Ekogaia.org is about our ecology (eco) and our planet (gaia).

We can all see how the ecosystems of our planet are being rapidly destroyed and eroded by greed and over exploitation. Global warming, pollution, resource depletion, genetic engineering of living organisms, depletion of fish stocks and forests, industrial agriculture and many other challenges to our biosphere fundamentally degrade the integrity of our planet and its ability to function and sustain life.

Whilst humans are only one species amongst millions we are collectively responsible for the imbalances that are upsetting the balance of nature that sustains life on earth. As we destroy the web of life we endanger our very survival. Life on earth will certainly continue after humans become extinct but the damage we have caused to the biosphere effectively ensures that we have irreversibly damaged the natural balance and self-maintaining systems that sustain life on earth. Due to human interference, life will never be the same again. We are responsible for the sixth great extinction. Are we going to be active or sit on the fence and watch the whole system unravel?

Ekogaia is about restoring the balance on our tiny blue planet earth. Ekogaia is about being proactive by being informed.

We all are faced with huge challenges in dealing with our collective future and this website aims to place as much power as possible in your hands, so that we can collectively address the dangers and challenges we face.

We need to work on four levels – personally, locally, nationally and globally. This site aims to point you in the right direction by sharing some common insights, both mine and those of other people who have inspired me, taught me and guided me in this life quest.

We can never survive this life alone; we are all part of a tribe whose inter-connectedness is facilitated through the internet as well as through personal action and networking. We can connect on local, national and international levels but most importantly we must share common understandings, visions and outcomes. If we can do this then we can make the world a better place.

This is one location where ways are set out to change the disastrous course we are on by adopting practical and realistic steps that will move us towards sustainability, hope and a better world. This website provides ways to assist us in finding our way to taking those steps.

* Ekogaia has its roots in two words - eco as in ecology and Gaia as in the Greek earth godess, and more recently as espoused by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in their Gaian Hypothesis.
It is also a word that has an African ring to it and was the name I chose for the corner of the world in Cape Town that I call home.