Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 7 – Ringo in Afghanistan Part III
Aid Projects, Demonstration Sites, Education Centres, Podcasts, Project Positions — by Patrick Blampied June 25, 2010
‘Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker’ is a weekly podcast show from PRI Australia aimed at documenting the experiences of people out in the field and making more information available about what’s happening in the Permaculture world.
In Episode 7 I’m speaking to Paul ‘Ringo’ Kean who has been working on an aid project in Afghanistan.
Click play to hear the interview – and photo-commentary below:
Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 7 - Ringo in Afghanistan Part III
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Preparing to make compost using Paul Taylor’s method.
45% Carbon, 35% Nitrogen, 20% Manure.
Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 6 – David Spicer in Morocco
Aid Projects, Commercial Farm Projects, Education Centres, Podcasts — by Patrick Blampied June 17, 2010
‘Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker’ is a weekly podcast show from PRI Australia aimed at documenting the experiences of people out in the field and making more information available about what’s happening in the Permaculture world.
In Episode 6 I’m speaking to David Spicer who has been working on in Morocco, teaching a course as well as consulting for a farm there.
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Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 5 – Paul David Stockhausen from Hayes Valley Farm, San Francisco
Podcasts — by Patrick Blampied June 12, 2010
‘Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker’ is a weekly podcast show from PRI Australia aimed at documenting the experiences of people out in the field and making more information available about what’s happening in the Permaculture world.
In Episode 5 I’m speaking to Paul David Stockhausen from Hayes Valley Farm in San Francisco which is a very interesting urban Permaculture project.
If you’re in the area and have done a PDC you might be interested in Hayes Valley Farm’s PDC Teacher Training Course.
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Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 5: Paul David Stockhausen Comments (1)PRI Permaculture News Update – 7 June 2010
News, Podcasts — by Patrick Blampied June 7, 2010
The PRI Permaculture News Update is a weekly radio style news bulletin that gets you up to date with the world of Permaculture in just 5 minutes.
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PRI Permaculture News Update, 7 June 2010 Comments (0)Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 4: Heading to Vietnam
Aid Projects, Community Projects, Demonstration Sites, Education Centres, Podcasts, Village Development — by Patrick Blampied June 4, 2010
Indigenous minority Vietnamese worship the sacred, big old trees of the forest
Photograph © copyright Craig Mackintosh
‘Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker’ is a weekly podcast from PRI Australia aimed at documenting the experiences of people out in the field and making more information available about what’s happening in the Permaculture world.
In Episode 4 I’m speaking to Dave and Johnny who are preparing for a trip to Vietnam. It’s the first time they’ve attempted aid work but as discussed they’re feeling good about the trip.
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Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 4: Heading to VietnamFurther Reading:
- Letters from Vietnam – Arriving to HEPA
- Letters from Vietnam series – reporting from indigenous minority villages:
– The Road to Na Sai
– Ke Village
– The Hmong People – Claiming Back Lost Skills - Hooray for the Water Buffalo!
PRI Permaculture News Update
Podcasts — by Patrick Blampied May 31, 2010
The PRI Permaculture News Update is a weekly radio style news bulletin that gets you up to date with the world of Permaculture in just 5 minutes.
Subscribe to the feed on your i-Something/MP3 player and even if you can’t always make it to permaculture.org.au you’ll never miss what’s been happening and always know where to find the nitty gritty details of a story.
Each week we cover the posts from the last 7 days plus a selection of stories from other Permaculture projects worldwide.
You might even know someone that is kind of into Permaculture but not sure what the go is – this podcast might be for them. Subscribe and pass it on!
Also if you have a Permaculture story you think might be suitable for the update, let us know at media (at) permaculture.org.au. We can only report on it if we know about it.
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Permaculture World News Update, 31 May 2010 Comments (6)Great Soil Biology – The Silver Bullet
Compost, Courses/Workshops, Food Shortages, Fungi, Podcasts, Rehabilitation, Soil Biology, Soil Composition, Soil Conservation, Structure — by Patrick Blampied May 27, 2010
Talking with Soil Biology Wizard, Paul Taylor
When you put the Permaculture lens on and look at where our food comes from there are hundreds of dead canaries trying to warn us it’s time to wake up and make a change to something better.
As I look closer I realise the industrial food system is a planet destroying system that deprives people of health and well-being, putting more value on short-term profits and perfect looks than nutrient content and building resilient communities that have sustainable access to food. Not only that but it appears to be edging towards collapse as failing unproductive farms are propped up by more and more chemicals and machines that run on not-so-cheap-anymore oil.
So just as it was all looking a little bleak I was lucky enough to speak with Paul Taylor from Trust Nature. He is a true genius when it comes to understanding soil biology and restoring land back to fertility.
Comments (5)Flying Blind with Four Photos and an Outdated Google Map
Commercial Farm Projects, Demonstration Sites, Land, Nurseries & Propogation, Plant Systems, Podcasts, Rehabilitation, Trees — by Nick Huggins May 19, 2010
It can be hard making the leap from studying Permaculture to actually working it so I thought I’d share my first experience on making that leap.
Flying Blind with Four Photos and an Outdated Google MapHop in my shoes – I was asked to consult and work on a property in inland New South Wales, with some of the worst drought conditions in Australia, after some of the world’s leading consultants on land hydration and rehabilitation had been there.
Comments (11)Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 2 – Ringo in Afghanistan II
Aid Projects, Community Projects, Developments, Land, News, Podcasts, Project Positions, Village Development — by Patrick Blampied May 5, 2010
‘Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker’ (CPAW) is a new weekly podcast show from PRI Australia aimed at documenting the experiences of people out in the field and making more information available about what’s happening in the Permaculture world.
You can subscribe to CPAW podcast feeds here!
A local girls school started by Mahboba’s Promise 8 years ago and is the
location of an upcoming Permaculture garden program initiated by
"Kids Are Sweet International" founder Lesley ‘Zaynab’ Byrne.
Episode 2 is the second part of an on-going conversation I’m having over skype with Paul Kean, aka Ringo. Originally from Perth in Australia, Ringo is currently in Kabul, Afghanistan working on a project there which has been organised by PRI and funded by Mahboba’s Promise.
Topics covered in this episode:
- Local Knowledge
- Cement Water Tanks
- Excursion to Panjshir valley
- Mud building and design
- The hunt for nitrogen fixing trees
- Bali Belly
- Building the Compost Toilet
- Waste Disposal
Editor’s Notes: Ringo has taken PRI’s Permaculture Project Aid Worker (PPAW) course, which helps prepare workers for challenging/interesting/rewarding permaculture experiences worldwide, and is now finding paid placements through PRI’s growing network of projects. After Afghanistan, Ringo is heading to Malaysia. Our next PPAW course starts June 14, and after that is September 13.
Want to make your work known?: If you are working on-location somewhere, and want to tell the world about your work and vision, contact editor (at) permaculture.org.au in the first instance.
Pictures to follow:
Comments (2)Podcast: Buy Water Rights, Sell Riverina’s Future
Conservation, Dams, Gabions, Irrigation, Land, Limonia, News, Plant Systems, Podcasts, Potable Water, Regional Water Cycle, Rehabilitation, Swales, Trees, Water Contaminaton & Loss, Water Harvesting — by Patrick Blampied April 29, 2010
Last week Permaculture consultant Nick Huggins spoke to Anne Delaney from the ABC Riverina Breakfast radio program in Wagga Wagga, NSW. Listen here:
Nick Huggins Talks to ABC Radio About Riverina’s Water Blues
A backgrounder: Two Permaculture consultants, currently drought proofing a property in Livingstone, are calling for an end to the Australian Government’s water buy-back scheme, saying turning off the taps rather than helping farmers repair degraded landscape is selling the Riverina’s future short.
Comments (9)Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 1 – Ringo in Afghanistan
Aid Projects, Podcasts — by Patrick Blampied April 28, 2010
‘Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker’ is a new weekly podcast show from PRI Australia aimed at documenting the experiences of people out in the field and making more information available about what’s happening in the Permaculture world.
Episode 1: This week we’re speaking to Paul Kean, aka ‘Ringo’, who is from Perth, Australia and currently working on a project for the Permaculture Institute of Afghanistan, in Kabul.
Ringo has recently arrived and it’s just his luck that there’s been a hail storm which according to the locals is a once-in-25-year occurrence!
He’s having a great time so far and working on water as a priority. The photos below are described in detail in the podcast.
Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker Episode 1 - Ringo in Afghanistan Comments (12)Peter Ellyard Talks to Geoff Lawton
Podcasts — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor January 12, 2010
Peter Ellyard, author of the book Designing 2050 – Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity on Spaceship Earth, recently spoke to Geoff Lawton as he seeks solutions to help put our ’spaceship’ back on a sustainable track. Peter, obviously new to Permaculture concepts, tries to get a grip on the current spread of implementation worldwide and it’s planet-saving potential.
Geoff makes some ‘radical’, but fully appropriate statements, like the need to make current agricultural practices illegal, amongst others.
Click play below to listen. If you’re pressed for time and want to skip the intro, jump to 4:30 to go straight to the interview.
Interview with Geoff Lawton by Peter Ellyard Comments (5)ABC Rural Interview
Podcasts — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor December 5, 2008
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Michael Mackenzie, from ABC Rural Radio’s ‘Bush Telegraph‘ segment, recently spoke with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton about Permaculture. You can listen to the clip in its entirety here (16 min, 7.5mb MP3). To download the file, simply right-click on the link and choose ‘Save Link As’ (Firefox) or ‘Save Target As’ (Internet Explorer).
When asked if he thought Permaculture would go very far when he was first starting to lay the foundations in the 1970s, Bill’s reponse was the only answer that can realistically be given: "Yes". As he went on to say, the world is heading into trouble, and there really isn’t another viable escape route. Sooner or later Permaculture must become the all-absorbing theme for humanity, or else….
The sooner world leaders begin to realise this, and the sooner the world’s citizenry demand it, the less painful the transition.
Comments (2)Cross the Line – an Interview with Sustainable World Radio
Podcasts, Society — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor November 11, 2008
Geoff and Nadia demonstrating a miniature dam, swale
and overflow system at Quail Springs
When we were at Quail Springs recently, Sustainable World Radio came up to see us and to talk to Geoff and Nadia about their Permaculture work. You can listen to the clip in its entirety here. Geoff and Nadia talk about how and why they first got interested in Permaculture, and share inspiring thoughts on why we should "step over the line" from our never-complete, disatisfied lives, where we want to live a better, more fulfilling life, but we keep stepping back to the uncomfortable ‘comfort zone’ we know. As Geoff says, this psychological conflict has us "dying every day", as we keep living lives we don’t want to live – too scared to cross over and embark on what would actually turn out to be a very enjoyable path to personal fulfillment.
Thanks to Geoff, Nadia and Sustainable World Radio for a very inspiring talk!
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