The Earth Viability Center, Inc. (EVC) maintains Place4Us together with the participants in Place4Us. In the EVC VCC we focus on developing EVC as a consortium of many partners engaged in making the world a better place. The initial research program of EVC is focused on Viability Indices, i.e. key indicators which show how the actual state of the Earth Life Support System compares to a healthy state, i.e. the viability of the ELSS. To the extent possible this will be done for scales ranging from the global to the local. To make progress towards EVC’s vision, the Center also engages in the development of an Earth Viability Dashboard and of social collaboration platforms as a global societal infrastructure that facilitate the wide use of Earth viability knowledge for decision making at all levels.
If your organization is interested in joining the EVC consortium, please send a message to the VCC admins (in the VCC Admin Room).
[Jul. 08, 2023] Building the Consortium: The EVC is in the process of pulling together a consortium of groups and organizations that are part of the "Blessed Unrest" Paul Hawkin considered in his 2007 book. The consortium will be the decision body that among others guides the development of Place4Us. If your organizations want to hear more about EVC and the consortium, please, contact us.
[Apr. 19, 2026] Earth Energy Imbalance is Increasing Rapidly: Finally the extreme increase in the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is slowly starting to make headlines - far too late, though. The article “ What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?” by Jonathan Watts published in the Guardian explains some of the basics. Importantly, the EEI double within only 13 years. In another article by Watts also in the Guardian and titled “ Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high” the author points out that the World Meteorological Organization warned that Earth is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming the oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies. Considering that Earth is more like a pool house with a very large pool than a greenhouse, the ocean is only delaying the heating of the atmosphere but not preventing it.
