Colleen is a Doctoral student in Social-Ecological Economics & Policy in Vienna, Austria and has shared with our community about MMT, Ecological Economics, Environmental Justice, Monetary and Financial Systems in a Post-Growth Economy & Climate Policy

Geraldine is a principal authority in the Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor. Geraldine has Mapuche and Celtic ancestry, and her ethno-ecological approach has led to groundbreaking findings about the astronomical and ecological basis of timekeeping in Mesoamerica.

Ramsay, trained by respected Hawaiian elders, effectively integrates place based, cultural based, indigenous, and Native Hawaiian cultural values and principles into contemporary business. He shares Hawaiian cultural stewardship principles and is acknowledged locally, nationally, and internationally for his expertise and brilliance.

Mindahi is a Ritual Ceremony Officer for the Otomi-Toltec Peoples, where he has mastered the sacred rituals that have been passed down through endless generations - his people’s way of expressing their spiritual connection with the land. He shares about bio-cultural heritage, ancestry and sustainable movements.

Max is the co-author of the book Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It, which Dr. Vandana Shiva called “a much needed wake-up call” and Planet of the Humans director Jeff Gibbs said “is a must read for all who cherish life on Earth. He explores how tech companies, governments, and mainstream environmental organizations are lining up behind a narrative that green technology will prevent global warming and ecological collapse — despite overwhelming evidence that consuming industrial products is the problem, not the solution.

Diane and Julie, both at Ivey Business School in Ontario, Canada, shared with us about their work with creating the Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond. One of the first of its kind in the world, the CIB is a place-based collaboration and financial instrument to accelerate healthy landscapes in the spirit and practice of reconciliation. It builds an ethical restoration economy and restores relationships with the land while honouring Indigenous stewardship on Turtle Island since time immemorial.

Bayo is the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project] and host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’. Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’…one that does not treat the crises of our times as exterior to ‘us’ or the ‘solutions’ that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify.

Violet is an Australian climate activist who was briefly jailed on remand for blocking the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 2022. She successfully appealed her 15-month jail conviction in March 2023, after the judge found that her conviction was based on false information from the police about an ambulance being blocked by her protest.

Kris De Decker is the creator and author of "Low-tech Magazine", a blog that is published in English, Dutch and Spanish. Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. (Since 2007).