## Specialist(s)

**Thanks to Peter Green & Simon Lennane for information.**


![](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/simon-lennane.png)

Simon Lennane is an NHS GP in Herefordshire. Simon has an interest in wellbeing and social prescribing, which uses non-medical sources of support in the community to address issues like loneliness and de-medicalise health conditions. In his spare time he grows fruit and makes cider organically, and is also an advocate for Linux and open source / free software.

![](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/micky-metts.jpg)

Micky Metts of [Agaric](https://agaric.coop/), based in Boston, Massachusetts, is active in both the co-operative and free/open source movements. Micky is a contributor to [_Ours to Hack & to Own_](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/books/platform-co-ops/), and gives talks at conferences around the US about how to avoid the Orwellian 1984-type nightmare in the digital world. She that it’s ‘tragic’ that most people are forced to give money to Microsoft when they don’t need to and don’t want to.