Linda Sever - Children's Voices on the Climate Crisis - Videos                                                                  

Merry Sams - Youth Podcaster / Poet

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Pella Thiel is a maverick ecologist who works with relational, systemic activism, change processes and leadership för a society in harmony with nature. She is a knowledge expert in the UN Harmony with Natureinitiative and co-founder of swedish hubs of international networks like Swedish Transition Network, End Ecocide Sweden and Save the Rainforest Sweden. She also teaches ecopsychology and is a part of the eco-psychology/art/activist NGO Lodyn. Pella coordinated the first Earth Rights Conferences in Sweden. She has an MSc in Ecology from Stockholm University with the thesis on rainforest restoration in Ecuador. She enjoys pigs, having her hands in the soil at the smallholding in the archipelago of Stockholm where she lives, whisky and playing with people who truly love what they are doing.

Gillian Kavanagh:                                                                                                                                                 Artist Activist Druid and Dowser; - Co Founder of The Warriors Call. Founder of Chorley & South Ribble Anti- Fracking group, a Nana of Lancashire, Member of the Bards, Ovates and Druids, Founder of Facebook page “Druid Shaman- Call of the Wild,” Published Poet working with scientists to highlight global issues we face using activism as words in the Hot Sparks Poetry book. Just finished working on the recently released Documentary “Never Forget Tibet” featuring HH the Dalai Lama and the challenges facing Tibetans today, and a member of the British Association of Dowsers. Gillian is a strong believer in the power of ceremony to bring community together in harmony with the earth and water, organized several ceremonies and rituals at PNR, with pagan groups and at sacred sites like Castlerigg stone circle, and in Glastonbury, brought the Dalai Lama’s Guyto monks and Lakota Medicine Man, William Hawk, to the gates of PNR to bless the community and bring prayers of protection and healing to the land and sentient beings. A keen wild swimmer and singer of sacred chants and mantras, Gillian is an Earth and Water protector bringing the sacred into the everyday.

Will Falk: is a writer, lawyer, and environmental activist. The natural world speaks and Will’s work is how he listens. He believes the ongoing destruction of the natural world is the most pressing issue confronting us today. For Will, writing is a tool to be used in resistance.  Will graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and practiced as a public defender in Kenosha, WI. He left the public defender office to pursue frontline environmental activism. So far, activism has taken him to the Unist’ot’en Camp – an indigenous cultural center and pipeline blockade on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory in so-called British Columbia, Canada, to a construction blockade on Mauna Kea in Hawai’i, to endangered pinyon-juniper forests in the Great Basin, and to Thacker Pass in northern Nevada where Will is trying to stop an open pit lithium mine from destroying a beautiful mountain pass..  His writing has been published by CounterPunch, Earth Island Journal, CATALYST Magazine, Whole Terrain, Dark Mountain Project, the San Diego Free Press, and The Wayfarer among others. His first book How Dams Fall was published in August, 2019 by Homebound Publications. His second book When I Set the Sweetgrass Down, a full-length collection of poetry, was released by Homebound Publications on April 11, 2023.

Dr. Linda Sever - Children's Voices on the Climate Crisis - Videos.                                                                       Linda Sever is a Documentary Filmmaker, Member of Druid Network and OBOD, Director of Heathen Women United, Seidr Practitioner and teacher.  Environmental activist / Anti-Fracker.

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Special Mention: to Bob Walley for Editing our Children's Voices on Climate Crisis Videos.

Bob Walley:  Professional Doctorate of Education (EdD) Researcher in Climate Change Engagement and Communication.  Freelance Creative and Visual Arts Community Project Coordinator, Environmental Artist and Film Maker

Ceremonialist:                                                                                                                                                     -Harriet Sams: OBOD Member, Druid and Order of the Oak Organizer, Ceremonialist.