#3-3 Scale: The Discontinuity of Scale
Nature scales through gestalts, not linearly. I suggest that water provides us with an appropriate model for scaling.
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Can Your Beans Do That?
Musings on how raising and eating rotationally-grazed meats is an unparalleled venue to address a host of issues; ranging from carbon sequestration to the diabetes epidemic to the decline of...
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20 of 21 episodes#3-2 Scale - Limits of Linearity
Arguing that intelligence is a great deal more than processing and computation. Also that viewing the world through the single lens of cause...
#3-1.5 Restating My Position On Seed Banks
Restating my position on seed bank bombings.
#3-1 Scale: Dismantling the Premises
The most common criticism against regenerative agriculture is that it can't accomplish what conventional agriculture can; specifically in te...
#2-5 Interview by Natnael Asmelash
A conversation with my son's former roomate.
#2-4 Things As Verbs
A talk I gave after a viewing of the film Kiss The Ground
Can Your Beans Do That? (Trailer)
Musings on how raising and eating rotationally-grazed meats is an unparalleled venue to address a host of issues; ranging from carbon seques...
#2-3. Webinar: Soil Health From a Grazier's Perspective
Audio from a VABF webinar on soil health. Delves into how, compared to vegetable or grain growing, rotational grazing has very different lev...
#2-2. Conversation #1 (Inga Haugen) audio fixed...
I've been wanting to do an informal conversational format for a while, and who better to start with than my good friend, Inga, who is passio...
#2-1 Technology Unfettered
Technology is anything but neutral. And yet we swim in it like fish in water. Best we take a step back and reconsider exactly what we get ou...
#11 Morality Of The Single Variable
A lateral approach to nutrition.
#10 A Philosophy of Pleasure
Some question why taste is included in the web of sustainability. Rather than just a cherry on top, I see pleasure as essential to the whole...
#9 Local & Labels
Most rural agricultural communities have suffered the same fate as soils and African countries at the mercy of foreign aid. Supporting local...
# 8 A Web Of Issues; Animal Welfare (mostly)
In order to remain successful and regenerative at the same time, a farm must keep a number of issues synergistically in tension. Championing...
# 7 When Organic Makes The Grade pt 2
Helping is an art. And when done improperly, can cause great harm and foster dependency. What applies to aid in Africa has pertinence to ame...
#6 When Organic Makes The Grade pt 1
I eat a lot of organic vegetables. Boy do I eat those veggies. Then why do I insist on bringing up the 'dark' side of vegetable operations?...
#5 Beyond Mitigation (Can Your Beans Do That?)
Highlighting the shortcomings of approaching answers simply through mitigation.
#4 Waste Not
In which I zip through a ridiculously simplified history of Western philosophy, and then address the most over-looked feedback loop of them...
#3 Information Highways
Behind the scenes, systems are maintained by exchange of information at the micro level.
#2 Eating Is Nature's Currency
Eating our way back to environmental health.