A 6-day festival featuring 40 inspiring thinkers, doers and creatives from around the world exploring wild and kind ideas.
This event is hosted by Morag Gamble, an acclaimed permaculture educator, speaker, designer, writer, filmmaker, podcaster and humanitarian – founder of the Permaculture Education Institute and the Permaculture Educators Program.
In all of her work, Morag explores how we can live more peacefully and simply so that we may thrive together on this beautiful blue planet.
Speakers:
PELLA THIEL
Creating a bioregional embassy
Pella Thiel is a Swedish ecologist, educator, and advocate for the rights of nature. She co-founded End Ecocide Sweden and Transition Sweden, working to integrate ecological perspectives into legal and societal frameworks. As a UN Harmony with Nature expert and author of Naturlagen, Pella promotes Earth-centered governance and has been instrumental in advancing the recognition of ecocide as an international crime. Her efforts have earned her accolades, including the 2023 Martin Luther King Prize and WWF Sweden’s Environmental Hero of the Year in 2019. Through her work, Pella inspires a shift towards a more harmonious relationship between humanity and the natural world.
She is creating the bioregional Embassy of the Baltic Sea focussing on interconnected wellbeing of human society and nature in the Baltic Sea watershed, through recognition of the rights of the sea to flourish, and representation of its more-than-human voices in decision-making.
MICHELLE MALONEY
Bioregions and Rights of Nature
Michelle Maloney (PhD) is an Australian Earth lawyer and advocate for bioregional and Earth-centred governance. She is the Co-Founder and National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), Co-Founder and Director of Future Dreaming Australia, an Indigenous and non-Indigenous partnerships initiative; a UN Harmony with Nature Expert; a member of the Advisory Council of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and an Adjunct Fellow at UTS and Griffith University.
Michelle won an International Peace Women’s Award in 2024 and is widely recognised for her three decades of advocacy for climate action, Rights of Nature and First Laws, bioregioning and Earth-centred initiatives.