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Dave Jacke - Ecological Culture Design

Dec 22, 2014
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Show Notes

My guest for this episode is Dave Jacke a designer from Massachusetts and author, along with Eric Toensmeier, of Edible Forest Gardens Volume 1 and 2.

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Today he joins us to discuss Ecological Culture Design. Dave is a returning guest to the show. You can hear about his background and how he came to do this work in his initial interview. If this is your first time listening to Dave I recommend you start there to get a feel for the level of candor you’ll hear in this episode. This is an open and honest conversation about the four components of Ecological Culture Design:

  • Technology
  • Resources
  • Social and Economic Structures
  • Cosmology

We discuss how we must include these elements in our designs for permaculture systems. These areas matter because these are the pieces we must work with in order to bring the so-called “Invisible Structures” of permaculture to the forefront. Dave and I end the conversation with a constructive critique on what it means to organize, practice, and teach permaculture. In preparing this episode Dave and I both listened to the audio before it went out on the air and he asked that I correct his statement about Tantric philosophy. In the interview he said, “the perceiver, the perceived and the object of perception are one.” What he meant was “the perceiver, the perceived and the process of perception are one ,” a subtle but big difference.

Resources:
  • Ecological Culture Design: A Holistic View (PDF)
  • Dave Jacke - Edible Forest Gardens (Website)
  • Dave Jacke - Edible Forest Gardens and Permaculture (Dave's first interview on the podcast.)
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