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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

Giuliana Furci

Giuliana Furci is founder and CEO of the Fungi Foundation, the first international non-profit dedicated to fungi and founded in Chile.

Giuliana is a Harvard University Associate, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and curator of the FFCL Fungarium, among other appointments. Giuliana is the author of both volumes of the Field Guide to Chilean Fungi, and co-author of several titles including the 1st State of the Worlds Fungi by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and the book Fantastic Fungi. She is also the first female mycologist in Chile.

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?

Fungi are the firmament of life on Earth Picture

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Fungi are the firmament of life on Earth

In Module 4 of Rewilding Mythology, Sophie Strand interviews Giuliana Furci about her subject of expertise: fungi. Giuliana teaches us about the diversity of the fungi kin-dom, and reminds us of how essential fungi are to all life on Earth, and how, through their relationships with other organisms, they make apparent that no individual really exists, how each one of us depends on another.