Special Thanks To These People and Projects
It is a Regenerative practice to acknowledge all those who have inspired, worked with or supported a Regenerative Leader like myself.
Here I will make links and acknowledge the work of my/our inspirations – both those who are alive and those who have passed .. as a part of showing that no one person is an island.
Kenneth Alston Co Founder Real Circularity & Circularity Edge
Simon Hedley, Strategic Alchemist & my business partner
William McDonough & Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle
Buckminster Fuller, Spaceship Earth and more
Laura Storm & Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership
Jenny Andersson, Really Regenerative
Daniel Christian Wahl, Designing Regenerative Cultures
Charles Eisenstein, Modern Day Philosopher, new economics,
Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organisations
Jose Leal, Radical World / Radical Purpose
Kate Raworth & Erinch Sahan, Doughnut Economics
Donella Meadows, Systems change
Rob Hopkins, Transition Towns
Cambridge University Online and Alex Base in particular
Thomas Piketty Capital
Eric Ries The lean start up
Alden Wicker for the book and research ‘To Dye for’
Sally Fox the amazing person behind Natural Coloured Cotton
Ameila Twine Sustainable Fashion Week
Sian Conway Wood Ethical Hour
Clare Press – The Wardrobe Crisis
My peers and inner circle who have been such a part of my/ our journey especially , Chris Garside,
Photography and Film Matt McConaghy My My Photography
Anne Marie Borg , for the word and term Cathedral Thinking, and our living systems conversations Alex Papworth
Hannah Lyons Tsai , Fran Sheldon & Olivia pinnock, Aniela Fidler Wieruszewska
Martin Brown from Regenerative Architecture
Veshin Factory and Joey Pringle
Rebecca Heaps Tent Share
Hannah White from the Sound Lounge
Paula Wolton – in memory – One Hut full / Regenerative Wool / Sheep & Holistic Cattle.
All Our Ecosystem Members
Especially, Jo Salter, Kishore Shar, Claudia Coveyduck & Safiya Allaf for the collaboration Sanja Stories
Charles Ross for being the fabric geek that he is
John Parkinson For the legacy that is his business
Rony Khan, for our collaboration on Agro Waste and for the depth on knowledge and application in processing
Contemporary Hempery for their amazing in depth knowledge and work in Hemp
Khadi London for their insightful events and education in Khadi.
Ghislaine Walker Tales in Style
Stefan Mathys. Vyn Sneakers
Gillian Ridley Whittle , Emmaline Vaughan Ronson, Nicola Hopkins, Tze Ching Yeoung, Lisa Matzi, Claire OSullivan, Kitty Wilson Brown, Randi Seiff, Ami Rabheru, Steve price, Fonny Bunjamin, Stephen Hill, Alicia Lai, Tena Laverencic, Sara Collins, Charlotte Bingham Wallis, Nadia Piechestien, Emma Summerscales, Supriya Ghurye, Tukiya Mutupa, Kate Wilson, Miki Weiner, Suzy Haber Wakefield, Sarah Perrin Valk, Sarah Corey, Kelly Hobson, Claudia , Jo, Kishore, Safiya, Ken, Manuel Freitas, Besma Whayeb, Joshua, Diana Ingles, Emma Bottomley, Joanne Lewis, Hannah, Lucy, Thom.
Our Real Circularity Alumni Members, Payal, Neeta, Fatih, Sarah, Emma, Vanessa, Elena, Amy, Franchesca, Da Yeong, Beth, Lucy, Kim,
Special thanks to our Interns and collaborators especially PhD Aya Abdelmeguid
Deliah, Giselle, Donna, Razan,
Research fellows, especially Amber Fry,
My Fellow Lecturers, Stephane, Roxanne, Yoon Yeong, Gigi, Hannah, James, Abar, Manasi and Davy.
The guys at MAD network .. Edith Colomba & Terry John particularly.
For those that hold/held me together: Simon, Matt, Aleksandra, Joe, Chris, Pascale, Sasha & Jolly, Seamus. To my Ex Partner Martin Kan and his family. To Sarah Bowles Flannery and her work in holistic medicine that has so helped me stay in check.
To my mother Sheila Kent who really inspired my initial move to purpose, her death was a regenerative thing in itself for me, She inspired me to be in nature, to be diverse in my thinking and she would be proud of the woman that I have become.
To my Father John Kent who is in a crippling condition, with Parkinsons and before mental illness .. helping me to see the toxins in this world both on the inner body and to the mind.
To my Sister Lucinda Kent – thanks for being there on the original journey of life.
To my Children Hendrix and Orion, whom I sat with before the journey of creating all of this and knew that I couldn’t look them in the eye if I didn’t try to create a future that they can live into.