Michal Kravčík
Water Management Engineer – Slovakia Michal Kravčík is an internationally recognized Slovak water scientist, water management engineer, ASHOKA fellow, and
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Literature
Jean Giono
Author of The Man who Planted Trees – France Jean Giono (1895-1970) was one of France’s greatest writers. His published
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Hugo M. Schiecht
Hugo Meinhard Schiecht (1922-2002) was an Austrian architect, engineer, botanist, professor, author, vegetative cartographer, and painter. He stood out for
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Bill Zeedyk
“Stream Restoration Wizard” – New Mexico, USA Bill Zeedyk is a “River Re-creator,” and the Principal author of “Let the Water Do the Work:
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Percival A. Yeomans
P.A. Yeomans (1905 – 1984) was an Australian inventor known for the Keyline System for the development of land and
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Dr. Nancy Turner
Premier Ethnobotanist – British Columbia Nancy Turner is an author and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of
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Rowan Reid
Agroforestry Pioneer – Melbourne and Victoria, Australia Founder and owner of Bambra Agroforestry Farm, (essentially a 42-hectare outdoor classroom for
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Helena Norberg-Hodge
Local Futures – Sweden Helena is a linguist, author, producer and filmmaker, and the founder and director of Local Futures.
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Vladimir Megre
Author of “The Ringing Cedars of Russia” – Russia Vladimir Megre is a Russian entrepreneur and writer best known as
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Brad Lancaster
Desert Harvesters – Tuscon, Arizona USA Brad Lancaster has taught, designed, and consulted on regenerative-design systems of permaculture and integrated
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William R. Jordan III
Ecological Restoration Journal – Madison, Wisconsin USA William “Bill” Jordan is an American botanist and journalist who has played a
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David Holmgren
Permaculture, RetroSuburbia – Australia David is the other original “co-founder of Permaculture” and also co-author (with Bill Mollison) of the
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Storm Cunningham
RECONOMICS Institute – Washington, D.C. USA Storm Cunningham is thought to be one of the world’s most prolific leaders on
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Joost Wouters
Joost Wouters is an entrepreneur, speaker, author and the “SeaEO” of the Seaweed Company. Joost and his team aim to
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Dr. Simon Moolenaar
Dr. Simon Moolenaar is an expert in sustainable soil and land management and has been working on environmental and sustainability
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Dr. William Albert Albrecht
Dr. William Albert Albrecht (1888 – 1974) was not only a distinguished scientist and brilliant scholar; he was also a
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Robert Adrian de Jauralde Hart
Robert Adrian de Jauralde Hart (1913-2000) was an English pioneer of forest gardening in temperate zones. He created a model
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Bill Mollison
Permaculture Institute – Australia Bill Mollison (1928-2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. He was a co-founder
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Joel Salatin
Polyface Farm – Virginia, USA Joel Salatin calls himself a “Christian Libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer.” Others who like him
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John Kempf
Advancing Eco Agriculture – Ohio, USA John Kempf is an entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host and teacher in the field of
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Peter Andrews
Natural Sequence Land Restoration – Australia Peter Andrews is the creator of “natural sequence land restoration,” a holistic land management
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Yacouba Sawadogo
The Green Wall of Africa – Burkina Faso, Africa Yacouba Sawadago is famed for being “The Man who Stopped the
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Peter Proctor
Biodynamic Agriculture – New Zealand, India Peter Proctor (1928-2018) was one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary
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Richard St. Barbe Baker
Richard St. Barbe Baker – Men of the Trees Society – Kenya, Africa Richard St. Barbe Baker (1889-1982) is the
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John Jeavons
John Jeavons is a leader in the field of Biointensive agriculture. He developed the small-scale, high-yielding, resource-conserving “GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable
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Michael Evenari
Michael Evenari (1904-1989) was an Israeli botanist originally from Germany. Evanari figured out the secrets of the ancient Nabatean runoff
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J. Russell Smith
J. Russell Smith (1874-1996) was an American geographer and is considered the father of the field of agroforestry. In 1929,
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Ilarion Merculieff
Ilarion (Larry “Kuuyux”) Merculieff is an Indigenous messenger and teacher. He is one of the last generation of Aleuts of
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Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer
Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer are a “power couple” that decided to become low impact farmers in 2006 with their Bec
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Zephaniah Phiri Maseko
Zephaniah Phiri Maseko (1927-2015) was a Sustainable Farmer and Water Conservationist. For over 40 years Zephaniah Phiri Maseko lived, farmed,
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Glenn Albrecht
Glenn Albrecht is an environmental philosopher with both theoretical and applied interests in the relationship between ecosystem and human health.
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Dr. Masaru Emoto
Dr. Masaru Emoto (1943 – 2014) was a Japanese businessman, author and scientist who claimed that human consciousness could affect
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Youngsang Cho
Youngsang Cho was born in Korea and is bringing farming back to the farmers; to restore the farmers’ sovereignty in
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Dr. (Master) Cho
Dr. (Master) Cho of South Korea is a farmer that founded Natural Farming in the 1960s. His systematic and scientific
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Sir Albert Howard
Sir Albert Howard (1873-1947) was the founder of the organic farming movement. Starting as a Plant Scientist in England, he
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Wes Jackson
Wes Jackson is founder and president emeritus of The Land Institute. He established and served as chair of one of
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Masanobu Fukuoka
Masonobu Fukuoka (1913 – 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified
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Dr. Elaine Ingham
Elaine Ingham is an American microbiologist with a “user-friendly” approach. Elaine has knowledge on how to ensure a healthy foodweb
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Gabe Brown
Gabe Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement which focuses on the regeneration of our
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Didi Pershouse
Didi Pershouse is Founder and Lead Educator for Land & Leadership Initiative; Coordinator, Researcher and Writer for Seed Media Project;
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Mark Shepard
Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises, founder of Restoration Agriculture Development (RAD), and award-winning author Mark has
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Sepp Holzer
Sepp Holzer is a farmer, an author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture. After an upbringing in a traditional
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Rosemary Morrow
Rosemary Morrow trained in agricultural science and rural sociology and after spending time in Africa, she realized there needed to
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Geoff Lawton
Geoff Lawton is a world renowned Permaculture consultant, designer and teacher. Lawton was British born and now resides in Australia.
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Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company. He is an author
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author. She is often referred to
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Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan (1952) is an agricultural ecologist, Ethnobotanist, and author whose work has focused primarily on the plants and
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Findhorn Community
Findhorn Community is a leading international centre of transformative learning, rooted in a spiritual ecovillage community in the north of
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Gaviotas Community
Gaviotas Community is located in the Llanos of the Colombian department of Vichada. It was founded in 1971 by Paolo
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Kristin Ohlson
Kristin Ohlson is a freelance journalist, author, essayist and fiction writer, almost no topic escapes her curiosity. Her articles have
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Leah Penniman
Leah Penniman has over 20 years of experience as a soil steward and food sovereignty activist, and with farmers internationally
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David Bainbridge
David Bainbridge is a Research Ecologist focusing on dryland degradation and desertification, which now affects almost a billion people around
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Lyla June Johnston
Lyla June Johnston is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages.
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Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree (1964) is a conservation pioneer that has proved that if nature is allowed to take its own course,
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Judith Schwartz
Judith Schwartz is a journalist whose work explores nature-based solutions to global environmental, social, and economic challenges. She showcases the
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Akira Miyawaki
Akira Miyawaki (1928) is a Japanese botanist and expert in plant ecology specializing in seeds and the study of natural
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Dr. Jane Goodall
Dr. Jane Goodall (1934), an Ethologist and Conservationist, has shown the world the urgent need to protect chimpanzees from extinction
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Michael Introduces the Global Drylands Library
The Global Drylands Library contains hundreds of books on ecological restoration and sustainable agriculture in the world’s arid and semi-arid
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Global Drylands Library – Curated by Michael Pilarski
The Global Drylands Library (GDF) is an on-line bibliography of books on drylands focusing on sustainable use and ecological restoration.
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Tropical Permaculture Guidebook Fundraiser!
Lachlan McKenzie joined us via Skype Video for a presentation at the Global Earth Repair Conference; his work for peace
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Peter Bane – The Permaculture Handbook
Peter Bane is a native Illinoisan who grew up in the university city of Champaign-Urbana. A frequent speaker and conference
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Libby Roderick – Turtle Island Records
Libby is an internationally recognized, award-winning singer/songwriter and recording artist whose music has been featured on CNN, CBS, at the
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Two Literature Reviews by Michael Pilarski
The Restoration Economy: The Greatest New Growth Frontier: Immediate & Emerging Opportunities for Businesses, Communities & Investors. 2002. Author: Storm
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