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Today's episode is an excerpt from our commune course,

Principles of Permaculture with Warren Brush and Quail Springs. If you're

interested in this topic, I highly recommend you register for the free masterclass that Warren

teaches on the ancient roots of regenerative agriculture. Just go to onecommun.com slash roots to sign up for a time to watch.

Now whether you are interested in permaculture or have never even heard the word before, you'll come away from this one hour masterclass with a better understanding of how to source the food you eat in a way that is life-sustaining rather than life-draining.

So head on over to Onecommon.com slash roots to sign up.

And now here's Warren talking about our relationship with the sun,

captured sunlight storages such as wood and oil, and the importance of moving our

consumption of sunlight closer to the present moment. My name is Jeff Krasno, and welcome to

Kami. One of our goals as a permaculture designer is to produce more calories in our system than we consume.

And there's only one way to do that.

And that is that we, you know, in a closed system, what did that Einstein guy say about

basically you can't produce more energy in a system than what's already there, that the system is a closed system.

But thankfully, we have sunlight.

We have sunlight which is outside of our system that can

actually bring new energy in. So the only way for us as designers to produce more calories than we

consume is to harmonize our design to work with what I call real-time sunlight, which means the

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