Gaia Evolution Foundation

Learning to live & act more maturely
on a living planet

Gaia Evolution Foundation maps emerging responses to planetary interdependence and accelerating technology — and helps the people and fields that can carry them forward find each other.

The Foundation

Much of this work is still in the making: ideas, practices and collaborations already taking shape, but without a settled language, field or institutional home.

It grows from more than fifteen years of field-building by Pavel Luksha and collaborators. Global Education Futures, our earlier institution, began this way — people working on different parts of the future of learning were brought into a shared conversation until a field, language and international network began to form.

Gaia Evolution Foundation is an attempt to make that pattern deliberate — and to solve one problem that repeatedly came with it: how to create something generative without making it permanently dependent on the person who started it.

Why now

The questions we work on are becoming harder to keep inside existing disciplines.

I.

Planetary-scale power

Humanity can now alter climate, ecosystems, economies and information environments at planetary scale — and AI and biotechnology are extending that power further.

II.

Institutions built for a smaller world

Our institutions, cultures and ways of cooperating were largely built for a world in which the consequences of individual decisions travelled less far and changed more slowly.

III.

A simple tension

The power of our civilisation has outpaced our capacity to use it well. We call this collective developmental challenge Planetary Adulthood.

The point is not to invent one planetary worldview. It is to ask what kinds of people, institutions and forms of cooperation become capable of acting responsibly in systems they can profoundly influence but never fully control.

Current work

Five connected forms of one inquiry

GEF works where something important is visible, but its final form is not — helping such work acquire enough language, relationships and institutional support to become real.

01

Planetary Adulthood

A book and wider inquiry into maturity under conditions of planetary-scale power.Book · Inquiry
02

Inner Capacities & Authorship

Work on agency, attention, embodiment, relationship and remaining an author of one's actions in an age of increasingly capable machines and institutions.Research
03

Flourishing in a Time of Metacrisis

A 2026 Fellowship of twelve practitioners, researchers and builders working across AI, somatics, education, media, regeneration, community and futures.Fellowship · 2026
04

Planetary Adulthood Salons

Locally hosted gatherings beginning in November 2026, bringing these questions into communities through food, embodied presence and serious conversation.From November 2026
05

Living Book

An emerging experiment in AI-supported, community-driven knowledge that can continue to evolve rather than ending when a book is published.Ongoing
Who this is for

Gaia Evolution Foundation is looking for people already carrying serious pieces of this transition.

i.

Research & Technology Partners

Bring knowledge and tools into questions that cannot be solved inside one discipline.

ii.

Builders & Leaders

Bring work of your own — develop it in contact with people working on other parts of the same transition.

iii.

Community Leaders

Not to join somebody else's finished programme, but to shape one through our Fellowship and collaboration formats.

iv.

Funders

Help promising work move from an early field into durable experiments and institutions.

November 2026
Planetary Adulthood Salons

Reconnecting with Hope

Small, locally hosted gatherings around the world — food, embodied presence, and a shared inquiry into what maturity might require from us now.

Host or Join a Salon →

Come with something real you are already trying to carry.

Get in touch

Say hello

Questions about the Fellowship, PA Salons, or how to get involved — write to us and we'll get back to you.

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