User:Narapetrovic

Nara Petrovič, born in 1974 in Belgrade, is a Slovenian writer, translator, facilitator, social and environmental activist. He's renowned for advocating luxurious simplicity and barefooting.

He is the author of the book Human: Instructions for Use (first published in 2007 in Slovenian, now a bestseller in its fifth reprint). Nara = Human, a documentary about his life and work was filmed in 2016.

Nara inspired and co-organized a [Let's_Clean_Slovenia_in_One_Day!|nation-wide cleanup] in 2010 that united 13.5% of the population of his home country, Slovenia, to collect 20,000 tons of waste on one single day.

He went on to work for [|World Cleanup Day 2018], training representatives from more than 100 countries to do similar cleanups in their countries. The movement keeps growing. On September 21, 2019, 21 million people participated in cleanups in more than 180 countries.

Nara's work towards healthy communities happens mostly within the Global Ecovillage Network. From 2015 to 2020, Nara served on the council of ECOLISE, the European Network for Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability. In 2020 Nara has worked in ECOLISE as a research assistant. He also co-founded Sunny Hills of Istria, a community project in Slovenia where he still lives.

Nara has published six books in Slovenian language, he has written hundreds of essays and articles, and translated twenty books.