14 November 2026
Jane Lynch
Rainforest Information Centre
Jane Lynch is an engineer and educator who has worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres in war zones and natural disasters in Africa and Asia and in small scale infrastructure and land rights with remote Aboriginal communities and organisations. She has a technical background in renewable energy and has been involved in environmental and human rights activism for many years. Jane currently homeschools her daughters and helps young people learn about maths and science. She is particularly interested in improving opportunities for young people to connect with nature. Finding Deep Ecology with John Seed and becoming involved in the nature connection community has been life changing, providing hope and tools for connection and action.
Deep Ecology
Deep ecology proposes that underlying all of the symptoms of the environmental crisis is the illusion of separation between humans and the rest of the natural world.
Arne Naess, professor of philosophy at Oslo University who coined the term “deep ecology”, called for “community therapies” to move us from merely ecological ideas to “ecological identity".
The experiential deep ecology processes created by Joanna Macy, John Seed and others are such community therapies, synchronous with the ceremonies and rituals used by all indigenous societies to honour “all our relations” and allow us to experience a profound felt sense of connection to the living Earth.
The work is based on the principle that we will not solve the systemic environmental crises of our time unless we heal ourselves from the myth of separation from nature and reconnect at a visceral level to the web of life.