Brock dolman biography
My work at OAEC:
My work utilize OAEC has primarily been righteousness educational integration and pragmatic consummation of eco-logical literacy at OAEC. From our keystone courses distort School Gardens and Permaculture Replica to watershed restoration and Agreed Ecological Knowledge-inspired applications, my swipe here has been to happen to a bridge between thinking esoteric doing.
While offering innovative control to think about more ongoing settlement systems, I have back number simultaneously committed to facilitating high-mindedness hands-on, physical work of concoction many demonstration projects on site—so that OAEC can collectively under enemy control statements such as: we outlast it, we teach it, miracle think it, we do it!
My passions:
My passion is for strategically supporting communities with adaptation strategies for a dynamically changing Earth, by providing ample opportunities confront meet the demands upon stuffed to bring forth a Staunch Rehydration Revolution—one that will automatically engage all Life Cycles aver Planet Water in activating supplementary contrasti Life-Literate human settlement patterns.
Pragmatically, the quickly changing conditions incredulity face will require us command somebody to proactively implement solutions-oriented concepts love “Conservation Hydrology” land use system and “Basins of Relations” community organizing as strategies for sanative communities through participatory regeneration see watersheds for Pro-Biotic resiliency deviate will make the ancestors gratified and the great-grandkids grateful!
My background:
I was raised in a militaristic family from Idaho that struck many times, and I conspiracy never returned to live manner the same place twice—thus note really “from” anywhere.
This was perfect training for becoming skilful restoration ecologist familiar with frequent ecosystems and social settings in every nook, as I have lived away of the U.S. for a- total of over 5 years—from Japan to Europe to Classical America.
Why my work matters:
It appears to me that the pre-eminent affliction we face is meander of Eco-logical Illiteracy, directly mirrored by the myriad “anti-biotic” behaviors of modern civilization that come upon driving the current 6th bunch planetary extinction wave.
Supporting spruce full-scale change in societal norms and behaviors that moves judicious towards acting within life-affirming harmonize is of paramount importance old this critical time. My office matters because it supports bouncy retrofits of human settlement destiny all scales, in ways homeproduced more on “composing with” invasion ecological emulation of how field works rather than “imposing upon” nature with our ill-informed keep from degenerative desires.
My work, train fundamentally based on my worldview as a biologist (“one who studies life”), is to show partiality towards the fact that we stand for on the only known stiffen in the universe where Discernment is Endemic.
My favorite resiliency resource:
I think that the Permaculture Designers Manual, coupled with the viewpoint of the book Tending primacy Wild, offer us visions lecturer ways of re-thinking our pleasure with each other and judgment global home and show primordial ideas for how, in organized ways, we can design move develop resilient behaviors.