Connecting Science, Ethics, and Climate with Permaculture Design
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2023
- In this video, Geoff shares his experiences at a permaculture design weekend in Hungary. To learn more about permaculture, watch Geoff's free Masterclass: www.discoverpermaculture.com
Permaculture can seem complicated, but it's really about connecting different disciplines based on science, ethics, and climate. As a teacher, it's important to simplify the system and focus on communication. The ultimate achievement is producing students who become better designers, consultants, and teachers than the teacher. With the rise of AI, it's important to stay concise and focus on the mainframe design. We can't afford not to have a different approach to the world's problems, and permaculture offers a proven solution based on ethical design science.
Understanding climate is crucial in design. You don't have to be an expert, but you need to know the basics. Climate change is happening, and it's important to be aware of its effects. It's not easy to adjust to different climates, but it's necessary to be a global citizen.
Key Takeaways:
- Permaculture is a connecting system between disciplines.
- Being an expert in one particular field is not necessary.
- Permaculture is about science and ethics, not metaphysics.
- Ethics are important in the way we behave and design.
- Permaculture is a design science based on ethical principles.
- Climate change is a real concern and must be considered in design.
- Being a global citizen means understanding climate on a larger scale.
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About Geoff:
Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture consultant, designer, and teacher that has established demonstration sites that function as education centers in all the world's major climates. Geoff has dedicated his life to spreading permaculture design across the globe and inspiring people to take care of the earth, each other and to return the surplus.
About Permaculture:
Permaculture integrates land, resources, people, and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies - imitating the no-waste, closed-loop systems seen in diverse natural systems. Permaculture applies holistic solutions that are applicable in rural and urban contexts and at any scale. It is a multidisciplinary toolbox including agriculture, water harvesting and hydrology, energy, natural building, forestry, waste management, animal systems, aquaculture, appropriate technology, economics, and community development.
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I could listen to Geoff all day long. Thanks for the work you are doing 👍
Thank you Geoff and thank you too Weedy for helping to inspire people.
You too brother! Love your channel 👍
Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain where we enjoy and implement what you teach. Thank you
Wonderful to hear you talking with your students in Hungary, Geoff!! Learning to see mainframe permaculture design in your online PDC in 2015 was the culmination of 10 years of struggling with the complexity of permaculture (ideas, techniques, strategies, etc.). Now, my thinking about everything I do in my life project (and whatever I teach to those who want to learn...) springs from that mainframe understanding. The results have been overwhelmingiy beneficial in my own project and I am beginning to see those benefits for my students, as well. I can never thank you enough for the way you teach and for your infinite enthusiasm for this amazing paradigm that is helping us change the world, one permaculture student/practitioner/designer at a time!! May Allah forever guide you and bless you, as well as your beautiful family....
Thank you! I am a novice at implementing permaculture principles, but learning about the interconnectedness of EVERYTHING has dramatically changed my perceptions in my own tiny microclimate of a backyard garden.
The work you are doing is so valuable and I love seeing more and more people becoming aware of it. Gives me hope.
I love watching your video and thanks for explaining that easy to understand. My name is Suzie, originally from Thailand but I have been living in New Zealand for almost 15 years. When I have a plan to return to Thailand, your channel was the first one I have subscribed to learn about permaculture and I will never left. This guides me to start our family farm called PP Organic Farm Thai. We all love protecting environment and we wanted to demonstrate to the others that we can live happily without hurting forest but planting more trees. Thanks again for sharing, I am going back to Thailand in next month, July
Good wishes .
You make a very nice decision .in colder temperatures, you can't grow the plants you want to.
🏐psychology, intuition, psyche..🏐
remember exhale, remember drinking water maintain healthy weights.
Great video.
Geoff it’s taken me a lifetime to grasp the concept of global climate. I’ve not traveled globally but I have traveled all over North America and I’ve personally visited so many different ecosystems in my years, but it wasn’t until I moved 900 miles northeast from the grate lakes region to the other side of the Appalachian mountains. On the surface one wouldn’t assume the climate would be all that different… but boy I was in for a shock. The “growing season” alone is a full 3 months shorter here in comparison to what I am used to even though the seasonal temperatures aren’t really all that different
great to see you again,I cannot beleive the majority of people,still choose to ignor this life changing/saving philosify
i committed to these ideas since I first saw you and Bill,and love every day,still learning and making mistakes,but loving results,thanks very much Geoff
This is beautiful
Thanks you for sharing
I have chosen, the remainder of my life is as a fractal originating from Mollison, through Avis and now ME
Geoff, you were the spoke in the turning point of my life.
I'm SO grateful for you all and the 100s of others I have met along the way.
LET'S GO 🌈💯🌌
We are doing it together locally, across the globe 🌏🌍🌎🕊️ For us all ✨
Happy to hear you again🎉
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
I love your thoughts about teaching! ❤
Love it love it love it!
Many people are undertandably upset over the politicalization of climate change, but they do understand the need to prepare for extreme weather, rebuilding carbon in soil, rainwater harvesting, regreening with biome-appropriate, food-producing perennials, shrubs, vines, and trees, etc. These have their own merit, and build resilience.
It may be better to relate to people about building resilience to weather extremes.
In the US SW we've had heavy snows this past winter and spring. A lot of snowmelt fails to soak water into the bare, open, hard ground. Most of the water moves to large, centralized lakes, rivers, reservoirs, or evaporates off.
Trying to raise awareness for building small, frequent rainwater harvesting catchments, biome-appropriate regreening, better farming and ranching practices, etc.
Most people in SoCAl consider that 'granola.'
They prefer to remain ignorant of the benefits of such practices and clamor for aqueducts, desalination plants, etc while they spiral downward.
Very good video.
Boy do I hear you on that one!
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Think if we ditch the 'climate change' convo to one of restoring soil, building food resilience, etc, we'd have a lot more consensus exactly where we need it.
Those things would help address climate change if done on a large scale, but I’m not sure that there’s enough time left to fix the greenhouse effects already in motion if we relied solely on the natural growth of the permaculture community. All the things we do are part of the solution though, and are more urgent than ever. I agree that there are many audiences that are better persuaded by the countless benefits of permaculture without getting into climate change.
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I think arguing about climate change is pointless at this point. Arguing to prepare for natural disasters because they are always a thing makes lots of sense.
I am a big fan of Brad Lancaster, who teaches rainwater harvesting. In the West and Midwest US we have a lot of water issues. The Oglalla Aquifer is at 20%. Anywhere that is prone to drought s and flooding could follow his advice.
Mark Shepard does holistic permaculture on a larger, farm scale. It is called restoration ag. We need to start yammering for holistic food produced the way he does it. His expanded from about 100 acres one degraded hilly patch of ground in Wisconsin to about 5 farms in several states in his region.
The benefits with his methods include getting away from overgrazing, fields of monocultured grains, what-have-you models; to multi-storied, alley cropped, livestock-managed, biome-appropriate, healthy foods grown to produce much more calories and nutrition per acre than the neighboring field of corn. This while boosting farmer economic resilience.
Both Mark and Brad have books on their respective practices.
@@b_uppyI’ve always said this. Climate change is the worst marketing ever: “the world is slightly getting warmer every 25 years and your children’s children may feel it.” Vs “let’s have a cleaner and less polluted environment and grow more food and have more parks”… which is more convincing?
But part of my cynically thinks “they” love climate change because it’s so amorphous they can basically ban anything they don’t want in the name of climate change as you can’t disprove their argument of “cows cause co2” without having to explain a lot vs a sound byte.
Thank you Geoff
Love this stuff
Amazing! Mooore pleeeease.
The image for this video was a picture of Geoff's face and the question "What is Permaculture?". I was delighted to see this because I'm often asked by people and I hoped to find a simple answer from someone who really understands Permaculture. But Geoff's talk is neither clarifying nor simple, which is worrying since Geoff's starts with: "I love to explain to my students the simplicity of Permaculture. It's so easy to express Permaculture as enormous amounts of complication..."
I love Geoff's depth and breadth of understanding, but I think I might just stick with the dictionary definition of Permaculture, when friends ask:
"The development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient."
Defining permaculture should include that it has ethics, which separates it from other ag and gardening practices. It also asks for initial observation of about a year so you know what happens with topography, etc. It's not exactly organic, in that it may ie use a GMO product if the original plant is suffering from a fungal disease. It does differ from regular gardening or agriculture in that it is done in an effort to be holistic.
Hopefully that's a start of a definition.
@@b_uppy Thank you, yeah 'ethics' is a good, clarifying addition to the dictionary definition.
@@b_uppy It's not the only type of agriculture with ethics, there are many (eg: natural farming, knf, jadam, syntropic). I'd say the one thing about Permaculture is it tries to encompass many other aspects of people's lives, like housing, waste management, etc.
@@tomatito3824
I would consider the others subtypes of permaculture, except when they fail to meet that criteria. Think others embrace 'principles,' rather than ethics.
Technically permaculture is permanent + agriculture. Think the reason it is able to go broader is because it concerns itself with people care, animal care, etc.
@@b_uppy Not everyone welcomes having their pre-existing or even ancient system or culture being called permaculture. Andrew Millison said it best (paraphrasing): Permaculture is for people who lost their way, people who forgot how to live sustainably (typically city people, but also the latest generation of farmers, who only learned the industrial way), and need to relearn how to live. People who have always lived sustainably don't need it.
Thank you for addressing the elephant in the room Geoff. Been cooking on the solar oven in the UK. 😁 God bless you and yours.
love this
Geoff is like if someone merged Mr. Rogers, Mr. Wizard, and Mel Bartholomew into one person and turned him loose in a garden. Maybe some Bob Ross, too, because he's plopping happy little trees all over the place lol. This is not a bad thing!
I love to lusten to all your wise words and I wish I could have been there in Hungary... It's "just around the corner" of Austria + Croatia where we are. But I heard about it too late... Hope there will be another option...
My theory of climate extreming, of course based on permaculture thinking, is the eliminating large areas of climax forests.
As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises?
The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature's inner balance.
We live in a tightly-closed and interdependent system in which everything boomerangs back to us. While living in such a system, we need to reconsider what we want and think, and how we treat each other, because our human connections are the primary influence on how nature responds to us.
It is common to think that climate is dependent on factors outside of us-whether it be balances between heat and cold in the environment, or the effects of various kinds of pollution we emit-because we lack a complete picture of how our attitudes to each other bring about the strongest responses from nature toward us.
No creature distorts nature the way that we people do. And it is not simply a matter of switching to renewable energy sources, electric cars and the like; it is a matter of how we relate to each other.
If we truly wish to witness more balance throughout nature and not have to deal with all kinds of cold waves and other natural disasters, then similarly to how we have electricity, water and gas meters in our homes, we should also have meters that count how much evil we emit into the world from our negative attitudes to each other. What I mean is that if we could feel the extent to which we emit negative forces into the world, which negatively ricochet back to us, then we would wish to change this negative driver within us. We would want to switch it to a drive that makes our human connections positive, and which harmonizes us with nature.
In simple terms, when we get up in the morning, we should first and foremost consider what we need to do in order for all people to have it good. Developing such an attitude is not so simple, yet we will need to seriously work on it as we head into the future. A life of increasing blows from nature or a life of peace and harmony depends on the extent to which we impact a shift in our attitudes to each other-from negative to positive.
What about Monsanto GMO cotton that was supposed to cut back on pesticides, but now has created pesticide resistant pesticides
@Geoff Lawton request you to explain Peru's aqueducts from Nazca Civilization..in some other vlog
what is your theory about climate change and fluctuations... really interest about that.
What Geoff means re: proof regarding the highest science - metaphysics - is that given its subject - the principles of being itself - principles that are assumed by and regulate all the other sciences - are immaterial and not given mandatorily to our senses. e.g reality of change (causes temporally precede their effects i.e. something can't exist to cause itself before it exists, stability of identity amidst change of a natural thing, causes can't give to effects what they don't posses in some way etc), reliability of senses to contact reality of objective world, etc etc are most certain *in themselves* but what they are, their nature or full definition is not certain to *us*. For example: that things change is certain to us, but what is change? how does something become another thing and with mysterious regularity and not some other thing? (Thomas Joseph White O.P "The Fifth Way"). Or full treatment 'Natural Science as Philosophy' Charles De Koninck.
Geoff has more “give no fucks” energy these days. Our civilization needs people to act sooner than later. No body gets it more than Geoff.
Should I buy land first and start or do a PCD and then buy land and start?
Hi Geoff, hi Discover Permaculture Team, I have a question Geoff could answer in another video maybe. During this video Geoff says about climat change that he has his own idea. As a permaculture designer I try to understand and anticipate what’s happening and I would be pleased if Geoff could his ideas about climate change… thanks for the work you do.
Imagine the shit storm after saying anything against the science.
@@marcuss5330 or maybe based on science with wider and deeper understanding! Geoff always based his talk and teaching in science, why should it be different?
@@francoisroland01 I can imagine what he might think about. Deforestation! Because forests are essential regarding cloud building far away from seas.
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@@marcuss5330 thanks. Yes that might be a piece of the answer. Geoff often talks about Fred Pearce « a trillion trees - how we can reforest our world » but I sure he has a broader view!
Can you not build a Permaculture AI? You could feed it land and climate and weather details and elevation mappings and have it see patterns and create and present a few optimum designs for you? And then build a chat permaculture AI that can answer questions.
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The bullet has come around - where have all the insects gone? In the UK they are just not their this year.
I have noticed we are lacking a lot of diverse insects we used to have in abundance.
(Edited for grammar).
@@b_uppy we were exposed to NeoNics in the UK for a few years and without them farmers have increased the usage of conventional pesticides, usually to a 3 type cocktail.
@@b_uppy The synergistic effect of 3 is lethal.
@@dunk_law
How do you mean?
@@b_uppy standard pesticides are called relatively safe, perhaps a 10% risk to other insects for each one. Combining them becomes an 80% risk instead of 30%.
Talking up AI in June, and a couple months later it is telling people you can melt an egg and propagating that result (via Quora) to the top of Google... lol/sigh
According to the UN climate change is only a couple hundred years old. Learn something new everyday, I guess.
Thank you Geoff for your encouragement !
🙏from Himalayan foot hills
Whereabouts in Himalayas kashmir ?
Ive neen watching your educational materials for a few years now, amd found it pretty distressing that your now promoting AI 😞😞💔 AI is now taking millions of jobs, we as humams who are supposed to live in harmony with our land, using our hands and having community gardens, this is not, in many people's opinions something we should encourage...
Im pro people, pro life, pro connections with others whom think the same or want to do the best they can for our devistated dirt...
Dont use AI, or we will end up woth the same problems as we seen woth the digital banking system this week, were 1000s of Australian people were stuck a shop counters petrol stations supermarkets, unable to access"ANY" of their "OWN" money...
An just for the record, if we dont stop the Australian GEO ENGINEERING PROGRAM, "NOTHING" will grow, at all,..
Currently the entire carbon levels for the globe is 0.04% if it gets to 0.02 plant life cant exist..
But the mainstream wont show, Australians oldest know weather scientist with 50yrs in the BOM, who is trying to alert all Australians that the government is now altering historical weather records to suit the current narative...
Jeff i love ya mate and your brain, your one of the best, but it betroves me that you of all people say nothing about the damage the GEO ENGINEERING IN AUSTRALIA IS DOING TO PLANT LIFE..
in the current system they spray,
STRONTIUM BERILIUM PHOSPHORUS ALUMINIUM BURIUM SULPHUR COAL DUST.. HAVE YOUR WATER TESTED IN YOUR WARER TANKS AFTER RAIN... AND TELL ME WHY THESE METALS ARE IN THE WATER EVERYWHERE, AND DO NOT NATIONALITY OCCUER IN NATURE, but can cross the blood brain barrier. over 1000 climate scientists jave joined together world wide to expose this catastrophic so called planet saving science..they tested water from every conceivable place even snow from Mt Everest, has all the mentioned metals in it...
PLS can you give a decent answer other then be like all the rest and just dismiss this as climate tinfoil hat wearer's... PROOVE me wrong...
Explain this pls...why has the Australian government just so SINGED a 200yr contract to geo engineer Australia, till 2223... The documents are publicly available...
Or at very least look into the John Hopkins University Gates foundation FUNDED UN BACKED geo engineering program...
Mr gates is buying up farm land buy the 1000s of ackers AMD FENCING IT OFF AS NATURAL LAND NOT TO BE USED FOR FARMING..., is also funding the geo engineering under the gize of climate change, THEY ARE TRAPPING HEAT..
IVE BEEN BUILDING A FOOD FOREST FOR 3YRS NOW, ALL THE BEES HAVE GONE NATIVE AS WELL AS EUROPEAN, MANY INSECTS ARE NOT AROUND ANY MORE AND DAILY WE SEE PLANS BILLOWING SMOKE FROM THE REAR, NO NOT CON TRAILS THEY DISSIPATE LIKE STEAM, AND IF IT IS WHY DOSE IT STAY IN THE SKY FOR DAYS..
WHY DO WE NOW SEE BLUE AND GREEN AND PURPLE IN SUNSETS...
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 COME ON WE ARE ALL INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, TO IGNORE IS TO DEPRIVE OUR CHILDREN OF NOT JUST GOOD DRINKING WATER BUT THE VERY FOODS WE ARE TRYING TO GROW, AT 0.02% PLANTIFE DIES ..
PERIOD...