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Nicole Masters is a globally recognised agroecologist, speaker and author of the book ‘For the Love of Soil’. Meagan Lannan is an award-winning rancher at Barney Creek Livestock in Montana, within the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Nicole and Meagan toured two sold out education programs in Australia last month. First up, 126 people convened for 4 days near the town of Orange, and I was fortunate to be welcomed along for the ride. It was actually Nicole’s first time back in Australia since her scheduled book tour of 55 dates was cancelled due to covid. We last spoke for the podcast during that time in 2020, when Nicole was in the midst of her own transformations. A few years on, and this program is touring the world, with its focus on training the wayfinders in regenerative soil, systems and life-giving practice. No surprise in that sense, we end up talking polyvagal theory, regenerative finance, shifting consciousness, the education processes that cultivate all that, and a bit of song and dance.This conversation was recorded at Tombarra near Braidwood in NSW, on 22 April 2023.Title slide: Nicole Masters & Meagan Lannan riverside at Tombarra (pic: Anthony James).See more photos on the episode webpage below, and for more behind the scenes pics become a subscriber via the Patreon page.With great thanks to Dave Murphy and Farmer’s Footprint Australia, for supporting my journey to the Orange intensive. Thanks also to Grahame Rees, local co-host of that intensive, and Martin Royds, co-host of the Tombarra gathering, for your great generosity. And Martin, for showing us around your extraordinary regenerative work at Jillamatong. Find more:Integrity Soils.For more with Nicole Masters (including other links, and photos on the episode web page), listen to episode 72, Restoring the Metropolis of Living Earth: From the chemical paradigm to nature’s paradigm, with Nicole Masters.Barney Creek Livestock, where Meagan, Pete and family live.To Which We Belong, the film that Nicole and Meagan feature in. The short video with Meagan & family on winning the Aldo Leopold award. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Jeff Pow is at the helm of an extraordinary story of regeneration. You might remember Jeff and his wife Michelle McManus from episode 78, when I first visited them at Southampton Homestead back at the end of 2020. (They were also later highlighted among some globally esteemed names in the acknowledgements of Paul Hawken’s book Regeneration.) Since then, I’d been seeing the land there go from strength to strength. And I’d been hearing about how their pasture-raised poultry (as distinct from so-called free-range), and their micro-processing systems, were now enabling regional regeneration – of country, community and economy. Even in the face of COVID, more fires, and still finding themselves constantly on the brink of folding. Attempts and experiments with partners to create market systems that get us eaters this nutritious, cruelty-free and regenerative food, and these farmers a livelihood, maybe even the means to do more of their great work, aren’t working. This is still too often the missing piece, it seems. So what shift in lens, and systems, can bring us all together in these situations, to enable the regeneration I’m seeing at Southampton and elsewhere, to happen everywhere?We start in space, believe it or not. Then come back to earth with how torturously chicken appears in supermarkets, but how brilliantly it happens here. And how it all hinges on the possibilities we explore next. This chat was recorded at Southampton Homestead near Balingup WA on 30 April 2023.Title slide: Jeff Pow and Michelle McManus at Southampton.See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Find more:Southampton Homestead.Dirty Clean Food’s terrific profile page on Jeff and Michelle’s operation.Dirty Clean Food’s online shop for pasture-raised poultry, including from Southampton (it looks like hovering over the pictures brings up the Southampton logo when it’s from there). For more with Jeff Pow & Michelle McManus (including other links, and photos on the episode web page), listen to episode 78.And to listen to Jeff with Yeshe, tune into Yeshe Interviews, for Earth & space & chickens & how they’re all connected. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

This is a special release episode with Tim Winton, broadly considered the preeminent Australian writer of his generation. And not just in Australia. His books have been translated into 28 languages, sold millions of copies, and resulted in numerous prestigious awards (including another one just this week). He’s also in the Australian Surfing Awards Hall of Fame, and has a species of native Australian fish named in his honour. But over the last few years, we were aware Tim had jumped in the deep end as writer, narrator and executive producer of a major film production.Ningaloo Nyinggulu surfaced at a community screening in Exmouth a few days ago, and will premiere nationwide in Australia on Tuesday 16 May, having also just launched globally as Ningaloo Nyinggulu: Australia’s Ocean Wonder. The blurb reads: ‘Over three episodes filmed in remote Western Australia, Tim shares the wonders of the place that has inspired his work for decades, joining Traditional Owners, scientists and other experts to understand how Ningaloo endures as a mighty global lifeboat of biodiversity, and showcases why it is a beacon of hope in the face of an extinction crisis and climate emergency.’ This story is grounded in rich cultural heritage dating back more than 40,000 years, in a place that colonial Australia had once destined to be little more than a quarry and oilfield. Over 2000 hours of footage was shot over a 2-year period for this, portraying the extraordinary resurgence of culture and country happening here. You’ll also hear some of the wonderful soundtrack from the film, in this episode.This conversation was recorded on 5 May 2023.Title slide: Tim releasing a very eager rescued turtle (from the film).See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.The Sargassum piece, by Ash Gibson Greig, off the soundtrack for Ningaloo Nyinggulu, with the kind permission of Artemis Media and the artist.Find more:Watch the trailer of Ningaloo Nyinggulu. It premieres in Australia on the ABC from Tuesday 16 May 2023. The global release can be streamed on Love Nature & Sky Nature.Tim’s national tour dates, starting Saturday 13 May in Victoria (all shows sold out except for Kyneton on Saturday night – waiting lists available in some cases).Join in the Protect Ningaloo campaign.For more with Tim Winton, listen to episode 81.And to hear more about the archaeological work, listen to episode 83 with Peter Veth. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

In last week’s episode, we heard from Dr Katherine Trebeck on the latest significant developments in the domain of wellbeing, regenerative or just plain good economics. You might remember Katherine alluded to a brilliant conversation she had been part of a few days prior, for the launch of a major new report and project by not-for-profit outfit, Sustainable Table. Regenerative farmer and award-winning writer, Tanya Massy, is the lead author of that report, part of an all-star team frankly, including a number of past guests on this podcast. And on this day, she and Katherine were joined by two truly trailblazing international guests, CEO of Cienaga Capital, Esther Park, and CEO of Steward, Dan Miller. With an opening statement from Wiradjuri man and director at Black Duck Foods, Joshua Staines. 3.00 - Anthony setting the scene7.20 - Panel conversation56.30 - Tanya Massy re a stand out case study from the report, leading into audience questions83.50 - Tanya’s closing words including how we can each engage from here.Head here for automatic cues to those chapter markers.This conversation was recorded online with live audience on 20 April 2023.Title slide: A screen shot of the panel and some of the Sustainable Table team on the day (L-R: CEO Jade Miles, Megan O’Malley, Kristie Van de Velde, Anthony James, Tanya Massy, Katherine Trebeck, Jess Eddy, Esther Park, Justin Wolfgang, Hayley Morris, Dan Miller).See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Find more:Sustainable Table web version of the report.Hear more from Tanya Massy on episode 115, Serenity Hill on episode 126, and Jade Miles on episode 128.And you can hear a very special conversation with Carol Sanford on episode 150.Watch the launch of Sustainable Table’s major new report on Regenerating Investment in Food & Farming, which includes the presentations of Sustainable Table Chair Hayley Morris, and lead author Tanya Massy, at the outset.Have your say in the Australian government’s Measuring what matters, second consultation process, ending 26 May 2023. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Dr Katherine Trebeck helps make sense of the state of our economy, amidst recurrent gloomy global forecasts, and stark reports about what’s really driving such drastic inflation and inequality. All that informs the back half of our chat on some recent significant global shifts towards economies that make more sense here and now, and that are inherently designed to work well for people and planet.This includes an opportunity to get involved here in Australia, with our federal government’s current initiative, and last week’s major project launch by the Sustainable Table team. And we look at some of the stories that are really blazing the trail - beyond profit, financial returns and GDP. Dr Katherine Trebeck is co-founder of the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance and the group of Wellbeing Economy Governments. Now back in Australia, Katherine is also a senior advisor for The Next Economy (featured in episode 134 of the podcast), and co-author of The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy. This conversation was recorded in Canberra on 23 April 2023.Title slide: Katherine Trebeck, just as we were about to record. See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Find more:Katherine’s website.Hear more from Katherine on episode 99, and more of her life story on episode 29.Have your say in the Australian government’s Measuring what matters, second consultation process, ending 26 May 2023.Join us at a mini-festival with community forum hosted by Anthony James this Sunday 7 May. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Last week's episode with Dr Alessandro Pelizzon contained a series of global paradigm shifting updates in its last 15 minutes or so. So this week's release is an excerpt of that part of the episode, in case you missed it. We pick up our conversation at the back half of Alessandro's announcement that he is co-founding a new place of education – akin to the Schumacher College in the UK - offering more of the education we need in these times. And we go on to the rapid developments around the world in the Rights of Nature, along with the recent rescinding by the Pope of the Doctrine of Discovery (if you don't know how significant that is, Alessandro explains). Title slide: a view of the northern rivers region of NSW, where this conversation took place (pic: Anthony James).Find more:Tune into the full episode 159, where you'll also find a few links. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

I met up with Dr Alessandro Pelizzon at his place in Byron Bay, for a long-awaited chat on some of the extraordinary work he’s been doing, outside his day job, on the immense value, almost unbelievable collapse, and opportunity for renewal of the public university as one of our oldest and grandest Western institutions. And there’s been a host of global paradigm shifting developments since we last spoke 18 months or so ago, in the domain of his day job (including just days ago with the Pope’s rescinding of the Doctrine of Discovery). Along with his co-founding of a new place of education – offering more of the education we need in these times. Dr Alessandro Pelizzon is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He is a co-founder and Executive Committee Member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, the current Director of its International Academic Hub, and an expert member of the UN Harmony with Nature programme. Alessandro has been exploring the emerging discourse on rights of nature, Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence since its inception. And his book on all this will be published soon, titled Ecological Jurisprudence: Law, Representation and Environmental Metaphysics. This conversation was recorded at Alessandro’s home just outside of Byron Bay NSW, on 2 April 2023. Title slide: Alessandro at home after our conversation. See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page. Music: The sounds of the Byron Bay hinterland. Find more:Alessandro Pelizzon on LinkedIn. Academics for Public Universities. Public Universities Australia. Resonant Earth. Hear more of Alessandro on the rapid rise of ‘earth laws’ in episode 97, from the Kimberley (and on a panel featuring Michael Leunig, Kate Auty and Nicola Rivers for episode 71). Upcoming launch of Sustainable Table report on Regenerating Investment in Food & Farming. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

I headed out of Brisbane this week to Camp Mountain, to learn about some of the regenerative work being done around there. One of the outstanding places I visited nearby was where Loop Growers happens. Alice Star and Phil Garozzo, hairdresser and marketing graduate respectively, are its founders. They call it a ‘bio-intensive market garden’, which produces a wide range of chemical free fruit and veg that feeds their growing community of households and local businesses. The loop they refer to comprises 15 cafes, restaurants, bars and brewers who provide their excess organic materials (read, not waste) to feed the worms at the farm, which the farm in turn, cycles back as fresh produce. A functional loop at one level, and at another, a paradigm change in the heart of the places we gather. With tiny houses, event space and seed bank also emerging onsite, that initial loop is just the start of it. Though it could also have been the end, as the biblical-scale floods of last year almost wiped them out entirely. How this community is rebounding together says so much about what’s possible everywhere.This conversation was recorded at Loop Growers in the Samford Valley around 30 kilometres outside of Brisbane, on 31 March 2023.Title slide: Phil & Alice by the creek where we had our conversation.See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music: No Such Thing As Waste, by Formidable Vegetable.Find more:Loop Growers.Broadsheet piece with a series of photos at Loop Growers from before and after the flood.Bush Tekniq.Upcoming launch of Sustainable Table report on Regenerating Investment in Food & Farming.GoFundMe page set up by the family of Carol Sanford (our guest in ep 150). The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Yesterday I hosted a yarn with two brilliant First Nations guests at the World Science Festival in Brisbane, to discuss 'the rise of regenerative agriculture, the intersection with First Nations Knowledges, and the synergies for a harmonious and sustainable future on earth'.Barkandji woman Zena Cumpston (aka Zena Sky Ranger) is a writer, researcher and story-teller who has also curated some exceptional exhibitions including Emu Sky. She is passionate about plants, particularly the many ways they elucidate the ingenuity and scientific knowledge of her people. Indeed, Zena has co-authored a new book called Plants: Past, Present & Future – the latest in the First Knowledges series – that featured in Booktopia’s ‘best non-fiction’ list for 2022. Her writing also appears in the extraordinary anthology Unlimited Futures, and in the Federal Government's pivotal 2021 State of the Environment Report. Jacob Birch is a self-described native grains die-hard. He’s an academic, entrepreneur and Churchill Fellow who is working towards reawakening and restoring the grassland foodways that sustained his Gamilaraay ancestors for thousands of generations. Walking within and between many convergent spaces, including lecturing in regenerative agriculture, Jacob is helping to reignite the native grain economy, led by First Nations people, for the benefit of all people. He has just led a national consultation and authored the Australian Native Grains Strategic Plan. And works with the Yunus Centre to develop innovative business frameworks for the native grain industry. This conversation was recorded live at the World Science Festival Brisbane, in the Cremorne Theatre at QPAC, on 26 March 2023.Title slide: Zena, Anthony & Jacob against the backdrop of one of the native grain farms Jacob talks about, that was the cover image for the event.See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Meanjin Sunrise, by local Aboriginal artists, played as we got ready to take to the stage.Find more:Regenerating Country, a live podcast conversation at the World Science Festival Brisbane. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Daniel Christian Wahl is the world-renowned author of Designing Regenerative Cultures, still being translated into various languages years after release. Daniel’s also called himself a consultant, educator, activist, speaker, blogger, weaver, catalyst - he’s also become a farmer of sorts, which you’ll hear more about today, along with some other very interesting and entirely relevant parts of his life – like marine biology, martial arts, permaculture, his ongoing learning with elders, and how he looks to live it all, in what has become his home in Mallorca, Spain.Daniel's blog on Medium is followed by over 25,000 people, and his online advocacy has a combined audience of over 850,000 people around the world. He was an RSA Bicentenary Medal recipient for Regenerative Design in 2021, a Volans Fellow in 2022, and was previously the Director of Findhorn College.Daniel actually first reached out to me a few years ago, with kind words after my conversation with the late Hazel Henderson, someone we both admired a lot. And for him, as for many, the years since have included some tumult and burn out. All of which made this a doubly cherished conversation, as Daniel talks publicly in a way he never has before, in a moment of great reflection about the state of things and how to approach it.This conversation was recorded online with Daniel at home in Mallorca, on 15 March 2023.Title slide: Daniel Christian Wahl in the Tramuntana mountains near Lluc (source).Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Find more:Daniel’s highly acclaimed book, translated into multiple languages, Designing Regenerative Cultures.Daniel with Satish Kumar on his YouTube channel recently.Daniel’s ongoing writing on Medium.Join me with special guests at Regenerating Country, this weekend, a live podcast conversation at the World Science Festival Brisbane on 26 March 2023. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Mid-last year I accompanied film-maker Damon Gameau as he toured his film Regenerating Australia around WA. We were with Di Haggerty and Heidi Mippy which became ep122 from the Leederville screening, and in ep131 I hosted student Kate Fenech in Busselton. Well, there were two other event conversations on that tour that Damon hosted with other local guests, and they were exceptional. And as I listened back to the one from Margaret River this week, I thought this has just got to go out.So conversing with Damon, you’ll hear the former international sports star, Amy Steel, whose career was ended by a near-fatal heat stroke. And since then, she has dedicated her life to working with business and First Nations communities on cultural and climate matters. She’s currently the WA Leader | Decarbonisation and Climate risk at Engie, and in the process of moving to the new Witchcliffe Ecovillage near Margaret River.Alongside Amy is Wadandi Bibulmun man, Zac Webb. Born in Undalup (Busselton), Zac grew up on Wadandi Boodja (Country) listening to his Great Grandmother, Grandparents and his Father Dr Wayne ‘Wonitji’ Webb. Zac is highly respected in his work with Elders and Custodians, giving the wider community a better understanding of Cultural Protocols, and their Connection and Responsibilities to the Boodja that we all share together.3.30 Damon sets the scene8.45 Panel starts21.55 Audience question on fire29.08 On shared local knowledge working with bureaucracies31.58 On understanding biodiversity - in numbers or knowledge of place36.48 Young person on the sustainability of drones for planting trees 37.42 On the mining rush for minerals for renewables 38.42 Young person on how to make the film’s vision a reality41.55 Damon on what we can do including some funding opportunitiesHead here for automatic cues to those chapter markers.This conversation was recorded at the HEART Centre in Margaret River, on 17 May 2022.Title slide: Redgate Beach, near the Witchcliffe Ecovillage and the town of Margaret River (pic: Anthony James, just before the event).See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music:Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Micro Biome, by Formidable Vegetable.Find more:Regenerating Australia film on The Regenerators website.Zac Webb (and his father Wayne).Hear more from Amy on episode 73, The Biggest Sports Story.Regenerators film ‘What is Regeneration?’ Join me at The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

For over 40 years, Rosemary Morrow has travelled the world, blazing a pioneering trail teaching permaculture as a tool for restoration. From Vietnam and Cambodia, to Greece, West Africa, and Australia, her at times death-defying journey has helped countless communities in all sorts of situations restore healthy living systems. And it was arguably all set in tow when, at the age of 15, she ventured solo to the Kimberley here in WA. This is a conversation Rowe’s not accustomed to having, but she was customarily fearless in having it. And for me, it continues a kind of accidental series with women elders. One I’m finding to be a great gift. In this case, Rowe was kind enough to spend some time with me on a visit back to where she grew up, here in Perth. She was touring her new book, a revised and updated edition of her classic Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture – now called the Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture.It’s been endorsed by the UN as part of this Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, has a foreword by Vandana Shiva, and throws down the gauntlet for what’s still to be done.This conversation was recorded at Ecoburbia, just south of Walyalup / Fremantle, on 24 November 2022.Title slide: Rosemary Morrow (pic: Permatil Global).See more photos including behind the scenes by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Earth People Fair, by Formidable Vegetable.Find more:Rosemary’s book, Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture.Enter the draw for a gift pack of books from Melliodora Publishing, including Rosemary’s new one.Join me at Regenerating Country, a live podcast conversation at the World Science Festival Brisbane on 26 March 2023. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Neeve Blackham-Jennings is a school student who wrote and illustrated what ‘accidentally’ became an award-winning book when she was fifteen. It’s a story that hoped to change a story – the story of Australia’s most endangered reptile, the Western Swamp Tortoise. But that’s not the half of it.Last September’s Quantum Words Festival in Perth opened with Schools Day. I was fortunate to host Bruce Pascoe later in the day, which you may have heard on episode 140. But opening the festival was this session, featuring Neeve alongside a couple of brilliant women whose chance encounters with Neeve continue to reverberate, as they work to bring this species back from the brink of extinction. Mandy Bamford is an ecologist and environmental communicator, fascinated by innovative ways to engage people with nature. And Nicki Mitchell is an award-winning tertiary educator and Associate Professor of Conservation Biology at UWA.Their work includes the rehabilitation of wetland habitats, and the translocation of zoo-bred animals to nature reserves – joining forces with passionate community members, including young people like Neeve, to enable more positive stories of change. We talk about all this, and related topics of voting age, media and more, with some terrific student questions.24.00 - Q&A starts with Lyn Beazley AO, on the effect of global warming ‘feminising’ the genders of many species24.45 - Student question on the ethics of species translocation26.00 - Question on some of the pioneers in this space27.45 - Anthony asks Neeve her thoughts on the voting age28.55 - Student question on how literature can affect social issues besides conservation31.30 - Student question on other endangered species like the numbats32.30 - Anthony asks if anyone’s studying journalism - and what we need and might do in media35.50 - Student question on what’s driven the Western Swamp Tortoise declineHead here for automatic cues to those chapter markers.This conversation was recorded in the theatre at John Curtin College of the Arts in Walyalup/Fremantle, on 16 September 2022. Title slide: Nicki Mitchell, Mandy Bamford & high school student Neeve Blackham-Jennings (pic: Olivia Cheng).See more photos of this & other events including some behind the scenes stuff by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Find more:The event website, for the Quantum Words Festival Perth 2022 (inc. more info on each guest). Buy a copy of Neeve’s book, Wally’s Way Home. And on that new global news literacy project I mentioned, tune in to episode 133 ‘You Are What You Read’, with Jodie Jackson (links The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Zach Bush toured in Australia in December last year. This event, in Byron Bay, sold out in a matter of hours. So a humming full house of 250+ people filled the local theatre for Zach’s rousing keynote, and this subsequent panel conversation. The two women joining Zach and myself for this were Bundjalung woman and founder of The Returning, Ella Noah Bancroft, and regenerative farmer and award-winning writer, Tanya Massy. You’ll hear me introduce Ella and Tanya in a bit more detail on the night. And for those less familiar with Zach, he’s the highly decorated physician who’s become globally renowned for his work on the microbiome as the basis of all human and planetary health. He’s since become a co-founder of Farmer’s Footprint, a not-for-profit in the US supporting farmers who are regenerating their landscapes to produce healthy, nutrient-dense food for a healthy planet. And last year, Zach supported Blair Beattie and the growing team here, to launch Farmers Footprint Australia. This tour was its first big national splash. And there was no shortage of big breakthroughs to dive into as our conversation evolved, in what became a highlight of highlights on tour. This conversation was recorded in the Byron Bay Community Centre theatre, on 6 December 2022.Title slide: Zach Bush delivering his keynote before this panel conversation (pic: Elle Jeffrey).See more photos of this event & behind the scenes of the tour by becoming a subscriber via the Patreon page.Music:Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Find more:Farmer’s Footprint Australia.Film of this event including Zach’s keynote – podcast subscribers can get 25% off the purchase of this film via the Patreon page.To hear more of Zach, including his fascinating back story, listen to episode 62.Join me at Regenerating Country, a live podcast conversation at the World Science Festival Brisbane on 26 March 2023. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Over the last couple of years Damon Gameau, the brilliant Aussie film-maker behind Regenerating Australia, 2040, That Sugar Film and Animal Beatbox, has joined me at this time to take a look at the year ahead. Last year happened to land on Valentine’s Day. So while Damon’s giving himself and his family some well-earned dedicated time right now, it gives me the chance to share this unique event with you. This was a Town Hall dialogue that followed a community screening of Regenerating Australia, in Beverley, in the wheat belt of WA. Local woman Claire Broun & husband Martin brought together a rare and powerful line up, featuring prominent local Noongar man Oral McGuire, nearby regenerative farmers Di & Ian Haggerty, locally engaged landscape architect and rural planner Grant Revell, and Damon online from the other side of the country. Yours truly was host.We start with a profound Welcome to Country by Oral, before I introduce our guests, and later our audience. With love.3.20  Oral7.20  Panel conversation24.50 Audience gets involvedThis conversation was recorded in the Beverley Town Hall, with Damon appearing online from home in New South Wales, on 17 June 2022.Title slide: Damon Gameau (on screen), Anthony James, Grant Revell, Ian & Di Haggerty, Oral McGuire - & Claire Broun managing the stage (pic: Martin Pell).See more photos of this event & behind the scenes by becoming a supporting listener on our Patreon page.Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for Regenerating Australia.Find more:Regenerating Australia – community film screenings are available.To hear more of Di & Ian Haggerty, with another unique line up out at their place, tune into episode 142.Join me at Regenerating Country, a live podcast conversation at the World Science Festival Brisbane. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Starting the year with Carol Sanford feels incredibly special. She’s been at the heart of what we might call the ‘regenerative paradigm’ for decades. Friends and colleagues have spoken about her with me for years, right up until the end of last year. And last month, a previous guest and author of Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta, featured Carol on his podcast. That’s when I learned the sad news that she has only a few months to live. When I wrote to her expressing my care and respect, and to see if she’d possibly be up for a chat with another Aussie podcaster, she said sure, but ‘I am declining and so can’t wait long.’ Days later, we shared this conversation.Carol is Executive Producer at The Regenerative Business Summit, 5x TEDx presenter, and a highly awarded best-selling author of six books – currently writing her seventh. Carol launched two startups, ran and sold them, then turned to educating businesses globally, from big companies like Google and DuPont, to ‘new economy businesses’, as she puts it, ‘developing leaders toward the business of the 21st Century, with individuals who want a Regenerative Paradigm education’. Rebecca Henderson from Harvard Business School said Carol "​created an approach that reimagines business. Her approach will be The Future of Business."​ But all that’s just the touching the surface. This is a deeply cherished conversation about Carol’s regenerative life. This conversation was recorded online with Carol at home in Seattle and Anthony in Perth on 2 February 2023 (Australian time).Title slide: Carol Sanford. Music: Regeneration, by Amelia Barden, off the soundtrack for the film Regenerating Australia.Find more:Carol’s website. Carol Sanford Institute.A fundraiser organised by Carol’s family to help her with much needed care and assistance. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Our last summer flashback ‘episode that people still talk to me about’ is episode 9, with Frances Pollock (nee Jones). Frances and David Pollock became nationally famous about a decade ago now, for ‘destocking’ the 375,000-acre Wooleen Station in the Murchison region of Western Australia. That was step one in what has become an extraordinary story of regeneration, increasingly reverberating far beyond Wooleen. David’s since been on the podcast a few times, and Frances continues to be recognised and awarded for her work in the region. I also look back on this episode as a huge turning point for me and my family. This was the first episode out on Country, connecting directly with food and agricultural systems. I was set on a path of understanding regeneration, Country, agriculture, food and all other systems at greater depth, in the lived realities of people’s lives, in their places. And while David Pollock was still a bit shy at this stage, at least with this bloke he’d never heard of, thankfully Frances wasn’t! And the names she sent us on our way with set up a transformative journey around Australia in 2018 that gave birth to The RegenNarration and everything it’s become to date.This is an excerpt featuring the last 25 minutes or so of our conversation at the Wooleen Homestead. It picks up with their initial harrowing experiments with letting dingoes roam wild on the property. And on to another harrowing experiment with the bank as they were on the cusp of foreclosure, before the Australian public rallied behind them. We close with the Native Title judgement delivered at Wooleen, and all that might mean. This conversation was recorded in late 2017.Title slide: Frances Pollock (pic: Olivia Cheng) – the full photo (with Anthony in it) is on the episode website. Music: Let Them Know, by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra. Find more:Read a transcript of our full conversation on the episode web page. Hear the rest of our conversation back in episode 9. Hear more of Frances with David and Charlie Massy on episode 16.And hear more from David (eventually) on episodes 44, 66 & 111 (what’s with the repeating numbers?!) – episode 111 has links to all the others, and more.Wooleen Station. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

Our next episode from the archives that people still talk to me about is episode 3, with Kate Raworth. She’s the best-selling author of Doughnut Economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st century economist. And the instigator of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), helping put it into practice in communities everywhere. This is an excerpt of the first 20 minutes or so our conversation just a couple of months after the book came out. And this release comes just a week after the launch in Oxford of Doughnut Economics Live, a free course for all economics students in the city who want to think like 21st century economists. Kate said last week: “It's time for every university's economics curriculum to address the world's extraordinary and extreme realities.” And “We have had to change venues three times to accommodate all the students applying to join the course - now it's in the biggest lecture theatre available in the university and it's oversubscribed. Students demand and deserve change.”You can hear more on the global student revolt that was kicking into gear in the last decade, and has continued to pick up since, in the rest of our conversation (link below).Here, we kick off on with the shift in thinking involved, and how to communicate and practice it. Then it’s onto Kate’s journey, and how she came to this concept that took off around the world. Interestingly, Kate brings up the work of George Lakoff, on the metaphors we live by – which used to be the primary text for the postgraduate students in sustainability that Frank Fisher and I worked with.We close here with how we might go beyond growth and GDP as proxies for society’s progress, towards tracking what’s actually important to us.This conversation was recorded in June 2017. Title slide: Kate Raworth (pic: Roman Krznaric).Music: 43, by Owls of the Swamp. Find more:Read a transcript of the full conversation on the episode website.Hear the rest of our conversation back in episode 3. We go on to talk more about the practicalities of change, the student revolt that has only continued to grow since this conversation, and how we can go about the shift in thinking and acting in our own lives.Kate’s website & book.Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL). The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

A warm welcome to the new year. We’ll resume normal transmission of the podcast in February. But to gear us up, I thought to release a summer flashback or two, delving way back in the archives to episodes that people still speak to me about today.  First up is an excerpt from the very first episode I recorded, with John Fullerton. He’s the former Wall Street executive who left that life, and through a fascinating personal journey ended up founding the non-profit Capital Institute, dedicated to bringing about new, regenerative economic and financial systems. We had this conversation back in 2017, but it’s lost none of its currency, and gives wonderful context to the growing influence and activity of the Capital Institute today, and the movement as a whole.Note: Enrolments are now open for the third running of the flagship course of the Capital Institute: Introduction to Regenerative Economics (featuring a number of guests on this podcast).More on John Fullerton: John’s work draws deeply on systems thinking, a broad range of other contemporary and ancient schools of thought, and a range of ‘real world’ case studies, impact investing and other experiments on the ground. All this features in his extensive speaking and writing, including in his booklet, Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Principles and Patterns Will Shape Our New Economy.This conversation was recorded in May 2017.Title slide image: John Fullerton.Music: 43, by Owls of the Swamp.Find more:Read a transcript of the full conversation on the episode website.Hear the rest of our conversation, including more on the role of big business and other business structures, in the last 10 minutes or so of episode 1. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!

This is our customary sign-off episode for the year – a package of highlights from our brilliant array of guests throughout 2022, accompanied by some of the music and sounds of Country you heard along the way. Here's the ‘track list’: 1. Jess Beckerling (ep 105)2. To A Forests Dream, by Cloudjumper (from the Free Music Archive) – intro3. To The System, by The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, then ...4. Flamenco Rhythm, by Sunsearcher (from the Free Music Archive) – Petrine McCrohan (ep 106)5. Di Haggerty (ep 107), including ... 6. To Rockin’ in the 80s, by Dr Sparkles (from the Free Music Archive)7. To Regeneration, by Amelia Barden - Damon Gameau (ep 108), Clinton Walker (ep 109)8. Kate Chaney (ep 110)9. To Stones & Bones, by Owls of the Swamp - Kate Chaney (ep 110), David Pollock (ep 111)10. Natalie Davey (ep 112), including ...11. To You Shine, by the Tura Music kids12. María Inés Cuj & Rony Lec (ep 113)13. To Faraway Castle, by Rae Howell & Sunwrae – Cathy McGowan (ep 114), Tanya Massy (ep 115)14. Louise O’Neill (ep 116)15. Eugene Eades including his song – Looking Back to Yesterday Again, performed with Bruce Anthony (ep 117)16. Agostino Petroni (ep 118)17. To Temporary, by Yen Nguyen – Kim Paul Nguyen (ep 119)18. Tony Rinaudo (ep 120)19. Kate Chaney MP (ep 121)20. Ode to Kate, by your podcast host (ep 121 Extra)21. Damon Gameau, at a screening of Regenerating Australia (ep 122)22. Fred Provenza (ep 123)23. To Stones & Bones, by Owls of the Swamp – Jane Slattery (ep 124), Paul Cleary (ep 125)24. Serenity Hill with Kirsten Larsen (ep 126)25. To a tune by Jeremiah Johnson – Ian Congdon & Courtney Young (ep 127), Jade Miles (ep 128)26. To Cycles, by Simon Edwards – the late Hazel Henderson (ep 129), Valerie Brown (ep 130)27. Kate Fenech at a screening of Regenerating Australia (ep 131)28. Kristy Stewart (ep 132)29. Jodie Jackson (ep 133)30. Amanda Cahill (ep 134)31. Ross O’Reilly (ep 135)32. Terry & Pam McCosker (ep 136)33. Robert Pekin (ep 137)34. Matthew Evans (ep 138)35. Douglas Rushkoff (ep 139)36. Bruce Pascoe (ep 140)37. Oral McGuire, Greg Mullins & Lesley Head (ep 141)38. Ian & Di Haggerty (ep 142)39. Heidi Mippy (ep 143)40. To The Deep Ocean is Calling, composed by Eva Holm Foosnæs with lyrics by T Aarskog & Karen O'Brien – Karen O’Brien (ep 144)43. To Wildflower Meadow, by The Eternal Page (featuring Karen O’Brien’s son Jens Stokke) – Paul Hawken (ep 145), the late Frank Fisher (ep 145 Extra)44. To Regeneration - best wishes for the new year!45. Closing the year with the end of our old theme song, The System, by The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra.Title image: the Martuwarra / Fitzroy River, at Natalie Davey’s place (ep 112) (Anthony James).With thanks to all the wonderful musicians who generously granted permission for their music to be heard here.Find more:To access the full catalogue of episodes, head to our website or wherever you get your podcasts. The RegenNarration is an independent, ad-free, freely available podcast, thanks to the generous support of listeners. If you too value what you hear, please consider joining them, by heading to the Support page on The RegenNarration website.You can become a subscriber to the podcast, connect with other listeners & receive other benefits, directly via the Patreon page.Visit The RegenNarration shop. And please keep sharing, rating & reviewing the podcast.Thanks for your support!