Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College

It is my delight to welcome Jonathan Dawson to the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast. Jonathan is the Program Lead of the Masters of Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College, in England. We met many years ago here at Crystal Waters Ecovillage visiting with my friend, Amanda Cahill CEO, The Next Economy. Jonathan was for many years the president of the Global Ecovillage Network & a long-time resident of Findhorn. Jonathan kindly hosted my family at his community in Totnes, UK.

Jonathan is also the author of Gaia Education’s UNITAR endorsed Sustainable Economics Curriculum which is drawn from the best practice within ecovillages globally – a curriculum adopted by UNESCO, and Schumacher Briefing 12 Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability, by Green Books.

Enjoy listening to this podcast conversation an exploration of the kind of regenerative economics we need in the world today.

Click below to watch it, or listen to the audio here.

About the Author

MORAG GAMBLE Blog is an award-winning Australian permaculture designer, speaker, author, blogger, film-maker and teacher. She creates the popular Our Permaculture Life Blog and YouTube channel, offers online permaculture education – The Incredible Edible Garden and the Permaculture Educators Program, a combined Permaculture Design Certificate and Permaculture Teacher Certificate.

Morag is the founder and Executive Director of the Permaculture Education Institute and runs a small permaculture charity, Ethos Foundation. Each month she also offers free online monthly masterclasses.

Morag is an urban permaculture pioneer and cofounder of the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network and Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane.

Morag offers a wealth of knowledge of all things permaculture and has taught in 22 countries – she is always teaching and sharing. Morag’s natural habitat is her award-winning edible landscape at Crystal Waters Ecovillage.

Morag Gamble

My name is Morag Gamble and I am living and working a permaculture life. I live an ‘Off-the-Grid’ lifestyle in a permaculture village near Maleny in the subtropical part of southeast Queensland, Australia with my husband and 3 young children.

We designed and built our modular eco-home – with much appreciated help from my family. We are mortgage-free and live simply. Our income is derived from permaculture-related activities. We grow a lot of vegetables, herbs and fruit in the polycultural garden-playground surrounding our home. We collect our water, deal with our wastewater on-site and produce most of our own power.

I love this way of living and I love bringing my children up in this environment. They are Nature Kids and they are learning vital skills for resilience, compassion and future problem solving through our ecological unschooling approach.

I am also passionate about how this way of life can make a positive contribution to society and support ecological regeneration.