This discussion features Brandy Hall, the founder of Shades of Green, a permaculture guided landscape and building design firm. She talks about principle strategies they use to improve environmental health in urban, suburban and rural landscapes, improving water retention, building soil and the roles various plants play in landscape design. We also explore here background that brought her into this type of work as well as how permaculture and ecological design strategies can be implemented on a range of scales from personal to societal.