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Joshua Tosteson – It’s Hard to Learn from Success
In this episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with Joshua Tosteson who is an impact investor and system change catalyst. Josh describes how he took a detour from college that led to a walkabout in Australia where he discovered Tagari Farm and Bill...
Eric Becker – A Money Person in the Room
In this episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with Eric Becker, Partner and Portfolio Manager at Clean Yield Asset Management. Eric was also a founding member of the Slow Money movement and is a founding board member of Soil4Climate. Eric describes...
Jesse McDougall – We Lost that Crop
In this episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with Jesse McDougall who, with his wife Cally, run Studio Hill, a regenerative farm in Vermont. Jesse tells a love story that leads to him becoming a farmer. It is a gravely field he walks with tragedy,...
Stephen & Gloria Decater – A Little Bit of Earth in All of Us
In this episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with Stephen and Gloria Decater of Live Power Community Farm in Covelo, CA. They have been managing the farm for 45 years and during that time helped to pioneer CSA's, implemented an innovative...
Kevin Jones – Act Your Way Into a New Way of Thinking
In this episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with Kevin Doyle Jones who is, among other roles, one of the organizers of next month's Regenerative Economics conference in San Francisco - Regen18. (Disclosure: RASA is a partner on this event - use...
Mimi Hillenbrand – They’re Hard on Fences
In this episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with Mimi Hillenbrand of 777 Bison Ranch in South Dakota. In the Hillenbrand family for over 40 years, the ranch has been home for American Bison for over 30 years. Erik & Mimi discuss a recent...
Steve Rivard – Looking Over the Fence
In this episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with co-founder and Chairman of Iroquois Valley Farms, Stephen Rivard. Not the "usual suspect" for working in either funding or real estate, nor farming itself, Steve is a doctor who used to run an...
Simone Senogles – Past, present, future, all connected
"Relationship is the Key" Food is so much more than "just food". This week Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep explores the concept of food sovereignty with Simone Senogles of the Ojibwe nation and the Indigenous Environmental Network. Erik and Simone discuss...
ReGen18: Gathering the Tribe
Intuitively, it feels like the concept of regeneration is gaining traction. More people are talking about it (such as presentations at the recent Natural Products Expo); more projects invoking it; more companies are adopting it; interest from donors and investors...
Wanda Stewart – Free to Dig in the Dirt
In this inspiring episode Designers of Paradise host Erik van Lennep talks with Life Educator, Wanda Stewart of Oakland California. Wanda is a social innovator, community builder and garden activist. She runs garden-based education programs for schools in Oakland...