Stephan Harding

Born in Venezuela in 1953, Harding earned an undergraduate degree in zoology from Durham University and a doctorate in the behavioral ecology of muntjacs from Oxford University.^[3] While at Oxford, he conducted field research in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. After his studies, he was a founding member of Schumacher College and became close associates with James Lovelock.^[4] At the college, he researched deep ecology^[5] and led the holistic sciences master's program for twenty years.^[6]

During his career, Harding collaborated with various scientists. He most closely worked with Lovelock, whose Gaia hypothesis considered the Earth to be a living being, creating its own habitat. The pair worked on a model that would generate feedback between organisms and their environment.^[7]

Harding died in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2024.^[8]

• Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia (2006)^[9]
• Gaia Alchemy: The Reuniting of Science, Psyche, and Soul (2022)^[10]

• Grow Small, Think Beautiful: Ideas for a Sustainable World from Schumacher College (2011)^[11]

• Courting the Dawn: Poems of Lorca (2019)