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Sudhir Shetty is the Founder and CEO of Global Crisis Response (GCR.org), a transnational “think-and-do” tank confronting what he identifies as humanity’s most pressing predicament: the inevitable collapse of Globalized Industrial Civilization and the urgent need to prefigure a post-collapse ecological paradigm.

A former academic-turned-independent theorist, Sudhir left his formal PhD track in 2019 to embark on an unorthodox journey. Recognizing that mainstream environmentalism and techno-optimistic narratives failed to account for humanity’s deeper systemic overshoot, he committed himself to creating intellectual and action tools that could empower change-makers to navigate the converging crises of the Anthropocene.

He launched GCR.org in 2020 as a platform to cultivate collapse-aware discourse grounded in what he terms Strong Sustainability. Under his leadership, the organization evolved into a full-fledged transnational initiative with two flagship conceptual tools: the TERRA Framework, for sense-making and filtering viable responses to systemic risk, and the Global Crisis Response Strategy (GCRS), a holistic action blueprint advocating a shift from “Business-as-Usual” to ecological relocalization and commons-based resilience.

Sudhir's contributions lie not just in theory, but in catalyzing real-world action. His vision includes re-mapping India through bioregional lenses, establishing offline ecological hubs, and building digital platforms that empower communities to disconnect from unsustainable systems. An advocate of Gandhian self-sufficiency, permaculture, and regenerative design, Sudhir champions a future not of greenwashed modernity, but of radical relocalization, ecological humility, and cultural regeneration.

In a world increasingly paralyzed by denial and superficial fixes, Sudhir Shetty stands apart as a realist, a prefigurative thinker, and a strategic catalyst for post-collapse transitions.

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Usha Alexander was born to Indian immigrants who came to the United States in the 1950s and settled in the very small town of Pocatello, Idaho. She ran away to university at the age of 19, and later joined the US Peace Corps, where she served as a science teacher in the archipelago nation of Vanuatu. In the late 90s, Usha made her way to the San Francisco Bay Area of California, where she settled and worked for Apple Computer for many years.
Since 2013, Usha resides with her partner, writer and photographer Namit Arora, in the National Capital Region of India. Usha has lived in four different countries and has learned to carry her home within herself, yet she frequently returns to the CA Bay Area with a certain sense of homecoming.

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Have close to 25 years of experience working as a researcher, communication specialist and content creator across sectors and media formats, from Advertising and Corporate Communications to non-profits and academic bodies, besides the media. As a journalist, have researched and published on various aspects of sustainability/environment - particularly as it relates to economy, politics and society - in leading online outlets such as The Wire.in, Scroll.in and IndiaSpend.com. Created and edited for nearly a decade the website www.ecologise.in, which curated and published selected content on the emerging global crises. Also played a role in multiple civil society efforts, including the South Asian People's Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC), a rainbow coalition of organizations and individuals from across South Asia working for climate action and climate justice.

A member of the Tellus Institute's Great Transition Initiative, which describes itself as " an online forum of ideas and an international network for the critical exploration of concepts, strategies, and visions for a transition to a future of enriched lives, human solidarity, and a resilient biosphere."

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