Jason Bradford has been affiliated with Post Carbon Institute since 2004, first as a Fellow and then as a Board Member. He grew up in the Bay Area of California and graduated from University of California – Davis with a B.S. in biology before earning his doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, where he also taught ecology for a few years. After graduate school he worked for the Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development at the Missouri Botanical Garden, was a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Davis, and during that period co-founded the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group (ABERG). He decided to shift from academia to learn more about and practice sustainable agriculture, in the process completing six months of training with Ecology Action (aka GrowBiointensive) in Willits, California, and then founded Brookside School Farm. While in Willits, Jason also instigated the creation of Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL) and was on the board of the Renewable Energy Development Institute (REDI). For four years he hosted The Reality Report radio show on KZYX in Mendocino County. In 2009 he moved to Corvallis, Oregon, as one of the founders of Farmland LP, a farmland management fund implementing organic and mixed crop and livestock systems, where he worked until early 2018. He sits on the Economic Development Advisory Board for Corvallis and Benton County, and serves as an advisor for the OregonFlora Project based at Oregon State University. He lives with his family outside of Corvallis on an organic farm.
Tis but a Scratch: the Insanity of Returning to Normal (Episode 31 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
In the season finale of Crazy Town during this upside down year of 2020, it’s only fitting that a return to “normal” actually means a return to “crazy.”
A Time to Speak up, but Also a Time to Shut up: White Privilege in America (Episode 30 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Is there anything crazier than the people in our towns, who are sworn to protect and serve, instead coldly taking the lives of our neighbors? Given this moment in American history marked by outrage, sadness, and massive protest, we discuss the need to address institutional racism and white privilege.
The Crazy Town Mailbag: We Heard from You, and It Wasn’t as Bad as We Thought (Episode 29 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Despite the occasional (and well deserved) insult, we love our listeners and find them to be some of the most intelligent, caring, and committed people in the world. Learn how they’re working toward sustainable transportation, healthy farms, infrastructure repurposing, and community resilience, all while keeping a good sense of humor.
Breaking the Brady Vase: Coronavirus and America’s Fault Lines (Episode 28 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Besides lessons in ethics (and in Asher’s case, lessons in the English language), the Brady Bunch offers up a metaphor about the fault lines in American politics -- fault lines that include the undermining of government, extreme individualism, race and class divides, and capitalist and corporate excesses.
Poked by a Porcupine: the Politics of Contraction (Episode 27 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
In this episode Asher, Rob, and Jason wonder if individualism (not to mention all those other “-isms”... capitalism, socialism, communism) is simply the product of a relatively short period of expansionism, and what of our values must be kept or discarded as we enter a new era of contraction and bureaucratic breakdown.
Doors and Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Reimagining Lifeboat Ethics in the Age of Overshoot (Episode 26 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
In search of better ideas and better leadership, Asher, Rob, and Jason discuss how we can reinvent lifeboat ethics and find prosocial ways to manage humanity’s shared crises.
Koala Butts Ablaze and the Sweet Relief of the Adaptive Cycle (Episode 25 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilence.org
Join Asher, Rob, and Jason as they give a guided tour of the growth, conservation, collapse, and reorganization phases of the cycle, and hash out how it can be applied to the modern world.
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Asher, Rob, and Jason grapple with the cacophony, hash out the good and bad of the film and the response to it, and argue for an honest, messy-middle approach to the transition away from fossil fuels.