Sarah Baxendell
I am an ecologist, designer, activist, artist, herbalist, and technologist working at the forefront of climate change and ecological crisis. I design and build places, products, and systems of human coordination that restore ecosystem function.
I am the founder of ArtEcology is a multidisciplinary collective of climate designers working to restore ecology. Explore our work with nature preserves, climate impact platforms, biodiversity credits, governance, ecological conscious and animism narratives at artecology.studio.
My current work includes park curation and biodiversity credit architecture for Antilles Reserve in Barbados, climate finance design for BioFi Project bioregional financing pilots, and I am the COO of a crypto startup, LayerLabs.
I was a co-founder of Regen Network, a blockchain platform to regenerate landscapes. As a city park designer I led the redesign of 1,000 acres of public lands in Pittsburgh, including the USA’s largest urban farm, Hilltop Urban Farm. I am a co-designer of the Food Studies certificate program at Indiana University Bloomington, co-author of the Pittsburgh Climate Action Plan and Greater Pittsburgh Food Action Plan, co-founder of the North American Permaculture Convergence, and co-conspirator of the Occupy Wall Street Sustainability Working Group. I have raised over $47 million in funding for ecosystem restoration projects.
My institutional training includes finance and marketing degrees from University of Delaware and sustainable design training from the Fashion Institute of New York. My extitutional training includes Center for Bioregional Living (permaculture), Northeast School of Botanical Medicine (herbalism), and ecology, permaculture, and herbalism training from Darrel Frey, Peter Bane, Andrew Faust, 7Song, Juliet Blankespoor, and Luke Learningdeer, as well as hundreds of grassroots herbalists and permaculture designers.
I believe that interdependency consciousness can shift the trajectory of the climate and ecological crisis.
