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This year we have a goal of 1000 members.

How sustainable is YOUR region? How resilient is YOUR community?
And what can be done to improve the scores?

In the aftermath of Katrina and Sandy, we all know the importance of resiliency and the need to be more locally secure in energy, food, and water resources. Scientists have been doing a lot of research in these areas, but the information is not generally available to the public. And many don’t know what to do with this information when they have it. Earthos is working hard to make this information available and usable.

How?

#1 Earthos is developing an easy-to-use INDEX that measures sustainability+resiliency in our resources: water, food, energy, biodiversity, land, waste-as-resource, and people well-being. The index can be applied to a local community, or to an entire region, or to the planet, so that we know how well we are doing.

#2 Earthos is also developing practices to help people work together to improve the index scores—from business, to design, to policy, to planning, to community practice.

PLEASE HELP US DO THIS WORK!

What would your FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP help us to do?

A. Develop and test our INDEX:

How sustainable is your region? We want our index to be usable to EVERYONE. This means creating an online index that anyone can access. Your support will help us create this.

B. Create an online MAGAZINE:

We want to share what we are learning, and one of the best ways to do it is online.

C. Activate our LAB:

We just opened the EARTHOS LAB. We are working to bring people together who are addressing issues, hosting events, conversations, skill-shares, workshops,
AND we want to record them make them available online.

D. Support our work with COMMUNITIES:

Your support helps us work with communities that are less resilient with lower scores, but do not have the funds to address it. We focus on strengthening capacity so that these communities can build their own resiliency, and better understand their resources [water, food, energy, land, biodiversity, waste, and people] to strengthen their own vibrant economies.

E. TEACH future professionals:

Professionals make decisions about resiliency and resources [water, food, energy etc] every day. These decisions affect EVERYONE. At Earthos we teach future professionals—designers, policy makers, planner, entrepreneurs, environmental professionals, community practitioners—PRACTICES that address issues of resiliency and resource use at multiple scales. We want all professionals to have skills to effectively apply environmental+climate science to their work.

F. Create TOOLS to build resilient regional systems:

We are developing online platforms, phone applications, practice manuals to help us create resilient, sustaining regional system in: water, food, energy, biodiversity, land, people, and waste-as-resource.

G. Build Regional and Global NETWORKS:

We are working hard to create an online membership network that connects with other people who are doing this work.

BENEFITS:

Be involved in the network of people doing the work.

Participate in Workshops with a 25% discount

Participate in Symposia with 50% discount

Free member admission to “Earthos Conversations”

Participate in Earthos Award Programs

Receive Earthos Publications and Newsletters

Contribute to creation of Earthos Innovation Centers

Free Admission to Annual Meeting

Continuing Education Credits as appropriate