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Episode #633 - Putting The 'Mental' Back in Environmental (Food Waste and The Underground Forests of Niger) |
⌚ Sat 8 December 2012 ☻Mike Freedman, Tristram Stuart, Ronald Wright, Tony Rinaudo |
![]() ![]() Download Hour1 Download Hour2Is planet earth facing a food crisis? Are there too many people here? Can humanity afford to tackle desertification in the Sahel? Filmmaker Mike Freedman, food activist Tristram Stuart, author Ronald Wright and finally permaculturist and aid worker Tony Rinaudo all contribute their voices to this week's challenge to simplistic and reductionist thinking on such matters. |
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— Mike Freedman, 2012 |
Next we hear from Tristram Stuart about how he got interested in the topic of food waste, and his efforts to raise awareness of the problem, and to tackle hunger and waste directly by matching up surplus food with hungry people using a time honoured gift economy model (the 'Feeding the 5000' events).
Then it's the turn of Ronald Wright, interviewed from the Extra Environmentalist podcast, on the topic of societal collapse. He draws parallels with former societies which collapsed and warns us away from an excess of technology.
We conclude with the remarkable testimony of Tony Rinaudo about how a simple technique with a $2 pocket knife has allowed millions of trees to regrow and the desert to be rolled back in the inhospitable terrain of Niger. As he explains, some of the stiffest opposition he faced as aid agencies and others keen on 'development' who were looking for a more complex solution than the one he came up with.
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Thanks to Alex Smith for the Radio Ecoshock interview of Mike Freedman
This show is a development of ideas from episode 597.
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