My work in sustainability connects food, plants, and farming to innovation, social justice, and improving conditions for the poor building community through social enterprise. Ultimately I want people to be able to use land and food to live sustainably and make sustainable land use more competitive with unsustainable land use and to foster food/farm income, faithful action, spirited living, the arts and other more sustainable land uses.

As Plantaclaus (my real name is Doug Lowry) I serve as an enspirited teacher, public speaker, urban farmer, and group facilitator. Passionate about justice and human need, I have worked as a change agent and board member on numerous civic and nonprofit projects from neighborhoods to fairness and racism, to organizational life, to aging and health care, to not-for-profit excellence, public K-12 education, food security and environmental sustainability. I am a seminary-trained former hospital administrator who consults in organizational development. I teach individuals, organizations, nonprofits, faith communities and businesses about food justice, urban farming, and organizational life with an emphasis on connecting values to action and food to spirituality. As an artist, plant lover, and writer I seek to add beauty, insight, and meaning along the way. See my images on Facebook or https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/doug-lowry