The Sustainability Project
Emerson Brook Forest Center
For a future we can live with
Founded in March of 2000, The Sustainability Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization, promotes a love of nature,
environmental stewardship, caring communities and ways of living that deepen our understanding of the interconnected web of life.
Our guiding principles embrace diversity, inclusion and compassion as fundamental to the long-term well-being of our planet and
its inhabitants. The physical heart of The Sustainability Project can be found in the Emerson Brook Forest, Gilsum, NH. Here,
an all-volunteer endeavor has created wheelchair accessible trails and edible forest gardens for public use and ecosystem benefit.
The center functions as a learning laboratory for edible forest gardening, permaculture design and sustainable community practices.
The Sustainability Project's primary organizational goals are:
- to develop wheelchair accessible gardens, trails and camping sites at our 33-acre center in the Emerson Brook Forest.
In addition to giving the public access to a beautiful place in nature, we intend to develop the center as a learning
laboratory for edible forest gardening,permaculture design and sustainable community practices.
- to encourage and support new program ideas, initiatives and collaborations in line with our mission. Individuals or
groups with compatible program ideas that could benefit from The Sustainability Project's organizational structure are
invited to contact us at info@emersonbrookforest.org.
Review our Program Guidelines here.
- to continue offering (and developing) our mission driven events and activities to bolster our community's
sustainable and regenerative living skills and capacity for life in balance with the natural world.
Ways to Get Involved
- Volunteer your time and energy. There are limitless ways to help promote The Sustainability project's mission
-- in the Emerson Brook Forest and in the wider community.
- Attend a board meeting. Beginning February 21st, 2018, we will be meeting on the third Wednesday of the month,
from 6-6:30PM, at Green Energy Options, 37 Roxbury Street, Keene.
- Join a committee (Governance, Program Development or Fundraising)
- Lead or take a workshop.
- Like
us on Facebook
- Sign up to receive our 1-2 monthly email updates and event listings
- Make a donation.
- Visit us in the Emerson Brook Forest or at our office at Green Energy Options, 37 Roxbury St. Keene.
Ways To Live Sustainably
- Lighten up your load. Clean out your closets, give away anything extra to someone who can use it.
- Shift your priorities. Spend more time with family, friends, communities and the simple pleasures of the natural
world. Make time to be the human being that you know you can be; unspoiled by fear, hatred and the drive to compete.
- Look for guidance from the children. Children represent the highest stage of human evolution and they are great
teachers. Re-learn how to cry.
- Volunteer to mentor a young person. Get close to an elder or someone who may have an isolating disability.Help a
neighbor; lend a hand to a farmer. If you are not a slave to housework, help make a meal, and/or do the dishes for
someone who is.
- Embrace the end of life as a farewell gift, a celebration and an opportunity for family and community to come
together in a most meaningful way. Do everything with love.
- Remember as Philo would say, "be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." Look for the good in
everyone.
The Sustainability Project
P.O. Box 311, Gilsum, NH 03448, (603) 209-7272
