Organizational Founder
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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.
Co-founder:

• Western's Clark School of Environment & Sustainability
• Western's Philosophy Minor
• Mountain Resilience Coalition
• Coldharbour Institute
• Resilience Studies Consortium​
• Western Master in Environmental Management

Organizational Member:

• 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

Future Social Entrepreneurship Dreams:

• The Ancestor Institute 
• Full Nest