Julian has been teaching at the university level in South Korea for nearly two decades. In 2014 he was living and teaching in Busan when the road to his new campus was washed away in the same flood that saw a bus carried away down a nearby road. That was when he started to think harder about how and what to teach about the climate crisis and all related environmental issues. He sees his being someone who has benefited the most from the legacy of industrialization as meaning that he is most obligated to be doing as much as possible to minimize, halt, and reverse its impacts, including bringing an awareness of the dangers and potential for change to students and colleagues, alike.

University English teacher and International Solidarity Coordinator for the Korea Federation for Environmental Movements.

Jon Walsh is an urban farming consultant and instructor based in Tokyo, Japan. He runs Business Grow, a Tokyo-based sustainability consultancy specializing in providing urban farming, sustainability and survival skill training, consulting, and resources. As a leading innovator in Japan’s urban farming sector, Jon is extremely well positioned to help people learn fundamental urban farming skills. He has so far taught over 1,200 people about urban farming and how to grow healthy food, sustainability practices and survival skills, and set up over 50 gardens around Tokyo, including at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo, Aoba-Japan International School, Tokyo International School, Ohana International Preschool, Tokyo Children’s Garden kindergarten, Montessori School of Tokyo, and elsewhere.

I've been working in university education in one form or another for around 20 years. I presently work in the Division of Environmental Resources in the General Education Center at my university where I research English for Specific Purposes including English for Tourism and English for Environmental Science. I teach a class called Science English for which I wrote the textbook, The Environment Project.