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The EP3 Sustainability Fellows: ten people I have met with repeatedly and introduced to one another

Peter Knez, Marcelo de Andrade, Karla Brollier, Michael McCord, Nancy Watkins, Jeff Weiss, Ed Barbier, Mathis Wackernagel, Paula Ehrlich, Emily Weeks — the Sustainability Fellows of the QPN accelerators site

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The Sustainability Fellows page of the QPN Accelerators site — Jonathan Hare's own publication, captured 1 September 2026 (S-188, documented for the roles) — lists ten: Peter Knez (Palm Global Technologies, TEAL — five accelerators), Marcelo de Andrade (ProNatura International, Earth Capital — three), Karla Brollier (Velveteen Ventures), Michael McCord (Microinsurance Centre at Milliman), Nancy Watkins (Milliman Climate Resilience Initiative), Jeff Weiss (Distributed Sun, executive chairman — two), Ed Barbier (Colorado State — two), Mathis Wackernagel (Global Footprint Network), Paula Ehrlich (E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation) and Emily Weeks (USAID). The site's fellowship categories run Clinical, Policy, Technical, Innovation, Child Safety and Education, Venture and Sustainability; 111 people in all.

In Hare's account he has had numerous meetings with all ten, introducing them to his other connections — the Milliman climate, sustainability, microfinance and microinsurance leadership (Weiss, Moyer, McCord, Watkins) — and pulling Knez into those conversations. Several were met in one room: the Nobel Sustainability Trust's November 2024 summit at UC Berkeley. The Fellows page is where the Nature and Humanity Trust initiative found its first participants.

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Peter Knez opened the Nobel Sustainability Trust to me — and became Chairman of Palm Global in Dubai on the way home from COP

Palm Global Technologies and TEAL Chairman & CEO; EP3 Sustainability Fellow, 5 accelerators; the introduction to Tracy J. Wang and the summit's VIP invitations

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Marcelo de Andrade

Met at the Nobel Sustainability Trust summit, Berkeley, November 2024 — EP3 Sustainability Fellow, SMI's chairman for Latin America, and the door to Terra Carta

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Karla Brollier: the VIP invitation that became mine, and the Santa Fe Institute tour I arranged for her

Velveteen Ventures principal investor, climate; Alaska Native advocate for indigenous peoples; a career in sustainability, impact ventures and climate — Al Gore, the UN, Patagonia; EP3 Sustainability Fellow

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Michael McCord, Milliman's microinsurance lead — one of the Fellows I have introduced around

Managing Director, Microinsurance Centre at Milliman; EP3 Sustainability Fellow

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Nancy Watkins, Milliman's climate-resilience principal, among the Fellows

Principal, Milliman Climate Resilience Initiative; EP3 Sustainability Fellow

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Jeff Weiss and the Wallenberg route

The Wallenberg route

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Ed Barbier, the environmental economist I met at the Nobel summit

Distinguished Professor, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University; EP3 Sustainability Fellow, 2 accelerators

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Mathis Wackernagel, who co-founded the Global Footprint Network — met at the Nobel summit

Co-founder, Global Footprint Network; EP3 Sustainability Fellow

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Paula Ehrlich, who runs the E. O. Wilson Foundation now — Jay Short introduced us, and she agreed to the Trust

President and CEO, E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation; EP3 Sustainability Fellow; agreed to participate in the EP3 Nature and Humanity Trust initiative

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Emily Weeks, USAID senior advisor — met at the Nobel summit

USAID Senior Advisor; EP3 Sustainability Fellow

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the program's home

The EP3 Foundation: the 501(c)(3) where the mission's charitable channel lives

Founding chair Jack Lewin; founding board member Jim Routh; the fiscal home of the Nature & Humanity program giving

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its first participants

The Consilient Nature and Humanity Trust: seventy percent of the root, for the planet

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