John Seed is founder of the Rainforest Information Centre (RIC). John is an accomplished bard, songwriter, and film-maker . Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions to protect the Australian rainforests and received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 1995, for services to conservation.

He co-authored "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings" with Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Arne Naess and has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology. He has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earthing workshops around the world for 35 years to help us strengthen our felt sense of connection with the living Earth.

John spearheaded RIC's endangered species and climate change campaigns, launched a successful campaign to protect the world's largest remaining population of Asian elephants and another that protected the Cardamom Mountains rainforests in Cambodia . His work in Ecuador recently resulted in a Supreme Court decision to eject a mining company from the Los Cedros Biological Reserve. This was the first time that the “Rights of Nature” clause in the Ecuadorean constitution was used to protect country and the precedent set has resulted in other legal victories and lands protected.

In 2023 he was one of 109 arrested in the Rising Tide kayak blockade of the world’s largest coal port, Newcastle, which exports fully 1% of the world’s greenhouse gasses.