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June 2024

Groupe De Recherche et d’action pour le Bien-Etre au Bénin

All, All, Archive, Benin, Benin, By location, Reviving & protecting life /

REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – Benin ~ Ecosystem restoration & adaptation to changing climate. Developing culture of accountability in schools, sustainable engagement with sacred forests, cultivation of medicinal plants built on indigenous knowledge & community heritage. Groups of Young Ecological Leaders comprising > 5000 young people. Intergenerational exchange. Women empowerment – growing ancestral vegetables. Valuing […]

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Stiúideo Cuan

All, All, Archive, By location, Europe, Ireland, Ireland, Music, dance & celebration, UK & Ireland /

MUSIC, DANCE & CELEBRATION – Ireland ~ World class music & creative center & recording studio on Atlantic coast – celebrating Gaelic heritage, language & traditional music. Re-connecting people with their roots & turning local village into fountain of music & arts. Focus on high quality & long-term relationship between artists, the studio & audience.

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Integrative Law

All, All, Archive, By location, Environmental & human rights, Worldwide, Worldwide /

ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – Worldwide ~ Turning law into a tool for healthy conflict-resolving, establishing & maintaining peace, mediation & societal transformation. Developing new models of legal practice & legal education which are reflective, practical, effective & holistic in embracing & supporting life. Highly collaborative diverse network of judges, policy makers, legislators, collaborative lawyers,

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Clowns Without Borders

All, All, Archive, By location, Community & communication, Worldwide, Worldwide /

COMMUNITY & COMMUNICATION – Worldwide ~ Professional clown shows – bringing joy & laughter to children & families in crisis zones – when & where it is needed most. High-quality, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, audience-centred artistry. Facilitating artistic exchange & amplifying local voices via collaboration with local artists, performers & organisations. Upholding our right to play.

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Günther Menn

All, All, Archive, By location, Central & western Europe, Europe, Film & photography, Germany, Germany, Worldwide, Worldwide /

FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY – Germany & worldwide ~ Photojournalist & motorbike adventurer who gave a face & voice to marginalised communities & tribes across the planet, incl. African nomadic peoples, Russian long-term prisoners, albino children traded in Tanzania, traditional Omani shipbuilders etc. Valuing authenticity & respect towards others above anything else. Raising awareness of crimes

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We Are Nature Campaign

All, All, Archive, By location, Europe, Reconnecting with nature, UK, UK, UK & Ireland /

RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – UK ~ Campaign towards changing all dictionaries across the country such that the definition of ‘Nature’ includes human beings – impacting court cases, legislation & education. Led by Lawyers for Nature & House of Hackney. Based on growing scientific evidence & broad consensus that humans are part of Nature & Earth

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Zimbabwe: Going deeper – Digging for gold – By Carina Ramm

4 Comments / Africa, All, Blog, Carina's travels, Travel & culture /

I would like to share with you more about Zimbabwe, my impressions here, encounters with people, the lands, the projects. As time passes everything is gaining depth. Gold emerges in many ways… MAVAMBO – Women empowerment I saw the most beautiful glimpses of community life among women who are part of a local empowerment project called

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Cure Tooth Decay

All, All, Archive, By location, Health & body care, North America, USA, USA /

HEALTH & BODY CARE – Oregon, USA ~ Remineralising teeth via dietary change – closing cavities & curing gum disease naturally. Empowering people in their self-healing by providing practical knowledge. Much info freely available on website. Exposing nutrient deficiencies as main cause for tooth decay & exposing corruption of dental and food industries. Questioning germ

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Snowchange Cooperative

All, All, Archive, Asia, By location, Eastern Europe, Europe, Finland, Finland, Mainland Asia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Traditional craft & heritage /

TRADITIONAL CRAFT & HERITAGE – Finland & Siberia, Russia ~ Upholding sacred traditional knowledge, stories, crafts, fishing & hunting skills. Restoration of 110-hectare Linnunsuo Marshmire after toxic pollution & physical destruction by commercial peat mining. Further community-embedded rewilding projects – always merging indigenous knowledge & research with modern science. Also worldwide network of indigenous peoples.

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Georgia Shine

All, All, Archive, Australia, Australia, Australia & New Zealand, By location, Music, dance & celebration /

MUSIC, DANCE & CELEBRATION – Tasmania, Australia ~ Cellist, visual artist, poet, practitioner of Alexander Technique, massage, sound healing. Recognising & implementing the deep connections between dance, music, art & healing. Exploring the depth of meaning of songs, art works etc. Supporting people on their journey to deeper presence with themselves, freedom of choice &

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Karen Environmental and Social Action Network

All, All, Archive, Asia, Burma/Myanmar, Burma/Myanmar, By location, Community & communication, Mainland Asia /

COMMUNITY & COMMUNICATION – Burma/Myanmar ~ Regenerating land & people after decades of war – creating rice banks, restoring irrigation canals, using organic farming practices. Facilitating collaboration & knowledge-sharing among & between communities, developing community, water & land management skills, women empowerment. Reforestation, training community wildlife guardians – countering poaching, illegal logging; protecting watersheds, supporting

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Yes to Life, No to Mining

All, All, Archive, By location, Environmental & human rights, Worldwide, Worldwide /

ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – Worldwide ~ Network of environmental groups, legal organisations & indigenous communities, standing up for right to say ‘No’ to unjust exploitation, while supporting equity of all living beings. Bringing power back to societies. Financial support, generation of guidelines, dispatches & emblematic cases, knowledge-sharing, exposing of green-washing & other environmental &

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Poetry booklet: Solar Flares on Earth – Standing Strong in these Times

Carina Ramm

Carina was the original founder of SunBeings who approached Kate to do the design for the platform. In the 3.5 years of working together, a friendship blossomed, and creative ideas arose between the two of them that has helped build what SunBeings has the potential to grow into.

Since December 2025, Carina has left to move onto engaging with the world in other ways, more offline, but we cannot forget the legacy she has left behind – SunBeings wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for her!

Carina’s dedication, passion, and knowledge is very admirable. Her compassion and drive for supporting a new better world we know is possible is still felt. She was a whiz at research, writing and speaking. Her sense of solidity enabled her to work even while on the move with her constantly changing environments.

Carina managed to research and write summaries for nearly 500 ethical businesses! She shared many possibilities for how we can live with less dependency on money and banking systems, how we can use gift economies, a new donation model, what real ethics aligned with nature is, the true histories of this planet and more.

She has lived for many years without a bank account or phone, engaged very minimally with financial systems, travelled to many parts of the world, and lived in deep trust and communion with herself and nature to receive what it is she needs. She has contributed many posts onto the blog inspiring others with her experiences and findings.

Check out her poetry booklet she has left behind with a wonderful collection of poems and writings she has done over the years.

You won’t be forgotten Carina! We hope to continue what you have started.

Poetry booklet: Solar Flares on Earth – Standing Strong in these Times

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Owen Hanner

Owen is Kate’s partner and a grounded presence behind SunBeings. Both highly creative and logical, with a gift for words, an eye for beauty, and an artistic soul. With his keen eye for what’s in alignment, Owen gives feedback, helps with writing and streamlines the content.

He is a gifted musician who can play many instruments, delighting those who happen to come across his live, dynamic improvisations, and the magic that happens when he gets together with other musicians. A treat for the ears and those who are willing to dream. His music is an expression of his dream for a new world, and it has often been his key to opening doors in his life… including in bringing Kate to him. He has had his music included in some of the SunBeings videos.

Owen has a deep appreciation for the history of the arts and culture, and in reviving the forgotten magic of our lives. He has a way of capturing that in his music… blending into whatever culture is presented to him and taking us back to our roots, with nature and the mystery.

As a video editor, he makes dreamy worlds bursting with freedom, colour and nature through the videos he sets to his music.

Highly creative at whatever he applies himself to, he creates with high attention to detail that reveals more subtleties when one looks deeper. It reflects his feeling and sensitivity for the intricacies in life.

Owen has a deep sense of love and beauty and lives in deep communion with it. With that, Kate and Owen share an adventurous life together that has provided a driving spark behind SunBeings. They have dived deep into exploring what following nature and a new earth looks like… this can be both a painful and joyful process, and one of deep growth, that helps to ignite this platform. Thank you to Owen for the flame and loving support!

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Kate Priestley

Kate is an original co-founder and the current coordinator of SunBeings providing much of the foundation and is the designer. Bouncing around with creative ideas, listening to others’ ideas, she has a way to ground them into the physical.

She is a passionate multi-disciplinary creative, and she treats this platform as a creative outlet, to make a space where people can commune and share themselves. Kate loves to nurture others’ gifts and help bring them out into the world. She likes to share the good and the innovative and has a natural passion for community.

An adventurous and playful spirit who likes to push the usual boundaries of the known. Through answering nature’s calls, she has found life to reward her in ways often very unexpected. Discomforts and challenges are often met but they provide doorways into her own understanding of herself and life. As a storyteller, she is enthusiastic about sharing her experiences with others in case it may benefit another.

She also is a painter, illustrator and photographer. Her works are often highly expressive with an explosion of colour and play. As someone who has a deep appreciation for music, she enjoys playing with Owen’s musical instruments. She is a practising daf player!

Kate has long been interested in projects that bring about change or have a positive impact on the world. Since a young age, she has liked to combine art and social engagement. Now all her interests come together in running SunBeings, and growing its community platform for all of us.

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Nixi “No fixed thing” Cole

Coordinator, Coach, Creative and Champion of whole hearted projects and creatives. Nixi offers her gifts as a writer, editor, group holder, artist and art curator. She also loves being in a garden and growing things.

Nixi has a passion and strength for recognising and nurturing gifts in people, places and projects. She is empathic, intuitive, enthusiastic and dynamic in nature, naturally uplifting and energising in many of her offerings. Making connections across the physical and non-physical and encouraging our full and true expression.

Wonderful at coaching, mentoring and holding a safe space, she is gifted in seeing and expanding possibilities with a great sense of joy, play and creativity that pushes on our usual boundaries of imagination.

She has been helping behind the scenes at SunBeings for a little while supporting Kate and Owen and the wider field of the platform and its potentials, coming up with fun ideas, gently questioning, feeling and finding possibilities.

She loves playing with words, pens and fabric and hopes some of this will find its way on to SunBeings offerings too.

Nixi has a free and bright spirit, with extremely sensitive sensors for all subtleties of life. She is connected to the vastness of the universe and yet deeply grounded and anchored in nature. She moves fluidly between energetic, emotional and practical levels, integrating it all with humility and humour.

Nixi is full of magic, joy and love, while also not scared to sense and feel what’s uncomfortable, painful, or unfamiliar. Her curious and listening nature have carried her to many places and experiences and she has been nomadic for over two years.

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