Kaliya Young
Kaliya Young Kaliya “Identity Woman” Young is a digital identity expert, community convener, and pioneer of open, user-centric internet protocols who is increasingly applying decades of experience in decentralized technology and collaborative governance to regenerative and bioregional movements. She co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop and Project Weave and has researched regenerative governance patterns within the […]
Brett KenCairn
Brett KenCairn Brett KenCairn is a pioneering practitioner of community-based living-systems regeneration whose work reframes the climate crisis as fundamentally a crisis of the living Earth. Rather than centering carbon accounting and technological fixes, he points to the degradation of soils, forests, watersheds, biodiversity, and photosynthetic capacity—and to their restoration as a powerful pathway for […]
Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent Jeremy Lent is a systems thinker, author, and leading advocate for the emergence of an ecological civilization. His distinctive contribution to the Great Transition is connecting transformation at the deepest level of worldview with the practical redesign of civilization itself. Through The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning, Lent traces how the […]
Ben Clark
Ben Clark Ben Clark is a regenerative systems practitioner working at the intersection of ecological restoration, community resilience, and the deeper cultural shifts required for the Great Transition. As a member of Earth Regeneration Alliance, his work reflects an emerging approach that sees regeneration not simply as repairing environmental damage, but as restoring the relationships […]
Zachary Stein
Zachary Stein Zak Stein researches the relations between education, human development, and the evolution of civilizations. Functional Sector: Education Date Added: 2022-03-01 All Culture For Zachary Stein Category: Education Type: Person
Luke Kemp
Luke Kemp Luke Kemp is a researcher and systems thinker bringing rigorous, often uncomfortable clarity to the study of civilizational collapse. As author of *Goliaths* and a scholar of historical collapse dynamics, he challenges the comforting myth that modern civilization is exempt from the patterns that have brought down complex societies throughout history. His work […]
Thomas Berry
Thomas Berry Thomas Berry was a cultural historian, “geologian,” and prophetic voice who helped reframe humanity’s place within the living Earth. At a time when ecological crisis was still emerging into awareness, Berry articulated a sweeping vision of the **Ecozoic Era**—a future in which human systems are aligned with the regenerative dynamics of the planet. […]
Glenn Albrecht
Glenn Albrecht Glenn Albrecht is an environmental philosopher and visionary thinker who has given language to the emotional and cultural dimensions of ecological crisis. Best known for coining the term **“solastalgia”**—the distress caused by environmental loss—he has more recently articulated the concept of the **Symbiocene**, a hopeful new epoch defined by mutually beneficial relationships between […]
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (shoe-tez-caht) is a principle in Earth Guardians and now a hip hop artist. Functional Sector: Environment Date Added: 2022-03-01 Category: Environmental Stewardship Type: Person
Wes Jackson
Wes Jackson Wes Jackson is a pioneering ecological thinker, plant geneticist, author, and co‑founder of **The Land Institute**, a nonprofit devoted to creating an agriculture that works with nature rather than against it. For nearly five decades, he has challenged destructive industrial farming by championing **Natural Systems Agriculture** — an approach modeled on diverse perennial […]