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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If you know anyone interested in learning more about restoration forestry, check out this upcoming 8 week (no cost) internship at the Center for Rurallivelihoods in Oregon. More information available at www.rurallivelihoods.org

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Getting ready to launch updated versions of the OSU Permaculture Design Course and PDC-PRO. So many great people have put their ideas into this program. It’s a great one if you know anyone looking to learn about Permaculture design who wants to design their own site during the course.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Wow it’s been 10 years since Beyond the War on Invasive Species was published and I got to hold a physical copy in my hands! Since then I’ve enjoyed so many interesting conversations about ecology, land stewardship, and the meaning of restoration - here’s to many more years of these!

Book cover - Beyond the War on Invasive Specoes: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration by Tao Orion

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Abel Kloster @abel-kloster.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

There is a community of the spirit Join it and feel the delight Of walking in the noisy street And being the noise. - Rumi

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Kind of random, but what is up with the creepy Dr. Strangelove-esque image in the Dr. Bronner’s bottle? 😂 I used to enjoy reading the bottle, but now…😬

Container of liquid soap with image of a man with sunglasses inside.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

June begets berries and bugs. Tiny species of sweetness and light in a world turning dark.

Mulberries in different stages of ripeness.

Small ladybug in an acorn top nestled in red currant leaves.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Enjoying an nice Monday morning introducing my 8 year old music loving son to Rage Against the Machine. Prescient now as ever…

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Blue blossom ceanothus covered with native bees. I take comfort in knowing that we’ve created food and habitat for non-human life when the human world is increasingly off the rails…

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Today’s the big day for our son Sylvan who has been working on his Lego build ‘Outbreak at Z Corp’ for the last several months and is displaying it at the Bricks Cascade Lego Expo this weekend. Of course we would end up in the post-apocalyptic theme 😀 So proud of him! With @abel-kloster.bsky.social

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

My youngest is really enjoying staging photos that make him look like he’s balancing on various objects. These ones turned out pretty good!

Kid appearing to stand on a step ladder.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The world may be falling apart at the seams but our golden retriever is romping in the blooming camas so…😁

Dog running through blooming camas flowers.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Oregon folks - Abel is teaching a FREE Forest Gardening Workshop at the Center for Rural Livelihoods in Cottage Grove this Sunday May 4 from 10-4. More information here if you’re interested: www.resiliencepermaculture.com/courses-events

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Courses + Events — Resilience Permaculture Design

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We heard last week that the Americorps crew that was planning to come to our org. in Oregon was axed by DOGE with one day’s notice. We invited the former crew members to come anyways, and now they’re planning to drive across the country to complete their service term independently - DOGE be damned!

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The real parasite class is Musk and his ilk literally stealing publicly funded services to enhance their private gain. This process is not new but is amplifying at unprecedented speed now.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We do a lot of work with NRCS programs, and this is a huge issue with the wanton destruction of federal programs.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is what I’ve been saying for a while. So many of the things that keep our society somewhat functional on a base level are a result of federal programs.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I found this a useful explanation of what is likely going on. I’ve been trying to figure out exactly how Musk benefits from all of this - “DOGE” is certainly based on self-interest. How we combat this plan will require different legal and movement strategies than we’ve tried in the past.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So happy that the “newspaper of record” is delivering such hard hitting analysis this morning. I was wondering if my fashion choices were up to snuff right about now. But seriously, WTF NYT?

New York Times article Feb 5, 2025 about whether brown shoes and blue pants are appropriate.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My lovely and talented cousin-in-law @springtidepress.bsky.social made these just in time.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I was 19 years old in a crowd of 500,000+. Over the years I’ve wondered where all those folks are now, what they’re doing today. 25 years later and the stakes are much higher now. We need this energy again and I’ve been pondering on leverage points, movement strategy. (Seattle WTO protests, 1999).

Large group of people marching at the Seattle WTO protests, 1999.

People carrying a signs at the Seattle WTO protests, 1999.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A friend just told me that you can sign up for newsletters from the WHO. Since we’re apparently no longer going to get this information from our own govt, seems like a good idea: www.who.int/news-room/ne...

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Check out this documentary series “Thinking Like Water,” a 5 part exploration of the work of Bill Zeedyk and others to restore waterways in the arid SW US. More info here: thinkinglikewater.com/r3-productio...

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Stream/Screen - Thinking Like Water

You can rent one or more episodes and enjoy viewing at your own pace, in your home. Get tips on reading the landscape from Bill Zeedyk and learn how these

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

If you’re wondering where I am, I’m chilling with this critter for the time being.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Off to watch this movie at our local community center. Glad to have some inspiration for the days ahead www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVGR...

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King In The Wilderness Official Trailer (2018) | HBO

YouTube video by HBO

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

After searching for years, @abel-kloster.bsky.social finally found this classic book. ‘The Challenge of Landscape’ by PA Yeomans is the classic treatise on Keyline Design, an innovative system of moving and storing water across landscapes. Excited to add this to our library!

Book called The Challenge of Landscape by PA Yeomans.

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Keith D Johnson❌👑🇺🇦🇺🇸💚#TerraformEarth1st @keithdjohnson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

On Friday, January 17th, join us for the Virtual Townhall on Disaster Readiness Through #Permaculture, co-hosted by PINA & ARC. Together, we’ll explore how permaculture principles are transforming disaster-prone regions & creating lasting change. Free, but limited space. Register now.

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Prepare for the Unexpected

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Forest restoration in fire prone ecosystems means burning in the fall and winter. Here we are doing pile-burning for biochar after a thinning project that makes the forest less prone to wildfire damage.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Another free biochar workshop today at the Center for Rural Livelihoods in Cottage Grove, OR. Biochar is an important tool for enhancing fire resilience in Forster areas. You can turn all of your slash from thinning into biochar that can be applied back onto the land or in gardens.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Great book if you haven’t read it. Still haunts me years later…especially now.

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Abel Kloster @abel-kloster.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

In light of POS posts from the right, this time regarding the LA fires, a suggestion for staying with the trouble in a productive way: review the science, envision strategies for regenerative human settlement, and build alternative economic and political structures in the shell of the old.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

And this is the guy who is going to create a human civilization on Mars? 😂

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I've been in this strange lull state since the election, knowing that things are about to slide in all directions, and I'm going to have to call on all of my reserves to adapt and respond over the next 4 years & beyond. I'm glad there is some coherent response available for CA now.../

Overhead view of Palisades fire in Los Angeles, CA.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Always nice to see my book resonating with folks. Such a juicy topic 😉🌿

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Much needed waterfall time today…Silver Falls State Park 🤩

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Today begins another term of online Permaculture courses at Oregon State University. ~200 students from all over the world are joining 3 different courses that start today.It’s so fun to be able to meet people and see them be inspired about the potential for regeneration in their communities.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

We really didn’t intend for this at the outset but we have ended up with two very cute orange critters 🧡🧡. Enjoying winter’s coziness as much as we can!

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Western Oregon winter solstice vista. I’ve always loved how the fog follows the creek in the little valley where we live. Even in these short cool days, there is beauty everywhere.

View over a small valley with trees and fog in the distance.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A friend who works at a federal agency where lots of great open source materials are posted sent us this link - there are a series of efforts to archive important government websites, and you can nominate them through the resources here: blog.ucsusa.org/dminovi/thre...

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Three Efforts to Preserve Government Data as a New Trump Administration Approaches

As Inauguration Day draws closer, members of the current administration and incoming President’s transition teams prepare for the massive turnover. One of the major areas that’s sure to change is what...

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Abel Kloster @abel-kloster.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Here’s a video we made to promote the use of ponds for restoration hydrology, sub basin forward thinking on water supply for sustainable agriculture, fire control, and plain old dry season centers of life in our seasonal rainfall climate. youtu.be/jBzVpX-2XiI?...

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Integrated Water Harvesting Earthworks, Restoring Ecosystems with Permaculture Design

YouTube video by Resilience Permaculture

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A week of hard frost and the medlars are 🤌. It’s fun to have fresh fruit from the tree in December! These will usually last through the New Year most years. Having year round harvests is one of the ways that we enhance food resilience on our site.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

When it’s late stage capitalism and your kids’ homeschool charter organizes a field trip to go indoor skydiving, they pretty much have to go right? 😂 Quite an experience!

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Did the deed. I dropped back in one last time and it really was a shitshow. Glad to be done, though I’m also grateful for the good folks along the way. I’m glad most of them are here on BlueSky now!

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy salmon return to all who celebrate.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Friend in OR, this Sunday Dec 1 we are hosting a FREE biochar workshop at Cha Tumenma, an Indigenous-owned site in the North Umpqua watershed. Come learn about this important tool for increasing forest resilience and help out on this exciting land back project. Register here: shorturl.at/1iVce

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Love doing water harvesting projects for people…

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The other thing that is great to do when the rains set in…we 💜 Oregon old growth forests.

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Sometimes when the rains set in, the color and bounty of summer is nice to remember. Western Oregon is a great climate for so many types of berries and we grow every kind that we can. Raspberries, mulberries, gooseberries, currants, jostaberries, blueberries, boysenberries, tayberries, marionberries

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Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My husband Abel has finally decided to join social media after learning about BlueSky. Give him a follow if you’re so inclined. He has a wealth of knowledge in agroforestry, restoration forestry, water harvesting, strategizing for the better world we know is possible & is an all-around great person💛

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