Designers of Paradise Podcast

ASA and soil activist Erik van Lennep host Designers of Paradise, bringing you along for “kitchen table conversations” with people changing how we produce our food, care for our soil and water, and protect our climate. These are first-hand stories from the people dedicating their time and brilliance to reversing the impacts of our industrial food systems, extractive forestry and other practices which threaten our beautiful and fragile planet. A New Generation is regenerating soils and watersheds, food quality, local economies, communities and significantly, hope; hope for a better, healthier and more equitable future for all. Perhaps now, more than ever before, our recent experience dealing with a global pandemic points to the need for more resilience in all our systems, and regenerating soils and communities is key to that.

Hope is most potent when anchored in evidence, and there is evidence in abundance if we know where to look for it. So over the past two  years we have been speaking with farmers and buyers, innovators and entrepreneurs, city planners and funders, school teachers and restoration engineers across the spectrum of this emerging new ecosystem of regenerative practitioners, while also using marketing strategies as a ppc agency to help all these entrepreneurs. And we’re happy to see the movement growing exponentially in both awareness and practice. We want you to join us on this journey.

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Recent Episodes

Chad Thiessen – Live the Life We Love

Chad Thiessen – Live the Life We Love

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 explains how his relationship with his son directed him on his current path, where he came from, and what he’s learning along the way.

Chad describes his experiences – good and bad – in real estate development and how he’s realized he wants to build regenerative communities, places for healing. He distinguishes his ideas from eco-villages and how to work in other countries yet avoid colonialization. He emphasizes the importance of scaffolding to support learning and money as a tool. 

Kevin Maher  – Get Roots In The Ground

Kevin Maher – Get Roots In The Ground

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 successful financially while also improving the ecosystem with an emphasis on agroforestry. In this conversation with Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep, Kevin explains how they are looking for early adopters willing to a longer term perspective on “return” that will enable investment in tree crops.

Jeff Goebel Round 2 – This Is Our Home

Jeff Goebel Round 2 – This Is Our Home

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

Matt Candeias – Plants Make a Living

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

Jeff Goebel – All of Our Voices

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

Willemijn de Iongh – Seeing With New Eyes

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 restoration in countries including Spain, South Africa…

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4 Comments

  1. Nancy Welliver

    These are wonderful discussions! Thank you for making them available! I feel a refreshed sense of hope, and also that I am not the lone member of my tribe.

    Reply
    • Erik Van Lennep

      Hi Nancy, I am delighted that the conversations are refreshing your hope. I feel renewed hope every time I get to speak with another person who has found a way to make regenerative practice an integral part of their activity. There are so many of us doing so, and it’s my hope that even more will find inspiration in these stories, and then join the fun. Because it really is a lot of fun to join forces with our planet in this dance of life.

      Reply
  2. albert bates

    Hi Erik. You need to make some adjustments to the cropping of the profile pictures. Would be nice to see their heads.

    Reply
    • David Witzel

      That’s my bad. I haven’t figured out how to make these auto thumbnails work all the time. In my defense, the pictures look okay on the individual pages!

      I’ll take another shot at fixing…

      Reply

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