Katharine Burke, an educator for over 30 years, is a passionate advocate for students, teachers, and teaching as well as for deep ecology, permaculture and the green shift.  She has taught English and literature to all ages from 6 years old to college students. She has a Permaculture Design Certificate and recently completed the Regenerative Design Practitioner course with the Regenesis Group. Katharine is passionate about bringing deep ecology, regenerative design and permaculture principles into schools and in training teachers in deep ecology and regenerative design. To this end, she started The Small Earth Institute (Skoppum, Norway) to offer deep ecology and regenerative design initiatives.