The New Environment Association got started in 1974 in Syracuse, New York, in order to awaken people to the urgency of, and to involve them in:

• learning how to view environmental and social problems in a holistic way
• rethinking the way of life we have become accustomed to
• exploring new economic and social principles that can lead to sustainability
• working together cooperatively to implement those principles, and
• creating new communities that are humanly and environmentally sound, in other words, sustainable.

Last update of this site: 27 April 2008.  

WHAT IS THE NEW ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION?

(Excerpted from New Environment Bulletin No. 251 -- Nov. 10, 1997)

The New Environment Association is an experiment. It is an experiment to determine whether it is possible, through a non-coercive, self-organizing, participatory, cooperative, transformational and creative process -- the New Environment Process -- to help lessen the scope and impact of the social, economic and environmental disasters toward which the world is headed and which to some extent are already being experienced; and at the same time to help lay the foundations for a sane, humane, and sustainable culture of the future.

It is an experiment to see whether, given the opportunity, enough people will venture forth into voluntary association with each other, and into involvement in the New Environment Process, so that they will be able to develop nuclei of, or a basis for, "a new society based on the loving interrelationship of humans with the Earth and, more importantly, of humans with each other."

Furthermore, it is an experiment which began without a predefined constituency, organizational backing, initial funding, or physical resources such as land, buildings or equipment; and it is conducted without any formal affiliations of a political, religious, institutional, fraternal, ethnic, or any other nature.

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