đ§ Episode 1 â Why We Need Positive, Practical Permaculture Many of us are carrying a quiet weight. We see whatâs happening in the world and wonder what difference we can make. This episode is a gentle, hopeful invitation to come back to whatâs real - place, people, food, community, meaning - and to rediscover the power of small, practical acts of care. Morag Gamble shares how permaculture can move us from reacting to designing, from anxiety to agency, and from isolation to connection. Youâll ...
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đ§ Episode 1 â Why We Need Positive, Practical Permaculture Many of us are carrying a quiet weight. We see whatâs happening in the world and wonder what difference we can make. This episode is a gentle, hopeful invitation to come back to whatâs real - place, people, food, community, meaning - and to rediscover the power of small, practical acts of care. Morag Gamble shares how permaculture can move us from reacting to designing, from anxiety to agency, and from isolation to connection. Youâll ...
đ§ Episode 1 â Why We Need Positive, Practical Permaculture Many of us are carrying a quiet weight. We see whatâs happening in the world and wonder what difference we can make. This episode is a gentle, hopeful invitation to come back to whatâs real - place, people, food, community, meaning - and to rediscover the power of small, practical acts of care. Morag Gamble shares how permaculture can move us from reacting to designing, from anxiety to agency, and from isolation to connection. Youâll ...
In this episode of Sense Making in a Changing World, I speak with regenerative farmer and Bionutrient Food Association founder Dan Kittredge from the United States. Together we explore what it really means to grow nutrient dense food and nourish the microbiome, in the soil and in our own bodies. Dan shares decades of experience and research that reveal just how wide the gap is between food that truly nourishes and food that simply fills us up. We talk about the huge variation in nutrien...
In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, I sit down with Abel Pearson â permaculture educator, community food grower and co founder of Glasbren, an award winning community-supported agriculture project in rural Wales. Glasbren began as a three acre permaculture designed market garden and has now moved to Lordâs Park Farm, a 134 acre National Trust property on the cliffs where the Taf and Tywi rivers meet the sea in Carmarthenshire. Abel and his family are the first permaculture ba...
What if the forest you walk through is already a food garden, and the real work is remembering how to see it that way? In this episode of Sense Making in a Changing World I am in conversation with writer and public radio host Elspeth Hay about her beautiful new book Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Elspeth calls in from her home on Cape Cod and shares how one simple realisation changed everything for her: acorns ARE food. From that moment she began following nut trees back thr...
Learning to Lead Like Life Itself How do we lead in a way that feels alive, kind, and connected to the living world? In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, Morag is joined by Kelly Wendorf, author of Flying Lead Change and founder of EQUUS, whose work brings together horses, neuroscience, and ancient wisdom to reimagine what leadership can be. Kelly shares about leadership as a natural, relational process. Not command and control, but care and connection - moving from hierarchy ...
In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, I speak with acclaimed artist Bryony Kimmings and award-winning projection designer Will Duke about their powerful new theatre work, Bog Witch. Commissioned for the launch season at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, Bog Witch is Bryonyâs first solo work in over five years. Known for her fearless, hilarious, and deeply moving autobiographical creations, Bryony has been called âan artist of exceptional integrity, imagination, compassion and gutsâ by ...
In this inspiring conversation, Morag Gamble speaks with Rob Hopkins - Transition Towns co-founder, author of How to Fall in Love with the Future, and creator of Field Recordings from the Future. Together they explore why imagination is vital for permaculture, community resilience, and regenerative culture, and how anyone can practice imagination activism to create hopeful, practical change. Rob shares stories of playful, community-led projects, his work with sensory futuring, and how cultiva...
Join Morag Gamble in this episode with Leah Rampy and Beth Norcross to explore the possibilities of transformative relationships between humans and the more-than-human, and discover the spiritual wisdom of trees. From deepening our understanding of thoughts beyond language to learning from trees and mycelial networks, they share stories about our connections to nature and our processes of becoming rooted and fluid. On Earth Day this year Leah & Beth released a book together called, ...
This episode, Rebecca Tickell - an award-winning documentary filmmaker, passionate storyteller and environmental activist - joins to explore the art of regeneration. Rebecca creates films, like 'Common Ground' and 'Kiss the Ground', that combine powerful cinematography with a hopeful movement for soil regeneration and health. In a world where extractive systems of agriculture and development have destroyed two thirds of the worldâs topsoil and exacerbated climate change to dangerous levels, w...
Tune into this episode with Poppy Okotcha, ecological home grower and community gardener, to hear about how we can rewild our relationship to the land around us - in our backyards and beyond! Poppy has just released a book, âA Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Usâ, a beautiful memoir on her connection to her garden and how settling down her roots in tending a patch of land has helped her grow as an individual and explore how we can all grow a better world. Flipping the narrative from humans being ...
This episode, join me to explore mindfulness with the inspiring Fleur Chambers - multi-award-winning meditation teacher, best-selling author, philanthropist and creator of The Happy Habit app. In this conversation we explore the question many of us have - how do we learn to be in service with our work? And how can we be present in this journey? As both Fleur and I run a business, we share our experiences in how we have found our confidence in finding a flow in our work. We also touch on how m...
In this episode, Morag Gamble engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Laura Oldanie about the contested intersection of permaculture and money. They explore the redefinition of wealth, the myths surrounding conventional financial systems, and the importance of community and social capital in creating a resilient and abundant life. Laura shares insights on how permaculture principles can guide financial decisions, the concept of 'enoughness', and innovative strategies for investing in...
In this episode I welcome Emeritus Professor Stuart Hill - scholar, educator, and advocate for transformative change in social ecology - to explore the interconnections of permaculture and psychology. Join us as we dive into how to nurture a deeper inner permaculture while nourishing a wider outer permaculture. Stuart is an educator and researcher whose knowledge spans from ecology to entomology, agriculture to psychotherapy, and education to policy development. Currently Foundation Chair of ...
Join me in this episode with Dr Katherine Trebeck to imagine what an economy designed to serve people actually looks like and how we can make it happen. Come explore the root of today's crises and the seeds of the solutions with us. Dr. Katherine Trebeck is a leading political economist, writer, TedX speaker and leading advocate for economic system change. She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, is writer-at-large at the University of Edinburgh, the Economic Change Lead at The Next Eco...
Join me in conversation with Andrew Millison, an agent for change who shares permaculture wisdom through art, design and multimedia storytelling. In this episode we explore how Andrew is actively weaving stories to shift the narrative from one of scarcity to one of abundance - and how you can too. This episode is part of the recorded series from the International Festival of Ideas, held in May 2024. Andrew has previously been on this podcast, talking about the epic permaculture projects he ha...
This episode, join me in conversation with Dr. Fritjof Capra to explore how to address the problems we see in the world with systemic thinking and what principles we need to uphold while doing so. This episode is part of the recorded series from the International Festival of Ideas, held in May 2024. Fritjof is an acclaimed scientist, educator, activist, and author of many international bestsellers, connecting conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in socie...
Tune into this episode with Phoebe Tickell - an imagination activist and founder of Moral Imaginations, a group who is building a movement of moral imagining - to explore what it means to exercise and stretch your imagination in order to create new possibilities and new action. This episode is part of the recorded series from the International Permaculture Festival of Ideas, held in May 2024. From the solar punk movement to radical kinship, Phoebe highlights how important it is that we reali...
In this episode, I welcome Nora Bateson - an eminent systems thinker, filmmaker, writer and President of the International Bateson Institute - to explore the complexities of our interconnected world with intergenerational insight and clarity. This episode is part of the recorded series from the International Festival of Ideas, held in May 2024. Nora's session was the final event in the Festival of Ideas, holding the closing together with readings and insights from her latest book 'Combining'...
In this episode, I welcome my dear friend and mentor, Satish Kumar. Satish is a world-renowned author and peace advocate, who has been speaking around the world and inspiring global change for over 50 years. This episode is part of the recorded series from the International Permaculture Festival of Ideas, held in May 2024. From what it means to hold radical love to inspiring active hope, Satish's discussion on the Festival of Ideas was an amazing session that I am now so excited to share on ...
đ§ Episode 1 â Why We Need Positive, Practical Permaculture Many of us are carrying a quiet weight. We see whatâs happening in the world and wonder what difference we can make. This episode is a gentle, hopeful invitation to come back to whatâs real - place, people, food, community, meaning - and to rediscover the power of small, practical acts of care. Morag Gamble shares how permaculture can move us from reacting to designing, from anxiety to agency, and from isolation to connection. Youâll ...
