Today’s technology is all chrome and LEDs. Sometimes, a geek feels a gentle yearning for the way gadgets used to be: handmade, from materials found in nature. Although today’s gadgets have sophisticated guts, their polished, minimalist design fails to illicit...
Old railroads are all the rage when it comes to adaptive reuse. New York City kicked off the trend with its High Line park, which officially opened to the public last year. Now we’ve got Chicago’s long-anticipated rails-to-trails park system, the Bloomingdale Trail,...
Janet Standen Chairwoman Board of Directors In 1998, Lisa Craig Gautier co-founded the ecological 501c3 public charity, Matter of Trust (MofT) with her husband Patrice Gautier, (VP at Apple Inc.). MofT simply concentrates on what we DO want to see in the environment....
A small British company has produced the first “petrol from air” using a revolutionary technology that promises to solve the energy crisis as well as helping to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Air Fuel Synthesis in...
Brooklyn Botanical Garden Art Gallery 2006 This tree’s bark naturally grows lips Matter of Trust was the fiscal agent for this eco-educational project in New York. With an artistic vision, Cedric Pollet looks closely at trees, revealing the spectacular beauty of...
2009 ACADEMY AWARDS QUALIFIED AND WINNER OF 2008 AUDIENCE AWARD AT SUNDANCE Matter of Trust was the fiscal sponsor for Josh Tickell’s Veggie Van.org from 2003 to 2009 when it received its own public charity status. Josh knows oil and how it is the...
The United Nation’s Environment Programme asks that its annual World Environment Day (WED) be hosted by a different international city every year on June 5th. In 2005, San Francisco, California hosted WED’s first official Expo in the United States. Matter...
Matter of Trust was the fiscal agent for this excellent documentary by Chantal Buard on the step-by-step method for developing a computer-repair, distribution, and recycling system. The video has two parts. Part 1 Part 2
The twenty-minute mini-documentary highlights the community kitchen that reclaims hundred tons of almost expired food from stores and prepares meals for the homeless of San Francisco. Total Raised: $5000 Direct Program Expenses: $5000 = 100% Eco-educational =...
