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drokhole

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Tue Jul 17, 2012, 03:15 PM Jul 2012

Biodynamic farmer extraordinaire Joel Salatin gives an amazing TEDMED 2012 talk

Last edited Tue Jul 17, 2012, 04:08 PM - Edit history (1)

I know it's a conference dealing with health and medicine, but it's just as relevant to caring for the environment and viewing it in a biological/interrelated/immensely complex manner rather than a blind/stupid/mechanistic process:




Along the same lines, there's a lecture from Zen philosopher Alan Watts that's worth listening to. It's a bit long (roughly 50 minutes), but complements Salatin's remarks incredibly well. Namely, how we've come to dissociate our relationship with and connection to Nature (which itself is a clumsy way of putting it on my part, since we ourselves are Nature). Worth setting time aside for, or having on in the background, or digesting in chunks, or whatever:

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