Formerly known as the New Worlds Institute, the EarthLight Foundation is leading a new generation of innovators. Based in Austin, Texas, EarthLighters believe humanity has a higher calling. That calling is built upon three guiding principles. 

Those principles focus on honoring and evolving human civilization, protecting and expanding the domain of life, and exploring and experiencing the universe. If answered, it will change humanity forever. 

Take a deeper dive into the innovative mindsets and progressive principles of the foundation: 

The Mission

EarthLight Foundation’s mission is to shed light on the human experience, developing and evolving its presence in the universe. The Overview Effect has allowed the foundation’s members to appreciate Earth’s delicacy and fragility. “Spaceship Earth” is more than a metaphor for the group, as the group focuses on building communities in space and taking the lessons of survival, human ingenuity, and cooperation from Earth and expanding them even further.

EarthLight also supports environmentalism, and especially the environmental movement in space. Their goal is not only to save Earth, but to expand life into the solar system. They endorse getting the planet to net-zero carbon emissions and reducing the toxicity of human destruction and interactions in the biosphere. EarthLighters are also focused on studying the dangers facing Earth from space to help save the planet.

Among their focuses, EarthLight members are focused on inclusion and respect for all life. As humans have the chance to explore new environments in space for the first time, they are focused on creating a collaborative environment to create new places for all to live and prosper. Diversity, inclusion and celebrating differences are at the core of their mission and a major for which they fight. 

 

Honor and & Evolve Humanity

Among the first principles that EarthLighters believe, they hold that humans have innate good qualities and, given a chance, we can actualize to be even better. They cite how astronauts who have gone to space consider themselves part of one family. They believe opening the frontier to space gives humans the room to grow, reinvent and reimagine themselves. For the first time in history, we can apply the lessons of history and begin to reach a new level of civilization in a united front. It will allow culture to develop and further inspire those on Earth.

 

Protect & Expand the Domain of Life

EarthLighters believe that all life is precious. Earth is like a living spaceship that has served as our home and given us the natural resources we need to survive. However, humans have not been so kind and respectful to Earth in return. The Overview Effect has inspired these founding principles that protect Earth and act upon the solutions found in space to help protect Earth’s environment. Members believe it’s their duty to not only preserve life but to expand the domain of life to places where life doesn’t yet exist or can’t yet thrive.

 

Exploring and Experiencing the Universe

 

Without life, the universe is meaningless. EarthLighters believe that humans give it meaning through love, joy and wonder. However, they encourage humans to take action in exploring the cosmos and creating a new destiny by experiencing everything that is to be experienced in the universe. EarthLighters believe they are called to explore the universe and to help humans advance through this exploration, especially when its innovations have already benefited humans on Earth.

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