Willi Paul

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Willi Paul interviews Craig Mackintosh – Worldwide Permaculture Network (WPN) launches!

Is there a global permaculture revolution rising now? Well, there better be. The other kinds of revolution aren’t pretty. Revolution, I believe, is going to become an increasingly popular word. But often revolutions merely pull things down, without offering meaningful replacements. Over the last few years the level of interest in permaculture has skyrocketed. People are increasingly realizing the world is running out of options, but many are also realizing that this is exactly what permaculture gives to the world – options.

February 7, 2011

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Nightwalk, paddle, and ride

Providing space for people to relate to the local land in all its diverse forms and in a diversity of ways (hike, wheelchair, nightwalk, paddle, ride, in languages other than English, sleep beneath the stars) is in many ways an art form that we have been working on for 13 years…and it’s a balance created by years of practice and simply watching for what works.

September 16, 2010

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On survival, survivalists and the New Community Cook-out

I would like to see EcoReality serve as a pool of knowledge and resources that can out-live a long, slow decline as well as a quick, chaotic one. The former is actually much harder to cope with than the latter! Fear is certainly a bigger enemy than anything tangible that may come down the road.
(Group interview with John Steinman, as well as Rachel Kaplan, Catherine Walker, and Pride Wright of Daily Acts )

September 13, 2010

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McMansions and chicken coups

Interview with urban homesteader and somatic psychotherapist Rachel Kaplan in Petaluma, California. “For a typical urban permaculture project, a can do attitude is essential. A willingness to experiment, make mistakes, and keep trying. … you also need to have a willingness to challenge yourself on some things which are just not accepted in our culture–composting your own poop, for example–and living in a way that others might find odd, challenging, disrespectful, messy or intimidating. You have to care more about the world you want to live in than the world we live in now.”

August 30, 2010

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