Yana is available for keynotes, workshops and panels.

Since 2013, Yana has been a regular, well-received public speaker, and she has been teaching about sustainability and resilience since 1991. Yana has built a reputation for being funny, authentic, practical and articulate in her beliefs that we know what we need to know to collectively create a reality of resilient, just communities and culture.

"Yana has an amazing ability to think holistically about our present human predicament and the approaching reality of climate change. She inspires hope and action as she shares pragmatic ways that we can turn things around and create a beneficial human presence on the planet. She is a trailblazer whose work has touched my life and made it easier for me to be effective and influential in my own work, my service, my life. If we all had someone like Yana in our community, we'd be much better off because of it."

--Danielle Williams, Executive Director, Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture

Watch Yana's 2013 TEDx talk, Sustainable is Possible! (And it doesn’t suck…) for an early example of a her public speaking. With over 17,000 views, this 2013 talk has inspired many people to ask new questions about what sustainable means.

Yana has given talks all over the US to a variety of audiences about resilience, community and systems development.

“Yana Ludwig asks her audience to imagine sustainable communities in light of the reality of climate disruption.  Refreshingly, she begins with the values and intentionality that can guide a community to take risks with their way of life in order to reduce the community's environmental footprint. Then she introduces radical possibilities, taken from her own eco-village, that engage all of us to personally embrace sustainable alternatives for the future.”

--Dr. Kate Mehuron, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, Eastern Michigan University 

Here's a few more links to explore Yana's approach.

 

Sometimes Yana's talks utilize very sophisticated tools. Like cardboard boxes.

Sometimes Yana's talks utilize very sophisticated tools. Like cardboard boxes.