Story Shift: Recent Episodes
Rhonda and Corbin Baird
This show presents conversations exploring resilience: personal, professional, and planetary with a focus on tools that work systematically to create a better future.
In this edition:
Indiana Public Media coverage on individuals and climate change from November 21, 2019
Individuals, corporations, and government responsibility for climate change
Greenwashing as a misdirection; Extraction economy and externalized costs
Systems Thinking:
- "Leverage Points" by Donella Meadows, PhD
- Club of Rome Report, 1972 (and following)
Attention to Climate Change
- Greta Thunberg on Student Strikes
- Madrid COP25 (not 27 as Rhonda mentioned in the recording)
- Extinction Rebellion
- Youth Climate Lawsuit
- Temperature change
Long-term vs. short-term thinking; generational thinking
What to do:
- Stop doing the things that are really harmful
- Work in considered stages that make sense to you: track what you are doing and make a plan
- What do you need to be doing to adapt to 3 degrees Celsius
- Be active in your government - volunteer, attend meetings
What can you do to take responsibility?
26 minutes
Permaculture Design process's role in systems thinking
The many faces of permaculture practice
Value of the permaculture design course - and emerging trends in allied projects:
- Ecosystem Restoration Camps,
- Restoration Agriculture,
- Agroecology
- Jem Bendell, Deep Adaptation Forum
- Zev Friedman, Western North Carolina Mutual Aid Network
Food, farming, and permaculture
Where just adopting techniques of permaculture may not be enough.
Global Earth Repair Conference - hope, grief, climate change, and a global awakening
Why take a permaculture design course?
Nature Connection practices and communities; place-based spirituality
The moment we are in: stressors and healthy responses
28 minutes