As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. A collection of talks from creative individuals striving to bring light to some of the world's most pressing issues. In collaboration with tribal partners, she has an active research program in the ecology and restoration of plants of cultural importance to native peoples. Kimmerer uses the narrative style to talk about nature. I think its worth a try. Do scientists with this increasing curiosity about TEK regard it as a gift that must be reciprocated? Because of the troubled history and the inherent power differential between scientific ecological knowledge (SEK) and TEK, there has to be great care in the way that knowledge is shared. We need these books (and their authors!). WebRobin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. A powerful reconnection to the very essence of life around us. There are certainly practices on the ground such as fire management, harvest management, and tending practices that are well documented and very important. In all the experiences, you will have the opportunity to practice the artisan processes of harvesting and distillation of aromatic plants, elaboration of essential oils, tinctures and hydrolates, as well as some of the best kept secrets of traditional perfumery. One of the very important ways that TEK can be useful in the restoration process is in the identification of the reference ecosystems. Author of Eat Like a Human, Bill and I dive right into a conversation about the origins of homo sapiens and how technology and morphology shaped our modern form. She has written scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte biology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. All rights reserved. Robin Wall Kimmerer The Intelligence of Plants We dive deep in this podcast to explore where the engine driving the lies in our food system might have gotten its start. For this reason, we have to remove the poplar trees and clean away brambles and other bushes. When people and their cultures are vibrant and have longevity, so does the land. BEE BRAVE wants to restore this cycle, even if only locally, focusing on two parts of the equation: the bees and their habitat here. By the hand of the creator and perfumer of BRAVANARIZ, Ernesto Collado, you will do a tasting of 100% natural fragrances, tinctures and hydolates, you will discover, first-hand, the artisanal processes and the secrets that make us special and while you have a glass of good wine from Empord with us, you will get to know our brand philosophy in depth. Which neurons are firing where, and why? When we look at new or invasive species that come to us, instead of having a knee jerk reaction of those are bad and we want to do everything we can to eliminate them, we consider what are they brining us. The museum will still be open with free admission on Monday, January 24, in honor of Robin Wall Kimmerer. But there is no food without death and so next we unpack death and what it means to practice dying, to try to control death, to accept death, and to look at death not as an end, but as an alchemical space of transformation. She doesnt, however, shy away from the hardships and together we deep dive into the financial hardship that is owning a very small farm. Its safe to say that the door has opened to an interest and increasing curiosity about indigenous land management regimes and how they might support conservation efforts. One of the ideas that has stuck with me is that of the grammar of animacy. Theres certainly a lot of potential. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to Reciprocity is one of the most important principles in thinking about our relationship with the living world. We dont have either one of them anymore. Transforming a "hurricane of feeling" into images of pure, startling beauty, he proves language can penetrate deeper than human touch. Get a daily email featuring the latest talk, plus a quick mix of trending content. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. In this episode, we unpack a lot of the stories, mythologies, narratives, and perhaps truths of what it means to be human. To reemphasize, this is a book that makes people better, that heals people. She believes that ecological restoration, which can help restore this relationship, has much to gain from Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). The Discipline/Pleasure Axis and Coming Home to Farming with Alex Rosenberg-Rigutto, Alex Rosenberg-Rigutto could not be defined by a single metric, maybe other than to say that her joy and zest for life are definitively contagious. In fact, the Onondaga Nation held a rally and festival to gather support for resistance to fracking. Its a big, rolling conversation filled with all the book recommendations you need to keep it going.We also talk about:Butchery through the lens of two butchersThe vilification of meatEffective Altruism& so much more (seriously, so much more)Timestamps:09:30: The Sanitization of Humanity18:54: The Poison Squad33:03: The Great Grain Robbery + Commodities44:24: Techno-Utopias The Genesis of the Idea that Technology is the Answer55:01: Tunnel Vision in Technology, Carbon, and Beyond1:02:00: Food in Schools and Compulsory Education1:11:00: Medicalization of Human Experience1:51:00: Effective Altruism2:11:00: Butchery2:25:00: More Techno-UtopiasFind James:Twitter: @jamescophotoInstagram: @primatekitchenPodcast: Sustainable DishReading/Watching ListThe Invention of Capitalism by Michael PerelmanDaniel Quinns WorksThe Poison Squad by Deborah BlumMister Jones (film)Shibumi by TrevanianDumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor GattoThree Identical Strangers (film)Related Mind, Body, and Soil Episodes:a href="https://groundworkcollective.com/2022/09/21/episode29-anthony-gustin/" Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, The Evolving Wellness Podcast with Sarah Kleiner Wellness. Many thanks for yourcollaboration. This event is free. We owe a lot to our natural environment. Lets talk a bit more about traditional resource management practices. Colin Camerer is a leading behavioral economist who studies the psychological and neural bases of choice and strategic decision-making. The language has to be in place in order for it to be useful in finding reference ecosystems. What is less appreciated is the anthropogenic nature of many disturbance regimesthat it is a small-scale, skillfully-applied fire, at just the right season. Kimmerer is a PhD plant ecologist, and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. We unpack Jake and Marens past and history with food, with veganism, and whether or not eating meat imbues us with more aliveness and a sense of the sacredness of relationships. Go deeper into fascinating topics with original video series from TED. Robin Plants are our teachers, so what is it theyre trying to teach us? It had the power to transport me back to a beautiful winter's day in the Can Fares forest with new friends and new findings. She takeaways from Robin Wall Kimmerer In indigenous ways of knowing, we say that we dont really understand a thing until we understand it with mind, body, emotion, and spirit. In this story she tells of a woman who fell from the skyworld and brought down a bit of the tree of life. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. In lecture style platforms such as TED talks, Dr. Kimmerer introduces words and phrases from her Indigenous Potawatomi language as well as scientific names of flora a fauna that is common to them. & Y.C.V. Christina Agapakis: What happens when biology becomes can be very useful to the restoration process. The central metaphor of the Sweetgrass braid is that it is made up of three starnds: traditional ecological knowledge, scientific knowledge, and personal experience of weaving them together. We started the day as strangers and ended the day as friends. S.Baber (U.S.A.), The capture we collectively made during Ernestos workshop in January was an olfactory time machine. Reclaiming the Honorable Harvest: Robin Kimmerer at Now, Im a member of the Potawatomi Nation, known as people of the fire. We say that fire was given to us to do good for the land. Restoration is an important component of that reciprocity. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, and other indigenous cultures, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. Someday, I would like to see indigenous knowledge and environmental philosophy be part of every environmental curriculum, as an inspiration to imagine relationships with place that are based on respect, responsibility and reciprocity. Bill owns a restaurant, Modern Stoneage Kitchen, and we take a sidebar conversation to explore entrepreneurship, food safety, and more in relation to getting healthy food to people. Will we be able to get down from our pedestal and reorganize ourselves from that perspective? In those gardens, they touch on concepts like consciousness, order, chaos, nature, agriculture, and beyond. There needs to be a great deal of education about the nature of TEK and its validity as a native science. Maybe a grammar of animacy could lead us to whole new ways of living in the world, other species, a sovereign people, a world with a democracy of species, not a tyranny of onewith moral responsibility to water and wolves, and with a legal system that recognizes the standing of other species. You have written that TEK can provide an alternative way of approaching the restoration process. Can you elaborate? WebDr. Soft and balsamic, delicately aromatic. Not yet, but we are working on that! Do you think it is truly possible for mainstream Americans, regardless of their individual religions, to adopt an indigenous world view-one in which their fate is linked to, say, that of a plant or an insect? Reclaiming the Honorable Harvest: Robin Kimmerer at TEDxSitka TEDx Talks 37.6M subscribers 65K views 10 years ago Robin Kimmerer is a botanist, a writer and She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and has reconnected with her Anishinaabe ancestry. Due to its characteristics, the Prat de Dall from Can Bec could become a perfectdonor meadow. (Barcelona). TED Conferences, LLC. You have a t-shirt and two different models of cap. Books, Articles & Interviews Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants, non What do we need to learn about that? Certainly fire has achieved a great deal of attention in the last 20 years, including cultural burning. Starting from here, the book does not stop teaching us things, lessons that are hard to forget. 1. Her book is a gift, and as such she has generated in me a series of responsibilities, which I try to fulfill every day that passes. Whether you're staying put or going away, summer can be a great time to relax and try new things. Has the native community come together to fight fracking. She is the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment whose mission is to: create programs which combine the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge as applied to sustainability. Radical Gratitude: Robin Wall Kimmerer on knowledge, reciprocity Of mixed European and Anishinaabe descent, she is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The first botanical studies made by Joan Font (a biology professorat Girona University) confirmed our intuitions, and they exceeded our expectations. While the landscape does not need us to be what it is,the landscape builds us and shapes us much more than we recognize. They dismiss it as folklore, not really understanding that TEK is the intellectual equivalent to science, but in a holistic world view which takes into account more than just the intellect. Braiding Sweetgrass poetically weaves her two worldviews: ecological consciousness requires our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. You say that TEK brings value to restoration in both the body of information that indigenous people have amassed through thousands of years spent living in a place, but also in their world view that includes respect, reciprocity and responsibility. You will learn about the plants that give the landscape its aromatic personality and you will discover a new way of relating to nature. Robin Wall Kimmerer has written, Its not the land that is broken, bur our relationship to it.. Where are you in the process of creating that curriculum, and are non-native students involved? Location and intensity, for particular purposes, helps create a network of biodiversity. BEE BRAVE is a Bravanariz project aimed at promoting the biodiversity of our natural environments.Conceived and financed by BRAVANARIZ, it is carried out in collaboration with various actors, both private (farm owners, beekeepers, scientists) as well as landscape protection associations. There is something kind in her eyes. For a long time, there was an era of fire suppression. Speaking of storytelling, your recent book Gathering of Moss, was a pleasure to read. The whole theme of the book is, If plants are our teachers, how do we become better students? Its all about restoring reciprocity, and it addresses the question, In return for the gifts of the Earth, what will we give?. As we know through the beautiful work of Frank Lake and Dennis Martinez, we know the importance of fire in generating biodiversity and of course in controlling the incidence of wildfires through fuels reduction. My student Daniela J. Shebitz has written about this very beautifully. Kate and Alex explore the impacts of being medicated as children and how formative experiences shaped their idea of discipline, laying the ground work for a big conversation about the Discipline/Pleasure axis. That material relationship with the land can certainly benefit conservation planning and practice. We Also Talk About:GeophagyEntrepreneurship& so much moreOther Great Interviews with Bill:Bill on Peak Human pt 1Bill on Peak Human pt 2Bill on WildFedFind Bill:Eat Like a Human by Dr. Bill SchindlerBills Instagram: @drbillschindlerModern Stoneage Kitchen Instagram: @modernstoneagekitchenEastern Shore Food Lab Instagram: @esfoodlabBills WebsiteTimestamps:00:05:33: Bill Introduces Himself00:09:53: Origins of Modern Homo Sapien00:18:05: Kate has a bone to pick about Thumbs00:24:32: Other factors potentially driving evolution and culture00:31:37: How hunting changes the game00:34:48: Meat vs animal; butchery now and then00:43:05: A brief history of food safety and exploration of modern food entrepreneurship00:54:12: Fermentation and microbiomes in humans, rumens, crops, and beyond01:11:11: Geophagy01:21:21: the cultural importance of food is maybe the most important part01:29:59: Processed foodResources Mentioned:St. Catherines: An Island in Time by David Hurst ThomasThe Art of Natural Cheesemaking by David Ashera Start a Farm: Can Raw Cream Save the World? 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Most of the examples you provide in your chapter are projects initiated by Native Americans. Free shipping for many products! Browse the library of TED talks and speakers, 100+ collections of TED Talks, for curious minds. We have to let Nature do her thing. We also talk about intimacy with your food and connecting to death. This naturally dovetails into a conversation about all things fermented and the microbiome of ruminants, fowl, humans, and beyond. Robin Wall Kimmerer. Two Ways Of Knowing | By Leath Tonino - The Sun Magazine Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Alex shares about how her experiences with addiction led her to farming and teases out an important difference in how we seek to re-create various environments when, really, we are trying to find connection. All parts of our world are connected. It seems tremendously important that they understand these alternative world views in order to collaborate with tribes and indigenous nations, but also because these are just really good ideas. When two people are trying to make a deal -- whether theyre competing or cooperating -- whats really going on inside their brains? Become a TED Member to help us inspire millions of minds with powerful ideas. March, 25 (Saturday)-Make your Natural Cologne Workshop, May, 20 (Saturday) Celebrate World Bee Day with us. I'm digging into deep and raw conversations with truly impactful guests that are laying the ground work for themselves and many generations to come. At the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment we have been working on creating a curriculum that makes TEK visible to our students, who are resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental planners, scientists, and biologists. WebIn this brilliant book, Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves together her experiences as a scientist and as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, showing us what we can learn from plants Those plants are here because we have invited them here. Are you hoping that this curriculum can be integrated into schools other than SUNYESF? The Western paradigm of if you leave those plants alone, theyll do the best wasnt the case at all. Fax: 412.325.8664 1680 E 15th Avenue, Eugene, OR. We dive into topics around farming, biohacking, regenerative agriculture, spirituality, nutrition, and beyond. Our goal is to bring the wisdom of TEK into conversations about our shared concerns for Mother Earth. The aroma of your region, the perfume of your farm or that of the landscape that you contemplated years ago from the window of your room, in that summer house. The shaping of our food system has major implications for the systems of modern day life past the food system and we peek at our education system, medical system, financial system, and more. MEL is our first solid perfume and the result of a long collaboration with bees, our winged harvest companions. But she loves to hear from readers and friends, so please leave all personal correspondence here. James Connolly is a film producer (most recently - Sacred Cow), co-host of the Sustainable Dish podcast, avid reader, and passionate about food. On January 28, the UBC Library hosted a virtual conversation with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer in partnership with the Faculty of Forestry and the Simon K. Y. Lee Global This plays a large role in her literary work as her chapters in Braiding Sweetgrass are individual stories of both her own experiences and the historical experiences of her people. Thats a good question. On this episode, I sit down with Blair Prenoveau who you might know as @startafarm on Instagram. Theres complementarity. 2013, Text by Robin Wall KimmererPublished 2013 by Milkweed EditionsPrinted in CanadaCover design by Gretchen Achilles / Wavetrap DesignCover photo Teresa CareDr. Leaf Litter Talks with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Gift of Native Wisdom At the Home of the Manhattan Project, When Restoring Ecology and Culture Are One And The Same, Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration (Island Press 2011), Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

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