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permaculture workshops - listen online
The Tilth Producers Internet Audio Archive has the beginning of an excellent library of conference keynote speeches and workshops related to permaculture. Listen online for free:
www.tilthproducers.org
Paul Stamets - Mushrooms as Allies: Potentiating Planetary Host
Defenses through Fungi. Tilth Producers 2003 Conference Workshop.
Paul Stamets, extraordinary mycologist and long-time Tilth member,
takes you to the outer limits of the miracles of mushrooms in this
wide-ranging and ground-breaking talk.
Vandana Shiva - Agriculture for Life: Beyond the suicidal Economy of
Industrial Farming and Globalized Agriculture. Tilth's 30th
Anniversary Conference Keynote Address November 2004. Dr. Vandana
Shiva inspires and awakens us as she describes the history of her
anti-corporate/pro-farmer activism in her home country of India.
Fred Provenza - The Role of New Science in Sustainable and Organic
Agriculture (with introduction by Kent Mullinex). Tilth Producers
2005 Conference Keynote Address. "There are interesting analogies
between agricultural systems and the three pillars of
physics'Newtonian Mechanics, Quantum Theory and Relativity Theory'in
that some facets of agriculture are predictable (Newtonian), whereas
others are relative (Relativity) and considerably less predictable
(Quantum)." Fred Provenza, Dept. of Forest, Range and Wildlife
Sciences, Utah State University.
Tilth Producers of Washington, a Chapter of Washington Tilth
Association, is the organic and sustainable farm organization of
Washington State. A membership organization of over 400 Washington
growers, Tilth Producers fosters and promotes ecologically sound,
sustainable agriculture in the interest of environmental
preservation, human health and social equity.
Also, if you enjoy getting this kind of information by listening online (as I do), check out www.globalpublicmedia.org/ Public service broadcasting for a post-carbon world
www.loe.org/ Living on Earth (weekly enviro show from NPR)
www.beyondorganic.com/ Beyond Organic Radio (another weekly enviro show with a focus on food issues, based in Northern CA)
www.radio4all.net/index.php a lot of the local audio activists in Sound Posse upload their stuff here
Jennifer
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posted 06/20/06
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