Programs List
Linking Surplus with Needs
Our Current Programs
You can also see our completed and archived programs HERE.
The Matter of Trust Eco-Hub
Our Model Factory
Our Eco-Social Media Platform
Our Urban Edible Garden
Hair Matters Program
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
Eco-Industrial Hub & Exhibit Hall
Our Eco-Hub is located in the SOMA district of San Francisco, California. This is our flagship working model factory where we are a test kitchen for felters making hair mats for oil spills, storm drains, contaminated reservoir filtration sytems and seagrass regeneration projects.
Our walls are designed to inspire! We have field trips and corporate off-sites where we discuss Clean Air, Water, Energy, and Ideal Materials.
Eco-Home & Urban Edible Garden
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!
The WALOP & Fiscal Sponsorships
The WALOP stands for our Worthy, Actionable List of Projects we are diving into between now and 2050. Join us in gathering, sorting, prioritizing, strategizing, piloting, partnering, engaging, developing, implementing, managing and ticking through this audacious list. Beginning with the easy, low hanging fruit that has the most impact and working our way deeper. Most challenges just need organizing, infrastructure, awareness, incentives and convenience then masses of empowered people will feel inclined to lend a hand to a big lift.
Also, be sure to check out our fiscal sponsorships and their important work making a daily dent in food security.
1. Heart of the City Farmers’ Market (Fiscal Sponsorship)
2. SONOMA Food Runners (Fiscal Sponsorship)
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Quick Summary:
TheHumSum.org – Humanity Adding Solutions is created by Matter of Trust, designed to promote planet-friendly ideas and solutions.
- It is a safe space for individuals of all ages, organizations, and communities to share and discover practical, eco-friendly initiatives.
- Users can post items they want to give away
- Make requests for things they need
- Find green services
- Track impactful ecological work
- Engage in discussions on various environmental topics
- The platform is open to all, including nonprofits, businesses, and households, fostering global collaboration for environmental change. TheHumSum.org for Humanity Adding Solutions
DETAILS for Those That Like to Read:
TheHumSum.org 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.
Matter of Trust founded, develops and financially sponsors TheHumSum.org – for Humanity Adding Solutions.
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 do not sell or share personal data. While we respect privacy, we present only general information in order to display 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 that needed a system for our Hair Matters Program, that receives haircut donations and produces mats that soak up oil spills. You shampoo because hair collects oil! We quickly found that this project turned into a comprehensive engagement platform for all of our other programs. As we progressively put more funding and effort into it, we have decided to diligently build a comprehensive platform for everyone else with great ideas who might find it useful. It has blossomed from input all over the world.
The Hum Sum is all members and all staff moderated- EVERYONE – all nonprofits, businesses, government departments, utilities, schools, researchers, media, pilot projects, households, and individuals, etc- are welcome! Join in to help make it as useful and great as it can possibly be!
TheHumSum.org for Humanity Adding Solutions JOIN IN & GET STARTED
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
- Post or Browse Gifts of Free Items / Materials You Don’t Have Any Use For and Can Pass Along
- Post or Browse Wishes for What You Need or Don’t Have to Buy New
- Post or Browse Green Services (Salons, Movers, Repairs, etc…)
- Eco-Events Calendar Browse, Share, Host, RSVP and Inspire Others with Local to Global Meet Up Ideas
- Eco-Commitments – Let’s Keep Tallies of ALL the Impactful Work Done by Boots on the Ground
- Forum Posts and Forum Communities – Discuss Solutions, Questions, Polls, Research Articles
- Affiliates Program – Secure Interaction within Organizations (NGOs, Government Offices, Companies, Schools)
- Hum Sum Emporium – Green Goods Market Place (Coming Soon!)
TheHumSum.org for Humanity Adding Solutions JOIN IN & GET STARTED TODAY!
Eco-Academy – Youth Programs & Research
We have created, collected and curated many eco-resources that will inspire and delight everyone young at heart! Check out our forums, articles, archives, lesson plans, helpful eco-tips book, pilot projects, field studies, intern write-ups, university published papers about MofT and more.
1. Presidio Trust: Hair Mat Trials in Grasslands Restoration
2. Silver Lab Composting Research
3. University Papers on Hair, Fur & Fibers for Oil, Soil & Seas
5. Wrap Star – Eco Packaging, Reduce, Repurpose…
6. Peace of Mind Kits – Green Complement to Disaster Relief
7. It’s Easy Being Green – Book
8. Lesson Plans
10. Experts Workbench – Re-use Materials
11. Resource Library of Eco-Innovations
12. Archived Completed MofT Programs
Thank you for your interest!
Check out our Media Gallery for a visual tour of all our programs.