About | The Environmental Ac

About TEAL

The Environmental Action Lab is driven by a team of educators, environmentalists, and community activists dedicated to reconnecting people with their environment. We provide resources that help communities engage with the natural world in a sustainable and ecologically responsible way. Through education, hands-on fieldwork, stewardship, and service learning, we inspire a deeper understanding of environmental issues and foster positive action.

Sovereignty is the right of people to govern themselves. States and Capital have deprived people of that foundational right. Our goal is to gain independence, so that we are no longer forced to rely on systems founded on and designed to perpetuate inequity and disenfranchisement. We intend to construct parallel infrastructure design to reduce our reliance and the reliance of nearby communities on inequitable and unjust systems of exploitation.

We will govern ourselves as a community, individuals free to pursue our own passions, while coexisting and collaborating. Everyone will be a sovereign totality, within a community that will be, in itself, a sovereign totality. We will gain sovereignty through building off-grid infrastructure and caring for the land. Nature will provide us with everything we need to survive and more.

Sustainability is the ability to meet one's needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Our current society is compromising the needs of future generations by destroying the planet. There are enough resources on Earth to sustain everyone without us irrevocably damaging the environment. We are suffering due to inequitable resource distribution and hoarding. As a community, we will not repeat those mistakes. We will balance environmental, sociological and economic factors to fulfill our duties to ourselves, each other and future generations.

The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. We will care for each other and share goods, resources and services. Nature is the ultimate provider. Even when we destroy it, nature gives. It produces everything humans need; oxygen, food, water, shelter. In return for those services, we will care for the land through ecological restoration, stewardship and sustainable resource management.

A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly. Decisions will be made by voting. Everyone is given the right to state their case. All members will vote. The majority wins.

Consensus is a process by which individuals in a community can freely participate in governance on equal footing with other members of that community, with options for dissenting opinions to be addressed and their needs met without disenfranchising people of their sovereignty.

History, legislation, economic policy, and brutality have served to create, defend, and perpetuate disparities, despite our supposedly equal society. Until these disparities are addressed, there can be no equality. Without economic freedom and full personal sovereignty, there can be no liberty. We seek to address disparities and inequities, that deprive people of the exercise of their rights.

There will be no justice until Women and Non Binary People, Intersex People, Indigenous People, Black and Brown People, Disabled and Neurodivergent People, Queer People, and all members of the working class are allowed the full and unhindered access to the exercise of personal sovereignty. There can be no justice unil there is equity.