Permaculture Education Institute’s Festival of Wild & Kind Ideas, May 2026
By Kit Shepherd, Transition Bondi
Transition Bondi took the wonderful opportunity to call people together to hear some of
the speakers who were part of the 2026 Permaculture Education Institute’s Festival of
Wild & Kind Ideas. And now the recordings are available for more community
connecting.
Access to replays for all to dive into:
https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/festival-2026/
We will run a monthly series for the rest of this year, and conversations will be enriched
by the wealth of resources that Morag facilitates. As well as these Festival talks, there
is her podcast, newsletter, blog and instructional YouTube videos (anyone for growing
potatoes in an urban space?)
There is a lively WhatsApp channel that began at the festival and continues, which
extends contacts and conversations across the world!
Here is the list of speakers and their topics, spanning the local, to deep time, through
eco-philosophy, psychology and community scale action, cultural perspectives, water,
food and seeds.
Technology and those who operate it have allowed us to be in the presence of
outstanding elders, leaders, teachers, and passionate practitioners. Amazing and huge
thanks to the Permaculture Education Institute.
- Morag Gamble: Myceliating humanKINDness
- Fritjof Capra: Principles of life
- Satish Kumar: Peace is possible
- Louis De Jaegar: Food foresting, festivals &
- Helena Norberg-Hodge: Localisation
- Charlie Mgee & Brenna Quinlan: Permaculture artivism
- Jeremy Lent: Ecocivilization
- Nate Hagens: The great simplification
- Katharine Burke: Earthwards: learning as seed
- Daniel Christian Wahl: Bioregioning & place-based design
- Manda Scott and Rupert Read: Thrutopian stories
- Perdita Finn: Mothers of magic
- Tyson Yunkaporta: How ancient stories can guide us
- Alfred Decker, Yara Ward and Boulos Saad: Permaculture in Lebanon in crisis
- Mazin Qumsiyeh & Rosemary Morrow: Palestinian permaculture & resistance
- Rob Hopkins: Falling in love with the future
- Emma-Kate Rose & Dheepa Jeyapalan: Transforming the public plate
- Stuart Cowan: Design for life thriving
- Ansiima Casinga Rolande, Megan Banda, Afshan Omar: Afroecological Futures
- Nora Bateson: Who can I be when I am with you?
- Natalie Topa: Water Resilience
- Samantha Sweetwater: The earth misses you
- Andrew Millison: Rehydrating the planet
- Campfire Stories Films
- Mattias Olsson: Wild and kind storytelling on film
- Manish Jain: Deschooling our lives
- Mary Reynolds: Acts of restorative kindness
- Hannah Moloney: Why we garden
- Michelle Maloney: Bioregions and Rights of Nature
- Pella Thiel: Creating a Bioregional Embassy
- Maddy Harland: Wilding permaculture and publishing
- Cate McQuillen: Deliberate optimism