Nick (Thor) Thorsen

Thor moved to East Wind in April of 2023. He started in nut butter production and moved on to be a coordinator for tub shifts shortly after. Began helping and plugging into East Wind Nut Butter’s office and administration work a few months later. Joined a marketing team aimed to help improve website presence. Created new system for tracking and forecasting raw material needs and later becoming purchasing manager. Began leading marketing projects and teams then eventually moving into the Sales and Marketing position officially in Spring of 2024. 

Molly McGee

Molly (she/her) is a founding member of Abundant Ponds, a forming community in the San Francisco Bay Area, which recently bought a restaurant, The Rainbow Junction, on 147 acres. She has been on a lifelong mission to live in a regenerative community and is excited to support others bringing their dreams to life. She works as a licensed real estate agent to create infrastructure to support communities. Her community business The Rainbow Junction Farm is a destination restaurant and wilderness experience that offers income to support Abundant Ponds community members..

Allan Adler

Allan is a resident of the Ithaca Ecovillage and a serial entrepreneur focused on bringing the principles of sustainable bio-ecosystems to businesses and intentional communities  In his professional life, Allan is Managing Partner at Digital Bridge Partners which specializes in unlocking the ecosystem potential for technology companies.   As Allan began to explore Intentional Communities which landed him in Ithaca, he began the Sustainable Community Life podcast that focuses on the intersection of sharing, caring, and trusting which are the foundations of all relationships – personal, communal, business and society.  In August he began working with the FIC on a work stream called Regenerative Businesses for Intentional Communities.

Allan has worked for Deloitte, the Boston Consulting Group, and is a Baker Scholar graduate of the Harvard Business School where he earned his MBA.  He is also a casual-professional jazz saxophonist.

Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga

Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga is a long-time environmental educator. He spent much of his childhood learning directly from 1200 acres of meadows and forests and from the elders who helped him cultivate a deep reverence for the more-than-human world. His life has been an ongoing exploration of alternative educational models, including indigenous practices still used in many “developing” nations, which rely heavily on the interaction between children and the natural world.

He holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon, two degrees in Early Childhood and Grades Education from Waldorf Teacher Education Eugene, and an Ecovillage and Permaculture Certification from Lost Valley Educational Center. Nathaniel has been the Education Director at Lost Valley since 2021. He has also been in charge of outreach and marketing 2006-2007 and 2021-present. Nathaniel brings patience, joy, and an intimate appreciation for the ecological interdependence of life.

Daniel Greenberg

Daniel (he/him) is the Co-Executive Director of the Foundation for Intentional Community. Back in 1998, following his Ph.D. dissertation on Growing up in Intentional Communities, Daniel founded Living Routes, which ran study abroad programs in ecovillages around the world. In 2012, he started Earth Deeds, which offers online tools to account for our unavoidable CO2 emissions.