Brendan M McNamara

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I've grown up appreciating and immersed in both nature and technology. I've run my own business my whole adult life - at first in computer repair, but as time went on, more and more landscaping and gardening. Now I do a little of everything. I helped manage operations at one of the biggest organic farms in my state for 2 years, I lived off-grid with solar and wood heat, doing regenerative ag, for 3 or 4. I'm constantly tinkering with projects like upcycled vertical planters, moisture condensation, water harvesting, photosynthetic voltaics, aquaponics and lots more. Recently I helped do tech for the Global Earth Repair conference - a gathering of ecologists and earth practitioners and permaculture gurus that hosted over 600 in Port Townsend, WA. I'm still working on the material for that as my full-time job, as well as raising some kids and hosting two YouTube channels. I'm hoping to share my own work here and learn plenty as well! Always learning...
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Hello everyone, I lurk for the most part but once in awhile emerge with a production. I made this as a remix of several speakers at the Global Earth Repair Conference in 2019, which I was honored to help develop and attend. This is a conceptual map of the "biotic pump" theory and the little-discussed connection between water and climate. Many of these speakers have since this conference ended up on docs like "Kiss the Ground", and I still am blessed to be in connection with many of them and have the permission from the conference "convener" to use some of these videos I helped produce to keep the conversation going... enjoy... If you like this and want it to go further, I don't have much outreach yet, so it would help me immensely if you login with your google account and use the youtube features to like, share and subscribe to help my channel grow. Thank you!

Hi folks, forgive me if I've posted this in the wrong place - I am trying to spread the word about this movement. The idea is to allow folks to start these camps wherever they are and use regenerative methods (including permaculture) to restore landscapes.
5 years ago
Excellent! I'd like to get some people together near here (Northern Olympic Peninsula, WA) if there is anybody nearby.
Hello, this would be my introductory post here - I'll break right in with a helpful presentation video that we just generated over at Global Earth Repair Conference. The conference had several permaculture and regen-ag people as well as journalists, climatologists, biogeochemists, philosophers, indigenous leaders, and so on. Brian Kerkvliet had one of the most informative presentations, chock full of helpful practical hints for folks to start doing this stuff right away. It has a lot of carbon farming in it but I posted in rainwater collection because water harvest is a critical part of this - even where it comes to terracing, keylines, swales and huguls. Please if this should go somewhere else as well, some of you more experienced please show this n00b where to put it in here. In the meantime, I'll say again that most of this has to do with designing your earthworks and land features on contour, paying close attention to the water - the farm design should flow as the water does, obviously, as possibly the most important consideration in planning. All of this I'm sure is preaching to the choir, but I have to write something here right? Anyway, without further ado, please enjoy this video:

6 years ago