Recombination Nation

Peter Watts is a notorious science fiction author with a fascination of the outer edges of biology, fractured minds and a taste for the dark and confronting. We dive into the lessons the living world and our own nature can teach us when contemplating the destiny of this civilisation, our species and the fate of the planet.
Check out Peter's insightful blog and backlist (including many complete novels, free to read)

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Read Shane's book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology.

Associate Professor Ryan Huish is an experienced ethnobotanist with experience in both North America and the South Pacific, who also runs his own experimental low input farm in the mountains of Appalachia. We explore the lessons from historical and traditional cultures' relationships to plants and landscapes and how that has influenced his own efforts to develop a truly sustainable local agriculture.
Learn more about his farm, book a tour or buy some seed.
Read more about his extensive research and teaching.

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Read Shane's book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology.

Nathan Surendran is an Engineer who moved from the UK to New Zealand in response to the terrible creaking sound coming from the heart of the world's industrial systems. There he has worked consistently to help local government prepare for the unfolding shocks and stresses in our planetary supply chain, which New Zealand sits on the very end of.
You can read Nathan's work at Energy and Resilience

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In Shane's first solo episode, we explore the possible route to the domestication of the beaver and the potential benefits of developing a close relationship with this powerful ecosystem engineer.
Check out more novel domestications in my ebook Taming the Apocalypse
Audiobook available on Kobo
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Todd Elliott is an experience market farmer who followed his passion for agricultural spiritual traditions deep into history, applied those lessons to his own surroundings, then wrote a book about his discoveries.
Read Todd's blog: https://thecunningfarmer.substack.com
Buy his book from the publisher: https://www.innertraditions.com/the-cunning-farmer
Or Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Cunning-Farmer-Agrarian-Practices-Mythology/dp/B0F1LQSDFC

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