Foundation for Global Sustainability, Inc.
Solidarize with Mother Earth
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Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Living Sustainably
Provides information and education about sustainability policies and practices.
Fosters a wholistic approach to assessing global and local aspects of the multitude of global and regional crises that threaten our planet.
Draws attention to the need and benefits of mindfulness about ecological, economical, sociological, political, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and intuitional dimensions, motivations, and points of view.
Focuses on individual green initiatives, neighborhood livability, community engagement, bioregional awareness, and the Think Globally, Act Locally ethos.
Motivates individuals and families to adopt more sustainable habits and lifestyles that reduce their ecological footprint.
Stimulates interest in civic affairs, public participation in decisions about neighborhood livability and the community’s resilience and sustainability.
Encourages wholistic decision making by community leaders, businesses owners and managers.
State of the Bioregion
Legislators, policymakers, educators and citizens have a fragmentary awareness only of the growing systemic sustainability issues that loom over Southern Appalachia. Piecemeal approaches miss the interrelations and cumulative impacts that saddle this predicament with urgency.
Our program facilitates understanding of how long-term synoptic ecological forces interact with socioeconomic factors. The project has published two books that have also been used as textbooks in college courses, and established a State of the Bioregion Speakers Bureau.
What Have We Done? The Foundation for Global Sustainability's State of the Bioregion Report for the Upper Tennessee Valley and Southern Appalachian Mountains, John Nolt, ed. Earth Knows Publications, 1997.
A Land Imperiled: The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion, John Nolt, ed. University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Hellbender Press
Hellbender Press: The Environmental Journal of Southern Appalachia is an ad-free independent digital environmental news service with a focus on the Southern Appalachian bioregion. It aggregates relevant stories from across the news media space and provides original news, features and commentary.
Espousing the “Think Globally, Act Locally” ethos of FGS, Hellbender Press promotes the conservation and study of the environment and protections for air, water, climate, natural areas, and other resources that are critical to human health and a robust, resilient economy.
The Hellbender also champions civil and human rights, especially in matters of environmental justice, equity of access to natural resources and the right to a clean environment.
Hellbender Press is a self-organizing project of the Foundation for Global Sustainability’s Living Sustainably Program. All donations made for Hellbender Press to FGS are tax-deductible.
EarthSolidarity!™
● Challenges everyone to become more active in humanity’s formidable exigency to quell the destruction of our planet’s life-support systems.
● Imparts understanding of the life-enabling conditions on our planet and of how all life on Earth mutually depends on the delicate 'Web of Life' that has taken eons to evolve.
● Dares all to introspectively assess how they can lower their personal global footprint through lifestyle modifications.
● Advocates for more sustainable business and institutional policies and practices.
● Inspires, nurtures, and strengthens grass-roots resourcefulness to achieve community resilience and global sustainability.
● Draws attention to the need and benefits of mindfulness about ecological, economical, sociological, political, psychological, emotional, spiritual and intuitional dimensions, motivations and points of view.
● Awakens compassion for the less fortuitous—among us and around the globe—that recognizes and accepts their legitimate expectations.
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Foundation for Global Sustainability, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 01/12/2023
Wolf Naegeli
Amadou Bocar Sall
Thomas Alexander Fraser
Lauren Elizabeth Parker
Stephen A Smith
David Rick Vaughan
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