Dear Reader: The formation of the Climate Change Permaculture Project is a way of managing my own climate anxiety. This anxiety kind of ebbs and flows. Then when I watch You Tubes like the one of Yuval Noah Harari explaining that if society were to invest just two per cent of global GDP to prevent […]
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Dear Readers: If you have read past blogs that I have written, you will have noticed that the main issue that CCPP seeks to address is climate change. However, it is not the only issue. CCPP also seeks to address food insecurity. According to an Aug 4, 2022 article in the NYT written by Lora
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Dear Reader: I am not exactly sure . . . but I think that the Climate Change Permaculture Project (CCPP) may have gotten a shout out from the New York Times!!! In the 23 July edition of the NYT, the Time’s Editorial Board wrote an editorial entitled Climate Change is Not Negotiable. In their piece,
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Dear Reader: I have previously written on the topic of climate anxiety. When I first wrote about it, the phenomenon was just being identified. Now, according to a climate psychologist whom Molly Peterson interviewed for her 20 July 2022 NYT article entitled How to Calm Your Climate Anxiety, “it has really burst through.” When we
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Dear Reader In a recent blog, I revealed myself to be a systems thinking geek. I believe that there are two systems thinking concepts that can explain the sociological component of the climate crisis in which we currently find ourselves. I explain them below. The Boiled Frog Syndrome Have you ever heard it said that
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Dear Readers: In case you missed it, last week, the Supreme Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, one of the biggest sources of planet-warming pollution. One might be tempted to think that there is now, no way that we can ever meet our targets to lower
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Time for true confessions . . . I am an unabashed systems thinking geek. It probably started when I worked for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Senior management hired Daniel Kim, protégé of Peter Senge, the person who wrote The Fifth Discipline, to lead an organisational reform effort. So, I read an article in the
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Dear Reader : This weekend, I tried to block out all the bad climate news[1], [2], [3] and stay positive. So I binged on YouTubes and ended up having an epiphany. So you have read on many of my blogs the assertion that regenerative agriculture, embodied in the principles of permaculture, can sequester carbon. Remember I
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Dear Reader In the last blog, you read about the plans for the bardominium. Just to remind you: we will reconstruct a barn on a dilapidated Michigan foundation, using ancient and current technology, and convert it into residential housing for the Permaculture Incubator Program trainees. I had always assumed that I would pay for the
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Dear Reader In previous blogs, you have read about the Permaculture Incubator Programme. You understood that it is going to be a residential programme, right? So, you may be asking yourself: where are the PIP trainees going to live? On Russon Family Farms property, there is a dilapidated barn foundation made of stone (see below).
