Ma’ikwe Ludwig is a social innovator who brings together what are often seen as disparate fields: sustainability, healthy group dynamics, and spirituality. For her, the juice is in the integration of these pieces and the belief that we can’t really create a sustainable world without cooperation, self-reflection, and creativity. As director of Ecovillage Education, Ludwig lives in Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in rural Missouri where the members of the community experiment with natural building, consensus and simple, low-resource living, and relish the challenge of answering the question: “How can we be truly sustainable in the modern world?” Ludwig’s work brings these lessons out into the wider world through teaching, writing and consulting. The title of her presentation is “Sustainable is Possible: Creating Low Carbon, High Quality Lives… Together.”