Using this site...
This website represents an experiment.
An organization which has been unusually good at affecting individual conservation issues on national and international scales will now be seeking to engage with the most central environmental challenges of our time. The issues which will in large part write the ending – for better or worse – to the human experiment on earth.
We’d like to see a happy ending, and we think it’s possible. To this challenge we bring four decades of creative environmental advocacy and innovation. Yet the scope of the predicament is daunting. We’ll need good people lined up with us, and we hope you’ll be one of them.
This site presents historic situations which seemed overwhelming at the time, yet were steered to better conclusions than seemed possible.
It also seeks to lay out tools for interacting with the earth’s sixth mass extinction event in 3.5 billion years. This will include the FutureSeas initiative, the Bottleneck Foundation, and new twists on getting intact ecosystems into our species’ near future.
This means that in addition to the more familiar programs which work to save species directly, we will be breaking some new ground on strategy, framing of issues, and better ways to be human. This will be evolving quickly so check back.
Use the drop-down menus above or the topical images below to explore the history and future of ET, and think about how you may wish to be involved. Welcome.
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On this site you’ll see that ET has engaged a number of crisis and issue areas in the past.
It often succeeds in entirely transforming these issues and crises.
Now we’re embarking on the biggest challenges of all: engaging the earth’s sixth major extinction event. Bringing our toolkit and approach to bear on the crises which will shape our planet and its species for the next million years.
ET isn’t just one more group. It’s an entirely different approach, a different way of analyzing and affecting the world.
Let’s get busy.
Together.