Chuck is a permaculture teacher, organic seed farmer, plant breeder, environmental activist, software CEO, alpinist, rock and ice climber, alpinist, ultrarunner, and full-time father. Now in his 60s, he runs 100 mile races and is thru-hiking the 2650 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. Author of Culturequake: The Restoration Revolution, and Culturequake 2: Herstory.
Chuck has an MBA in Finance, and a Bachelor of Accounting. While at George Washington University, he interned in the Executive Office of the President for the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office of Bilateral Affairs for Western Europe for President Reagan. He also interned on Capital Hill for two U.S. Congressmen. He knows what government looks like from the inside, and from grassroots to the top.
Chuck began his career serving Fortune 100 clients at Accenture Strategy & Consulting. In 1987 Chuck Burr founded ZPIX Computer Graphics. By age 39 had retired after growing ZPIX to $40 million in cumulative present revenues. Chuck wrote software to automate large retail advertising departments. ZPIX opened the first Apple Computer dealership dedicated to electronic publishing. He sold the first color desktop publishing system in the United States, the second in the world, and beta tested many of the original publishing apps people use today.
Since retiring from ZPIX, he has founded public-benefit companies and nonprofits. He founded Restoration Seeds, the Southern Oregon Seed Growers Association, the Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute. At Restoration Seeds, Burr created the second largest catalog of 1,100 open-pollinated (savable) seeds available for sale. Most people do not know that 80–90 percent of seeds for sale are hybrids and cannot be saved. Each year Chuck grew over 100–200 varieties of certified organic vegetable, herb and flower varieties from seed to seed or saved perennial wildcrafted seed. Chuck also bred several new vegetable varieties. So that the they may never be patented, he pledged the new varieties to the Open Source Seed Initiative. He has planted native tree and edible food-forests.
Chuck has served on environmental nonprofit boards from the Eastern Slope of Colorado to Southern Oregon. Chuck has also participated in successful campaigns including saving the Telluride, Colorado, Valley Floor from development and the successful ballot measure to ban growing genetically-modified (GMO) seeds in Jackson and Josephine counties, Oregon.
Cultural critic, philosopher, activist, profit of things to come — you choose.
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New Dimensions Radio
The Robert Scott Bell Show
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Culturequake: The Restoration Revolution [Book]
Revised Fourth Edition. 10 Year Anniversary.
Synopsis: Why do we have to participate in the destruction of the earth to survive? Why do we have to work to buy food? Weren’t food and land free once? Is there a better way to live? Are we living our truth? Are there skills we are not being taught? What changes will make a real difference?
Culturequake: The Restoration Revolution reveals our only long-term solutions by taking a hard look at how we got here and why we may not be able to fix civilization. Chuck Burr shows us better ways to live beyond modern consumer culture.
By seeing through whole-systems eyes, we can start living more in tune with our needs and more deeply connected to the earth. Don’t wait!—read this book and let us create a new culture together.
Reviews: Few books have caused me to rethink my entire view of human history and human culture as Culturequake has. — Larry Korn, editor and translator of The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. Author of The One Straw Revolutionary.
While not everyone is ready to drop their current lifestyles, the idea that there is a different way to live that harmonizes our relations with all living beings is both comforting and exciting. Culturequake is a highly recommended read. — Kris Holstrom, New Community Coalition, San Miguel County Commissioner and Sustainability Coordinator, Telluride, Colorado.
Tying together the bits and pieces, the anecdotes, stories and flashes of recognition for the first time. — Marc Hurlbert
A thoroughly researched and well-indexed book. Great for those who are new to the idea of how people in our culture live beyond the human definition. It also serves as a great reference for those already “in” on the taker/leaver concept. Chuck writes in a simple, easy to read style without a lot of flowery conjecture. This is a fact-filled book that I believe I will use as a reference for years to come. — Eric Jergensen
As alarming world news is now, his fresh, brilliant, new message is that the answers that served humanity well for so long before these times can still serve us well. In fact, combining the best of both world’s, it could be so great, we’d look on the last few thousand years as a mere hiccup.
— John Cruickshank, Inventor of the Sunny John, Greenhouse Subterranean Heating and Cooling and Hobbit House website.
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