To inspire action for greater justice and sustainability
What we call Natural Neighbors are national parks, historic sites, museums, zoos, botanic gardens, and similar places that are located within a clearly defined metropolitan or other region. We encourage those responsible for these places to cooperate in engaging with their visitors, especially on solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss.
Ten Points of Inspiration are carefully chosen places in and around national parks and similar areas whose stories will inspire people to act for greater justice and sustainability. We tell their stories and encourage others to do the same. Ten Points of Inspiration is part of the Natural Neighbors initiative.
CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE
Home (this page): Sponsorship and support (scroll down)
About NATURAL NEIGHBORS: History of the initiative; how it led to Ten Points of Inspiration; pilot project in Los Angeles
Mojave Desert Pilot Project: In & around the National Parks of California's Mojave Desert
Learn more: About the places and regions chosen for Ten Points of Inspiration
>>> Justice and sustainability
>>> Hope
>>> Global crises
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions:
>>> What about other points of view?
>>> Who else is doing this?
>>> Who decides?
>>> Why Ten?
[Photo: The Owens Valley and the eastern escarpment of California's Sierra Nevada, described in the essay about Mary Austin]
Sponsorship and support
Natural Neighbors, including Ten Points of Inspiration, is an initiative of InterEnvironment Institute, founded in 1969 and based in Claremont, California. The Institute is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and has tax-deductible status under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
Major support for Natural Neighbors has been provided by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC) of the California Natural Resources Agency, and the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA).
InterEnvironment Institute has been a member of IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, since 1980. Natural Neighbors originated in projects cosponsored by IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. These projects included work on urban conservation strategies that resulted in the IUCN publication Urban Protected Areas for which major funding was provided by IUCN and the Republic of Korea National Park Service as well as SMMC and MRCA. In addition, significant in-kind contributions were made by InterEnvironment Institute, the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Bioversidade (Brazil), and South African National Parks.
Natural Neighbors is an initiative of InterEnvironment Institute
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Thaddeus C. (Ted) Trzyna, Ph.D., President
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