Episode 5: Permaculture Design and Ethics with Adriana Magaña
In this episode I am joined by Adriana Magaña from The Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY. She is a drummer, permaculture designer, visionary, opinion haver, and life long student of the natural world. She makes her life in the Hudson Valley with her partner, daughter, and many plants, animals waters, microbes, and fungi. Adriana recently ran for Ulster County Legislator and is socially and politically active in her community.
The tools and methods of permaculture are an absolute necessity right now when the state of our global ecological, economic, and political conditions are impacting our daily lives, access to resources, and our ability to secure even the most basic of human rights and needs.
During our discussion Adriana and I explore her understanding of the 3 ethics of permaculture; Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share as well as how the current Covid-19 pandemic has brought specific aspects of permaculture into focus including seed saving, securing clean and accessible water, and localized food sovereignty. We also discuss social permaculture and how important it is to the success of other aspects of creating sustainable systems while practicing the skills needed to survive and thrive in a world of uncertainty and socio-economic reconstruction.
Notes and Links:
The Center for Bioregional Living
Book by Anna Tsing: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Dreamtime Village, Madison, WI
Michael Meade at mosaicvoices.org
Adriana Magaña on Facebook
Book by David Holmgren: Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability
Book by Bill Mollison: Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual
Permaculture designer Looby Macnamara
Consultations with Adriana Magaña and Andrew Faust: Center for Bioregional Living
Beginning Music by Auld Lang Syne
Ending Song by The Bounding Main
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