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