Earth Inc.

We are proud to announce the launch of the Ecosystem Service Partnership being run out of being coordinated by the Environmental Systems Analysis Group (Wageningen University, the Netherlands). More information can be found here.

The Earth is our business and your business too. Most people have a basic understanding of how a business works. If you own part of the business, then you're entitled to a share of the profits. As an owner you'll want to take good care of the assets of the business and to plan for the future so your business doesn't collapse. You'll also want to maximize your profit, or in other words, the benefit you receive from the business. Imagine the Earth as a business and you're a shareholder. We're all shareholders. Future generations are entitled to a share too. How do we maximize the benefit every shareholder receives from the Earth? How do we maximize human wellbeing? Earth, Inc. helps answer this most important question.

Board of Directors
Robert Costanza
Crea Lintilhac
Shuang Liu
Matt Sayre
Marjan van den Belt
Advisory Board
Peter Barnes
Paul Hawken
John Kassel
David Orr

Approximately 60% of the ecosystem services evaluated in the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (15 out of 24) are being degraded or used unsustainably.

Earth News

Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust
Published in Science by Peter Barnes et al. More >

Blue sky thinking
"a twist on carbon cap-and-trade policies"... More >

An Earth Atmospheric Trust: A proposal to stop global warming and end poverty Internationally renowned experts call for the creation of the Earth Atmospheric Trust... More >

A Carbon Dividend?
John Carey in Business Week...More >

The Best Way to Reduce Global Warming
From Robert Reichďż˝s blog Monday, June 18, 2007... More >

Protecting our common asset: The Earth
An article by Dr. Robert Costanza in the Rutland Herald... More >

Ecosystem Goods and Services Series: Valuation 101
How much is a pristine lake worth? A clean atmosphere? An oil field? More >

Capitalism 3.0 Presented by author Peter Barnes at the University of Vermont
January 16, 2007

Our current version of capitalism - the corporate, globalized version 2.0 - is rapidly squandering our shared inheritances. Now, Peter Barnes offers a solution: protect the commons by giving it property rights and strong institutional managers. More >