Sydney Jones
MUSIC, DANCE & CELEBRATION – Ontario, Canada ~ Indie solo singer & songwriter & frontwoman of local indie folk band Jones + The Jackpines. Expressing Canadian rural identity, community-embedded. Visit
MUSIC, DANCE & CELEBRATION – Ontario, Canada ~ Indie solo singer & songwriter & frontwoman of local indie folk band Jones + The Jackpines. Expressing Canadian rural identity, community-embedded. Visit
REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – Mozambique ~ Rainforest wilderness restored from complete destruction after years of war. Combination of community-centred sustainable tourism, education & local skill-building programs, local, international & citizen science & multi-partner conservation work. Creating immense, unfenced, connected mosaic of high-biodiversity protected areas while leaving behind poverty. Funded partially via local agroforestry coffee
FORAGING & FARMING – Zimbabwe ~ Hand-picked shade-grown, high-altitude permaculture coffee plantation, deeply rooted in local tradition & community. Reviving the legacy of single-origin, specialty coffee in Zimbabwe, in combination with small-scale local tourism, directed by guests & supplied & influenced by Eastern Highlands small businesses. Also growing fruit trees & organic vegetables. Valuing team
RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – South Africa ~ Telling stories which depict the uniqueness & intelligence of nature based on very personal experience & inspire people to be part of re-building this planet. Merging film-making, writing, science & indigenous knowledge. Rooted in long, close contact with the Great African Seaforest. Breaking through the human-nature divide. Visit
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ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – South Africa & Kalahari ~ San multinational network & heritage centre, based on San curatorship. Enabling communities to contribute to & access digital archives: San people have been exposed to unregulated research & exploration & none of the materials produced were shared with San communities – now bringing San to
ECONOMIES OF CARE – Germany & worldwide ~ Providing & researching unconditional basic income based on crowd-funding. Removing poverty & securing basic human rights to water, shelter, food etc. – transforming our societies so that people can thrive by eliminating existential fears. Regular lottery-based distribution of basic incomes. Proving large-scale financial viability of basic incomes.
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MUSIC, DANCE & CELEBRATION – Australia ~ Aboriginal singer & instrumentalist. Conveying strong connectedness with Earth – also incorporating many nature sounds, unaltered & instrumentalised. Deep inclusiveness: recognising that all human beings have endured massive struggle across the planet. Communicating foundation of life common to all beings: an internal stream of wisdom. Recognising current planetary
ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – North Dakota, USA ~ Securing & protecting indigenous rights, incl. basic human rights, tribal sovereignty, land rights, voting rights, legal frameworks for child protection, environmental rights etc. via legal action, advocacy, protests, petitions, story-telling. Exposure of criminalisation of indigenous campaigns & the distortion of American history. Visit
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