by David Witzel | Mar 18, 2019 | news, Podcast Episode
“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 grow...
by David Witzel | Feb 28, 2019 | news, Podcast Episode
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...
by David Witzel | Feb 11, 2019 | news, Podcast Episode
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...
by David Witzel | Jan 27, 2019 | news, Podcast Episode
How does “learning from nature” differ from “designing as nature” ? Can we overcome the “nature culture divide” ? What will it take for people to fall in love with the planet again? These are some of the topics Designers of Paradise...
by David Witzel | Jan 14, 2019 | news, Podcast Episode
What if we know what needs to be done … but need help making it happen? Should we focus on urgency and fear or joy and connecting? What about the suffering that is happening right now? How does self-forgiveness and observation fit in? And what about those...
by David Witzel | Jan 2, 2019 | news, Podcast Episode
Are we in the midst of a creativity crisis? How can we reclaim our Imaginative capacities? Could better care and feeding of our hippocampus help us move forward? In this episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with his long-time colleague,...
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