About the EcoStewards Alliance
The EcoStewards Board of Directors at the April 2006 Annual Retreat. Front Row: Dodge Fielding; Suzanne Cleary; Bob Root; Kate Hofmann - Rear: Peter Kelsey; Rick Hartley; Lisa Jenkins: Hayden Mathews.
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EcoStewards Alliance (ESA), was founded in 1994, and is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit, grass roots, membership organization. Guided by heart, spirit, and intellect, it works to heighten awareness of humankind's interrelationship with all life and natural systems. Our mission is to "provide resources for and nourish growing communities of diverse individuals who are making choices that enrich the quality of their lives and restore and protect the local environment."
Our programs focus on reducing consumption and living more lightly on the Earth. The programs encourage individual choices aligned with personal and environmental balance that enhance our quality of life and support a sustainable future.
The Chesapeake Earth Institute is a project of EcoStewards Alliance. The Earth Institute is part of a growing national network of Earth Institutes offering study circles on a variety of topics using materials produced by the Northwest Earth Institute in Portland, Oregon.
Attendees at the Annual Training of the National Network of Earth Institutes in Eagle Creek, Oregon
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The discovery circles and other programs help participants discover specific choices they can make which will both enrich their lives and work to the benefit of the regional environment by effectively reducing the size of their "environmental footprints.' These ripples of individual awareness create a wave of profound cultural change.
Our Program Objectives fall in five categories:
- Education;
- Transformation;
- Restoration and Renewal;
- Inspiration and Leadership; and
- Community.
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