In this episode of Sense-making in a Changing World, I am thrilled to share with you this conversation with fellow permaculture [pr]activist, Matt Powers who is based on the north west coast of the USA. Matt Powers is an permaculture author, educator, seed saver, gardener, and entrepreneur focused on radically transforming the entire K-12 education system. Like me, his world revolves around permaculture thinking and action. Matt, a former public high school teacher with a Masters degree in Educa...
Nov 25, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast It is my delight to share this conversation with Joel Glanzberg today on Sense-making in a Changing World. Joel, based in New Mexico is a tracker, a regenerative design practitioner and permaculture teacher/builder/farmer/designer/thinker. He has been immersed in permaculture for over 30 years and loves what permaculture offers- particularly the way of seeing and being in the world from a pattern perspective, of bringing vitality and regeneration, and to cultivate a capacity to see the beauty of...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Sense Making in a Changing World , I am speaking with my dear friend Cyndi O'Meara - best-selling author of Changing Habits Changing Lives, nutritionist, activist, film-maker, TEDx speaker, and founder of Changing Habits whole food company and the Changing Habits Farm - a regenerative farm in Maleny. Cyndi is a thought leader pushing the boundaries of our understanding of what is good food - uncovering what is wrong in our current food system - why it is making us so sick...
Nov 11, 2020•51 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast It is such a pleasure to welcome to the Sense-Making in a Changing World show, Mark Lakeman from Portland Oregon - city repairer, urban permaculture designer place-maker community design facilitator, urban designer and thought leader. Mark is the co-founder of the not-for-profit organisation, the City Repair Project (Urban Permaculture education) and is the Principal and founder of Communitecture - a cutting edge design firm that works with sustainable building projects at all scales. As well as...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast It is my absolute delight to share with you my conversation with Ego Lemos from Timor Leste on Sense-Making in a Changing World. Ego is a humble yet radical positive change-maker, who grew up in the tumultuous time of the Indonesian occupation. His work over the decades with Permaculture has caused it to mushroom in his country. He is largely responsible for permaculture being a compulsory subject for EVERY primary school aged child in his country. Permaculture is in the National curriculum and ...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast In Episode 20 of Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast , I am delighted to chat with internationally recognised thought leader, Looby Macnamara. Looby is a permaculture teacher, social permaculture facilitator & cofounder of Applewood Permaculture Centre in Herefordshire, England, with her partner Chris Evans (co-founder of the Himalayan Permaculture Centre ). Looby has authored 3 permaculture books: Cultural Emergence: A toolkit for transforming ourselves and the world (2020) People and ...
Oct 20, 2020•32 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast It is my great pleasure to welcome my dear friend Stephan Harding to the show today. Dr Stephan Harding, the Deep Ecology Research Fellow from Schumacher College , is a world-renown Gaian Ecologist, musician, walker, nature-lover, film-maker, father, and is co-founder of the Masters of Holistic Science at Schumacher College with the late Professor Brian Goodwin. His is also the Dartington Estate Ecologist in Devon and author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gai a , and just recently, Gai...
Oct 14, 2020•20 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, my guest is permaculture humanitarian, Kym Blechynden . As an aid worker with the Red Cross, Kym has worked in some of the most challenging places on earth - post conflict regions, disaster zones.I am in awe of the work she does and the calm courageousness and humanity with which she does it. Kym's background is in public health, food security & nutrition. She's worked extensively throughout Australia and internationally in place...
Oct 07, 2020•54 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast What is the role of growing food at home or community gardens in the pandemic? Why have so many people taken up gardening? Who's doing it? What impact has it had on their lives? A new Pandemic Gardening survey found that a huge 98% of survey respondents said they will continue food gardening after the pandemic. Surprisingly, 19% said they couldn't have made it without their garden. The survey team received hundreds of comments about how very important food gardening is. Respondents des...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast What is change? How does change happen? What is the kind of leadership we need in the world today? These are just some of the questions I explore today with my wonderful guest on Sense-making in a Changing World, Dr Amanda Cahill . We know our current economic system is not working for a majority of the people on the planet, so what is the next economy, and how do we transition to a society that supports wellbeing of people and planet? I am thrilled to share this conversation with Amanda as we e...
Sep 23, 2020•43 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast What does it mean to design a regenerative culture? How we can become regenerative by design? What we can be doing in our daily lives to be part of the urgent change we need to see in the world? These are the questions we explore today. It is my great pleasure to share with you on Sense-making in a Changing World today, a conversation I recorded with Daniel Christian Wahl PhD as we walked through the ancient olive terraces around the medieval monastery, Son Rullan on the island of Mallorca in th...
Sep 15, 2020•34 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast My guest this week on Sense-Making in a Changing World is my amazing friend and fellow community food advocate and [pr]activist, Emma-Kate Rose . Emma-Kate has always been such an inspiration to me, and when you hear the projects she's involved with, I think you'll understand why. She leads the ground-breaking community food enterprise, Food Connect , and is co-founder, with her partner Robert Pekin , of the Food Connection Foundation and the Food Connect Shed. The Food Connect Shed is...
Sep 09, 2020•58 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode I am delighted to be sharing with you a conversation with Rob Hopkins , champion of the collective imagination, author of ' From What is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want ' and co-founder of the Transition Town Movement that emerged out of an extended permaculture design course he was teaching in Ireland. His other books include: The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action can Change the World (2013) The Transition Handbook...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast It is my great pleasure and honour to welcome Satish Kumar to the show today - world-renowned ecologist, thinker and educational visionary. Satish is the founder of Schumacher College and the Small School in Devon, England. He is Emeritus Editor of Resurgence & Ecologist and founder of Green Books . The BBC Natural World program, Earth Pilgrim takes us out into Dartmoor walking with Satish exploring his Soil, Soul, Society philosophy. Walking and simple living is a key thread in Satish'...
Aug 26, 2020•37 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast It is my pleasure to welcome Natalie Isaacs, founder and CEO of 1 Million Women to the Sense-making in a Changing World show today. For 10 years, Nat has been inspiring and engaging a movement of women and girls around the world to act on climate. No more than every this is so important. 1 Million Women lead programs on all kinds of things from food waste, plastics, fashion, consumerism, carbon footprint, and show how to lead a low-carbon life everyday. She advocates taking on the climate emerge...
Aug 18, 2020•39 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast It is a delight to share this conversation with 18yo permaculture leader, Sierra Robinson, on the show today on International Youth Day 2020. Sierra is an articulate and inspiring permaculture activist (practical activist = [pr]activist) and teacher from Vancouver Island, Canada. She gave a brilliant permaculture TEDx talk when she was 17yo in Seattle entitled Beyond Sustainability: A Call for Regeneration . Sierra is also a Regional Crew Director for Earth Guardians - a global youth organisatio...
Aug 11, 2020•22 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Today on Sense-Making in a Changing World , I am thrilled to welcome Rosemary Morrow - a respected teacher of permaculture teachers around the world, an elder in the Permaculture movement and author of the permaculture classics, Earth Users Guide to Permaculture , Earth Users Guide to Teaching Permaculture and Permaculture Teaching Matters . Rosemary is also the cofounder of Permaculture for Refugees . I would call much of what Rosemary does permaculture service work - offering permaculture educ...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, I am joined in conversation by my dear friend Rhonda Hetzel - award-winning blogger (32 million + views) and best-selling author of Down to Earth and The Simple Home. Rhonda's blog is also called Down to Earth . You can find her on Instagram too. Rhonda and I speak about finding pleasure and purpose in a simpler way, and of being home-based. We spoke in the midst of the covid-19 lockdown here in Queensland Australia via zoom. Around the world, we continue to be encouraged (...
Jul 28, 2020•48 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast It is my great pleasure to welcome Fritjof Capra , my dear friend and teacher, to Sense-making in a Changing World podcast exploring the systems view of life and the links with permaculture. Two special guests join me, my 14yo daughter, Maia and 12yo Eve -two of the founders of Permayouth . I first met Fritjof in 1992 when he was teaching a residential course at Schumacher College and interviewed him for my first short film, Think Global: Eat Local - a Diet for a Sustainable Society in 2005. Fri...
Jul 22, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast In Episode 6 of Sense-Making in a Changing World I warmly welcome you to join me in conversation with Kosha Joubert - her last interview as CEO of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) - an organisation she has been deeply involved with for over 15 years. She has lived in ecovillages for 25 years - currently Findhorn in Scotland, previously Sieben Linden in Germany, has visited communities in 40 countries & advocated for ecovillages in the UN. Kosha is also the co-founder of Gaia Education , c...
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast In Episode 5 of Sense-Making in a Changing World, I am delighted to talk with Linda Woodrow, a well-known permaculture author. Her book The Permaculture Home Garden (Penguin 1996) and regular articles have introduced many to permaculture over the past decades. She also blogs about food and permaculture here . This week, Linda is releasing her first novel, 470 - which is also the first permaculture cli-fi novel either of us know of. I caught up with Linda via zoom in her garden to talk about her ...
Jul 08, 2020•57 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast In this fourth episode of Sense-making in a Changing World, I am delighted to welcome Dr David Holmgren , co-originator of permaculture to explore how permaculture can help us practically navigate these challenging times and create locally resilient communities. Grab a cuppa and enjoy this wide ranging conversation. It is always a delight to talk with David! David lives at his permaculture property, Melliodora in Hepburn, Central Victoria, with his partner Su Dennett. Here's a video of Mell...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast In this third episode of Sense-making in a Changing World, I am delighted to welcome Jason Twill , globally recognised pioneer in regenerative urbanism. Together we explore what a regenerative city looks like and how we can take clear steps toward transforming our urban habitats. About Jason Twill With a career spanning over 20 years in urban development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. A globally recognised pioneer in innovation districts, alternative housin...
Jun 23, 2020•48 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Sense-making in a Changing World, I speak with, Mariam Issa , story-teller, author, speaker, community gardener, community-builder, human rights activist and ambassador for the Refugee Council of Australia. A few years ago I met Mariam at an Australasian Permaculture Conference where she was a keynote speaker. We've been dear friends ever since. She has come to stay with me here in the ecovillage and I have visited her at the RAW Garden - a community garden in her suburba...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In this first episode, I am joined by Acadia Tucker - new generation regenerative farmer, plant lover, author and climate activist from New Hampshire, USA . She sees small scale regenerative farming and local food growing as an act of positive change - for the health and wellbeing of families, communities, the land and earth's systems. Acadia encourages us to join the movement of Citizen Gardening and the growing of perennials, as a 20th century version of the victory gardens during WWII wh...
Jun 10, 2020•36 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the SENSE MAKING IN A CHANGING WORLD podcast where we explore the kind of thinking we need to navigate a positive way forward. I’m your host Morag Gamble - permaculture educator & global ambassador, filmmaker, ecovillager, Warm Data host, food forester, mother, [pr]activist & all round lover of thinking, communicating & acting regeneratively. For a long time it has been clear to me that to shift trajectory to a thriving one-planet way of life, we first need to shift our th...
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