Today, global demands on natural systems exceed their sustainable yield capacity by an estimated 25 percent. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize. Policymakers cannot find clear reliable information, and urgently needed policies are not being implemented.

The questions we must ask ourselves are not: How many people can the Earth support? or How much CO2 in our atmosphere and oceans is too much? or How many species must be lost before it will change forever how we live? These are the wrong questions – questions that will only be answered when we find that we have past the point of no return. The questions we should be asking ourselves are: What kind of life do we want? What kind of planet do we want?

Profound changes in the nature of technology, demographics, and the global economy are giving rise to powerful new models for human activity based on community, collaboration, and self-organization. The Internet has unlocked revolutionary new ways of working together that can bring about deep and lasting change.

These tools can be harnessed to serve the environmental community through user-created networks and mass collaboration in a way that will further cooperation and the sharing of ideas for the best solutions to a sustainable future. The question is, if Wikipedias and Facebooks and Twitters can evolve to serve these huge communities of interest, why has this not happened in the same way for the environmental community?

This network is a global meeting place for sharing and collaboration, designed to evlove and serve every aspect of the conservation project including biodiversity, climate change, spreading water shortages, uncontrolled population growth, shrinking forests, eroding soils, and desertification.