Stephan Harding

We are deeply sad to update this post to note that Stephan died in September 2024 after a long illness. He was a wonderful servant and advocate for Gaia. As friends and colleagues we will miss him profoundly.

Dr Stephan Harding, July 8 1953 - September 2, 2024

Stephan Harding is a scientist with degrees from Durham and Oxford Universities. He was a founding faculty member of Schumacher College where he has been teaching and researching for the last thirty years on the themes of Gaia theory, deep ecology, and holistic science. He worked closely with James Lovelock and Lyn Margulis on the development of Gaia theory, and has drawn on the image of Gaia as a promise of a deeper sense of wholeness, of a final integration of psyche and matter at the ecological level of tangible beings such as rocks, atmosphere, water, and life.  His books include Animate Earth (2009) and Gaia Alchemy (2021).

Stephan’s longer autobiographical essay here