In this five-part interview, Morag Gamble, a permaculture teacher in Australia, speaks to Kakoli Mitra about what inspired her to embark on her journey in living sustainably. When she was 14 years old, Morag and her schoolmates experienced a sudden blackout due to a massive dust storm, which awakened Australia to the repercussions of decades of soil erosion and other colonialist ecocidal behaviors. She was spurred to become an activist, protesting vociferously against extractivist practices. However, after a few years, she began asking herself how she could be a part of the solution, not merely criticize. What caught her interest was permaculture, which, in her words, is essentially designing for one-planet living. Permaculture asks and tries to answer how we can design human systems of living that enable us to have a high quality of life but with much lower (deleterious) impact on our ecologies, with a focus on sustainably involving local resources and communities. Permaculture is about shifting from an extractivist world of consumerism to living in a way that is more in tune with nature, being ecoliterate, and focusing on the wellbeing of people and the planet. For Morag, permaculture is a way of seeing the world that helps you make different types of choices and that is based on three principles: earth-care, people-care, and fair-share. Morag speaks about how she ended up becoming part of the Crystal Waters ecovillage, the importance of Indigenous aboriginal ways of living and being, and her optimism about the future.