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Speakers.

The amazing Doers.

These are the speakers that came to our first Do Lectures.

Authors, architects, ecologists, a beekeeper, a climber and one rather clever inventor.

Alastair McIntosh Photo Alastair McIntosh

Author of ‘Soil and Soul’

A writer, campaigner, doer and believer in the power of a community to change things

Andrew Whitley Photo Andrew Whitley

Author of ‘Bread Matters’

One of the most important books on getting bread back to simple

Andy Cummins Photo Andy Cummins

Surfers Against Sewage Campaigns Officer

S.A.S’s campaigns officer the grew up surfing in the open sewer of the North Sea

Andy Kirkpatrick Photo Andy Kirkpatrick

A Climber

If he doesn't inspire you to climb your own mountain, no one will

Aubrey Meyer Photo Aubrey Meyer

Ex concert musician turned climate thinker

The man behind Contraction and Convergence

Cary Fowler Photo Cary Fowler

Looks after all of the world’s seeds

I will be talking about Global Crop Diversity and the seed vault

Dafydd Davies Photo Dafydd Davies

A trails builder

No one builds mountain bike trails with more respect to the mountain or the adrenalin gland than this guy

Gavin Pretor-Pinney Photo Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Author of ‘The Cloudspotter's Guide’

He believes we take clouds for granted

Gerald Cooper Photo Gerald Cooper

A beekeeper

He will speak on behalf of the 20 million or so bees that work for him

Guy Watson Photo Guy Watson

Riverford Organic Veg Box Scheme

He set up the Riverford Organic Veg Box Scheme because of frustration with the wastefulness of conventional vegetable selling

John Grant Photo John Grant

Author of ‘The Green Manifesto’

One of the most forward thinking thinkers of his time

Ken Yeang Photo Ken Yeang

Author of ‘Eco Skyscrapers’

An architect and ecologist

Malcolm Carroll Photo Malcolm Carroll

Greenpeace activist and Baptist minister

He believes that citizens can define their own citizenship through nonviolent direct action

Matt Jones Photo Matt Jones

Designer. Creative Director. Web guru. Blogger.

A visionary and probably a bit of a mad scientist at heart

Michael Braungart Photo Michael Braungart

Co-author of the ‘Cradle to Cradle’

One of the most important books on design for a couple of decades

Michael Fordham Photo Michael Fordham

Created the ‘September book’

He is a surfer, designer, writer and a dad

Paul Chatterton Photo Paul Chatterton

Human Geographer

Academic, author and activist who will show us how to bring about change

Russell Davies Photo Russell Davies

Strategist. Futurist. Blogger. Gadget maker.

Organiser of all things interesting

Tamsin Omond Photo Tamsin Omond

The Power of Us

Campaigner and co-founder of Plane Stupid

Timothy Ferriss Photo Timothy Ferriss

Author of 'The 4-Hour Workweek'

He will make us look at the way we use time

Trevor Baylis Photo Trevor Baylis

Invented the wind up radio

He believes we can all be inventors

Yun Hider Photo Yun Hider

A Forager

Reconnecting people to the land