This week’s Deconstructing Dinner podcast featured a fantastic talk by Toby Hemenway on agriculture systems and permaculture. While we speak about sustainability as an alternative to the currently implemented degenerative systems, what we really need to talk about are regenerative systems. Toby says, “If you ask how a marriage is going and you answer that it is being sustained, that’s not what you’re aiming for.” (a rough paraphrase on my part)

Toby goes on to speak about evidence regarding the hunter gatherer lifestyle vs. the sedentary agriculturalists lifestyle and presents the usual evidence that our ancestors were in better health than we thought. Well worth a listen even if you are familiar with many of the cases for permaculture.

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