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Dr. Merlin Sheldrake and Sir Tim Smit in conversation (TRAILER)

This TKF Talk organised by The Klosters Forum brought together two brilliant minds to talk about what fungi and plants can teach us in these tumultuous times. The conversation was moderated by the renowned journalist Hannah Macinnes. Thank you to Christie’s for hosting us. For more information about other TKF Talk videos, please visit www.theklostersforum.com Dr. Merlin Sheldrake- Ecologist and Best-selling Author Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Merlin is a keen brewer and fermenter, and is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. He sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks. Sir Tim Smit - Co-Founder and Executive Vice-Chair at Eden Project Sir Tim Smit read Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University. This began a lifelong passion for regeneration and working to put things into good heart. Following occupations embracing his many interests from Archaeology through music to wreck diving, Rare Breed animal husbandry and building restoration, in 1990 He ‘discovered’ and then restored ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ with John Nelson. Of which he remains a Director. This is now one of the UK’s best-loved gardens having been named ‘Garden of the Year’ by BBC Countryfile Awards (Mar 2018). Tim’s book ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ won Book of the Year in 1997. Tim is today Executive Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the multi-award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Since its opening in 2001, over 23 million people have come to see a once sterile pit, turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour and our dependence and unbreakable part in the systems of the natural world.