What Is A Whole Site Design, and Why Do One?
What is a Whole Site Design? A whole site design is a visually illustrated, comprehensive plan that integrates all of the elements required to realize the vision for a particular landscape, whether that be held by an individual or a group of people, into a cohesive, self-supporting whole that exists in harmony with the innate…
Living with Fire – Part 4 Integrating Fire Into Daily Life (Again)
Living with Fire is a 4-part series presenting a new paradigm regarding fire – one in which we celebrate fire’s necessary ecological role, and design for a healthy relationship with it. The earlier parts of this series are: What if we chose to view nature’s gift of annually-replenishing fixed carbon sources (i.e. chaparral brush) in…
Living with Fire – Part 3: Home Construction And Retrofitting For Fire Survivability
Living with Fire – Part 3: Home Construction and Retrofitting for Survivability. How to design or a retrofit a home for survival in a wildfire ecology.
Living with Fire – Part 2 Regenerative Firescaping – Protecting Your Home With Good Design
Regenerative Firescaping principles and methods for creating a fire-safe oasis around your home.
Living with Fire – Part 1: Basic Fire Science, Personal Responsibility And Home Site Selection
Basic wildfire science, risk prioritization and management, and home site selection for enhanced fire survivability.
~ The Regenerative Agora ~ Counter-Economics For Stewards Of The Future
How can we go about creating the new systems, business models, value systems and infrastructure of a regenerative society when much of that work is arbitrarily outlawed or supressed by the power systems that dominate our current culture? This post is for those of you interested in creating that world worth inheriting, whether or not…
Introduction to Appropriate Energy
Three step process for designing appropriate energy systems for a regenerative future.
Borrowing Without Intent To Repay: How Modern Fiat Currency Systems Concentrate Wealth By Design
Step by step illustration of the modern day currency creation process and how it concentrates wealth and impoverishes the future.
Creating Resilient Wealth With The 8 Forms Of Capital
Create Resilient Wealth and true freedom in time, health, wealth and spirit with the 8 Forms of Capital.
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 6: Charcoal And Biochar
Learn what biochar is, how it is different from charcoal, how to make biochar yourself and apply it in your garden, farm or livestock operation.
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 5: Fermented Plant Juice
Make your own garden superfood with Fermented Plant Juice. DIY, low/no cost, powerful growth boosters for your home garden.
Abundant Water – Part 1: The Four R’s Of Regenerative Hydrology
The 4 R’s of regenerative hydrology – Receive, Recharge, Retain, Release – and how to apply them to create water abundant landscapes wherever you are.