Extension - Continued. . .
1. What is permaculture?
Permaculture is a set of design principles centered on
whole systems thinking, simulating, or directly utilizing the
patterns and resilient features observed in natural
ecosystems. It uses these principles in a growing number of
fields from regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and
community resilience.
2. View: Living a Radically Simple
Permaculture Life
Discussion:
What did you think of the piece?
How many cars does the average household have?
How much does this cost per year?
What does the quote "Going without means
saying yes to other things."
How does this couple pay their mortgage?
What is their bank?
What is our responsibility as those of the
"developed" world?
Discussion:
What is a food desert?
What does the speaker mean by "food is the
problem and the solution."
4. The Need To Grow - follows pioneers of cutting edge technology as they fight to localize
sustainable food systems and regenerate Earth's dying soils.
With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, The Need To GROW offers an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement - an 8 year old girl challenges the ethics of a beloved organization - a renegade farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource efficient agriculture - and an accomplished visionary inventor faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a game-changing technology.
Narrated by Rosario Dawson (Marvel’s The Defenders, The Lego Batman Movie), TNTG delivers alarming evidence on the importance of healthy soil - revealing not only the potential of localized food production working with nature, but our opportunity as individuals to help regenerate our planet’s dying soils and participate in the restoration of the Earth.
Questions:
Earth has lost 1/3 of it's farmable land in the last 40 years.
Today 70 % of the earth's farmable soil is gone.
What is bio char? Why is it beneficial for soil regeneration? Bio char is the bi-product created by the GPH. Adds air, water absorption benefits to the soil.
What is a GPH? Green Power House
During WW2 how much food was grown in local gardens? 40%
What percentage of our food is thrown out and ends up in landfill? 97%
What are the affects of this? Increase in C02, Methane, Nitrus
What is a closed looped system? Where the waste is utilized to put back into the system - full loop -
zero waste and regenerative.
Note: We got to 1:10 in The Need To Grow film - last 30 min for Monday.
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