You can also see our completed and archived programs HERE.

Our Urban Edible Garden

Our goal is to have 300 locations around the world that can recycle hair, fur, wool and fleece from salons, groomers, ranches and individuals.  Creating green jobs and awareness about the importance of sorting, we are sorting waste into resources, compost and mulch for soil health.  Providing pollution-free water solutions and empowering ways everyone can help with a simple haircut!

1. Hair Matters Program Overview

2. Hair Matters FAQ

3. Purchase Hair Mats

4. Hair Matters Global Hubs

In the heart of Cole Valley / Haight Ashbury in San Francisco we have a showcase apartment with exhibits for every area of a typical home. Our rotating exhibits celebrate how to ecologize holidays throughout the year.  We especially focus on how renters can enjoy planet-friendly lifestyles that are affordable and eco-luxe.

Our enchanting edible garden has raised bottomless veggie beds that allow nutrients and bacteria to connect deep in the soil. We have a tiny home, fog catcher, gray water laundry to landscape system, 3 hens, honeybees and more.

Visit the Eco-Home during our week-long open houses every 2 months or book a tour or field trip!

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Matter of Trust founded, develops and financially sponsors TheHumSum.org – for Humanity Adding Solutions. It is an environmental social media platform dedicated to everyone who wants to offer and hear about planet-friendly ideas in an organized and practical way.  This site is transparent and evolving. It is spam-free, rant-free, bully-free, politics-free, troll-free and cost-free to the general public. We are not selling or sharing personal data. While respecting privacy, we are gathering general information in order to display, in delightful charts, reports and maps, just how much unnoticed ecological work is actually being done, daily, by masses of people all over the world. 

This all started from our Matter of Trust team creating what we needed for Hair Matters, our global hair mats for oil spills project. We quickly found that it was turning into a comprehensive engagement platform for all of our programs. As we put more and more funding and effort into it, we decided that we might as well go all out and build it big enough for everyone else who might find it useful.  It has blossomed from input all over the world.

The Hum Sum is member and staff moderated. Everyone, all nonprofits, businesses, government departments, utilities, schools, researchers, media, pilot projects, households, and individuals… are welcome!  Join in to help make it as useful and great as it can possibly be!  

1. Post Gifts of Free Stuff You Need to Clear Out or Want to Pass Along

2. Make a Wish for What You Need or Don’t Want to Buy New

3. Find Green Services (Salons, Movers, Repairs…)

4. Browse, RSVP and Inspire Via the Local to Global Eco-Events Calendar

5. Eco-Commitments – Let’s Keep Tallies of All the Impactful Work Done by Boots on the Ground

6. Discuss Solutions, Questions, Polls, Research Articles… in Forum Communities