The Earth Organization is an international alliance dedicated to raising Mankind’s awareness of his vital partnership for survival with the natural world. Through education, activities, and good example, we are working to reverse those activities which are currently operating to the detriment of the planet, its environment, and all its life forms.
In alignment with this, our founder, Lawrence Anthony, has conceived a descriptive term for our functioning ideology:
Cooperative Ecology (CoEco) n.: the study of the mutual interdependency and cooperation of all life forms and the material universe. It is based on the premise that all life forms are interdependent and engaged upon the same objective - to survive - and are acting in mutual support of this objective for their mutual perpetuation. The moment life forms, including man, fall away from the concept of mutual cooperation with all other life forms and the material universe, their capability to survive diminishes and becomes less effective. It includes the study of man's sciences in view of this cooperative relationship of all life forms and it determines the value of sciences on these principles. Whether sciences bring about a steady improvement for life forms and the material universe or whether they create imbalances determines to what degree the sciences themselves are cooperating with life and, thereby their relative value. The study includes, as well, ecological and economic policy and their effects based on these principles.
It is holistic, by necessity, and requires the interaction with, and study of, the full spectrum of scientific methods and views, all life forms and their interrelationships, micro to macro economic, governmental, religious and population systems and their relations to each other on the environment. Cooperative Ecology considers it the domain and responsibility of the United Nations in cooperation with individual nations to rehabilitate existing imbalances and to enact advances made in science and policy to raise the survival potential of all interdependent life. The objective of Cooperative Ecology is to generate improved science and policy that increase the survival potential and productivity for all interdependent life to a level of balanced abundance guaranteeing mutual perpetuity.
To coecologize or to coeco (verb) - to bring into cooperation, harmonize, make aware of the mutual interdependency of all life and the physical universe, and, thereby, bring about cooperation and mutual supportive existence.
Derivation: Eco - Late latin oeco - household, from Greek oiko house, and Cooperate, from Late Latin cooperari, from Latin co- with + operari, to work.
