A movement to protect the planet and all life, human and non-human
For those who feel the world deeply and refuse to look away
Shikibuntu gathers the fires society tries to extinguish.
Hubs of Hope
Places where regeneration is already happening. Find communities, projects, and spaces bringing Earth back to life.
Become an Earthkeeper
You are part of this ecosystem. Discover your role, your gifts, and the people walking this path with you.
Protect Life Together
Every species is a doorway. Join campaigns defending life, ecosystems, and the future we belong to.
This Is For You If…
- You care about the Earth but feel alone
- You've burned out trying to save the world
- You're a creative who wants to serve life
- You're a scientist who wants humanity to listen
- You're a volunteer who deserves dignity
- You feel the world deeply and refuse to look away
The world is falling out of balance and something in us remembers
We are burning out trying to protect what we love. Disconnected from nature, from each other, from purpose.
- Shikibuntu exists to bring us back
- To remember we are not separate from life
- To reconnect, to act, and to build a world that protects itself
Who are Earthkeepers?
Which role is yours?
Hubs of Hope
Real people. Real places. Real change — happening right now
From wildlife sanctuaries to community gardens, from beach cleanups to open mic nights
Every dot on the map is a person who decided the old story was over.
Gala's Journal
Gift economy is not just about giving things away
I want to clear something up. When I talk about gift economy, people sometimes hear: everything is free, nobody gets paid, everyone just gives and gives until they have nothing left. That is not what I mean. That is actually the opposite of what I mean. The gift economy I am building toward is one…
The gift economy is not naive. It is how we actually lived.
Every time I talk about gift economy, someone assumes I have not thought it through. That I am romantic. That I do not understand how the real world works. That eventually I will grow up and accept that everything has a price. I want to address that directly. Because the evidence is on my side,…
Too much
She called from a ski slope in Japan to tell me I was too much. I had been on the Bandero for five months. This is the story of what those months were, how they ended, and what the pattern of movements eating their own people looks like from the inside.
When movements eat their own
She could barely walk. That is the first image I have of her. A woman who had given fifty years to a wildlife sanctuary, and me choosing to stay and give everything I had. An honest story about what that cost, what it taught me, and why it became the foundation of Shikibuntu.