Episode 3- What does it mean to sustain life?
We generally think of humans as separate from nature, but to create a truly sustainable condition, it will be necessary for us to shift our mental model to one that acknowledges all of life as an integrated whole system. Just as plants and bees have roles, humans also have roles in sustaining the web of life.
Over the past three or four decades our understanding of how the indigenous peoples of North America did this is becoming clear. Our predecessors spent millennia managing and tending their places, thriving in mutually beneficial relationships, and living with abundance. What can we learn from this new understanding of our continent’s history prior to European settlement? How can we too inhabit our places in healthy interrelationship in order to sustain life - how can we “re-member”?
Our guest, Dr. Gerould Wilhelm – botanist, hydrologist, and native American scholar – will tell us stories about how fire, water, soil, and humans play vital roles in the Living System.
