With an MS in Environmental Science, Peter Thurrell has a wide range of experiences in working for the good of the planet. He designed and built passive solar homes, created and ran the Ecological Literacy Project, teaching more than 100 teachers how to think about and teach ecology, and founded Sovern Solar, which became a 16-employee, 8 million dollar photovoltaic development company in southern Vermont. He also lived and volunteered for 12 years in Auroville, India, an international township dedicated to human unity.There he helped create a community-wide governance and decision making process among 2,000 people from 45 countries. He lives in southern Vermont.

"The planetary ecosystem is rapidly collapsing, and many tipping points have been irreversibly crossed. The most important work now is to bring as much resiliency as possible into the system so that key components of a sustainable, livable planet are kept intact for future generations. Preserving the Amazon rainforest is one of the few opportunities left for effective, impactful intervention in this crisis."

Since his teenage years, Alejandro has founded and led organizations spanning activism, entrepreneurship, and finance. Raised by an ecologist and a poet, his life has sought to weave connections between the conduct of humans and ways of nature. A seasoned entrepreneur, he has founded or supported dozens of startup enterprises in a variety of industries and sectors over the last 35 years. He has served as chief financial officer, chief technology officer, and chief operating officer roles, both in-house and as a consultant. He has an interest in regenerative agriculture and in evolving the culture and structure of business and finance to be of greater service to the aliveness of life on the planet.

Past projects include

• SF Interactive, one of the first digital marketing agencies in the world
• Mediate Your Life, a conflict mediation training company centered on the technology of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
• Carbon War Room, Sir Richard Branson’s non-profit initiative to curb carbon emissions
• Australis Aquaculture, the world’s largest commercial farmer of Barramundi, also known as Asian sea bass
• Regenerative Real Estate, with a mission of regenerating ecosystem function on degraded land through agricultural and land-management approaches

Alejandro is co-founder and currently serves as managing partner of JJBP Investments, a private real estate investment firm.

Linda is passionate about addressing the climate and extinction crisis through the lens of human rights, biodiversity, natural climate solutions, and landscape scale ecosystem restoration. She also works with indigenous spiritual practices to heal the connection between humans and nature. Linda’s professional trajectory consists of more than three decades of public interest work including in the areas of climate and environmental policy, human rights and democracy and program and organizational development at the state, national and international level. In addition to holding real estate licenses in three U.S. states, Linda earned a master’s in environmental management from Yale University’s School of Environmental Studies (2020), a masters in regional planning from Cornell University’s College of Art, Architecture & Planning (1994) and a B.A. in political science at Rutgers University (1988).

Judy has had a 50-year lifework of activism on behalf of children, people who are enslaved, and the environment. She is the founder of the Children’s Law Center of Connecticut. (1993) She has served on many boards, including Woolman Hill, a Quaker retreat center, a Unitarian church, and Connecticut Choral Artists. During her tenure with Free the Slaves in Washington, DC, she conducted research on the rehabilitation of children rescued from slavery in Togo, Cote D’Ivoire, India and Haiti, published by the US Department of Labor.

Vivienne Simon is an international coach/consultant/trainer who has been working all her life to foster a just and sustainable world. Among the areas she has worked on are Amazonian rainforest protection, international anti-nuclear campaigns, famine relief and peace efforts in Africa, women's empowerment programs, directing the Center for Psychology and Social Change at Harvard, developing the field of ecopsychology, designing a university of the wild, and holistic approaches to healing cancer.

Her coaching, training and writings support evolving leaders to grow beyond the narrow reactive ways of modern leadership, and to respond with engaged co-creativity to the unique challenges and opportunities of the 21st century and beyond. A long time Buddhist meditator and an ex-lawyer, her work draws heavily on both Eastern and Western practices and teachings, and promotes the sacredness of all life. She is a contributing essayist to Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World.