Founder of Platform One Foundation concept and Team facilitator.
Dana, originally from Canada, is now domiciled in NZ and is the Founder of Platform One Foundation Charitable Trust, an umbrella organisation which supports the development of the project. He is a core member of a NZ based global person-to-person network actively developing and implementing a bottom-up model of organisation for businesses and communities.
Dana is actively engaged with companies and business professionals delivering positive results in the NZ renewable energy sector including the Solar Association of NZ, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, and Auckland Council. Dana has a very broad work experience and diverse skill-set ranging from strong practical and land management skills learnt while growing up and living in a completely off-grid, self-sufficient island community to business development, project management and facilitation skills. He truly understands the pitfalls and challenges when shaping a system that has to be robust and resilient in these changing times.
Passionate and enthusiastic, Dana is a committed person devoted to our natural environment, supporting youth (and people of all ages), sustainable Energy conversations of all kinds, and personal through to global conscious evolution,
With a visionary clarity towards the future, Dana offers his considerable skill set and network of aligned co creators to leading the development of bottom up village structures which are in alignment with human needs, and our natural and spiritual worlds.
Role(s): Trustee, renewable energy solutions, general chief cook and bottle washer
Email : dana@platformone.org.nz
‘ANCIENT TEACHINGS – MODERN APPLICATIONS!”
Erin is committed to assist in the global transformation that is taking place at all levels on this earth at this time. She offers the wisdom, experience and energy entrusted to her for this purpose by her teachers and facilitates the spiritual and sacred space of our meetings.
Having grown up in the United States and studied with Indigenous elders for over 30 years she then spent time with Swami Rama and Swami Muktananda in her early years. Later she spent time and attended ceremonies with the Hopi, Navajo, Chumash Cahuilla and Toltec medicine people and then spent many years in apprenticeship with Kahu Abraham Kawai’i a master of Hawaiian Kahuna Arts.
Erin founded Romi Kapa Lele School of Hawaiian Kahuna Bodywork and Related Sciences in Tairua. She lectures, teaches and consults with individuals and organizations using the spectrum of teachings entrusted to her from her many teachers and has been doing so for the last 25 years in New Zealand, Australia, America, Europe, and Canada.
Erin is also Chair of the MBAS school Board of Trustees
Role(s): Trustee Platform One Foundation Charitable Trust, Platform Youth programs
Email : romikapalele@rocketmail.com |
Liz brings a passion for sustainable, resilient, harmonious communities to Platform One. Liz has been a permaculture practitioner for over 20 years and holds a Permaculture Design Certificate and a masters degree in Environmental Science.
Currently an advisor within Auckland Council’s environmental programmes and partnerships team, Liz has extensive experience , engaging and empowering ecological sustainability and community based environmental initiatives.
With her programme management expertise and networks in the environmental education arena, Liz’s skills will assist in the development of Platform One’s education and community outreach programmes,
Liz has an enthusiasm for facilitating a village life rich in social interactions for mutual support, interest and fun, and connections of a deeper nature. Towards this end, Liz is willing to share her many years experience as a practiitioner of yoga, 5 rhythms dance and african djembe drumming .
She is really excited that we are currently creating the Platform One basecamp HQ on Waiheke Island.
Role(s): Communications, Programme manager, Events, Networking
Email: liz.ross@platformone.org.nz
Founder of ‘Earthcare Education Aoteraoa’ (www.earthcare-education.org) and founder/resident of Tui Community/Land-Trust (www.tuitrust.org.nz).
An international permaculture educator and community development facilitator for the past 25 years, culminating her manual: Grounding Vision: Empowering Culture.
Robina McCurdy (Golden Bay, Aotearoa/New Zealand).
Robina is founder/trustee of the Institute for Earthcare Education Aotearoa (www.earthcare-education.org), and of Tui Land Trust & Community (www.tuitrust.org.nz). Tui is a 28 year old intentional community, operating under Land Trust structure. At Tui new forms of social organization are being pioneered, through dedication to human capacity building, living with minimal impact on the earth, working with the rhythms of nature, generating ethical livelihood, learning through doing and overall, creating a sustainable small village culture. Tui features in the book Creating Harmony: Conflict Resolution in Community, published by Gaia Trust and Permanent Publications (Britain).
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Director North Architects
Graeme North is a New Zealand-based registered architect whose specialities include: integrated design of sustainable buildings into productive livingscapes, eco-architecture (aka green architecture), permaculture, timber, low toxicity, straw bale, mud brick, in-situ adobe, cob buildings, and earth building (including earth building standards & codes).
Graeme North Architects are located in Warkworth, New Zealand and undertake commissions throughout New Zealand and in other countries. Graeme North also provides Natural Building Workshops for people interested in learning to build with natural materials.
Role(s): Building design team, Integrated permaculture
Email : graeme@ecodesign.co.nz | www.ecodesign.co.nz