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Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, 
who share multidimensional, local and diverse 
narratives from across the world.

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Bayo Akomolafe

5 courses
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Sophie Strand

3 courses
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Satish Kumar

1 courses
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Vandana Shiva

6 courses
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Veronica Strang

1 courses
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Manda Scott

2 courses
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Beloved Sara Zaltash

1 courses
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David Abram

2 courses
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Dr Andreas Weber

5 courses
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David Whyte

1 courses
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Helena Norberg-Hodge

2 courses
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Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic

1 courses
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Charles Eisenstein

3 courses
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Aisha Paris Smith

2 courses
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Brontë Velez

3 courses

David Zilber

David Zilber is a professional chef, fermenter, photographer, and author of The Noma Guide to Fermentation, hailing from Toronto, Canada.

Notably, he served as the director of the world-renowned Fermentation Lab at Restaurant Noma. He has become a voice for science communication for a new generation of cooks and enthusiasts in the world of food and fermentation, and currently works as a food scientist on the frontiers of flavour and innovation, employing the help of microbes to build a more just and sustainable food system for all.

Rewilding Mythology Picture

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Rewilding Mythology

For most of human history, myth was a durable mode of knowledge transmission, kept alive and resilient by the breath-laced web of communal storytelling. But the rise of empire depended on the deracination of mythologies. Just as landscapes were stolen and terraformed so were whole pantheons uprooted from their social and ecological contexts. How can we reroot, rewild, and retell?

Fermentation and its link to the dawn of life on Earth Picture

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Fermentation and its link to the dawn of life on Earth

In Module 4 of Rewilding Mythology, David Zilber walks us through how fermentation and civilisation and agriculture are all woven together in complicated and interesting ways. "Fermentation is indelibly linked to the dawn of life on Earth," he says, diving into gelogical time, weaving the stories of the diversification of life with species evolution with the addictiveness of alcohol. How is fermentation the central node of basically all life?