Our focus is collaboration modeling.

We empower people by creating an environment that is conducive to sharing innovative ideas, leveraging group resources for project development, and tracking the ongoing succcess of our efforts. The metrics we use to judge our successes are literacy rates and participation trends. In doing all of this, we hope to show that the value in collaborative effort is that it is a requirement for sustainability.

Our approaches are top-down and bottom-up.
As an educational nonprofit whose primary objective is making information accessible for the global population, we do not limit ourselves to a particular target audience or style for presenting information. We do grassroots, trade booths, serious slideshow presentations, curricula for youth, curricula for adults, partnership with higher education and industry, government, other NGO's, etc. In all sectors of society, we must raise awareness to begin the process of action, cultivate motivation to combat the apathy and despair surrounding issues like climate disruption and overpopulation, and provide education to spread the knowledge we need to live wisely in each of our roles. We also work to establish a clearinghouse to assemble information about these efforts, synthesize our own ideas with our research, and make our accumulated knowledge accessible.

Our motto is practical action
The big problems humanity faces now require that each of our actions be effective and efficient in the use of our resources available to us, especially our social capital. We just can't be lazy any more; stagnation will literally lead to our doom. We need special, leveraged solutions that will create a feedback loop for even greater positive change. With that in mind, here is an incomplete list of compounded problems that we have identified as threatening to humanity and require practical action:

• climate disruption
• hunger
• overpopulation
• poor literacy rates
• poverty
• inaccessible education
• apathy and despair

As you can see, many of these items are very closely related to the others. The knowledge of our problems' interconnectedness is both a blessing and a curse. With such patterned problems, is there a silver bullet to these global crises? (Some people call us crazy, but we think so.)

Accessibility in education
A lot of research, including studies by private individuals, the United Nations, and many faculty, have shown that increases in accessible education are strongly correlated to increases in regional and societal wealth (reducing poverty and hunger) and lowered fertility rates (limiting our population). Do we have to explain at all that accessible education increases public literacy rates? And in regards to apathy and despair, who can deny the exuberance finally felt when realizing that the tools and knowledge exists for the success of any personal project? We are similiarly equipped for this global project...

Targeting accessibility in education will create a positive feedback loop of leadership in all sectors of our society. When a person becomes convinced that we can be successful in our plans for sustainability, he or she is often very powerful at moving others with their actions. Accessibility in education not only directly affects each of the problems we have identified, but it also creates an ever-increasing population of leaders spreading the values they are motivated by.

Learn more about us

If you want to learn more about us, there are several ways. Firstly, there is a lot of stuff on the rest of this website. You can also browse our history, strategic objectives, boards of directors and advisors, or staff [links coming soon].

UPDATE: We used to be called the Northwest Arkansas
Sustainability Center, and for a short time we will still be doing
business with the old name. If you want, you can read more about this decision.