Meet the Community
Stewardship Begins with Relationship
The Earth Stewards Alliance is more than an organization. It is a growing community of people who share a commitment to the wellbeing of all life.
Across cultures, generations, professions, and geographies, our community brings together people who are asking similar questions:
How do we become good ancestors?
How do we strengthen the relationships that sustain life?
How can we contribute to a thriving future?
Who We Are
The Earth Stewardship Community includes elders and wisdom keepers, youth leaders, educators, artists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, researchers, technologists, community builders, and changemakers.
Some are leading initiatives.
Some are supporting them.
Some are learning.
Some are teaching.
Many are doing all of these at once. What connects us is not a shared profession or background, but a shared commitment to stewardship. A belief that how we relate to one another, to the Earth, and to future generations matters.
A Community of Practice
We do not see stewardship as an idea.
We see it as a practice.
A way of walking through the world.
A way of making decisions.
A way of caring for what has been entrusted to us.
Within the Earth Stewardship Community, people come together to learn, collaborate, share stories, exchange knowledge, support one another, and contribute to initiatives that strengthen the relationships that sustain life.
The Stewardship Commons
At the heart of our community is a simple belief:
The future belongs to all of us.
The ecological, cultural, social, and spiritual commons that sustain life cannot be cared for by any one organization alone.
They require communities.
Relationships.
Participation.
Shared responsibility.
This is why we are cultivating the Earth Stewardship Commons—a space for people to learn, connect, contribute, and participate in the emergence of a culture of stewardship.
Meet our Co-Founders, Elder Wisdom Keepers, Advisors & Projected Partners
Christiane Pedros, Co-Founder
Steven Lovink, Co-Founder
Ryan Brandenburg,
Earth Based Governance Co-Founder and Advisor
Grandmother Wisdom Keeper Jyoti Ma, The Fountain
Sacred Land, Cultures and Economics
Oliva Stefanino and Simon Yates
Healing Arts Partner
Annette Ericsdotter,
Nordic LIght Initiative
Leon Aarts,
Founder of Ample
Molly Harvey,
Aon Croi Ireland
Stephanie Pedros, Arts and Activism Partner
What Brings Us Together?
Care for the Earth
We recognize that human wellbeing and planetary wellbeing are inseparable.
Care for Future Generations
We believe today's decisions shape tomorrow's possibilities.
Respect for Cultural Wisdom
We value the knowledge carried within communities, traditions, and ancestral ways of knowing.
Shared Responsibility
We believe stewardship is not the responsibility of a few, but a practice that belongs to all of us.
Collaboration
We believe meaningful change emerges when people work together in service of something larger than themselves.
These faces represent only a small part of a much larger story.
The Earth Stewards Alliance is a diverse and evolving community of relationships spanning continents, cultures, and ecosystems. Built upon more than two decades of collaboration, trust, and shared purpose, our work is strengthened by countless stewards, partners, elders, youth, artists, educators, and community leaders around the world.
Together, we are cultivating a living culture of stewardship for the wellbeing of all life.
A Living Ecosystem
The Earth Stewardship Community supports and contributes to a growing ecosystem of initiatives including:
• Earth-Based Governance
• Earth Flow
• Arts & Activism
• Intelligence for Life
• The Golden Body
Each initiative explores a different dimension of stewardship.
Together they help cultivate a living culture of care, reciprocity, responsibility, and relationship.
