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The SolarPunk NOW Pioneers explain how Infinity Tools and the Context Craft Method can turn your Workshop into a Garden
This episode features Agnes and Denny from SolarPunk NOW, a project at the intersection of permaculture, regenerative design, and hands-on facilitation tools. It is for facilitators, educators, coaches, team leaders, workshop designers, and anyone curious about regenerative approaches who want to bring more creativity, collaboration, and ecological thinking into their work and everyday life.
We talk about the Infinity Tools, which are two reusable, sustainable facilitation tools they have developed and use in their own work: stone paper, a writeable and wipeable surface made from stone leftovers, and Beenius, beeswax and bamboo sticks that can be used to build almost anything.
Agnes and Denny explain how they use both tools in the Play to Grow method, their workshop format that combines permaculture principles with hands-on play, and how they have seen participants go from confused to genuinely inspired, especially people who previously found permaculture literature overwhelming.
The concept of Context Craft runs through the entire conversation: the idea that the philosophy, the tools, and the facilitation approach each have their role, but that the real creative work happens when practitioners adapt everything to their own specific environment.
Agnes explains how she first worked with beeswax stick construction while running a social innovation co-working space in Egypt, where she and Denny eventually built furniture and even domes using the same structural logic. Agnes describes how the stone paper completely changes the energy in a room during workshops, because writing without the fear of making a permanent mistake unlocks a different kind of creative freedom.
We also discuss how the Infinity Tools connect naturally to working with AI, for example, using colour-coded stone paper notes that an AI can read and sort.
The episode is a genuine and warm invitation to anyone who wants to explore these tools, experiment with them in their own context, and contribute to a growing global community of regenerative practitioners.
💡 HIGHLIGHTS of this Episode
✨ Stone paper: write, wipe, reuse. No waste, no fear, just flow
✨ Beenius (beeswax sticks + bamboo) turns any group into builders and inventors within minutes
✨ Play to Grow = permaculture as compass & Infinity Tools as medium & Context Craft as application
✨ Colour-coded stone paper notes are AI-readable. Analogue and digital can work together
✨ Purpose-driven work is the single best recommendation for a sustainable creative life
👋 ABOUT Agnes Friedrich & Denny Ehrlich (they)
Agnes and Deny are Solarpunk NOW, and they are on a mission to move towards the regeneration of the planet. With new tools and systems for trainers, teachers, facilitators, and, honestly, anybody else. Not the boring stuff. Things that are fun and playful to experience.
Like reusable paper made from limestone, which you can simply wipe off and use again. Like Beenius, a 3D construction kit made from bamboo sticks and special beeswax that brings ideas into reality. To create prototypes, models, and structures within your own context.
Their vision is that in the future, people all over the world will be using these tools to inspire and collaborate with each other. For example, to create ecosystems and food forests together. That's why Agnes and Deny use these tools to develop playful experiences that help people build actual ecosystems with the help of permaculture principles.
🔗 CONNECT & follow Guest's Name work
👉 Solarpunk Now Instagram
👉 Agnes on LinkedIn
👉 Beenius on Instagram
👉 Solarpunkt Now Website
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