Sure – Gaia Mind – Paul Vedant remix

Paul Vedant — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:20:02 +0000

This is a remix of a song by a UK singer/songwriter called Sure. I was introduced to Sure’s music several years ago by Steve Charter from Ecoforest, when I was attending the Permaculture Design Certificate course. At that time she had a website where her songs could be downloaded for free. She gave permission for remixes to be done from her music, and I started this remix from her acapella version a few years ago. I had got about half way to completing it when my hard drive failed and I lost the original song files (consequently I now keep 2 copies on 2 separate hard drives!). All I was left with was a rough mp3 mixdown of the song, which I did nothing with until recently, the result of which you can listen to below. Unfortunately the vocals were a little low on the rough mix, and now Sure’s website is no longer in operation, and I have been so far unable to obtain another copy of her original vocals in order to enhance them.

I have not met Sure, but she practices what she preaches, having lived for several years in a forest in the UK, living close to nature and apparently thriving on what she can forage. Her lifestyle and ideas are reflected in her songwriting.

Sure: vocals and lyrics
Paul Vedant: production and all instruments

Read the Gaia Mind lyrics

Introduction to Permaculture

Paul Vedant — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:42:33 +0000

Permaculture is essentially a holistic agricultural ecological design system. It involves the development of perennial agricultural systems that are based on natural sustainable environments. The word permaculture was coined by Bill Mollison, an Australian scientist and naturalist, as a combination of permanent and agriculture. However as human habitats and their social aspects are an integral part of a truly sustainable system, it is more accurately a combination of permanent and culture.

Permaculture has three guiding ethics or core values. These have been distilled from both research into community ethics as well as traditional indigenous cultures that have existed in relative balance with their environment for much longer than more recent civilisations.

These ethics are:

Care for the earth
Care for people
Fair share

These ethics guide the 12 practical design principles of permaculture:

Observe and interact
Catch and store energy
Obtain a yield
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback
Use and value renewable resources and services
Produce no waste
Design from patterns to details
Integrate rather than segregate
Use small and slow solutions
Use and value diversity
Use edges and value the marginal
Creatively use and respond to change

I completed the Permaculture Design Certificate at Ecoforest in 2004, and have been applying some of these principles on my land since then.

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Sure – Gaia Mind – Paul Vedant remix

Introduction to Permaculture