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Aubrey Falk using nature’ s pure water. No treatment required. Luyendyk
DEEP: What are some of your goals for 2012? SWoBs: We are looking to host more hands-on workshops, both locally and abroad. We have a two-week Permaculture Design course in Raglan, New Zealand on March 4 through 18. The courses will demonstrate practical skills to increase self-sufficiency starting from our basic needs. We will be collaborating with different sites that are already demonstrating regenerative land use practices. Our goal is to have many sites like these across the globe that can serve as working educational centers for people to come and learn and experience these practices.
DEEP: Your efforts in several countries outside of the U. S. have been admirable, but what do you feel our most pertinent environmental issues are here in California? SWoBs: Water, water, water. How are we using water? Where is it coming from? How many millions of gallons are we flushing down the toilet or watering lawns with every minute that are not being used to grow food that we need.
Palm Springs is a scary example of this misuse. Golf courses in the desert? The reality of the situation in some areas is frightening, and people haven’ t yet begun to reap the repercussions of this misuse. Water is life; therefore, we must start honoring it.
DEEP: What examples can you give me from your own life that can inspire others to live a more environmentally sustainable life? SWoBs: Eating food that our family, friends or we, have just harvested directly from the land. Participating or supporting this simple act is the best thing we can do for our physical environment. Nature is full of abundance, we just have to pay attention and gratefully accept all the gifts she is offering.
DEEP: What does the name Surfers Without Borders mean to you? SWoBs: For us it describes the essence of a deeper life philosophy. We believe the term“ surfers” is not just limited to people who ride waves on boards in the ocean. A surfer can be any person that is consciously riding a wave— all of life is constant moving wave of energy.
We may come to understand and experience that there are no real borders that separate our oceans, land, or sky. Everything is connected. We can choose to harness our own power as creators and start to paint a new picture— one of unity amongst cultures with reverence for the planet and all of life.
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