“Imagine how different our planet would look if we were teaching children whole systems”. This is how Kiwi, soil siren, author, and Regenerative Agriculture Coach, Nicole Masters explains transformative thinking in a far-ranging interview with

Chad Thiessen – Live the Life We Love

Sep 8th, 2021 55m 23s

It started with the wisdom of a four-year-old and has led to a quest to support and spawn regenerative communities. In this conversation with Designers of Paradise host Erik Van Lennep real estate investor and community designer, Chad Thiessen

Kevin Maher – Get Roots In The Ground

Jul 6th, 2021 51m 7s

Crann Mór, from Gaelic, means "Big Tree" and Kevin Maher, founder of CrannMor Advisors is thinking big about trees. Partnering with permaculture designer and author Mark Shepard to create CrannMor Advisors, Kevin helps farmers be more successfu

Jeff Goebel Round 2 – This Is Our Home

Jun 2nd, 2021 52m 38s

More than 25 years ago, Jeff Goebel started working with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation to help improve finances from their timber management program. Over time,

Matt Candeias – Plants Make a Living

Apr 19th, 2021 50m 18s

What happens when a couple of plant nerds get together for a chat? This conversation between botanist and author Matt Candeias and Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep. Candeias, author of the recently released book

Jeff Goebel – All of Our Voices

Mar 3rd, 2021 1h 3m

Changing belief structures, holistic grazing, financial stability, and overcoming community opposition are all topics touched on in the first few minutes

Willemijn de Iongh – Seeing With New Eyes

Jan 26th, 2021 59m 2s

Inspiration, social capital, natural capital, and financial capital are the “4 Returns” that motivate ecosystem restoration in the Commonland framework. Commonland works with local landscape partners for large scale holistic landscape restorati

Ian McSweeney – The Agrarian Commons

Jan 11th, 2021 56m 19s

As US farmers age, up to 400 million acres of farmland will transfer over the next two decades. How can farmland be held centered in community to assure regenerative agriculture and food production in an equitable and just way? That’s the heart

Roman Krznaric – Bridge to the Future

Nov 16th, 2020 1h 1m

It may surprise nobody, but humans are internally conflicted, parts of our nature pulling in opposite directions: immediate gratification vs. longer term security. Or as Roman Krznaric and others have termed it, “marshmallow brain” vs. “acorn b

Judith D. Schwartz – Reindeer Chronicles

Nov 4th, 2020 1h 2m

The story gelled on a trip to Norway says author Judith Schwartz. She went there to talk about indigenous knowledge and, in return, learned about reindeer. She explains to Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep these stories guided the them

Jorne Langelaan – Salt Water on Your Lips

Oct 4th, 2020 50m 16s

Born into a seafaring family in The Netherlands, Jorne Langelaan was working at sea by the time he was 12. In this conversation with Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep, Jorne explains how his love of ships become a love of sailing ships

Amber Smith – I Am Enough

Sep 16th, 2020 47m 53s

Amber Smith made her way from a blue collar town in Central Illinois to a 53,000 acre ranch in Montana. She explains that the image of the lonely cowboy is not today's reality where, instead, women are not only managing ranches, but leading civ

Josh Whiton – Compost Together

Jun 9th, 2020 50m 37s

The experience of composting with friends helped Josh Whiton realize that being kind to the planet could lead to a change in consciousness. Josh described to Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep how this realization led him to launch Make

Sara Wolcott – The Listening Heart

Apr 28th, 2020 1h 6m

Sara Wolcott is a healer, minister, artist, and storyteller. She (and a turkey) joined Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep for a conversation that touched on giving and receiving, Reiki, the process of regeneration, healing, and the sear

Melissa Ruckmick – Be There for Somebody

Feb 18th, 2020 59m 57s

Duncan Crowley – Design is the Framework, Not the Goal

Jan 30th, 2020 53m 10s

Regenerative community practitioner and eco-architect Duncan Crowley shares a fascinating and inspiring overview of his evolving work as a community facilitator where architecture moves to city planning, then community design, opening the way f

Maddie Akkermans – Bringing Back the Rain

Jan 13th, 2020 54m 9s

Didi Pershouse – Healthy Soil is Like Bread

Dec 9th, 2019 1h 4m

Judith Schwartz – Getting Personal About Land Change

Nov 20th, 2019 1h 4m

Albert Bates – Using Fire to Cool the Earth

Nov 4th, 2019 1h 2m

Sarah Harrison & Marc O’Brien – Make Me Care

Apr 19th, 2019 57m 34s

Chistopher Peltz – Biochar is for Everybody

Mar 18th, 2019 51m 7s

“They showed up with a truck full of what looked like the remains of a campfire. It even smelled like a campfire.” During a series of field trials Peltz realized that carbonized wood can help revitalize dramatically degraded land. “Stuff would

Julie Brunson – School Gardens, Building Community and Growing Hope.

Feb 28th, 2019 58m 59s

H.O.P.E. – “Helping Other People Eat”. The vision came while Julie’s husband Rich was a homeless teenager, wondering why it was so hard to find food. He kept thinking if people knew how to grow their own food, there would be so much less hunger

Melissa Ruckmick – Communication for Deep Change

Feb 11th, 2019 58m 21s

People know something is going on. “Global Weirding” : all the snow, the tornadoes in strange places, bigger hurricanes, disappearing salmon … With so much evidence, so much urgency, why do we stay in ‘avoidance’ mode? What can we do about it?