What Drives Us
Our Mission, Vision & Goals
Our mission is to link surplus with needs.
We envision humanity harmonizing with Earth.
Our main goals are to build optimism and encourage trust in abundant, renewable cycles.
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CURRENT Eco-Home Open House
Jul 8-13th, 2025 | 11AM – 4PM
@728 Cole Street, San Francisco, California USA
Did you know?
LINKING surplus with needs diverts useful items and materials from the waste stream, plus creates jobs in logistics & repairs.
You shampoo because HAIR collects oil. Help us gather clippings from salons and pet groomers. We felt fibers into mats that soak up oil spills.
COMPOSTING grazed rangelands boosts photosynthesis, pulling more carbon out of the air and returning it back into the soil.
Our Programs
We have 7 departments:
(1) Hair Matters is our global project where we felt waste fibers into mats that soak up petrochemicals and help with soil remediation.
(2) The Hum Sum – for Humanity Adding Solutions our environmental social media platform, where everyone can share ecological posts and research.
(3) Eco-Home and urban edible garden with planet-friendly, immersive tours and field trips.
(4) Eco-Industrial Hubs (Eco-Hub & Eco-Depot) our working model factories and exhibit hall in the SoMa district of San Francisco.
(5) Eco-Academy – Our Youth and Eco-Education Program includes internships, apprenticeships and green careers for all ages.
(6) The WALOP – Worthy Actionable List of Projects through 2050 – researching, organizing and implementing solutions that nurture healthy air, soil, water, energy and life.
We are also the proud fiscal sponsors for programs including: a) Sonoma Food Runners, b) Heart of the City Farmers’ Market Food Security Education Project, and more.
(7) Administration – We open-source all of our back-end processes because we believe that public charities should have transparent, replicable systems that help each other collaborate to save funds and time.
Our Programs That Are Trending
Hair Matters Program
Greendependence Day
Tour the Eco-Hub
Welcome to the Eco-Hub!
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Daily, we see so many people working together towards a harmonious future. We created The Hum Sum – Humanity Adding Solutions for nonprofits, businesses, governments, schools, households, and curious individuals… Everyone is welcome to join this environmental network and post questions, answers, events, commitments, free stuff, wishes and more! TheHumSum.org
RESOURCES
Check out our extensive and growing library full of inspirational news stories on green-innovations. Plus, all of our own open source, in-house research, educational tools and lesson plans. Focusing on pollution reduction and ecological inventions, we incorporate the perspectives and incentives from everywhere possible. Local to global, multi-sector, boots on the ground to behind a desk, up and down the ladder, mailroom to drawing board to boardroom, youth to senior… enjoy discovering how caring and adaptable humanity truly is!
RESOURCES
Check out our extensive and growing library full of inspirational news stories on green-innovations. Plus, all of our own open source, in-house research, educational tools and lesson plans. Focusing on pollution reduction and ecological inventions, we incorporate the perspectives and incentives from everywhere possible. Local to global, multi-sector, boots on the ground to behind a desk, up and down the ladder, mailroom to drawing board to boardroom, youth to senior… enjoy discovering how caring and adaptable humanity truly is!
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A water-saving tool in drought-hit Chile: human hair
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Small mats of human hair line the base of plants, helping lock in moisture for crops in orchards around Chile that have been struggling with drought for years.
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