Our Mission

Greenscope is a multimedia pedagogical ecosystem and archive dedicated to redefining our relationship with the natural world. Recognizing that there is an urgent need to operationalize our approaches to sustainability, Greenscope aspires to “make knowledge work.” It thus rethinks approaches to knowledge and practice from a holistic perspective, understanding both to be global, indigenous, and modern, ancient, and of the future. In an era of unprecedented environmental transformation, Greenscope serves as a comprehensive portal which engenders a conversation between  diverse ways of knowing, from ancient ancestral wisdom to cutting-edge physical science.

 

Unfortunately, climate change has become a condition that we live with, but often don’t understand—and if one doesn't understand something, one remains at the mercy of it. And contrary to most trends in environmental studies, we argue that  the possibility of the grasping of our predicament cannot be delimited to neither foresight nor empty moralizing. With a view to embodying (or rendering comprehensible) both our environmental fragility and our future possibilities, Greenscope tells the stories of real human and non-human actors navigating the changing ecosphere. And in doing so, it creates an all-inclusive system which marshals environmental data, human narratives, and policy action to safeguard the planet’s future and bring traditional understandings of the Earth to inform our current involvement in the socio-eco-techno interface and the larger challenges posed by the Anthropocene. ​​