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Apr 2020
49m 1s

Globalized Localization

JOSH ROBINSON
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About Erik Ohlsen

Erik Ohlsen is an internationally recognized permaculture teacher, educator, and author; he is an award winning landscape contractor and a life long activist. He has specialized in homestead scale regenerative design: including water harvesting, food forests, seed saving, community organizing, habitat development, erosion control, and building topsoil for over 20 years.

Episode Highlights:

  • Work Erik has done since starting with permaculture at 19 years old
  • How Coronavirus interrupts our globalized connections
  • How Erik is mobilizing his local community through gardening
  • What is the Gift Economy
  • How can a degraded landscape be turned into gardens

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