Keith is a long-time advocate for the ecological values of south-western Australia and for the power of local communities. He helped establish some of Australia’s earliest landcare groups; has run building, beekeeping and native seed businesses; consulted to the farming and mining sectors; as well as working in rural enterprise development and at a policy level in government. In the early 1990s he reformed management of the Peel-Harvey catchment program, where fertiliser loss from sandy soils was blamed for massive downstream eutrophication, and then documented a broader perspective on the issue in a book. He also co-wrote and narrated the award winning film ‘A Million Acres a Year’, which documented the spread of agriculture onto some of WA sandiest farming soils, and the immediate aftermath of that. Keith has also worked with colleague groups in New Zealand, southern Africa, Baja California and the USA. He is a past Chair of the WA Landcare Network and is currently CEO of the large landscape restoration program Gondwana Link, which he was part of establishing in 2002.