Ideas on the Verge

BYPP Masterclass: Discussions on Step 3: Design

BYPP Masterclass: Discussions on Step 2, Part 2 with Alain and Rob

In this discussion, Rob and Alain break down how to consider performing a SWOT analysis on your personal resource inventory. 

BYPP Masterclass: Discussions on Step 2, Part 1 with Alain and Rob

Today, Rob and I get into the weeds about performing a SWOT analysis on your property resources.

BYPP Masterclass: Discussions on Step 1 with Alain and Rob

This podcast was recorded for the Building Your Permaculture Masterclass as part of the Verge Permaculture Academy course programming. Check it out at vergepermaculture.ca/verge-permaculture-academy. 

Webinar Recording: The First Step Toward Building Your Permaculture Property

Join Alain D'Aoust and Rob Avis as they discuss the crucial first step toward building your permaculture property: Clarifying your vision, values and resources. This is a sneak peak into the live Building Your Permaculture Property Masterclass starting in November 2022 as part of the Permaculture Academy programming. 
Learn about the Verge Permaculture Academy programming here.

Bruce King: The New Carbon Architecture

Bruce King is the author of The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Climate, a paradigm-shifting tour of the innovations in architecture and construction that are making this happen. Office towers built from advanced wood products; affordable, low-carbon concrete alternatives; plastic cleaned from the oceans and turned into building blocks. A tour de force by the leaders in the field, The New Carbon Architecture will fire the imagination of architects, engineers, builders, policy makers, and everyone else captivated by the possibility of architecture to heal the climate and produce safer, healthier, and more beautiful buildings.
 
Bruce has been a structural engineer for 35 years, designing buildings of every size and type around the world. He is the Founder and Director of the Ecological Building Network (EBNet) and the BuildWell conferences on green building materials. Bruce's decades of research into alternative building systems have led to building code changes in California and globally.

Mark Anielski: Economy of Wellbeing

In this video Rob talks with Mark Anielski, author of "The Economy of Well Being" about the current state of the Alberta oil focused economy. They discuss how we could make deliberate choices now to direct the future toward an economic system where everyone thrives. What would an economy of well-being for Alberta look like? How is well-being becoming the new bottom line for measuring Alberta's progress? What if Alberta's economy was based on optimizing the returns on investment in abundant human, social or cultural, natural and built assets?
 
Alberta has the largest public bank in North America -- ATB (Alberta Treasury Branch) Financial -- established over 80 years ago by the Social Credit government of Premier William Aberhart. Having a public bank means that Alberta can create its own financial credit and finance any number of undercapitalized assets like renewable energy development or even a new pipeline without any cost of interest charges. Could Alberta become the model of an economy of well-being for the world? Can permaculture design principles, applied to the economy, help make it happen?
 
Join economist, happiness auditor, and author Mark Anielski as he outlines his vision for a new economic future for Alberta based on his new book. The Economics of Well-being: Common Sense Tools for Building Genuine Wealth and Happiness. Check the book out here

Sam Chaib on Millennials Stepping Up

For years millennials have been tagged as perpetual adolescents, profiled with generational “failure to launch.” Verge grad and permaculture educator Sam Chaib confronts that stigma in an inspiring Ideas on the Verge interview with Mitch Rawlyk. Unlike the Greatest Generation and baby boomers, says Sam, millennials did not emerge from school into a strong economy. They learned early on that they could not depend on existing systems to support their success. And now, as the generation in power is reaching their 70s and 80s, millennials are realizing “We need to step up - but how?”
 
Join us for an exciting conversation as Sam outlines the new vision millennials are bringing as they take on growing civic responsibility with a back-to-basics perspective and community-building ethic.

Margaret Klein Salamon: Author and climate warrior

On this episode, Mitch gets to talking with author and climate warrior Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD. Their discussion is very wide ranging and covers a lot of ground – everything from how to deal with difficult folks, what you can do after accepting climate truth, and how to turn your fear into.
 
For those unfamiliar with the guest... Margaret is a clinical psychologist that has shifted all her energy into lighting a fire under the keesters of folks around the world to take action against climate change. She is the founder and director of The Climate Mobilization and is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency, How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth. Check out her book here

Malcolm Saunders: Food, Fermentation, and Elixirs

Mitch talks to Malcolm Saunders about his journey with food, the four food groups, fermentation, elixirs, how we as humans have come to despise dirt when we really should be embracing it, and of course how permaculture ties into all of it!
Malcolm is the man behind Light Cellar, Calgary's favourite superfood store. His goal in life is to help people recreate their relationship with food, and boy does he ever know his stuff. He is the author of Elixir Life: Modern Nutrition Meets Ancient Herbal Wisdom, which is chock-full of information AND recipes that will be making you feel empowered to create your own elixirs in the comfort of your own home. Make sure to peek in at Light Cellar to check out the amazing selection of ingredients and pick the brains of their incredibly knowledgable staff.