Team
Evgenia Emets, Founder and Art Director of Eternal Forest
Evgenia Emets, a Fine Arts graduate from Saint Martin’s, artist and poet, and the Founder of Eternal Forest, who explores environmental and ecological themes in her work. She uses calligraphy, visual poetry, installation, performance, and site-specific art in nature to express these ideas.
Eternal Forest is a multidisciplinary art project creating 1,000 forest sanctuaries to be protected for 1,000 years by local communities as forest guardians. Founded by artist Evgenia Emets, Eternal Forest is growing into a global organization in collaboration with artists, scientists, cultural agents, tree-planting organizations, and land partners.
Eternal Forest has been exhibited in Portugal and internationally: Arsenal, New York City, Hall of Biodiversity, Porto, Estufa Fria and Monsanto Forest Park, Lisbon, National Museum of Natural History and Science and Botanical Garden, Lisbon among others.
Dylan Chester
Dylan Chester: Coming to the world with years of experience in tree planting, permaculture, and regenerative forestry practices, as well as community organisation, and a dedication to system change. I come from Celtic roots, born in Ireland, and raised in Scotland. I endeavour to honour nature’s rich story in relation to land, spirit and what is and always will be something more than the human story.
Each project I undertake is a step toward bridging the divides that often separate people from nature and each other. Having witnessed firsthand the challenges and rewards of ecological restoration, I know that the work of cultivating ecosystems is as much about restoring natural biodiversity as it is about fostering interdependence within communities. With every seed planted and every conversation had, I am building spaces that invite us to remember our roles as caretakers and collaborators within the larger web of life.
Alongside practical restoration efforts, I approach communication efforts as an essential tool of changmaking, one that draws people into nature’s narratives and illuminates our shared journey. Just as I find joy in experimenting with plants and observing natural patterns, I am inspired by the ways stories can connect people, awaken empathy, and inspire a regenerative mindset. I aim to use this blend of practical and creative experience to cultivate ecosystems where nature and humanity can thrive in balance.
Advisors
Victor Vorski
Victor Vorski: To thrive and survive humanity needs to reimagine how we do everything – to reinvent learning, work, leadership, community, economy and society to function regeneratively. My life is devoted to contributing to the growth and development of the widely-understood regenerative movement: everyone working to create a people & planet-positive future.
I am an ambassador and strategic advisor for Eternal Forest – an art & community project to leave a legacy of 1,000 Sacred Old Growth Forests protected for 1,000 years.
My key contribution is to organise Gathering of Tribes – a co-created gathering bringing together organisations and communities working to create a better future for people and the planet. I am also working on a regenerative village project in Portugal, and consulting a number of other villages around the world. In all this I’m a life-long student of remote-first, regenerative organisation building and servant leadership.
Jesper Carvalho Andersen
Jesper Carvalho Andersen is a Portugal-based, Danish Investment Professional, and serial
entrepreneur with extensive knowledge in the areas of international M&A and corporate
turnarounds within health, cleantech, art, luxury, sport, and impact.
Jesper is passionate about minimal living, while on the board of a range of institutions, EU
Initiatives, foundations, charities, and family offices.
Jesper is a proud family man with two adult children, has a BA in International Management
from Niels Brock Academy, Copenhagen, and a Certificate in Economics from École
Commerciale de Paris, France.
Marco de Abreau
Marco de Abreau: Whole person. Father of 3 children, born in Funchal in 1971. Facilitator, entrepreneur and evolutionary mentor. Co-founder of The Stretch Consultancy, of Fundação Terra Agora, of Innovations for the Future and more than 12 adventures between companies, associations and cooperatives, including Safira, Darwin and Community of Evolutionary Entrepreneurs João Sem Medo. Graduated in computer engineering from IST in 1994, he earned a master’s degree in distributed systems (internet) and study for a doctorate in engineering and organizational design. Since 2005 he has developed skills in ‘entrepreneurship method’, ‘collaborative and participatory leadership’, ‘human development’.
Evolutionary entrepreneur
‘I have been an entrepreneur since 1996. When I saw myself as a rationalist/modernist, Safira was born. At Darwin I found myself as a postmodernist. In João Sem Medo I observed myself as integral. It is as integral as I see it, born ‘The Stretch Consultancy‘ and the Terra Agora Foundation and Innovations for the Future.
Ana Aires
Ana Aires: I am a Treehugger, Environmentalist and Voluntary Carbon Market expert with 15 years of experience working across 5 countries. My work is focused on improving people’s lives and helping businesses make sustainable and regenerative choices. I’m currently interested in the role of ecosystem conservation and regeneration in climate change mitigation and community wellbeing.
I am originally from Lisbon and have lived, studied and work in other geographies for 12 years – from the UK to Cambodia. My BA and MSC were both taken in London. I grew up immersed in the art world and still at the core am an artist, having then expanded into looking at the city, and more deeply at nature, our systems of governance and how we manage the work we do. I am currently training as a regenerative practitioner to fit this approach into my current work with carbon projects.
I have worked in the voluntary carbon market since 2015, first based in Asia supporting social and environmental impactful projects contributing to the Global Goals and more recently based in Europe closer to the buyer market. As part of my involvement in this space, I was co-chair of the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), part of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) between 2017 and 2019.