicines, are usually grown in orchards or greenhouses, or in properly managed, straight-line farms.And often this is for logical reasons. Growing edible foods for populations of...
2022-01-0502 minSolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Part 5 - StratificationStratificationPicture me this. - A garden full of umbrellas.Umbrellas are exactly how the forest mage wants you to think of trees.When you first stumble upon his buttress root, he looks at you with such an intensity, you wonder if he is of this time.His intensity also lets you know his forest observations are legit.The old guy brings forth a wisdom that you only get from watching how the rain falls w/ the sun over spans of time unmeasured.…And this is his general message.*Seedlings. Shaded they must be.Treat da trees lyk be dem brollies.Mu...
2022-01-0501 minSolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Part 4 - NurseryNurseryNursery work is plant work. If you're working or playing w/ plants, you're in the nursery game.Now the genie is off your back and you've begun pushing solar panels into the sky via billions of little green blades. You look around at the iridescent green magic carpet beyond your toes.Seems bare, right. Seems like you need some plants to grow. Make it a little more… bushy.I’ll tell you a tale that got me thinking about growing plants and setting up nurseries to do so. I was in the forest one day thinking to myself...“*Dude, it takes a...
2022-01-0502 minSolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Part 3 - SeedsSeedsSeeds are like eggs. Hard outer shell with a proto-life form, armoured at its core.If the character traits for seeds were not realised in the manner that they are today, who knows what sort of genetic response the embryonic stage of plants would have evolved to protect itself.Either way… I’m stoked we have seeds as they are. Super interesting little spheres, oblongs, brain-resembling embossed geometries. They are all good in my book. In fact, in every book that recounts our horticultural histories, you can be sure that seeds were as much a part of the story as plan...
2022-01-0502 minSolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Part 2 - GroundcoverGroundcoverThe term ground cover is a funny one. When I first heard it I went straight to the idea of a carpet on the ground… not the natural type either.When you first meet the ground cover genie, he asks you, “What are you looking for?”Stunned and unsure about this blue cloud of vapor that has appeared in your yard, you and he eventually get to yarning about the various functionalities a specific species of grass blade can wield over the great waterways in time.You relay thoughts as to how some plants can be grown strategically and fruitfully, found...
2022-01-0502 minSolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Part 1 - SoilSoilThere is a good reason to start with the soil. Apart from it being the interface between seed and plant - The part you're most interested in if you're into plants. It's literally the engine of the garden.This is why you have to create good soil before anything else will happen. No soil, no seed germination. No soil, no nutrient or substrate for seeds to grow in. No soil, No good.Now you could go to the local garden centre and buy a bag… a plastic bag… a petroleum-based polymer bag that holds soil created offsite.You could decompose your...
2022-01-0502 minSolarPunk PermacultureCarbon Gardens: Regenerative tales for our Earth System - INTRODUCTIONIntroductionWhat if I told you that your green waste bin was a waste of time?What If I told you that all the fertiliser you spent money on was unnecessary. What If told you that most people who call themselves gardeners are possibly better described as miners.Really!? You might say. Surely not miners…It's sadly true. Most of the methods used in conventional gardens are either backwards or completely void of anything remotely natural.You see, plants don't belong in bins or want to be shipped off to...
2022-01-0502 minSolarPunk PermacultureDr. Martin Freney - Sailing toward our SolarPunk future on an EarthshipDr. Martin Freney has spent the past decade+ invested in the concept of the Earthship. Inspired by books written in the 1980s by Michael Reynolds - founding father of the eco-home movement, Martin dove headfirst into this solutions-based construction niche in search of a better way to steward our planet. After living in, building, and studying Earthship design he decided to go all-in and base his Ph.D. Thesis on the movement in an attempt to legitimize the field scientifically.His work in; Earthship Architecture: post-occupancy evaluation, thermal performance, and life cycle assessment...
2021-12-241h 04SolarPunk PermacultureReflections - How life has changed over recent times.In this episode I take the opportunity of an hour commute to reflect on recent changes in my professional life. I speak on the integration of the built and biological fields and how the Permaculture ethics has shaped the way I navigate life on our beautiful planet. I reflect on the means by which the ethic of Fair/Future care manifests in my life and what the podcast is looking like in the not so distant future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/solarpunkpermaculture/message
2021-11-2313 minSolarPunk PermacultureJustin Hartley: No-till, no dramas. The Duckfoot ModelJustin is a small-scale regenerative agriculturist, looking after a number of parcels of land in the southern highlands of Sydney. Inspired by hands-on experience and the no-till market gardening methodologies of the ever-inspiring Charles Dowding, Justin has set out on a hero's journey to bring nutrient-dense food to the community in a regenerative manner. Not only is his farm responsible for the growth of organic produce that goes on to nurture the bellies of beautiful human beings, but he's also on a mission to teach others and connect interns with their own parcels of land. Small scale...
2021-11-211h 19SolarPunk PermacultureThe SPP BOOK! - An excerpt from, SolarPunk Methodologies: Responsible Approaches In An Age of Changing Climates & Contexts.In this episode, I share a chapter from my new book - SolarPunk Methodologies: Responsible Approaches In An Age of Changing Climates & Contexts.
I'm pleased to finally introduce this project to the world. It's still a WIP but I feel it's creeping ever closer and its time of readiness for this world is nigh.
The excerpt is entitled Stop.Buying.Fertiliser.
The subjects concerning the use of synthetic fertilsers, herbicides, pesticides and any other applicable chemical compound meant for the food we eat, is something I feel very passionate about.
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2021-08-1506 minSolarPunk PermacultureShubhendu Sharma - Hyperspeed Afforestation NowShubhendu is a special human being with an inspiring story. After attending a lunchtime workplace presentation, his life took a sudden U-turn away from the manufacturing of cars on a Toyota production line, towards the entrepreneurial pursuit of earth and people care via afforestation. For it was this chance event that Shubhendu was introduced to the Japanese biologist Dr. Akira Miyawaki, originator of the self-titled Miyawaki Method - a scientifically informed approach to reforestation that boasts hyperspeed germination rates.Shubhendu's meditations on the Miyawaki method have been documented extensively online via a number of TED talks and...
2021-08-152h 29SolarPunk PermacultureLaura Ryan - The Seemingly 'Impossible' SolarPunk HouseLaura is a woman on a mission. In my mind, she is a true SolarPunk. Fed up with the snail pace speed of development seen in the city of Sydney, in which we both reside, Laura has taken on the seemingly impossible project of retrofitting her Newtown workers cottage and turning it into an urban off-grid oasis. Seeking to use 'The Impossible House' as a demonstration of what can be achieved in the heart of our cities, she has embarked on a complex journey of design and construction synergy. Spending her surplus time coordinating with various architects and tradespeople...
2021-07-011h 11SolarPunk PermacultureAndrew Millison - Pure SolarPunk Permaculture. Right now, on Planet Earth.Andrew is a Senior University Instructor at the Oregon State University. Teaching mainly online courses at OSU, it's his youtube videos that have helped me and millions of other people around the globe better understand the concepts and principles of Permaculture design. His well-illustrated lightbox clips and the AR sandbox, an augmented reality tool one of his students developed and realised may project Andrew's work forward, suitably positions him as a legitimate SolarPunk and modern Permaculture Educator. On top of discussing what he has dubbed India's 'Water Revolution' and the country's pilgrimage towards Permaculture, we also discussed his philosophies on...
2021-06-121h 51SolarPunk PermacultureLauren & Oberon - Life in a waste-free Spiral GardenLauren and Oberon are living a conscious lifestyle that places Permaculture ethics at the centre of their living arrangements. As true Permaculturalists, they share with the world how & why living 'simply' is an achievement to strive for. With relationship-building at the centre of their family ethos, they have changed their behaviour to live a waste-free life. Literally counting the pieces of waste produced in a recycled jar. Lauren is a full-time homeschooler, builder of permaculture curriculums and shopkeeper to the beautiful Spiral Garden. An online store that promotes waste-free, simple living that celebrates beauty and functionality all in one sustainable a...
2021-06-051h 31SolarPunk PermacultureByron Birss - Creating Paradise in the Bay of PlentyByron is a community creating, fun'n'sun-loving Food Forester, openly practicing Agroforestry and Permaculture for the whole world to perceive. He spent some of his younger years immersed in nature at the Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School, a charter institute developed in honour of our favourite English Primatologist. Moving on to study environmental science at university, Byron found himself longing for a field that explored solutions rather than dialing in on the dismay some ecologies find themselves in. After stumbling on our favourite design framework, Permaculture peeled open his eyes to the possibilities and potential nature provided in abundance all around...
2021-05-241h 46SolarPunk PermacultureAaron Mears - The Living Classroom Legend of Lulu's Perch PermacultureAaron is a Permaculture and Highschool Educator with an inspiring and eclectic story. Having worked as a mental health nurse for a decade, he found himself searching for answers for the people in his care. Who would've guessed the answers would be found in the deserts of Jordan, w/ Permaculture heavy hitter; Geoff Lawton. Additionally, through the now 18-year-old 'Living Classroom Project', Aaron and his colleagues are drawing students into engaging living and learning spaces by drawing them outdoors on true, tangental learning tours. In this fascinating conversation, we discuss the super healthy Hunza people, his experience helping to...
2021-05-241h 43SolarPunk PermacultureDustin Jacobus - Illustrations of a SolarPunk futureDustin Jacobus is an artist exploring the SolarPunk futures our heart's desire, primarily through his strengths as an artist. In this conversation, we discuss how his illustrations help to fill a void many of the SolarPunk enthusiasts may feel today, as they search the internet looking high and low for depth and a better understanding of what a high-tech, eco-conscious future may look like and just how the society that sustains it might function. You can find Dustin on the gram @solarpunkart and you can see his jaw-droppingly detailed and inspiring publication @ www.hbottlefield.com. --- Send in a voice m...
2021-05-091h 28SolarPunk PermacultureLauren Nissen - Landscape Architect and Urban Designer of the future!Lauren Nissen is a Landscape Architect and Senior Associate at ASPECT Studios in Sydney Australia. Growing up w/ a keen interest in science and having a natural creative flair has taken Lauren on a Journey that most SolarPunks and Urban Permaculturists would only dream of. She has helped design and worked on some of the most progressive and forward-thinking projects found anywhere in the world.Not only is she building the future we SolarPunks are hoping for, but she is also incredibly insightful when it comes to understanding how places of the future will function as mechanisms of societal support...
2021-05-0953 minSolarPunk PermacultureAndreas - A systems thinker, an ecological philosopher & a SolarPunk FarmerAndy is a father and lifelong gardener living in Los Angeles. Working as a professional aquaculturist and a student of the environmental sciences, he thinks about the world in a deeply insightful manner. Drawing upon theories of Social Ecology, Andy inspired me with his Youtube Channel - The Solarpunk Farmer where he shares his knowledge and expertise with a global community. He's thought long and hard about many topics such as Radical Agriculture - an approach to Regernative Agriculture that he feels empowers individuals to do what is right in a society that can often get things wrong. Amongst many t...
2021-05-091h 11SolarPunk PermacultureSolarPunk Permaculture (Trailer)--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/solarpunkpermaculture/message
2021-05-0900 min
Devpolicy Talks2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 4a - The aid apathy crisisUnprecedented levels of need, biggest aid cuts ever, humanitarian catastrophe — all too familiar to hear about in the news, but does the average person care? There are more media outlets and information available than ever before, yet investment in quality international reportage has dropped off as traditional media has been destabilised. Citizen journalism, blogging and social media have stepped up in their place — but do they have the same ability to influence high level decision-making? For those of us working on aid and development issues, whether on major crises or issues that simmer away for years or decades, how do w...
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