Mission

The Green Cities Institute hopes to inspire humanity to embrace the complexity of natures' sustainable models.

The Green Cities Institute is an organization dedicated to helping the worlds’ neediest people engage in lives of sustainability.

Green Cities Institute (GCI) will develop global partnerships to forge a 200 year plan for the integration of cultural sustainability on a global basis with a focus on Information Communication Technology, Media and Training Acadamies.

Our Mission Statement: “To inculcate sustainability into human culture expressed through a mass scientific understanding of ecology and a widespread practice of sustainable human settlement management.”

GCI acknowledges that  sustainability must also embrace the preservation  of tribal cultures. The respect for those norms, morals and values which seem at odds with our own, is an essential aspect of the same empathy that ecological sensitivity requires.  By definition, a respect of human diversity means preserving the distinctive plurality of difference. In the principles of the deep ecological philosophy (ecosophy) there is a consideration that humankind as an integral part of its environment. The philosophy emphasizes the equal value of human and non-human life as well as the importance of the ecosystem and natural processes. It provides a foundation for the environmental and green movements and has led to a new system of environmental ethics. This  philosophy is present in many native cultures around the world and was articulate in the West by Arne Dekke Eide Næss (27 January 1912 – 12 January 2009)  the presumed founder of deep ecology. [from Wikipedia.org]

For GCI literacy in the science of sustainability is the key to the change in behavior the ecological crisis requires. Our focus on Sustainable Information Communication Technology, Green Media, and Academies will provide the infrastructural foundation for widespread global change. Our focus on the world’s poorest is not exclusive. Understanding the politics of EcoDesign in municipal, industrial, transportation and agricultural design has shaped GCI’s interest in class agnostic training. Politicians, entrepeneurs, middle management and technicians will also benefit from our educational initiatives.