Sustainable Planet Committee

Mission Statement & Guidelines

By "Sustainability" we mean:

Meeting the needs of people now without compromising the needs of future generations. Bringing all human activities into harmony with nature for the benefit of all beings.

This implies transforming both human culture and technology to live within the physical limits of the local and global ecosystems.  Most urgently, this implies protecting threatened ecosystems to preserve biodiversity and prevent extinction.  This in turn will require addressing global ecological issues such as climate change, empowering local and indigenous communities and deploying new clean technologies.

Within the vast range of possible approaches to issues that could fall under this realm, the Sustainable Planet Committee has chosen three focus areas, which will allow us to be most effective with grants of the scale that we are able to offer and represent the passions of our foundation membership. 

In 2010-2011, the Committee will fund in the following areas:

Climate Change - Click Here for Full Description

Community-based Solutions - Click Here for Full Description

Ecological Hotspots - Click Here for Full Description