Who we are

The Climate Nature Emergency Hub is an educational resource that has been co-founded and created by Jasmin and Vanessa, with Paola as our web designer.
Our desire is to create a thought-provoking place to  encourage curiosity and inspire creativity in how we may address the existential threat to our habitable Earth – i.e. climate breakdown and the prospect of ecological collapse caused by relentless exploitation and excess consumption of Earth’s natural resources. 

The Blueprint concept is subject to our deliberation through a myriad of voices and visions – not only through the lens of scientific enquiry but in the perspectives of grassroots’ philosophies that assign a diversity of interpretations to the Blueprint. 

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Our team

Vanessa (aka, ‘Nessy’)

Many years prior to her doctoral studies, Vanessa had originally trained as a professional classical dancer whilst having always felt an affinity for the fine arts- especially drawing and painting. She had an extensive career as a British Occupational Therapist specialising in Neuro-rehabilitation in the UK’s NHS. In her role as a Neuro- Occupational Therapist, she also worked in a voluntary capacity, for the World Health Organisation in China. During the course of her clinical work she took a sabbatical and embarked on her MSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex. 
Vanessa later became involved in climate and ecology activism and in 2020, was one of the original members who founded the UK Climate and Ecology Private Member’s Bill ‘Zero Hour’ campaign, notably, in the role as science coordinator for the first and second drafting of the Climate & Ecology Bill, with experts in the field of climate science, ecology, heterodox economics, deliberative democracy and in conjunction with a bill draftsman and lawyers.This invaluable experience with Zero Hour inspired her to conceive the idea of a Climate-Ecology Emergency Blueprint and, along with Jasmin, the creation of the Climate-Nature Blueprint Hub. 
 
Vanessa is a passionate advocate for the potent messaging of science through art and this is reflected through the creative features characteristic of the Hub.  
 

Jasmin

After living for thirteen years away broadening my views about life, I now live in the chilly and often grey coastal area of Helsinki, Finland.

I have researched Peruvian education and pondered questions from race and gender relations to citizenship and land policy. I hold an MA in Medical Anthropology from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in social anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London.

In my latest research engagement at Mecila, Sao Paulo, I worked with artists to discover how art connects us in ways that can give us insights into building trust needed to tackle the planetary crisis.

Paola

Paola is an artist, web and graphic designer, front-end developer, healer and poet. In her art, she seeks to understand and communicate cosmoperceptions that reconnect human beings with their essence, bringing elements and ancestral wisdom from different peoples and cultures around the world.

She designed and developed Climate Ecology Blueprint visual identity and website.