David Holmgren – Permaculture stories celebrating floristic and fungal abundance

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David Holmgren – Permaculture stories celebrating floristic and fungal abundance
David Holmgren draws on a lifelong passion for ethnobotanical knowledge and practise to tell stories that celebrate abundance and diversity, pushing the boundaries of social and, at times, legal norms. These true stories cut paths through the psychosocial wilderness towards a relocalised ethnobotany of the everyday to sustain us in the shadow of failing techno industrial civilisation.

Bio
David Holmgren is the co-originator of the permaculture concept following publication of Permaculture One, co-authored with Bill Mollison in 1978. David is globally recognised as a leading ecological thinker, teacher, writer and speaker promoting permaculture as a realistic, attractive and powerful alternative to dependent consumerism. Other key publications include Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability (2002) and Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt To Peak Oil and Climate Change (2009) and most recently, RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future (2018).

00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:07 Backyard botany: the retrosuburban origins of permaculture
00:06:39 The day superman got busted: dissident behaviour as family culture
00:12:47 You are what you eat: the ethnobotanic origins of permaculture
00:18:43 They’re all poisonous you know! Confronting fungal diversity
00:22:55 Eating what you grow: the downsides of 200kg of feijoas
00:28:00 A bucket of bananas: valuing the exotic
00:34:10 The greenhouse and the grass: passive solar and passive resistance
00:45:04 Reconnecting through storytelling
00:46:55 Q&A

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