Regenerative Revolution Podcast
By Jennings Ingram
Regenerative Revolution PodcastMar 25, 2021
Using Near Death Experiences & Science Fiction as Tools for Deepening our Creativity
It's been a wild ride since my last podcast episode, and I'm so excited to explore how we can use challenging experiences (I've had TWO near-death experiences in the past month and a half - !) and science fiction to greatly deepen our relationship with our creativity and help us use it for good.
Basically, I'm weaving together everything I've learned from my recent wild life experiences and my current Dune obsession - the books, not the movies - to give you juice you can use to fuel the creative aspects of your great work in the world.
To check out a real-life Dune transformation, head to this video by Andrew Millison to see the Great Green Wall being grown across Africa to stop the march of the Sahara desert.
And you can always connect with me on Instagram, LinkedIn, or through my agency's website, Jennings-Creative.com.
Case Study: Zero to Viral in Less than 3 Months + 3 Tips to Help You Do The Same
At my ethical digital marketing agency, Jennings Creative, we’re passionate about helping amazing causes get great traction online. So, when we were approached to put a fire under the online growth of The Living/Dying Project, it was an honor to create an SEO-driven social media strategy to grow their online audience, help more people, and yes - go viral. And guess what? We achieved all that, and more!
This is a breakdown of a little bit of the strategy used in achieving this milestone, shared as three actionable tips that can help you on your journey to creating a thriving audience and community online that translates into real-world positive impact.
Read the full article with screenshots here.
Learn more about the agency and hire us here.
Flipping the Script on Business: 3 Mistakes to Avoid & 3 Steps to Success in Creating an Ethical Business
In this episode, we explore how to effectively flip the script on mainstream thought about making a great living while building a meaningful life of service, through the lens of my own personal experience building Jennings Creative Agency.
I catch you up on what happened last year, why I paused production on the podcast for part of last year, going insanely viral, and what's happening with that TV show contract (?!?).
Then I take you through the journey of explosive growth Jennings Creative Agency went through last year, sharing 3 common pitfalls aspiring ethical entrepreneurs run into (I know because I fell into them headfirst and had to learn the hard way!) and 3 must-have steps for you in structuring your business.
I'm so thrilled to be here with you for season FOUR of this podcast, and excited to share mini-episodes mixed in with interviews with a focus on entrepreneurship this year.
Resources:
Content Creation Mini Course (for all you DIY lovers out there!)
Viral Hair Growth Secrets from Nature
After going wildly viral (over 11 million views!) for sharing about growing my hair down past my waist with nettles tea, I wanted to share the full download of the five steps I’ve taken to grow my hair insanely long by working with the power of plants and nature. My hope for you is that you come away with clear, actionable steps, and that this connection with plants acts as a gateway for you to deepen your connection with nature and participate in the regeneration of our beautiful planet.
Oil masks with Castor & Kukui Nut Oil
Dermarolling your scalp with 1.0mm dermaroller from Gin Amber Beauty
Clean diet, no processed foods
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From Rude Awakening to "Work" Revolution: Moving to Creating Paradigm-Shifting Content Full-time
Unpacking my approach to the quest so many of us are on to thrive in this movement, and how I’ve shifted my entire business structure to reflect a better way to be paid for my skill sets and use my creativity.
After a rude awakening last year after being fired when I asked for a raise with a client of two years (in my consulting and planting business - !), and getting turned down for multiple raises because “it’s more cost effective to just replace you,” I’ve been on a mission to figure out how to reach financial empowerment in a way that still serves the greater good, honors my unique makeup, and doesn’t leave me ridiculously burnt out.
There’s still a lot to learn, but I’m finding that a combination of digital offerings and helping others amplify their message is a great way to both tap into my creativity and be paid at a level that genuinely feels good to me!
I hope that these insights are helpful to you, especially in regards to how to structure the way you’re compensated for your services and how to think creatively about working with clients. Because if financial and creative empowerment isn’t part of the regenerative revolution we’re creating, I don’t know what is!
Love,
Jennings
Letting our Grief Catalyze us: Raw & real talk about handling our emotional experience in the apocalypse with Zachary Marlow of Moneyless Society
In this raw and real episode, Jennings and Guest Zachary Marlow get candid about the mental health and emotional aspects of being part of this whole saving-the-planet movement. Recently faced with a strong wave of helpless feelings after attending Bioneers conference, Jennings has been dealing with this heavily for the past week and Marlow offers his insight, support, and perspective as another revolutionary walking this path of trying to make things radically better. It's not always easy to be part of this movement, and the hope with this episode is that you feel camaraderie with us as we open up and share our journeys and how we're dealing on this path. This is a vulnerable episode and hopefully it helps you feel a sense of community with us, this broader movement, and feel less alone.
Check out Moneyless Society's podcast, instagram, and website at these links!
Follow Jennings on Instagram & Tiktok & check out her website here.
Drastic Land Rehabilitation & Healing the Earth with Animals with Pamela Boll, Producer and Director of To Which We Belong
To Which We Belong executive producer and director, Pamela Boll, joins us today to explore the documentary, which weaves together 9 stories of people all across the world who work with the land and the ocean to reverse climate change and grow healthier, more nutritious food. We explore before and afters of drastic land rehabilitation, addressing the helpless/trapped feelings a lot of younger generations are experiencing right now with action, working regeneratively with animals in the landscape, and how to use the film to talk to family and friends about implementing practices that actually help HEAL the landscape. This film is making huge waves in the world and we’re thrilled to explore some of these concepts even deeper! The stories in the film are told in such a compelling and beautiful way, and you’ll be left with inspiration, resources, and hope.
Resources:
Follow To Which We Belong on Instagram
Allan Savory’s “controversial” TED talk
Show Notes:
- Goal of the documentary is to get farmers and ranchers around the world to change their practices - it’s the best, most effective, cheapest way to reverse climate change.
- Explanation of Holistic management - realizing that thinning animals didn’t help the environment, what’s actually needed for grasslands is herbivores moving as they would historically - closely bunched and moving because of predator presence.
- Grasslands are 40% of our Ag land around the world - if we can keep them healthy, they draw down CO2 which improves the health of the soil and the water cycles
- We can create an army of people solving the greatest climate crisis of our times - Addressing the helpless/trapped feelings a lot of younger generations have.
- Regenerative ocean farming - very affordable to get space in the ocean to work with, sequesters carbon. Greenwave trainings great place to start
- Carbon credit system for farmers to be compensated for drawing down carbon from other industries by using regenerative practices. Can also get compensated for appropriately using
- Unintended consequences of human-made solutions
- How to use the film to talk to family and community members about implementing regenerative practices
- Pamela’s vision for the future - it’s not outer space, it’s on Earth!
Imagination, Decay & Catalyzing Change: The Vital Underworld
Recently, I was super sick TWICE in one month (thanks, February!). With that came a lot of deep reflection and time to really experience the sickness rippling through me, and as a result - we have this episode. When I recorded this, I still had kind of a fever, and I believe that some of these reflections and words came from the same space I'm describing myself and us collectively traversing: This transformative space of the underworld. As the environment feels the effects of this underworld moment, we are also feeling it in our psyches and our bodies, and it's important that we honor and carefully travel this space of transformation. I hope that this episode helps you feel less alone as we go through these deep spaces of change, and that you feel catalyzed and supported by this and every episode of the show.
I love you, you matter, and we are all together in this transformation moment.
xoxo, Jennings
Collective Power & Cultural Healing with Zev Friedman of Cooperate WNC
We explore the concepts of collective power, mutual aid, and cultural healing for personal and planetary wellness in this video podcast episode with my original teacher and mentor, Zev Friedman! Zev was a permaculture educator & consultant for 12 years before stepping into his current role of running Cooperate WNC, a mutual aid network & cooperative economics community in Western North Carolina. We unpack why a lot of permaculture and ecovillage undertakings fail, and how collective power helps navigate through that. Patterns of mutual aid and cooperativism, historical and cultural examples of people working together in this way, and where to start in your own life to overcome the isolation of individualism are all topics we dive into in this hour together! Zev is brilliant, so knowledgeable, and so fun to talk to. I hope this episode leaves you feeling uplifted and empowered!
Resources:
Cooperate WNC - join their mailing list, become a member, and join their patreon! Zev also hosts Wednesday night Cooperatude calls.
Zev's email: zev@cooperatewnc.org
Show Notes:
- Jennings' initial learning via Zev of how humans can be a positive force on the planet - and how Zev has expanded that beyond individual permaculture projects. Permaculture is cool, but a lot of how we’re implementing it is permeated by an individualist mentality - working in isolation doesn’t create the support structures for people to do this meaningfully in their lives.
- Patterns of mutual aid and cooperativism - history of how humans have organized ourselves to get things done and care for each other more effectively than we have now. Mostly immigrant and low income communities do it now, and those with money live in illusion that's all we need - but mental health issues and suicide rates point to a different answer.
- People start cooperating because of present, concrete needs - examples are: 1. Spanish speaking immigrant communities in WNC forming housing cooperatives with LLCs as a way to own properties, forming a translation interpretation cooperative, informal childcare cooperative & school, a community center and community garden and 2. Mixteca region in Oaxaca Mexico. (book about them: “Milpa: Seed to Salsa” ) There are 12 villages within a watershed area with a multi-thousand year history of mutual aid and cooperative culture. They start 700,000 trees a year to sequester carbon, grow building materials and materials for charcoal through pooling money and labor to create greenhouses and plant trees out.
- In other cultures, like spanish speaking cultures, the imagination is there for how to participate in mutual aid due to being born into cultures where it is very much alive due to ancient cultural patterns and need - in an isolated, individualist society where we are told everything is up to us from birth, the imagination for cooperation isn’t there, and so it has to be grown. (examples are via journaling on well-framed guided questions to see how people may already be cooperating in their lives without recognizing it, gatherings, and learning experiences)
- Looking for leverage points in our society - where can we take action and get people risking more trust at a deeper level? One answer is starting community savings pools. A savings pool is 15-20 people near each other with shared interests who create a shared savings account. People from group can then get 0% interest loan from group for, for example, pieces of equipment for starting a new farm business.
- Recommended exercise: Relationship mapping!
- Archetypal scales of Cooperation: Crew, Pod, Hub, Network
- And so much more!
How to Sync with Nature's Cycles + a free gift for you!
In our first ever video episode on Spotify (!!) we are diving into 4 of nature's cycles that we can easily incorporate working with into our modern lives.
We're digging into:
- Moon Cycles - syncing planting & spiritual rhythms with the moon
- Seed Cycles - tapping back into nature's powerful, empowering plant technology
- Menstrual Cycles - scheduling our lives and workflows with these energetic cycles that are so important for people who bleed & ovulate
- Water Cycle - the simplest way to re-start a healthy relationship with the water cycle, which regulates 70-90% of global heat dynamics and can be easily supported through actions you can take on your own land or in your own yard.
Does this resonate with you? If it does, you can download this free guide I created called Cycle Connection Hacks! It condenses everything we just talked about into an easily readable guide with actionable tips for each cycle.
Cycle Connection Hacks Guide (download here!)
Other links:
Join the Regenerative Rituals waitlist https://mailchi.mp/1b568c482ced/rr-waitlist-2022
Psychic Prophecies of the Earth Care Movement & Saying Bye to 2022!
In the intensity of the year that has been 2022, I am SO PROUD of us! Seriously, individually and as a community, this has been an amazing year to be and stay committed to the regenerative movement, and I hope everyone is getting a chance to rest and mimic the cycles of nature as we are fully wrapped in the season of winter.
We also cover some of the literal psychic prophesies (?!) of this huge upwelling in the earth care movement that we're seeing, which have been coming into my field quite strongly lately.
We wrap up with a gentle reminder of the next Regenerative Rituals course launching on February 2 (there are two spots left as of the publishing of this episode; click below to snag yours!) and journal prompts to integrate all the shifts from this year, celebrate what we've accomplished, and set goals and intentions for the next 6 months.
I love you all so much! May you have a beautiful end of the year, and I look forward to so many more juicy, fascinating interviews with even more leaders and visionaries in this movement together next year.
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How to Deal With Eco Anxiety: 3 Tips that Actually Work
I'm getting vulnerable with you guys in this episode and sharing about the journey of what I've experienced with eco anxiety - AND, most importantly, the effective tips & tricks I've learned that allows me to effectively manage it. The episode is broken down into four parts - first, just sharing my process with it (in a chill and non-triggering way, don't worry!), then moving into the three pillars of what allows me to effectively manage it and continue on with this work now.
I hope that these tips help you, and know that if you are listening to this, you are so loved, your role in this movement to heal our relationship with the planet is so important, and I deeply appreciate you.
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Ethical Entrepreneurship & Regeneration as True Success with John Roulac, Founder of Nutiva & Executive Producer of Kiss the Ground
Founder of Nutiva and Executive Producer of Kiss the Ground, John Roulac, was catalyzed into environmental activism and entrepreneurship at a young age when nuclear waste was dumped just miles from where he grew up. This led him on his life path of learning to honor nature, creating a hugely successful superfood company, and now actively promoting regeneration of the planet through several nonprofits, including Agroforestry Regeneration Communities (ARC), which has facilitated the planting of 2 million trees and 5,000 food forests. We talk all things ethical entrepreurship, the importance of not succumbing to divisive narratives in the media, techniques for regenerating the planet and resource recommendations from John for people looking to walk this path. This is a broad-reaching episode with one of the most successful entrepreneurs in this movement, and I’m honored to have hosted this interview!
Agroforestry Regeneration Communities
Join the Regenerative Rituals Course + Community waitlist
Book a 1:1 Green Guidance session
Recommended books: The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken and The Way of the Wyrd by Ryan Bates
Show Notes:
- There’s 500 million farmers in the global south that can plant 500 billion trees with basic empowerment. This is what John helps to facilitate with Agroforestry Regeneration Communities; he firmly believes in being of service brings value to our own lives.
- Ethical entrepreneurship: the importance of focusing on culture for their supply chain and their team - if toxic things get put into a petri dish, when things multiply in that, they’re unhealthy. Recognizing intelligence in employees, no matter their qualifications or background, and promoting and advancing especially women. Also helping provide productive trees and other resources for producers.
- Acknowledging our privilege and using it to try to make things better & be active catalysts for positive change.
- Critiques of Kiss the Ground’s erasure of the indigenous practices/indigenous knowledge base.
- Current issues of losing 70% of winged insects, 60% of plankton in the ocean (and losing 1-2% per year due to pesticides and acidification of the oceans eating their shells, respectively), it’s key to focus on regeneration & restoring the water cycle.
- The distinction between harm reduction & active regeneration - they get mixed by sources that greenwash. There’s no product to buy that can fix the systemic issues that we have.
- Rotational grazing as an option for regenerating landscapes & increasing soil health & rainfall, as well as partnering with beavers and using check dams, and intentional burning - the importance of ACTING instead of blaming people.
- Collapse may be what will finally wake people up to the importance of drastic change - and being open to it.
- Generational and economic difficulties for millennials and younger - returning to communal living, living in more rural areas, working remotely - our economic system is not designed for success.
- His experiences meeting people with the least amount of money, and them having the most warmth, happiness, connection, openness, being more dynamic and alive - true wealth!
& so much more!
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Reforesting Our Minds & Decolonizing Our Relationship with Plant Medicine with Amanda Michele of Activated Living
Today Amanda Michele, a.k.a. @activatedliving shares with us her worldview as an indigenous Guarani sister, bridging our western world with indigenous thought and perspective. We discuss decolonizing our minds and worldviews, how important it is to decenter humanity as superior & how “earth is dying” rhetoric is a colonial construct. We also unpack the problems with the “permaculture” framework and how it doesn’t acknowledge active & living ancestral/native land care practices, mental/philosophical history of colonization & the importance of reforesting our minds. She gives us a lens on the current craze of pathological application of psychedelic plant medicines outside their historical cultural context, how they’re used in the Guarani culture, and how we can approach both plant medicine and our relationship with the planet in a better way.
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My links:
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Show Notes:
- Brazilian indigenous activist running for Congress who coined the term "reforesting our minds:" Sonia Guajajara
- “Earth is dying” is a colonial construct: climate destruction as a natural progression of what’s happening. “Mother earth is dying” rhetoric - that idea and thought is a very colonial construct
- There is a vast diversity of indigenous views and that they all support the fact that we are part of nature, not separate from it.
- Permaculture as a framework is creating a bit of a problem - narrative of these ancestral/native land care practices as lost practices. This is completely wrong because they’re still active and still alive, still actively being used re: land connection, farming, harvest. It's erasing the native, indigenous, first nation practices that are still here.
- Jennings coming to terms with having lived on colonized land her whole life & it barely having been mentioned or spoken about, or referred to.
- The point of colonization is to forget that there were original peoples of the land that actually had its own systems & in order for us to create something. Decolonizing seeps into all areas of our lives.
- Colonizers didn’t have mindset of relationship with land - so seeing lush, beautiful spaces were seen as uninhabited rather than intelligently managed, which created a mindset for clearing of the land and the people there.
- Plant medicine now being utilized as a pathological way of healing, vs. reforesting our minds& decolonizing our minds before diving into plant medicines, native/indigenous gardening practives or things of that nature
- We got here from how we are thinking and how we view the world. Giving the mic to native/indigenous people, honoring those voices & perspectives is essential.
- & so much more!
Syncing Ancient Goddess Culture w/ Modern Regeneration: It's all about the cycles!
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I’ve been reading and learning so much about ancient goddess culture, and seeing so many insersections between that and this movement we’re all being tasked with engaging with right now.
Soo, in this mini episode we’re exploring these parts of our lost psychic heritage together: the mythical, cultural origins of nature-based, life & goddess worshiping societies, and how we can re-honor those by working with cycles in this modern moment. (!!)
Sometimes I feel like such a weirdo approaching this planetary regeneration work, like I’m walking in both the worlds of femininity/goddess culture + earth care … so this historical context is SO affirming to learn about.
We only get to dive into a small slice of what exists here, such as ancient Minoan culture in Crete, which was “a society in which the whole of life was pervaded by an ardent faith in goddess nature: the source of all creation and harmony.” (!!)
Especially as the recognition of our oneness with nature & honoring of natural cycles is re-emerging as a prerequisite for our ecological survival, reconnecting to both our mythic past and what we can do about it today is sooo empowering. I hope you find this intersection as juicy and fascinating as I do!
Restoring the Water Cycle as a Viable Career Path with Zach Weiss of Water Stories
Today we sit down with Zach Weiss, protege of legendary Sepp Holzer, to talk about the vital importance of rehydrating the Earth’s body with “blood” (water) and how this is a growing and viable career path. Only 4-20% of global heat dynamics are regulated by carbon, and between 70 & 90% regulated by water; so why isn’t restoring the water cycle central to the climate change discussion? How we treat the natural world has led us into the watershed death spiral, and we have the tools and knowledge to reverse that. (Every place in the world receives enough rain, it’s just a matter of how many times that rain is used before it leaves & setting up landscape to receive the rain rather than reject it.) Restoring a healthy water cycle is the major civilizational redesign needed by humanity at this time, and Water Stories works to make it accessible & viable. There are multiple pathways to joining with this movement, including getting trained up by Zach in their core course, joining the community and sharing information and stories with others passionate about this work, creating decentralized water retention features on your own land & becoming a water advocate. We dive into all this together and I’m so excited for you to listen, learn, and act by joining the movement!
Join the Water Revolution here
Support the Podcast on Patreon
Show Notes:
- Around the world we are either dealing with horrible drought, wildfire, flood - climatic patterns are becoming more erratic and extreme, also temperatures. This is a direct result of our previous management decisions - how we treat the natural world has led us into the watershed death spiral.
- Other side of spectrum: humans can have reverse impact, creating healthy abundant environments with lots of food and water when we have a different relationship with water, earth, and the natural environment.
- ⅓ earth’s surface has been desertified in last 10,000 years - but the same powerful energy that’s been used to destroy can be used for repairing and reconnecting and telling better stories. Enough people making the choice to say I want the earth to become healthier each year will turn this around.
- Possibility for regenerated water cycle: every place in the world receives enough rain, it’s a matter of how many times that rain is used before it leaves - setting up landscape to receive the rain rather than reject it.
- How to start to have a neutral water footprint: DIY Infiltration features
- What can we do? Engage with the platform to learn about and connect with others to actively participate in water restoration, whether as a profession and as on the ground work or as an advocate, working on policy.
- Before & after dramatic community transformations: In India, 9 ha of ag scaled up to 650, cost of dam paid off in first year in agricultural productivity, caused reverse of migration of young people out of the village. (¼ cost of what yielded in 1 year changed permanently for better). Another india example: Revived 250k wells, reviving 7 rivers & reducing temp 2 degrees.
- Talking about water and how disrupting it is disturbing the climate requires us to rethink a lot of things: how we’re developing places, destroyin rivers, draining wetlands - more interconnected discussion that’s more complex than 1 simple problem we need to take care of. Addressing carbon isn’t enough - it’s lack of water and conflicts that arise from that that people will die from.
- And sooo much more!
Redesigning Ourselves Into the Landscape & Syntropic Living with Klaus & Frida of Permadynamics
WATCH FIRST: This amazing mini documentary on Permadynamics for context
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Klaus, Frida, and their family run Permadynamics, a massively inspiring intergenerational syntropy & permaculture-based research farm and education center in New Zealand. They've taught over 2,000 students about caring for the soil, sequestering carbon, cycling water, cherishing diversity, orchestrating succession dynamics and achieving natural abundance within a creative livelihood. We dive into how they're living this amazing place-based, regenerative, thriving lifestyle as a family, their advice for people looking to create lives like this for themselves, all that's available to us when we live this type of lifestyle (so much more than money!), and the importance of redesigning human presence into the landscape in a positive way. Plus sooo much more! Their family is really living the example so many of us are wanting to move towards at this time, and it's an incredible opportunity from people who have gone for this dream and are thriving in it.
Show notes:
- How permadynamics was formed with them as a family: permanently dynamic flowing structure with emphasis on foundation in syntropy and permaculture
- Klaus’s introduction to studying this with Ernst Gotsch, originator of syntropic agroforestry & learning over time/through his mistakes & continued study of ecological literacy, and his experience helping transition slash-and-burn farmers to syntropic perennial cash crop farmers in the Amazon
- How this lifestyle works for them to make a living: It’s hard work, and they utilize the 8 forms of capital: experiential, intellectual, spiritual, social, material, financial, living and cultural capital
- Designing people INTO the landscape instead of out of it (most modern agriculture designs people out of it, which is problematic on many levels). Being empowered in our capability as positive changemakers in our environment!
- Using syntropic agroforestry to turn depleted land around & increase land capital (plus the ability to buy land that’s in bad shape often gives you a better deal & makes this more financially accessible).
- Life in syntropy video showing Ernst Gotsch's work: They're keeping that ball rolling! (Syntropy as the reverse of entropy & it's their main tool for repairing damaged and degraded soils.)
- Thinking in time in relationship to vegetation - what is the current vegetation preparing the soil for? How is succession working? (The earth wants to be covered with plants!) Our role participating in the system is to bring vegetation to its fullest expression & shape it to feed us.
- Advice for people with limited land access/stuck in apartment living: unwise to run out of the city to buy land or join an ecovillage right away, suggest to form relationships with local farmers and visit/learn from them/help on your days off. And see if they have some small piece of land you can work with/will get food/get experience steering vegetation, etc.
- Integrating your expertise and existing experience and passions to the movement - don’t feel like you have to totally change what you do and who you are! It’s about adding all our skill sets together.
- Ways people can learn from them, in-person and online!
Going from Lonely & Broke to Thriving via Aligning with Nature (my story!) & The Huge Opportunity in Energy Descent Culture
We also dive into how my modestly growing success in this niche is representative of this HUGE (and so far drastically underserved!) need for transition of our culture as we move further and further into the reality of energy descent. This need for transition can be a source of doom/gloom/distress, but when we shift our lens and frame the solutions as modalities that can be learned, and structural shifts as opportunities for business structures ripe for creation, we see what's happening as the HUGE window of opportunity that it is.
I'm here to support you, whether you just want to grow healthy food with your family or if you're wanting to dive into the creation of these types of paradigm-shifting businesses! Green Guidance sessions come with plenty of research and resources done for you ahead of time, lots of ideas and insights, and are affordably priced for accessibility. It's time to shift our paradigm of existence on this planet to one that honors and works with life, and you're invited to be part of it! Email jenningsingram@gmail.com or DM me on IG @foodforestgoddess to start myceliating.
Self Reliance & Reproductive Autonomy with Atchie Bernstein
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Working with the living systems of our bodies for female bodied people is a critical area for education & empowerment at this moment in time. As we’re all painfully aware, in the US we’re currently under threat of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling being overturned (!!). This ruling established women’s rights to access abortion, and if it’s overturned, it could potentially leave a lot of people who can get pregnant (especially in midwestern and southeastern states) without access to abortion clinics. In this potentially gnarly moment in history for bodily autonomy, the good news is that we have a lot of options regardless of what’s happening in politics! This includes, of course, the birth control we’re familiar with, as well as some options we may not be educated on, such as practicing the fertility awareness method and accessing certain aid networks for abortion. We’re joined by fertility awareness educator Atchie Bernstein to dive into these topics & help us step back into our power!
Links:
Atchie’s website & booking contact or reach out to her on Instagram
Samantha Zipporah’s Please Bleed book & Fruit of Knowledge platform
Medicine stories Cycle tracking episode
Show notes:
- Interweaving bodily autonomy & sustainability: Lowering our waste, self-reliance without need for potentially unavailable medical system, becoming more self reliant beings within more self reliant systems
- The Fertility Awareness method: understanding our window of fertility using a sympto-thermal method (tracking basal body temperature & cervical mucus). The fertility awareness method & the rhythm method are two distinctly different methods. FAM gives us a powerful window into overall hormonal health, conscious contraception - can use chart to know if time of sperm exposure & gives time to choose early appropriate methods for contraception - in much earlier window to make decisions for yourself!
- Knowledge is power: being aware of our choices & fully informed on all options is the way to go.
- Femtech & the dangers of relying on an app to give us a red or green light
- Connecting with our cycles & giving our moon blood back to nature: the only bloodshed that's not through violence
- Taking our power back: This is a powerful form of resistance to go against these stigmas & taboos that tell us our cycles are to be feared.
- Dealing with an unwanted sperm exposure: being prepared by charting, Plan B isn’t effective if you’ve already ovulated (it only works to delay ovulation, which gets you outside of the window in which sperm could survive),
- Plant options for implantation inhibitors (more detail in the Medicine Stories episode & by consulting an herbalist) include Queen Anne’s lace
- Medication pregnancy release options: available without any contact with medical professionals or clinics through Aid Access (can now order in advance in case you need them) or local networks of people with access to those medications such as abortion doula networks with confidential contacts. Reach out to Atchie for these contacts if you need contacts.
7 Lessons from 29 Years of Existence (a.k.a. part of the user guide I wish I got when incarnating as a human)
Growing up in America was... really strange. In a culture where many of us can viscerally feel that things aren't what they seem, where we can feel that so much is left out, we're basically left to our own devices to cope with that weirdness and find meaningful ways to be in the world. My (often very humbling) experience navigating this strange landscape for a solid 29 years now is what's led me to this work in food forestry, permaculture, systems thinking, and now podcasting. It's been like discovering clues as shiny threads as I've gone along, collecting them, and starting to weave something that resembles a life that I actually like. During one of those nights where the ideas keep coming instead of sleep, I realized there are several key things I REALLY wish someone would have told me about being a person from the get go. And the decision to record those is where this episode is coming from: an attempt at a partial mini manual about being incarnated as a person that's radically different from what we're taught in school and socialized into by the media.
To Be Magnetic (Inner child/shadow meditation resource)
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Collective Ecosystem & Community Restoration with John D. Liu
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Unconditonal Freedom Project (Prison self development & garden program)
John D. Liu, ecologist, filmmaker and founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camp movement joins us to talk about this approach to accessible, participatory large scale restoration of degraded landscapes (and how he learned this was possible by filming the restoration of the legendary Loess plateau in China!), and how this revitalizes livelihoods, society, biology, and the human spirit when done well. We also talk about how the concept for this model came to him through his dreams (!), correcting current systemic dysfunction by re-aligning our consciousness and societies with the equation of how Earth actually works, sacred texts & cosmology pointing us to this knowledge, the evolution of the human brain, and so much more!
Everyone listening is invited to engage deeply in this work by joining or starting up their own living laboratory, a.k.a. Ecosystem Restoration Camp. Each camp is autonomous, self-organizing, and self-governed; the organization just links the network for outreach, knowledge and resource sharing. If youre feeling disconnected and wanting to make a change in your life, gain community, and gain skills, head to https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org, pick the camp you want to go to, and reach out!
Show notes:
- How John learned that large scale ecosystem restoration is possible & how the model for this organization came to him through his dreams
- Current systemic dysfunction of grinding up the Earth to make ruins people will find in the future while harming nature's life support systems
- Physics as the natural laws that regulate Earth systems
- The importance of using the advances of technology for to spread useful knowledge, such as: hydrological cycle, carefully tending paradise, soil health, etc.
- Broad scale disconnection & the collective dream
- The potential landmates, businesses, friendships that are there to be connected with at these camps
- Valuing the living systems of earth: rediscovering what the native/indigenous cultures have known and lived by for millennia and how ridiculous it is that colonizers from Europe didn’t recognize they were consciously, intelligently managing all these life systems
- Establishing restoration camps with integration/deference to & involvement of the culture & people of the place
- Social ecosystems: Central kitchens integrated with locally grown produce, means of production for woodworking/metal working/mechanics/ sewing/ceramics/art/etc. as a way to engage people in what needs to be done instead of focusing on making money. And cultural stages for music/theater/education (needs: healthy physical/emotional lives, meaningful work, and to transmit the culture)
- Applying this work to refugee situations & prisons (The Unconditional Freedom Project) & using prison time as an opportunity for inmates to upskill in propagation & species preservation to prepare them for meaningful work after release.
- So much more!
Feminine Food Forest Design & Higher Possibility for Humanity with Ash Coombs
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In this interview with food forest designer Ash Coombs, we dive into how she’s created a thriving career for herself in this (literally!) growing industry, and the importance of restoring our direct relationship to the master artist of Earth. Cultivating this direct relationship through food forests reconnects us with the ability to meet our own basic needs, a crucial step for humanity in this global moment. We flesh out the vision of this higher possibility for empowered society, as well as going into the practical steps of how Ash has educated herself and started her business. Ash shares with us resources she recommends for anyone wanting to get into or advance in this line of work (she even has a mentorship program!) and the whole episode will help you remember our power as co-creators in shifting from being consumers to producers!
Show notes:
- Definition of a food forest: An assembly of plants that mimics the ecosystem with layers of edible and medicinal plants, that’s also closed-loop, self-sustaining and symbiotic.
- Meeting our needs for food, oxygen, medicines, and construction material so that we don’t have to travel far away for or import.
- Holding the vision, streets lined with trees dripping gemstone fruit and how there’s such a thin barrier between our current reality and this higher possibility
- Ash’s practical steps to establishing her business: utilizing free educational resources & on the ground training, doing Geoff Lawton’s PDC, formulating the template of her business by asking herself what she would want from a business & writing it down - includes questionnaires to clarify goals (lighthouses to keep us on track), costs & how to work it out in phases (starting with longer lived perennials that should go in ASAP & ending with shrub/herbaceous layer), 3 different package options for people with different levels of cost and engagement
- How to implement food forests on a large scale: Discussing why it’s important & naming understanding and motivation for change as the biggest weak spots of humanity
- Food forest growing as the experience of miracles & magic, and as a team sport!
- So much more!
Resources from Ash for onboarding into this career:
This podcast!
Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Design Course (online or in person)
Book: Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway
Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution
Bill Mollison’s lectures on Youtube
Stress Management, Ram Dass's Teachings & Nature Mysticism with Jon Vasu Seskevitch
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Recorded on Ram Dass’s lanai here on Maui, in this unique episode we deep dive into the crucial skills of stress management that are so needed to be active agents of regenerative change in this global moment. We’re exploring how to work with our nervous systems with one of the best possible guests to teach us about this, Jon Vasu Seskevitch, who has taught over forty thousand hospital patients with complex & challenging health conditions stress management & self relaxation in their hospital rooms. (Vasu is the name Ram Dass gave Jon, and it means that part of god that gives himself to others.) Ram Dass’s teachings are a big part of John’s lifelong journey with mind-body medicine, and we explore those as well as several immediately actionable, research-backed techniques such as mantra meditation for stress management.
Show Notes:
- Change, good or bad means stress. We explore the science of stress & how it physically affects the body. The biggest stress is waiting and not knowing
- Ram Dass’s basic teachings & how that helped teach mind-body medicine: Be Here Now with loving awareness
TECHNIQUES:
- Mantra meditation: Take a short, positive thought, and think those words intentionally over & over. This allows your body to calm and give energy to managing stress. “Mantra” literally means something that protects the mind, and 15 minutes per day is all that’s needed to see the benefits. A crucial piece of this is WHEN you notice other thoughts come up, kindly and gently let go of that thought and return to the mantra
- Soft belly breathing: Put your hand on your stomach and aim your breath towards it. The result is stress goes down and control goes up.
- How to relax: Feel the chair or bed holding you, which allows a softening & relaxing all through the body.
- MIndfulness meditation: pick a primary concentration, such as breath, sound or physical sensation
- Importance of practicing regularly so it’s established for you to lean on in times of stress
- Nature mysticism: working with our operating systems & the living systems of the Earth as two essential halves
Seaforestation & Marine Permaculture with Dr. Brian Van Herzen of Climate Foundation
Ocean regeneration is a rapidly emerging & fascinating area of the regenerative revolution, and in this episode we explore the challenge and the opportunity being taken on by the Climate Foundation, led by Dr. Brian Van Herzen. Together with an international team of scientists, engineers, technicians, social scientists & seaweed farmers, Dr. Van Herzen and his team are working to regenerate thousands of kilometers of lost kelp forest, protect coral reefs, and provide food security for millions of people. Their simple, thoughtfully designed approach involves floating marine permaculture arrays consisting of seaweed/kelp scaffolding and a wave driven or marine solar pump to re-start the natural upwelling that’s been disrupted due to heating of the oceans. This is a fascinating and hopeful discussion highlighting a rapidly growing movement and sustainable industry! We learned a ton and know you will too.
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Show notes:
- What the current situation in the ocean is & why it needs to be regenerated: Over 90% of global warming has gone into the oceans, which has led to the top layer of ocean water heating up. This prevents natural upwelling, which was one of the major causes of the Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago. By restoring natural upwelling, we make it so kelp, seaweed forests, and coral reefs can stay alive.
- Bill Mollison’s inspiration for permaculture originally came from observing kelp forests off the coast of Tasmania in the 60s!
- Applying permaculture principles to the sea - look out for upcoming article with David Holmgren on permaculture design for the ocean.
- Moving from extraction to regeneration while providing food security for billions of people, by creating enviornmentally and economically sustainable industry
- How marine permaculture arrays are constructed and how they function: seaweed scaffolding & wave driven/marine solar pumps/depth adjustment
- Addressing scale: How much of this needs to happen how quickly? Covering just 1% of the ocean would create a climate wedge.
- How kelp functions for carbon sequestration
- How these systems help coral reef regeneration & give tools to address thermally induced coral bleaching
- How to get involved
Earth Magic, Plant Communication & Sisterhood with Autumn Brianne
In this final episode of 2021, we sit down with the amazing Autumn Brianne to talk all things earth magic, plant communication, space holding, sisterhood, and the deep meaning in using our feminine bodies to care for the ultimate feminine body: Earth!
Autumn & I are both so blessed to be able to support and be supported by networks of women at this moment in time, and I really want to honor the femininity, collectivism and symbiotic people care that this embodies with an episode devoted to it!
This is an intimate, girly conversation with a talented, dear friend of mine as she and I are both still really living and loving formative parts of our life journeys, and i hope as you listen to it you feel like youre here with us on this lush island, immersed in plant magic, feeling safe, inspired and witchy!
Get in touch with Autumn: Autumnbrianne.com or IG @autumnbrianne
Resources:
Witch in the Kitchen by Cait Johnson
Priestess of the Forest re: Druidism/Celtic mysticism
Katie Hess flower essences: Lotus Wei/ The Flower Room podcast
Exploring Fungi, Mycoremediation & Applied Ecology with Leif Olson
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Listen to Leif’s podcast, Applied Mycology: Discussions on the various ways that fungi influence ecology and human culture and how they can be leveraged to address challenges of the modern world. Topics include mushroom cultivation, soil health, bioremediation, medicinal mushrooms and more.
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In this creative exploration of applied ecology, fungi, and mycoremediation, Environmental scientist & educator (and good friend!) Leif Olson takes us on a journey of understanding fungi, how they function in the environment, mycoremediation and the importance of diversity and holism in approaching challenges of environmental degradation. He also gives us simple, actionable steps for how we can all bolster the health of the environment where we live! The first part of the episode builds out our knowledge and framework for understanding why the actionable steps at the end will work, and at 48:00 is where he gives us specific steps to bolster our local environments, so if you’re just looking for that, skip there!
Recommendations for further study from Leif:
- Soil food web: The work of Elaine Ingham https://www.soilfoodweb.com
- Fungi: Radical Mycology by Peter McCoy https://www.radicalmycology.com
- Land management at scale: Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard https://bookstore.acresusa.com/products/restoration-agriculture
Show notes
- How fungi work in the environment: they’re unique because they can digest their surroundings! They’re a crucial part of cycling organic material and helping plants acquire nutrients
- Fungi & Mycorrhizae as the multiple internets of the soil (not a single internet!). They’re sometimes collaborating, sometimes competing - what they’re working towards overall is nutrients to be acquired out of the soil, as well as soil to be built.
- The fungi we have inside us: Yeasts!
- Endophytes: fungi that live inside plants and assist them with various processes, examples and explanation of endophytes doing their thing
- Mycoremediation: facilitating a compled chain of reactions, and a diversity of fungi & bacteria help tackle challenging & complex contaminants. Doing this work in the “real world” is very site specific, and differs greatly from reality of laboratory testing
- The importance of holism/a holistic approach in bioremediation: not constraining out thinking a a single methodology or kingdom of life. These are complex systems with many variables, and the phyto-, myco-, and bacterial parts are all important for approaching environmental degradation.
48:00 Practical things everyone can do to boost their ecology where they live
- Covering the soil! Barren soil dries out a lot faster, and microorganisms can’t perform their functions when dry. Naked soil gets oxidized, meaning the nutrients get burned up and released as gas (!). Then, when bare soil is rained on, the water compacts the soil and basically crushes the passageways/cavities microorganisms would live in and/or plant roots would grow in. Mulch to create a hospitable environment for soil microorganisms!
2. Dialing in the type of mulch: woody plant material or leaves that’s aged naturally colonizes with the fungi that’s around the environment or in it. Keeping tabs on the organic matter on your site is important! Seeing organic matter as future soil and treating it like the resource it is. 3. is remineralizing soil but I ran out of space to put the steps!
Reclaiming & Unleashing Ahupua'a Economics via Technology with Exchange Ave
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In this episode we sit down with John Kealoha Garcia, Executive advisor to the Nation of Hawaii and founder and CEO of the Ahupua’a inspired barter and trade app Exchange Ave. We explore what an ahupua’a system is, and how the Native Hawaiian people lived in this highly efficient, organized, brilliant, earth-honoring system based on communal land care from mountain to ocean. We dive into John’s merging of his technical background and Hawaiian heritage in this way that strengthens community resource sharing without any fiat currency involved, building bridges both on and off the app. We go into the deep hope found in this merging of ancient and modern technologies, how it works, and how everyone can help reclaim direct peer to peer connection with barter and trade economics by joining the app or using Exchange Engine.
Thank you so much John for coming on as a guest, and I hope everyone checks out Exchange Ave!
Show notes:
- Overview of what was/is the Ahupua’a system: The Native Hawaiian people lived in a highly organized, self sufficient, subsistent social system that was based on communal land tenure and had a unique language, culture & religion. This was a closed loop system that ran from mountain to ocean, and was fueled by barter and trade.
- The vision and function of the app is to reinvigorate resource sharing through technology, via the creation of this “digital ahupua’a” which functions on barter and trade mechanics - no fiat currencies involved.
- Focuses on what skills and resources each person brings to the table beyond money, and also functions to build bridges and connections beyond the app.
- John bringing his technological background and Hawaiian heritage together in this way helped him to reconnect with his culture and to connect others. Some unique items on the app right now include fresh grated coconut milk and the ability to trade horseback lessons for kalo huli and other plants!
- Circumventing modern monetary/real estate barriers to connection this way
- How the app works: Exchange ave for individuals & Exchange Engine for other indigenous communities
- The hope found in this merging of the ancient and the new and acknowledging the sophistication of the Hawaiian people, while unleashing it and allowing people to adopt and co-create with it.
- Guidance & life advice from John: trusting your na’au (gut) & being with the aina, and to eat something from the aina every day.
- Importance of and moment for vision holding for stream restoration and making sure the water flows from mountain to ocean
- Knowledge exchange as an important part of the evolution of the community of the app
Paradigm Shifting Reforestation with Tree Jenny of Community Carbon Trees
Jenny Smith, a.k.a. Tree Jenny, is an environmental lawyer turned founder of Community Carbon Trees Costa Rica, a nonprofit & scalable model where they have planted over half a million trees while providing living wage jobs to Costa Rican men and women. Reforestation approached this way lifts people out of poverty , empowering Costa Rican land owners to make money off reforestation and tree product cooperatives AND giving companies the ability to offset their carbon footprint by sponsoring tree planting. Community Carbon Trees is over halfway to their goal of a million trees, and this deep dive with founder Jenny is uplifting and inspiring! Jenny and this work is also the subject of the documentary One Precious Life.
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Show notes:
- About community carbon trees: Creates sustainable jobs paying living wages, planting and reforesting degraded land for local Costa Rican land owners, transitioning it to food/productive forest (the land owners choose their species), and funded by companies sponsoring trees to offset their carbon footprint.
- Educational, collaborative, hand-holding vibe with land owners allows for the addressing poverty as the reason for deforestation, and fixing it by creating jobs
- Proper financial management & transparenty as an essencial part of an ethical nonprofit
- Being a scalable model as a major part of CCT: resources they have available include manuals of communication trees and consulting remotely or online to mentor/help other small tree planting groups
- Jenny’s journey from working as a lawyer to direct action with reforestation and CCT
- Constellations of signs, dreams, signals and resonance as ways our destiny calls us! It hurts more ot not get up and do the work and show up for the thing that futhers us than to do the work.
- Things open for us with persistence and bravery - trust that slow growth and continuing on will grow for us in the way trees grow and fruit
- Inexhaustible faith and early environmental awakenings
- Jenny’s recommendations for remaining positive and activated in 2021: meditation and kundalini yoga
Gardening as Experiential Spirituality with Manju Kumar
Manju Kumar is the co-founder of Sarvodaya Institute, president of Brush with Bamboo (the first ever bamboo toothbrush company), mother of @farmerrishi, and advocate for Earth & all beings on this planet. In this episode, we dive into the massive empowerment available to us in growing our own food, as well as exploring Manju’s journey and perspective on connecting with the force of what some call “God” through nature. “I’ve learned more about spirituality in the garden than I have through a church or a text. It’s like actual experiential spirituality.” This is a joyful, lively conversation and I know everyone will love it and learn a lot! (I did!)
In this episode, we dive into:
- How Manju came to understand Earth as an extension and reflection of ourselves - her epiphany moment realizing we’re all rising from the planet and falling back in.
- How we got to this point in society -
- In working with the land, we learn that giving is the key - we live in a circular system, and the possibility for regeneration is always there. We have to give back, take care & create a loving relationship with Earth. Doing this dissolves illusions of lack & leads to abundance
- Disrupting the circular flow means problems. Giving and letting the system give back to you means healing and feeling good.
- The empowerment available to us in growing our own food: fabulous joy, connection, and nourishment. Breaking up with the grocery store and feeling good!
- Manju’s journey and perspective on connecting with the force of what some call “God” through nature. She learned about upheavals and learning to flow with the cycles of energy as expressed in seasons and days.
- Gardening as a way to understand we can literally grow our dreams
- Plants communicating with us via us sensing their needs
- Her journey getting into urban food forestry and teaching as a family, through her son Rishi studying with Vandana Shiva and wanting to teach those methods. Together, they created an urban farming center at their house to be able to teach how to do it!
- Failures as an important teacher: be resilient, don’t take it personally, and stretch yourself even more!
- Building a role for herself in an often male-dominated movement: She didn’t look at it that way, just followed her passions and did it for herself. And in the process of helping herself, many others got helped!
- Life lesson: focus on what grows, teaches and fulfills us. By doing this everything falls intp place & we end up touching many people’s lives!
- Invite for in-person monthly potlucks and gardening days for people in the LA area: for this, connect with Manju on instagram at @zerowastefarmer
Solutions-Based Storytelling with Rob Herring
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Rob Herring has carved out a unique niche for himself in the regenerative movement as a documentary filmmaker, storyteller, and musical activist. Best known for his film The Need to Grow, in this episode we learn about Rob’s mycelial path to where he is now, with lots of ecological parallels & helpful resources sprinkled throughout. We cover many insights for creatives looking to find their path in the Earth-centered movement, as well a list of resources for farmers looking to transition away from chemical farming. This was such a fun episode to record and I know everyone will learn a lot!
Show notes:
- How Rob saw the need for transtioning away from doom & gloom type activism around GMOs & glyphosate, and decided to do it through solutions-based storytelling showing a diverse set of hopeful options in a documentary, The Need to Grow
- Rob’s creative leap into activism by writing songs about GMOs & other environmental issues, which went over well & people started connecting with him and bringing him opportunities.
- Through the journey to make the documentary, he learned how important soil is and that working with soil needed to be the focus of their work. It’s about restoring the carbon cycle through healthy microbial life and plant roots - getting away from extractive farming & helping heal the literal foundation of all life on earth.
- Overcoming the fear of sharing our creative work for the greater good - it allows us to spark passion and action in other people & remind them of the importance of their work.
- The importance of community to not feel like a weirdo - becoming mycelial as you connect through the curiosity to learn and help the planet.
- From Larry Santoyo & the Permaculture Academy of LA The concept of highest generalization: leading to positive change
- Bringing people together & catalyzing them by focusing on positive solutions that feel good and are inviting to do.
- How human health & planet health are the same conversations - the pollutants & healing solutions are the same. We are nature - it is not a metaphor!
- The Biggest Little Farm documentary as an example of accelerated regeneration by focusing on soil health.
- Yellowstone ecosystem transformation by reintroducing wolves: How Wolves change rivers
- Resources for farmers for moving away from using chemicals:
Kiss the Ground https://kisstheground.com
Farmer’s Footprint https://farmersfootprint.us
Replant Capital https://www.replantcapital.com
Reclaiming Our Consciousness & Ecological Literacy with William Padilla Brown
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Show notes:
- William’s self-created lifestyle as a citizen scientist, permaculturist and professional nerd
- William’s journey with self-education & deciding to value and pursue what he was interested in over the prescribed academic curriculum, as well as advice for people looking to self-educate
- Insect farming & working with styrofoam eating mealworms - this as a way to start creating a new language of remediation & organic depolymerization for the next generation
- Mushrooms as the hooked-on-phonics of ecological literacy: a way into the conversation with nature
- His recommendations for people developing their ecological literacy - learning their morphological patterns showing themselves differently in different areas of the planet
- The role of the divine feminine as the creative life force energy in higher evolution, and the suppression and commodification of the feminine as a source of the sickness of society
- Psychedelics as a tool for reclaiming his consciousness from cultural conditioning and destructive patterns, and as a way to draw our minds back to the present moment- Instead of ego death/loss of identity, the shedding of the false character sold to him via growing up in modern society - found his multidimensional true identity on the other side
- Bringing into existence what we see ought to exist around us - asking the question, why isn’t someone doing this already? “It didn’t exist, so I did ALL of it.”
- Seeing things that are descructive that if we don’t do something about it, it will take generations to repair. Recognizing the fact that we see it means we’re supposed to do something about it!
- Cryptocurrency & decentralized currency in the regenerative movement - a vital example of decentralized systems. Decentralized systems teachers William learned from:
- 1. Charles Eisenstein , 2. Paul Glover, 3 & 4. Scott Kellogg & Stacy Pettigrew
- How extractive & destructive it is to value people’s time by the hour, and how it warps our self-worth and value systems
- Recommendations for people to build resilience: in community and in our families, setting an example with building family health
- Family as inspiration and ability to stay in a hopeful, high vibration
Plant Medicine, Science & Spirituality with Bryen Lehto of Biotemple Hawaii
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Show Notes
- All about Biotemple Hawaii: A combination of spirituality, art, science, and lab work
- Opening our minds to allow us to heal so that we can help the planet, which psychedelics help us with
- The possibility that these same compounds that are there to incite creativity in plants, allowing them to create new possibilities for thriving in their environment, are there to help us do the same thing
- Proven health benefits of psychedelics such as neuroplasticity
- Some of our personal experiences with microdosing, overcoming stuck thinking, and overcoming depression with the use of psychedelics
- The law of intelligent nonconformity and plants using quantum effects to overcome entropy
- Biotemple and other alternative, empowering models growing up out of the decomposition of outdated systems
- Worldwide mushroom consciousness developed over 7-10 million years
- Psychic connection to plants
- Metamorphic thinking & becoming a society of alchemists
- How to connect with plants no matter where in the world you are
- If a plant shows up in a neighborhood, it’s for the needs of someone there - it’s the intelligent consciousness of nature communicating with us
- Approaching plants in the right mindset, with gentleness & reverence for the sacrifice plants give us
- Foraged & homegrown foods and herbs ad a meaningful point of connection & entry into the plant world
- Making medicine out of invasive species: a medicinally relevant and abundant resource
- How Biotemple teaches people to make an affordable, accessible DIY medicinal plant lab & understand the chemistry to create extraction strategies based on what compounds are in the plant, plus spiritual connection
- Bryen’s story of rural upbringing & how he got onto the path of working with plants
- Resonance as explained through my story with rosemary and how hawaiian medicine people used it to find plants to heal people
- Books Bryen recommends: On Growth & Form by D'Arcy Thompson and Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Stephen Buehner
- How to sign up for classes at Biotemple Hawaii!
Resources for the safe use of psychedelics:
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies https://maps.org
Psychedelic peer support line https://firesideproject.org call or text 623-473-7433
Bioenergy Systems with Michael Smith, The Need To Grow: Accelerating Regeneration and Remediating Pollution
In this interview with inventor Michael Smith, we dive into the green energy systems he develops that were first publicized in the popular documentary The Need to Grow. We talk about Michael's unique life path from video game development & working with AI to now bringing natural "players" like algae together with natural intelligence-based operating systems to create green power systems. These power systems create an expanding web of environmental regeneration, completely flipping on its head the the marching destruction of conventional power systems, agriculture, and to a large extent economics. A hopeful, information-dense & inspiring interview!
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Michael smith's company website: Regenitech
John D. Liu's Eco Restoration Camps
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Show notes:
Using technology to be a part of bringing together regeneration & modern society
The Green Power House & using artificial intelligence to model ecosystems & create closed loop systems to draw down carbon. Working with algae & other “players” in the creation of photosynthetic energy systems
Accelerating the process of creating humic acids with strategic use of algae as part of these energy systems. These systems create inputs for soil health instead of burning fossil fuels
How Michael used the AI he learned during video game development to tap into the natural intelligence of these biosystems - using these as feedback to harness energy production from regenerative sets of organisms.
How with the help of technology it is possible to regenerate soil at an accelerated rate to try and compensate for the accelerated rate of loss.
Using an operating system to balance inputs and waste streams so the systems are not producing waste & are maximizing their energy output. In this way, using technology to quantum leap into regeneration!
Comparing this merging of technology & natural characters with food forestry & permaculture.
Accessibility for participation in these green energy systems - “it’s not a corporate move to become the next extraction technology. They’re local systems for each community, and most of the revenue & byproducts (like soil amendments) flow back into the local community, with a small percentage going to build the next one in the next community.”
Bioremediation using these biostimulants to break down contaminants like aminopyrilate & glyphosate in polluted soil. Not only are these energy systems that they’re producing, plus producing these soil builders, but they’re also producing something that can be used for bioremediation - even in cleaning up oil spills!
These energy systems as a way of introducing us into a life-based economy, cleaning up capitalist exploitation of workers, soil pollution & environmental pollution from dirty energy systems - all with these biosystems. “It may be also a way we can switch our economic system from a death-based system, which is a harvest-based, extraction system, to a life-based system.”
Hope & spirituality in 2021, featuring the Gaia principles & quantum entanglement.
Life direction advice for people in the regenerative movement.
And so much more!
Regenerative Revolution Intro Episode!
Hello, world! Welcome to the experimental learning vehicle of the Regenerative Revolution Podcast!
In this podcast, we'll be exploring many of the exciting and juicy facets emerging in the regenerative earth care movement, such as food forestry, green energy, ocean remediation, mycology & mycoremediation, permaculture, agroforestry, psychedelics & the link between the psychedelic & regenerative movements, and so, so much more! We'll be doing this through interviews with brilliant & experienced minds all across the movement.
Thank you all for being here and I'm SO EXCITED for us to learn how to regenerate ourselves, Earth, & our communities together.