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Campfire Podcast

Mattias Olsson

Société & Culture

Fréquence : 1 épisode/142j. Total Éps: 17

The Campfire Podcast is a series of conversations hosted by documentary filmmaker Mattias Olsson, from Campfire Stories. Through encounters with activists, thinkers, artists, farmers and other people finding their own ways forward, we explore the roots of our ecological and social troubles — and the possibilities for living differently. The question at the heart of the podcast is this: If the world is headed in the wrong direction, what might the beginnings of a right direction look like?

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Maria Westerberg | The Involuntary Activist

Épisode 17

vendredi 16 octobre 2026 • Durée 59:45

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Maria Westerberg | The Involuntary Activist

Maria 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 world

LINKS

Support the Campfire Podcast on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/c/mattiasolsson

Discover 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/kinfolk

Watch A Tale from the Woods, my first film with Maria:

https://www.campfire-stories.org/a-tale-from-the-woods-film

Listen to Vandana Shiva on Cultivating Fearlessness:

https://www.campfire-stories.org/vandana-shiva-on-cultivating-fearlessness

Watch the films at Campfire Stories:

https://www.campfire-stories.org/

CREDITS

Music: Arvid Rask

Sound mix: Boris Laible

The 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.

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Vandana Shiva | On Cultivating Fearlessness

Épisode 16

mardi 5 mars 2024 • Durée 01:05:27

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Vandana Shiva | On Cultivating Fearlessness

How do we find the courage to stand up for what we believe in, even when the forces we face seem overwhelming? And how do we keep working towards a different world without falling into despair?

Dr. Vandana Shiva has spent decades challenging powerful corporations and defending farmers’ rights, seed freedom and the living diversity of the Earth. A physicist by training, author of more than 30 books, and founder of Navdanya, an organisation working to protect seed diversity and promote ecological agriculture, Dr. Shiva is a leading voice in the global movement for food sovereignty and regenerative farming.

We begin with the Chipko movement, the non-violent forest resistance movement in the Indian Himalayas, where villagers, particularly women, stood between loggers and the trees they depended on. For Shiva, it offered a profound lesson: when we turn towards what we love, rather than simply fighting what we oppose, we find another source of strength.

From there, we explore industrial forestry, monocultures, genetically modified crops, seed patents and industrial food systems. Shiva challenges the idea that food production can be separated from the living systems that sustain it, and reflects on the importance of biodiversity, healthy soil, small-scale farming and generations of farmers’ knowledge.

We also venture into the territory where ecology meets philosophy. What can quantum physics teach us about the interconnectedness of life? What might we gain by moving away from a culture of consumption towards one in which we participate more directly in creating the conditions for life to flourish?

At the heart of the conversation is fearlessness. Shiva speaks about trusting the truth we stand for, drawing strength from the wider community of life, and refusing to let the scale of the challenges before us become a reason for inaction. Hope, she suggests, is something we can cultivate — just as we can cultivate fear or love.

Stephen Jenkinson | From the Ruins of a Greenhouse | Part 2

Épisode 15

mercredi 27 décembre 2023 • Durée 01:11:33

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.

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

Or, to make a one-off donation, visit: https://campfire-stories.org/boxoffice/

To watch all of the Campfire Stories' films, visit: https://campfire-stories.org/film-library/

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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Stephen Jenkinson | From the Ruins of a Greenhouse | Part 1

Épisode 14

mardi 26 décembre 2023 • Durée 55:38

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.