Rory Spowers is a writer, researcher and broadcaster, focused on ecological and consciousness issues. His books include Rising Tides, a critically acclaimed history of ecological thought, and A Year in Green Tea and Tuk Tuks, the story of Samakanda, an ecological sanctuary he founded in Sri Lanka in 2004. Rory has been the Creative Director of the TI since it was founded in 2015. In 2018 he launched The Re-Generation, a new media platform for ‘regenerative systems change solutions’ and he is currently working on his next book: Thinking Like A Mountain: Seeking the Source Code for a Regenerative Culture.