Andy Hawkings is an educator who is keen to encourage children and adults to regain lost connections with their environment. He has spent the last 3 years working as a Primary School teacher focussing on accelerated learning techniques and integrating yoga and traditional world music into the curriculum. Andy has started to tour the county with his school drumming group so that other schools can discover the benefits and joy gained from alternative teaching practices.
Angie Polkey - ERS representative, Wales
Angie has a background in ecology and conservation which helps her understand - and communicate – nature and natural processes. She is passionate about combining wildlife conservation and restoration with sustainable use of natural resources and adopts a ‘permacultural’ approach to her work, lifestyle and land use. Having worked for several UK conservation charities, she now facilitates sustainable living and community participation through courses and projects. Angie joined the ERS team in December 2006 with the goal of establishing ERS in Wales.
Trudi Selleck – Actor/Educator - Film and School Tree Nursery Programme
Trudi began educating people about the environment by abusing a fisherman at the age of 2. Some years later, she worked with a group of NGO’s including Greenpeace, MSF and the Total Environment Centre. She has spent the last 5 years educating children, entertaining over 35,000 students. Her work has taken her all over Australia and New Zealand and as the Education Programme Co-ordinator for Matilda Cruises, she designed over 10 different programmes around Sydney Harbour, including Water Science and conservation – and she has stopped abusing fishermen!
Paul grew up in Ireland. From an early age, he treated countless injured birds and animals wherever possible returning them to the wild. He established a wild life sanctuary where many were released and where he set up a breeding and releasing programme for many species including the very rare Irish grey partridge. He is a horticultural and herbal medicine graduate. He has taught horticulture at secondary school level, been a guest lecturer at university level, and advised to organic growers. He featured on the BBC 2 The Plants Man series. He has worked with children planting fruit tree orchards and indigenous trees. Paul has a keen interest in soil development and habitat restoration, growing much of his own organic fruit and vegetables. He plays Irish music on the flute and uillleann pipes, plays the guitar and sings.
Alexandra Hoeneisen - ERS representative, Ecuador
Alexandra join our team this year and is implementing the School Tree Nursery Programme in Ecuador. She has a degree in Natural Resources management from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Ecuador. After university, she worked as a rain forest guide, volunteer co-ordinator, English and Spanish teacher and more. She has also been working very closey with the environmental education programme for our partner La Hesperia, Ecuador. Alexandra's interests are trekking, reading and apiculture (beekeeping).
Tamzin Pinkerton - ERS representative, Devon.
Tamzin is a parent at Park School, on the Dartington Estate in Devon, and she has organized the school's first ERS tree outplanting day, to be held in March. Tamzin has a degree in Social Anthropology, a Masters in Human Rights, and a PhD in motherhood, but she is now keen to turn her energy to ecological projects, and hopes that the Park School trees will be the first of many she helps to plant. She is also involved in the peak oil community initiative Transition Town Totnes, that aims to devise and implement an energy descent plan for the local area. At other times, Tamzin enjoys writing, walking, am dram, making fires and learning to knit.
Andy Hawkings - ERS representative, East Sussex
