Put Life back in
our own Hands
Why the Embassy?
Embassy of the Earth has an extensive track record of setting up communities of problem owners, stakeholders to solve challenges on landscape and livelihood levels simultaneously, faster and on a continuing basis. Multiplying the problem solving capacity of communities exponentially. With common ground, possible futures, clear strategies, attainable objectives and far enough horizons, communities and regions are radically transforming their current collective realities of threat, stagnation and destruction.
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Embassy of the Earth is an ANBI status foundation
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VOICES OF MOTHER EARTH - week of ceremony at COP21 led by Indigenous elders (Chateaux Millemont, France, 2015)
Embassy of the Earth starts where regeneration truly begins: with people! By listening deeply to all stakeholders, we restore the social ecosystem first. From there, a shared purpose and a desirable future emerge.
We bring all problem owners into a common process to co-create an integrated approach for their landscape — combining ecology, livelihoods, governance and culture. Through concrete action, communities regenerate their land, their economy, and their capacity to shape their own future.
The Embassy is a unique organisation that has refined its socio-ecological approach over decades across diverse strata of society in many continents aiming for unprecedented collaboration to tackle wicked problems. This approach has led to a strong track record of constructive and successful journeys
over the past 25 years.
Result:
Embassy of the Earth
a renewed relationship whereby community, land, riverbasin, mountain, urban habitat are a mutually evolving landscape of all living actors.
What we do:
Socio-ecological transformation
We live in a time of profound disruption. Climate instability, land degradation, biodiversity loss and collapsing livelihoods converge with geopolitical shifts and accelerating technological change.
At the root of this turbulence lies a fundamental imbalance: our relationship with the land — the foundation of all life — has been mismanaged. The challenges at landscape level are deeply complex and interconnected.
They cannot be solved by single actors or linear interventions. They require something else: a collective shift becomes manifest when people take life back into their own hands.
Transformation cannot be undone
When communities, land users, institutions and stakeholders come together around a shared challenge, and fully engage — heart, mind and will — a different quality of attention emerges. In this heightened state, people move beyond positions and fragmentation. They enter a form of collective flow: seeing the whole system, understanding interdependencies, and acting with clarity and purpose. Finding common ground will even allow conflicting actors to move forwards.
It is in this process — of facing reality together, overcoming challenges, and taking responsibility — that transformation occurs. Not as an abstract idea, but as a lived experience. Once seen and embodied, it cannot be reversed.
MATHARE RIVER - from Source to Future
During the Mathare River Future Design Basecamp in 2024, Worldwaternet and Embassy of the Earth invited government, the private sector, and local voices, to co-create a future which honors the environment and redesigns the future of the river and the community. This video of the basecamp shows the process towards setting a common vision for the future of the Mathare river system, as a source of life and livelihood.
Join us in creating a clean and pollution-free future for the Mathare river!
