Episodes

  • Laura Oldanie - Permaculture Values and Impact Investing
    Aug 8 2025
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    My guest today is Laura Oldanie, a permaculture practitioner and the author behind the website Rich and Resilient Living, which focuses on how we can live a life and make financial decisions that lead to a regenerative future.

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    42 mins
  • Dr. Elaine Ingham - The Soil Food Web
    Aug 1 2025
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    Today's guest, in an interview recorded by co-host David Bilbrey, is the microbiologist and soil researcher Dr. Elaine Ingham.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Joshua Hughes - Transitional Ethics
    Jul 25 2025
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    My guest for this episode is Joshua Peace Seeker Hughes, an American permaculture practitioner living and farming in Costa Rica. His work there, which forms our discussion today, includes issues of land preservation through bottom-up solutions, regenerative resource-based economies, divestment, changing our lifestyles, the real wealth in of resources versus the illusion of money, and how we are in a period of transformation that requires transitional ethics.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • What to do when the world is on fire
    Jul 21 2025

    Thoughts from a conversation with my friend Nathan, on how we can act in a world on fire, when we know we're not able to protest or be in the streets. Question: What causes and organizations do you support with your time and resources?

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    6 mins
  • Jeff Speck - Creating Walkable Cities
    Jul 18 2025
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    My guest today is Jeff Speck. Jeff is the author of Walkable City and Walkable City Rules. As an urban planner and city designer he specializes in, and advocates for, human modes of transportation: first and foremost walking, but also biking.

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    43 mins
  • Designing Out the Designer
    Jul 14 2025

    A response to Geoff's comment about designing out the designer, from my recent episode about my design process. What I'm Reading: People and Permaculture What I'm Listening To (Music Video): Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads

    Getting to Know One Another: What song(s) or musical artist(s) defined your life, now or when you were growing up?

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    7 mins
  • Karryn Olson: A Pattern Language for Women in Permaculture
    Jul 11 2025
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    In this episode from 2014, one of my favorite people from the permaculture community, Karryn Olson, joins us to share a pattern language she’s identified for women in permaculture, which we can use to create a constructive permaculture movement so that together we can design a world with ever greater beauty, abundance, and inclusivity.

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    57 mins
  • Rhonda Baird - Being Present for Ourselves and Others
    Jul 4 2025
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    My guest for today is Rhonda Baird, editor of Permaculture Design Magazine, and designer and educator at Sheltering Hills Design, LLC.

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    43 mins