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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
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
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…
Ian McSweeney – The Agrarian Commons
As US farmers age, up to 400 million acres of farmland will transfer over the next two decades. How can farmland be held centered in community to assure regenerative agriculture and food production in an equitable and just way? That’s the heart of the conversation between Agrarian Trust’s Ian McSweeney and Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep…
Roman Krznaric – Bridge to the Future
It may surprise nobody, but humans are internally conflicted, parts of our nature pulling in opposite directions: immediate gratification vs. longer term security. Or as Roman Krznaric and others have termed it, “marshmallow brain” vs. “acorn brain”. He describes how our “marshmallow brain” can’t resist eating the marshmallow in front of us even when forbearance would win us a second marshmallow, while our “acorn brain”…
Judith D. Schwartz – Reindeer Chronicles
The story gelled on a trip to Norway says author Judith Schwartz. She went there to talk about indigenous knowledge and, in return, learned about reindeer. She explains to Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep these stories guided the themes of earth repair and…
Jorne Langelaan – Salt Water on Your Lips
Born into a seafaring family in The Netherlands, Jorne Langelaan was working at sea by the time he was 12. In this conversation with Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep, Jorne explains how his love of ships become a love of sailing ships which led him to become…
Amber Smith – I Am Enough
Amber Smith made her way from a blue collar town in Central Illinois to a 53,000 acre ranch in Montana. She explains that the image of the lonely cowboy is not today’s reality where, instead, women are not only managing ranches, but leading civic…
Award Winning “Designers of Paradise”
Designers of Paradise, hosted by Erik van Lennep and produced by Mind & Media, won the 2020 Award of Excellence for Podcasts from Communicator Awards. Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts. Launched in 2018,...
Josh Whiton – Compost Together
The experience of composting with friends helped Josh Whiton realize that being kind to the planet could lead to a change in consciousness. Josh described to Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep how this realization led him to launch MakeSoil.org, a global…