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 encourage optimism and to build trust in abundant, renewable cycles.
The Eco-Hub
The Eco-Home
Exhibits
Eco-Home Open House
Apr 21 – 26th, 2026 | 11AM – 4PM
@728 Cole Street, San Francisco, California 94114 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
Spring Greening
Tour 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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It may be surprising that haircan be used in agriculture, but it has high levels of nitrogen, along with other plant nutrients like sulfur, phosphorus and potassium. As a result, it’s useful for creating mulch, compost and fertilizer.
Thanks to Chris Catauro
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
for the donation of Doodle hair
"Owens is a special dog that loves pets and wants to help his human friends"
to donate hair/fur/lint/cork follow link https://matteroftrust.org/donate-hair-fur-and-fiber/
#HairMats #hair #recycle #petfur
Matter of Trust Latam is scaling the use of human hair as a low-cost, nature-based solution to address water pollution and soil degradation in Mexico City, deploying filtration systems and agricultural applications in vulnerable ecosystems.
Matter of Trust
Hair Matters Global Hub Partners Dung Dung – Belgium Dung Dung offers solutions and develops waste recovery projects as part of the circular economy in Belgium, recovering hair to use in decontamination of oil in rivers and car workshops. With the Hair Recycle project, they are dealing with the problems
Matter of Trust
It may be surprising that hair (which in this context also includes animal fur and wool) can be used in agriculture, but it has high levels of nitrogen, along with other plant nutrients like sulfur, phosphorus and potassium. As a result, it’s useful for creating mulch, compost and fertilizer.
The unexpected role of hair, fur and wool in sustainable agriculture
Learn how one organization is recycling hair, fur and wool into compost, natural fertilizer and more to help regenerate soil naturally.
