Our Vision
To regenerate our Earth’s biosphere by empowering individuals to become ‘Biospherians’ – people who understand that their life depends on changing the way we care for our natural world.
The Problem
The health of our biosphere – our life support system – is decreasing due to climate change and the needs associated with a growing human population.
Our Mission
To mitigate the effects of climate change through ecological restoration and inspire a Healthy Biosphere Movement to ensure the right for all people to have clean air, water and food.
We focus on contagious sustainability — the power of inspiring behavioral change through our beautiful, biodiverse demonstration gardens that are both underwater and on land.
Our team leads experiential learning programs that are applicable everywhere. Our programs train new practitioners about how to steward ecosystem health and biodiversity, reclaim water, recycle waste, restore soil health and grow food at home.
We are all about changing the way we perceive our relationship with the world and how we care for it – ‘biosphere love’ alive in every head, heart and action.
Biosphere Foundation is a USA 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1991 for research and education; it owns a limited liability company (PT Biosphere Stewardship Center) in Bali Indonesiaand has a partnership with Yayasan Biosfir Indonesia (Jakarta) to carryout nature stewardship programs in Bali Barat National Park with the Ministry of Forestry and Environment.
We work in Bali at our Biosphere Stewardship Center and onboard MIR, our 113’ sailing vessel that is our flagship in the Coral Triangle region of Indonesia. Our programs are useful to all people and provide knowledge and skills to practice becoming a champion of our earth’s biosphere.
The Foundation is led by Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo, two of the ‘Biospherians’ who lived for 2 years (1991-1993) in Biosphere 2, a laboratory for the study of global ecology; and navigated by an international board of advisors.
Our Website
The pages of our website feature descriptions of past and current projects, videos, books and more than two decades of research data. We also invite you to support our work on this beautiful blue biosphere we call home.
