Heiner Benking is technician/engineer, planner, consultant, sales and marketing, environmental management and research, curator, futurist, educator, facilitator, journalist in fields as wide as: environmental education, culture, youth, media,… His functions included: capacity building along and across scales and cultures in an appreciative, attentive style typical for concerned scientist and generalists, thinkers, in-betweeners, hazardeurs, trim-tabs, and go-getters.. towards open dialog, deliberations and encounters.