Hello everyone. Welcome to this show. I'm your host, Chris Martinson of Peak Prosperity. And today, really special guest for you. This is a gentleman who was just giving presentations at our yearly gathering here at our farm called Honey Badger Farm and the Honey Badger Gathering. He gave this really amazing talk. blew my mind. Had to have him on the show. We've got to talk about this more in public,

because you need to hear this. This is a really amazing set of ideas that are going to be

shared here. So I'm really looking forward to a long-form conversation, and I think you're

going to really enjoy it. Now, we're talking with Alan Booker, who is the founder and executive

director of the Institute of Integrative,

integrated regenerative design, which trains professional design practitioners to create systems.

I love systems that are ecosystemic, biocompatible, and regenerative.

We're going to find out what those words actually mean because how we define

those is really important. Alan, so great to be talking with you here again today.

Great to be here. And thanks for opening up the floor for the conversation.

Well, you know my work. I take the economy, energy, the environment, kind of a system,

it's a high enough level that people can see how the pieces touch. I put them in a spot,

connect the dots, and say, this is highly unsustainable. I came at this really from an energy

and an economic standpoint with the E, the 30,

the environmental side really being, well, you know,

I can tell you about resources,

is sort of a taking stuff out,

putting stuff back in pollution and all of this and that.

That was the level I'd looked at it.

You're coming at it from a complimentary direction

and looking at the same things.

And when you scan the world with your view,

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