A cup of coffee you can feel good about – Episode 14

Interview with Courtney Walters about living in a sustainable community and her business importing sustainably grown coffee.

Marianne interviews Courtney Walters of U.W. Trading Company. Courtney lived in a sustainable community in Peru.  Meditating in the jungle made her realize that community is very important to her and that her place is San Diego.  But she brought her jungle experience to her life in San Diego by starting a coffee importing company supporting farmers in Peru growing coffee in a sustainable way. Learn more about Courtney here.

Fifty percent unemployment: Solution? Study permaculture

In Mallorca, Spain a group of people, 7 of them youths, wants to study permaculture to find solutions not only for their own future employment, but for the many problems their island faces.

EPISODE 13 – Mallorca, Spain, is the home of Meiling Colorado and a group of people, 7 of them youth, who want to study permaculture to find solutions not only for their own future employment, but for the many problems their island faces. In this interview, Meiling and Mandy of PermaMed are talking about Permaculture, what PermaMed has to offer and the initiative of the 7 young people. For more on the project, click here.

Envisioning the world our hearts know is possible – Episode 12

How do we create the world we want if we can’t envision it?  The inability to imagine something drastically different is a huge stumbling block for many of us.  This week Marianne and Jenise are joined by homesteading blogger Brad Rowland of Highly Uncivilized to discuss the practice of envisioning and its importance in improving our current situation. Brad summarized the key points brilliantly, here.

Episode 1 – Who we are and why we are into sustainable living

Welcome to The Sustainable Living Podcast – information on living a heart-centered life that honors Mother Earth and her inhabitants.

In this half-hour weekly show we, Jenise Fryatt and Marianne West, will explore the topic of sustainable living and all it entails.

But first, who are we and how did we come to embrace sustainable living?  In this, our first episode of the podcast, we lay it all out.

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