Our kind are grounded and slightly feral people who ask dangerous questions and keep each other safe. We yearn for an experimental, intimate community that prepares as much as possible for the next world.

CO-FOUNDER

Liam Kavanagh is a Cognitive and Social Scientist devoted to using his understanding of human motivation, ideology, and economics to aid more effective responses to the climate crisis. He has worked on three continents over 20 years doing applied social research, co-founded Life Itself, a community for responding to the poly-crisis, and written a book on how Western ideology contributes to climate change inaction.

CO-FOUNDER

Jadzia Tedeschi is a psychology graduate who has always felt our society is misguided, which has lead her to work for the Climate Majority Project, of which she is coordinator. As a teenager, she spent years in the Plum Village community and later helped organise for many CMP gatherings. While she was born and grew up on a small farm in Vetralla (Italy), her efforts are now mainly UK-based.

LOGISITCS COORDINATOR, PERMACULTURIST

Petra Wild is a location manager for film production, coordinating film crews for over 25 years. In the 90’s she was an organizer of Zurich’s Dadaist squats and has over two decades of community living experience. Nowadays she is “producing” our residencies and devoting herself to permaculture by volunteering for agricultural community projects – mapping and learning about what works, and what doesn’t. She completed her permaculture design curriculum in 2019.

CREW

Hannah Close is a writer, photographer-filmmaker, and cultural curator. She is part of the Dark Mountain Project team and has published creative nonfiction both there and with the Centre for Humans and Nature, and her photography has been published in the Guardian, Telegraph and Times. Hannah is currently making a documentary called Islandness, writing a book, curating courses for the transformative learning platform, Advaya, and convening sailing residencies for artists. She lives in the Hebrides with her dog Rune.

ADVISOR

Alan Heeks is a conservationist, author and social entrepreneur. He writes and runs workshops on developing personal resilience using organic gardening parallels to help people handle the stresses of modern life, including climate change. Alan left a successful business career to set up a 130-acre organic farm and education centre. He now runs the Seeding our Future project, which helps local communities and others to build resilience in the face of climate change, and is a partner in the Soul Resilience Network, helping people find meaning and purpose in crisis times. Alan and his wife, Linda, are keen gardeners, and grow much of their food in their garden at home in Wales. 

Siobhan is a climate psychologist and educational /child psychologist who has worked in the public sector for many years. She focuses on the inner work she believes is needed to address our existential dread, inertia or disavowal. She is currently active with the Climate Majority Project, the Climate Psychology Alliance and in her local community in Kettering. She loves wild swimming and hiking and continues to explore how to live in these times.

ADVISOR

Rupert Read is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and co-director of the new Climate Majority Project. He authored several books, including This Civilisation is Finished, Parents for a Future and Why Climate Breakdown Matters and has been many times on the Today programme, QuestionTime, Newsnight, Politics Live, Al-Jazeera, and more.

ADVISOR

Charlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. She teaches collaborative non-fiction and radical kinship with the other-than-human world. She wrote 52 Flowers That Shook My World, and most recently with After Ithaca – Journeys in Deep Time. She currently writes a Substack column about metaphysical practice for collapsing times called The Red Tent.