GEN Solution Library/Earth deeds

About the challenge

Climate change is unfolding in our lifetimes and we can't wait for governments, scientists, or corporations to fix things. Earth Deeds supports ecovillage projects by engaging groups to onset their travel emissions and pay-forward their environmental costs.

Earth Deeds is a crowdfunding platform for groups to measure their carbon footprints and fund sustainability projects of their choice.

Description

Earth Deeds' online tools to enable all of us to acknowledge our environmental impacts and support meaningful projects that build local community resilience. We call this new system onsetting. Rather than “neutralizing” our environmental “sins” through carbon offsetting, Earth Deeds says, “Let’s be grateful for all that fossil fuels have enabled; let’s also recognize the environmental costs of burning these fuels; and let’s ‘pay it forward’ in ways that can help heal our world.”

Areas of impact

Integral Design

  • Contextualised Design.

Social

  • Diversity & Cohesion.
  • Lifelong Education.

Economy

  • Sharing & Collaboration.

See also

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Authors Ernesto Sun
License CC-BY-SA-4.0
Organizations Global Ecovillages NetworkGEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
Ported from https://www.ecovillage.org/solution/earth-deeds-3/ (original)
Cite as Ernesto Sun (2025). "GEN Solution Library/Earth deeds". Appropedia. Retrieved February 26, 2026.
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