We’re building the Inner and Outer architecture needed to foster measurably more sustainable communities.
Sustainable Futures Institute (SFI) is dedicated to creating the conditions that nurture ecological health within our communities. We are helping to build resilience and appropriate adaptation to climate change. Our long-term vision is to assist in reweaving a paradigm of interconnectedness— of humans as nature— while untangling the prevailing paradigm of separation and domination.
SFI’s approach revolves around collaborative, open, and honest inquiry into the health of our socio-ecological structures. We understand that natural ecology and human activity — in all its expressions; personal, social, spiritual, political, and economic — are necessarily interdependent. Our work is centered around the interplay between our Inner and Outer architecture.
People are made up of many invisible systems. Inner Architecture is the practice of consciously building one’s inner world by designing the interconnected belief, cultural, and social systems. We measure, change, and operate these invisible internal systems through the body, mind, heart, and spirit. Places are also made up of many complex systems which respond to and inform the people who make, modify, and maintain them. Outer architecture is the process of world building. It's how humans express themselves and manifest an impact on the Earth, and collectively, the built environment and all the many invisible systems which run it are the sandbox for human development.
We believe that together, we as humanity — our cultural elders, our scientists, our field experts, our leaders and decision-makers, our citizens — hold the keys to the collective wisdom that facilitates the development of sustainable and regenerative economies, communities and environments. Our practice is to ask the [right] questions, gather the [right] people, and create the [right] conditions needed to surface this wisdom.
