Doomer Optimism23 Nov 2023

DO 188 - Bringing Permaculture to the World with Andrew Millison, Roxanne, and Jason

Jason and Roxanne (@happyholistichs ) speak with Andrew Millison (@andrewmillison ), who runs the permaculture design course for Oregon State, and who produces a serious of remarkable educational videos on permaculture concepts and on projects all over the world. They talk about the importance of water in landscapes, his journey towards permaculture and education, how he sees the permaculture movement growing, applying permaculture in different cultural contexts, the lost opportunity of designing U.S. political borders around watersheds and bioregions, the economics of permaculture, motivating people to grow food, creative arrangements to enable broad scale land access, cutting edge ideas and projects for Andrew, how to address with the ecological problems in the California food system and the rising prevalence of wildfires, and his recent video documenting the work of Planting Justice

Andrew currently teaches the for-credit courses Permaculture Design Course (Hort 285) and the Advanced Permaculture Design Tools for Climate Resilience (Hort 485) at OSU, on campus and online.

Andrew teaches non-credit courses for the general public as well, including the:

Free Introduction to Permaculture Massive Open Online Course
Free Permaculture Water Design: Drought Proofing Farms open source module
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
Advanced Permaculture Design Tools for Climate Resilience

Andrew also has produced two open source textbooks for his courses that are freely available:

Finally, Andrews excellent Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@amillison

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DO 312 - Wendell Berry Retrospective with Jason, Ashley, Nate and Donald

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DO 311 - Mike Healy Manufacturing Community

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DO 309 - Bill Kauffman

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DO 308 - Growing Pecans with Lenny Wells

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DO 307 - Microcolleges with Jacob Hundt

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DO 306 - Building New Athens with Jackson Solway

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