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Blue Dot: Permaculture; A Permanent Culture for People and all the inhabitants of the Planet

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Producer Matt Fidler for a special look at the world of permaculture. If you are like Dave and have never heard of permaculture before, this show is for you!

It's a way of designing landscapes to enhance the natural energy and rhythms of nature to create what we humans and our planet actually need -- a sustainable place.

Whether that be in your backyard or on a farm, permaculture is a way to create precisely what its name implies: a permanent culture that can feed and sustain itself. Our guests are three of the country's leading practitioners of permaculture, Bob Randall, Erik Ohlsen, and Eric Toensmeier.

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.