J. P. Harpignies, a Brooklyn, NYC-based consultant, conference producer, copy-editor and writer, is Senior Producer at Bioneers (www.bioneers.org), with which he has been affiliated since 1990. A former program director at the New York Open Center in the 1990s and a senior review team member for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge from 2010 to 2017, he edited the collection, Visionary Plant Consciousness (https://www.innertraditions.com/books/visionary-plant-consciousness) and has authored several books, including: Political Ecosystems, Double Helix Hubris, Delusions of Normality, and Animal Encounters. JP is also a longtime t’ai chi practitioner who taught that discipline for 25 years.