Meg McGowan is passionate about saving the planet from the damage caused by the spread of human habitation and the disastrous growth economy that has accompanied that spread. She lives on three and a half acres on the NSW Central Coast with her husband, Graham King, and together they have redesigned the training and delivery of permaculture design services. Described as someone that ‘permacultures permaculture’ her focus in recent years has been to turn her design skills and systems thinking expertise to find innovative ways to get more permaculture happening on the ground. She operates outside the mainstream economy, volunteering her time and energy or trading it for goods and services of equal value.