Organizational Founder
Praxis: the merging of theory and action. John has been blessed with colleagues serving as both community leaders and action-researchers. They have inspired him to co-create with them a number of community organizations, seeking to bring to life the ideas on social justice and ecological health on which John has focused his life and mind.
Current Organizational Role:
- Director, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
- Western's Philosophy Minor (current Director)
- Resilience Studies Consortium (current Director)
- Western's Clark School of Environment & Sustainability (Founding Dean, 2018-23)
- Western Master in Environmental Management (Founding Director, 2011-22)
- Center for Mountain Transitions (Co-Founder and Director, 2014-2023)
- Coldharbour Institute (Co-Founded and supervised three EDs, 2011-2022)
- Consulting Scholar, EcoGather
- Fellow and Senior Scholar, Center for Humans and Nature
- Member, United Nations Mountain Partnership
- Elder, Headwaters Project
- Contributor, The Land Institute's Ecosphere Studies Project
- The Ancestor Institute
- Full Nest