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Cocos Island, Costa Rica, may seem isolated, but in fact it helps to regulate the temperature of the entire Earth via a tangled web of relationships between its rainwater, rocks and teeming biodiversity. In this talk we will discover how the story of these interactions helps us to recover a deep sense of connection to the extraordinary life of our planet, which is so sorely needed at this time of ecological meltdown.

Stephan Harding gained his doctorate in ecology from the University of Oxford in 1986, and then taught for several years at the National University in Costa Rica, where he became a good friend of Deirdre Hyde. He is currently the Coordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College in Devon, and is author of 'Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia', published by Green Books.