Green Steps ARK

The ARK is the third and last instance of Green Steps’ effort to grow environmental empathy, spread commons stewardship and unfold the human nature to its full potential. Back in 2018 we went through a comprehensive strategy process, which gave us three lines of action to meet our mission of connecting people with nature and contributing to ecological, social and economic health:

 

1. the standardization of impactful nature based activities – you can find most of them in the ARK library. 

2. the training of Nature Guides – we have helped since then more than 100 people to acquire related competences both in person and through an online training.  

3. the development of an open source application, which makes bioregional learning and place-based education easy for everyone and everywhere. 

 

The ARK is the product of a deep connection with two locations in temperate climate zones, where we have been active as Nature Guides since 2016. This said, all functionalities are intended to support nature connection and bonding between the people using the app. 

 

Inspired? As an open source and non-profit project we invite you to contribute to the development, as a mentor supporting users around the world or as a patron financing our mission.

TEAM

Development

Lukas Helebrandt

Technical Director

Sonia Jiang

Full Stack Developer

Gloria Corradini

Ecological Director

Mohammed Ben-Thaier

Full Stack Developer

Knut Wimberger

Pedagogical Director

Valentin Pivert

Design Lead

Mentoring

Joan Elizalde

Palearctic Realm

Michelle Sardon

Neotropic Realm

Ryan Pirault

Nearctic Realm

Credit: Karl Burkart, One Earthhttps://images.takeshape.io/86ce9525-f5f2-4e97-81ba-54e8ce933da7/dev/09f34b5d-27cd-4fb8-90e8-94a2be2bc14f/OneEarthMasterMapsCS5-bioreg%20v5.5-BIOREGION%20med.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress
Credit: Karl Burkart, One Earth

Communication

Yos Hazma

Communication

Giuseppe De Stefano

Communication Director

Merlin Mayer

Communication

Translation

Iris Kandlbauer (DE)
Gloria Corradini (IT)
Iana Matevosian (RU)
Javier Buzón (ES)
Sonia Jiang (CN)
Ouadah Amine (AR)
Oguz Berk (TU)
Eleina Pokojski (FR)