David Nicol, PhD, is Director and co-founder of the Gaiafield Project (http://gaiafield.net), an action research center founded at the California Institute of Integral Studies that advances the study and practice of subtle activism. His recent book Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic. He teaches on subtle activism in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies and at the Shift Network. A former environmental lawyer from Australia, he now lives in North California with his wife Kate and dogs Jackson and Peaches.