Sustainable Strategies:

The Earth institute at Columbia University

Columbia’s Earth Institute blends research in the physical and social sciences, education and practical solutions to help guide the world onto a path toward sustainability. Under the directorship of pioneering geochemist Alex Halliday, PhD the Earth Institute brings together a community of earth and environmental scientists, economists, lawyers, public health specialists and business and policy experts to seek solutions to the planet’s most pressing challenges.

Science + Collaboration + Education + Impact = Sustainability

The world's population is expected to increase to nine billion by 2050. Human activity and the desire for economic improvement are straining the planet's resources, threatening the health of our environment and ability to thrive. Managing those pressures will require the best understanding of the Earth’s ecological and environmental systems, and an ongoing effort to bring that knowledge to bear on public and private policymaking. click to learn more

The Kansas Land Institute has been at work, since their founding in 1976, to restore humanity’s relationship with the land by repairing the damage done to our soils by our current industrial agriculture system. Follow their efforts to generate agricultural transformations to benefit the soil for generations to come.

The Kansas land Institute’s mission: When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned, while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

Reclaiming Native American Foodways for Health and Spirit

In her 2018 book Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman, Charlotte J. Frisbie, professor emerita of anthropology at South Illinois University, notes that improving diets is “a political as well as a public health measure.” … click the photo below or here for the full story

Watch our 2020 leadership awards program honoring Sally Burgess, of Studio Gaia, for Spirituality Leadership

and William Odell, of HOK Architects, for Sustainability Leadership.