Our Vision Statement: (<25 words)
Matter of Trust links ideas, sparks action and materializes sustainable systems. We focus on manmade surplus, natural surplus and eco-education. (back to list)



Our Mission Statement: (<200 words) (<350 words)
At Matter of Trust, we embrace optimism and constructively concentrate on what we DO want to see in humanity's future. Just as Mother Nature integrates enduring cycles, acts as a catalyst and provides abundant access to necessities, our mission is to follow her lead.

Our manmade surplus programs, both fieldwork and online, allow us to understand the needs of inkind donors, charity wish lists, dumpers, and scrap collectors. Facilitation for sorting and logistics is key in this sector. Our natural surplus programs test, manufacture and promote eco-solutions and systems. We work with researchers, farmers, energy/water/waste industry specialists, builders, feed stocks, permaculturalists, and green businesses. Enthusiasm and peer acknowledged excellence in any field, conventional or outside-the-box, is very attractive to us. Our eco-educational programs provide public awareness of what we are doing and offer platforms that celebrate all ecological advances. We present our work on sustainable and replicable systems through books, articles, lectures, events, photos and documentaries.

We create many programs of our own and umbrella grassroots projects to inject us with energy and new ideas. The results are worthwhile, common sensical and often enchanting. We feel we're all guests on this lovely planet and respectfully consider her matter of trust. (back to list)



Our Mission Statement: (<350 words)
At Matter of Trust, we embrace optimism and constructively concentrate on what we DO want to see in humanity's future. Just as Mother Nature integrates enduring cycles, acts as a catalyst and provides abundant access to necessities, our mission is to follow her lead.

Our manmade surplus programs, both online and in the field, allow us to understand the needs of donors, dumpers, needy charities, public end users, and scrap collectors. Facilitation for sorting and logistics is the key in this sector. As matter glides from one shape and purpose to another throughout time, we work to highlight the unappreciated values of mislabeled "waste."

Our natural surplus programs test, manufacture and promote green solutions and systems. We work with researchers, farmers, energy/water/waste industry specialists, builders, feed stocks, permaculturalists, and green businesses. We believe that a change of mindset is vital in societies of developed countries. Work ethics and social paradigms are beginning to shift from indoor to outdoor, distant to local, industrial to healthy, old habit to new convenient, dependent to connected (with off-grid options), entitlement and unemployment to dignity in "do it yourself," “student-loan buried business graduate with desk job gloom” to pride in craftsmanship and skill.

Our eco-educational programs provide public awareness of what we are doing and offer platforms to welcome and celebrate all ecological advances. We chronicle our work on sustainable and replicable systems through books, articles, lectures and documentaries. To educate ourselves, and avoid reinventing the wheel, we seek out experts from all walks of life. True, peer respected, know-how, excellence and enthusiasm in any field, conventional or out-of-the-box, is rare and exceedingly attractive to us.

We are comprised of our Board, contractors and volunteers. Our dedicated follow-up teams consist of loyal work-from-home moms, wise senior-citizen advisors and dynamic student interns. We create many programs of our own and umbrella grassroots projects that inject us with energy and new ideas. The results are worthwhile, common sensical and often enchanting. We feel we humans are able to do so much, so fast, but we're all guests on this lovely planet and respectfully consider her matter of trust. (back to list)