About Us
Our vision is making prosperity sustainable.
Earthmind is as a mission-driven association of dedicated sustainability professionals.
Our Associates have a broad range of sustainability expertise and experience.
Our Work focuses on sustainability challenges for development and business.
Our Partners are in the private, public and non-profit sectors.
Contact us directly at info@earthmind.net.
In the cloud
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Featured Earthmind websites
BioTools for Business (Download the BioTools flyer)
Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction
Synergies for Sustainable Prosperity
Our vision of sustainable prosperity traces back to Kenneth Boulding’s path-breaking concept of “spaceship earth”. For Boulding, sustainability required the transformation of our increasingly globalised ‘cowboy’ society. As Boulding put it back in the 1960s: “We cannot have cowboys and Indians in a space ship, or even a cowboy ethic.” His seminal short essays says on sustainability are still very much worth reading today: Earth as a space ship and The economics of the coming spaceship earth.
In January 2012, the Ditchley Park Foundation organised a fascinating conference on how to make prosperity sustainable. The Director’s Note on the conference concluded that “it was noteworthy that those from the private sector seemed on the whole more optimistic than those from civil society or government. If the private sector are beginning to lead, and have the greatest capacity to make change happen, that at least is a good sign.” We agree.
On the ground
Earthmind
IUCN Conservation Centre
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Earthmind was formally established in Switzerland in 2006 as a not-for-profit association in accordance with Article 60 of the Swiss Civil Code. In 2010, Earthmind EURL was established in France as a small enterprise.
