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  • Maria Westerberg | The Involuntary Activist

    Maria Westerberg | The Involuntary Activist
    Oct 16 2026
    Support the Campfire Podcast on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/c/mattiasolssonMaria Westerberg | The Involuntary ActivistMaria Westerberg never set out to become an activist. She became one because she saw forests disappearing — places she loved, places that were part of her home and her sense of belonging. Their destruction felt like a physical loss.Maria is an artist, a twig poet, and a forest activist. In this conversation, we begin with her childhood and her search for a way of living that felt true to her. We talk about forests as places of refuge and freedom, the curious figures she creates from twigs, and the difficulty of finding our own way in a world full of expectations about who we should be.We also talk about what happened when the forest around Maria and her husband Johannes was devastated by drought and bark beetles. Rather than simply clearing the damaged land and starting over, they began an experiment in ecological restoration — moving thousands of trees from places where they would otherwise be removed, restoring wetlands, and allowing a more diverse forest to emerge.Along the way, we explore industrial forestry, biodiversity, the value of working slowly, and what it means to act from love rather than opposition. Maria reflects on how working with the land has given her something that years of campaigning against destructive forestry never quite could: a tangible sense of possibility.Perhaps our relationship with the living world can be about more than protecting what remains. Perhaps we can also learn to repair what has been damaged, and discover a different role for ourselves among the other creatures with whom we share this Earth.This is the first episode in a new series of the Campfire Podcast — conversations with people finding their own ways towards a more alive, regenerative and meaningful world.IN THIS EPISODE• Maria’s relationship with the forest, from childhood to the present• Becoming an involuntary activist• Twig art, poetry, freedom and the value of doing things slowly• Industrial forestry, clear-cutting and the loss of biodiversity• What bark beetles can teach us about forests and ecological resilience• Restoring a damaged forest by moving thousands of trees• Wetlands, rewilding and working with the land• Vandana Shiva’s ideas about acting from what we love• Finding hope through practical acts of regeneration• Rethinking human work and our place in the living worldLINKSSupport the Campfire Podcast on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/c/mattiasolssonDiscover Maria and Johannes’s work at Romantics Reserve:https://www.romanticsreserve.com/Watch Kinfolk, featuring Maria Westerberg and Vandana Shiva:https://www.campfire-stories.org/kinfolkWatch A Tale from the Woods, my first film with Maria:https://www.campfire-stories.org/a-tale-from-the-woods-filmListen to Vandana Shiva on Cultivating Fearlessness:https://www.campfire-stories.org/vandana-shiva-on-cultivating-fearlessnessWatch the films at Campfire Stories:https://www.campfire-stories.org/CREDITSMusic: Arvid RaskSound mix: Boris LaibleThe Campfire Podcast is hosted by documentary filmmaker Mattias Olsson and is part of Campfire Stories, an independent film platform exploring the roots of our ecological and social troubles — and the beginnings of a different direction.Films and conversations are freely available. Campfire Stories is sustained by people who believe this work matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Vandana Shiva | On Cultivating Fearlessness

    Vandana Shiva | On Cultivating Fearlessness
    Mar 5 2024

    Dr. Vandana Shiva is a lifelong activist, standing up against GMO:s, seed patenting, fake food and poisonous and extractive methods of farming. She works for the freedom of farmers to save and share seeds, for small scale, organic and regenerative farming and for thriving eco systems. She's the author of over 30 books and the founder of the organic farm, learning center and seed bank Navdanya in India. She is also a Doctor of quantum physics. In this conversation the topics range from non-violence principles to disrupting multinationals in their pursuit of turning nature into money to GMO:s, fake food, seed saving, biodynamic farming and quantum mechanics. And, most importantly, Shiva discusses fearlessness, and how that’s a trait to cultivate and grow into.


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    1 ora e 5 min
  • Stephen Jenkinson | From the Ruins of a Greenhouse | Part 2

    Stephen Jenkinson | From the Ruins of a Greenhouse | Part 2
    Dec 27 2023

    In the second part of this special podcast edition of the live event "From the Ruins of a Greenhouse", Campfire Stories founder Mattias Olsson continues his interview with activist, farmer and author Stephen Jenkinson. The set finishes with Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins performing two pieces from their "Nights of Grief and Mystery"-show. This event was recorded live at the farming collective Under Tallarna in Järna, Sweden.


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    Find out more about Gregory Hoskins here: https://gregoryhoskins.com/

    Read more about Stephen Jenkinson and the Orphan Wisdom School here: https://orphanwisdom.com/

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    1 ora e 12 min
  • Stephen Jenkinson | From the Ruins of a Greenhouse | Part 1

    Stephen Jenkinson | From the Ruins of a Greenhouse | Part 1
    Dec 26 2023

    In this special podcast edition of the live event "From the Ruins of a Greenhouse", Campfire Stories founder Mattias Olsson interviews activist, farmer and author Stephen Jenkinson. The evening opens with a song by Petronella Sjöö, followed by part one of the interview, where the topics range from farming to village mindedness to animism. The set is closed out by a live performance from Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins' show "Nights of Grief and Mystery". This event was recorded live at the farming collective Under Tallarna in Järna, Sweden.


    Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter of Campfire Stories: https://www.patreon.com/mattiasolsson

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    And to listen to all podcast episodes, check out: https://campfire-stories.org/podcast-library/


    Follow Petronella Sjöö on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petronellasjoo/

    Find out more about Gregory Hoskins here: https://gregoryhoskins.com/

    Read more about Stephen Jenkinson and the Orphan Wisdom School here: https://orphanwisdom.com/

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    56 min
  • Dougald Hine – On Regrowing a Living Culture

    Dougald Hine – On Regrowing a Living Culture
    Jun 13 2022

    Dougald Hine is a writer and social thinker, and one of the founders of the Dark Mountain Project. He and his partner Anna Björkman have recently bought an old shoe factory in a small community in Sweden, and are in the process of turning it into a home and a teaching house. In this interview with Campfire Stories founder Mattias Olsson, he speaks of what the Dark Mountain Project is, why it came about and how it’s intertwined with the Transition Movement.


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    The song in this episode is called Till Skogen, by the band Kolonien

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    46 min
  • Rune Hjarno-Rasmussen | Animism in the Modern World

    Rune Hjarno-Rasmussen | Animism in the Modern World
    Oct 28 2021

    Rune Hjarno-Rasmussen is a historian of religion and a specialist on Nordic animism and shamanism. He doesn't believe that animism belongs in the dusty cabinets of the "ancient history museum of humanity", but rather wants to explore how we can merge an animistic worldview with modernity to move forward into planetary healing.


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    The music in this episode comes from Daniel Reid.

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    59 min
  • Stephen Jenkinson | Origins of an Orphaned Culture

    Stephen Jenkinson | Origins of an Orphaned Culture
    Jun 11 2021
    With author, poet and grief counsellor Stephen Jenkinson, this episode revolves around the topics of Grief, Soil and the Origins of an Orphaned Culture – our culture. Our elder-bereft, drunk-on-efficiency, consumerist, clearcutting-of-forests, fracking-of-mountains, bottom-trawling-of-the-oceans culture. The unfortunate inheritance of Our Day. Some of the questions in this conversation are inspired from the interviewer’s recent reading of the book “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn. Others come from the pain of being a human in the time of the Sixth Mass Extinction. Please visit Campfire Stories for our films and more.

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    1 ora e 11 min
  • Stephen Jenkinson | Origins of an Orphaned Culture

    Stephen Jenkinson | Origins of an Orphaned Culture
    Jun 9 2021
    This podcast episode features author, poet and grief counsellor Stephen Jenkinson, and it revolves around the topics of Grief, Soil and the Origins of an Orphaned Culture – our culture. Our elder-bereft, drunk-on-efficiency, consumerist, clearcutting-of-forests, fracking-of-mountains, bottom-trawling-of-the-oceans culture. The unfortunate inheritance of Our Day. Some of the questions in this conversation are inspired from the interviewer’s recent reading of the book “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn. Others come from the pain of being a human in the time of the Sixth Mass Extinction. Please visit Campfire Stories for our films and more.

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    1 ora e 8 min