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The EcoIQ Project

36 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Fostering connection, deepening Ecological Intelligence

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Episode #29 Back To The Answer of Knowledge, with Juanfran Lopez

March 22, 2022 10:18 - 1 hour - 136 MB

Juanfran Lopez is an agricultural consultant and educator who works with subsistence farmers to empower them in their own knowledge by educating the science behind their traditional farming and behind his own regenerative farming tools of biofertilisers, Native microorganism formulations and circular chromatography testing. Juanfran represents and continues a deep tradition from spanish speaking agro ecological revolution starting from Francis Chabousou, and pushed further by Sebastiano Pinhe...

1.28 The Road To Abundance And Liberty On The Land with Curtis Stone. Understanding The Law To Protect Your Personal Sovereignty

July 17, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours - 215 MB

This episode was with Curtis Stone. Curtis is the founder of the Urban Farmer (https://theurbanfarmer.co), a platform teaching how to farm in an urban or semi urban environment and turn a real profit. Curtis is the author of The Urban Farmer book (https://theurbanfarmer.co/book/). He manages the innovative Paperpot co (https://paperpot.co) farming tools shop with Diego Footer from Permaculture Voice. Hosts a high quality podcast, Liberty on the Land (https://libertyontheland.com), and a new ...

1.27 The Transformative Mind, with John Kempf. How Make An Impact In A Time Of Crisis

July 09, 2020 22:41 - 1 hour - 118 MB

"The outcome of an intervention has nothing to do with the skills of the intervener and it has everything to do with the place within from which the intervener comes." (Otto Scharmer)  "There are few areas that lend themselves to transformation as readily as farming.... ...all living processes are fundamentally transformative.." (John Kempf) For this episode I had the great pleasure to interview a recent hero of mine John Kempf.   This interview was very special for me personally and one of...

1.26 The Peaceful Revolution, with Dr Charles Massy. Lessons On The Power Of Storytelling

July 01, 2020 21:13 - 1 hour - 75.6 MB

What a pleasure to host Dr Charles Massy.  Another master storyteller.   Dr Charles Massy is a farmer of more than 35 years and by his own account has learned from many deep mistakes on the land.  In talking with with Charles I had the wonderful feeling I have with so many guests of intense excitement and hope that seems to accompany so many producers and followers in the Regenerative Agriculture Movement. Having authored several books, the latest being the highly acclaimed "The Call Of Th...

1.25 Becoming A Leader Of Hero's, with Richard Perkins. How to Develop An Independent And Empowered Approach To Farming.

June 18, 2020 19:43 - 1 hour - 89.9 MB

Last week we had the good fortune to sit down again with a massive entrepreneurial leader, friend, and hero of mine, Richard Perkins. Richard is the founder of Ridgedale Permaculture farm in Varmland, Sweden and the author of Regenerative Agriculture, the most comprehensive book to come out on the subject to date. He hosts a very well followed youtube channel sharing insights and innovations from the farm and recently launched an online monthly membership site showcasing long form interview...

1.24 How To Transform Your Life Through Fungi, With Peter McCoy

June 12, 2020 16:42 - 2 hours - 117 MB

Our guest this week was the activist, educator, artist and innovative mycologist Peter McCoy. Peter is the self published author of Radical Mycology (2016), a massively comprehensive and in depth look at fungi and its many contexts at multiple levels including agro ecology, bio remediation, medicine, food, cultivation and the various cultures surrounding fungi. Seeing another unfulfilled global need, and within one year after his book release, Peter founded Mycologos, the worlds first dedi...

1.23 Protecting Personal Sovereignty In The CoVid-19 Crisis, With Shai Danon.

June 12, 2020 09:28 - 2 hours - 128 MB

In this period of time, at EcoIQ we have decided to run some interviews concerning the current global situation and all its elements.  As we move forward with our goal of fostering a deeper connection for us all with ecological cycles and processes. we will also begin releasing additional episodes with a focus on more controversial and human health issues.  While I would not at all consider myself a conspiracy theorist and nor do I have time to dive down those rabbit holes. Never the less I ...

1.22 Back To The Answer, Wisdom In A Global Crisis, with Joel Salatin and Darren Doherty.

May 19, 2020 10:03 - 2 hours - 147 MB

Amazing long form, round table conversation with Joel Salatin and Darren Doherty, recorded right before the CoVid lockdown. We get a real deep insight into what drives and concerns two amazing pioneers and innovators in agriculture and regenerative farming. Joel Salatin is an outspoken advocate for free speech and choice in food and farmer relationships and transparency of production. An author of 12 eclectic books on farming, entrepreneurship, legal battles and spiritual ecological connect...

1:21 Foodology and Learning About Local With Uri Mayer-Chissick

May 07, 2020 14:25 - 1 hour - 112 MB

Before the current global CoVid situation I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Uri Meyer-Chissick.     Uri is well educated in multiple areas of food cultures, food and nutrition history, including extensive research into medieval medical scholars including the famous Jewish scholar and doctor Maimondes.   In Israel Uri is outspoken in the need to reconnect with our local biome and more specifically our local food history, cultures and traditions surrounding food.  Appearing on multiple Is...

1.20 How To Prepare For Greatness And Integrity In Soils with Nicole Masters

April 05, 2020 21:01 - 1 hour - 162 MB

The EcoIQ Podcast hosts soil regeneration and farming optimising coach, Nicole Masters. It was a real pleasure to get back to my own personal passion of all things soil science and biology. Nicole has an amazingly youthful energy that belies her deep passion for pushing the envelope of understanding and better practice in soils and production systems. Nicole’s approach remains refreshing undogmatic. Nicole is academically trained agro ecologist, author and soil regeneration coach. Nicole h...

1.19 Lessons From The Field With Curtis Stone - Learning To Expand Responsibility

March 25, 2020 23:27 - 1 hour - 218 MB

Amazing interview with the Urban Farmer and massive content creator, Curtis stone. Curtis is the founder of the Urban Farmer education entity, a platform teaching young hopefuls how to farm in an urban or semi urban environment and turn a real profit. He also manages an innovative online farming tools shop with Diego Footer from Permaculture Voice, Paperpot Co, hosts a high quality podcast, Liberty on the Land, and run a new and a amazing high value membership resource platform exploring bey...

1:18 Changing Tack And Travelling In New Directions - Lessons from Ridgedale with Richard Perkins

March 10, 2020 20:59 - 1 hour - 174 MB

"Perfectionism is the death of creativity" An amazing, up close and personal discussion with Richard Perkins of Ridgedale Permaculture. Richard Perkins is the author of the highly acclaimed and comprehensive Regenerative Agriculture manual, and, along with his wife Yohanna, is the founder and leader at the hugely diverse and productive Ridgedale Permaculture in Sweden. Ridgedale teaches upcoming farmers the understanding needed to develop profitable and knowledgeable farms. With almost 70k...

1.17 The Fundamental Science Of Farming with Chris Trump - Learning To Walk With Gratitude and Be Profitable

February 12, 2020 10:45 - 1 hour - 174 MB

A long awaited interview with today's most respected Natural Farming expert, family man, global family farming educator, Chris Trump. Chris Trump is really an example of the farmers farmer.  Having passed through many years of conventional family farming, when Chris Trump (with encouragement from his father), decided to trial organic methods on their 880 acre macadamia farm in Hawaii, it was not a decision taken lightly, the learning curve was appreciated only equal to the importance of maint...

1.16 Fire-A Deeper Conversation with Stephen Pyne - Beyond Physics And Chemistry

January 30, 2020 18:10 - 1 hour - 115 MB

A very rare and highly insightful conversation with the worlds foremost fire historian, Stephen J Pyne. We dive deeper into our relationship with fire and touch on our modern day, largely dysfunctional and reductionist, approach.  Steve Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. He has been at ASU since 1985.  In 1986 he joined the charter faculty at ASU West, where he remained for 10 years. He transferred to the School of Life Sciences in 1999.   Stephen J Pyne is a HUGELY...

1.15 Sarah Savory and Holistic Storytelling - Learning To Make Decisions Like A Human

January 17, 2020 14:54 - 1 hour - 162 MB

Are you concerned about our global or your local ecology?  Are you convinced our future is bleak? sometimes the 'solutions' are embarrassingly simple.  An amazing interview with children's author, underground parent educator and Holistic framework facilitator, Sarah Savory. The daughter of world famous ecologist Allan Savory, who created and developed the Holistic Management framework. Sarah has taken her own understanding and passion for Holistic Management and brought right down back to t...

1.14 Fire And Stone With Adiel Shnuer From Kamin Masa - Stop Wasting Your Time, Health And Money On Heating

January 09, 2020 10:51 - 1 hour - 127 MB

An amazing conversation with Adiel Shneur from Kamin Massa Israel. My biggest takeaway here was the profound insight I got in understanding this elegant and simple technology, and how this same understanding can build deeper connection and empowering knowledge in peoples lives.   favorite timestamp was 27:23.  amazing and deep. Adiel is the foremost pioneer in the highly efficient technology of thermal mass heating, known commonly as rocket stoves. As Adiel closes in on almost a decade lo...

1.13 Harel Weiss- Seeds Of Change- Learning To Come From A Place Of Peace

January 01, 2020 01:16 - 1 hour - 112 MB

What a heartfelt conversation with a true pioneer of Israel's heirloom seeds with Harel Weiss from Nativity Seeds. Harel is a true unsung hero of our region. Biggest takeaway : The power of shifting from a place of anger to a place of peace. Putting the hands in the soil. Harel is the founder of Nativity Seeds, Israel. The only dedicated heritage seed company actively regenerating and collecting indigenous and family seeds in Israel.   After a scholarship in Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa,...

1.12 Kay Baxter- The Communication Of Heritage Seeds: Learning To Make An Impact By Just Starting Where You Are

December 25, 2019 05:19 - 1 hour - 146 MB

What an amazing interview with master gardener and HUGE seed saving hero, Kay Baxter.   Along with her husband Bob corker and family, Kay is the founder of the Koanga Institute and the Kotare eco village project in Wairoa, New Zealand.  An inheritor of gardening knowledge of several generations, Kay Baxter has a deep and visceral understanding of the rhythms and cycles of nature that move so fast when you manage a garden. With over 800+ reserved heritage seeds and over 400 reserved fruit tree...

1.11 Mastering The Art Of Process With Regrarians Founder Darren Doherty

December 18, 2019 14:39 - 1 hour - 219 MB

A very open conversation with the master of process and productive, integrative land planning, Darren Doherty. Darren Doherty and his family are the masterminds behind The online learning resource The Regrarians platform, along with The REX farm planning course, The Rap and the ROC international conventions. Darren is also the originator of carbon farming as a course, and is credited with popularising the international movement RegenAg, he is also the author of the comprehensive and develop...

1.10 The Sacred Business Of Harmonious Production - A Lesson In 'Creation' Farming With Joel Salatin

December 03, 2019 10:58 - 1 hour - 148 MB

Today we had the great pleasure and honour to host a true hero in the space of regenerative farming , and a whole lot more besides! Master land steward, farmer rights activist and soil regenerating extraordinaire Joel Salatin. Joel Salatin is the leader of the super entrepreneurial and eclectic, Polyface Farm, which once sporting 4 meter deep erosion gullies, has become a benchmark for what is possible in highly synergistic and nature respecting agriculture. Joel Salatin is arguably one of...

1.09 Bringing Agricultural Science Down To Earth - Empowering Farmers and Consumers with Juanfran Lopez

November 26, 2019 10:32 - 56 minutes - 103 MB

Graduating from the university of Spain with a degree in agriculture and deeply unsatisfied with his formal education and the offered career prospects, Juanfran left it all behind and set out for deeper answers to a lot of unanswered questions.   This episode we hosted a very special guest Juanfran Lopez.  Juanfran is a fast rising and yet unsung hero of regenerative agriculture.  Juan has learnt from truly amazing mentors, in Latin America and abroad. His mission passed from his mentors w...

1.08 We Are Beings Of Light And Water - With Shai Danon

November 20, 2019 21:19 - 1 hour - 120 MB

This week we host Shai Danon, the man behind 'Raise the Frequency', activist, community leader and deep researcher. We go into the physics behind light and water, what it means to be a 'Real' hippy. and the incredible power of the sun as a biological synchronizer . This was an amazing interview.  be sure to join our tribe here and stay connected....     https://mailchi.mp/2137c6c45a14/ecoiq  Anyone interested in checking out Shai's impressive work can catch him at these links: https://a...

1.08 We Are Biengs Of Light And Water - With Shai Danon

November 20, 2019 21:19 - 1 hour - 120 MB

This week we host Shai Danon, the man behind 'Raise the Frequency', activist, community leader and deep researcher. We go into the physics behind light and water, what it means to be a 'Real' hippy. and the incredible power of the sun as a biological synchronizer . This was an amazing interview.  be sure to join our tribe here and stay connected....     https://mailchi.mp/2137c6c45a14/ecoiq  Anyone interested in checking out Shai's impressive work can catch him at these links: https://a...

1.07 Abundance And Liberating The Shadow with Doron Geber

November 13, 2019 20:03 - 1 hour - 119 MB

This week EcoIQ talks with Doron Geber, founder of Breakthrough Matrix Coaching.   A innovative system of breaking through unconscious blockages and manifesting our natural state of abundance.  Doron breaks down the mythologies surrounding the 'wholesale positivity' of the day.  Instead we delve into the true mechanism of accessing our FULL potential through accepting our 'shadows' and discovering the hero inside the wound.     At some point we all need to 'go inside' and start to connect to...

1.08 Abundance And Liberating The Shadow with Doron Geber

November 13, 2019 20:03 - 1 hour - 119 MB

This week EcoIQ talks with Doron Geber, founder of Breakthrough Matrix Coaching.   A innovative system of breaking through unconscious blockages and manifesting our natural state of abundance.  Doron breaks down the mythologies surrounding the 'wholesale positivity' of the day.  Instead we delve into the true mechanism of accessing our FULL potential through accepting our 'shadows' and discovering the hero inside the wound.     At some point we all need to 'go inside' and start to connect to...

1.06 Business Abundance, Developing A Natural Mindset In Business with Aharon Henderson and Jan Melhouse

November 08, 2019 03:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

This was a great interview by my colleague Jan Melhouse from The Business Artist Podcast with me as a guest.   I loved the direction of the conversation because we explored an area we haven't touched yet on EcoIQ, and that's entrepreneurship.  Like many spaces that focus on a connection with nature... business is many times held as 'dirty' thing in the unconscious. Those of us whose journeys exploring our nature connections, find us wanting to share our experiences and serve others, for tho...

1.07 Business Abundance, Developing A Natural Mindset In Business with Aharon Henderson and Jan Melhouse

November 08, 2019 03:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

This was a great interview by my colleague Jan Melhouse from The Business Artist Podcast with me as a guest.   I loved the direction of the conversation because we explored an area we haven't touched yet on EcoIQ, and that's entrepreneurship.  Like many spaces that focus on a connection with nature... business is many times held as 'dirty' thing in the unconscious. Those of us whose journeys exploring our nature connections, find us wanting to share our experiences and serve others, for tho...

1.05 Finding Place, Finding Connection. Building And Journeying With Daphna Yalon

November 03, 2019 15:04 - 1 hour - 162 MB

'When we work with the raw earth, there is a life to the material-' This interview we dive deep into the truly amazing work and world of earth based artist, space creator, teacher and builder Daphna Yalon. https://daphnayalon-earthbasedartist.com/

The Language of Birds- A Bridge to Connection with Uri Arad and Stephan Kestenboim

November 03, 2019 06:15 - 1 hour - 24.9 MB

"Suddenly it was like a disco in my head- ...and still is.."   The amazing art of bird language is an amazing skill in itself but also an incredible tool for deeper and more subtle connection to nature. Here we talk with the two leaders of Bird Language School Israel.   A truly amazing conversation about a truly amazing subject. The first of many https://www.sfataa.com/

1.04 The Language of Birds- A Bridge to Connection with Uri Arad and Stephan Kestenboim

November 03, 2019 06:15 - 1 hour - 24.9 MB

"Suddenly it was like a disco in my head- ...and still is.."   The amazing art of bird language is an amazing skill in itself but also an incredible tool for deeper and more subtle connection to nature. Here we talk with the two leaders of Bird Language School Israel.   A truly amazing conversation about a truly amazing subject. The first of many https://www.sfataa.com/

1.03 The Cultivation of Human Beings with Alex Kachan

October 29, 2019 21:17 - 49 minutes - 91.3 MB

"The Ultimate goal of farming is not the cultivation of crops but the perfection of human beings".  We are joined today by the prodigious and highly active permaculture pioneer of Israel, Alex Kachan. Founder of the Permaculture College of Israel. The first government registered institute teaching this style of progressive farming in Israel.   Alex is a teacher and farmer whos goal is to connect people in a deep way to themselves each other and to the earth.  We dive into the energetics of f...

1.02 Cycles of Light with Raimar Geffken

October 29, 2019 20:18 - 49 minutes - 91.3 MB

One of the deepest connections we can have is to the cycles of light and darkness in nature. they have a deep effect on our own biological cycles and rhythms for the good and the bad. This is a topic a topic EcoIQ will cover indepth as our seasons develop. Today we are excited to host Raimar Geffken from Biocentric Lighting and Biocentric Life who will introduce this topic to EcoIQ listeners.

1.01 Going Deep in Israel- The Human Connection with Talia Schnieder

October 16, 2019 19:35 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB

Join us as we explore the journey of a true ecological pioneer.  Talia Schnieder's story is a special example of someone who shifted her direction multiple times in order to remain inline with her innate ethics, trusting a deep feeling of the intrinsic value of  'doing right' and the harmony that creates has its own value.   Talia brings to light what she feels is the essence of nature connection, and that is a connection to ourselves and our connection to others.  Talia shares her learning ...

1.01 Eco Pioneers in Israel- EcoIQ with Talia Schnieder

October 16, 2019 19:35 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB

Join us as we explore the journey of a true ecological pioneer.  Talia Schnieder's story is a special example of someone who shifted her direction multiple times in order to remain inline with her innate ethics, trusting a deep feeling of the intrinsic value of  'doing right' and the harmony that creates has its own value.   Talia brings to light what she feels is the essence of nature connection, and that is a connection to ourselves and our connection to others.  Talia shares her learning ...

EcoIQ - episode 1. The debut- connection

October 03, 2019 10:00 - 11 minutes - 20.7 MB

This is the debut episode 1 of my Project EcoIQ. A podcast to serve a community of people who have experienced a deep connection or felt deeply moved in nature, and want to develop this connection further.  This is the world of ecological intelligence. At once highly practical, deeply contemplative, philosophical and even a little spiritual.  This first episode will introduce me your host and a brief introduction the trajectory for EcoIQ. I talk about my own background and the reasons behind...

0.0 EcoIQ - We Begin.... The debut- connection

October 03, 2019 10:00 - 11 minutes - 20.7 MB

This is the debut episode 1 of my Project EcoIQ. A podcast to serve a community of people who have experienced a deep connection or felt deeply moved in nature, and want to develop this connection further.  This is the world of ecological intelligence. At once highly practical, deeply contemplative, philosophical and even a little spiritual.  This first episode will introduce me your host and a brief introduction the trajectory for EcoIQ. I talk about my own background and the reasons behind...

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Joel Salatin
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