2017 Slow Living Summit #2: Permaculture & Economic Sustainability, Mark Shepard

PLENARY 2: Permaculture and Economic Sustainability: Making It All Connect - with Mark Shepard
Permaculture may be a buzz word or a trend that we are all hearing, but what does it all mean in relationship to economic sustainability? Join Mark Shepard for this presentation that connects permaculture with the realities of economic sustainability faced by food and ag entrepreneurs.

[@slyyyyyy3208]

Thank you for filming and sharing this

[@MirabelleLePeletierdeRosanbo]

I'm a longtime fan. I tried to grow mung beans in bottles based on these principles. Some people I know raise guinea pigs which are raised for food and their fertiliser in South America. I thought that skinned, boned and barbecued they could be a smarter choice than chickens for people with just a small backyard ant no land at all.

[@mynjgarden]

Ecological restoration and agricultural development with economic revenue at the same time! Brilliant!

[@mtnmanrab]

Agree with him except about CO2 the lower yield is because of bad farming practice. Herbicides, etc. fertilizers. , killing the soil... All the planets are warming. perhaps sun and cosmic cycles are at play.

[@bhavens9149]

Mark, have your book Regenerative Ag, have you thought about doing a follow up on the subject of Economic Sustainability?
Because seriously I haven't found any reasonable lit on the subject, and I think we need this as a book, every community will have different needs I know, but at least it would be something to work from! thanks for Listening!

[@garettwatson8468]

Storm Cunningham’s REconomics and other books are very good, in my opinion! Marks currently writing a 3rd book about Trees making soil so it will probably be awhile before he gets to anything on economics.

[@b_uppy]

What study correlates CO2 and lower nutrition? Need a link. TY.

[@willthomsen7569]

12 bucks an hour with full benefits woo-wee

[@plegrain]

inspirational

[@Gizmo1869]

He claimed we need to double the food supply just to maintain the “sucky” nature of existence on Earth right now yet the stats show that with the amount of food that we waste we could feed everyone, and combined with the fact that most agriculture land/produce is used for livestock instead of plant food for humans, if those two things changed we wouldn’t have to double the food supply, no?..

[@garettwatson8468]

From my understating you’re correct! I think Mark knows that too. He was using someone else’s argument about needing to double food production. I’ve heard him say in other speeches that people go hungry because we have a shortage of justice, not a shortage of food.