DAVID HOLMGREN on a Quiet Boycott /221

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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As so-called powerful “industrial civilizations” continue to decline into dysfunction, unable to care for the vast majority, the call to localize, reinvest in household economies, and strengthen our capacity for self-reliance is becoming emphatic. Amongst failing institutions and the remnants of exploitative wealth, this week’s guest, David Holmgren, encourages us to lean into crisis as a temporary portal that allows us to focus on the potential of all that lies around us. In conversation David explores creative reuse, salvage economies, ethical relationships, permaculture, and the intricacies of mass movements that are trying to override a system that is deeply committed to a machination of consumerism and debt. David Holmgren is the co-originator of the permaculture concept following publication of 'Permaculture One', co-authored with Bill Mollison in 1978. His most recent book, 'RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future' shows how people can downshift and retrofit their homes, gardens, communities and above all, themselves to be more self-organised, sustainable and resilient into an uncertain future.

Music by Roma Ransom and Jody Segar.

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1:18.6	Hello and welcome to For the Wild podcast. I'm Ayanna Young.
1:23.1	Today I'm speaking with David Holmgren.
1:26.4	So we need to have working models at the smaller scales that then
1:32.7	inform and feed up into the redesign, reformation, and we're necessary,
1:40.0	the radical turning over destruction and salvage of larger scale entities.
1:47.4	David is the co-originator of the permaculture concept following publication of Permaculture 1,
1:53.7	co-authored with Bill Mollison in 1978. His most recent book,
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