David Blume

“Bucky’s quote was ‘make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone’ — and Dave Blume is one of the top people in the world that’s ever truly made that come true.” —George Orbelian, Board Member at the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

David Blume is a consultant and speaker with decades of deep experience with permaculture and regenerative agriculture. He is an organic farmer, inventor, researcher, and founder of Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center near Santa Cruz, California. He earned his permaculture certificate directly from founder Bill Mollison.

Dave is the acknowledged expert worldwide on organic alcohol production as part of ecological no-waste solutions that, replicated, solve so many of Earth’s seemingly unsolvable problems. He is the author of the classic Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century.

Dave organized and taught the largest permaculture courses ever held in the U.S. — one with 250 students and the other with 100 students — the foundation of current Southern California and Northern California permaculture groups. Later large courses extended Midwest permaculture, and a course at Acrosanti grew New Mexico permaculture. Dave also taught two courses on the Blackfoot reservation in response to a request made by that reservation’s Medicine elders.