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We want this website to be alive and ever-changing together with current happenings on this planet. Hence we will keep adding businesses, initiatives and organisations to the main platform and remove what no longer feels aligned. Here in the archive you can search the entire platform by geographic region/country, by business category, or by business category and country. This is to make it easier for you to find what you need. We will do our best to keep all links up to date. If you find a link which no longer works, we much appreciate if you take the time to send us a note and let us know. Sunbeings.org is a community endeavor. Thank you so much for being part of it!

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Naku Center

RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – Sápara Nation, Ecuador ~ Remote eco-tourism project – creating a new economic model in the

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Suzanne Simard

COMMUNITY & COMMUNICATION – British Columbia, Canada ~ Pioneer researcher of tree societies & plant communication. Uncovering complex relationships,

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Leaf of Life

REVIVING & PROTECTING LIFE – International ~ Restoring degraded ecosystems & seed diversity. Supporting edible school gardens, well thought-out

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StellaArt

ART – Quebec, Canada ~ Acrylic painter specialised in highly alive animal portraits which convey the deep connectedness to

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Napirze

RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – Georgia ~ Community-led restoration of Rustavi floodplain via research, afforestation, urban gardens, re-attracting otters, addressing

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SIRGE Coalition

ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN RIGHTS – Worldwide ~ Network of organisations securing Indigenous Peoples’ rights incl. right to self-determination, land

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GRÜNSPECHT

HEALTH & BODY CARE – Germany ~ Natural, affordable high-quality baby care products, body warmers, toys & crafts. Focus

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Eric Lenoir

RECONNECTING WITH NATURE – France ~ Landscape architect, nurseryman, author & punk gardener specialized in wild & aquatic environments,

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Peliti

FORAGING & FARMING – Greece ~ Community collecting & reproducing traditional seeds, distributing them freely, working with donations only.

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Konstantin Meyl

ABUNDANCE TECHNOLOGY – Germany ~ Researcher of vortices in electromagnetic theory, esp. related to Nicola Tesla’s work. Making free

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City Repair Project

COMMUNITY & COMMUNICATION – Oregon, USA ~ Regenerating urban environments towards health & equity via community-led artistic, holistic neighborhood

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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, but we cannot forget the legacy she has left behind – SunBeings wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for her!

Her dedication, passion and knowledge was very admirable. She managed to research and write summaries for nearly 500 ethical businesses! She brought further to light 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.

Carina 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.

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

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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 and a good overview of what’s in alignment, Owen gives feedback, helps with writing and streamlines the content.

He is a gifted musician who can play many instruments, often capturing 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 – which fulfils his sense of purpose as his music contains messages of his dream of the new world. Owen’s music 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.

As a video editor, he is excellent at creating dreamy worlds bursting with freedom, colour and natures dance through his videos he attaches with his music.

Highly creative at whatever he applies himself to, he leans towards creating complex layers to his creative projects with a 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 – they become something else in her eyes. 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.

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.

katealexandrapriestley.com

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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.

welightup.org

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