Peter Forbes

Peter has become a leader for the American conservation movement by creating a life in conservation as photographer, writer, and story-teller about the relationship between people and place. For the last 15 years, Peter has focused his energies on bringing together and strengthening the worlds of environmentalism and social justice and to offer those professions his experience with story, facilitation, contemplative practice, and relationship to nature. Peter is always learning and innovating across the boundaries of profession, culture and home and this has made his work influential to the different fields of leadership development, sustainability, philanthropy and conservation. You might find him teaching spoon-carving on a city street, or giving a keynote address on courage at a national conference, or helping to heal a fracture within a community, or photographing a lost art. What he cares most about is strengthening peoples’ connections to one another and the land that sustains them, the most visible and important example being his family’s farm and tapestry in the Mad River Valley of Vermont. You can learn more about him at Peterforbes.org.