About me

I'm Michelle Moffatt — founder of Earth & Origin and an independent consultant working at the intersection of nature, place, and community.

My background spans fifteen years in research, evaluation, bid writing and project development across the charity, public, and international development sectors. I hold an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics, alongside a BA in Social and Political Studies and an HNC in Interior Design. I have completed Oliver Heath's Biophilia Design course, am a Biophilic Society Ambassador, and hold training in SROI methodology and evaluation from the UK Evaluation Society. I've spent my career helping organisations develop evidence-based programmes, secure funding, and demonstrate impact — and increasingly, that work has converged on a single question: how do we design the spaces, programmes, and systems that genuinely reconnect people with the natural world?

I set up Earth & Origin because I believe that question deserves serious, rigorous, evidence-based attention. The relationship between people and the natural world shapes everything — how we feel, how we live, how we treat each other, and whether we care enough about the living world to protect it. I believe everyone should have the opportunity to be genuinely connected with nature, and that the spaces we inhabit, the programmes we run, and the communities we build should support that connection rather than undermine it.

Through Earth & Origin I write about nature connection, biophilic design, sustainable materials, and the economic, cultural, and systemic forces that shape our relationship with the natural world. I draw on environmental psychology, post-growth economics, ecological science, and the emerging research on nature connectedness to build a framework for what genuinely nature-first spaces, programmes, and systems look like in practice.

Alongside Earth & Origin, I work as an independent consultant supporting charities, social enterprises, statutory organisations and businesses to develop programmes that connect people and places with nature — and to fund, deliver, and evaluate them well.

If you’d like to work together, visit the Work with me page.

Looking ahead

Earth & Origin is growing into a fuller platform — resources, frameworks, and experiences for individuals, organisations, and communities exploring what it means to put nature first. A directory of makers, designers, and organisations working to genuine nature-first standards. Nature connection experiences and training for organisations and communities. Subscribe to the newsletter below to follow that journey.