Justin Thomas

• Justin Thomas is co-founder and Science Director of NatureCITE, a non-profit, research and outreach organization based in Missouri’s Interior Highlands (a North American biological hotspot). Justin conducts ecological and taxonomic research and teaches plant identification and ecological awareness workshops throughout central and eastern North America. He is currently assembling a curriculum, and conducting workshops, focused on the concept of human ecesis (the process of becoming a stabilizing component within our environments). He is an adjunct professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology where he teaches Plant Biology and Vegetation of the Ozarks and the co-author of the Ecological Checklist of the Missouri Flora. He also podcasts at www.naturecite.org where he attempts to address the deep beauty in accepting, understanding, and embracing nature as reality.

Humanity Rising Participation

• Day 295 Tue 7/20 Ecesis: How Nature can Save Humanity