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Biography of Contributors
agriculture. He lives in London, UK, and in his free time enjoys natural beekeeping, learning rural
skills and horticulture, building on his certifcation in permaculture design. He is also restoring a
seventeenth-century farm on Bornholm Island, Denmark, with the intention of transforming it into
a demonstration ahimsa (sacred) farm and teaching centre for Subtle Agroecology.
Isis Brook
Isis Brook completed a PhD on Goethean science following training with the Life Science Trust
in the UK in the early 1990s. She has been a university lecturer for over 25 years, mainly teaching environmental philosophy and aesthetics, and is author of numerous research papers in these
areas. Her most recent post was with Crossfelds Institute, in Stroud, UK, where she was involved in
designing and teaching on their innovative Masters programme ‘Researching Holistic Approaches
to Agroecology’. Isis is now semi-retired and as a Research Fellow continues to write on phenomenology, plants, landscapes and Goethe’s approach to nature. However, a lot of her time is now spent
in the garden and on her allotment.
Simon Charter
After obtaining a degree in Applied Physics, expeditions to Norway, Africa and India, and voluntary work, Simon spent 4 years working in biodynamic farming and social education in Botton
Village Camphill Community in the UK. After further training in art therapy, he started working
with water in the environment, where his artistic, ecological and practical interests fowed together.
For 30 years, this has focused on landscape projects with Flowform water sculptures as pioneered
by John Wilkes. Through the company Ebb & Flow Ltd, these projects have included sewage treatment systems and work in agriculture, therapeutic and educational environments and in gardens.
Interest in the challenge of the single-bowl Flowform idea, as discovered by Philip Kilner, led
Simon to develop his own Flowform designs which are being made in glass, ceramic, cast stone
and metal. Simon completed a Master’s in education in 2014, researching the way people develop
through engaging creatively with the element of water. He undertakes independent and collaborative research into fow phenomena and runs Goethean science workshops that explore the nature of
water (following Theodor Schwenk’s approach). He organises courses on basic Projective Geometry
and on the path curves found in natural form (as revealed by Lawrence Edwards). Simon and his
wife Cate also take guests in their house on an old mill site with much clear fowing water, its own
hydropower and a water-driven heat pump (fowofife.org; ebbandfowltd.co.uk).
Mike Zeddy Chikukwa
Zeddy Chikukwa grew up in Chikukwa, Zimbabwe, always needing to be in nature, exploring the
connections between our natural world and village life. He started as a community volunteer in
2005 and, since 2009, has worked for the Chikukwa Ecological Land Use Trust as a youth activist
and advocate, initiating environmental management action groups. His interests are rooted in his
cultural traditions, which led him to establish the Culture Group consisting of spirit mediums, traditional healers, herbalists and other knowledge holders, learning together about his cultural heritage
that has been lost since colonial times. Being the youngest in the group, he noticed that the elders
needed a listening ear, to preserve and revive their rituals and practices, and investigate how these
can help them to become more resilient in these changing times – from what and how they grow the
crops they eat, to the way they harvest, process and store. Over time, he has been motivated to learn
about our natural laws and spirit connections, and work towards the preservation of his lands and
sacred sites. His dreams and hopes are that through a better understanding of spirituality and place,
everyone might heal the wounds of Mother Earth.
Travis Cox
Dr Cox’s interests and research are about the intersections of social movements and social justice,
education, metaphysics, psychedelics, environmental philosophy, agriculture and deep sustainability.
Biography of Contributors
agriculture. He lives in London, UK, and in his free time enjoys natural beekeeping, learning rural
skills and horticulture, building on his certifcation in permaculture design. He is also restoring a
seventeenth-century farm on Bornholm Island, Denmark, with the intention of transforming it into
a demonstration ahimsa (sacred) farm and teaching centre for Subtle Agroecology.
Isis Brook
Isis Brook completed a PhD on Goethean science following training with the Life Science Trust
in the UK in the early 1990s. She has been a university lecturer for over 25 years, mainly teaching environmental philosophy and aesthetics, and is author of numerous research papers in these
areas. Her most recent post was with Crossfelds Institute, in Stroud, UK, where she was involved in
designing and teaching on their innovative Masters programme ‘Researching Holistic Approaches
to Agroecology’. Isis is now semi-retired and as a Research Fellow continues to write on phenomenology, plants, landscapes and Goethe’s approach to nature. However, a lot of her time is now spent
in the garden and on her allotment.
Simon Charter
After obtaining a degree in Applied Physics, expeditions to Norway, Africa and India, and voluntary work, Simon spent 4 years working in biodynamic farming and social education in Botton
Village Camphill Community in the UK. After further training in art therapy, he started working
with water in the environment, where his artistic, ecological and practical interests fowed together.
For 30 years, this has focused on landscape projects with Flowform water sculptures as pioneered
by John Wilkes. Through the company Ebb & Flow Ltd, these projects have included sewage treatment systems and work in agriculture, therapeutic and educational environments and in gardens.
Interest in the challenge of the single-bowl Flowform idea, as discovered by Philip Kilner, led
Simon to develop his own Flowform designs which are being made in glass, ceramic, cast stone
and metal. Simon completed a Master’s in education in 2014, researching the way people develop
through engaging creatively with the element of water. He undertakes independent and collaborative research into fow phenomena and runs Goethean science workshops that explore the nature of
water (following Theodor Schwenk’s approach). He organises courses on basic Projective Geometry
and on the path curves found in natural form (as revealed by Lawrence Edwards). Simon and his
wife Cate also take guests in their house on an old mill site with much clear fowing water, its own
hydropower and a water-driven heat pump (fowofife.org; ebbandfowltd.co.uk).
Mike Zeddy Chikukwa
Zeddy Chikukwa grew up in Chikukwa, Zimbabwe, always needing to be in nature, exploring the
connections between our natural world and village life. He started as a community volunteer in
2005 and, since 2009, has worked for the Chikukwa Ecological Land Use Trust as a youth activist
and advocate, initiating environmental management action groups. His interests are rooted in his
cultural traditions, which led him to establish the Culture Group consisting of spirit mediums, traditional healers, herbalists and other knowledge holders, learning together about his cultural heritage
that has been lost since colonial times. Being the youngest in the group, he noticed that the elders
needed a listening ear, to preserve and revive their rituals and practices, and investigate how these
can help them to become more resilient in these changing times – from what and how they grow the
crops they eat, to the way they harvest, process and store. Over time, he has been motivated to learn
about our natural laws and spirit connections, and work towards the preservation of his lands and
sacred sites. His dreams and hopes are that through a better understanding of spirituality and place,
everyone might heal the wounds of Mother Earth.
Travis Cox
Dr Cox’s interests and research are about the intersections of social movements and social justice,
education, metaphysics, psychedelics, environmental philosophy, agriculture and deep sustainability.